Demolition

guards rushed in and reminded him that demolition was about to begin, pulling him out of the bakery and leaving the gold box abandoned on the counter. The bakery had existed longer than anyone remembered. It was the only bakery in the small town, and it had become a meeting place. The owner was Mr. Quepps, and he had kept his bakery open for as long as possible. His livelihood and happiness was the bakery, and he could not bear to see it disappear. Demolition was underway, and Henri surveyed…

MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR USMAN WROTES: For some reason I feel the need to write. I'm sorry, as I'm sure we're all getting along nicely with our lives and probably don't want to be disturbed but I have this nagging thought in my mind which remained indelible and I can’t get rid of it that I need to write this piece. With all my strenuous tweets, ‘whatssapping’ and ‘facebooking’ to drum-up support for elrufai during the campaigning period, I know to a full extent that elrufai's modus operandi is quite…

Have you ever wondered where your weekly amounts of waste go? The answer here is landfills. A landfill is an area of land, above and/ or underground, that allows for ginormous amounts of trash to pile up. As positive as the thought of a trash reduction property may sound, they are potentially placing a hazardous threat to our overall environment. A great deal of the items that remain the landfills are often times unrecyclable, and unable to destroy naturally. This issue might be placed to a halt…

Program is one key toward funding source for an extensive range of undertakings that is directed toward neighborhood revitalization, economic development, and community services, including rehabilitation assistance, code enforcement, clearance, demolition, and removal of buildings. Therefore, localities should engaged in various strategies to try to reduce the costs and other negative impacts that vacant properties and neighborhood blight create in the communities. Hence,…

City Between Worlds : My Hong Kong takes the reader to the metropolitan city of Hong Kong, exploring its colonial past and uncertain future. In this uniquely sized tome Lee travels through the bustling city, highlighting events that occurred and recalling buildings and landmarks that have since been demolished or relocated. In eight detailed and informative chapters, Lee discusses the structure of the city as it is today compared to its past, Hong Kong’s colonial past, and the values and…

and Technology and the Popular Mechanics Magazine have carried out investigations dismissing the 9/11 conspiracy theories as inadequate. The civil engineering community has accepted that a fire caused the Twin towers to collapse, not controlled demolition. Around 10,000 gallons of jet fuel was dispersed throughout the tower creating a temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius. According to senior engineer Farid Alfawak-hiri, “Steel loses about 50 percent of its strength at 1100 degrees…

Scott Bransford uses his piece “Camping for Their Lives” to discuss the growing number of ‘tent cities’, or small ramshackle communities of homeless people, in the western portion of America (McWhorter, 2015, 385). Bransford opens with a picture painted scene of Taco Flat, a tent city located near Fresno, and anecdotes from its residents to guide the audience into the reasons behind said cities. Bransford appears to subscribe to the quote from Larry Haynes found in the article that states: what…

OTHER EXPLOSIVES (...such as concussion bombs) HAD ALREADY BEEN DETONATED in the lower levels of tower one at the same time as the plane crashed,” or “all three buildings were wired with explosives in advance and razed in a series of controlled demolitions.” He intelligently selects some of the most absurd sounding conspiracies because he knows his audience will understand their absurdity. Thus, making conspiracy theorists sound completely nonsensical and discrediting the entire group. His blunt…

The problems in Israel will not fix themselves. The only way to fix them is to intervene in the issue, and get to the source of the problem. Over the course of this paper, there is information that shows some of the things that need to be looked at. There is a lot of the brutality that exist in this country. Throughout the paper there are quotes directly from stories about their human rights violations, also there is stories directly from people that have lived these horrific tragedies. Children…

the time sought reunification of West Berlin and East Berlin, and an end to the Cold War. In “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate,” former president Ronald Reagan uses logos appeals, pathos appeals, and parallel structure in an effort to initiate the demolition of the Berlin Wall, and usher in freedom to communist countries. Ronald Reagan utilizes logos appeals in his speech in order to advocate…