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    |  British Empire had gained its full vigour and was named the most powerful political and military force in India‚ after Tipu Sultan of Mysore was defeated in 1799. Roughly from here had commenced the prolonged history of British architecture that was rule in India for the next 200 years. With this elevated status the Britons also gauged the need and responsibility to govern territories under their control and to be viewed as a powerful‚ civilized force by the Indians. The Military Boards established

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    Thomas Jefferson loved architecture. He studied and read about architecture in books and designed many buildings from what he learned. The buildings he designed and built still exist today. One of which was his own home‚ called Monticello. Monticello is a great example of neoclassicism in that the house features classic Roman styles and features. Most of what Jefferson learned and applied to his design was from Andrea Palladio. Palladio modeled his work after ancient Roman buildings and Jefferson

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    Built in the classical period‚ the Athenian Parthenon is an idealistic canon of proportions for doric Greek temples. To the viewer‚ the stylobate appeared perfectly straight‚ and columns evenly spaced. In reality‚ this seeming perfection is the result of optical illusion. To classical Athenians‚ creating a temple that appeared to have prefect symmetry

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    Pyramids vs Parthenon

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    proportioned to the human body as Vitruvius had viewed it (122) The Parthenon used a post and lintel design and was proportional on all sides. This complies with a classical style. The Parthenon uses the Doric order which is one of three architectural designs developed by the Greeks (123). Doric columns were simple and an image known as a frieze was pictured above. It is an image displaying victory in the Peloponnesian war. As with the structural characteristics‚ the purpose of each building was

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    Throughout many centuries‚ architects have argued about whether a building should be created in a rational or in a sensory way. The architects who believed in rational beauty did buildings with an order. They used shapes to create their buildings. This building reflected the structures of Ancient Greece and Rome. On the other hand‚ architects who believed in sensory beauty designed visually attractive structures. These buildings reflected back to the Middle Ages. I believe that the Colorado State

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    Firefighter Order 8

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    Firefighting Orders and The Eighteen Watchout Situations. These two lists of commands and warnings were developed by a task force in nineteen fifty seven to prevent any casualties during fighting of wildland fires. They are modeled in part by general orders followed by the United States Armed Forces and the research of sixteen tragedy fires. If always followed correctly and memorized‚ danger can be avoided to a certain extent. Today I’m going to talk about Standard Firefighting Order number eight

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    Komelia Okim

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    Komelia Okim is a Korean-American contemporary artist with over a half century of experience. Her work is so highly regarded by industry experts; she was recently featured in Metalsmith Magazine. Okim uses her vast experience to create both beautiful sculptures as well as jewelry pieces. Her work is abstract and contains sharp geometric shapes as well as soft elegant lines. In 2013‚ Okim created a wall relief or wall sculpture titled Through the Space II. It is fixed to a white wall and rendered

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    In both scenes‚ the artists use rocks to shift the perspective from the water to the land. In the Column of Trajan stones are rough‚ grouped together‚ and poorly defined in order to break the scene‚ while in Marcus Aurelius’ depiction‚ the rocks are highly defined and deeply carved and the stones appear almost as individual rocks. The stones provide a natural transition to the buildings above‚ which are also in exactly the

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    Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece played an important role on how our modern society and architecture is today. They influenced ideas that were spread and shared all over the world like their architecture‚ entertainment‚ and government. The architecture in Rome included things such as Viae‚ aqueducts‚ and arches. Viae were roads that the romans created and that we have today‚ but in ancient Rome is was primarily used as military supply lines. Another architectural innovation that Rome created were

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    To understand how art has developed throughout the Roman Empire‚ one must first start with history. Before the Romans were in power‚ the Etruscans were the most advanced society within the Italian peninsula. Much of the Etruscan art is influenced by that of the Greeks but they did not copy the Greeks. The Etruscans used mud and wood to build their temples instead of stone like the Greeks. The temples also only had columns on the front of buildings instead of the periphery. Most of the Etruscan works

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