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Advance Tech Writing Reflection/Team Reflection Imagine that you recently had a car accident and you were partially responsible. If you had to write and tell your parents about the accident, what might you say? Imagine how you might tell the story differently to your friends, or insurance company. Which details would you share with each group and which would you leave out? Would the order in which you told the various details be different? As one can see in this story, the way the story is told depends on a how one want to appeal to a specific audience. The end of one semester and the beginning of a new semester can be seen as a transition period for most students. For the extent of individuals, this period is all but a glimpse onto the next phase, or new semester, often not taking the time to reflect on the person they have become and what aspects of the past have shaped and molded there character. For a few that do reflect, this reflection may be a poignant awareness of the losses and struggles that occurred, as well as an appreciation of good fortune on the knowledge gained. In reflecting back on the Advance Tech writing course the following three areas will be influential on my character going forth in life: Audience, influence, and group dynamics. Audience When writing it is easy to forget about what type of audience one is writing towards. Whether consciously or not, one is always writing to an audience, this audience can be generalized or very specific. The Advance…

classical music. According to the documentary, Paul Whiteman was the reason for how Swing started in 1924 when he instructed George Gershwin to write “Rhapsody in Blue”, “The first pieces of symphonic jazz… A style of music that would influence classical composers,” (00:05:52-00:06:21). Moreover, the film explained the great importance Louis Armstrong’s inspiration had towards the development of Swing music, such as, the way he utilized improvisation and the feel of swing in his music.…

I was reminded of the nostalgia film series, Back to the Future, when Nike recently unveiled their self-lacing shoe as a community tribute to the actor, Michael J. Fox, who played the infamous time traveler character in the movies known as Marty McFly. Having watched the movies as a child with my father a handful of times and hearing about the new shoes, I realized how our technology is vastly advancing to meet the movie’s reality with our growing technology. Think about it, we have Elon Musk to…

The work of an architect is visible from the houses in a sub development to skyscrapers located in cities all around. Every building or structure no matter how small or how large started as a design created by an architect. The styles of architecture varies around the world and from architect to architect, each person has their own style of design. Becoming an architect requires a lengthy and expensive college education along with an internship for a student to become certified. Even though the…

When I was studying my GCSE and A level, I had used different application software to build up different projects like database booking systems, spreadsheet following the System development life cycle and automatic spreadsheet calculation system. Those projects are based on different business issues and try to use different Microsoft application to solve the problems. Afterward, I head one of the I.T. role name as project manager which allow me to manage different business projects. During my…

Introduction Off-site construction is part of modern methods of construction (MMC) and relates to construction activities that are carried out in a high quality controlled factory environment away from the site. Subsequently, the building components fabricated in the factory, are transported to the site location in order to be assembled on-site. This leads to a greater degree of finish than in traditional piecemeal on-site construction due to elimination of on-site work and rapid site assembly.…

Carpenter, a professional that builds houses and other structures, is a career I wish to peruse because, I like to build things, I’ve always been interested in construction work, and I like hand’s on work. I’ve been interested in the career ever since i got my first construction job working for Jeff Wolk when I was thirteen. The thing that made me want to pursue in this career was because, I really like hand’s on work, and I like outdoors and labor work. The challenges I will face would be…

Prior to my internship with Hensel Phelps, I had almost zero experience working for a construction company. The summer prior to this, I shadowed a quality control personnel and safety coordinator from the construction company Aztec, Inc. in El Paso, Texas. The project was an interior renovation of an old army rocket facility that was to be transformed into a general space for office work in Ft. Bliss. The work being performed there was abatement, painting, and carpet installation. While the…

career. Roark was in charge of building the Cortlandt homes, and like always he only designed it because he had a free choice on how he wanted it to look like. Although, behind Roark 's back, construction workers were told to change his design. So, Roark did the only possibility that came to his mind, he blew up the Cortlandt homes. The only person who took his side in this matter was Gail Wynand. He took Roark side because he wanted to help him receive more commissions even if everyone was…

This paper is written to discuss some of the important facts and duties of being a professional construction supervisor. (1)In the earliest days of construction, the ability to take whatever natural resources the earth provided and figure out a way to take that and preserve and improve life, has always been the basis of construction. This process of construction followed instinct, institution and utilizing resources that were most readily available. Historical data tells us that every culture…