The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) 1-6 October‚ 2008 Goa‚ India Earthquake Risk Mitigation Strategies in India C. Ghosh National Institute of Disaster Management‚ New Delhi‚ India Keywords: Disaster Management‚ earthquake‚ mitigation‚ building codes‚ ABSTRACT: About 59% of India’s land area is under the threat of moderate to severe earthquake shaking intensity VII and higher. In the last 20 years‚ 8 major
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director’s work. Small changes are made to create a significant meaning in the audience’s mind. The director has created a piece of art that removes the audience from the conventional and emotional bond to the subject‚ creating a new perspective. Postmodern films apply the usage of four concepts: simulation‚ reusing styles‚ typically drawing irony to the new style; pre-fabrication‚ drawing a closer attention to already existing scenes and using them in the films narrative or dialogue; intertextuality
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A postmodern cultural perspective in Lolita and A Streetcar Named Desire Postmodernism has emerged as a reaction to modernism thoughts and "well-established modernist systems". (Wikipedia‚ 2005) Specific to Nabokov’s Lolita and Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire is the idea that both of the novels are written under the view of postmodernism as a cultural movement and that they are broadly defined as the condition of Western society especially after World War II (period in which the novel were written;
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Departamentul de istoria & teoria arhitecturii şi conservarea patrimoniului LIMBAJ ARHITECTURAL 1 AN I / semestrul 2 – 2009-2010 TEMA 1 DE SEMINAR ANALIZA DE OBIECT ARHITECTURAL DUPĂ CRITERIUL ATRIBUTELOR VITRUVIENE Analizaţi (conform fişei de analiză de mai jos) 3 exemple de locuinţe individuale (legate de tema de atelier în desfăşurare)‚ din punctul de vedere al răspunsului la comandamentele vitruviene şi al expresiei arhitecturale pe care o generează‚ urmărind punctele propuse (unde este
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Outline and Evaluate postmodern views on the diversity of family (33marks) The idea of family diversity suggests that there is no dominate type of family‚ therefore none can be considered as the norm. However there are studies to suggest that in historical periods of Britain like when it was industrializing there is dominating types‚ in this period it was considered to be the nuclear family. Rapoport and Rapoport agreed that there are five types of diversity in a contemporary family‚ these are:
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Basic differences between modernism and postmodernism Modernism:- The study of knowledge * World War I * Stylistic experimentation * Internal narratives; experiments in rendering consciousness * Fragmentation * As reaction to the 19th century novel and art (representational/figurative) * Critique of industrialization * Sociopolitical critique of the status quo * Psychoanalysis and an increasing interest in the internal world of
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Modernism is a an era characterized new ideas and lives provided by fast social change‚ advances in sciences and industrialization. The movement would influence artist to portray a subject that exists in the world‚ to their own unique perspective. Modernism is a new form of expression stating around the late 19th to the mid 20th century. One specific artwork that has all the characteristic of modern art is the Wrestlers in a Circus by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. . This oil on canvas painting was created
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(Shelly Esaak‚ 2012). While both say two seemingly different things‚ they are part of the ever evolving definition and essence of Art. There are several types of art; with in this paper I will cover eight types. They include painting‚ sculpture‚ architecture‚ photography‚ printmaking‚ conceptual art‚ installation art‚ and performance art. While these are a small cross section of art‚ they are important pieces. The first example is painting. While there are several noticed painters and examples
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PREFACE The word ‘ethics’ is derived from the Greek word ‘ethos’ meaning an individual’s character and a community’s culture. Business ethics is a fuzzy area. No universal sets of ethical principles exist and what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’ depends on the circumstances. To instil ethical values into corporate and the employees that inhibit‚ businesses must have vision about what they exist for‚ shared by everyone connected to the business. The new focus on ethics is due to the boost‚ the ‘brand
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Art After Philosophy (1969) Joseph Kosuth The fact that it has recently become fashionable for physicists themselves to be sympathetic toward religion . . . marks the physicists’ own lack of confidence in the validity of their hypotheses‚ which is a reaction on their part from the antireligious dogmatism of nineteenth-century scientists‚ and a natural outcome of the crisis through which physics has just passed. –A. J. Ayer. . . . once one has understood the Tractatus there will be no temptation
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