Essays on Tower

Introduction

The Eiffel tower is an iron lattice located on the Champ de mars in Paris. The building was erected in the year 1889 and was named after a contractor as well as engineer who was among the most influential people in its construction, by the name Gustave Eiffel (Greene 56). It is the tallest building in Paris having 108 stories. It was the tallest man-made structure until the Chrysler building was built in New York in 1930. However, the addition of the antenna at the top of Eiffel tower in 1957 has now made it taller than Chrysler building Continue reading...

Buildings, over time immemorial, have contributed to beauty that is attributed to the environment, art and architecture. Buildings have been designed since time in history with certain features and symbols that give and portray different meanings. Professionals in art and architecture have contributed a lot since time in memorial to the industry of buildings. Eiffel Tower in Paris is among the oldest and uniquely designed buildings in the world. However, this paper presents and in depth analysis of Eiffel Tower focusing on various ideologies such as political, religious, philosophical as well as historical relations of the building not only Continue reading...

Introduction

The London tower was founded in 1066 by William the conqueror. It is regarded as one of the most famous fortresses in the world. In Britain, it is a frequently visited historical and heritage site. The main reason for building the London tower was to control and protect the London city. The white Tower, which is the most outstanding feature of the London tower, was built in 1078 by William the conqueror (David 2007). The white tower has not changed much and its appearance today is the same as that of Norman period. The London tower has served different Continue reading...

A critical analysis of the paintings of the Tower of Babel directly suggest the perspective of the both the translation and labor that refer to the utopian spirit of social critique as well as to the resistance to the authority. The art paintings appear to embody an expectation of a multiplicity of tongues as a result of the harsh judgment from the Supreme Being. The Tower of Babel may not be a realized vision. It can be understood in an angle where the Utopian ideal was to be discovered. The Utopian discourse was presented in a manner that allowed Continue reading...

Find a building or structure constructed –Eiffel tower Art and architecture from the ancient times to date has played a key role that have made many appreciate the beauty in the natural environment. Buildings and structures in many regions and places are designed differently that depict and tell dissimilar stories with varied messages. In the recent times, art and architecture have grown tremendously in many institutions of learning across the globe, and this shows the emphasis and benefits that society has realized arising from the industry. Buildings among other structures made by artists and architects have portrayed different meanings Continue reading...

According to the Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, The Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building based on height to top, height to highest occupied floor, and height to architectural top. The building is a multi-use Burj Dubai development tower with an approximate total area of 460,000 meters squared. It includes parking facilities, shopping malls, entertainment centers, offices, hotel, and residential (AL-KODMANY 2013, p. 12). The decision to construct this building was initiated by government’s idea to diversify from an oil-based economy to one that is tourism and service oriented. It is 828 meters Continue reading...

Financial Management

Financial management comprises of the set of activities including planning, organizing, controlling and directing the enterprise’s financial activities like utilization of funds and procurement. The Sydney Opera House is an Australian cultural icon and a heritage asset. It is crucial to Australian tourism infrastructure and by extension to its national income. This is because over 8.2 million domestic and foreign tourists. For example, according to (Opera House Trust., 2012), in 2011-2012, over 1,808 performances were held in the Opera house, attracting more than 1.3 million people. The Trust obtains 85% of operational funding from commercial as well Continue reading...

Abstract

Project management is one of the essential fields that any executive personnel who have a vision to establish outstanding projects should embrace. There are different strategies that are utilized by large, medium and small corporations and projects to ensure that the management business within and externally goes on smoothly. Ideally, the project report aims at investigating the management practices that existed in the Shard Tower Project. First, the reports outline and give a background description of the manner in which the Shard Tower Project has been managed in the previous times. There will be the use of professional measures Continue reading...

Founded towards the end of 1066, the tower of London is a historic castle in Central London. The tower was established as a reminder of the Norman Conquest of England military architecture. The origin of the tower dates back to the Roman Empire when the city of London was founded. London residents were able to see the tower from all corners of the town since it was very tall. This served to remind them that they were under the rule of William the Conqueror. The dictatorial rules imposed by William’s administration made the monarchy very unpopular over the Continue reading...

The investigation on The Burj Dubai tower and the Taipei 101 building

The Burj Dubai tower
The Burj Dubai tower is one of the world tallest buildings to have ever been constructed by engineers. This type of a building wind forces and the resulting motions in the upper chamber of the building become some of the factors that call for a major concern in the construction of the building. Engineers had to make an extensive research programs in wind tunnels in the Rowan, Williams, Davies and Erwin (RWDI) 2.4 ×1.9 meter, and 4.9 × 2.4 meter boundary layer wind tunnels in Guelph, Ontario. In the wind tunnel program, it includes pedestrian wind Continue reading...

INVESTMENT POLICY STATEMENT

INTRODUCTION
The main purpose of this document of Investment Policy Statement is to define a business relationship leading to agreement between the investor John Nowak, the heir of Nowak’s Delaware Wooden Pallets and the advisors Investment Advisors Ltd. represented by James Tower. James Tower will in his function of financial adviser to John Nowak, be responsible for the updates to the Investment Policy, monitoring application and notification of the need for updates and violations in Policy implementations. Investment Advisors Ltd. represented by James Tower will act as a fiduciary in their capacity as advisers to the Tower Family Continue reading...

Introduction

The development of technology created some possible solutions to the global warming such as sustainable energy sources (Jin et al, 2013). In addition, the modern architecture is also contributing to the care of the environment. The government and some organizations are now promoting the sustainable use of materials and designs in buildings and skyscrapers. It is often called the “green architecture” which refers to the evolution of architectural designs which are concerned with the awareness to the environment (Bhattacharya & Singh, 2013). Skyscraper sustainable designs are usually efficient in energy use and it values the factors that could remove the Continue reading...

In the 1986 John Hughes comedy Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the titular troublemaker (Matthew Broderick) brings his girlfriend Sloane (Mia Sara) and his friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) with him on a day of hooky in downtown Chicago, skipping their suburban school to get a taste of the big city. As much as the film is an expression of youthful exuberance, carpe diem philosophies and the need to live life by your own rules, writer/director Hughes also uses this opportunity to craft a wonderful love letter to the city of Chicago, Illinois, where he grew up. Says Hughes of Continue reading...

In There Will Be Blood, director Paul Thomas Anderson creates a darkly authentic, yet stylized picture of life as oil-seekers in the Old West, depicting the journey of oil baron Daniel Plainview and his descent into darkness and evil. Oil and Plainview are very directly connected, and nowhere is this connection made more clear than in the mise-en-scene of the tower explosion scene, where the oil well burns up, creating a tower of flame seen by all, including Plainview’s son H.W., who is deafened by the blast. This crippling of his son turns Plainview even more towards Continue reading...

The thesis of this paper is to bring out the concept of the architects who worked on the two great building, considering their intentions and procedure they used and maintained. The two buildings represent the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. The New York Times building which was finished in 2007 is one of the world’s tallest buildings. The building was designed by an architecture that based on the concept of modern buildings, the iron class designed to be draped in ceramic tubes which creates the ceramic .the building is a skyscraper. The project was announced in the Continue reading...

Proposal of Making A Dining Hall for the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School

Executive Summary
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, also known as Carey Business School, located in Baltimore, Maryland is one of the newest business schools in the USA. Founded in 2007, the school is yet to develop fully to accommodate all the students in a single campus (JHU #2, 2014). It has several campus locations within Baltimore, Washington, D.C. I attend my classes at its Harbor East Campus in a 24 storied high-rise building, the Legg Mason Tower. The Leg Mason Tower is the office headquarter of the asset management company, Legg Mason. Though having our classes done in Continue reading...

Cranes have contributed to the rise of civilization for many years in the construction industry. The ancient Greeks invented the first crane sometime in the sixth century as a tool to lift massive loads. According to Chiu (42), such evidence that points to the use of cranes by the Greeks can be found on distinct holes that are visible on stones, which indicate the use of a form of lifting mechanism. Back in those days, the basic features of the crane included an elongated wooden beam, which was attached to a rotating base and a rope attached around a Continue reading...

Figure 1 Schematic parabolic concentrated solar power (Source adopted: Chu, 2011) 5
Figure 2 Systematic mechanism of Dish/Engine System 12
Figure 3 Illustration of section-A of figure-2 12

Recommendation Report: Dish/Engine Type-The Best Concentrated Solar Power Technology

Introduction
The sun has provided the earth and everything in it with immense energy for years, and lots of these energies are left untapped. Even with the unprecedented advancement in technology today, only a little solar power is tapped. The studies reported that the side of the Earth having facing towards the Sun, a square kilometer at the outer edge of the atmosphere gets solar power up to 1,400 MW Continue reading...

Introduction p. 3 – 4

Skyscrapers in the City p. 4 – 8
List of Figures
Fig. 1 (Burj Khalifa) p. 5
Fig. 2 (Table of Skyscrapers in the World) p. 6

References p. 8

Introduction
Tall buildings have captured the imagination of people throughout history. In the Old Testament, the Tower of Babel builders admonished the people to build a city and a tower “with its top in the heavens And let us make a name for ourselves” (Glaeser, 2011). The height of the tower signified success and power. It showed recognition. Tall structures also date back to the obelisks of ancient Egypt. Western city builders got Continue reading...

I know that it is unusual for someone my age to have a “bucket list”. But there are so many things to see out there in the world that I felt I should write these goals down early on to give myself incentive to seek and discover my passions.

As a youngster, we always built things from odd items around the house. Paper towers were my specialty. So when I heard about the Eiffel Tower, I was very intrigued. I wondered why someone would build something so big, but so non functional. I wondered who paid for it. And Continue reading...

Justification Report Revision

[Institution’s Name]

Letter of Transmittal

The head of IT department
AT&T service
Dear Mr. Ben,
The feasibility report of the evaluation of vendor for modification of infrastructure is presented for your perusal. As committed, the evaluation has been performed in alignment with the minutes of meeting of May 22, 2014. Complete review of the impositions are undertaken to justify the preference of the feasibility report along with the evidence of study.
Company A is observed more advantageous as compared to company B through the analysis of the elements of cost, time, efficiency, and quality.
I hope the feasibility study serves its Continue reading...

Managerial Decision-Making (MGMT530)

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Executive summary 3

Introduction – Overview of Decision Problem 4
Problem Statement 4
Objectives 5
Summary of Key Objectives 5
Alternatives 6
Description of Alternatives 6
Selection 7
Consequence Table with Original Values 7
Scoring Model 8
Weighted Scoring Model 9
Consequences: Risk Profile 10
Implementation, Monitoring and Control 11
Timeline 12
Summary 13

Works cited 14

Executive summary
The following decision-making proposal is designed to provide solution for the future management of the Preoperative Clinic (Rutledge Tower) and Ashley River Tower Clinic, both belonging to the Medical University of South Carolina. Both clinics tend to face significant number of management issues, concerned with general Continue reading...

Millennium tower building London was one of the greatest architectural ideas that never materialized to become a building. The owner of the building, Trafalgar House had requested Forster and Partners to design the building for them. The building would have been the tallest building in Europe by then. Forster designed the ninety two-storey building to be three hundred and eighty six meters tall. The plan was one of the most peculiar designs at the time. It joined two asymmetrical eclipses at one of its ends. One of the main sponsors of the building English Heritage withdrew from the project Continue reading...

Are there any hidden assumptions or price rigidities in the country or countries that might inhibit market force indicators from revealing the true economic health of the country, thereby either preventing government policy actions from correcting the problems or otherwise making them ineffective and counterproductive?
Hidden assumptions that may have an influence on revealing the true economic health of a country include the level of labor in the countries. Most of wages in an economy are controlled by the market economy, and this determines the growth of the economy. Additionally, foreign investments levels are quite low. Information concerning the Continue reading...

PERSONAL COMPUTERS: WHERE DID THEY COME FROM AND WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

1.0 Personal computers: Where did they come from and where are they going?
1.1 Overview
NASA’s first computer, a typical UNIVAC, filled a room the size of a house (Tomayko 1987). Since that time computers have become smaller in size until finally, they have reached the size of micro-mini. The micro-sized computers are used in mobile devices as small as a cell phone. The personal computer appeared when computers became small enough to sit on a desktop. With the advent of the desktop PC, the computer market opened up to small businesses and home use consumers.
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Engineering

Abstract
The Brooklyn Bridge is probably underappreciated by most of the people who use it today but it is still an example of great engineering. The chief engineer, Roebling, designed a suspension bridge that was fifty percent longer than any other suspension bridge of the times. His design for weighting of the bridge to keep it stable when there was wind is a very important lesson for today’s suspension bridge designers. The health and safety issues of the height of the bridge and the use of the Caisson boxes have been discussed. The approximately 27 deaths that took Continue reading...

Environmental review is necessary to determine the success factors to consider when starting a business. Apart from the microeconomic factors such as suppliers, customers, competitors and government policies that are to be taken into account on incubation of a business opportunity, the macro environment shapes opportunities and poses threat to a business.

One such factor is the demographic environment, which primarily involves the people who make up the target market. As such, any change in demographic factors has significant implications for any business. Thus in marketing close track should be kept on demographic trends and developments in the target Continue reading...

Introduction

Creativity is the gift given to man by nature. Human Creativity knows no bound. Innovative people find inspiration to improve their work in each and everything they observe. Sky is the limit for those with innovativeness. Nature is like a teacher for man, and hence, it is the source of inspiration for flourishing the creativity. Nature is involved in every creative work, may it be art, painting, sculpture, or even architecture. If we observe the world around us, we can find several examples of creative works. If the creative work is to be applied in various fields, the experts Continue reading...

Introduction

How Paris became Paris: The invention of Modern City is a book by DeJean Joan gives an account of events of the development of the city of Paris with regards to its architectural structures. The book is full of explanations on the characteristics of modern urban center and how its buildings and structure came to be what the world is witnessing right now. The author begins the book by focusing on two French kings; King Henry IV and King Louis XIV who were alive more than two centuries before Haussmann Baron, a public worker who led the widespread renovation Continue reading...

View and analyze the film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" portraying a person with a disability. Write a meaningful critique of the film

Description of how the person's disability is portrayed within the contexts of family and community (Have an in depth analysis and discussion of the extent to which the film appears to be a reflection of life and is grounded in current "state of knowledge". Give appropriate evidences from the film to support each point)
Analysis onto what extent does this film address characteristics and effects of the cultural and environmental milieu of the individual with disabilities (Have Continue reading...

Introduction

Enhancing the shareholder’s equity is one of the most effective activity of an organization for which the organizations stride for. According to majority of consensus, increasing the shareholder’s equity is the most important and critical things from the viewpoint of an organization as it is something from which positive impact would have been reflected over the bottom line of the organizations. Success story of an organization could not be derailed from any standpoint, as it something from which different aspects of an entity would be decided.
The essence of structure is an important thing from the standpoint Continue reading...

Charles Joseph Whitman was born on June 24 1941 to Charles Adolph Whitman and Margaret Whitman. On the fateful day of August 1 1966, confirmed reports indicate that he killed 15 people and injured some other 31 people during a mass killing spree at the University of Texas Tower (Lavergne, Gary M, pg 4). Charles died on the same day as he succumbed to injuries resulting from the retaliating fire from the police and the civilians who were assisting the police to overcome him. The reasons as to why Whitman did this remain more of uncertainties. Events leading to Continue reading...

Influenced by the Brothers Grimm’s German fairy tale ‘Rapunzel’, Tangled is an amazing animation movie. Dan Fogelman turned the story into a screenplay for Walt Disney. Walt Disney Animation Studios produced the animation movie as the fiftieth piece in the Walt Disney Animated Classics Series. The shooting production of the movie began in 2007. The film was released on 24 November 2010 at the El Captain Theatre. The initial directors of the movie were Dean Wellins and Dean Keane. However, they stepped down as the directors in 2008. Nathan Greno and Bryon Howard took over the directing role Continue reading...

EPA is an organization that has been mandated with the responsibility of water conservation. There are several federal requirements for water conservation that EPA has put in place to ensure that it performs its duties well to meet the expectations of the their mandate.
The first requirement is Federal leadership on Energy, Environmental as well as Economic performance. This requirement, which was agreed upon in 2007 stipulates that agencies must reduce the potable water intensity by at least 2% . Additionally, it demands agricultural, industrial, and landscaping water consumption to be also reduced by at least 2%.
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Asymmetric warfare involves a manner of thinking, organizing, and acting that is different from the opponent (Patterson 2002). This enables one to maximize their own advantages or exploit the weaknesses of their enemies. It involves the use of new capabilities that are not perceived or understood by the enemies. They enable one to counter or exceed the enemies’ capabilities or consist of capabilities that involve entirely new methods of defense or attack. According to Carter (2012), asymmetric warfare is a “war between combatants whose relative power differs significantly or whose strategies or tactics differ significantly” (Carter 2012, second paragraph).
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Introduction

Wind energy has been in use as far back as 3000 B.C., when sailors in Egypt utilized this energy to move their boats. Today, wind energy is hailed as an important source of energy and is tapped in various regions around the world. Its importance stems from two factors: (1) it is renewable and (2) it is a clean source of energy that does not generate environmentally harmful emissions. To harness wind energy, a wind turbine is used. A turbine converts the kinetic energy of the wind into Continue reading...

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This paper is a research proposal that aims at determining the how the continental Europe and its influence over the entire world could be described using sociology symbols. These are the factors which have shaped the history and the current Europe, ranging from civilization, the traditional empires, political, social and economic revolutions, and social and economic theories. The paper explains the thesis, research questions, the hypothesis and the methodology to be utilized in the study, as well as the methods for representing the information.

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Introduction

Charles Bridge of Prague in Czech Republic and the Golden Gate Bridge in United States are two of the most renowned bridges of the world. Both of these bridges exhibit few similarities and few differences in its physical form, location, types of users, frequency and purpose of use, and materials. This paper will elucidates and compare these similarities and differences. Not only these bridges have a sheer economic significance but they have great cultural impact, as well. Both were made for the same notion of connecting communities (Brook & Cornish, 1992). Charles Bridge was made a century ago, while Golden Continue reading...

The day September eleventh, 2001 will be a day individuals won't overlook for the rest of their lives. On that morning, planes were seized from Newark, Boston, and Washington. The primary occasion of the terrorist assault was at 8:46 A.m. in Manhattan, New York. At this point a seized plane flew into the north tower of the World Trade Center (Greenberg). The highest point of the north tower was loaded with smoke and flares. The individuals close to the World Trade Center were totally shocked and had their attention gotten right when the first plane hit. "Countless individuals saw Continue reading...

The miracle of face is a movie that explains the impacts that beauty plays as far as our life is concerned. For example, babies are drawn to beautiful faces, and they tend to spend a lot of time scaring at them. But when it comes to ugly faces, they cannot withstand scaring at them-most of the time they will cry while looking for an escape since they are scared by ugly faces. Research has been conducted, and it clearly depicts that even older individuals are scared when it comes to socializing with scary people. Henry having his eye removed-due Continue reading...