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How Important Is Theory to the Practice of Athe Relationship of Theory, Design and Practice in the Case of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier
Around the 1900's a number of architects around the world began developing new architectural solutions to integrate traditional precedents with new technological possibilities. The work of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, Antoni Gaudi in Barcelona and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Glasgow and Le Corbusier in France can be seen as a common struggle between old and new. In this essay I am going to concentrate on the theory, design and practice of
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Violent Video Games Affect on Youth Today
In the more recent times it seems as if America’s youth is becoming more violent. Concern for those aspects in our society which influence violent acts has become an issue since the tragedy at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Many feel one aspect of today’s society affecting our nation’s youth in a negative manner is video games. Is this form of entertainment really a factor in teen violence? I think not. We should
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Explore How the Character of Prospero Develops in the Course of the Tempest. How Does the Prospero of Act one Scene Two Compare to That We Hear in the Final Scene of the Play? Compare Your Interpretation of the Play with That of Other Critics.
Prospero is the most central character in Shakespeare’s �The Tempest’. The play revolves around his personal task to regain his dukedom, which his brother Antonio usurped from him. Throughout the play it is shown how Prospero develops and changes as a character and seems a different person to the character we first meet in Act One Scene Two. How Prospero’s character develops happens in a variety of ways, one of the most potent ways appearing
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Space Technology and Its Effect on America
There have been many technological advances that have greatly affected America such as computers, cell phones and even satellite services. But, I think the most important of all technological advances would be the space program. Without the technology gained from our space program, all the other items would have never happened or would have taken a lot longer to be developed. It all began in the late 1950’s with the launch of the Russian satellite
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How Young Goodman Brown Became Old Badman Brown
Nathaniel Hawthorne was a nineteenth-century American writer of the Romantic Movement. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804, he was one of those rare writers who drew critical acclaim during his lifetime. Hawthorne used Salem as a setting for most of his stories, such as The Scarlet Letter, The Blithedale Romance, and “Young Goodman Brown”. Today, readers still appreciate Hawthorne's work for its storytelling qualities and for the moral and theological questions it raises. Nathaniel Hawthorne's
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How We Can Help
People have dreams and aspirations of some day having a high paying job. My mother would always tell me as a child what her mother once told her, “Momma said you better go to college to get a high paying job.” Although going to college will certainly help out with attaining a high paying job, these jobs are not guaranteed with the whole college package. All walks of life are hit with this minimal living
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How I Demonstrate My Freedom
How I Demonstrate My Freedom My freedom is very important to me. Many brave men fought and lost their lives so that we can be free to do common things that we take for granted. We are very fortunate to live in a society where we can choose our way of life. Many people in different cultures, past and present, have had their way of life dictated to them one way or another. The freedoms
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How Does Dickens Use the First Four Chapters of ‘hard Times'to Introduce the Characters and Themes of the Novel?
How does Dickens use the first four chapters of ‘Hard Times’ to introduce the characters and themes of the novel? Charles Dickens wrote ‘Hard Times’ in 1854. He had a number of reasons for writing it. Firstly, he wished to educate readers about the working conditions of some of the factories in the industrial towns. He wanted to demonstrate how appallingly the affluent factory workers treated the poverty-stricken working people. This is an issue Dickens
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How to Install a Video Card
How to Install a Video Card Installing a video card into your personal computer is a fairly simple and easy task that can be accomplished by just about anybody. To get started there are a number of tools that you will need to install a video card into your personal computer. You will need a Phillips head screw driver, the video card itself, and the driver disk that came with the video card. The
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How Did Nazism Rise and How Did It Lead to the Holocaust?
Adam Phillips 12/7/04 Western Civilization How Did Nazism Rise and How Did It Lead to The Holocaust? The first World War, or the Great War, left lasting effects on the entire world, particularly Germany. During the war, the German people faced many hardships and had to sacrifice much for the war effort. The gaps between social classes widened as the working class was faced with a food shortage and a lower standard of living overall.
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How Does Jane Austen Create Negative Feelings Towards Mr. Darcy in the First Few Chapters of Pride and Prejudice?
How does Jane Austen create negative feelings towards Mr. Darcy in the first few chapters of Pride and Prejudice? Jane Austen wrote her book about life for women in the nineteenth century; the Regency period. For women in this period, life was very unbalanced, women were not perceived as equals and men were superior and had full authority in every aspect of life. There was a clear segregation among men and women and the values
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How to Be Dumb
Now that Alan Cooper's personas have become famous, one of the most prominent and well-known goals for user interface designers is not to make the user look stupid. This goal isn't really new because we all know of situations where we or someone else looked horribly stupid when trying to do something on a computer. Even the smartest women and men can look stupid at a computer if they don't know which button to click,
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How a Cell Phone Changed My Life
When it comes to cell phones, practicality is not the first thing I consider. Many people are satisfied with just “having a phone that works”, but that’s never been good enough for me. I’ve owned my own cell phone ever since the fifth grade; a technology that none of my friends had at the time. Most kids would be happy just having a phone to begin with, but I have always enjoyed being a step
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How Is Being a Member of the Stolen Generation a Personal Trouble? How Is It a Public Issue?
How is being a member of the stolen generation a personal trouble? How is it a public issue? If we are to look at the events endured by the Stolen Generation then we can see that they have very negative connotations from a sociological perspective on the wider Australian society. This piece will attempt to state that a link exists between the personal trauma caused to members of the Stolen Generation and why they find
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Technology and Tradition
Professional sports are a vital component to our society as we know it. Week in and week out, fans fill the stands to cheer on their favorite teams, just the same as they did 50 years ago. On the contrary, these professional sports have evolved with the introduction of new technologies that are erupting controversies, especially in the last decade. Experts suggest that these advantages that today’s players have over those in the past can
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Technology and Business in Austria
Brief history Austria was conquered by the Celts, Romans, Lombards, Huns, Bavarians, Goths, French, Germans, and Babenberg. They dominated the country from the 10th to the 13th century. Their successors were the Habsburg who governed the country up to the 20th century. In 1806 the Austrian Empire was founded. The Empire was dismantled with the Napoleonic wars. After Napoleon’s abdication, the House of Habsburg recovered most of its territories. In 1918 the Habsburg Empire was
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How to Be a Good Student
How to Be a Good Student College is a competitive environment; in order to success in it a student needs certain skills. Those skills can only be learned. A college professor mentioned that there five basic rules that need to be followed in order to become a good student: study, do all the homework and the assigned reading, attend class, and, most importantly, develop self-discipline and time management 1. In the following lines, a detailed
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How Google Wors
How Google Works If you aren't interested in learning how Google creates the index and the database of documents that it accesses when processing a query, skip this description. I adapted the following overview from Chris Sherman and Gary Price's wonderful description of How Search Engines Work in Chapter 2 of The Invisible Web (CyberAge Books, 2001). Google runs on a distributed network of thousands of low-cost computers and can therefore carry out fast
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How Being in Love Can Change People
“How Being in Love can Change People” In the three marvelous works, Matchstick Men, Punch-Drunk Love, and “Mama Day”, people are all changed greatly, and for the better by romantic or father/child love. How everyone knows that there is no one on Earth who is perfect, yet when there is love, we come so close to it. Within these three works of art, one can analyze how there is actual change through people when
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Learning How to Swim
Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was learn how to swim. I was always afraid of the water, but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. I also thought it would be good exercise and help me to become physically stronger. What I didn't realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person.
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On “anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town”
The poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E. E. Cummings is an odd one in the least, as it does not follow conventional grammatical rules. However, this style only contributes to the overall appeal that is presented to the reader. Coupled with an alluring rhythm, these uncommon practices allow the reader to comprehend a message in an unusual way. The setting of “anyone lived in a pretty how town” is more simple
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How Far Was Austria the Main Obstacle to Italian Unification from 1831-59?
In answering the question I think that it is firstly important to understand why Austria was hostile to the whole idea of Italian unification in this period. After the crippling French Wars of the early 19th century all the powers agreed that such bloodshed must never be allow to happen again. Therefore at the 1815 Congress of Vienna it was decided that Austria would have control over the turbulent Italian states of Lombardi and Venetia
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How to Be Your Own Lie Detector
According to the 2000 census web site we are lied to about 200 times each day. Today I am going to inform you on how to become your own lie detector. This information is useful for employers, people in the criminal justice field and for anyone to use in everyday situations where telling the truth from a lie can help prevent you from eing a victim of fraud, scams, and other deceptions. I am going
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Campbell’s Strengths, Weaknesses and Technological Impact
Strengths: • Fast introduction of new products • Powerful performance in non-soup product lines • Increased revenue from strong performance in international sectors • A leader in many brand categories Weaknesses • Declining performance in the core domestic soup category • Increasing expenditures on marketing / promotions • Heavy dependence on United States market Technological Impact Technological advances in the canning industry accelerated after the Civil War. The invention of the pressure cooker in 1874
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History, Science and Technology, Justice, and Environmental Issues of Sweden
History, Science and Technology, Justice, and Environmental Issues of Sweden During the seventh and eighth centuries, the Swedes were merchant seamen well known for their trade. In the ninth century, Nordic Vikings raided and ravaged the European Continent as far as the Black and Caspian Seas. During the 11th and 12th centuries, Sweden slowly became a united Christian kingdom that later included Finland. Queen Margaret of Denmark united all the Nordic lands in the "Kalmar
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