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    John (3rd person) John has always wanted to be a soldier. To be a hero; a savior of lives that do not concern him. Yet he is lanky. With a skinny figure and a bent back he walks with shame in each step as he knows he will never achieve his dream. He also gets bullied at school. How could a victim, a poor excuse for a boy, ever be someone so great and so heroic when he can't even tell a man just a few months older than him with a better posture to back off. His clothes fit loosely around him as…

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    In the manor, Aalto brings out his knowledge about nature forest through the following ways of using materials: by using big glass windows to have an open view to the garden and by using the continuous pine-strip through the ceiling. There was various types of materials and textures were used for the floor. At the entrance he chose red slate tiles; Flooring materials at garden room and fireplace was natural stone. Alva Aalto brought the owner’s art passion to the house by creating an open…

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    Ashcan School Analysis

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    • Urban growth machines were developed by John Logan and Harvey Moltoch. This concept was supposed to help institutions like realtors, local banks, politicians. Though it only reflected the self-interest of themselves its purpose is to show the economic competition with alternative investment opportunities and competing locales. • Both painters wanted to depict what was going on during the mid-nineteenth century. The Impressionists on Paris wanted to show the transformation of Paris through its…

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    Born on 5th March 1910 into a wealthy Taiwanese family in Kagi Country, Japanese Taiwan, Momofuku Ando was raised by his grandparents after the death of his parents. His grandparents inspired him to follow their path of business and start a textiles company. In 1933 he travelled to Osaka to study economics at Ritsumeikan University. He became a Japanese citizen following the Second World War. Ando lost his textile company to bankruptcy, following being convicted of tax evasion in 1948. He later…

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    Keishera Aldonza Culture Partners: The Interview with the Albanian I first met Enea almost by accident. It was the night of the first fire alarm at Roberts Hall. The steam pipes had burst and the basement became overwhelmed with steam, forcing Enea upstairs and into my common area. He was alone and I felt particularly sociable that night. He introduced himself as Alec, which I learned later was his “Americanized” name, and I introduced myself and my friends. Our friendship stuck and he even…

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    Jean Valjean is a Cathlic who is a plays in the movie Les Miserables. He was born into a very poor family in France. He tried hard to keep his family alive for many years. One time he tried to steal a piece of bread to feed his sister’s children and got caught in the action. For this he was sentenced to five years in prison. After four unsuccessful escape attempts, he was added twelve years in prison to his time. Later he was added two more years for fighting the guards during his second escape…

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    Jean Valjean, nearly fifty, experiences more in his lifetime than the average man. By Victor Hugo affirming Valjean's age to only around fifty suggests to the reader that Valjean's life-changing experiences are not yet complete. Because he is younger than the reader expects, Valjean's physique resides along with his age helping him in various scenarios. Over the course of a year, Valjean's body ages to his actual age of eighty years; his strength vamooses him as he prepares for his demise.…

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    Functionalism

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    “Functionalism – by all means is a strictly modern phenomenon but actually originates in classical antiquity” Giving the prodigious sense of a security but very different from that which is attained by the seeming immobility of the mass and weight of masonry. Concluded as one of the dominant successes of Woolworth, all will agree, it is an accomplishment of ‘scale’. Which assuming that the help of transformation the skyline of the city can be somehow added to the functions presumably from the…

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    The Lesbian Undertones of Les Diaboliques In 1955, Henri Clouzot directed the famous noir thriller Les Diaboliques based off the book by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. The original story from the book, the characters, who would be equivalent to Nicole and Christina in the film, were a lesbian couple. In the movie, Clouzot tries to heteronormalize the plot by doing away with the lesbian couple. However, Clouzot does not do a good enough job to completely get rid of the homosexual undertones…

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    forward for functionalism to purchase the spatial freedom which required by people as time goes by. Starting from earliest times to present day, people always make great efforts to purchase the freedom of space. And the reason why the works done by Le Corbusier have a strong appeal is mainly because of his quest for freedom in architecture. In my point of view, along with the society’s advance, minimalist architects from new generation, for instance, Kazuyo Sejima from Japan, are able to walk…

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