elaboration paper is based on this week’s readings on architecture and modernism. My focus is on my hometown of Oak Park and the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Village of Oak Park is internationally known for its historic architecture‚ with styles including Queen Anne‚ Prairie School and Colonial Revival. Oak Park is known particularly as the home of Frank Lloyd Wright. Oak Park is located 8 miles west of downtown Chicago and holds the largest collection of Prairie School architecture in America
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then acted upon it. Bradley did some research and with the help of a local Parishioner‚ he started a non-profit organization. He called it the “Day Dreams Foundation” with its soul purpose being to raise money for kids who couldn’t afford extra curricular activities. It took off and the need has grown so big that he currently relies on a full team. The Day Dreams Foundation‚ which Bradley runs‚ is still relatively young and in its infant stages. The foundation was created in Sept. of 2014‚ and it’s
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In his 2006 Australia Day speech‚ Prime Minister John Howard said‚ “all Australian’s have the right to express culture‚ beliefs and participate in National interests” 1. This essay raises the question about whether assimilation will create a tolerant Australia. Or is it a case of how long does a free society have to tolerate the intolerable? Assimilation by definition‚ is “the acceptance of a minority population into a majority population on the condition that the minority takes on the values
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A popcorn flick like Independence Day (1996) is never examined deeply‚ it’s a silly sci-fi blockbuster‚ what else could the film have going on? But there is actually many different ways to examine the film‚ including a feminist reading. Examining a film like this from a feminist perspective is fascinating stuff‚ but before we dive headlong in‚ what is feminist film theory all about anyway? Feminist film theory is a way to examine how a film portrays women‚ are they tough/independent or are they a
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us to travel alongside the narrator while only spending half a day. Mahfouz strategically sets up and arranges the stages of growth in his story. He reveals his message in many ways by expressing his life as a child and how it affects him‚ his life experiences and how they relate to real life situations‚ and how the events of just one school day can summarize the essential meaning of life‚ and takes all the lessons he learned in one day and compares them to everyday living. The narrator begins with
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“Jesus : The Final Days”‚ by the noted scholars Dr. Craig Evans and Dr. N. T. Wright‚ comprises of three chapters that are actually condensed versions of essays from their lectures for the “Symposium on Church and Academy”‚ at Crichton College‚ Memphis‚ Tennessee. The objective of these three essays is to attempt to crush flimsy claims and doubts surrounding Jesus’ death‚ burial and resurrection by evaluating the aforesaid topics in the light of historical evidence and the political and social circumstances
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distant cousin‚ whom he had seen occasionally during his childhood but who was now a tall‚ willowy‚ intelligent young woman. They fell in love and‚ after a year�s delay granted to his resistant mother‚ were married in New York City on St. Patrick�s Day‚ 1905. Her father being dead‚ President Theodore Roosevelt gave his niece away. Despite the later difficulties in their
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account of one’s personal experience. It is what the author has encountered throughout his or her life‚ and is based on memory. They are real life events‚ and sometimes they do not have a happy ending. Despite the fact that The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank‚ does not have a happy ending‚ this memoir is astonishing. I usually enjoy happy endings‚ but this diary touched me more than any other story I have read. This memoir is truly one of the best novels by far. Firstly‚ I can make an effortless
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According to Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ alienation means “a withdrawing or separation of a person or a person’s affections from an object or position of former attachment (“Alienation”). It results in loneliness‚ emptiness‚ and despair. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger‚ Seymour Glass is a man who had just come back from fighting in a war. He cannot relate to adults‚ especially his wife‚ Muriel‚ and the people at the resort he is staying at who are all narcissistic and live lavishly
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is a young teenager’s personal diary written from 1942-1944. Anne was a fun-loving girl living with her family in Amsterdam‚ Holland. Anne’s father gave her a diary for her thirteenth birthday and it was her favorite present. She decided she would write daily entries about her life in her new diary Anne hoped her diary would be like having a real friend and not be so lonely‚ therefore she named the diary “Kitty.”
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