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    given for not being bad. One should not seek to do good just because the reward. Modern discipline has become so dependent on rewarding that the children have become very shallow and have no deep understanding of morality and values. In traditional discipline a child grows up to become self-disciplined and grounded in a foundation of absolutes. The leniency that is most often found in modern parenting styles may create an adult with more self-entitlement than self-discipline. They may expect…

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    Seismic Foundation Design Lessons Learned from the Rion Antirion Bridge 1. Introduction The choice of a design concept for designing foundation is decided by various factors such as environmental conditions, information of the building, construction techniques and constraints at finance and time. These aspects will be considered more rigid on seismic foundation designing which is a very broad activity requiring the synthesis of experience and technical knowledge. These will be illustrated by an…

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    Grus Crane Behavior

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    Adults Grus crane has a slate grey body. The crane has large white stripe that stretches from the eyes to the upper back. They have black legs, their juveniles are a pale grey body. They have a long neck, beak, and legs. The feather is gray and black. Adults crane has the red patch of bare skin on the top of their header and their eyes are light red or reddish brown. They are 115 cm tall and wingspan are 210 cm. Their weight is between 5.5 kg, 12 lbs. Male cranes are usually a little large then…

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    Multitasking Consequences

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    numerous detrimental effects, such as shallow learning among students, the impairment of memory, and an addiction to the harmful use of technology. Why could students possibly want these consequences? Multitasking promotes inefficiency and damages students’ potential…

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    Deadly Hurricane Dbq

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    In September 1938, one America’s most deadly hurricanes raced through New England. There were a couple of conditions that made the Hurricane of ‘38 so severe.Like the weather of the New England, and the 20ft storm surge. These conditions made the hurricane much more damaging. Some of the damage sustained from the hurricane would include “entire communities wiped off the face of the Earth.”( Video). The weather that the North East was having, made a big difference on the hurricane. The…

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    Jazz Dance History

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    Jazz dance is often styled in parallel to the musical and cultural taste of the time providing it with its ever changing variations and influences throughout the decades especially the fifties and sixties. Jazz dance went from shallow imitations with Hindu/oriental inspiration to social dances that started in the African American community such as the jerk,locomotion, the Monkey and more. Gus Giordano, founder/director of the critically acclaimed Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, author,…

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    My Journey With Learning My desired career as a dentist lies eight years away and during four of those years I will be exposed to unrelated subjects such as math and history in order to make me a “well-rounded” individual. My journey with learning mirrors that of Samuel Scudder in his article “Look at Your Fish: In the Laboratory with Agassiz”. It is clear to see that my learning style is a product of the forced education guidelines I must follow as a U.S student; I do not learn everything…

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    ground then there would be a possibility that it would sink because the load is too much for the subsoil. How do you carry out a subsoil investigation? Where foundation loads are small, for example a bungalow which is approximately 35kNm2 and the nature of the subsoil is well known already then I generally sufficient to dig out the foundation trench and examine the exposed subsoil in the trench. The Building Control Officer will visit the site and confirm that the subsoil is capable of…

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    materials in terms of construction. Steel can be highly prefabricated, has spans of 5-7m (urban residential projects), with shallow floor system steel provides a floor depth of less than 400mm, while still meets criteria for acoustic insulation and fire resistance. Buildings are constructed extremely fast, generally within 14 months, there is no need for a massive foundation as…

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    Wind Turbines Essay

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    Early offshore wind development is expected to be in shallow water, which raises interest about the design of the turbine’s foundation system. The cost of offshore foundations for these developments is a significant portion of their overall installation cost, about 35% (Byrne and Houlsby, 2003), making the development of suitable designs for the foundations an essential task. The engineering expertise in the design and construction of marine structures…

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