Sheridan Le Fanu

1. What I find most crucial in the plot is chapter 1 is the setting. Nick describes his home compared to Tom’s and Gatsby’s mansions. I think that someone who isn't as rich as Tom or Gatsby puts a nice perspective on a more normal look at the two situations. 2. At the beginning of the book, Nick describes himself as the only honest person he knows. He also describes himself as vert literary. He also describes himself as someone who doesn't pass judgement on people. 3. Nick describes Tom as…

The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984), Aldo Rossi Aldo Rossi, an Italian architect, was also an influential architectural theorist in the 20th-century. The Architecture of the City was published in 1984 which was his major work of architectural and urban theory. In the introduction, Rossi points out that the embodiment of artistic intentions and the creation of a better living environment are two eternal features of the building. The building gives the community a particular image…

Appendices Appendix 1 ‘The Manhattan Transcripts’ by Bernard Tschumi “The Manhattan Transcripts is a theoretical project of drawings, they differ from the most architectural drawings insofar as they are neither real projects nor mere fantasies. They propose to transcribe an architectural interpretation of reality. To this aim, they use a particular structure indicated by photographs that either direct or ‘witness’ events (some would say ‘functions’, others would call them ‘programs’) At the…

Victor Hugo specifies that Jean Valjean is a cruel, broken-hearted man that is ultimately changed by the acts of love and compassion by the people around him in the novel, Les Miserables. Jean Valjean course of life after prison sets him up at the Bishop’s house, leading him to meet the kind Bishop. With the Bishop’s kind acts that Valjean has embraced, Valjean spreads his kindness and sympathy to others along the way. With all this kindness and goodness in Valjean, connecting to God will become…

Can we really state that we know what a hard life is? Would you be transformed into a new person because of your trials and errors? Jean Valjean had to endure many tough struggles and challenges through his life. In the book Les Miserables, Victor Hugo demonstrates how Jean has to deal with suffering and overcomes many obstacles that stand in his way because of his past experiences and wrongdoings. However, as Valjean works through these circumstances his entire life and personality change. All…

or atmosphere of a story. Shapes, colors and familiar symbols are used to make scenes more relatable as well as more meaningful. These images are intended to spark emotion within the reader and often times, evoke a spiritual relation. In the novel Les Miserables, Victor Hugo develops the theme of redemption through the use of archetypes and symbolism. Jean Valjean, a former convict, is struggling to redeem himself in the midst of post-revolutionary France. This challenge often causes Valjean…

The Pruitt-Igoe complex began as a benign plot to provide low-income families with affordable housing, but several decades later, it ended up as a ruined relic of the past. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells the story of the transformation of the American city, specifically that of St Louis, Missouri, in the developing era after the second world war, through the lens of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing development team and the residents of St. Louis who called the complex home. After WW2, many residents…

“You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.” Said by Doug Floyd. And his statement is so true when it comes to Les Miserables and how the singing ruined the movie and lost many eyes. There were parts in the movie that probably shouldn’t have been sung and they were which ruined the whole thing. The beginning of the movie should not have been sung because that was deep when Javert and Jean were signing when Jean was going to be set free of jail. Another one was when Marius and his…

(Leo Fender) who worked with Dick Dale, a surf rock guitarist known as the king of the surf guitar, who is now 78 years old, in developing a guitar amp that he got up to 100watts without it being broken. Fender then was called K&F manufacturing. The Les Paul amp is developed. 1960’s: Guitarists in this era began experimenting with the sound of distortion from their amplifiers, including guitarists who would plug one amp into another, or use razors the rip the amp face, or simply use their…

be unconsciously emulated in modern design. Van de Velde still influences young architects and designers today. He has been a force in architectural theory since the 19th century at the Deutscher Werkbund; influencing minds like Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Mies Van der Rohe, who ultimately shaped the architecture of the modern style. Today, the ideas of Van de Velde have helped to dictate the vision of Starchitects like Zaha Hadid and her office of parametric magicians…