The Hardships and Upcoming of Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt once said “Jazz attracted me because in it I found a formal perfection and instrumental precision that I admire in classical music‚ but which popular music doesn’t have.” Reinhardt had worked very‚ very hard to get to the peak of his career. His life was like a story in the genre of “Rags to Riches” because he wasn’t born with the best of beginnings‚ but he still accomplished the impossible and became the first important European
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Most of us have heard of Pierre Peladeau‚ a man who has built a multi-billion dollar company from a $1‚500 loan. There is no doubt that he has achieved a lot during his life time and there is no doubt that a lot of it was good. For instance‚ he was known for donating millions to charities and even visiting dying strangers in Montreal hospitals to bolster their spirits. However‚ I believe that the bad things he did overshadow the good. He was involved in several controversies‚ the most famous being
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Nathaniel Khan’s documentary My Architect - a film about discovering who his father‚ Louis Khan‚ was as an individual - shined a lit into his father’s mysterious personal world. Throughout his journey we learn about his father’s upbringing and crucial moments of his adult life as well as the characteristics that defined him. From watching Nathaniel’s documentary‚ I was able to contrast‚ Louis Khan from I. M. Pei as an architect.; Louis’s designs for his buildings were dissimilar‚ he did not have
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Jean Valjean spent nineteen years in prison‚ and for that whole time he fostered a hate for all the world. Hugo tells us that this prolonged hatred made him capable of two types of evil. Firstly‚ he could commit instinctual unpremeditated actions of evil. Secondly‚ he was also capable of deliberate‚ grave‚ premeditated evil (366). While Jean Valjean’s coping mechanism was not very healthy‚ it did offer Valjean stability‚ but all ballasts were thrown overboard when Valjean encountered the Bishop
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Odilon Redon As an artist‚ Odilon Redon expressed his volition to “place the visible at the service of the invisible.” What‚ in these terms‚ constitutes the “visible” aspect of Redon’s works‚ and what constitutes the “invisible”? Similarly‚ what reappearing motifs do we see in Redon’s works‚ and how might these be contextualized or interpreted? As a child‚ Odilon Redon had learned from his father‚ to watch the rolling clouds and see the infinite manifestations of form. This carried on far
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Alvaro Siza designed great contextual architecture that is responsive to topography‚ light and the basic resources of the region with a strong deference towards local material and would create simplistic forms which were grounded in i the form of specific topographies. Siza commonly stuck to the roots of tradition of the Portuguese style and wished to explore an archaic and timeless sense of space‚ which had nothing to do with modernism at all‚ but which relied on ii geometrical schemata
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American Home Products (AHP) opera en la actualidad‚ prácticamente sin deuda‚ su riesgo financiero es muy pequeño. Esto desplaza la carga pesadamente hacia el riesgo empresarial. Un portero de cinco fuerzas de análisis es preciso determinar los niveles exactos de riesgo del negocio de American Home Products. En primer lugar‚ la amenaza de sustitutos es el riesgo de que AHP no puede permitirse el lujo de ignorar. Debido a que gastan muy poco en investigación y desarrollo‚ y tienen que depender de
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My Dad is someone who I would say has had the most ups and downs in his life. He has always made in important to try and be the best person he possibly can. However‚ human nature only allows you to be ‘so good’ and he does‚ like anybody else would‚ have some traits that one would say are less than positive. Despite my dad being a good and bad person with both positive and negative traits‚ if I had to pick someone that I admired most‚ I would pick my dad. My dad has always tried his best at trying
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Painting and architecture are so intimately combined that it is sometimes difficult to perceive where one begins and the other ends. There are literally no frames to confine or define the painting form the architecture Architectural painting (also Architecture painting) is a form of genre painting where the predominant focus lies on architecture‚ both outdoors views and interiors. While architecture was present in many of the earliest paintings and illuminations‚ it was mainly used as background
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The structure of the literature review is arranged in order to state the value of the old Urban fabric and how did it get formed throughout the history in the first paragraph. Whilst‚ the second paragraph will analyze the introduction of modernity elements in urbanization and urbanism during the french colonial period‚ The value of monuments‚ axis and streets network‚ squares‚ recreational areas and building typologies will be discuss through the second paragraph. The third paragraph will correlate
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