Big Blue Crane Incident – Milwaukee baseball stadium (1999) On January 1999‚ workers began work on assembling the roof of Milwaukee’s new baseball stadium known as Miller Park. The work was to be accomplished by a crane named big blue. Big blue was to lift the segments of the roof in place. Each roof segment weighed 400 tons which is almost as much as the weight of a Boeing 747 airplane. 31 lifts were needed to complete the work required to complete the roof. In order to complete the work the
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CRANES Cranes are a clade of large‚ long-legged and long-necked birds in the group Gruiformes. There are fifteen species of crane in four genera. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons‚ cranes fly with necks outstretched‚ not pulled back. Cranes live on all continents except Antarctica and South America. Most species of cranes are at the least classified as threatened‚ if not critically endangered‚ within their range. The
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imply that something is going to happen later in the story. We as readers have to infer what that might be. In the short story “The Cranes” the way the author uses “At the shot” it makes us think that the character is shooting at the birds because they flew away‚ but there is another meaning to this sentence. The true meaning of the last sentence‚ “At the shot‚ the two cranes plunged upward‚ their great wings beating the air and their long slender necks pointed like arrows toward the sun.”‚ of the short
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“Do Not Weep‚ Maiden‚ for War is Kind‚” was written by the poet Stephen Crane. The poem is a bitter and emotional protest of the horrors of war. It gets much of its strength from using simple but highly descriptive words in contrast with innocence‚ and also through the use of repetition and sarcasm. The poet portrays bitterness and innocence in the first stanza. It is strongly shown in the lines "Do not weep‚ maiden‚ for war is kind‚ because your lover threw wild hands towards the sky” (1-2). The
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Cranes Used in Construction written by:shoaib ameer A crane is a lifting machine that principally works with the use of pulleys and cables. For the construction industry‚ cranes are valuable assets because they make working with heavy machinery and construction materials easy. The invention of cranes made things easy for humankind because without them‚ loading‚ unloading‚ and lifting had to be done by human hands‚ would consume more time‚ and the entire system was not efficient at all. The
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is usually the fight for power. Stephen Crane was always interested in the idea of war and the psychology of it. The Red Badge of Courage gives a first person view of war and uses Henry Fleming to depict it. Fascinated by war and influenced by his surroundings‚ Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage by using realism and naturalism and immersing himself in the subject. Stephen Townley Crane was born on November 1‚ 1871‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. Stephen Crane was the fourteenth and last child
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In "The Open Boat" Stephen Crane uses the sea and four men adrift in a dinghy as a framework for communicating his ideas about life. The story‚ in my opinion‚ is a metaphor for life. The four men are helpless against the indifferent‚ yet overwhelming forces of nature. In "The Open Boat‚" Stephen Crane not only comments on the role of nature and God in the life of man‚ but the importance of community and brotherhood‚ and the nature of an individual ’s journey to knowledge. "The Open Boat" was written
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Author Stephen crane who is considered one of the great American authors‚ wrote during the realism period. Particularly‚ in his works titled the red badge of courage written in 1895 we can see evidence of the characteristics‚ themes and style identified with the realism movement which was extant in American letters between 1850 and after the 1848 revolution. As a representative of such a movement‚ Stephen crane then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writer of his time. Stephen Crane
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felt the same vibe that both Henry Reed and Stephen Crane felt in their poems‚ "Naming of Parts" and "War is Kind." Although these authors may not have said it as straightforward as Starr did in his hit single "War‚" they still had just as much hatred of war. Both Reed and Crane have developed their perspectives on war through their writing styles‚ their usage of figurative language‚ and their attitudes toward war in general. Henry Reed and Stephen Crane both have very different writing styles. Reed’s
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this tale felt gratitude for these words of his comrade. He had feared that all of the untried men possessed great and correct confidence. He now was in a measure reassured” (Crane 1.73). The setting is during the Civil War during the Battle of Chancellorsville‚ Virginia‚ over four days in May of 1863‚ author is Stephen Crane‚ the book is the red badge of courage and is about a 16 year old boy that goes into the war for his country and turns out to do very heroic things to win several battles. Many
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