Interpreting Construction Engineering Drawings

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The 110th Cascade Project – Replacement of the existing ditch and culvert system along four blocks in Seattle.

Visit the City of Seattle Public Utilities Neighborhood Projects webpage (http://www.seattle.gov/utilities/neighborhood-projects) and look for the 110th Cascade Projects under “Completed Projects”

  1. Briefly descried the project objective and its main features based on the project description and the project resources brochure available on the webpage. (2.5 pts)

Open the Plan Set available at (you might have to ‘copy and paste’ the link on your browser):

http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SPU/EnvironmentConservation/110thCascadeConstructionPlan.pdf

  1. How many sheets are in this sheet set? (1 pt.)
  2. Examine the sheets’ title blocks.

a. Where do the sheet titles appear? (Note: the sheet title is not the same as the project name) (1 pt.)

b. What is the title of Sheet 8? (1 pt.)

  1. Go back to Sheet 1 and take a moment to examine the notes regarding “Detail and Section Referencing.” Then move to Sheet 4.

a. On what sheet can you find the detail of a QUICK COUPLING VALVE? (1 pt.)

b. What should a contractor provide to assist in locating a QUICK COUPLING VALVE? (1 pt.)

c. The QUICK COUPLING VALVE detail calls for a piece of #4 rebar. What could the purpose of this rebar be? (1 pt.)

d. What is the scale of the QUICK COUPLING VALVE detail? (1 pt.)

e. List all sheets that include QUICK COUPLING VALVES. (1 pt.)

  1. Move to Sheet 12. Take a moment to examine the CUTTING PLANE LINES on the WIER WALL AREA detail (at the top of the page).

a. What is a weir wall? (Note: you can google the term) (1 pt.)

b. On what sheets can I find drawings that include WIER WALLS? (1 pt.)

c. Relative to the direction of water flow, would you be facing UPSTREAM or DOWNSTREAM if you were facing the WIER WALL in the view of SECTION B-B? (2 pts.)

  1. Sheet 7 provides a plan and profile view.

a. What information does each view provide to the construction engineer? (2.5 pt.)

b. List and describe five items or devices included in the project. (2.5 pts.)

  1. Referring to question 1 and the plan set, what is the design intent of this project? (2.5 pts.)

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Dante Alighieri played a critical role in the literature world through his poem Divine Comedy that was written in the 14th century. The poem contains Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. The Inferno is a description of the nine circles of torment that are found on the earth. It depicts the realms of the people that have gone against the spiritual values and who, instead, have chosen bestial appetite, violence, or fraud and malice. The nine circles of hell are limbo, lust, gluttony, greed and wrath. Others are heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. The purpose of this paper is to examine the Dante’s Inferno in the perspective of its portrayal of God’s image and the justification of hell. 

In this epic poem, God is portrayed as a super being guilty of multiple weaknesses including being egotistic, unjust, and hypocritical. Dante, in this poem, depicts God as being more human than divine by challenging God’s omnipotence. Additionally, the manner in which Dante describes Hell is in full contradiction to the morals of God as written in the Bible. When god arranges Hell to flatter Himself, He commits egotism, a sin that is common among human beings (Cheney, 2016). The weakness is depicted in Limbo and on the Gate of Hell where, for instance, God sends those who do not worship Him to Hell. This implies that failure to worship Him is a sin.


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God is also depicted as lacking justice in His actions thus removing the godly image. The injustice is portrayed by the manner in which the sodomites and opportunists are treated. The opportunists are subjected to banner chasing in their lives after death followed by being stung by insects and maggots. They are known to having done neither good nor bad during their lifetimes and, therefore, justice could have demanded that they be granted a neutral punishment having lived a neutral life. The sodomites are also punished unfairly by God when Brunetto Lattini is condemned to hell despite being a good leader (Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). While he commited sodomy, God chooses to ignore all the other good deeds that Brunetto did.

Finally, God is also portrayed as being hypocritical in His actions, a sin that further diminishes His godliness and makes Him more human. A case in point is when God condemns the sin of egotism and goes ahead to commit it repeatedly. Proverbs 29:23 states that “arrogance will bring your downfall, but if you are humble, you will be respected.” When Slattery condemns Dante’s human state as being weak, doubtful, and limited, he is proving God’s hypocrisy because He is also human (Verdicchio, 2015). The actions of God in Hell as portrayed by Dante are inconsistent with the Biblical literature. Both Dante and God are prone to making mistakes, something common among human beings thus making God more human.

To wrap it up, Dante portrays God is more human since He commits the same sins that humans commit: egotism, hypocrisy, and injustice. Hell is justified as being a destination for victims of the mistakes committed by God. The Hell is presented as being a totally different place as compared to what is written about it in the Bible. As a result, reading through the text gives an image of God who is prone to the very mistakes common to humans thus ripping Him off His lofty status of divine and, instead, making Him a mere human. Whether or not Dante did it intentionally is subject to debate but one thing is clear in the poem: the misconstrued notion of God is revealed to future generations.

 

References

Babor, T. F., McGovern, T., & Robaina, K. (2017). Dante’s inferno: Seven deadly sins in scientific publishing and how to avoid them. Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed, 267.

Cheney, L. D. G. (2016). Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno: A Comparative Study of Sandro Botticelli, Giovanni Stradano, and Federico Zuccaro. Cultural and Religious Studies, 4(8), 487.

Verdicchio, M. (2015). Irony and Desire in Dante’s” Inferno” 27. Italica, 285-297.

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