Thinking vertically Make small spaces seem bigger‚ or vice versa By Melissa Rayworth‚ Canadian Press Comment 0 * Story * Photos ( 1 ) Dining room designed by Brian Patrick Flynn demonstrates how the designer balances space vertically by grounding a room with pendant lighting. Photograph by: Handout photo ‚ AP / Brian Patrick Flynn When we furnish a room‚ many of us carefully measure to be sure the couch isn’t too wide or the dining room table too long. We draw a horizontal map‚ determined
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Galileo Galilei Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence)‚ Italy‚ the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei‚ a famous lutenist‚ composer‚ and music theorist; and Giulia Ammannati. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a healthy scepticism for established authority‚[15] the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation‚ an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm‚ as well as the illuminative
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in front. Two large chimneys shoot out from the top above a gray slanted roof. As one walks through the brown framed stained glass door‚ he enters into the illuminated front hallway. A large double staircase with dark oak panels and a shimmering chandelier above comes into view. The downstairs of my home consists of the living room‚ dining room‚ kitchen‚ and a library. To the right of the staircase is the living room. My living room will be a very comfortable place to relax. There will be many comfy
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entered‚ Hop-Frog is to lock the final door so the frightened guests cannot escape. On the stroke of midnight‚ the beasts invade the ballroom‚ causing havoc. As though playing along with the game‚ Hop-Frog attaches their chain to the chandelier chain. (The chandelier having been removed
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Cross Cultural Perspectives ETH/316 Cross Cultural Perspectives The company I decided to use was Starbucks Corporation. Starbucks has been an iconic symbol in the coffee industry here in the United States. It is a place where people go to meet‚ work; do school work‚ and many other things. Starbucks Corporation has created an atmosphere that makes people feel okay with spending six dollars or more on a latte. Although its great success in the United States and many other countries
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| Julie Heffernan Self portrait as Wunderkabinett | | | 7/2/2013 | Museum Visit Assignment | | | Julie Heffernan Self portrait as Wunderkabinett Museum visit assignment The Mint Museum in Charlotte‚ NC is a timeless building and a work of art itself. The building was designed with a contemporary style and is an outward expression of its artistic‚ belongings inside. I visited the Museum on Tuesday‚ July 02‚ 2013‚ at around 2 in the afternoon. I was within the museum for about 2 ½ hours‚ observing
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Iconography can be defined as the description or classification of the subject matter of a work of art. It can also be defined as the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject. Not to mention‚ iconography is one the least understood terms in the English language. Iconography is particularly important in the study of religious and allegorical painting. For example‚ the Cross has always been a symbol of Christianity in religion. Nonetheless‚
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English Literature Carol Ann Duffy: Hour Context Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate (2009)‚ and probably the best known female poet working in Britain today. She was born in 1955 in Glasgow. Duffy is well known for poems that give a voice to the dispossessed (people excluded from society); she encourages the reader to put themselves in the shoes of people they might normally dismiss. Her poetry often engages with the grittier and more disturbing side of life‚ using black humor
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beautiful. at the time they had no children so‚ they were quite lonely in the big house. The couple often threw parties‚ inviting their friends near and far into their house. They house was with the finest taste of furniture. They had a majestic chandelier dangling in the middle of the living room. As the businessman was a man of art‚ it was no surprise to find many beautiful drawings around the house by famous artists like Leonardo Dicaprio and Pablo Picaso. The wife found out her husband was
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Dubai Metro Dubai Metro is one of the few driverless passenger trains in the world. The construction of the Dubai Metro took four years. Dubai Metro was built in order to improve the public transportation of Dubai. In order for the Dubai Metro construction to be done‚ the road networks were getting blocked. Dubai Metro is an efficient and clean modern transport system that is still expanding in the Emirates. Dubai Metro opened on 09/09/09 with ten stations operational under its red line. It has
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