Pierce County, Wisconsin Essays

  • Failure Analysis: The 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

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    Introduction An important element of an engineer’s job is to have the ability to respond to a need by building or creating a device or structure to carry out a given purpose. It is important for this device to be able to perform its purpose without failure as it will be dealing with people life and therefor the highest amount of safety is needed. Though, everything must eventually fail, in some way e.g. a failure in maintenance or a structure failure. This is why a failure analysis is important

  • Swot Analysis Of Mayo Clinic

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    Mayo Clinic started slowly from Dr. Mayo who practiced medicine to a current clinic that treats and offers consultation services and other medical services. From the onset, the creativity to bring new ideas was their principles. Medical practice in the clinic has been the act of pulling resources together to solve their patient problems. The founders of the clinic, both Mayo and his wife Louise, believed in charity and social awareness. Their viewpoint of life meant that no man, woman or child is

  • Study of the Four Lakes in the Yahara Chain

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    Carpenter et al., related the phosphorus (P) loadings, exports and concentration in the Yahara chain (a group of four lakes) in Wisconsin, USA, to some load reduction plans. The authors expected that the water quality enhancement should be in balance with the managements in all the chain. The parameters used in this research were: 29-33 years of data for P inputs, outputs, initial concentrations for each lake and the activity of zooplankton (Daphnia pulicaria) only in for the two upper lakes (Lake

  • Porcupines

    1914 Words  | 4 Pages

    on each front foot and five toes on each hind foot. Porkies are the second-largest rodent in Wisconsin after the North American beaver. They can weigh 30 pounds or more in summer but their weight drops dramatically during the lean months of winter. Porcupines live in the northern two-thirds of the state in a territory that extends in a V-shape from about the Ellsworth area in Pierce County down to Wisconsin Dells and back up toward Green Bay. Porcupines, like most rodents, are vegetarians. Their winter

  • Iroquois Confederacy

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    of the seventeenth century. The 1990 Census counted 49,038 Iroquois living in the United States, making them the country's eighth most populous Native American group. Although Iroquoian tribes own seven reservations in New York state and one in Wisconsin, the majority of the people live off the reservations. An additional 5,000 Iroquois reside in Canada, where there are two Iroquoian reservations. The people are not averse to adopting new technology when it is beneficial, but they want to maintain