Strip District Essays

  • Current Conditions In and Future Plans for the Strip District

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    Introduction Over the last 200 years, the Strip District has gone through many different changes throughout its long history. Stretching from 11th Street to 33rd Street, The Strip as it is known from Pittsburgh was at one in the 1920’s the economic center of Pittsburgh and was home to such companies as U.S. Steel, The H.J. Heinz Company and Westinghouse. As the 21st century rolled into, the ghosts of past industry giants still remained, but the Strip District had changed into a Saturday destination

  • Information Security: The Attacks Encountered by Target Corp.

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    Harris PA history Mr. Jensema 4/11/14 The Strip District Have you ever asked yourself what was the first Industrial city in the United States? Well that place would be Pittsburgh; specifically from the help of the Strip District. The strip is one of the most unique and interesting places in Pittsburgh. It’s filled with worldwide destinations and places only Pittsburghers would know. From places like Primantis to Woolley’s even famous churches, the Strip really has just about everything. It’s not

  • Peanut

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    This article is about peanut, the plant. There is a separate article about Peanuts, the comic strip by Charles M. Schulz. Peanut Peanut leaves and freshly dug pods Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Subfamily: Faboideae Tribe: Aeschynomeneae Genus: Arachis Species: A. hypogaea Binomial name Arachis hypogaea L. The Peanut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the pea family Fabaceae native to South America. It is an

  • Hybridity and National Identity in Postcolonial Literature

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    Hybridity and National Identity in Postcolonial Literature Every human being, in addition to having their own personal identity, has a sense of who they are in relation to the larger community--the nation. Postcolonial studies is the attempt to strip away conventional perspective and examine what that national identity might be for a postcolonial subject. To read literature from the perspective of postcolonial studies is to seek out--to listen for, that indigenous, representative voice which can

  • Importance of Loyalty in the Epic of Gilgamesh

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    accepted Enkidu. The young trapper became displeased with the actions of Enkidu. The trapper journeys to Uruk to seek advice from Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh advises the trapper to "go back, take with you a child of pleasure. At the drinking-hole she will strip, and when he sees her beckoning he will embrace her and the game of the wilderness will surely reject him" (64). This passage demonstrates the known consequences of violating a loyalty. Gilgamesh knows that Enkidu will not be able to resist the temptation

  • Nothing is Something in King Lear

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    to understanding King Lear is recognizing the importance of reductivism: Characters have to be reduced to near-nothing in order for the tragedy to reveal itself in the text; first, nothing, then something else altogether. Shakespeare makes Lear strip hims... ... middle of paper ... ...oncrete sympathy for his devolution and devastation. Edgar gets to make his own kingdom that was once wrought with rot, so something else comes from nothing. While there is no flash of brilliant epiphany, Lear's

  • Observation Essay - The Barbershop

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    Observation Essay - The Barbershop Immediately I recognized that things were different, as I struggled to find a parking spot in the tiny lot hidden just off of the highway. The barbershop is located in an area too small to be considered a strip mall-and apparently too small to handle all of its customers' vehicles. It is the third in a row of three shops, although the first, a former ice cream/water ice business, was for rent. I knew that all of the drivers of the automobiles in the lot were

  • Hawthorne’s Style in Young Goodman Brown

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    speed and persevere in the path, discoursing so aptly, that his arguments seemed rather to spring up in the bosom of his auditor, than to be suggested by himself. As they went, he plucked a branch of maple, to serve for a walking-stick, and began to strip it of the twigs and little boughs, which were wet with evening dew Even the most emotional outburst in the entire story does not contain any language even remotely displeasing or uncultivated: "’Ha! ha! ha!’ roared Goodman Brown, when the wind

  • The Applications of ICT- Shopping

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    capability to make transfers for customers to pay for goods via credit or debit cards. The checkout uses the ICC (integrated chip card which is very popular on the continent) or Magnetic strip on the card to request the information of the user to see whether or not they are eligible to make an EFT. The magnetic strip can only hold a limited amount of data such that an 11 or so digit code is sufficient to recall the same data from the bank servers. The ICC however can hold much more information and is

  • A Discourse on Inequality

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    only be impossible to explain, but consequently, impossible to prove. Therefore, imagining this state could prove not only embarrassing, but would be a contradiction to the Holy Scriptures. In the “natural state”, Rousseau suggests that we should strip man of all the “supernatural gifts” he may have been given over the course of time. He says we should “consider him, in a word, just as he must have come from the hands of nature, we behold in him an animal weaker than some, and less agile than others;

  • Separation of Photosynthetic Pigments by Paper Chromatography

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    solution; l Chromatography paper or filter paper; l Rack of test tube; l Pigment solution; l Solvent (5 cm3). Procedure: l A strip of absorptive paper has been prepared. It has such a length that it almost reaches the bottom of a large test tube and such a width that the edges do not the sides of the tube; l Draw a pencil line across the strip of paper 30 mm from one end. The paper has been folded at the other end through 90 degrees and attached to the stopper using a pin. Take

  • Investigating the Water Potential of Celery Cells

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    grooves to divide the stem into thin strips 3. Dry the cell sap from the strips using a paper towel 4. Record and note the mass of each strip 5. Collect 6 test tubes, and put 10 cm³ of solutions 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.8. In separate test tubes 6. Cut each celery piece into 5 cm cubes and place into test tubes 7. Leave for 30 mins at room temperature 8. And collect the strips out of the test tubes, dry them and record the mass of each strip Prediction I predict that

  • Determination of the Valency of Magnesium

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    to determine the reaction stoichiometry. This experiment determines the stoichiometry of a reaction of magnesium and HCl. The relationship between moles of magnesium reacted and moles of hydrogen produced are plotted. Magnesium Ribbon is a strip of Magnesium that is solid at room temperature. When mixed with hydrochloric acid it produces Magnesium Chloride, which is a liquid and Hydrogen gas. The below is the equation that occurs: Mg + XHCl à MgClx + [IMAGE]H2 The known amount of

  • Teleportation

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    Therefore, if I try to fly through a brick wall, I would definitely injure myself; this also applies if I collide with a plane or bird. If I would choose to be invisible, I hope that everything I am wearing will turn invisible too and I would not have to strip naked or anything. If other invisible people want to, fine, I am not going to stop them. More power to them for being comfortable with there body. I hope that this would not be required. If I am invisible, would I have a small invisibility aura surrounding

  • Coiled Tubing

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    completion applications. Just as is sounds, CT is essentially a continuous tube with a diameter of .75 inches up to 4.5 inches that is reeled onto a spool, which has a core diameter of approximately eight to twelve feet. The tubing is made from rolling strip metal, usually a carbon based steel, into cylindrical form and weld along its entire length. The longitudinal weld is made using a high-frequency induction electrical resistance method. The welding process produces a small amount of weld flash on both

  • The Power of Ping-Pong Balls

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    the internet for anything related to the question I had chosen. Doing so lead me to a site which told of a Danish engineer, Karl Kroyer, that had tried to patent such and idea but was denied by the German Patent Office because of an American comic strip which described his idea of using ping-pong balls to raise a ship. This really didn’t answer my question but it did give an idea to where the myth came from. So I went to aj.com where I found a site for The International Starch Institute in Denmark

  • Plains Indians

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    leads a group of elaborately dressed maidens to the tree to strip off its branches. On the next morning, right as the sun is seen over the eastern horizon, armed warriors charge the sun-pole. They attack the tree in effort to symbolically kill it with gunshots and arrows. Once it is dead it is cut down and taken to where the Sun Dance Lodge will be erected. (Schwatka) "Before raising the sun-pole, a fresh buffalo head with a broad centre strip of the back of the hide and tail (is) fastened with strong

  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

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    when he desired her presence. At the time she was in the company of another man, which was something that Colonel Lloyd, her master, told her not to do. As Douglas witnessed the whipping, he saw Lloyd take his aunt into the kitchen of the house and strip her naked. He then told her to cross her hands and as he tied them together and hung her on a hook, leaving her body totally open. Lloyd then began whipping her with a cow skin until she began to bleed. “I was so terrified and horror-stricken at

  • The Perspective of Plato and Aristotle on the Value of Art

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    The Perspective of Plato and Aristotle on the Value of Art As literary critics, Plato and Aristotle disagree profoundly about the value of art in human society. Plato attempts to strip artists of the power and prominence they enjoy in his society, while Aristotle tries to develop a method of inquiry to determine the merits of an individual work of art. It is interesting to note that these two disparate notions of art are based upon the same fundamental assumption: that art is a form of mimesis

  • George Orwell's Shooting an Elephant as an Attack on Colonialism and Imperialism

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    in the East, was one long struggle not to be laughed at."(3) His experience with the natives conveys how imperialism harms the imperialistic countries as well as their colonies. To give reason to their forceful colonization, the imperialists must strip themselves of their own freedom as they constantly try to "impress the natives" to prove the superiority of the white man.(3) Colonists find the need to become racist against the natives because it is convenient for the colonists to patr... ... middle