...GCU Gathering Resources Directions: Based on the topic you selected for your essay in Module 2, use that topic as your key word to search the GCU database. Find one article to reference in your essay and copy and paste the abstract, permalink, GCU Style citation, and explain why the article is relevant to your essay. |Abstract | | | |Abstract: | |Taj Mahal (täzh məhäl′, täj məhŭl′), mausoleum, Agra, Uttar Pradesh state, N India, on the Yamuna River. It is considered one of the most | |beautiful buildings in the world and the finest example of the late style of Indian Islamic architecture. The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan | |ordered it built after the death (1631) of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The building, which was completed between 1632 and 1638, was | |designed by the local Muslim architect Ustad Ahmad Lahori; set in its carefully laid out grounds, it is a reflection of the gardens of | |Paradise to which the faithful ascend. The entire complex, with gardens, gateway structures, and mosque, was completed in 1648. [ABSTRACT FROM| |PUBLISHER]...
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...Table Content Essay report: 1 Technical Accurate vs. Community and Environment 1 1. Summary 3 2. Introduction 3 3. Body 4 3.1. Argument 4 3.1.1. Material and calculation 4 3.1.2. Exceptional case 5 3.1.3. Community and environment code 5 4. Conclusion 6 5. Reflection 7 6. Reference 8 1. Summary In this article, the use of sustainability and green code, material error and safety margin are in use to argue technical accurate or community and environment is more important. Technical accurate is hard due to the stress risers and uncertainty, thus the use of the margin of error. Sustainability and green code can be invalid; consequently the codes will continue modernised, along with should engineer make a building withstand the 911 attack. 2. Introduction This report proposal is part of the assessment for Professional Engineering ENGG1803 the question. The chosen question is to develop an argument about the ethical and professional role of the engineers is to ensure that engineered goods and services are technical accurate and correct rather than focusing on the impact that the product of the engineering may have on the community and environment This question have two major part components; one, engineering services and goods technical accurate and correct. Second part is engineered goods and services had an impact on community and environment Engineers should be technical accurate along with care about the community and environment. Yet, it is hard for...
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...realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life” (523). In his essay, Kunstler also provides a second part of his two- part definition of the public realm: “the public realm is the physical manifestation of the common good” to show the necessary relationship between the surroundings and the behavior of society (521, 523). In an attempt to explain these definitions of the public realm in Kunstler’s essay, this essay will examine the relationship between “chronological connectivity,” the “common good” and “citizenship” to show the deterioration of “civic life” because “consumers” are not playing their roles as responsible “citizens” and no longer care for their communities (523, 524). The link between "connective tissue" and "chronological connectivity" are meant to support the idea that our lives were affected by others decision, and we will affect our own futures. the futures that we create will affect the future for generations to come. Kunstler's essay takes place in Saratoga Springs, New York from about 1911 to the 1990's, at and around, the Grand Union Hotel (524). This hotel was once the largest hotel which allowed people to experience the best part of the city and was thought of as the centerpiece of the town where all members of the community could meet up (524). As Kunstler expresses "where I live, Saratoga Springs, New York, there once existed a magnificent building called the...
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...University of East London, School of Architecture Computing and Engineering Architecture Level One 2013/14 History and Theory, Technical and Professional Studies Module AR 1002 History and Theory Essay 1 Choose a building built before 1900 which you can visit or have visited, and on which you can find at least two relevant published accounts in books, journals or the Internet. Discuss what others say about the building, be critical and reflective and relate them to your own experience. A bibliography of books and sources used in the preparation of the essay needs to be included. Quotes and research sources need to be referenced (i.e. Harvard referencing). The words you use must be your own (see note on plagiarism and referencing below). Guide to length: 1000 words Illustrate your essay appropriately and consider the presentation of the work. Use the Essay Template provided. Use the Writing Skills Handbook to help you research and write your essay. This work should demonstrate your skills in the following areas, and these will be used as criteria for assessment: - To access resources, both print and electronic, available in the Library and record information from a variety of sources - Interpret published data - Read texts critically and be able to summarise, reference and quote them - To evolve architectural judgements on the basis of research and experience - Present your research and ideas in a structured and coherent way - Understand...
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...strength to the English people. William made sure that castles were built all over England in major towns. The first castles were built very quickly and were very simple, but during the reign of William and throughout the rest of the Middle Ages (1066-1500) the design of castles changed. In this essay I will talk about how much castles changed during the Middle Ages and the reasons for this. Motte & Bailey Castles (1066 – 1078) The first castles to be built in England by the Normans were called Motte & Bailey castles. They had: • The Keep – a wooden tower used when under attack and for soldiers to keep lookout. • A Motte - a large mound of earth that the Keep was built on. • A Bailey – a large yard that sat next to the Motte, attached to the Motte by a wooden bridge. • A Palisade – a wooden fence all around the Bailey with a ditch around the outside. • Wooden gateway - the entrance to the castle with a wooden bridge over the ditch. Norman soldiers lived in wooden buildings in the Bailey. Motte & Bailey castles were made of earth and wood, which was easy to find, and they could be built really quickly, in 7-21 days. The height of the wooden tower on top of the Motte meant that the Norman soldiers could see what was going on around the castle and see enemies coming. The castles were built near big towns so that the Norman soldiers could move quickly and stop enemies up to 30 miles away. William built over 60 Motte & Bailey castles during the early years of his reign...
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...ENGLISH ASSIGNMET KSKNJ KUDASINGHE B.ARCH/F/001 Social responsibilities of an architect Architecture is a subject that is completely dealing with the built environment and the buildings and designs being created with the exceptional cases of interior designs, most of the designs have a vivid interaction with the environment and the society as a whole. Hence this essay signifies the social responsibilities of architects towards the shaping a more suitable environment to live in. Architecture constantly deals with the term ‘spirit of the place’ that means alterations to the natural environment should be of a minimalistic level and it should complement very well the environment. And the buildings that is designed should be economically sustainable as it should contribute least to any form of environmental pollution of any sort. When considering the social impacts of buildings the designs should be user friendly and proper building services such as the correct pipework should be installed so that the people residing in it wholly benefited and discharge process of waste has been safely done. This way the impact on society could be done properly. Architects are the people dealing with the clients’ money and it is necessary for the architect to satisfy client requirement up to a certain extent. In the modern day green sustainable architecture is the...
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...An Analysis and Interpretation of Anna Hope’s ”A Gap of Sky” (2008) When being a teenage student in the twenty-first century you might find yourself at a crossroad where important decisions have to be made. You have to consider your ambitions and where you will end up with the current lifestyle you are living. In Anna Hope’s A Gap of Sky (2008) teenager Ellie finds herself deeply reflecting over both partying and doing drugs, but also the severity of her college education. Ellie is a nineteen year old college student residing in the heart of London. She is living a hectic life with drinking, ketamine abuse and smoking crack pipe. The lifestyle that she is living suggests that she does not take her education seriously and she also blames her parents for taking this “bloody course in the first place” (p. 3 l. 66). The narrator is third person heterodiegetic and it is internal with limited omniscience. Throughout the story Ellie’s thoughts are described, but it is not herself telling them. This is seen as the pronoun “I” is never used, but “she” is used in the entire story. Ellie is the protagonist and all of her thoughts and actions are depicted, but it is not herself describing them, the narrator is therefore heterodiegetic since it is not an actual character itself. Ellie is the only character in the story who is mentioned by name and has great significance to the story. She is also the only person whose point of view is shown and the narrator can thereby be characterized...
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...be able to go to the Acropolis and observe the different structures. I was really intrigued with the design and condition of the Parthenon. The Parthenon is one of the largest and most important structure on the Acropolis. It was a temple built between 447 BC and 438 BC, for the virgin goddess, Athena Parthenos. The design illustrates the refinement of ancient Greek architecture, and uses the traditional cella and peristyle plan. During the high classical period, the standard was believed to be excellence. The Parthenon was built to set that standard of excellence. It was built with the finest white marble and was richly decorated inside to include a statue of Athena made of great gold and ivory. The design shows the style of art in classical period, with the Doric building with ionic features mixed in. The Parthenon has 8 columns along the front, and 17 along each side. That made it more than most Doric temples. The decoration of the Parthenon was organized into 3 elements. First was the pediment, then panels called metopes around the outer wall, and then the carved stone frieze that was on the outside of the inner building. Some of the architecture in the Parthenon is similar to that of surrounding buildings. The curvature of the stylobate platform, the plate that the column sits on, is designed the same way. The plate has an upward curvature to assist in rainwater runoff. Another similarity is the paintings on the wall of the Parthenon. They...
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...throughout many books and is a reality for many of these characters in The Fountainhead by Ann Rand and Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Through compare and contrast both of the two dystopian novels, will be described at the full length of this essay. The three main aspects throughout this essay,...
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...Settlement Geography Jon-Carlo Steele Pennett Due: 17th April 2012 Settlement Geography A settlement is a grouping of people; activities; building structures and communication networks that function together on a daily basis as a single integrated system. This essay will look at how three settlements, Cape Town; Grabouw and Stanford compare with each other. Cape Town; Grabouw and Stanford are located within the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Cape Town is a very built up area and is a major Metropolitan. Cape Town is also a break of bulk settlement and can be seen as a specialized city that is multi-functional because it serves many functions. Grabouw and Stanford are not as built up as Cape Town. They have fewer high order good and services. This places them both lower on the hierarchy of urban settlements. They can be seen as minor country towns that supply goods and services to the surrounding rural population, so they are also seen as central places. Due to Cape Town being so well built up compared to Grabouw and Stanford, It has a lot more land-use-zones that can be clearly identified. Cape Town has a large CBD with many tall, high rise buildings; situated on a grid iron street pattern; accessible but contains a lot of traffic during peak hour. Cape Towns upper residential zone has large 2-3 story houses that are situated on a planned irregular street pattern that is fairly close to the CBD, such as Higgovale. Cape town’s transition zone is situated around...
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...Welcome to BioInspire, a monthly publication addressing the interface of human design, nature and technology. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BioInspire.16 5.19.04 The following essay first appeared on CYSI ONLINE: http://cysionline.chattablogs.com Please post all comments and reflections on this essay at http://cysionline.chattablogs.com/archives/012868.html#comments CYSI Online is a monthly online publication that takes hope in the thousands of young people across the US engaged in creative initiatives for social progress. It features short articles by a broad range of social innovators, generally between 20-30 years old, and focuses on identifying creative solutions to old social problems; and building bridges and crossing barriers that divide our movements and the country. Join CYSI Online’s distribution list for free by emailing cysionline@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Faith in Sustainability John Mlade Institute for the Built Environment Colorado State University johnm@biomimicry.net When someone asks me about who I am, or what I believe, I invariably draw upon my affinity for sustainability. Increasingly just a buzzword, and sometimes out of context, for me the word "sustainable" is a way to describe restorative human social systems and designs. These are systems and designs that create positive impacts on our environment and the well-being...
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...This essay will compare the extraction of resources by the Marlin Mine, a Canadian-owned mine by Goldcorp in Guatemala and the Greater Winnipeg Water District in Canada. I will look at how the two these two examples that occurred in different time periods connect and look at the similarities and differences that can be seen. In this essay I will give a brief background on the Marlin Mine owned by Goldcorp and a quick overview on the book Aqueduct by Adele Perry, allowing readers to have a better understanding of the topic. I will then go into my argument giving three points in order thoroughly support my point. Each paragraph will contain a section on both the Winnipeg Aqueduct and the Marlin Mine, followed by a brief comparison. In both cases...
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...assignment you are asked to transform your stereotype from an image into an ethnographic subject. Take your stereotype “off the screen” or page and locate it as a body in a particular site. Drawing on the spatial analysis vocabulary covered in this section of the course, describe this site. Your site can be rural or urban, inner city neighborhood or suburb, a building (house, mall, corporate or government office building, etc.), a street, a park or beach and so forth. However, the site you choose must but be a physical space (do not use the Internet as a site). You are not only thinking about the physical space itself, but your subject’s relationship to that space. Therefore, the ethnographic site will depend on your ethnographic subject. These are some of the questions to consider in developing your essay: * How does your ethnographic subject use, appropriate, and shape the space? * Using Lefebvre’s concept of the “spatial triad,” how do you understand your site as a representation of space, a space of representation, or created through spatial practices? * How would you characterize the topography of the built environment of the site? * What macro and micro forces produce that space? * How is the site legislated or policed? * What are the dominant and resistant spatial discourses about that space? * What happens to your subject when you use spatial analysis rather than visual analysis as an interpretive strategy? Is it more effective in complicating...
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...200 8/22/2012 REFLECTION ESSAY I live in a major city for Tennessee, particularly West Tennessee. Jackson has many landmarks, as I look through this fair city the items that I see and feel have made an impact and are of importance are the buildings. There are numerous businesses, schools, shopping, housing, hospitals, and other buildings in my city. I see all of these buildings, but very little forestry and what little I do see was planted by man in a square in concrete, which human imprint has definitely made its mark in this city. This has all made an impact by creating a large population scale and the manufacturing in the community. There are also many statues of long ago heroes, who guard our fair city. These make a great decoration to the eye and adds more than only buildings and roads. As nightfall begins to come the signs seem to come to life with their vibrant multi colors and designs, some even with motion. During the daylight hours there are many items on the landscape that I can identify with as being key sights to associate with home. One of the most historic and intriguing is the Electric Powers building that was built in the early 1940’s and is still used as the power plant to this day. There become more and more buildings and less natural landscape so frequently. Population and marketing is at such a high rate that the buildings that are already built are completely occupied, and address that more have to be built. Even though it does take away...
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