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    The Tower of Pisa is a major cite in Italy due to its natural, but not intended, lean. The bell tower stands at close to one hundred ninety feet tall with one side noticeable being shorter than the other. The reason for the lean of the tower is due to the soil and weight distribution. The weight of the building is so heavy and the soil itself was not very stable. (Urban Climatology). The stair case on the inside of the bell tower is made of marble and took over three hundred years to be completely

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    Special Information and Supplementary Documentation Data Management Plan Wind tunnel and shake table testing of buildings and other structures will be used to validate/complement the proposed control theory and CFD results. The aeroelastic model experiment will provide useful information (response time histories (displacement, accelerations), and videos of the aeroelastic behavior). The deliverables will include publications, raw data, photographs, videos, etc. The results from the project will

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    Racial Diversity

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    Racial diversity should be facilitated into nationwide colleges and universities. A percentage of these institutions fail to have their racial demographics sufficiently proportioned to society in general. A diverse institution can ideologically be explained as representing the traditional attitudes and values of America; sufficiently different in regards to ethnicities. A diversity dilemma occurs when such status is nonexistent. For instance, there is a school whose student body is composed of unproportionate

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    music. Opening a music store will take a lot of hard work time and dedication. It will take a lot of hard work in schooling, too. To be a music business (store) owner will take some very strict schooling on my part. I will be attending Louisiana State University (LSU). LSU’s current

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    Change In Education

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    being severely detrimental. Colleges should not interfere with the constant flow of education by incorporating a distraction from learning; however, college officials should merely strive for their students to be comfortable not pampered. Louisiana State University installed a lazy

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    companies have brought in green coffee beans from around the world through the Port of New Orleans. Today, it is the second-largest coffee port in the country. Among those importers, Westfeldt Brothers Inc. is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. The company was first founded in Mobile, Alabama, in 1851 by Swedish Vice Consul Gustavus Adolphus George Westfeldt, who had immigrated to the U.S. in 1835. Westfeldt moved to New Orleans in 1853. By 1880, his company had become one of the country’s

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    Chopin and Edna Pontellier as Feminists Kate Chopin is known for her literary works that depict culture in New Orleans, Louisiana, and of women's struggles for freedom. She was born Katherine O'Flaherty in Missouri, and later married Oscar Chopin in 1870. He was a Creole cotton trader from New Orleans. Later they moved to a plantation near Cloutierville, Louisiana, where her husband died in 1882. She returned to Missouri with her six children, and began her writing career. She began writing

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    So many Coaches have talent and dedication for what they do. I 'm proud to play for one that has a spectacular history of coaching. That coach is Dennis Lorio, who Graduated from LSU (Louisiana State University) with an economic degree and played baseball. “I love the intensity and the relationship in football” Coach Lorio explaining with a passionate expression. I can see it in his eyes that he is very dedicated and hardworking coach. As of now he is 62 years old and still willing to coach. “It’s

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    The Man with Talent So many Coaches have talent and dedication for what they do. I 'm proud to play for one that has a spectacular history of coaching. That coach is Dennis Lorio. Graduated from LSU (Louisiana State University) with an economic degree and played baseball. “I love the intensity and the relationship in football” Coach Lorio explaining with a passionate expression. I can see it in his eyes that he is very dedicated and hardworking coach. As of now he is 62 years old and still willing

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    Hello World

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    But all of his setbacks led him to Louisiana where he graduated with his master’s degree from LSU, while meeting the love of his life, whom he married a few years later. After accepting a lower-paying job in Louisiana to satisfy his soon to be father-in-law, Mr. Griffin worked his way up the ladder until he eventually became the CEO of what is now Chase bank. Through business

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