R. K. Narayan

The museum was inaugurated on October 18, 1997, by former King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through the city of Bilbao to the Cantabrian Sea, it is one of several museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture"…

This sculpture is composed entirely of a series of sets of four vertical metal beams, connected horizontally by shorter beams, along the museum passageways in the fashion of a ramp. Corresponding structures on opposite sides of the passages converge near the ceiling at an acute angle, creating what appears to be the perimeter of a triangle without a base, when viewing from the mouth of the artwork. These frameworks are visually similar to elongated strips of windows, due to the quadrilaterals of…

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…

Winners and losers A capitalist society is based on the idea that you can’t get ahead in life without stepping on someone else’s back. In Ursula Le Guin’s story “The ones who walk away from Omelas”, written in 1973, show a society where everyone is happy and full of life. This town is an almost utopian society when the story begins. Children are running and playing, and the narrator talks about how great the city is. However, the city is not as good as it seems. This is because the source of…

In science fiction, dystopias are used to depict the possible future of a world or city that has been through conflicts that developed the current world, in the text. Two scholarly journals that examine dystopias are ““Engaging “Apolitical” Adolescents: Analyzing the Popularity and Educational Potential of Dystopian Literature Post-9/11,” by Melissa Ames, and ““It Was the City Killed the Beast:” Nature, Technophobia, and the Cinema of the Urban Future,” by James Clapp. Three short stories that…

Every person is different and everyone has their own opinions. THe community that a person is born in is not a choice made by the individual. Two pieces of literature that really bring out these ideas are, “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K. LeGuin and “The Unknown Citizen” by W.H. Auden. In both pieces the author brings out a situation where a person is unhappy with their life and how the people around them live. “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” tells an amazing story of a…

Ursula Le Guin “Dispossessed.” Ursula Le Guinn’s The Dispossessed is overtly political and reflects the conflicts of the time in which it was written, most particularly the Cold War and the Vietnam War. Does this work within or against the traditional nature of the science fiction genre in which she is writing? The over indulgence in the political reference by Ursula best suits the genre of science fiction. However, it is necessary to note that the period for this literary work has been…

The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula K. LeGuin Omelas is a utopian city where people live happily in the best sense of the word. The narrator is focusing on a day when the people of Omelas are celebrating the summer festival. Children are exercising their restive horses before the race. The day is bright and clear, music of all kinds fills the air, bells ring and the air itself is sweet. The narrator describes joy, as discriminator of what is necessary, neither necessary nor…

“One thing I know there is none of in Omelas is guilt” (Le Guin 845). Ursula K. Le Guin wrote the short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”. The story is about a city that lives in a forest near mountains and has a great wall around it. The city traps a boy in a closet so the rest of the city can be happy, they think that making one person suffer, it would balance out the happiness and the bad. Le Guin wrote the short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.”. The story is about a…

In hearing wonderful comments about the Kohler Arts Center’s support for the Arts, is why I choose this place to visit for my field investigation. The history of the Kohler Arts center starts with the Sheboygan Arts Foundation, which was created in 1959 with Mrs. Walter J Kohler as its first board member. In 1966, the Kohler family homestead was gifted to the Sheboygan Arts Foundation. With this homestead as a starting point and a large expansion, the center was established in 1967. This…