The Tugendhat House was a private villa designed by Mies van der rohe‚ which located in the Brno‚ Czech Republic. In this building‚ Mies used steel frame structure and glass material to create a unique flowing space‚ which connected the interior space and exterior space and also guaranteed the privacy of the residence at the same time The Tugendhat house sits on a hillside with two story floor plan and a semi-underground room which looks as if it were insert in the hillside. The first floor is a
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CheckPoint: A New House – Economy Consumers use marginal costs and benefits to determine if they should make or reject a certain decision. Marginal costs refer to the change in cost over the change in quantity while marginal benefits refer to the change in benefits over the change in quantity (“Marginal Costs & Benefits”‚ n.d.). The strength of the economy as a whole could affect the marginal benefits and the marginal costs associated with a decision to purchase a home. During times of economic
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My plan for conducting interviews with the Black house kids in Chicago started with my key co-collaborator‚ Dxxxx Pxxxxx‚ who is a well-known and highly respected presence in the house community. I knew that he would provide the entry point for where to conduct my spatial observations of the spaces that the house kids used for their social gatherings. This led to combining my snowball sample technique that Dxxxxx helped oversee as well as the house kids that stood out at the party selected for my
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In 2003‚ Rob Zombie wrote and directed House of 1000 Corpses‚ a film about four young adults who end up off the beaten path and in the house of an evil‚ murderous family. The film takes place in a small‚ run down rural town during the 1970s. In the director’s commentary‚ Zombie describes his motion picture as a “70s exploitation horror film.”(House of 1000 Corpses.) He also mentions that he was inspired by the alleged Manson family home videos. He makes subtle parallels between the Firefly family
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I’m going to write about the form‚ structure and style of The House of Dies Drear by Virginia Hamilton. First‚ Virginia Hamilton chose to use mysterious‚ historical fiction in The House of Dies Drear. Two of the ingredients she used are: Cliffhangers and metaphor. In chapter 15‚ Virginia Hamilton used cliffhanger to end the chapter‚ when they were about to have a quarrel with the Darrows. They warned them not to come close to the house of Dies Drear nor Pluto’s cave‚ since the Darrows wanted the
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Analysis #3: “House of Sand and Fog” In the movie “House of Sand and Fog‚” we are given a glimpse into the immigrant experience‚ and we are asked to question what we would be willing to sacrifice in pursuit of our dreams. The ownership of a house is the conflict at the heart of the story‚ but the house means different things to the people involved. For Behrani‚ the Iranian immigrant who purchased the house‚ the house represents his piece of the “American Dream‚” and ownership of the house would restore
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My grandparent’s house always seemed to be full of laughter. There was always someone stopping by their house for a visit whether it was family or friends. My grandmother’s doors were like big arms always open to everyone no matter what. I remember when I was 10 years old; there was a snowstorm out at my Grandma and Grandpa Roberts’s house. The snow was higher than my head in some places‚ and it was so high that my brother and I could go sledding off the snow banks. The snow was almost two feet
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Abby La Belle My Dream House – As I approach the lot in which my dream house awaits‚ sitting on an ocean shore. A simple two story home‚ painted a light blue with white shudders. A balcony‚ that wraps around the entire second floor of the house. The bedroom’s on the second floor with white French doors that lead to the balcony. I walk up the small‚ few wooden stairs that lead to the white wooden door. I turn the silver colored door-knob counter clockwise pushing the door open. Walking into the
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Rachel Viets Intro to Comparative Literature 2/28/14 Midterm Essay The House of Bernarda Alba is a drama depicting the lives of women in villages of Spain during the 20th century. The play begins by the mother‚ Bernarda‚ issuing a seven-year mourning period upon her family of five daughters after the death of her beloved spouse. The isolation inside this house causes tensions to rise‚ and a thematic struggle between freedom and captivity becomes apparent as emotions start to snowball out
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lighting provide vital lessons for prevailing architectural practice in the region. Vernacular houses were analysed in many ways to identify performance of traditional houses constructed to withstand extreme weather conditions. The materials used for the construction also help to improve the energy performances of the dwellings/buildings‚(Zhai and Previtali 2010). Vernacular housing
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