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Chapter One: Introduction to Pre-Eclampsia Study

Chapter One: Introduction to Pre-Eclampsia Study As one of the leading global causes of maternal mortality, pre-eclampsia and related conditions have a remarkably wide impact (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005; Ghulmiyyah & Sibai, 2012). Diseases like pre-eclampsia can strike women of any age and with any socioeconomic background. The issues associated with pre-eclampsia are global, but there are certain populations that are more heavily impacted than others—and these populations are the ones that require investigation (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005). Pre-eclampsia is a condition that is associated with high maternal blood pressure and protein in maternal urine, but it is a ...

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Discuss the different approaches of the federal government toward the Plains Indians The different approaches that were taken towards the Plains Indians were (1) concentration, which is reducing the areas of land available to the Plains Indians. This would end with the Plains Indians living on reservations. (2) forced assimilation. The Plains Indians were forced to send their children to schools that indoctrinated them against their own heritage. This was done by forcing them to take the names of white people, punishing them for speaking their language, and making them dress and act like white children. They were also ...

The Revolt of the Cockroach People is a novel about the Chicano Moratorium written by Oscar Zeta Acosta, published in 1973. There are many themes presented in the novel, but one of the most interesting is the gender role. Women are represented as purely physical beings unlike men who are glorified for their work as well. There are many types of women in the novel, but their presence in much different than the presence of the male characters who are supposed to be more important and privileged. The narrator is a man and all of the characters who are ...

Pre-eclampsia is a condition that affects a significant percentage of mothers, and accounts for mother death during childbirth anywhere from fifteen to twenty percent of the time—pre-eclampsia is one of the most significant and important causes of maternal death during childbirth to this day (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005; Ghulmiyyah & Sibai, 2012). As such, it is immensely important to develop strategies to deal with the problem of pre-eclampsia, but it is also essentially important to develop strategies for dealing with education and prevention of the condition (Villar et al., 2003). There are a number of common conditions that are ...

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Pre-eclampsia is a condition that affects a significant percentage of mothers, and accounts for mother death during childbirth anywhere from fifteen to twenty percent of the time—pre-eclampsia is one of the most significant and important causes of maternal death during childbirth to this day (Sibai, Dekker & Kupferminc, 2005; Ghulmiyyah & Sibai, 2012). As such, it is immensely important to develop strategies to deal with the problem of pre-eclampsia, but it is also essentially important to develop strategies for dealing with education and prevention of the condition (Villar et al., 2003). There are a number of common conditions that are ...

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Out of the colossal choice of various objects bringing the olden days to life that are available at Getty Villa, my attention was caught by the Head of Apollo. Apollo is depicted in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" as a Greek oracle to whom Oedipus comes for advice (Sophocles, 45). Apollo is described as a god associated with youth and light (Sophocles, 86). The Getty Villa notes on Apollo mention that the god of poetry, music and prophecy was frequently portrayed as a romanticized youth with his hair arranged in his original banded ...

Introduction

The idea of slavery for many people is the images of black men in cotton plantations, working a whole day for no pay. The trade of African people for lifetimes of slavery is the other embedded idea of slavery to many people living in Canada and United States. These concepts of slavery ignore the possibility of a current form of slavery. The idea that slaves are working forcefully without pay in Canada and the United States is farfetched. This status of ignorance acts as part of the modern day slavery, where people, especially young girls, are sold for purposes ...

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Technique-incorporates both Greek and Egyptian Architecture Hadrian’s Villa Hadrian’s Villa which was the royal residence of Emperor Hadrian is locate at Trivoli Italy. The Villa was twice the size of Pompeii and was made up of more than thirty buildings. A number of the buildings were names after palaces and buildings Hadrian had seen or visited during his travels. The Villa also had both spectacular Roman and Alexandrian gardens, which according to Sir Banister Fletcher said in History of Architecture, "Walking around it today, it is still possible to experience something of the variety of architectural forms ...

The Greco-Roman antiquities of the Getty Villa in Malibu reveal lots of information about the New Testament environment and the status of art on Rome and Greece in the first century. From a first look, the images at Villa reveal a rich artistic era that was not just ornamental, but also liberal. The cutlery of that era is carefully done, with color and ace, to suggest that a society that was keen on beauty and ornaments, color and patterns, as well as a dedication to a nature concerted art. Other amazing statuettes include the head of Augustus, his constant ...

Guetta Villa is a magnificent structure, built by order of American businessman Paul Getty in 1974. This building was built in Malibu, and it became part of the museum, which belonged to Getty. The building is a copy of the Villa of the Papyri, which was destroyed along with Pompeii. The museum presents ancient artifacts from Greco-Roman Empire. The collection includes a variety of statues, antique busts, collection of coins and jewelry and a huge library, where 20,000 volumes of works covering the art of that time presented. Collection is very interesting from the point of view of ...

With the end of the Hollywood production code and the introduction of the rating system, western filmmakers are being encouraged to depict homosexual relationships in their films. Despite the censorship of such films by the state administrations, there are some Chinese filmmakers who persist in representing homosexual love. In this paper we will use three films produced in the eastern and western worlds to analyze the homosexual representation of love in the new millennium. The chosen films are Lan Yu(2001) directed by Stanley Kwan, Brokeback Mountain(2005) directed by Ang Lee and A Single Man(2009) directed by ...

The CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) effect or the CSI syndrome is the phenomenon that shows that the media has been spreading serious concerns on the integrity of the criminal trials which are being influenced by the effects of popular television show – CSI (Dioso-Villa, 2009). It is basically the perception that the forensic science results are false as they do not match with the observations in the television show. This syndrome is the effect of the increase in the mass media. This effect started appearing in the year 2003 after the show became popular on the television. Another side effect ...

Introduction

The Getty Villa is a significant cultural and heritage center in the United States. Based in Malibu, it accommodates thousands of ancient pieces of artwork that marked important European era. Paintings are essential elements in this museum. Through this paper, I focus on two paintings I encountered during my visit to the museum. A critical analysis of the two artworks will be used to reinforce the arguments presented in the paper. Additionally, the similarities and contrasts of the two pieces of art will go a long way in shedding some light on the magnificence of Getty Villa’s inventory. ...

It is important for architecture students to understand the meaning of representation especially if their attempts to try out a new design they invented. Graves’ article explains that the concept of representation adds the gist to what the structure is all about. It gives the visual meaning to the audiences as to what the architect intends to explain through the use of his design. And yet, this important aspect of architecture has been frequently overlooked that sometimes people tend confuse its meaning and end up lost in thought. In simpler terms, representing meant that doing a design similar to ...

Process Analysis

In our learning institutions, we are imparted with skills and knowledge to become better citizens and most importantly succeed academically. However, academic achievements override other goals for being educated and most students focus much on passing exams and succeeding in their career. As such, student can improve his or her career while in school in several ways (Archer & Hughes 2011). I present this paper as a set of instructions on how as a student, you can reach your career goals. The instructions focus on not only bettering grades, but also setting groundwork for future career. The paper is based ...

1. In Roman paintings, the dangerous wife challenges gender norms, according to which, the woman in the family is the upholder of morality, and subject to the will of her husband. In the murals found in the House of Jason (Bergmann “Pregnant”), gender roles are both reinforced and challenged, by the choice of subjects. Adultery, like incest and infanticide, as represented by Helen, Phaedra and Medea, destroy the sanctity of blood relations and threatens patriarchy. Their actions contradict the expectations that women are nurturing, loyal and virtuous However, the stories punish these women with exile or death, reflecting the ...

Designed by Joseph Paxman in 1851 to accommodate the Great Exhibition that features the technological and cultural advancement from different parts of the world for the enjoyment of the English people (Phillips 14). The architecture of The Crystal Palace was dubbed as the “modern English” since the structure was an unusually simple and the lack of ornamentation, the unity, and functionality of the designs reinforce and stabilized the entire glass roofs and walls covering it and allowing the rays of the sunlight to penetrate within the building (Phillips 24-25). The whole building was also a rejection of traditional materials ...

Modernist movement in architecture was an attempt to create a non-historical architecture of Functionalism and with the help of modern materials. What is seen here is a rejection of ornament and an adoption of the machine aesthetics with a simplified form, devoid of any unnecessary details (Monteagudo 15). Le Corbusier figured out his ideas by painting and sculpture and later applied them in the architecture. The Villa Savoye For Le Corbusier, the Villa Savoye was a masterpiece and showed progress toward a conservative architecture that valued space. The weekend house in the country looks like a cubic three-story contraption ...

The Getty villa museum of arts located on the pacific coast highway near Malibu is dedicated to art works and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome and Etruria. The museum contains over 44000 collections Greek, roman and Etruscan antiquities that date from 6500 BC to 400 AD. The ancient Greek and ancient roman art is referred to as classical art. The Romans had learned painting and making of sculptures mainly from the Greeks after the Romans had conquered Greece in 146 BC. The art during this period was characterized by simplicity, reasonableness, sheer beauty and humanity. This paper analyses various ...

Le Corbusier was an architect famously revered for his modern building designs. Despite the fact that he lived in an era wherein horse-drawn carriages, gaslights, and restrictive society norms, he already envisioned a future in which architecture and art can break separately from its traditionalist origins. Le Corbusier was the second son of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris a Swiss watch engraver with his wife, Marie-Charlotte-Amelie Perret whose father was also a craftsman. They married in 1883 and after three years, Marie gave birth to their eldest son named Albert in February 6 1886 (Flint xvii; Weber 22). Le Corbusier was born ...

Le Corbusier was an architect famously revered for his modern building designs. Despite the fact that he lived in an era wherein horse-drawn carriages, gaslights, and restrictive society norms, he already envisioned a future in which architecture and art can break separately from its traditionalist origins. Le Corbusier was the second son of Georges-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris a Swiss watch engraver with his wife, Marie-Charlotte-Amelie Perret whose father was also a craftsman. They married in 1883 and after three years, Marie gave birth to their eldest son named Albert in February 6 1886 (Flint xvii; Weber 22). Le Corbusier was born ...

Literature Review

Overview Paradise Beach Nevis is a luxury private villa resort that is geographically located on Nevis. The resort is just a few steps from the shores of the ocean. It contains villas that are thatched. The villa contains several services, among them include concierge who are able to do the coordination of all the activities before one arrives at the resort. The company makes use of promotional strategies to help in reaching its potential customers and stakeholders. Among the major strategies used include advertising, internet promotion and tv promotion.

Caribbean Journal Staff (2015) asserts In terms of product strategy, ...

Introduction

Contactless payment systems have evolved into a popular method of payment across the United Kingdom and internationally (CPSS 2012). Many merchants, including ExxonMobil, McDonald’s, Burger King, AMT Coffee, Tesco, Subway and other notable members of the hospitality, production, energy and other industries accept this form of payment (Anderson 2015). The most influential members of the international financial community, including MasterCard, Citibank, American Express, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays Bank, Visa and other institutions, involved in banking and financial sector, power the system (Dapp 2012; Chaudhyry 2012). The commentators anticipate that by 2020 every third transaction online and offline will be ...

Analysis and Reflection about Urban Planning Class

1. Introduction to Urban Planning The different sets of people are living within the country say, rural class people, Urban class people, and city. The most of the people from village gets migrated to urban area to improve their economic status. The municipal government on urban class is undertaking many plans to develop the urban class based on latest needs to people. The planning and evaluation made by much government from different countries fails because of poor planning and execution. The UN came with some plan strategy to overcome the problem faced by the municipal government. In the ...

This presentation focus of this presentation is to learn how Jesse and Villa worked together in their quest to achieve their common goals. Although, this is so, they seem to commit crimes to benefit others, and not only themselves. James Jesse and Pancho Villa came from different historical backgrounds; however, they shared common values, which dictated their lifestyle in their respective regions.

Note that, Pancho Villa was a revolutionary leader in the military force but advocated for the rights of the proletariat. He was against the capitalist idea of accumulating wealth and oppressing the poor. Can this be his ...

Innovative Attitude

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I am an adult student with a strong ambition to gain my Civil Engineering Master’s degree. Although I have had to overcome many obstacles to study in the United Kingdom, I am very happy here. At times being a student so far away from my wife and children is difficult, but I know we will have a better life if I meet my goal. Learning to think creatively about Civil Engineering has been very exciting. I have learned ways to strengthen my resolve to reach my goals. I have also learned how to change some of my behaviours so I ...

Many people who suffer from a substance addiction also suffer from a mental health problem at the same time and the difficulties they are faced with far outweigh the effects of either alone. Often, only one of the two problems is identified and that depends on the primary problems treated where the diagnosis is given and which problem is most prominent. When one of the problems is severe it may eclipse the other problems the individual is suffering from.

Although one problem may be considered primary and the rest secondary, this does not mean that the individual isn’t experiencing serious ...

Based from the facts of the case, Greg was a visitor of the local theme park that was owned by Launchester District Council or LDC. During his visit, Greg decided to climb and jump from the harbor wall to land into the sea, despite the warning that such structure is dangerous. As a result, he struck his head on the wooden post causing him to become tetraplegic.

The first legal issue in this case whether LDC is a legal owner or physical controller of the old habor wall. The second issue is to determine whether Greg is a legal visitor to the old ...

Introduction

A company’s organizational structure constitutes of activities such as task allocation, coordination and supervision. These tasks are directed towards the achievement of the organization’s goals. An organization structure acts as the perspective through which individuals can see the organization and its relationship to the environment. (Dicksee, 1980) Company’s structure will thus determine its mode of operation and overall performance. The structure allows the allocation of tasks and responsibilities to different entities such as the branch, department, workgroup or individual. The organizational structure affects the company by providing the foundations for standard operating procedures and routines. It ...

Props are important in plays because they help in revealing important information about the characters, the themes, and the plot of the play. Props include all the physical objects used in showing the flow of the play and directing the readers or viewers about what the play covers. Props open the eyes of the viewers into the significance of certain occurrences hence they spice up the play. The use of props in the two plays, Hedda Gabler and The Importance of Being Earnest, categorically places the plays in high ranks about the message, characterization, and plot for the plays. ...

Discussion Question 1

Discussion Question 1 Foremost, health must be regarded as top priority in order for universal health coverage to have the structure and process needed for implementation. This has been achieved when member countries of the United Nations signed a resolution to employ a multisectoral approach to addressing the various determinants of health contributing to inequity (Ooms et al., 2014). Thus, in principle, the countries agreed to place health on top of their developmental agenda wherein health is recognized as significantly contributing to economic productivity. In applying this principle, countries must create programs for universal health coverage, ensure that such programs ...

Similarities between Mies Van der Rohe, Tugenhat Villa, Brno, (1920-1930) to Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1928-1931)

Both the two architect works are outstanding and are based on international style of modern movements of architecture and was developed in Europe in 1920s. Both of the building works were very costly as they were using the modern designs that were unusual construction method, and used luxurious material and the use of modern technology of heating and ventilation. Both the architect had a legacy in that they were widely diffused and accepted worldwide. In both the architects, their values lie in modern design application that is founded on esthetic concepts and innovative spatial that their primary goal is to ...

Medici played a significant role not only in politics, but also in the cultural life of Europe of their time. Like other wealthy and influential people, they ordered a work of art for the greater glory of themselves, their family, of the city and God. Under the influence of the new ideas of the Renaissance, Medici saw in the artists not only artisans. They were interested not only on a beautiful pieces and its content, but also on its creator. Not by chance, as an example of Renaissance patron relationship to the artist, Cosimo the Elder quoted words of Filippo Lippi. Monk ...

Italy is one of the most important destinations of tourism. The country holds some of the most prized architecture and art in the world, from antiquity to the baroque to the modern, often packed into the dense historic centers of the peninsula’s cities. The successive waves of industrialization, the heady years of Fascist dictatorship sandwiched between two devastating world wars, the corporation of agriculture, secularization and globalization deeply marked the built landscape of Italy . Throughout the twentieth century, the architects and theorists attempted to grasp the role of architecture in a capitalist economy under diverse political systems from monarchy ...

Introduction

The caudillos of 19th-century Latin American history played an important part in the shaping and molding of Latin America into a state led by charismatic leaders who were able to assert their own considerable will over the people and enact social and governmental change. In the 19th century, the more iconic caudillos such as Simon Bolivar and Porfirio Diaz exerted tremendous energy and willpower to ensure that they shaped their respective countries in the ways they wanted. Even so, more modern revolutionary figures, even in their zeal to overthrow the classist politics of the caudillo, exerted a tremendous and earnest desire ...

In her report “Reports of our Deaths Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Reconsidering the Curator”, Nancy Villa tries to explore the changing roles in curatorship. It’s such interesting to note that curators are still struggling with the task of redefining their roles in the museum sector. In Nancy Villa’s account of what she experienced, she says the number of alliances has evolved both extrinsically and intrinsically. To some degree, there has been a change of the role of the curator within a museum. Elizabeth Schlatter notes that there is a dominating mentality that the curatorship has increasingly become so inclusive. She ...

As documented by Tarbell, discobolus the discus thrower is a statue of a discus thrower that was originally made by a Greek artist called Naucydes Myron between 460-450 BC. His Discobolus statue was called the Discobolus of Myron, and was made of bronze. This original statue is lost, and at the moment, many copies of it have been made of marble by Romans. The initial copy of the original was discovered in 1781 at the property in Rome-Villa Palombara, a property of the Massimo family. It was called the Palombara Discobolus and was discovered by an archaeologist from Italy. A second statue, Townley ...

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One of the most crucial issues that are faced by modern day human beings is the degradation of land as well as the surround ecology and its eventual consequences on the very survival of the human beings (Bhalla 1). In this background the term Ecofeminism becomes notable and pertinent. Does Atwood’s novel gets a happy ending or is it an ambiguous one? This paper tries to answer the above question by conducting a comprehensive study of Margaret Atwood‘s Surfacing, written in the year 1972, and present the analysis from the perspective ...

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The English patient is a painful story of four people residing in an Italian Villa in the hills of Tuscany during world war second. It is a historical reminiscence of an English patient who is burnt beyond recognition, a nurse serving and taking care of the patient in the dangerous villa ignoring the dangers of mines and bombs in the villa, an Indian Sikh sapper who is an expert in diffusing bombs and a thief. The novel deals with the traumatic experiences of the four characters during the war and the identity crisis of the people. It is the painful story of the ...

Introduction

A community is a group of people who live in one place and also share characteristics. A group of people who form community may either be living in the same neighborhood, city or even town. Members of the community may have a common interest, come from the same race or even share the religion. The fact that people have common interests makes them appreciate one another as members of the same community (Garcés and Martin, 2009). Since the community is made up of people who have a common interest and come from the same geographical region, it is important for the ...

"The Ghost Road" is a war novel written by Pat Barker that won an award, the Booker Prize in 1995. It is the third installment of a trilogy that follows the lives of British shell shocked officers during the closing days of the war. The books preceding this one are, Regeneration and The Eye In the Door In the first novel, Regeneration, a major character known as Siegfried Sassoon is summarily relegated to a minor role where the major characters are working class officer Billy Prior and in stunning contrast a real life character, William Rivers, written seamlessly into the story. In both ...

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The Report Topic here Genre Analysis and condensed creative brief (style, colour and text used) Genre Analysis and condensed creative brief (style, colour and text used) The client is the owner of the coffee bar by the name," Cafe Valle Rosa". The location of the bar is in the mid of the city where other restaurants and bars are abundant. The positive side of such a location is that the commercial and corporate offices are located around the placement. Thus, if the idea of the launch and the product features match the choice of customers than the ...

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Introduction The importance of bees in agriculture cannot be understated. Their vital role in pollination is one of the reasons why they are considered crucial in crop farming. The bees that are responsible for most of the works of pollination in USA are non-natives to North America. The commercialization of bee keeping has relied on the propagation of bee populations through the sale of queen bees. Each queen mother yields about 1000 queen daughters making the rate of proliferation of the bees very high. However, the sizes of the bee populations have declined significantly due to the effect ...

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Andrea Palladio is one of the world’s most influential architects. His ideas, known as Palladianism, may be seen in numerous buildings in the world which are styled neo-classically. For example, in Washington, the Capitol, Whitehouse and the John A. Wilson building embody Palladio’s style and motifs. He was born in Padua, Venice in 1508 and became the apprentice to a stone cutter at the age of 13 before fleeing to Vicenza. He became an assistant in the Vicenza masons guild. While at Vicenza, he met Giangiorgio Trissino, an amateur architect, who took care of him. Palladio also worked ...

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Petra in Jordan – a city of dreams

Abstract Petra is a historical and archaeologicalcity which is located in the Ma’an region of Jordan. It is famous for its original and unique rock cut architecture and its water conduit system. Petra is also known as the Rose City due to the beautiful and original colour of its stone which is carved and hewn out of the rock. This paper examines the historical aspect of the city in ...

The Tugendhat House is one of the classic examples of Mies van der Rohe’s architecture. The structure fits in with its surroundings in the wealthy suburb of Brno and has a sense of modernism without being too stark and bland. The emphasis on horizontal planes with the ground and the roof supported by vertical elements is an important and crucial part of the whole building. The plan of Tugendhat House actually comes out to create a boundless spatial freedom, obstacle-free space. The uniformed orthogonal grid of supports suggests that the plan ideally projects beyond the limit of the enclosure. ...

Periodically throughout the last two millennia or so, Pagans, or followers of classical polytheisms found themselves facing oppression or persecution. As the influence of Christianity grew, the term “pagan” was used to broadly describe any non-Christians. Attempts to suppress Paganism successfully erased many Pagan rituals and demolished or covered sacred sites, but early Christianity was far from uniform between different regions and different blendings of Paganism and Christianity occasionally emerged. Examining varied pagan traditions and beliefs and understanding the interaction between Paganism and Judaism and Christianity and Paganism when Christianity was a young religion allows greater insight into some traditions ...

Critical Review of Mariano Azuela’s The Underdogs

Mariano Azuela’s Los de Abajo, The Underdogs is one of the earliest fictional accounts of the Latin American revolutions. His account is that of an insider having served as a military doctor with the Pancho Villa Boys. This account tells the story of pessimism of the Los de Abajo from the very beginning of the Mexican Revolution. A people have been oppressed for generations and a time just came when they wanted to fight back. The host of all the other characters as used by Azuela are just but a pointer to the themes of the revolution more so the illusion ...

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Suspsension bridges have been around for quite a long time but the first one ever built was the Britannia Bridge which has been renamed as the Menai Suspension Bridge and is a suspension bridge which begins on the island of Anglesey and connects the mainland of Wales. The bridge was designed by the famed engineer Thomas Telford and was finished in 1826. It was described as the first modern suspension bridge in the world and won several plaudits upon its completion. It was described as a brilliant piece of engineering and daring which resulted in several other bridges following suit in later ...

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Petra is a historical and archaeological city which is located in the Ma’an region of Jordan. It is famous for its original and unique rock cut architecture and its water conduit system. Petra is also known as the Rose City due to the beautiful and original colour of its stone which is carved and hewn out of the rock. This paper examines the historical aspect of the city in the context of the architectural prowess of those who built it. There is also an examination of how the city was built on a theoretical level as well as comparisons ...

Comedy: The Hangover

In this movie, there are three friends one of them about to get married. Two days before the wedding, they got drunk. They lost one of them, and then must retrace steps in order to find him. Angelinos Doug Billings and Tracy Garner are about to get married. Doug’s best friends Phil Wenneck and Stu Price They went to Vegas and rent a pricey villa head the rooftop to have a good time (the setup). Two days before the wedding, Phil, Sue and Alan wake up in their villa with Hangover they have no recollection of the last night ( ...

Introduction

Famously quoted as saying, "Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light" Le Corbusier, one of the famous architects of the 20th century, was a versatile genius (Tomas, 2009). Besides being an architect, he was a designer, writer, urban planner, painter and one of the founding fathers of modern architecture. A pioneer in modern high design with his buildings scattered across Europe, America and India, he contributed to better living arrangements for people in crowded cities. Born in a small city in Switzerland in 1887, Le Corbusier’s actual name was Charles Édouard Jeanneret. He adopted ...

Compare Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow (figure 16.14 on page 260) with Whispering Pines on a Mountain Path by Tang Yin

Coldness and the desire to go inside to rest next to a burning fire is a sensation that reveals from Bruegel’s painting “Hunters in the Snow”, combined with the vivid desire to stay out and enjoy the excitement of winter, facing the cold. This is an antagonist view portrayed by Bruegel who surprises the winter season with its hardships and its joys: while some men and their dogs are coming back from hunting tired and seemingly dull, for having a small capture (solely a rabid seems to have been hunted) a group of women are in charge with their daily tasks, but they ...

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who used his grandfather’s surname and reinvented himself as Le Corbusier, was born on October 6, 1887 (“Le Corbusier: Biography,” 2013). He was considered as one of the pioneers of the modernist movement in architecture. He was also a designer, writer, urbanist, and painter. Le Corbusier was born in Switzerland and he changed his citizenship into French in 1930 (“Le Corbusier: Biography,” 2013). His architecture career reached fifty years and his buildings and designs were all over Europe, India, and the United States (Sharp, 2002). He initiated the study of modern high design and he was a ...

While the twentieth century brought many wonders to our daily lives, it also radically changed the way we approach our living space. From one perspective, the dwelling became grandiose; instead of individual cottages or houses, people could live in tall buildings that featured individual apartment units with all of the appliances and amenities that they needed. The need for land around a dwelling, which had served during earlier centuries to allow the residents to draw some or all of their sustenance from the land, was now gone. Instead, more people could live in a much smaller area. The filth that characterized ...

Annotated Bibliography on Boullee’

Boullée & visionary architecture ed. Helen Rosenau, Pub. Harmony Books, New York, 1976 ISBN 0-85670-157-2. In her seminal book, Rosenau concentrates on how Boullee’ managed to create a cult which dealt exclusively with his passion for ontological designs. She delves deep into the artistic styles which make up the larger part of Boullee’s work and his intrinsic influence on other architects which followed him. More importantly she uses the great classicist and philosopher’s ideas as sources of inspiration, especially Immanuel Kant and Plato comparing their treatises on humanism to Boullee’s grand concepts and inspirational ideals. Although ...

"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards, our dwellings shape us", so says Winston Churchill (Drmardy.com) in the House of Commons in 1944. Although he said this in various different ways, sometimes referring to "dwellings" as "buildings", this statement has made a profound impact on how much I wanted to be an archaeologist. I share Churchill's view that buildings, or any forms of art or architecture, initially assume the characteristics of the maker. Soon enough, when complete, the makers adopt the meanings the creation depicts. This is exactly what happened to me with the appreciation I have for the Arts. Thus, ...

In response to your request of an analytical report on two travel destinations, I have comprehensively researched on Milan and Buenos Aries travel destinations and presented the below paper. I have researched on the two travel destinations and used five factors as criteria to analyze and recommend one of them. These factors include; weather, price, hospitality, diversity, and culture. This report is useful in understanding the factors that one needs to know before deciding on a travel destination, and also what people in the tourism sector need to understand on the preferences of tourists. Therefore, from the research and analysis ...

The English Patient

Introduction The English Patient is a prize winning novel in which the past and the present are intertwined in a series of flashbacks. It focuses primarily on four damaged lives who find themselves in each other’s company and attempts to remember the dark secrets of their pasts: a critically burned Hungarian man, Almasy who is the English patient, his Canadian nurse – Hana, a Sikh man, Kip and the Canadian thief, Caravaggio. The setting of the novel is during the Second World War and captures activities in abandoned Italian Villa. Ondaatje’s novel is reputed for winning many awards including the Canadian ...