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Space Needle Research Paper

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When I ask you about Seattle, what is the first noun that comes to your head. Besides a few; coffee, rain, and the worst play call in NFL history the first thing most people think of when hearing of Seattle is the Space Needle. At 605 feet high, 138 feet wide, and weighing in at 9,550 tons the Space Needle is located on 400 broad street in Seattle Washington. The 1962 world’s fair took place in Seattle, in honor of the Worlds Fair the Space Needle was built. It took around a year to build starting construction April 17, 1961 and completed April 21, 1962. Artist Edward E. Carlson had a job to design a futuristic object to showcase in Seattle with the theme of the 21st century. The outcome of this design was much more then an observation tower, restaurant, and shop. It is the symbol of this amazing city. There is reasoning for everything and the reason I chose this symbol is because …show more content…

With the Needle expressing us as a city it expresses our cities unwritten values and beliefs. Washington with predominant help from Seattle was one of the first states to legalize marijuana as well as gay marriage. This goes to show the openness and unique vibe our city. This vibe rubs off on all the citizens of Seattle giving us these “open minded” “free spirited” values. As go the beliefs, growing up in the Seattle Public Schools education system money was a problem some of the material was not great but the one concept they preached everyday was equality of everyone. Everyone is equal and our respect should be given to each person we encounter. This has stuck with me and is what you can call “the Seattle way”. I am not trying to brag and say I am a perfect human to everyone because that is not true. I will say if you ever visit Seattle you will be shocked of how welcoming everyone is. That is something we take pride

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