...A) DEFINITION A case method is a documented study of a situation that transpires in real life or it can be about a fictional situation, which is used as teaching or learning tool in business schools and firms. These studies allow students evaluate cases and provide their own interpretations on potential solutions for the provided business scenario. Furthermore, the case method can also be described as something that gives you a detailed explanation of a company, industry, person, or project over a given period of time. Within the explanation, information about the company’s objectives, strategies, challenges, results, recommendations and more can be found. This also poses as a great way to promote interaction between students and instructors to propose insights about the issues in hand and share it with the class. Thus, the case method allows students to get an exposure to the actual functioning of business and other administrations in the real world, make managerial decisions bases on theories and views and enhance students ability to problem solve and make decisions. B) USE Case studies can be utilized in various instances such as class discussions, a company, in management education, etc. Apart from this, the uses of case studies have a variety of benefits. They develop real life business leadership skills, assist in making lectures more engaging and teachable, and help prepare for business settings that require decision-making and develops a better understanding...
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...clothing is the when the raw material is used and the clothing is first produced as a prototype for its later stages. This real clothing then is provided with a symbolic mise en scène and becomes the represented garment. The image of the cloth performs a mimetic function as well as making the garment into a pleasing sight, or a pleasant arrangement. The used garment is the clothing after its purchase which usually doesn't satisfy the reasons that the represented garment was bought for. Barthes argues that clothes change their meaning and went under transformation at each of these stages. In the case of fashion, the system that Barthes proposes would reveal that these stages of production, distribution and consumption take place all at different locations hence are separated and can take place one after another, moving from one place to other and transform their meanings. However, in the case of architecture, these stages take place all at the same site. There is but one site. After the building is constructed, the "represented building" offers its presence and distributes its imagery to the city dwellers constantly through its outer appearance, envelope and façade. Its façade conveys a statement, an aesthetics and an imagery to the people looking at it. It becomes the signifier of the building for the citizen independent of its inner aspects. While the façade constitutes the represented building, the...
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...Associates. This commission was in Fort Wayne, Indiana for two of his High School friends (The Hanselmanns). The program was set to accommodate a family of 6: 2 adults and 4 children and without further known restrictions which let to many Architectural Intentions. The Hanselmann House is primarily designed as a white double cube with three layered facades. These three layered facades gave the transition between exterior spaces as well as a layering of the façade creating a complexity of form among these transitions. The house is divided into three floors and is mostly white with the exception of the use of yellow, blue, red, and a mural in the ground floor. The most important design principle for The Hanselmann House is the use of 4 of Le Corbusier’s Five Points. The Hanselmann House shows 4 Points through the use of pillars along the Southside of the home and with the elevation of...
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...In the movie Les Miserables is a musical portrayal of the French Revolution. It is a musical tragedy, which served as a major powerhouse competitor in the early eighties and nineties. Les Miserables is a story full of adventure, all theatricals which makes me thrilled while watching it. It was about forgiveness, repentance, and selfless love – all of which were shown in the character of Jean Valjean. It is a very beautiful story packed with excitement. You will always try to think what would happen to the characters as they ventured into new frontiers. It talks about man’s struggle to escape the past and reaffirm his humanity in a society wherein poverty and ignorance prevails. Aside from being a superb adventure, it can also be considered as a powerful social document. It shows how a man can be redeemed by accepting suffering, and by following the dictates of his conscience even if it entails suffering from many people. It also portrayed the inhuman treatment of the convicts and ex-convicts. It also talks about the man’s struggle for existence in the case of the principal character, Jean Valjean as he tried to forget the past and go on with his life. He is such a remarkable character distinct to other people we met in our daily undertakings. He’s exceptional and one of a kind. It also dwells with the supernatural power of love, the love to give up one’s freedom for the sake of justice. It is also quite romantic especially on the part of the love affair of Marius and Cosette...
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...Andrew Neimetz 12/19/2013 Mrs. Nichols English 12 Les Miserbles Composition Jean Val Jean was one of the most important characters in the book "Les Miserables". Most people see Jean Val Jean to be the protagonist of the story. This is mainly thought because the story is based around the event where Jean Val Jean, a convict that escaped and now wants to live a good life, takes a little girl, named Cosette, in and raises her as his daughter. He does this by giving the past gaurdians a lot of money. To many people, giving up a lot of your money to take in a girl that you have never met because the past gaurdians are horriable is an incredible act. It is even more incredible when you think that Jean Val Jean was never forced to give this money or take in this child. Just like many people believe he is a great person and the protaginist, others believe that he isn't as good of a person as people say. This is because even though he did rescue Cosette from a horrible life, he is still an escaped convict that hasn't paid this dues for commiting the crime. Eventhough his mindset has changed, he still commited the crime and should pay the price for it. Between these two views, many of these people see Jean Val Jean as a person who is like Christ as in being a redeemer. In the Bible, wheather you believe it is truth or just stories, Jesus is a perfect example of a redeemer because he gave up his perfect and sinless life to save people of their sins. This action is very simular...
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...of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism • P r i n c e t o n u n i v e r si t y P r e s s Princeton and Oxford english translation copyright © 2010 by Princeton university Press First published as La tyrannie de la pénitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental by Pascal Bruckner, copyright © 2006 by Grasset & Fasquelle Published by Princeton university Press, 41 William street, Princeton, new Jersey 08540 in the united kingdom: Princeton university Press, 6 oxford street, Woodstock, oxfordshire OX20 1TW press.princeton.edu all rights reserved library of congress cataloging-in-Publication data Bruckner, Pascal. [tyrannie de la pénitence. english] The tyranny of guilt: an essay on Western masochism / Pascal Bruckner; translated from the French by steven rendall. p. cm. includes index. isBn 978-0-691-14376-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. civilization, Western— 20th century. 2. civilization, Western—21st century. 3. international relations—Moral and ethical aspects. 4. Western countries—Foreign relations. 5. Western countries—intellectual life. 6. Guilt 7. self-hate (Psychology) 8. World politics. i. title. CB245.B7613 2010 909’.09821--dc22 2009032666 British library cataloging-in-Publication data is available cet ouvrage, publié dans le cadre d’un programme d’aide à la publication, bénéficie du soutien du Ministère des affaires étrangères et du service culturel de l’ambassade de France aux etats-unis. This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support...
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...Architecture Comprehensive Examination Reviewer HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 1. The ornamental blocks fixed vertically at regular intervals along the lower edge of a roof to cover end tiles. a. ancones c. acroteria b. Antifixae 2. A continuous base or structure in which a colonnade is placed. a. stereobate c. stylobate b. Torus 3. The market in Greek architecture. a. Megaron c. agora b. Pylon 4. The smallest among the famous pyramids at Gizeh. a. Pyramid of Cheops c. Pyramid of Chephren b. Pyramid of Mykerinos 5. The largest outer court, open to the sky, in Egyptian temple. a. Sanctuary c. Irypaetral b. Irypostyle 6. The inner secret chamber in the mastaba which contains the statue of the deceased family member. a. Pilaster c. serdab b. Sarcophagus 7. The grandest of all Egyptian temples. a. Palace of Sargon c. Great temple of Ammon, Karnak b. Great temple of Abu-Simbel 8. The principal interior decoration of early Christian churches. a. stained glass c. painting b. mosaic 9. In early Christian churches, it is the covered space between the atrium and the church which was assigned to penitents. a. baldachino c. narthex b. apse 10. A dome placed on the drum. a. simple c. compound b. superpositioned 11. The architect of a church of Santa Sophia Constantinople, the most important church in Constantinople. a. Ictinus and Callicrates b. Apollodorous of Damascus and Isidorous on Miletus c. Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorous of Miletus 12. The second largest medieval cathedral...
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...HISTORY AND THEORY STUDIES FIRST YEAR Terms 1 and 2 Course Lecturers: CHRISTOPHER PIERCE / BRETT STEELE (Term 1) Course Lecturer: PIER VITTORIO AURELI (Term 2) Course Tutor: MOLLIE CLAYPOOL Teaching Assistants: FABRIZIO BALLABIO SHUMI BOSE POL ESTEVE Course Structure The course runs for 3 hours per week on Tuesday mornings in Terms 1 and 2. There are four parallel seminar sessions. Each seminar session is divided into parts, discussion and submission development. Seminar 10.00-12.00 Mollie Claypool, Fabrizio Ballabio, Shumi Bose and Pol Esteve Lecture 12.00-13.00 Christopher Pierce, Brett Steele and Pier Vittorio Aureli Attendance Attendance is mandatory to both seminars and lectures. We expect students to attend all lectures and seminars. Attendance is tracked to both seminars and lectures and repeated absence has the potential to affect your final mark and the course tutor and undergraduate coordinator will be notified. Marking Marking framework adheres to a High Pass with Distinction, High Pass, Pass, Low Pass, Complete-toPass system. Poor attendance can affect this final mark. Course Materials Readings for each week are provided both online on the course website at aafirstyearhts.wordpress.com and on the course library bookshelf. Students are expected to read each assigned reading every week to be discussed in seminar. The password to access the course readings is “readings”. TERM 1: CANONICAL BUILDINGS, PROJECTS, TEXTS In this first term of...
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...Case Study of Haiti Earthquake 12th January 2010. 1. How many people were approximately killed? * Between 217,000 and 230,000 people had been identified as dead and estimated 300,000 were injured 2. Why was the impact on Port au Prince significant? * The design and structure of buildings was of very poor quality which contributed to the high number of deaths 3. What are the names of the plates and type of plate boundary? * The Caribbean plate and the North American plate slipped past each other at a conservative plate boundary 4. Where were the epicentre and focus? * The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth. * The epicentre was 25km west of Port-Au-Prince and 130km east of Les Cayes, Haiti 5. What has been the historical earthquake activity in the region? * There have been roughly 7 major earthquakes in Haiti since the 1960’s 6. What causes amplification and liquifaction? Why were these processes significant? * Amplification refers to the level of shaking and is influenced by the softness of rocks and the thickness of surface sediments. * Liquefaction is a naturally occurring event in which the strength of soil is reduced by earthquake shaking and it reduces the soils ability to support structures thus making them more likely to collapse 7. How many people live in Port au Prince? * Approximately 704,776 people live in Port-Au-Prince as recorded in 2003 8. How many were...
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...History and Theory3 AT2 Theory verses Practice Chin Cher Wee 209639 Introduction Complexity and contradiction was claimed be the most important writing in the making of architecture since Le Corbusier’s “vers une architecture” (Scrully, 1977). The book has manifested his points of view of the necessary complex and contradictory architecture, which essentially contains ambiguity and tension. Rather than exclude everything, inclusion of unity becomes the task of his architecture. He emphasizes the play of compromising of element which leads to difficult whole. The writing doesn’t reject nor accept any prevailing style, instead it abstracts the element of the building that demonstrates the complexity and contradiction in his thought and from them he combines and derives a new form of hybrid architecture. On the other hand, it had been a controversy topic which he claimed that he was never and won’t be a post- modernism architect. However, his works and theory demonstrate postmodernism architecture which they claimed that they never intended to do so. The tension begins to surface, such influential pieces towards the post modernism, is claimed that the intention was never to be one. The relation between practice and theory of his work is then interrogated and investigated in this writing. Analysis Ambiguity and tension are everywhere in an architecture of complexity and contradiction. Architecture is a form and substance-abstract and concrete and its meaning...
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...Machines-Outils), University of Applied Science, Le Locle, Switzerland, 2 Jurasoft SA, Porrentruy, Switzerland, 3 Haute Ecole ARC – Software Engineering, University of Applied Science, St-Imier, Switzerland, Switzerland, Abstract The definition of the cutting parameters (Vc, fz, ae, ap), and the definition of the machining strategies or the strategies to engage the tool in the material and to start the cutting process, are usually requested by the CAM systems as input information. These data are usually strongly influenced by the consolidated experience of the operators, by the specific previous similar machining cases and by several other factors depending on the machining practices. In a project, financed by the Swiss national organization for the industrial research, the authors have developed an expert system (ES) in order to get this information through software processes. The paper shows the structure of this expert system. The ES has been realized through the definition of ontology of components and elements of the machining. The ES includes a very large data base of cutting parameters, and is based on the establishment of rules for the competition between the machining strategies. The ES includes learning methods which are able to identify similar operations. The learning methods are based on the measure of the distance between the actual machining conditions and those already experimented. Therefore the system is able to learn from similar cases. The system has been designed especially...
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...Les Misérables: Journal Entries Fantine: * Theme: “You have left a place of suffering. But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over tears of repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred good men” (Page 27) * Heaven is gladder when sinners forsake of its sins, than with the good men just being the same all throughout. “He lived peaceable, reassured, and hopeful, having but two thoughts: to conceal his life, and to sanctify his life: to escape from men and to return to God.”(Page 72) * He wanted to change his life, but still the natural man is still part of his mighty change of heart. Every time he would always have two thoughts: which is the desire of changing, and the other is the natural man that wants to rebel again. * Character: “See here! My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict: I have been nineteen years in the galleys. Four days ago I was set free, …… I went to an inn, and they sent me away on account of my yellow passport …… I am very tired—twelve leagues on foot, and I am so hungry. Can I stay?” (Page 17) * Jean Valjean described himself in this quotation, he sees his life as an empty glass no one is accepting him after hew as set free. He then said, his tired of trying his chance to accommodate himself with people, but people is pushing him away on his yellow passport. “He thought he saw himself, older, doubtless, not precisely the same in features, but alike in attitude and appearance...
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...Les Miserables is a movie about people with miserable lives. Each of them has a unique story that portrays why their lives are miserable. The sacrifices and pains of the lead characters in this movie are intense and breathtaking. Jean Valjean is a convict in a French prison. He’s been serving his sentence for 19 years for stealing a loaf of bread for the daughter of his sister that was starving to death and trying to escape prison as well. Javert a police inspector is keen enough to hover over prisoner 64201—Valjean. Javert then grants Valjean his parole since his sentence is over. The parole has itineraries for which Valjean must abide at all times. It includes the yellow badge that Valjean shall wear at all times to show people that he is a dangerous man. Depite Valjean’s freedom there is still something missing that he doesn’t seem to find out what could it possibly be. He tried to apply for jobs but was rejected for carrying the badge. He becomes hopeless and even stole a silverware from Myriel—a presiding bishop. Myriel gave refuge to Valjean and covered for his misdeeds. Valjean then hides beneath the name of Madeleine. He then manages and owns a manufacturing company in the town of Montreuil-sur-mer. This made him wealthy enough to try to bring up the town’s prosperity. Fantine fell in love, got pregnant and the man she fell for eventually abandons her and their child. She then traveled to the town of Montfermil with her child, Cosette. She made a deal with Monsieur...
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...Cité Industrielle, urban plan designed by Tony Garnier and published in 1917 under the title of Une Cité Industrielle. It represents the culmination of several philosophies of urbanism that were the outgrowth of the Industrial Revolution in 19th-century Europe. The Cité Industrielle was to be situated on a plateau in southeastern France, with hills and a lake to the north and a river and valley to the south. The plan takes into consideration all the aspects necessary to running a Socialist city. It provides separate zones for separate functions, a concept later found in such new towns (see new town) as Park Forest, Ill., and Reston, Va. These zones—residential, industrial, public, and agricultural—are linked by location and circulation patterns, both vehicular and pedestrian. The public zone, set on the plateau much in the manner of the Hellenistic acropolis, is composed of the governmental buildings, museums, and exhibition halls and large structures for sports and theatre. Residential areas are located to take best advantage of the sun and wind, and the industrial district is accessible to natural power sources and transportation. The “old town” is near the railroad station to accommodate sightseers and tourists. A health centre and a park are located on the heights north of the city, and the cemetery to the southwest. The surrounding area is devoted to agriculture. The plan itself is clearly in the Beaux-Arts tradition, tempered by a natural informality possibly derived...
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...Louiemar C. Francisco BSA 2-3 “Look down, and show, some mercy if you can. Look down, look down, upon your fellow man” – lei miserables I remember this line at the start of the movie and this make me say “wow” without thinking. My favorite movies are those that there are slaves and they will rise and revenge to their masters, something like that. And with that song, I got a clue that lei miserables would be one of my favorites. Honestly I have not read the story of lei miserables that’s why I don’t know if I could I understand the movie. Luckily, my brother watched with me and he narrates me the story while I am watching it so I am able to understand the story. The actors and actresses were able to portray their roles in a creative manner. Acting while singing or vice versa is I think one of the hardest part of being an artist that’s why I praised these characters. They do have many talents aside from acting. I thought those characters all came from a choir. The director was able to describe the setting during the French revolution (18 century), the houses, the firearms, their dresses, their houses, the architectures, the atmosphere, etc, making the movie realistic. The movie is a story love. Love for the country, when a revolution broke out because of the political rule of monarchy (history). I was amazed that all of them even the women and child were united under a single principle that the political rule of France must be given to the people and not to a single...
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