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shaking so hard that you're thrown out of bed and across the room--if you're even lucky enough to be alive. On April 18, 1906, at 5:12 a.m., an earthquake hit San Francisco, destroying much of the city. San Francisco was a growing city with many closely spaced wooden homes and unsupported brick buildings. The moment the earthquake started, buildings collapsed, water mains broke, and a huge fire broke out that spread rapidly across the city. The San Francisco earthquake was centered along the San…

and introducing his own comparison that is climbing a mountain. I agree with Harris that climbing a ladder is unlike the journey that it takes to be successful. As Harris points out, “a ladder proceeds vertically, rung by rung, with each rung evenly spaced, and with the hole apparatus leaning against a relatively flat and even surface. A child can climb a ladder as easily as an adult, and perhaps with a surer footing” (paragraph 2). I would add that every ladder is basically the same, which…

The company that I have conducted this project on is Osh Kosh b’Gosh. The store is located at Tanger Outlet in Gonzales at 2400 Tanger boulevard #151, Gonzales, LA 70737. The construction of the building consists of sheetrock and steel. The ceiling of the building is open, meaning that there are no tiles to separate the air duct and the insulation. This can seem dangerous because insulation is flammable, but the ceiling is higher than most other stores around it that have the tiles separating…

Emma Kilgore Science Period 2 January 12, 2016 The Evaporation of Liquids When a liquid is left in a warm car over a certain period of time some people might notice that the liquid seems to have lessened. This is because of evaporation, evaporation is when a liquid changes into a gas because of an increase in temperature or pressure. This brings up many questions having to do with liquids and evaporation so, do all liquids take the same amount of time to evaporate?…

cotton with ease and without having to do it by hand. This wonderful machine is called to cotton gin and the model consisted of a wooden cylinder surrounded by rows of spikes, which pulled the lint through the bars of a grid The grids were closely spaced, preventing the seeds from passing through. Loose cotton was pushed aside to prevent the machine from jamming. Who invented such a useful machine? Eli Whitney of Hamden, Connecticut is the man. The cotton gin was created to boost productivity in…

Nowadays, nearly every student smears a highlighter all around their notes, and calls it "studying," but in reality these kind of methods do not work well; this phenomenon is explained the book Make it Stick. The cognitive scientists, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel, explain why people are attracted to ineffective strategies for learning and teaching and how the concept of learning is misunderstood by most students and teachers as well, which creates difficulties in…

the downfall was you needed a magnifying glass to do so. His mechanical television depended on the revolving disks to transfer the images from a transmitter to a receiver. Both the transmitter and the receiver had to have the disks, the holes were spaced around the disk each hole being sightly lower than the last. In order to successfully transmit your…

This article is about a three year old boy with a disability that was unable to walk or talk had a wide range of developmental delays like spaced eyes, feeding and digestive problems . 2) - A mother and child being shunned by others who were unable to see the son she loves as a child instead of as a condition or disease. Main point- s see him as a son not child with a disability. - Strangers with drawing from this child because of the very sound and movement he uses to try and interact with…

“The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter”(E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a painter and a poet, he was fascinated with Pablo Picasso’s art. As you can see E.E. Cummings relies on sight and sound to create meaning in his poetry. It is important to know that Cummings uses language to its fullest. In document A his other poem “l(a” the spacing of the poem looks like loneliness, he also uses parentheses for…

The Fundamental Aspects of Writing and Basics of APA Formatting Style One of the fundamental elements of writing is the central idea. This central idea is also referred to an argument or thesis. It represents the main theme, which the author supports with subordinate ideas. As individuals develop any formal submittal, they must focus on a clear and well-stated argument that they will use facts and evidence to support. Besides, these ideas must be arranged in a sequential and logical manner in…