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    Born 1867 Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the first architects who found a new style based on interpretation of planes and abreast masses. He was influenced by many aspects of his life, firstly, when Wright’s parents split up he had an obsession with showing an ideal family living space. His early influences came mainly from working at his uncle’s farm and the “froebel blocks” (Curtis since 1900, page 75) his mother brought him, which he used to create various geometric shapes and patterns.…

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    In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters visit the home where the murder of Mr. Wright took place. While the women’s husbands look at the bigger picture, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters find many major clues in unordinary places around the Wright place. These clues indicate the possibility that Mrs. Wright killed her husband. Although Mrs. Wright claimed to be asleep during the murder of her husband, it’s apparent that she strangled him, signified by the broken birdcage,…

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    Taliesin West Architecture

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    Frank Lloyd Wright was an American Democratic Architect who shaped modern architecture as we know it today. He possesses many prominent credentials, including infamous structures, vast writings, intricate theories, and scholarly teachings. Wright is most well-known for his original designs and the individuality that they displayed. He broke the mold of American Architecture during his time. Wright’s sole focus within his designs was harmony with humanity. He coined the term organic…

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    Since I was about six years old, I’ve had an interest in architecture and interior design. After going to see a Kandinsky exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, I fell in love with the strange shape of the building rather than the ones in the modern artist’s paintings. A few years later, I went to Fallingwater and I bought myself Frank Lloyd Wright’s biography. For Christmas that year, I received the Lego kits for Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. I have been hooked on how modern Frank…

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    attainability of its goals, which not every student has the luxury of obtaining due to economic reasons. Nonetheless, I would encourage college students to accept Bruni’s challenge and would strongly advocate this challenge the students at Wilbur Wright College – the college I currently attend. Bruni uses the term “clannishness” to illustrate how people in the United States separate themselves from one another by conforming into certain groups with specific ideologies (1). These divisions lead…

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    Gender In Trifles

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    “While the standard polarization of human being in a crime story is normally dividing by the law abiding citizens from the criminal, the characters here are soon divided on the basis of sex differences.” (Alkalay) In Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” Glaspell uses a murder investigation of a woman’s husband to demonstrate the different roles of men and women in the early 1900’s. Glaspell shows the reader, through small significant objects that the men think are inessential to illustrate the greater…

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    Designer Devan Kaufman said it best when he declared, “Frank Lloyd Wright houses have always just made sense.” Wright had a way of creating floor plans that was so novice and incredible that anyone of the twentieth century and now could tell that he was the architect of a house just by looking at it. His work was so amazing because of how contemporary and intelligent it was. Wright knew how to do certain things like creating pillars to be soundproof so that you couldn’t hear a busy road just…

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    Wright Mills was an American sociologist in the 20th century that gave his definition of sociological imagination as “The vivid awareness of the relationship between personal experience and the wider society.” My personal opinion of what the definition of…

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    Sociological Imagination was a term first used by the sociologist C. Wright Mills. Sociological Imagination can be defined as “the ability to make connections between our personal experiences and the larger forces of history (lecture notes).” The cultural and social historical events are the sociological structures that can affect our life. This paper will use sociological imagination to connect my personal life to some historical events in the past years. This includes historical events such as…

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    Section one Symbolic interactionism is a sociological perspective that focus on the relationships among individuals in a society. The theory sees people as the one that shape the world around them, and that their social definition is what makes up reality. This reality is created by social interaction in society, and can be modified when more of the interaction has process unfolds and interpretation changes. Social theorists and scientists that use symbolic-interactionist look for patterns of…

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