Verrazano-Narrows Bridge

Problem Statement To prepare a case study on the Akashi Bridge considering the history, design philosophy, construction techniques, construction materials and problem encountered throughout the design and construction phase. 2.0 Introduction Bridges have been in existence for a very long time and are any structure that carries a path across or over obstacles. Some obstacles can be considered as rivers, the ocean or valleys. Over the centuries bridges have evolved from as simple as wooden logs…

option in this Italian Catholic community. Bobby’s life ends on that symbolic bridge. Its not a coincidence that Bobby dies on that bridge. He doesn’t cross that bridge like Tony wants to do. He dies on it. Tony then recognizes that he must literally cross that bridge, to live a new life. Thus, the film ends with Tony in Stephanie’s Manhatten apartment determined to make a life there. The films repeated use of bridges to symbolize the deep social and economical conditions separating the films…

Over 14.2 million people in the world are suffering from some form of labor trafficking ("Labor Trafficking"). Labor trafficking is when individuals provide some sort of labor or services, through the use of force. Most of the victims are being manipulated, lied to, threatened, or given an unfair pay. The victims are put into poor working conditions and have a hard time getting out. Of the 14.2 million people in forced labor seventy three percent are adults and the other twenty seven percent are…

Long before European settlers took hold of New York City, the Lenape tribe were natives to this land. “Around 11, 000 years before the first Europeans sailed through the Narrows, the Lenape people foraged, hunted and fished the regional bounty”¹. In the early 1500’s a man named Giovanni da Verrazano was the first European explorer to ever land on New York’s soil. In the ear of 1609, a man named Henry Hudson discovered and created the first settlement while sailing up and down the Atlantic coast…

Shore Road overlooking the water, those houses are worth multiple millions of dollars today. The increase of rail transit in 1916 and 1917, led other ethnicities as Jewish and Italian families to move in Bay Ridge, also the building of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge encouraged more ethnicities and social classes to construct more…