Bridge of the Americas

are the people that came to America a long, long time ago. In fact, they came around 11,500 years ago! Back then the Ice Age was around. This is what it looked like. Could you imagine walking around this! The explorers had to be careful; if the ice they were standing on broke, well they would be as good as gone. They had to cross the Beringia land bridge-which is now underwater-to get to Alaska. The Beringia land bridge is now called the Bering Strait. This “bridge” connected Asia to Alaska.…

option in this Italian Catholic community. Bobby’s life ends on that symbolic bridge. Its not a coincidence that Bobby dies on that bridge. He doesn’t cross that bridge like Tony wants to do. He dies on it. Tony then recognizes that he must literally cross that bridge, to live a new life. Thus, the film ends with Tony in Stephanie’s Manhatten apartment determined to make a life there. The films repeated use of bridges to symbolize the deep social and economical conditions separating the films…

and they also had irrigation system. Since their empire was huge and that they lived in the mountains they had roads around the Empire. In every single thing the Inca had they also had a purpose. The Incas was one the most powerful empire in South America. To adapt to the mountains was very necessary for the Incas. Their agriculture was excellent; they used the skill of terrace (Donn). On the mountains sides the Incas used terrace to make food. It was an easy way because; they only had to carve…

construction of the bridge Yangmingtan Bridge was a major construction project of the Heilongjiang province. It is the longest river suspension bridge in the north of the Changjiang River in China, so the government gave it great attention. It breaking ground on 2009 December 5th and completed at a marvelous speed and opened to traffic on November 6th, 2011, with an estimated investment of 1.882 billion Yuan (about 300 million dollars) . Considering the traffic around the bridge would increase,…

mankind has evolved from just another species into the dominating organism on the planet. Of his many feats, bridges stand out as one of the best and awe-inspiring. The George Washington Bridge is a testament to both the simple and complex nature of the bridges design. In the 1930's, America saw some of its most famous bridges being built, and the George Washington Bridge was one of them. The bridge was an astounding 4,760 feet long, with a clear span of 3,500 feet, making it the longest in the…

The Rialto Bridge is located in Venice,a small island-like city off the coast of the Po Valley, in northeast Italy over the Grand Canal. In Venice, there are no major roadways. Instead, there are canals, or waterways that act as major roads. The Rialto Bridge was constructed by architect Antonio da Ponte, whose name means Antonio of the Bridge, curiously enough. Construction began in 1588 and ended in 1591. This bridge is made out of a white stone and is an arch bridge. The Rialto Bridge is a…

land and the edges would be the bridges. “Finally, a path is a sequence of edges and vertices, just as the path taken by the people in Königsberg is a sequence of bridges and land masses. Euler's problem was to prove that the graph contained no path that contained each edge (bridge) only once.” (TODD TIMMONS) He then began to wonder if the number of bridges was relevant to his study. Later finding that “if more than two of the land areas had an odd number of bridges leading to them, the journey…

Who used to dominate the business world of America? The men are called the titans and they had many traits that made them so great. Cornelius Vanderbilt, John B. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan were four of them. The Titans shared many traits, three of which were being future thinkers, being strategic thinkers, and being risk takers and these traits helped them build America into what it is today. To succeed, the titans had to be strategic. Cornelius Vanderbilt, demonstrating this…

others. An examination of the quote, highlights that America cherishes diversity because it is concluding that diversity “defines the essence of…

The modern drama, A View from the Bridge, written by Arthur Miller, is told from Alfieri’s perspective. Since the beginning of the first scene, he is established as the narrator for the story. In this essay, I will be analyzing the role of Alfieri in the play through a careful analysis of Miller’s stage directions for Alfieri’s character and his cryptic speeches in between the scenes. Fate and/or predestination is a predominant theme in A View from the Bridge, and Miller uses Alfieri’s…