Frank Lloyd Wright’s: Falling Water Architectural Design I have decided to design a unique architectural design that will define organic architecture in the 21st century. The building will define my love for nature by ensuring that the architectural design is unified with the natural environment. The harmony created between the natural environment and architecture displays my philosophical approach in which I will determine form by way of natural materials. The Fallingwater House will replace the deteriorating summer home for one of the wealthy Pennsylvanian family and will be located on top of a waterfall in Bear Run. I choose the Appalachian reserve because it served an ideal location. This is because my client, Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann, has always been fascinated by my inspiration by nature. Thus, I intend to share my architectural decisions and the challenges that I faced. I shall use cascading forms that will inspire the exterior of the home. The house shall have an organically stacked appearance in efforts to reflect stone ledges that are jutting from the fall, through that, I shall have “to…
Student’s Name Lecturer’s Name Course Date Arabic Language and Society The Arabic language is spoken by over two hundred million worldwide. It is ranked six in all the words. Arabic is the primary language in countries like United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, and many other countries. It is mainly spoken in nations like Somalia and used by the Muslims in their holy writings worldwide. The language has existed for more than a hundred decades. Arabic is said to have started in Arabian Peninsula. The first people to speak the language where the nomadic tribes who were in the northern part of the country. The word Arab from Arabic, which means nomadic. In the beginning, Arabs occupied the east of Mesopotamia then the west of Lebanon and later settled on the south of Sinai. Arabic is part of the Semitic languages. Other Semitic languages are Hebrews and Aramaic. However, some of these Semitic languages no longer exist due to the domination of the Arabic language. In the 21st century, the word Modern Standard Arabic is the new term. MSA…
The role of comedy: article summary Name Institution affiliated The role of comedy Rojecki, A. & Levine, L. (2020). Comedy as Social Indicator and Status Differentiator Any piece of art does more than just entertaining people. Comin performers, especially stand-up comedians, do more than creating humor every time they are on a stage. In their study, Rojecki and Levine seek to demonstrate the function of stand-up comedy in society, besides making people laugh. They worked on the thesis that the relationship between stand-up comic and the audience lends comic as both an indicator of social status and a tool for social change. The researchers build on the premise that stand-up comedians respond to and draw upon “ideas about society that are often unexpected, incongruous, or inconsistent with dominant worldviews” (p. 4). As a result, comedians pass culturally-informed facts that are specific in terms of time, demographics, and social order. Rojecki and Levine conducted an ethnographic study using open-ended interviews and…
Field trip to the museum of tolerance In our modern society now, we lived under a joyful, peaceful world, words like war, kill, plunder sounds far from our life. But do you know that back to 18 centuries, there were people age like us who been killed group by group because their race, and this event were really happens in the history called the “the holocaust”. Today our class bring us to the museum of tolerance to knowledge one of the most brutality crime of the Jewish holocaust during world war II by the Nazis. Before we start with the holocaust I want to talk about the initiator of evil – Adolf Hitler. Hitler was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, serving as dictator and leader of the Nazi Party, or National Socialist German Workers Party, for the bulk of his time in power. Hitler’s fascist policies precipitated World War II and led to the genocide known as the Holocaust, which resulted in the deaths of some six million Jews and another five million noncombatants.[ A&E Television Networks] He…
Superheroes Superheroes have primarily dominated the world today and instilled triggered unhealthy living habits, created unrealistic expectations and formed biased mindsets in society. Preoccupation with superheroic content that involves killing and violence as acts of service to the community corrupts children’s morals and behavior. As a result, this limits their creativity and creates vicious cycles of obsessiveness, imitation, and adherence to rigid play scripts. This research paper shows the nature and extent preoccupation is harmful to the body, mind, and social well being of a person. Young, A. F., Gabriel, S., & Hollar, J. L. (2013). Batman to the rescue! The protective effects of parasocial relationships with muscular superheroes on men’s body image. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(1), 173-177. This article discussed the unintentional preoccupation of young men with the muscular and gigantic bodies of superheroes tha create unlogic illusions to change their bodies to match the character. Two surveys were conducted to form the hypothesize for this research. On one side, men who were exposed to male superheroes did not feel indifferent or shame of their bodies. In contrast, men…
General Management Introduction In today’s competitive business environment, organizations must create a good business strategy that enhances its decision-making process and gives it a competitive edge. A good business strategy combines all decisions made and the actions taken to accomplish the objectives of a business to secure a competitive position ahead of the main competitors. The strategy acts as the backbone of an organization because it provides a roadmap that enables to accomplish the desired goals. A good business strategy is especially important to a business because any fault in the utilization of concepts or tools of the business strategy may result in the business losing its position to competitors. The significance of a business strategy cannot be overemphasized, considering the increased competition in the market and the rise of different types of strategies that are available to competitors. A business that enters the market without a good strategy is pursuing more of a dream or a gamble, rather than the success of the business. A business strategy helps in planning activities of a business (Rothaermel, 2016). It is a…
Name Course Professor Date Voice and voicelessness in society as in the play, A Doll’s house From early history, women and children are the most vulnerable and voiceless group in the community; they have been rendered mute, hidden from view, and continue being victims of endless suffering. This is evident in the play A Doll’s House by Henry Ibsen, which is based on a real event on his own life. The concept of voice and voicelessness in society is an oft-noted characteristic in the play, which brings out the popular term, “A woman’s place is at home” According to the play; The people with a voice are the men who are the head of the household. In contrast, the voiceless are the women who are meant to stay home with the children and take care of the house. Women are perceived as children who are not in line with the real world. This is evident by how the protagonist of the play, Nora, is referred by titles implying smallness such as “little songbird,” “squirrel,” “lark,” “little featherhead,” “little skylark,”…
During the Harlem Renaissance, Music was the most influential form of creativity In the Reconstruction Era, the white supremacist regimes in the South of the United States of America denounced the Civil Rights Act that was passed in 1875 to protect African Americans. The whites denied individuals from the origin of Africa their political and civil rights. They did this by conducting vigilante violence like terrorizing African Americans with killing mobs. The victims on realizing the potential in the North and Midwest regions – their economies had grown drastically, and individuals in these areas were not as racist as compared to those in the South- embarked on a journey to these areas. At the beginning of the 20th century, thousands of African Americans relocated to these regions, and the journey got coined the Great Migration. Most of them settled in Harlem, and brought a cultural revolution in the locality, termed as Harlem Renaissance (Hutchinson 20). Many forms of art developed at this period; however, music was the most influential. Music Initiation and Growth The migration led to the concentration of…
“A Poison Tree’’ by William Blake Student’s Name Institution Professor Course. “A poison Tree’’ is a poem by William Blake. The poem about anger and the consequences resulting from anger. The speaker talks of how failure to communicate about their foes have grown to become poisonous hatred. Speaker in the poem The speaker in the poem is the poet himself (William Blake), talking of how miscommunication between him and his enemy leads to poisonous hatred. “I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” (Line 3-4) Summary of the Poem First stanza: the speaker remembers her anger encounters with friends and enemies. He told his friend about it, and they solved it. In contrast, he did not talk about the anger with his foe, causing it to increase. Second stanza: The speaker talks of watering the hatred tree day and night with tears and faking it with smiles and deceitful wiles. (Line 7-8) Third Stanza: The hatred tree grew both day and night and bore fruits. The enemy was watching the shining apples and knew…
Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Apollo 13 Movie Review Apollo 13 film is accessible from the American film institute. It is an American docudrama film that was produced in 1995 by Brian Grazer and directed by Ron Howard. The main actors are; Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton. The plot is about Tom Hanks wanting to travel back to the moon. Apollo 13 film has won 28 awards in 58 nominations. The film’s budget is 52 million dollars, and its sales are worth 355.2 million dollars. William Broyles Jr did the screenplay, and the film builds on a true story. The theme of the film focuses on NASA’s’ first mission to the surface of the moon. Three main characters board a spacecraft to the moon, and others represent the crew on the ground and civilians. Every day, scientists and astronomical companies are recommending increased space exploration to unravel the mystery of our galaxy. On the contrary, only a few understand or have experiences of how things could go haywire during such visits. The film portrays creativity.despite the…