The Farnsworth House was designed and constructed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The project was commissioned in 1945 by Dr. Edith Farnsworth‚ a wealthy nephrologist who intent to build a special piece of modern architecture. She bought a 60-acre estate site which was located 89 km southwest of Chicago downtown for the building to be constructed. The intention of the design was to create a weekend retreat for the client to engage in her hobbies. Mies eventually created a 1500 square feet elevated steel
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UNIT 3 SOURCE ENQUIRY The USA 1945-70 : A Divided Union? Key Topic 1: The impact of the cold war The ideological clash behind the cold war: The soviet union was a communist state in which the government owned and controlled the economy- it had a non democratic government. The USA was a capitalist country where it had a democratic government. The economy was not state owned. The opposition between these two super powers became known as the cold war After the second world war the usa
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“Math is Useless” By Alan Bass in Math Study Skills I labeled this section “Math is Useless” to get your attention. Now that I have it‚ completely banish the idea that “math is useless from you mind forever”. If our nation (or planet) could pick one subject for everyone to be really good at‚ it would be without any doubt‚ mathematics. Math is the foundation for every science. Math is the ultimate in critical and analytical thinking. Math fires rockets into space‚ shows insurance companies what is
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Chicago are explained very well throughout the readings from the Hull House articles. They give real world insight to what the time was like back then. The Hull House was founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 and was the most famous Settlement House in the United States. The first section that I chose to read was the “Beginnings of Settlement Life In Chicago” and the area of The Experiment in Chicago. Making the Hull House available to those who were not fortunate was a great idea to create
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Schroder house Subsequent to the First World War in 1924‚ De Stijl group (known for simplicity of forms) designed a free flowing private residence for Mrs Truus Schroder Schrader. The Schroder house consists of horizontal and vertical planes are coloured in indistinct red‚ blue‚ yellow‚ white‚ and black; an environment where Mondrian’s fine art work comes to life. The co-designer of the Schroder house - Gerrit Rietveld‚ born in 1888 (the maker of the red blue chair)‚ became a member of De Stijl
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Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath was a documentary made by Valarie Kaur‚ that documented hate violence against the Sikh community after September 11. She drove across the country to interview scholars‚ lawyers and legislators about race‚ religion and security in post September 11 America. Despite the formal and calm nature of religion most major religions have a violent past. September 11 was a day that marked the reappearance of prejudice against Sikhs‚ Muslims and racist against
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Divided City ‘Divided City’ by Theresa Breslin is set in present day Glasgow. The story is about two boys called Graham and Joe and one is Protestant and one Catholic. They become best friends and play for the Glasgow City Football Team. Graham supports Rangers and Joe supports Celtic. The story tells us that religious hatred still exists in Glasgow. There is also a sub plot about an Asylum Seeker who gets stabbed by a gang and Graham finds him on the ground and stays with him until an ambulance
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Monroe’s Motivated Sequence Alan Monroe developed a simple sequence using the psychology of persuasion to create speeches that inspire and make employee comply with the company vision. It consists of 5 distinct steps to follow: Attention: getting employee’s full attention using a shocking or dramatic statistic‚ arousing curiosity‚ and showing the importance of communication. Leaders set examples‚ managers definitely have to communicate at executive levels to keep business moving. They let the employee
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House of Burgesses America is a nation that gives its people freedoms and power through its government‚ but it did not come to be over night‚ it has been in the making for hundreds of years. There have been many factors that have made America what we know today. Initially the first Americans did not have an established government‚ they did not even have an assembly to represent the people. The first official Legislative assembly in the English colonies was the House of Burgesses (*history
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The Province of Ulster: A Land Divided by Faith To understand the time of strife and conflict in Northern Ireland commonly referred to as "the Troubles"‚ one might look at the intense sectarianism that split the province of Ulster into two very defined groups that did not blend well together: the Catholic population and the Protestant population. Many factors played a role in the segregation of these communities‚ such as political standpoint which is closely correlated with religious beliefs.
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