The Elements of Style

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 his Prairie windows and Playhouse windows. Wright originally struggled with windows, and he explained this, saying, "Often I used to gloat over the beautiful buildings I could build if only it were…

The first artistic style to influence Europe from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, Romanesque Art thrived from roughly 1000 A.D. to the thirteenth century. Romanesque Art also encompasses influences from Byzantine art and the Insular art of Northern Europe. It retained many features of Roman architectural style. Some of most famous examples of Romanesque architecture include its famous cathedrals and churches. Romanesque architecture is known by its massive quality, thick walls, round arches,…

In an interview with Chris Dickens (Editor of Shaun Of The Dead) Dickens states that when an editor is choosing shots they are choosing the shots they like. It is a matter of taste, but what creates that taste is the understanding of the meaning and purpose of that film in such detail that your choices are made with purpose that aids the film effectively (HDFilmtools, 2009). Dickens statement summarizes the importance of the knowledge behind filmmaking and how the editor needs to do research on…

1. job versus position – a job is several activities that are like each other while a position can be several tasks performed by a singular person. 2. job analysis – researching information pertaining to a job such as tasks or activities. 3. job description – a written account of a job and the duties expected of someone holding this position. 4. job specification – certain attributes a person but obtain to successful fulfill duties entailed in a job description. 5. essential job function vs.…

genre with another style of music, for example African or jazz music. Sister Rose, performed by renowned band Sky, and Smooth performed by the popular band Santana are both strong examples of fusion rock. While Sky successfully manages to fuse two very opposite styles of music, rock and classical, Santana unites rock and Latin music together bringing a spicy, hot dance number. Both pieces achieve a fantastic product of fusion rock through the use of a variety of musical elements and…

There’s A Reason Why Mama Wouldn’t Let You Take a Cookie from the Jar: A Rhetorical Analysis of “Six Provocations for Big Data” In their essay “Six Provocations for Big Data”, danah boyd and Kate Crawford argue if the use of Big Data is ethical based upon the fact that is easily accessible to all, especially in today’s society. boyd, a researcher “and [the] founder of Data & Society Research Institute”, and Kate Crawford, also a researcher and professor, attempt to reach an uninformed,…

word styles and they simply don 't know that they use it for a reason like explaining the theme. A memoir is a great example of this when it comes to using many literary elements that explain the author 's theme. Anything the author writes in literature has a purpose and it should be accounted for no matter what. The author of the book is a Chinese woman whose name is Maxine Hong Kingston and her book is a memoir. This book is essentially about the author’s life in America and she uses elements…

When it came to the 1990s, the incorporation of both theatrical elements and rock music in the musical theatre has matured significantly, which has been notable in the show Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Advocated by Fricke (1998), Hedwig had been by the time the first rock musical that truly rocked. On the one hand, Hedwig serves as a successful model where elements of musical theatre and rock have been harmoniously integrated. For instance, based on only eleven songs of its musical score, the…

As discussed in class, gothic stories are a combination of horror and romanticism. In the novel Sleepy Hollow, several elements of the Gothic genre are displayed. These elements include supernatural events that are similar to the Salem Witch Trials. The lack of class structure, history, and continuity in America is Tim Burton’s Sleepy is a different aspects of Irving’s original story that offers the European contrast, the film fundamentally relies on isolation, cultural differences, and ghost…

The neoclassic artistic style began about the same time as the start of the age of enlightenment in the mid 18th century. Neoclassical art favored the simplicity and symmetry of Ancient Greece and Rome and viewed the Rococo style it displaced as immoral. Neoclassical artists thought art should be more cerebral and less sensual and viewed drawing as more important than painting. Neoclassical art with its strong lines, muted colors, and lack of visible brush strokes create images which appear to…