Master of Architecture

Let’s Go, The Taj Mahal is “Featured on signs of a million and one restaurants, T-shirts, and biscuit tins…” (176) The Taj Mahal is famous because of the builder, Shah Jahan’s, sad love story and the “unique beauty” (Bradnock & Bradnock 243) of the architecture. Built with white marble and different stones from across Central Asia, engraved with different floral designs and Arabic calligraphy, makes the Taj Mahal a must see structure. (Let’s Go 176) The Taj Mahal was built by the Mughal emperor…

Many films representing the time period from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries contain various Gothic architecture elements. Gothic architecture flourished during the medieval period and was commonly seen in the architecture of churches and cathedrals. During this period, cities and universities began to grow immensely. The rise of humanism also accompanied the Gothic period as people began to focus more on the importance of humans rather than supernatural items. In churches, people began…

Apple and Samsung are very similar in the way that they both sell smartphones and they both do the same functions. Providing the user with the same experience of cell phone calls and texts. These two companies are similar but have very different operating systems. They both have nearly the same apps and functions, such as music, internet, and web browsing. They are both smart phones, they are both at the top of the market, both are greatly desired by people overall, and they are great phones.…

In the same fashion, and of equal importance, the obtained information must be disseminated to stakeholders. The purpose of disseminating evidence is to increase the knowledge and incorporate the use of the evidence-based intervention (Agency for Health Care research and Quality [AHRQ], 2012). According to AHRQ (2012), one must consider how to disperse the information, increase the stakeholder’s motivation to incorporate the evidence, and enable the stakeholders to use and apply the evidence.…

It is no secret that the company Torstar has taking a hit this year reporting a loss of $53.3 million dollars in the first quarter of the 2016 fiscal year. Not only has the company been losing revenue and is its CEO retiring but the stock has underperformed the S&P TSX by 67.34%. The downfall of Torstar is mainly caused by brand perception, specifically the way customers view the company still as an old fashioned media print company and not a digital media company. You have asked me for…

“Marketing is food, not medicine.” (Archer). I came across this phrase while doing research on the term “marketing”. The phrase seems inconsequential, but it emphasizes the importance of marketing to a business; newly- established businesses might have the wrong perspective and think of marketing as a “medicine”- an ingredient which is only needed when the business is running low on customers. A great businessman will make constant use of marketing to ensure a standard level of customers of the…

Jacques-Louis David, a French painter during the neoclassical art period, began his art career painting a few mythology figures and narratives and then later on became an active supporter of the French Revolution therefore influenced the stories for which he depicted in his paintings. In this essay, I will analyze the formal qualities or elements of art such as color, implied motion, and space used as well to analyze the historical/religious context of one of his early paintings before the big…

back in time to see old architecture, and admire the beauty of the older buildings. These buildings are stunning, but what makes them so beautiful? Most Architectural styles follow certain characteristics of their time, and amplify them at a much larger scale. We can see this at almost every single style in history. The gothic style is not the exception. Most buildings from that era follow certain characteristics that make them different from any other style of architecture in history. The…

Michael Porter five competitive forces that explain the superior or inferior performance/economic returns of an industry. The five forces are: bargaining power of suppliers, threat of new entrants, rivalry, substitutes, bargaining power of the buyers. This model provides firm level insights in terms of: where power lies, areas where the business can venture into to capitalize on its strength and areas of weaknesses which firms can improve on. Overall, these forces help businesses to make…

Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the most prominent architects in the twentieth century, was very influential in the field of stained glass windows. He designed over 160 buildings containing many stained glass windows, of which almost 100 were built, which amounts to around 4,000 windows in total. Many of Wright’s houses had many windows, including the Dana and Martin houses with around 200, and the Little house with around 300. Wright also developed new styles of stained glass windows, including…