The subject of this essay is the principles and strategies associated with the Santiago Calatrava Bridge Designs. Santiago Calatrava is Spanish born architect and engineer; he began his formal education in the arts at the age of eight. Calatrava used his knowledge in both fields to design aesthetic bridges using arch and cable technology. His early work was focused in Europe but, since 2005 he has been mainly working in the USA and Canada.
In 2009 the Samuel Beckett Bridge was opened. The bridge, which is supposed to resemble an asymmetric harp laid on its side, provided a dynamic branding to the city of Dublin. The bridge is a cable stayed, steel box girder structure with a span of 400 feet. There is a concrete support in the river which
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The Sundial Pedestrian Bridge is a cantilever cable-stayed bridge made from a combination of steel, glass and granite. As the name implies, the bridge’s 217 foot tall support tower acts as a giant sundial, telling time on a tile covered garden border on the north side. To Calatrava the bridge resembles a bird in flight and symbolizes the overcoming of adversity while celebrating human creativity and ingenuity. This is Calatrava’s first free-standing bridge in the United States. The deck of this pedestrian bridge is made from non-skid glass panels to give walkers a greater sense of the river. The deck’s truss bears the bulk of the bridge’s load, while the cables appear slack compared with those of other cable-stayed bridges. Construction on the Sundial Bridge brought along 5 years of engineering and fabrication challenges. Calatrava despised concrete; his design was a curvilinear creation of steel, granite, porcelain, and glass. In order to protect a major salmon-spawning habitat, the bridge was altered so that it would never touch the river. The decision to have no piers in the water bumped up the cost
Guillermo González Camarena was a Mexican electrical engineer who was the inventor of a color-wheel type of color television, and who also introduced color television to Mexico,
“We are never more truly and profoundly human than when we dance.” Jose Arcadio Limon was a dancer and choreographer born and raised in Mexico. He was inspired to begin his studies in modern dance when he saw a performance of Harald Krutzberg and Yvone Georgi. Limon enrolled at the dance school of Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. He continued to work with Humphrey until 1946, when he founded the José Limón Dance Company. His most successful work is called The Moor's Pavane and it is based on Shakespeare's Othello. The Limón Dance Company still exists and is part of the Jose Limon Dance Foundation, an institution dedicated to preserve and disseminate his artistic dance work and technique. Jose Limon is important in the American Dance History
“It was designed with a twenty-two foot roadway and one five-foot sidewalk” (Silver). The silver bridge is a very long bridge. “An eye-bar is a long steel plate having large circular ends with an "eye" or hole through which a pin is used to connect to other eyebars (to make a chain) or to other parts of the bridge.” according to Richard Fields. The whole bridge was built using the eye-bar suspension.
Many countries have the pleasure of celebrating Independence Days. These historic holidays are filled with nationalistic celebrations and delicious traditional food. In Chile, the natives celebrate their break from Spain with Fiestas Patrias. In Mexico, the president begins the celebration by ringing a bell and reciting the “Grito de Dolores” and he ends his speech by saying “Viva Mexico” three times.
In the novel Breaking Through, by Francisco Jimenez, Francisco tells the story of how he illegally immigrated from Mexico to the United States. At the age of four, he, his parents, and his older brother, Roberto, crossed underneath the barbed-wire fence on the United States-Mexico border. However, after ten years they were reported by one of their own people and were forced to go back to Mexico. The three literary elements addressed in this captivating book are symbol, conflict, and characterization.
SAN MIGULE ARCANGEL The San Miguel Arcangel is unique among the twenty one Spanish missions of California. San Miguel Arcangel was the sixteen of twenty one missions and there by shorten the long distance between the San Antoino and San Luis Obispo missions. In 1806, many of the mission building and all of the supplies destroyed by fire. Mission San Miguel Arcangel is named after Saint Michael the Archargel.
This bridge was necessary to the people of Harpswell due to the weather changes making it impossible for the fishermen and their families to cross from island to island. They used their fishing boats when the weather cooperated, but when storms arose and when the water
In the early 1900's, settlers of the San Francisco Bay Area considered the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which spans over eight miles long and 500 feet above the water at its highest point, an impossible feat. However, with only a few complications, the bridge was completed by November, 1936. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge consists of two bridge types. The east section is a cantilever bridge, and the west, a suspension bridge.
Jose de San Martin was an Argentine liberator in South America. San Martin was considered one of the principal fighters against royalist forces in South America. He was considered a master in military strategy. This skill alone would lead him to success against the royalist forces. Jose de San Martin was born on February 28, 1778 in the viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata’. He started his career in the military as an infantryman in the Murcia regiment in southeast Spain. Although a Spaniard, between 1808 and 1811 he fought against the forces of Napoleon because of his dislike of the monarchy and the colonial system. In 1811 he resigned from the Spanish Army he sailed to Buenos Aires where he became a member of the revolutionary regime. In this new
Racism has resided within the Dominican Republic for centuries after the defeat of the Haitian Empire. Yet, the profuse racism came from the Presidency of Rafael Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo yearned to withhold the prevalence of white skin-tone in Dominican individuals. Trujillo initiated an anti-Haitian regime as he was determined to whiten his country. To present himself as a white Dominican, Trujillo wore makeup to lighten his appearance, to uphold his standards. Yet, the horrific, defining moment of his presidency was the Parsley Massacre. Trujillo started the massacre in 1937, as he sought to deceive his people by claiming the Haitians were practicing witchety, while claiming they kept a Dominican opponent in hiding. Dominican troops slaughtered
Manuel Maria Ponce is “one of Mexico’s most beloved figures in the world of classical music” (Encyclo.com). Ponce was born in Fresnillo, Mexico in 1882 and he died in Mexico City in 1948. Ponce was twelfth child of his parents, Felipe de Jesus Ponce Leon and María de Jesus Cuellar. Felipe de Jesus Ponce Leon fought in during Mexico’s revolution in 1867. Maria de Jesus Cuellar loved music and urged her children to learn it. Ponce received his first musical lesson when he was five years old by his sister Josefina whom was in the Templo de San Diego (St. Diego’s Temple) choir. When he was 12 years old the Cathedral of Aguascalient3es appointed him organist. This was the beginning for his carrier in music.
El Chavo del Ocho was one of the best actor in mexico history this is his story. A Mexican/Raza who is a big role model is El Chavo Del 8. He a good role model because he made cartoons for mexican and when little kids look up to him like a role model.El Chavo del Ocho is a Mexican television sitcom that gained enormous popularity in Hispanic America as well as in Brazil, Spain, United States, and other countries.
Ponce De Leon is mostly known to be the first Spanish explorer to arrive and discover the land we know as Florida. There is more to this explorer than just his discovery, he sailed with Christopher Columbus, discovered Florida, and searched Bimi for gold and riches and is now attached to the tale of the “fountain of youth.”
In her essay,”Importance of the Golden Gate Bridge,” Stephanie Stiavetti suggest that “It maintained this point of pride for nearly 25 years until the Verrazano- Narrows Bridge was built in New York in 1964. Today, this historic San Francisco landmark holds its place as the second largest suspension bridge in the country, behind Verrazano Narrows.” Back then, experts thought that it would be impossible to build a bridge across the tides and currents in that area because strong currents and tides would make construction extremely difficult and dangerous. The water is over 500 feet deep in the center of the channel, and along with the area's strong winds and thick fog, the idea of building a bridge there seemed nearly impossible. Despite all of the problems of building a bridge across the Golden Gate, Joseph Strauss was named as lead engineer for the project. Construction began January 5, 1933, and in the end cost more than $35 million to
For this bridge its fall was inflicted by an unknown patron. One who’s identity or existence we never see verified. The record of the fall is short in the story described as only being for a moment. Then the bridge was finally introduced to “the sharp rocks which had always gazed up at me so peacefully from the rushing water”. Rocks gazing peacefully? This is almost as absurd as a bridge turning around. An action that the bridge itself cannot seem to believe it is doing. This attempt by the bridge was his final effort before his fall. I cannot even picture how a bridge would turn around and attempt to look on his back. The question that comes to my mind is how can a bridge see what’s on his back? If this book is trying to make us believe that this bridge is a human, or has human like qualities. Then how flexible a person is this bridge? Because I know very few people who can see whats on their back. Especially without turning so much that anything on their back would fall off. So is this bridge so inflexible that it breaks itself by turning around or is it trying to buck off its attacker unintentionally? This answer is never answered due to the story ending shortly thereafter this scene. With the short fall of the bridge onto the sharp rocks it had stared at for the entirety of its life. The events before and during the fall of the bridge was the main issue I had with my thesis that the bridge was