Heaven's Gate

The San Francisco Ferry Building is a historic landmark today, but it has only been in recent history that the building has officially been returned to its iconic status. A. Brown designed the Ferry Building in the Beaux-Arts Architectural style, meaning it has such and such characteristics. The Beaux-Arts style highlights symmetry based on heavy influences of Greek and Roman design (Architectural Styles, 2017). It is a classic theme throughout the planning and architectural history to be…

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The I-35W Mississippi bridge was an eight lane, three span deck truss bridge which carried the interstate highway 35 across the Mississippi river. It was located in the biggest city of Minnesota, Minneapolis. It carried around 140,000 vehicles per day, making it the second busiest bridge in Minnesota. Construction repair and renew work was scheduled to be carried on the bridge again in 2020 or so. However, on August 1st, 2007, it collapsed all of a sudden, thereby killing 13 people and injuring…

Pain is defined as the physical discomfort or suffering caused by illness or injury. In Ordinary People by Judith Guest the story of a grieving family is portrayed. The story begins when Conrad gets out of the mental hospital, beginning to recover from his suicide attempt. However, as the story progresses the reader learns of much more hidden pain in the families past. A boating accident caused Jordan, Conrad’s older brother, to die, leaving the family in disrepair. After the death of his…

Throughout the world multitudes of individuals from different races, cultures, and backgrounds, strive to reach America for a dream, the American Dream. When striving to reach the American Dream countless immigrants sacrifice their lives, homes, and family, leaving everything behind in hopes of a better life, never imagining that in America it would also be grueling. Laura Jane Addams as a young child was given the entitlement of having nice clothes, food, a shelter, but most importantly a…

lying on the ground and the frame of the screen was bent. The reporting party pointed to a Jeep that was parked in a vacant lot, say it was DJ's. I walked out the gate to check the Jeep, but as I walked through the gate I observed a large pooling of blood. As I walked out the gate I observed a trail of blood drops leading from the gate into the vacant lot. I followed the drops to another large…

released on October 13th, 2003, highlights the “fatal grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge”. Friend begins with informing the reader of various circumstances in which the Golden Gate Bridge has been a final farewell for many, such as Paul Alarab, a 40-year-old Iraqi-American seeking peace and redemption for U.S. actions in the middle-east. Friend later goes on to discuss the statistical rate of suicide involving the Golden Gate Bridge, hinting towards the viability of social mimicry and…

Capt’n Cold is at his apartment in New York City. One day, he gets a card from his twin brother Mickey Mouse . It's a party invitation to his after party after he airs on the Ellen show. When Capt’n Cold sees this he's just like “Wow!”. He was so mad that he wanted revenge. Why didn't he get to be on the Ellen Show? Oh right, because he didn't get called back for his own tv show. Mickey did. So, Capt’n decides that he wants to invade Dallas with sharks. He sneakily gets into the U.S military…

1 Analysis of a Tragically Engineered System: The Interstate 35W Bridge Collapse Antonio Larios SYST 505 Professor Rochelle Jones February 6, 2017 George Mason University 2 Background The Interstate 35 West (I-35W) Mississippi River Bridge was a steel truss bridge built by the Industrial Construction Company and Hurcon Inc. between 1964 and 1967. Located in downtown Minneapolis, the bridge spanned over 1,900 feet across the Mississippi River and had a width of eight lanes (Minnesota, 2007). As…

The decades following the Civil War were a time of explosive growth for the United States, by the end of the Nineteenth century American economic wealth dwarfed that of its former colonial overseers. With this growth came challenges, the growing disparity between the wealthy and the poor led to deplorable and unsafe working conditions as the demand for production and more wealth for business owners became a more powerful motivator than human life and safety. This increase in economic success had…