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An Essay on One’s Reasons for Studying Landscape Architecture (1768 words, 7 pages)

When I graduate I want to get into landscaping. I would like to study landscape archtecture. A landscape architect is an individual who arranges and modifies the effects of natural scenery over an area of land. Landscape architecture is an ability to create a difference between a home's architecture - ... Read More

Canada’s Multicultural Identity and Beautiful Landscape (1291 words, 2 pages)

Canadian Identity A nations identity is extremely arduous to characterize because it encompasses such an immense population spanning an enormous land mass. Canadas identity is even more ambiguous because Canadas peoples seem to be less outspoken than most. Canadian pride is less said than written and so it is in ... Read More

The Phenomenon of Singapore City Gardens as a Physicalization of the Romantic Landscape Genre in Painting (6374 words, 32 pages)

INTRODUCTIONThis dissertation investigates the phenomenon of Singapore city gardensas a Physicalization of the Romantic landscape genre in painting.Landscape refers to the surface of the earth. However, this concept isalso linked to the natural and human phenomenon. Landscapes weredescribed in paintings and imaginative literature. It was notnecessarily something to be seen, ... Read More

Importance of Nature and Landscape to the Early American Identity (1007 words, 4 pages)

Picture yourself sailing across the horizon and catching a glimpse of the untouched beauty of the newly discovered America. There would be no large houses lining the coast and no large cities filled with the hectic hustle of modern day life. Nature and landscape has inspired many great poets and ... Read More

An Evaluation of the Popularity and Reputation of Staten Island in Introduction: An Erringly Perfect Landscape and Addicted on Staten Island (1972 words, 7 pages)

Staten Island faces many stereotypes, including being known as a quiet, deserted area and being the center of drug addiction. When people are asked about Staten Island, nothing much comes to mind. Some might say they didnt even know people inhabited the place. Others might give a few details of ... Read More

The Visit of Alexis De Tocqueville to the United States and His Comments on the American Cultural and Political Landscape (3793 words, 11 pages)

Frenchman Alexis De Tocqueville came to visit the United States in the 1830s. He commented on the key elements of Americas democratic society. On his travels through the country he met with many Americans from all walks of life. One of the things that stood out to him was how ... Read More

An Analysis of the Use of Landscapes in Brooklyn by Colm Toibin and Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen (1023 words, 2 pages)

Analyse the ways composers generate diverse and provocative insights about people and landscape. In your response, make detailed reference to your prescribed text and at least ONE other related text of your own choosing.The representation of the exterior landscape is a projection of an individuals interior psyche, in which ones ... Read More

The Definition of Linguistic Landscape, Its Role on Society and the Concept of Language Policy (536 words, 2 pages)

Linguistic Landscape, Societies, and Language PolicyIn the lecture given by Elana Shohamy on April 21st, 2015, the topic of linguistic landscape is discussed. To give a general definition, linguistic landscapes are shown by signs, buildings, speeches, and images -- all types of portrayals in an area -- to tell a ... Read More

An Examination of the Relationship Between an Individual and Their Landscapes (951 words, 2 pages)

Mod C Representations of landscapes through their differing forms and language choices reflect cultural nuances that empower individuals and groups through the associated wisdom and knowledge that is attached to mans unique and complex relationship with their environment. Landscape can become a form of cultural memory that encodes peoples experiences ... Read More

The Importance of Ethnic Enclaves on Urban America in New Ethnic Landscapes, Place Making in Urban America by Brian J. Godfrey (563 words, 3 pages)

Reaction Paper 1 Ethnic EnclavesIn New Ethnic Landscapes, Place Making in Urban America, Brian J. Godfrey argues that ethnic enclaves are an important aspect of urban America. Within certain neighborhoods, sometimes one ethnic group may slowly become the majority. Yet, when the area transforms into an ethnic enclave, the area ... Read More

A Research on the Impact of Internal Processes on Landscapes (896 words, 2 pages)

The internal processes impact landscape in many different ways. Plate tectonics leave evidence of rearrangement.There are three different kinds of plate boundaries, divergent, convergent and transform, all with fundamental differences. Volcanic activity is sometimes related to fault zones as magma thrusts it's way upward in the zone of weakness. Volcanoes ... Read More

A Critique of the Landscape and Theme in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1405 words, 4 pages)

Rendition of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow Night had seemed colder than before. Even ice itself began to crust against the wrinkles of his weary eyes. Frigid wind and numbing frost had begun to take away his warm touch, which has slowly become frozen as the snow. Blizzards he has ... Read More

Economic Rent and the Framework for Interpreting Cultural Landscapes (584 words, 2 pages)

In Platts reading, The Interaction of Geography and the Law, there is discussion on what factors land use decisions and patterns, and the relationship between law and geography. One of the more interesting points I found in the paper was Economic Rent. When it comes to the use of land, ... Read More

A Detail of the Coevolution of Bali’s Environmental Landscape and Human Institutions in Priests and Programmers, a Book by J. Stephen Lansing (1826 words, 6 pages)

Priests and Programmers Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali (2007) by J. Stephen Lansing details the complex coevolution of Balis environmental landscape and its human institutions that is central to the Indonesian islands sustainable resource management. . Lansing is a professor of Anthropology at the University of ... Read More

The History of the Media Landscape in the United Kingdom and Its Comparison to Canadian Media Landscape (1291 words, 4 pages)

The media landscape in United Kingdom is one of the most complex and second largest globally having 815 radio stations, 521 TV channels, 1594 newspapers and 1969 magazines (Becker Schonbach, 2013). Improvements in information technology have had a significant impact on the media landscape in United Kingdom especially in the ... Read More

An Analysis of the Illustration of the Magnitude of Nature in Sesshu Toyo’s Landscape of Winter (856 words, 3 pages)

Sesshu Toyos Landscape of Winter Formal AnalysisIn Landscape of Winter (1470-90), Sesshu Toyo uses line, shape, perspective, movement, and proportion to illustrate the magnitude of nature and the simplistic beauty of winter. The landscape features a snow covered mountainous region with a few barren trees and a strip of vegetation ... Read More

The Claim of Alan Sonfist for the Preservation and Deforestation in His Greenwich Village Time Landscape (1035 words, 5 pages)

Deforestation due to urbanization and industrialization is not a new phenomenon since the beginning of human settlement, there has been ample building to try and accommodate for the wants and needs of the people settling. Over time, from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, the human wants for expansion ... Read More

Historical Landscape of the Era in The Known World by Edward P. Jones (1760 words, 7 pages)

The Known WorldThe Known World by Edward P. Jones is a fictional account of the history of Manchester County, Virginia. It is set in the Antebellum South, and focuses on a black slave owner, Henry Townsend, and the effects of his death on the Townsend plantation. It sheds light on ... Read More

The Portrayal of Paramaribo, the Capital of Suriname, in Landscapes, Narratives and Tropical Nature by Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger (503 words, 2 pages)

Landscapes, Narratives, and Tropical Nature by Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger is an excerpt Caribbean Literature The Environment Between Nature Culture, edited by Elizabeth W Deloughrey. The author explores how Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname, is portrayed in contrasting light by authors Astrid Roemer, Clark Accord, and Cynthia McLeod through three different texts. ... Read More

The Motivations to Pursue the Study of Landscape Architecture on a Graduate Level at UC-Berkeley (1176 words, 4 pages)

My two specific interests in the field of Landscape Architecture are environmental justice and urban ecology. Grew up in crowded cities in China and traveled to spectacular natural landscapes around the world, I am always fascinated by the beauty of natural and urban environments, and always curious about how human ... Read More

The Biography and Works of Paul Caponigro, America’s Foremost Landscape Photographer (1686 words, 4 pages)

Paul Caponigro Americas Foremost Landscape PhotographerFamous for the unique meditative quality of his work, Paul Caponigro once said, Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature, (Paul Caponigro). These roots in nature have been ... Read More

The Landscape of the Dark Land in The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali (516 words, 1 pages)

In Salvador Dals The Persistence of Memory, I see the landscape of a dark piece of land. As the dark land continues out to the edge of the island, it becomes a more sand colored terrain, or coastline, where its edge meets surrounding water. The region is also surrounded by ... Read More

The Power of Imperialism and the Stripping of a Landscape in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Assie Djebar’s Fantasia (1717 words, 6 pages)

A Vision of Power and The Landscape It CreatesThe overruling power of imperialism becomes the primary target for the incoming change within the Congo in Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness, similar to the incoming French power to conquer the Algiers in order to inherit their land as described by Assia ... Read More

A Report on the Prevalence of Advertising Messages in Our Cultural Landscape (328 words, 2 pages)

As we have read and discussed in class, the cultural landscape we live in is saturated with advertising messages of all kinds. In the capitalist race for wealth and power, businesses use any and all marketing tactics to attract consumers. I found it interesting that, in the book, the authors ... Read More

Geopolitical Landscape of Ukraine (1064 words, 5 pages)

The Geopolitical Landscape of the UkraineBeing positioned in a central hub of Eastern Europe, the Ukraine is a geopolitically and culturally significant former Soviet satellite that is gaining economic prominence in the twenty-first century. Although the country and people have endured a great deal of tragedy and hardship in their ... Read More

A Discussion on Landscape Design, Environmental Values and Ecological Disasters (1072 words, 4 pages)

In Alexander Popes famous poem Epistle to Burlington (1731), he praises Lancelot Capability Browns design for the landscape at the even more famous Stowe GardensTo build, to plant, whatever you intend,To rear the Column, or the Arch to bend,To swell the Terras, or to sink the GrotIn all, let Nature ... Read More

Pervasive Landscape Patterns in Downtown Eugene (529 words, 3 pages)

I have always known the word pervasive to carry a negative connotation, so I will detail a pattern in local landscaping where new architects should look first to apply themselves. I refer to the dated and inefficient use of non-native plant species and simple geometry to present a comfortable exterior ... Read More

A Theme Analysis in Catfish and Mandala: A Two Wheeled Voyage through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew Pham (1593 words, 5 pages)

Catfish and Mandala A Two Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape andMemory of Vietnam was a very well written, insightful narrative byVietnamese-American author Andrew "An" X. Pham. His stories consist offirst hand accounts of life in Vietnam as a young boy, leaving Vietnamduring the fall of Saigon in 1975 with his ... Read More

A Proposal of Changing the Work Landscape in Our Fast Food Industry (1505 words, 5 pages)

Changing the Work Landscape in Our Fast Food Industry Thank you for assembling an employee relations task group to help fixsome problems that have been coming up. We understand that a lot can changefor the better, and these are only suggestions and ideas. We also realizethat the company has had ... Read More

The Methods of Historians Examining Past Events in the Book, The Landscape of History by John Gaddis (1505 words, 6 pages)

In his book, The Landscape of History (2002), John Gaddis explores themethods which historians employ in order to examine past events and how tobest apply the knowledge obtained from these periods of time into theworkings of contemporary societies. It was apparent to me early on in thebook, that Gaddis appreciated ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013