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- 101: Popularity of Television and Magazines On Designing Individual Space
- ... public) have to conform. Therefore previous approaches to social engineering through architecture in the 20-century, by architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright will be examined in chapter one. Nigel Coates' 'Oyster House' will also be discussed to highlight the change in the nature of western society from 1940's architecture to present day, and the impact of the media on architecture and lifestyle today. The current trend ... also very different in certain attributes. An example of how Lloyd Wright dictated how the individual client should live is the much-documented 'Fallingwater'., Wright rejected his client's idea and chose to build the house on the small plateau directly above the falls, as this site had several advantages for his plan. Lloyd Wright dictated his client's views from his building and so changed the site to Wright's ... man being in the centre, brings forward the issue of social engineering and whether the building was in fact, the centre and controlled the acts of daily life within it. The social engineering of this house can be explained by the high levels of complexity and order which can also make the house "…inhospitable to the various incursions of individual lives," (Hildebrand p.147). According to Appleton (REF) the lives ...
- 102: Conflicts And Relationships
- By: james carvill E-mail: tuf123guy@aol Conflicts in Relationships by James Carvill In Othello, the Moor of Venice by Shakespeare, A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen, Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, and The Glass Managerie by Tennessee Williams involve relationships and the development of the characters through conflicts in their relationships. For Othello it was Iago’s deception and Othello’s jealousy, and for Nora and Torvald in A Doll House it was their doomed marriage, In Oedipus Rex the prophecy doomed Oedipus to marry his mother, and in The Glass Managerie it was the Laura’s special condition and the love she feels ...
- 103: Advanced Green Builder Demonstration House
- Advanced Green Builder Demonstration House Located right here in Austin, Texas, just east of highway 183, lives a true architectural pioneer, Pliny Fisk. At his 18-acre nonprofit Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, Mr. Fisk and his battalion of ... and volunteers are striving to better the lives of everyone by creating new environmentally sound and sustainable building technologies. The main focus of the center is the two thousand square foot Advanced Green Builder demonstration house. It is here where all the possibilities of creating an entirely sustainable design come together to form one intriguing structure. The demonstration house was created using renewable resources with the environmental impact of their entire existence in mind. This meant consideration was given to such things as raw materials, manufacturing processes, the transportation of the products, and ...
- 104: Fear In The House Of Usher : E
- The Fear in the House of Usher The short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, uses a rational first person narrator to illustrate the strange effects the house has on the three characters within it. Everything about the house is dark and supernaturally evil, and appears to convey some fear that is driving its occupants insane. The narrator enters the story as ...
- 105: Ibsens Roles
- ... over every person s potential. Writing about women allowed him to make a universal call, not only to women, but to every sentient being. His plays cried out for the individual s emancipation. In A Doll s House , Ibsen portrayed the altruistic nature instilled into women by society, the consequential stunt of their development, and the need for them to find their own voice in a world dominated by men. For ages, society ... if her child turns out to be a nuisance to society later on in life. Ibsen tells his readers that if a woman fails to recognize her own needs, she will remain stagnant in a doll-child existence. Nora s constant need to please her husband has hindered her development as an independent being. Her marriage "is that of a charming child to a parent, and not one of equals. ...
- 106: Imagery Of The Supernatural In
- Imagery of the Supernatural in "The Fall of the House of Usher" Edgar Allan Poe's writings are known for their macabre subject matter. In "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe uses the life-like characteristics of an otherwise decaying house as a device for giving the house a supernatural atmosphere. Frank N. Magill explains this concept best when he writes, "Usher feels that it is the form and substance of his family mansion that ...
- 107: An Analysis of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher
- An Analysis of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher The Fall of the House of Usher is definitely a piece written in Poe's usual style; a dark foreboding tale of death and insanity filled with imagery, allusion, and hidden meaning. It uses secondary meanings and underlying themes to ... his friend might afford him solace. Though his mental problems were a large part of his sorrow, most of it was due to his sister's illness. Much of the narrator's time at The House of Usher was spent reading philosophical books with Usher, apparently a great hobby of them both. One evening Usher came to the narrator and informed him “that the lady Madeline [Usher's sister] was ...
- 108: The House on Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule
- Final Paper: The House on Mango Street, The Benedictine Rule When reading both The House on Mango Street, and The Rule of St. Benedict in English, one notices a common writing style that both works share. In both works, information is being narrated to the reader on a personal level. Stories or rules are told to the reader as if the reader is to follow or participate. The House on Mango Street is the story of a young woman named Esperanza Cordero. Esperanza lives in the Latino part of Chicago and struggles in accepting the life that she is being raised into. She ...
- 109: The Haunted House
- The Haunted House It was a hot, sticky July evening and the day that John moved into what was said to be a old haunted house. It all started one night when he was watching TV and he heard something. It seemed as if the noise was coming from the basement down the hall. John wasn't worried. He picked up ... the noise he heard was a heater vent and not a ghost. He didn't see much so he figured that it was in his best interest to look around and find out if the house was actually haunted and that it wasn't his friends messing with him. A light flashed...then suddenly every thing disappeared. John was freaking out, he didn't know what to do so he ...
- 110: The Analysis Of Light And Dark
- The Analysis of Light and Dark Imagery Nathaniel Hawthorne s The House of the Seven Gables, uses many qualities of symbolism which help develop the novel s main ideas. Darkness is the emblematic color of the Pyncheon s. Contrasted with its opposite, light, it forms one of ... of the novel: the opposition of dark and light. Hawthorne uses dark imagery throughout his novel to express a sense of decay, but he also uses light imagery to inject hope. Nathaniel Hawthorne in The House of the Seven Gables describes Phoebe as an illuminating speck of light transforming the darkness of the house like the light of dawn (92). This description of Phoebe, using light imagery, expresses that she is an innocent woman with an inner spirit to help break the Pyncheon s curse. Clark Giffith records ...
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