Short version Alice part Adaptivity of architecture T: City is something that changes and grows. Cities become inevitably dysfunctional and need maintenance‚ otherwise they will decade or die off. We assume that cities are only about thriving and growth‚ but actually it is more about decade‚ declining and abandon of the cities and the history and memories of them. We like to believe that buildings are permanent‚ totally functional and save‚ however this might be one of the biggest lies that have been told in architecture schools
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English Assessment Task - Quiet on the Western Front & Sunday Bloody Sunday Composers aspire to communicate the representation of their text influencing the understanding and meaning that the audience obtains. Remarque through his text ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and U2 through their song lyrics ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ have displayed various aspects and viewpoints of war. Both composers have expressed different perspectives allowing the responder to gain separate understandings of similar concepts
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Leaving Las Vegas and Drunks are two films created in the 1990’s that attempt to accurately depict the hardships of addiction involving Alcohol Use Disorder. Leaving Las Vegas‚ a 1995 film‚ depicts an alcoholic and nightwalker’s last resort to find something special after a lifelong struggle to stay afloat. Director Mike Figgis recruits actors Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue for the main roles Ben and Sera. Ben turns to alcohol after his wife and child abandon him‚ and after breaking down and quitting
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"Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden is a poem about a how the author is recalling how his father would wake up early on Sundays‚ a day which is usually a reserved as a day of rest by many‚ to fix a fire for his family. The mood of this poem is a bit sad. It portrays a father‚ who deeply cares for his family but doesn’t seem to show it by emotions‚ words‚ or touching. It also describes a home that isn’t very warm in feelings as well as the title" Those Winter Sundays" The author describes the
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1. Shangri-La Background: Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is a deluxe Asian hotel chain‚ founded in 1971 in Singapore by the Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok. The company quickly differentiated itself from the competition and provided distinctive Asian standards of hospitality and service. As of 2006‚ Shangri-La was the largest Asian-based deluxe hotel group in Southeast Asia. The company managed a total of 50 hotels under two brands: the five-star Shangri-La and the four-star Traders- a sister
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also the only airport to rank among the top five U.S. airports for both passenger and cargo traffic. LAX is the busiest airport in the Greater Los Angeles Area‚ but other airports including Bob Hope Airport‚ John Wayne Airport‚ Long Beach Airport‚ LA/Ontario International Airport‚ and Palm Springs International Airport also serve the region. LAX is also the busiest airport in California and the West Coast of the United States in terms of flight operations‚ passenger traffic and air cargo activity
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Treasure Island: An Analysis Treasure Island‚ by Robert Louis Stevenson‚ is a tale of adventure filled with exciting characters and set in exotic locales. This paper will present background information on both the novel and its author and analyze and discuss the major characters‚ themes and motifs. Stevenson was born the only child of a prosperous middle-class family in Edinburgh‚ Scotland‚ in November 1850. His father‚ Thomas‚ was a civil engineer who specialized in the design and construction
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In the poem Those Winter Sundays‚ I believe it would not make a difference if the character was a male or female‚ since I believe the character of the story is a young child. Additionally‚ a young female or male child could narrate the details of the poem‚ and its meaning would remain unchanged by the gender‚ since the details only perceive a young child trying to grasp his or hers dad’s role in their life. I interpreted the structure of the poem‚ as a young child realizing his father’s effort to
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University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Pharmacy EFFECT OF pH ON ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY Abogado‚ Paula Isabel‚ Agustin‚ Nikka Rebecca‚ Andres‚ Mary Anne B.‚ *Austria‚ Beatrice April‚ Baybay‚ Jan Miko Aaron 2BMT I. ABSTRACT pH greatly affects the activity of enzymes. There is a point or pH level where maximum activity of enzyme can be achieved‚ this is called optimum pH. Invertase was extracted from yeast and used as the detanured enzymes. Two sets of six test tubes were each added with different
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Simultaneous Determination of Several Thermodynamic Quantities: K‚ ∆G°‚ ∆H°‚ and ∆S° Submitted by: Feldan P. Villarta Submitted to: Mrs. Gloria Jesusa D. Baltazar Chemistry 73 (Laboratory) August 11‚ 2014 Simultaneous Determination of Several Thermodynamic Quantities: K‚ ∆G°‚ ∆H°‚ and ∆S° Feldan P. Villarta I. INTRODUCTION The solubility product constant‚ Ksp‚ is the equilibrium constant for a solid substance dissolving in an aqueous solution. It represents
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