Wrought iron

Think about modern buildings (built after 1900) you may have seen either in person or in pictures that were designed in a classical style. I decided to describe a Northern California home that I was lucky enough to live in for a couple of years, mainly because it is a modern building (approximately 25 years old) but was designed with a classical style. I wanted to describe a building that I know very well and this particular style of architecture (or at least the front façade and columns) is…

Gordon believed that the so-called robber barons were not at all robber barons. Their great industrial contributions to America were so significant that their lust for money couldn’t possibly be seen as a bad thing. Inventions including wrought iron, the Bessemer Process, the Standard Oil Company, and many more brought a new industrialized America. According to Gordon, the big businesses who led and organized these industries could barely fall under the classification of robber barons. He…

dust and whistling along its way. The birch trees on the far side of the tracks waved red and yellow leaves in the breeze. The sun glowed bright. If not for the death wrought in its early hours, it would have been a nice autumn day. “He was right. You do look like him.” Laurel hopped at the sound of Jewel’s voice. Jewel sat on an iron bench by the depot door. Tears stained her light brown cheeks. Her almond-shaped eyes were red and puffy. What did Jewel mean? Laurel was brown-skinned, but not as…

Protestant Reformation are considered as magical point in history by amateurs. In some regards, these events were magical. Art, literature, and science flourish like a well-kept garden. It was a pleasant change from the calamitous 14th century, which was wrought crop failure, famine, the Black Death, and fruitless crusades. The world was in turmoil. In the eyes’ Christian, it may as well have been a world forsaken by god. Thus, when the Renaissance and Reformation occurred, it almost seemed like…

“House Taken Over” by Julio Cortázar is about two middle aged siblings living in their ancestral house together and describes their daily routines during the tragic time when everything was magically taken away from them, including their house by an some entity that represents fear. The story presents the loneliness, love, and the fear that takes place in both Irene and her brother that contributes to the overall depiction of the story. Irene and her brother are presented as very secluded…

that boast of architectural brilliance. The high standard of detailing in this structure uses many architectural decorative techniques available in the early twentieth century. This includes pressed metal work (ferrous and non-ferrous), cast and wrought iron, copper domes, lead-light and stained glass, glazed Majolica and 1950s wall tiles. The building has the most extensive use of Edwardian and 1950s wall tiles of any Station or building in the State adding to its uniqueness and stylistic…

When the Communists had finally achieved victory over the Nationalists, there were few spoils they could claim. The Communists were faced with a China that was disorganized, wrought with social tension, and a lack or production and education in a huge country (Hsu, 2016). Thus, we can see that unifying China under a single national identity was no easy task. However, what we do know is that the largely uneducated and capitalist-hating…

Industrialization in Britain from the eighteenth century onwards was the revolutionary growth, which brought significant changes in Britain; it was as W.W. Rostow deems a “decisive transition” . The impact on economics, to some extent, was an essential experience of the revolution due to economic expansion in industrial and agricultural growth brought by technological innovations. However, as Mokyr argues: “by focusing on economics we isolate only a part, though a central part, of the…

PART 1: NATIVES Key Characteristics of the Cherokee: • They originally occupied the Southeast • Around half of them were wiped out due to smallpox by the mid-1700s • They were forcibly removed from their area and forced to go to “Indian Territory”, which is now Oklahoma • About 4,000 of them died during the trip • The earth is suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging from the sky vault, which is of solid rock • At first the earth was flat and very soft and wet The story…

for this production. In act one the first set was introduced. It conveyed the feeling of a patio or garden, rather that the two balconies of adajacent, French hotel suites. The furniture did convey the feeling of the outdoors, with two sets of wrought iron chairs and a table. Overall composition was quite beautiful. The simplicity of elements in this first act, along with quality lighting, brought forth a outdoorsy feel. In contrast, the set of acts two and three conveyed the feeling of an…