Analysis Of The House By The Railroad

As the carriage stopped beneath the archway, Elizabeth Cockles jumped out and looked around her. Above her head was a tall archway of trees that edged the pathway to the house. As she got closer, Elizabeth realised that “mansion” was a more correct way to describe it.

The objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor family once lived. In “Abandoned Farmhouse,” Kooser selects seemingly insignificant relics left behind by each family member to illustrate who these people were and how they lived. The picture he paints is a bleak one and reflects the impoverished life which the residents lived within this now lonely and desolate building.

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper use the elements of light in his art work. The formal qualities of his art work are the contrast between the tones. The light in the art work amplifies particular items in the diner. For instance, the cherry wood countertops and the tops of the stools in the diner are shown as the contrast of the light. The colors of the objects are also made to shine through the art work. The outer part of the diner is only noticed through the green tile that is lighter around it. The element of light is used to contrast the change in the objects. The diner also partially blends in with the background of the art work. This effect is also accomplished through the lighting used by Edward Hopper. The color element used in the art work is expressive. The color contrast in the objects are what make the lighted objects stand out in the way that you can see and focus on what the figures are doing. You have a server, a gentleman and a lady at the end of the bar and the figure that is sitting alone is not lighted so you tend to keep focused on your lighted figures. The viewer of

construct the tracks in line with the Patapsco River until they reached the Airy Mountain.

At first glance Hopper draws our attention to the large French-styled house at the center of the painting. However upon closer inspection the clear blue sky and rusted railroad tracks offer equal insight into the main theme of the painting: alienation. The angle Hopper chose to paint from reveals two sides to the house: one side basking in the sunlight highlighting its remaining qualities, whilst the other is hidden deep in the shadows “ashamed of itself”. The poem states that

Englewood Railway is a logging railroad on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. Headquartered in Woss, British Columbia, the line runs 90 km from Vernon Lake, through Woss, and past Nimpkish Lake Provincial Park to Beaver Cove. This rail line was the primary method used to transport logs in North Island. On April 20, 2017, a train being re-loaded rolled down the track and crashed into a train maintenance car resulting in a derailment. The crash killed three workers and spilled a load of logs across the track and operations of the railway were immediately halted after the incident. Since this event, the logs have been primarily transported on highway trucks.

On the way home to Maycomb, Jean Louise boards a train and comments that “she was glad she had decided to go by train. Trains had changed since her childhood, and the novelty of the experience amused her” (4). In this case, not only are trains a symbol of changing times, they are also metaphorically symbolic of the set paths that people will take through their life. In addition, trains only run on already laid railroads, further implying that people have the tendency to follow and maintain their beliefs and ideologies during their lives.

One of the most talked about railroads in the history of the United States was never an actual railroad. “The Underground Railroad is every route that the enslaved took, or attempted to take to freedom. It is a vast network of paths and road, through swamps and over mountains, along and across rivers and by sea, that cannot be documented with precision [sic].” (Landau 71) The people helping lead the runaway slaves to freedom were called conductors and the houses where the runaway slaves stayed while on their journey to freedom were called stations. People who donated money to help the runaway slaves find freedom were called stockholders. The runaway slaves were the passengers. The success of the Underground Railroad depended on its ability to be an extremely secretive mission.

The narrator reflects that the house next to the railroad tracks is a “first”. This suggest that the narrator lives in multiple homes throughout his lifetime, which is the first indication of the families low income. The narrator comments that he is the reason the family lives in next to the train tracks. This insinuates a repetition of blame aimed toward the child. This concept is later backed up with the line “not yet the rude wasteful boy, the first son casting shadows”. The strong negative connotation to the line is most likely derived from accusations the father makes toward the child. As trains pass by the house, the child sits under the table comforting the dog. However the tone of fear makes it evident that the dog is comforting the

Our research site is a local area that is also an abandoned railroad location. Underneath all of the trees, and various grass and weed species, there are plenty of railroad tracks on the ground. The area is currently uninhabited by humans, however, there are many animal species that live there. There are rats, bees, and birds (pigeons) that call this place their home. This site is a large piece of land that is divided into 2 unequal pieces. One proposed development for this site is to transform it into a public park. It would take about 20 years for the development to be completed. However, this could cause a great disturbance, or great improvement to the parameters (interactions, ecosystem services, air quality, water quality, biodiversity,

On the edge of town, in a withdrawn area, high on a hill sits what appears to be a Victorian house that reveals a castle. Built in the 1920s, the house has two turrets, unsightly undersize windows, three spiked roofs, and a splayed base on each side. An inharmonious spiked iron gate engulfs the six-bedroom dwelling.

This portfolio will consist of thirty photographs showing common exterior features of general housing in urban Bristol. Each photo will be paired with an in-depth explanation of the background and practical use of these particular construction techniques. This will then be accompanied by an address and a map to allow the reader to have a better understanding of where each terminology was photographed. To ensure maximum picture quality, all photographs will be taken with a Canon 70D digital camera. Adobe Photoshop CS6 will be used to enhance pictures if necessary. Effective time management is essential to this projects success as subjects need to be located and photographed in suitable weather conditions.

When the landscape is presented by composers in an evocative manner, an individual is able to view the land in a different perspective in relation to how it represents people and landscape. In Judith Wright’s Flame-tree in a Quarry, the poem comments on the destruction of the landscape due to the need for industrial progress and resources, making the audience to question the relationship of the people and the land, developing the concept of life and death. Whereas in Wright’s poem Train Journey, it reflects the feelings of being disconnected from nature, revealing the audiences perspective of the landscape as being the roots that they must accept in order to define themselves, in which is seen through a liberating and transformative experience

The shot in Van Gogh’s bedroom used warm tones, as opposed to the normal planes. The tones and colors imitated the characteristics of Vincent’s paints with high contrast of tones among warm colors. The scene where Vincent arrived to Arles was shown with bright colors and a strong illumination to show Vincent’s expectations. Cool colors and blue tones created an effect of remoteness and sadness in other scenes. The interior illumination in the first scene is solid, frontal and flat; it is diffuse in the third scene.

In Wright and An alto's houses, a powerful sense of insides is generate by opacity. Which, in Falling water is express in roughly dressed stone masonry walls and, in Villa Mairea. By white-painted, solid walls. The transparency of glass windows in both houses thereby connect the two. In both houses, the architects created a strong sense of insideness yet, at the same time, devised ways to connect inside and outside and thereby create a robust continuity between the two. This inside-outside relationship can be translate into environmental and architectural experience in four different ways: (1) in-betweeness; (2) interpenetration generated by inside; (3) interpenetration generated by outside; and (4)