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
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Los Miserables Los miserables (título original en francés: Les misérables) es una novela del político, poeta y escritor francés Victor Hugo publicada en 1862, considerada como una de las obras más conocidas del siglo XIX. La novela, de estilo romántico, plantea a través de su argumento un razonamiento sobre el bien y el mal, sobre la ley, la política, la ética, la justicia y la religión. El autor confesó que se había inspirado en Vidocq, criminal francés que se redimió y acabó inaugurando la Policía
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Streets in the sky: A naïve proposal or a brilliant manifesto? Humanity has come through many events before it got to this point we are right now. W hat come in between of the years are constant changes in our lives. Changes are inevitable, but has it done any good to us? In the sense of architecture, changes may refer to ‘tradition and modernity’. Tradition held us up to the point we are at right now while modernity sees the flaw of it then attempt to refine it, until one day modernity
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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
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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
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impressive architecture such as Le Corbusier’ Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Frank Lloy Wright’s Guggenheim Museum and Mies Van Der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion. All three examples together are clearly intended to show the progress of impressive design in architecture. Both cubist and futurism styles of design produce fascinating piece of architecture, where Futurism helped to produce the most successful architectural development in history. Having thus combined the ideas of Le Corbusier and Braque delivers
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'functionalism' in architecture is the defining principle which in its simplest form states that a building or structure should be derived solely from the function it is intended to fulfill. Employed by pioneering modernist architects including Louis Sullivan and Le Corbusier, functionalism, stood alone as the cornerstone of their definitions of honest, pure, and beautiful structure. In Louis Sullivan's 'Kindergarten Chats and Other Writings' he exposes the true inter-correlations at work between function and form
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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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intro fashion ruling every domain of life, definition of "modern fashion" by Lipov lipovertsky, simmel.. GENDER Barthes in his attempt for a semantics of fashion in The System of Fashion, applies the economic system that is brought to the fore by Karl Marx and consisting three categories of production, distribution and consumption to a social institution: fashion. Thus he defines 3 states of clothing: real clothing, represented garment and the used garment. Real clothing is the when the
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Throughout the years, Claude Monet’s Impression, Sunrise has been celebrated as the quintessential symbol of the Impressionist Movement. This renowned work of art which illustrates a view of the port of Le Havre in north-western France is considered to be one of Monet’s “most poetic expressions” of his engagement with France’s revitalization efforts after the Franco-Prussian War. Unlike other artworks of the time, the subject matter and specific painting techniques evident in Impression, Sunrise seek
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