Open City

(office landscaping) which emerged in Germany in the 1950s: these architects set up an open office which was meant to foster better communication and collaboration by removing spatial hierarchy.” (Triomphe, Flamante, Myerson, 2015) In this sense, people learned from one another and were able to work with people above or below them – encouraging conversations and a sense of being. However, employees found the open plan office a distraction from their work and struggled to find privacy in which to…

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is told from a third-person perspective. The only mind through out the book the narrator has insight to is the correspondent. The narrator suggests all four men are thinking and feeling the same things. Throughout the book the oiler is the only character given a name. The oiler (Billy) has not eaten or slept in days like the others, right before the ship sank he worked double-watch in the engine-room, still he continues rowing. Any time the correspondent tries to…

During the 1996 Masters golf tournament at Augusta, one of the world’s finest golf courses, Greg Norman played one of the greatest eighteen hole games he had ever played. Norman shot an incredible score of 63, which still stand today as a course record. Norman went into the second day of gold with a fifteen stroke lead, only to choke under pressure scoring a 78 the day after shooting such an amazing game. Nick Faldo managed to come from behind and defeating Norman by a five stroke margin winning…

"Have patience" declares Dale everyday as we work on the farm. One time we had a calf stuck, and we had to get it up and pull it out. It was on Christmas morning and we had to do it before we started Christmas. I did not have much experience pulling calves but I had to assist anyway. I had no idea that pulling a calf would be so difficult. One time before Christmas morning we were out checking the cows when suddenly we spotted a cow that was having trouble trying to have a calf. So we went…

Fredric Reamer (2007) defines an open adoption as “an adoption where at least one biological parent and their child’s adoptive parents have contact with each other, share some identifying information with each other, and the child, when old enough, knows that contact exists.” Through this definition, there can be many different types of open adoption. Some open adoptions include the birth parent as a prominent role in the child’s life. Other open adoptions limit the contact between birth parent…

uncle, Rafa turned pro when he was fifteen. At the age of seventeen he beat Roger Federer to become the youngest player to ever reach the third round of Wimbledon, which is one of the four grand slams. Then two years later he played in the French Open, another grand slam, for the first time and won the tournament. He won the same tournament every year for the next three years and at the end of his run, he was named ATP newcomer of the…

tennis player who is ranked number 1 in women's singles tennis. I choose to research Serena because she has always been an important role model in my life. Ever since I have started to play tennis, I loved watching Serena on TV and going to the US Open to watch her in person. Every unique swing she does I like to recreate myself to become a better athlete like her. She has a determined and kind personality off and on court which helps me realize that she is a true role model not just for me but…

But about midway through the 2001 season she entered the Pacific Life Open. Though she did win that event Serena did not enter that event again for until 2015 because of how the crowd acted. They believed that the williams sisters where fixing that match by not playing against each other so that Serena would be more rested…

documentary. Produced by Garry Mcnab, Lost at Sea follows Ross Chapman a young and daring fisherman swept into an unfortunate ordeal after falling from his boat. Infatuated with fishing from a young age, Ross Chapman often fished alone on a small tinny in open waters. He is portrayed as courageous, brave and extremely lucky within the documentary, and the viewers are positioned to see him as Australia’s luckiest man. The documentary begins with a…

Australia's rugby women’s team has a chance to showcase to the world their prowess as they battle it out with rivals New Zealand in the Women's Rugby League World Cup 2017 on Saturday. The high stakes game will be played at the Suncorp Stadium in Australia on December 2, 2017. Saturday's game will be second successive final between the two teams. The Jillaroos, as Australian women’s team is known, has played against the New Zealand's Kiwi Ferns in the finals in a record four times. They are the…