Essays Tagged: "skyscrapers"

Politics in the Gilded Age

time of inventions and reform, resulting in large numbers of immigrants and huge cities filled with skyscrapers. Men such as Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, and Alexander Graham Bell, inven ...

(5 pages) 98 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

New York City. Compare/contrast essay

ork City. Each city has its stereotype, something everyone can say. For instance, New York equals skyscrapers and lots of people. Whereas when you say Columbus, people tend to think of average size ...

(3 pages) 157 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Comparison and Contrast: Species Endangerment

Species endangerment has been, and still is, a growing concern in our rapidly developing nation. As skyscrapers rise, forests and other precious habitats disappear. Appreciation begins with knowledge ...

(8 pages) 107 1 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Frank Lloyd Wright

mes today. While most of his designs were single-family, his collections include houses of worship, skyscrapers, resorts, museums, government offices, gas stations, bridges, and other masterpieces sho ... o Chicago where the great fires had destroyed most of the old city allowing it to be built with the skyscrapers of glass and steel. This complimented the trend of residential design, which used Victor ...

(12 pages) 137 2 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Blade Runner, An Analysis

tic view of the future. It takes place in 2019 in Las Angeles, which is full of acid rain, decaying skyscrapers, and masses of people. The movie focuses around genetically designed human replicants th ...

(2 pages) 95 3 3.8 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

How the NYC made me who I'm Today

state where you are from peoples imaginations instantly begin to conjure up visions of movie stars, skyscrapers, and busy streets.As a native of New York City I have been able to witness its majesty f ...

(1 pages) 19 1 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

POEMS OF THE 1930s- MODERN POETRY The Pylons, The Express, Slough and The Wiper

a completely negative sense, in some parts of the poem he mentions that the electricity pylons and skyscrapers have a beauty of their own. Spender divides his poem in three sections, past (first stan ...

(3 pages) 20 0 3.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

WWII and its Effect on the Rise of Superpowers

s fill the four lane highways, while people crowd the sidewalks of huge cities, filled with massive skyscrapers, bustling shops and lavish penthouses. Stores and homes are overflowing with all differe ...

(17 pages) 97 0 5.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The Steel Industry They Will Survive

s that helped carve a nation out of the frontier. Steel is the backbone of bridges, the skeleton of skyscrapers and the framework of automobiles. Now in the 21st century, it is still revolutionizing t ...

(7 pages) 108 0 5.0 Apr/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Personal modern appropriation of Rapunzel

The Tower's WindowOnce upon a time, in a kingdom where the land was filled with skyscrapers and apartments, badly maintained roads choked with traffic, there lived a couple, a teen ...

(5 pages) 21 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Race for the sky

se to a kilometer and master plans of others supertalls is marking a turning point to the nature of skyscrapers we are going up instead of across. However, a question rose form a recent observation I ... e are going up instead of across. However, a question rose form a recent observation I made towards skyscrapers, that is, most of super high skyscrapers would be left half empty for a long time. For e ...

(4 pages) 34 0 3.8 Oct/2006

Subjects: Science Essays > Engineering

The Fallen

girl's eyes water. The same wind was responsible for the brown haze which shrounded the tops of the skyscrapers. Although the girl was too young to express her feelings in terms the world would have u ...

(1 pages) 1294 0 2.7 Feb/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

333 Wacker Dr.

ere just the beginning, in just a hundred years, Chicago transformed into an ultra-modern city with skyscrapers headed far into the sky. Off course not all of the skyscrapers build were first-class, s ... build a beautiful, and at the same time efficient and well-organized building. It is one of the few skyscrapers ever build that defeated the thought that a skyscraper is a big rectangle box headed int ...

(5 pages) 17 0 0.0 Mar/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Attach On America

Attack on America Who in this world would do such a thing? Who would fly airplanes into skyscrapers and why would they do this? Over the past three weeks events and FBI leads have all poin ...

(3 pages) 919 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Scars of war

, and museums.As you cross the last crest coming into the city, the first image you see is the Unis Skyscrapers. These two skyscrapers are of equal height and were built to symbolize the brotherhood a ... ir. The names are of different national origin to show the multi-ethnic background of the city. The skyscrapers were continually hit by artillery fire because of their equal height to break apart the ...

(3 pages) 12 0 1.7 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Is Korean Unification Possable

uth Korea with the help of the United States rebuilt their capital city, Seoul which now has modern skyscrapers, fancy stores and not to mention high tech factories. This is a big change from the one ...

(3 pages) 9 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The 2032 Awakening

thought that the other looked much older.We were awestruck when we gazed out the window. There were skyscrapers with huge domes on top, and out of those domes stuck huge poles. Floating cars zoomed ac ...

(3 pages) 1541 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Science and Technology played an important role during World War

ese creations helped overcome the opposite forces during the war. The Grand Central Station and the skyscrapers in New York City were some of the great features that were made during the time of World ... ilability of cars. Life in America was much more relaxing than it had been previous to the war. The skyscrapers, the Grand Central Station added on to the beauty of tourism in New York City. America w ...

(2 pages) 1966 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Structures of Houses

From the breathtaking buildings of Ancient Greece to the modern day skyscrapers, it is easy to see that architecture has undergone many changes throughout the course of ...

(2 pages) 46 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts

Blade Runner

at the world has a lot of commercial pressures on it. We see huge lighted signs everywhere. Like on skyscrapers, space ships. We get a sense of sort of an artificial world from this. It is always dark ...

(1 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science