Essays on Architectures

Lily-Love Toppar

Cornell University, Country in Arial 9 Roxanne Grenier North America Abstract As of 2014, 38 million people worldwide have been driven out of their own homes by internal instabilities, armed conflict, and outbreaks of violence. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) alone accounts for 2.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs). In response, relief-driven charitable practices have consequently created a condition of permanent impermanence, perpetuating the problem of dependency, unemployment, and instability. This forced movement of culturally and geographically heterogeneous groups evokes questions of housing stability: How does migration impact the social, economic, and political standing of the refugees? Given ...

Question One

Challenges As highlighted in the Real World Case Study, there are various challenges that organizations face while operating in the global environment. These challenges may be classified into cultural, political, and geo-economic.

Cultural

There are a few cultural issues that companies should considers when implementing IT infrastructure of the global domain. There is a need for IT systems and subsystems to accommodate the cultural preferences. The user needs vary from one country to another; each market has specific needs (O’Brien & Marakas, 2011) Political As revealed in the case study, there are a couple political challenges that firms face in ...

Introduction and Background

The demand for creativity and innovation at the workplace is common for managers and business executives. Innovation and creativity are common tenets of the business strategies adopted by many corporations. Organizations also used innovation and creativity as the element through which they acquire a competitive advantage. Scholars such as Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) find that the concepts of innovation and creativity have gained enjoyed a lot of interest in the recent past. The interest in the concepts has resulted from a shift in how they are perceived. Mann and Chan (2011, p.1) report that the concept of creativity ...

A Position Paper

In the recent past, demand for services that consume high bandwidth has increased. Such services include real-time video streaming. However, the traditional Internet architecture was never designed with such aspects in mind. As a result, the transportation of data (in more compressed forms) has become prone to high rates of packet losses and delays. For this reason, there was a need to move away from the traditional protocols and standards into the more current Quality of Service (QoS) in computer networks. QoS in a computer network enables the network to transport data simultaneously from one host to another while ...

Introduction

The Mughal, or also known as the Mogul, is an empire that reigned in India and Pakistan, between the 16th and 17th Centuries. It was discovered in the year 1526 by prince Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, who was a Chagatai Turkic prince at that time. The Moghul Empire started in the city of Kabul in Afghanistan, which also became the first base of the empire. The rise of the empire was a result of the perpetuating political strife that its founders and leaders had, having an abundance of wealth during their reign. It was an empire found and built upon ...

Self-Organized Network (May 2016)

Abstract—In the form of a literature review, this outline is a brief outline of the intricate, yet fundamental elements of Self Organized Network (SON). The author takes an in-depth account of research studies and basic writings of this telecommunications platform and weighs in on the writings of subject matter experts. In doing so, findings indicate that the technological demands that are placed on telecommunication networks is directly related to the economic chain of supply and demand. Indirectly, there is are environmental concerns that are ignored in meeting such demands that address waste and emissions. While SON may fix ...

Introduction

Civil engineering and its related fields are very diverse and entail both structural design and architectural work. Structural engineering as we can deduct from the term ‘structure’ deals with the physical components of a given design. For example, in the house construction process, the structural engineer considers all the aspects of materials to be used and consults with the architect to ensure the durability of the home. On the other hand, architectural engineering refers to the technology of incorporating the basic functional aspects of a given design to make sure that an ambient environment has been created. My journey ...

Chartres, France

The monuments and architecture in ancient times allow talking and narrating about the historical background from the angle of time in which they were built. Through various signs, they inform us about the prosperity, decline of the reigns and empires as well. Thus, they are the major means of communication. They can tell us a lot about the economic, political and religious circumstances of the specific region. They also narrate the contemporary architectural trend. In medieval Europe, especially in France, the Gothic architecture was at its pinnacle. Cathedral Notre-Dame de Chartres is one of the Gothic architecture examples in ...

Trans-World Flight Center, John F. Kennedy Airport (1956-1962)

Opened in 1962, the Trans World Flight Center of the John F. Kennedy Airport is one of the finest structures belonging to the Organic Modern Period that emerged in the mid-20th century.1 What makes this style truly remarkable was the fact that it is based on neo-futuristic designs as well as embodying strict adherence to geometrical proportions, the creation of functional space for the passengers, aircraft, employees, and maintaining harmonious interaction of the structure in its environment.2 The structure was designed by Eero Saarinen, a notable architect and one of the prolific figures that proposed designing the concept of ...

Informational Advertising

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Question 1

a) Information Systems for an Airline: Airline industry has been utilizing the merits of computer based information systems to provide a better class of service for its customers, since the 1970s. These industries had invested a lot in transaction processing systems and management information systems since then. Even though decision support information systems is still at its infancy in Airline industry, latest studies have revealed their importance in fixing business related parameters of Airlines (such as Airfares) in improving their business value without making unnecessary compromises in profits . Integration of decision support systems with either of the aforementioned information ...

Introduction

The Ancient societies have been associated with certain remarkable discoveries that have had significant positive effects on the contemporary society (Lancaster et al 708). Most of these discoveries have influenced various aspects of development in the current generation. For instance, the discovery of medicine by certain ancient scholars has had positive influence on the manner in which medical services are provided by the current generation. Besides, discoveries made on engineering and architectural activities by ancient communities such as the Roman Empire are still being appreciated by a significant number of conventional development stakeholders. The Ancient Roman, particularly, is credited ...

The development of modern artistry and architectural works is an inspiration drawn from the ancient architectural designs and artistic works. It is important to understand the foundation of the architecture that dominated the 19th century towards the 20th century. The era was dominated by classical arts that tended to shape the events of the time. Then later the romantic arts emerged as repulsion to the classical ideology of artistry (David 15-23). It is essential in the American history that certain types of architecture influence the modern day designs that still have many structures that portray or completely use this ...

Introduction

The Ottoman Empire was one of the world’s largest empires with history dates back to the Islamic medieval period from the 10th to 11th centuries. The main religion of the Ottoman Empire was Islam and most of their architecture and art was based on the religion as well. The beautiful buildings that exist today were the relics of the old Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was originally founded in 1299 by the tribe who distinguished themselves as Oghus Turks under the rule of King Osman I. Ottoman empire stretched from the mainland Turkey and controlled various countries in ...

Carlo Scarpa was a prominent Italian architect previously active during the early twentieth century and one of the pioneers of modernism in architectural design. He was born in 1906 in the beautiful city of Venice, a place well-known for its old Renaissance architectures, majestic canals, and gondolas. By the time he was only two years of age, his entire family migrated to Vicenza, a county part situated on the northeastern part of the Italian peninsula. It was here that he spent much of his early childhood to teenage years; he also attended a local high school specializing in technical ...

Modernism in architecture is the most important new style and design of architecture that is associated with a logical approach to the function of buildings, a strictly balanced use of new materials, openness to architectural modernism, and the elimination of ornaments. The development of modernism in architecture could be traced back to the middle of the nineteenth century through the advent of the Bauhaus. The nineteenth century was a long period in the history of architecture because of which it is called the long 19th century. In this era, art and architecture were used in the old style that ...

Egyptian Pyramids

"Visiting card" of Egypt is the pyramids. There are about hundreds of them - large and small, with smooth and stepped sides that have survived virtually unchanged and more look like a shapeless heap of stones. They are located along the West Bank of the Nile in small groups near the place, where in the era of the Old Kingdom was the capital of the country - Memphis. The most famous of the pyramids are on the outskirts of Cairo, on the edge of the desert plateau of Giza, looming over the green valley of the Nile. Here at ...