Construction Ver. 2.2 Level: Gold candidate Courtyard by Marriott‚ Chevy Chase is a 226room hotel located in the Friendship Heights neighborhood of Chevy Chase‚ MD. The hotel primarily serves the business travelers visiting various corporate headquarters and institutions in the area‚ including National Institutes of Health and GEICO Insurance. The project consisted of an extensive renovation and re-branding from a Holiday Inn to a Courtyard by Marriott while incorporating sustainable features to demonstrate
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economy are examined through his participant-observation of El Barrio in East Harlem NYC. For several years‚ beginning in 1985 when he rented an apartment in Spanish Harlem‚ Philippe engaged in an ethnographic study of the street life in that haven. He befriended a Puerto Rican crack entrepreneur by the name of Ray and his subordinates Primo and Caesar. Learning street smarts was pivotal in gaining their trust. As a white man in El Barrio you were either an "undercover
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The SUMMARY of “El Filibusterismo” During his travels in Europe‚ Ibarra changed his name to Simoun. He becomes a renowned jeweller thus his wealth grew further. He started to make new connections with the illustrious societal personalities in Spain. With his influence‚ he helped a military colonel to rise the ladder and be promoted as captain general of the colonial territory‚ the Philippines. For Simoun‚ it was all planned. Upon his return in the Philippines‚ he was dubbed as his black eminence
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EXCERPTS FROM EL FILIBUSTERISMO Into the midst of the silence the priest’s voice broke sad and deliberate‚ but consoling: "God will forgive you‚ Señor--Simoun‚ " he said. "He knows that we are fallible‚ He has seen that you have suffered‚ and in ordaining that the chastisement for your faults should come as death from the very ones you have instigated to crime‚ we can see His infinite mercy. He has frustrated your plans one by one‚ the best conceived‚ first by the death of Maria Clara‚ then
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Del Kathryn Barton was born in 1972 in Sydney‚ NSW. She started drawing as a little child‚ much to her father’s discouragement. Barton suffered from sensory disorders when young‚ and found that drawing freed her mind of any issues or stress. She would have extreme episodes of anxiety that only withheld when she was drawing. Del Kathryn Barton felt connected to art‚ feeling as though she was drawing from a place of freedom. But‚ it was only in her first pregnancy that Barton took up painting. She
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“Analyze an example of a self portrait painting by one artist through the Subjective and Structural Frame.” Name: Del Kathryn Barton Title: “You Are What is Most Beautiful About Me” Date: unknown‚ 2008 Media: synthetic polymer paint‚ watercolour‚ gouache and pen on polyester canvas Size: 280 x 180cm STRUCTURAL FRAME In 2008 Del Kathryn Barton created a self portrait of her and her children for the Archibald Prize (and received first place). In the painting it depicts her and her children
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Thinking about a better future‚ one day she‚ three of her siblings‚ and her mother decided to come to the United States. They paid about five hundred dollars per person for someone as they call it in Mexico “El Coyote” to help them cross the border.“El Coyote” is a person who smuggles immigrants to the United States with for a cost. They stayed a couple of days in Mexicali with one of their relatives still indecisive about coming to the United States. When they all made a firm
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States. El Nino is one of the largest scientific phenomenons that scientists have ever explored. The main concepts of El Nino are very simple and there are many variations‚ causes‚ affects‚ and relationships to study. The main idea behind El Nino is that the wind changes direction across the Pacific Ocean. In a non El Nino year (normal)‚ the trade winds blow from east to west across the ocean‚ from North and South America towards the tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean. In an El Nino year
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Synopsis of El Filibusterismo Crisostomo Ibarra of the Noli Me Tangere‚ who‚ with Elias’ help‚ escaped from the pursuing soldiers at Laguna de Bay‚ dug up his buried treasure‚ and fled to Cuba where he became rich and befriended many Spanish officials. Thirteen years after leaving the Philippines‚ Crisostomo Ibarra returned as Simoun‚ a rich jeweler with a beard and blue-tinted glasses‚ and a close friend of the Captain-General. Abandoning his personality‚ he became a revolutionist‚ seeking revenge
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an exceptional achievement of Mayan architectural design and art. It has the highest monument in the preshispanic Mexico. The art of Tonina is expressed with distinctive beauty‚ aesthetic and realism in its murals‚ sculptures and stuccos. Principio del formulario Criterion (iii). The archaeological site of Tonina supplies unique and invaluable information about the end of the Mayan culture in the Classic period‚ it is considered the last great Mayan city‚ has distinctive historical‚ architectural
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