Walter Cronkite

Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, English settlement in North America was born. Born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, Smith left home at age 16 after his father died. He joined volunteers in France who were…

Roanoke may have assimilated into or captured by the native indian tribe, they could have been killed off by sickness and savages, or they could have tried to go back to England but these are just theories. Roanoke was a colony in America started by Sir Walter Raleigh of England. Raleigh wanted new land in the new world and decided…

The Roanoke Island Colony; Lost and found? (The New York Times)Centuries ago many English men and women were hoping to settle a successful colony in the new land. When the leader of the colonists John White left them on the island to go get more supplies the colonist mysteriously disappeared with in the time White was gone.(A,E) No one knows what happened to the colonists, in fact the only clue that was left behind was the word Croatoan carved into a tree. (A,B,J & E)So, for now the remains…

Austen that portrays the Elliot family (which in this time is head by the Baronet Sir Walter Elliot), and their friends with a third-person omniscient narrator. The book takes place in early nineteenth century England during the Napoleonic Wars and also takes place in the same universe of one of Jane Austen’s earlier and most popular book Pride and Prejudice. Throughout the book, several characters such as Sir Walter and Anne Elliot are persuaded that their first impressions of certain…

demonize socialism and endorse capitalism, until reading Christianity and the Social Crisis. Walter Rauschenbusch, the author, paints a picture of what it is to be politically liberal, yet religiously conservative on a scale that he calls the church to action by utilizing the influence it now has over the common people particularly pertaining to social justice matters. According to www.ChristianityToday.com, Walter Rauschenbusch was a theologian as well as a Baptist pastor who also taught at…

CCase study 2 The Villa Savoye Highlights of Villa Savoye The Villa Savoye is designed by Le Corbusier in 1927, it is an iconic building and it was defined as a historical monument. It signifies the five points of a new architecture. When constructing the roof garden, horizontal windows and free design of the facade, the reinforced concreted was applied in the design of the Villa Savoye. Therefore, it is studied in this project to learn about its possible design approaches under earthquake…

History Henkel AG & Company, KGaA, is a German multinational company. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. This operates in the chemical and consumer goods. It is organized into three business areas: 1. Laundry & Home Care (household cleaning products such as laundry detergent laundry and dishwashing liquid) 2. Beauty Care (beauty and oral care products such as shampoo, hair colorants, shower products, toothpaste et cetera) 3. Adhesive Technologies (adhensives, surface…

Pierre Francastel and Sigfried Giedion were both analytical in their accounts of industrial revolution’s impact on architecture via the usage of mass-produced material such as iron and glass. However, the two accounts indeed took very different stands on their opinion of the machine and the progression of architecture. Bibliothѐque Sainte-Geneviѐve was indisputably one of the most remarkable examples of iron and glass applications during that era, agreed by both Francastel and Giedion. However,…

The range and extent of contributions within multiple fields of art and design were endless when it comes to the legacy of Herbert Bayer. The ADC Hall of Fame recognizes Bayer’s achievements in this quote from their 1975 biography, “If Herbert Bayer had produced nothing after the age of 28, his accomplishments to that point alone would make him one of the great pioneers in visual communication” (http://adcglobal.org/hall-of-fame/herbert-bayer/). Although Bayer was most passionate about graphic…

Modern buildings focus mainly on their function while utilizing a stylistic minimalist aesthetic. On the UCLA campus a prime example of a modern building is Bunche Hall, which exhibits many hallmarks of modern architecture. Because of its modern sensibilities, Bunche also exemplifies notions of neoclassicism in terms of the classic American college, the picturesque, and modernism in order to function socially as a building that emphasizes new ideas in modern education and to serve as an easily…