"Imaginary Landscapes" is a multimedia project‚ a homage to John Cage‚ one of the most influential artists‚ writers and thinkers of the 20th century‚ and the liberating power of his music and writings for future generations. Named after the early Cage cycle dedicated to landscapes of the present and future‚ this project reflects on the composer’s interest in occupying the entire sound field‚ from city landscapes and unpredictable traffic sounds‚ to natural landscapes‚ amplified water and plants‚ and futuristic
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Discuss the reasons for‚ and consequences of social and economic groupings of nations. In this current generation exists a range of major trade blocks‚ for example: ASEAN – consisting of countries such as Laos‚ Malaysia and Singapore. However one of the most well known Trade blocs in the world today is the EU‚ which currently links together 27 countries. The reason as to which countries want to form these alliances with other countries is as they want to stimulate their economic growth via
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Death by Landscape “Death by Landscape” shows subtle‚ but nonetheless significant‚ qualities regarding Canadian culture. The author (Margaret Atwood) uses Canadian landscape‚ Native culture‚ and character attributes to symbolize the Canadian identity. The struggle between Native Canadians and European Canadians to define what makes somebody Canadian is a major theme in this story. The historically inaccurate depiction of Native practices‚ as well as the less than flattering depiction of Native
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cultural landscapes is the importance that society feels when preserving or creating a unique landscape that gives a memory of what an area looked like in the past. Geoffrey Cubitt in History and Memory defines this idea of memory and cultural landscapes by stating that this relationship is the awareness of the past‚ which is preserved or created by society for their memory (Cubitt‚ 15-16). With this quote‚ Cubitt gives the impression that the relationship between memory and cultural landscapes lies
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with designing the sustainable urbanization is landscape architects. The development of landscape urbanism theory and its implementation into the field of practice is outlined with particular focus on its position of redefining the role of landscape architect. Global movements of urbanization‚ increasing awareness of urban ecology and analysis of modern planning lead to the important responses that landscape urbanism applies to modern projects. Landscape urbanism holds a promising future in determining
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Changing Landscape of Healthcare The landscape of health care has changed incredibly over the past several years. There have been many changes from everything regarding medical procedures to medications to major changes involving health insurance. There has also been a shift in the very health care model as well as medical records due to being a now paperless society. Health care has been slow to adapt and still has a long way to go to catch up with the new century. They have recently made
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Changing Landscape of Health Care Yajhaira Lucio HCS 490 July 2nd‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Health care will always be a revolving door of change‚ and growth. With today’s voice in patient population it has been easier to guide where health care needs to fix itself. Technology and health care has been a positive collaboration thus far. This paper will discuss the shifts taking place in the health care market‚ the current and a potential challenge‚ how health care is handling challenges
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world today and how the roles of landscape architecture professions could also take a major part in the situation. 2. Definition of Urbanisation 1. Definition According to Nsiah-Gyaabah (retrieved on 24 October 2011)‚ urbanisation is the shift from a rural to an urban society‚ and involves an increase in the number of people in urban areas during a particular year. The author also stated that urbanisation is the outcome of social‚ economic and political developments that
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than the others that was made between 1450 to 1750 was‚ Nicolas Poussin’s‚ Landscape with St. John on Patmos. Knowing from my past art history research and education‚ Nicolas Poussin is considered to be one of the most influential French artists of his era‚ with this painting being a great example of why he can take that honor. This painting is an example of a new style of thoroughly set and highly idealized classical landscape. The painting is 39(1//2) by 53(5/8) inches‚ using oil paints on canvas
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Death by Landscape It is often wondered what an artist was thinking or what message they are trying to convey when they create an unusual or even a masterpieces of art. Now it is also safe to say that such beauty and talent might only be in the eye of the beholder‚ and many will never appreciate or understand the views that others have towards an artists work. Why do some people find such depth in the simplest of paintings‚ such as a landscape? Many people connect to paintings or pictures
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