...City of Glass Story by Paul Auster Essay by Vanessa Jagna Hoff Levinsen In this essay, we will be working with Paul Auster’s novel “City of Glass”. In the story, we follow the character Daniel Quinn, whose occupation is writing literature. This novel works with different themes that are related to mental health. The first theme we will be talking about is a question of identity; who am I, and who are you? We will follow this with describing human contact’s connection with the sanity of mankind. Social life and its influence on our mentality will lead us to the question of the masks of mankind; who is the real personality among the many faces of a single human. We will also discuss the theme of deciding. What crucial decisions have lead to the life we now live, and what could have been, if our stories had taken place just a tiny bit differently. Last but not least we will go into depth with Quinn’s mental disorder and how it is related to the other characters in the novel. Can a single, presumably random incident change the entire course of our lives? We all have one or more events that changed the entire direction of our own personal tales of existence. It can be a moment of clarity, where we realised we had lived our lives wrong the entire time. It could be the moment we bumped into that special someone, and fell in love. Or maybe it was that day when you received a rather odd phone call; let us say that perhaps you got a phone call from someone who looked for a detective...
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...Essay Paul Auster: City of Glass * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * By Cornelius Andersen * October 2013 * * * * City of Glass is the first novel in Paul Auster’s bestseller: “The New York Trilogy”. In the novel we follow Quinn, a lonely writer who has lost wife and son. One day Quinn receives a phone call that completely changes his life. Quinn gives oneself out of being the famous private detective Paul Auster, which leads him into an old case that eventually will change him forever. * * Our main character and protagonist of the story is Daniel Quinn, 35 years old, living by himself in New York. Daniel is a writer, who writes mystery novels by the pseudonym William Wilson. Some years ago he lost wife and son. Daniel spends most of his day walking around in the streets of New York. But Daniel is not just one single person. In the story, his name is no coincidence. Daniel also changes his identity to Paul Auster, the famous detective, and his initials (DQ) also have a reference to knight Don Quichote. He also uses the pseudonym Max Work in his literature. All these different identities make Daniel a very confusing main character. Though the story he shuffles between different identities, which also change the way that Daniel acts as a person and to his surroundings...
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...Emerging Technology Table of Contents Introduction 1 Communications Technology 2 Green City 2 Nanotechnology 2 Personalized Medical Monitors 2 Robotics 2 Mind-controlled interfaces 3 Personal Networking 3 Smart buildings 3 The future of bio-technology 3 Introduction History is full of life-changing inventions, the printing press, electricity, the telephone not to mention the foundations of medicine, transportation and computers and the Internet. It is well known that technology, coupled with knowledge and innovation have the potential to alter traditional concepts of the urban community. The cities to benefit from these changes are those with strong appeal for artists, creative individuals and younger educated people. The cities which have this creative skill base will be able to adopt and develop new technology. Historically, Melbourne has a long history as a manufacturing city. However with the rise of China and Asia there has been a steady decline in the manufacturing industry in Victoria. Melbourne has revived itself as a knowledge city with higher education arguably being a key factor in Melbourne’s current and future prosperity (Committee for Melbourne, 2007). Can Melbourne leverage from its historical base in manufacturing and knowledge to be a leader in emerging technology? It is well known that a city which can adopt new technology will excel in attracting business, making products and exporting services. Examples...
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...1219 | |Ahnaf Zabee |House # 3/6, Block- A, Lalmatia, Mohammadpur, Dhaka | | | | | | | The Business: ঠিকানা™ is a partnership enterprise that converts waste materials into construction products. It will undertake two projects: ঠিকানা™ Concrete: ready-mix concrete using stone powder from stone crushing zones as fine aggregate and ঠিকানা™ Glass Tiles: handmade glass tiles from 100% locally sourced recycled glass. ঠিকানা™ will target small, medium and large...
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...The Glass Castle is a descriptive memoir written from the perspective of Jeannette Walls. As she eventually finds success as a writer, Jeanette recounts her dreadful childhood she faces raised by eccentric and egotistical parents. Rex and Mary, her parents, are very non-functional because of their drinking habits. Mom and Dad are very energetic people who push their kids, learing how to nurture themselves by feeding, clothing, and protecting one another. Jeannette Walls applies the lesson of self-discipline from her childhood in order to be self-sufficient in New York City. While not being the parent she wishes to have, Jeanette’s Dad teachers her to be self reliant when he tells her that she would be fine when learning how to swim. Jeanette...
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...Art 1000C: Mon./Wed. 3:55pm – 5:20pm Professor Liza Papi Final Paper The Art of Architecture: The Panorama of the City of New York (1964) Created by Robert Moses (December 18, 1888–July 29, 1981) Introduction The crown jewel of the Queens Museum of Art is the Panorama of New York City that was created for the 1964 World Fair. Though considered to be an architectural wonder, the artistry behind cannot be denied. Known for its topographical accuracy, the Panorama was conceptually created by Robert Moses, though it took hundreds of workers (from architects to construction workers) to see it to fruition. Understanding the “Moses Era” Robert Moses was considered the number one builder of the mid-20th Century. His influence on New York City is undeniable, his vision of city landscaping being responsible for thousands of the city’s bridges, highways, buildings and parkways. At a time, he was arguably the most powerful man in New York City. However, his ideology of architecture and constant development left much to be desired by many people from government officials to local artists. Many blamed him for pushing out the middle class of the city and the emphasis on highways and not public transportation. His industrialized thinking is what brought both the World’s Fair (in 1939 and 1964) to New York and in connection the Panorama of New York City. The Panorama, with its structuralized detail dazzles both architect and artist alike. Furthermore, it may have been...
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...Republic of the Philippines Palawan State University Puerto Princesa City, Palawan College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Department of Petroleum and Mining Engineering Feasibility Study A partial requirement for the course PET 56 - Plant Design Submitted by: Schindler P. Marang Submitted to: Engr. Isaac Yap Table of Contents I. Project Name …………………………………………………………………… Pg. 1 II. Project Description ……………………………………………………………. Pg. 1 III. Project Location ………………………………………………………………. Pg. 1 IV. Marketing Aspect……………………………………………………………… Pg. 2 * Source of Raw Materials …………………………………………………... Pg. 2 * Market Study ………………………………………………………………. Pg. 2 * Sales Projection ……………………………………………………………..Pg. 3 V. Technical Aspect ……………………………………………………………….. Pg. 4 * Glass Manufacturing * Batch Mixing …………………………………………………… Pg. 4 * Batch Melting ………………………………………………...… Pg. 4 * Shaping Plate Glass …………………………………………….. Pg.4 * Process Flow Diagram………………………………………………...……. Pg. 5 * Material Balance……………………………………………………………. Pg. 6 * Composition of Glass…………………………………………………….… Pg. 6 VI. Financial Aspect ………………………………………………………………. Pg. 8 * Fixed Asset ……………………………………………………..……...…… Pg. 8 * Operating Cost * Fixed Cost …………………………………………………….... Pg. 9 * Annual Depreciation…………………………………………... Pg. 10 * Variable Cost ……………………………………………….…. Pg. 11 * Projected Income …………………………………………….... Pg. 12 VII. Organizational Chart …………………………………………………...
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...The Getty Center and the Similarity with San Jose City Hall The architecture of the Getty Center by Richard Meier remarked a big achievement in his life. Richard Meier is a famous American architect, and he is well known on the refinements and variations on classic modernism: pure geometry, open space, and attracting light. After Meier graduated from the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1957, he worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill architectural firm for few years. He then started his own career in 1963 (Jodidio). His works have included houses, museums, medical facilities, commercial buildings, major civic commissions, and the city hall (Richard Meier). Meier built The Getty Center in the late 20th century at Los Angeles. From 1985 to 1997, he spent most of his time to work on the Getty architecture. It was an immense project and marked a success in Meier’s career. The Getty Center was his major architecture and inspired him to create many incredible works later including San Jose City Hall. This building was built during the early 21st century and located in the heart of San Jose City. Therefore, this paper is to introduce the speciality and attraction of the Getty Center and its similarities with the City Hall of San Jose. The Getty Center is an accomplishment of the hard work from both Meier and the constructors. The center was constructed on the hilltop site in the Santa Monica Mountains (Architectural Description). The building process...
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...30 St Mary Axe, also known as the “Gherkin,” is one of Norman Foster’s works that has sparked London’s new architectural movement. This movement consists of structures with steel and glass, a round-shape, and unused designs. I chose this structure because of its odd-shape and towering height; it’s not very common to see this specific design in major cities around the world. The Gherkin is a missile-shaped skyscraper that incorporates Foster’s combination of steel and glass; its height and shape draws the eyes of every Londoner. The building tends to stand out to many due to its surrounding of outdated, smaller structures. While there are many older buildings surrounding it, the Gherkin is also located in one of the more updated parts of the...
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...when murals are painted on them; or as design foci when they exhibit textures or painted finishes for effect.On a ship, the walls separating compartments are termed "bulkheads", whilst the thinner walls separating cabins are termed "partitions".In architecture and civil engineering, the term curtain wall refers to the facade of a building which is not load-bearing but functions as decoration, finish, front, face, or history preservation. A partition wall is a wall for the purpose of separating rooms, or dividing a room. Partition walls are usually not load-bearing.Partition walls may be constructed with bricks or blocks from clay, terra-cotta or concrete, reinforced, or hollow. Glass blocks may also be used.They may also be constructed from sheet glass. Glass partition walls are a series of individual toughened glass panels, which are suspended from or slide along a robust aluminium ceiling track. The system does not require the use of a floor...
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...Throughout Angela’s Ashes; ‘Tis, (serial memoirs by Frank McCourt); and The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, both Jeannette’s and Frank’s respective families stay with them, even when they move from the family home to New York City. It was their parents that set them on the path that took them from poverty to the American middle class, and the (majority) of their siblings that stayed with them. The fruit never falls from the tree… supposedly. It’s been up for debate- do humans take after their parents heavily, and if they do, why? Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis, and The Glass Castle all centered around their families, siblings and parents alike, but especially their fathers. Both are men that squander the livelihoods and dole on alcohol, leaving their...
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...Introduction In 1975 the nine most important companies, in terms of sells, in Mexico were own by the state or were 100% foreign companies. Is the tenth company were private companies with national participation started to appear, as Cerveceria Cuahutemoc which at that time occupied the twelfth place at a national level. In 1995 as we all know it occurred the “onda salinista” were many companies were affected between them were PEMEX and Altos Hornos de Mexico which are companies that are extremely important for the Mexican economy, but at that bad moment of the country, Fomento Economico Meixano (FEMSA), which is the controller of Cerveceria Cuauhtemoc-Moctezuma and grupo Modelo were achieving an important position between the first 20 places of the best companies. In this last years both companies continue growing and not only their competition is at a national level, now their competition is also in the foreign market. For this, FEMSA join with the foreign beer company Heineken in order to distribute in the United States the products Tecate, Dos Equis, Sol, Carta Blanca y Bohemia. With this both companies will have the 26% of presence of the exported beers in the United States market. Also this will help the company from Monterrey to strength his competition with Grupo Modelo. The main reason for Cerveceria to look forward this types of joints with other companies is to expand their market to other countries and with this over pass their competition. * The beginning...
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...Justine Peralta 2AD5 ARTHIST III 8 FILIPINO CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS 1. Mauro “Malang” Santos Mauro Santos started his career as plain “Malang,” illustrator-cartoonist for the Manila Chronicle and creator of two comic-strip characters, Kosme the Cop (Retired) and Chain Gang Charlie. The leap from illustrational art to lightweight genre painting was a felicitous one in his case. The temperas he exhibited at the Philippines Art Gallery in the late 1950s were miniatures blithely illustrating the urban folk, or rather the rustic folk caught up in the hassle of the big city. Quiapo traffic, Chinatown, corner sari-sari stores, calesas, jeepneys, an old turn-of-the-century house-all these and more he did with a miniaturist’s delight in the telling detail and an eye for the amusing and cute. Woman Vendor, 1989 Mother and Child, 1971 2. Arturo Luz Arturo Rogerio Luz is a Filipino painter, sculptor, and designer. He has done major artworks and is best known for his linear art and his painting series on street musicians, vendors, cyclists and carnival performers, also for his sculptures using wood, concrete and metal. When he started, he created figurative artworks, but went on to develop abstraction. He was considered as one of the Neo-Realists and the Thirteen Moderns. In 1997 he was named one of the National Artists of the Philippines. Grey Performance, 1991 Boxes and Shells, 1997 3. Napoleon...
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...collection and brought back to your property the same day. Across the Durham City area there are a variety of recycling containers. Depending on where you live, you will have access to one of the following: What can I place in my recycling bin or bag? [ Food tins and drink cans: All steel and aluminum food and drink cans; biscuit and sweet tins; aerosol cans including deodorant; furniture polish and hairspray. (Please do not include cutlery, pots and pans or other metal objects). Plastics: All plastic bottles including pop, milk and water bottles; washing up and laundry liquids, shampoo and cooking oil; yogurt, butter, fruit and vegetable containers and carrier bags (Please do not include hard plastic containers, children’s toys, ready meal food trays, bubble wrap or polystyrene). Paper and cardboard: Paper includes newspapers, magazines, junk mail, brochures, envelopes, wrapping paper (no foil based paper) and telephone directories including yellow pages; all types of cardboard including cereal boxes, greetings cards and liquid food and drink cartons. What can I place in my recycling box? [pic] Mixed glass, bottles and jars: Glass bottles and jars only of all shapes and colours. (Please do not include broken glass, Pyrex, light bulbs, mirrors and flat glass. Please remove lids and recycle them with your tins and cans). To help...
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...DEVELOPMENTS Glass is used since approximately 4000 years and it surely is an important invention in the history of humanity. According to knowledge passed from Senior Plinius, first glass was found by chance on the coasts of Phoenicia (present Syrian and Lebanese coasts). According to this chance, saltpetre soils mixed with sands by fire. Phonic merchants, who strived with sailing, had used to saltpetre soils for seated their stew pot that their meals cooked in it. The first known glassware products were glass vases and were produced in Ancient Egypt that dated at approximately B.C. 2700. Ancient Egyptians produced glass pots that were first known and decorated zigzag and invented coloured glass. They embedded their deads in glass coffins. Their habit had been passed to Assyrians and Greeks in Hellenistic era by commercial relationships. The glassware passed from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece approximately B.C. 2500. Mesopotamians produced glass objects for religious ceremonies and daily usage and spread their glassware to Anatolia. However, the glassware in Mesopotamia started to decline at approximately B.C. 1500 due to continuous wars between Mesopotamian states and foreign invasions. II.1.2. GLASSWARE IN SYRIA AND EGYPT The glassware in Syria was started by Phoenicians but it was brought by Ancient Egyptians. Ancient Syrians produced glass product like Ancient Egyptian at first. However, they invented blow technique. The melted glass, which...
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