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=The Eiffel Tower | Location | Place | HEI | Movement | Region =

==Introduction== Paris, France. What do you think about when you think of Paris? The first thing that comes to mind for some is the Eiffel Tower. The beautiful piece of architecture is examined by millions of tourists every day. Personally, Paris has been a place that i have been wanting to go for a number of years now and it only seemed right that i actually did my project on something in Paris. I had always wanted to see the Eiffel Tower, especially at night, but never the less i wanted to just see it up close and memorize its beauty. I thought it would be interesting to actually go into Paris and see how people live every day and how they work around the elegant Eiffel Tower.

The Eiffel Tower is more than you would expect. How many stairs are there to the top you say? There are actually 1652 steps. Who wants to walk up that? It took 2 years to build it and another little known fact, it has 40 tons of paint on it! It was built in 1889, and it was originally supposed to be named something different, but after careful consideration, it was named the Eiffel Tower after Gustave Eiffel, a great French Engineer. In fact, at first people did not like the Eiffel Tower, they actually called it a gigantic Skeleton. As they saw it light up the sky with its magnificent lights, the people of Paris quickly changed their minds.

Comparative Study
Many of you may think that maybe some tower in New York was the tallest building in the world. Well there has recently been another building built in Dubai. This building in Dubai is called the [|Burj Khalifa] and it has become the world's tallest building at nearly 2,717. This is going to be my comparitive study because i thought that it would be interesting to see what the tallest tower in the world looks like and how it became the tallest tower. It has been compared to many of the other towers in the world and it has been found that its almost twice the size of other towers. I don't think that this Tower can be beat! I think that we will have to wait a great deal of time until we see something bigger than the Burj Khalifa.

The people of Dubai decided to name the tower the Burj Khalifa in honor of the President of the United Arab Emirates, who goes by the name of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan. He is also the leader of Abu Dhabi, right next door to Dubai. They thought they would pay him respects after Abu Dhabi bailed them out of their financial predicament. It cost about $1.5 billion to build and is about two Empire State Buildings built into one tower. It contains 4 pools, a private library, and even a hotel.

Conclusion
As you can see, these places are worth looking into and learning new things about because one day these beautiful buildings may not be here and we will want all this information to remember what they were and what they brought to the world.