Herman B Wells Library Analysis

They all labeled downtown El Paso’s buildings. I looked at them, lost for I had no knowledge of what they were talking about. I was still just a bird hatching from the shell. I turned left and there it was, classroom A1518. The two large, dark wooden doors were opened and on top of them was the sign “ARCHITECTURE”. I stood there with my breath taken away from me. “So… This is it. This is why you came into Northwest. This is your purpose” I took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and continued on forward. Inside was a large room with computers on most of the side walls and desks the size of tables were located in the middle. All of the other students’ eyes were on me. I got even more nervous. They probably asked themselves if I was lost because of course, who would expect a 15-year-old to take an architecture college class? I walked slowly towards the 2nd desk in the front row. I sat in the tall black chair as the sound of the AC and the computer fans grew bigger and bigger. I’ve never heard anymore silence in my life. I opened my backpack’s side apartment and took out my pencil and place it on the side of the dark brown desk. I looked around and saw another room inside of

The building was a marvel of modern engineering. A carbon neutral, solar and geothermal powered monument to the future. The outside of the building a sleek combination of recycled redwood and interlocking solar panels. The inside’s high vaulted ceilings and sleek white pillars formed a cavernous inner space. Three classrooms divided the building into working spaces. The bright L.E.D lighting and modern fixtures completed the buildings futuristic design. This building was the newest in a long line of additions to my middle school's campus.

Two examples that I find especially thought provoking are the Danziger studio and the Goldwyn Library. Built to blend into the local surroundings, the luxury residence was given a humble, rough exterior. Davis' explains that the rough exterior of the architecture reflects the underlying social phenomenon of "repression, surveillance and exclusion"(Davis, 224) that collectively forms the "fragmented, paranoid spatiality"(Davis, 229 ) that LA embodies. Moreover, The house's "camouflage"(Davis, 229 ) exterior creates a stark contrast to its luxurious interior, which places further emphasis on the exclusion and barrier between the "opulent"(Davis, 256) interior and the "rough"(Davis, 224 ) environment. I find Davis' assessment of the Daziger studio particularly agreeable and accurate as I truly believe that an architecture, its purpose and characteristic, sheds light to not only its physical environment but also its social environment, something that might not necessarily be as apparent. On the other hand, I find Davis' assessment of the Goldwyn library rather exaggerated. Judging from photos taken, the fifteen foot security wall is not as grotesque and 'fear-imposing' as Davis puts it. Davis described the library as "baroquely fortified...menacing...bizarre"(Davis, 246) and "paranoid"(Davis, 251). Although security and 'vandal-proof'' maybe, as Davis suggested, the initial goal of the design, I do not believe that it is as exaggerated as Davis

In the short story, "The Pedestrian," by Ray Bradbury, Bradbury uses imagery to depict a society where people are addicted to technology and warns about the loss of energy, life, and humanity that come with this way of living. Bradbury illustrates this by describing tomb-like houses. When Leonard Mead walks down the street, he describes the picture as such, "... the cottages and homes with their dark windows... it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard... there were whisperings and murmurs where a window in a tomb-like building was open." (Bradbury 1). The imagery in this quote helps the reader conjure up a scene where everyone is "trapped" in their houses, watching T.V., and technology has all but turned their house into a tomb. In

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a bold fight against lynching, suffragist, defender of the rights of women, journalist and speaker of international stature. It stands as one of the most intransigent leaders, and more determined to defend democracy. Born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and died in 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of sixty-nine.

Ida B. Wells is a name that should always be synonymous with African American modern history. Being born during the Civil War in the South and living her life through Reconstruction, history would play a huge role with her life. So when given the choice of being a background character or to take center stage, Wells found her spot light and shone like the morning sun. The South would do its best to stifle her voice both as child, though she would not know it, and as an adult. Yet Wells would show the strength and determination of an African American woman and prove that she was as much a part of the large scale Civil Rights Movement as her male counterparts.

Ida B. Wells was born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi on Gregorian calendar month sixteen, 1862. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a cook. They were slaves owned by man named mister. Bolling. They were treated well by mister. Bolling, however they were still slaves. they'd to try and do no matter he told them and anybody of the family can be oversubscribed to a different slaver at any time.

It can be said that despite literal simplicity some objects or places have a much deeper metaphorical meaning to certain individuals. For Jeannette Walls, the Glass Castle is more than just the title of her memoir. To begin, Jeannette lived most of her childhood in poverty, running from town to town in order to avoid “federal agents” who are actually just bill collectors. Even so, the family dreamed of a much brighter future in a place called the Glass Castle. Jeannette’s father, Rex Walls, planned “A great big house he was going to build for us in the desert. It would have a glass ceiling and thick glass walls and even a glass staircase...solar cells on the top that would catch the sun's rays...even have its own water-purification system”

Traditionally, African Americans were not even allowed an education. The racism of American citizens prevented that right. As civil rights were getting ratified, that fact change. However, it moved slower with African American women. Despite that, some great African American women were able to learn practical and technical skills that lead to the advancement of African Americans.

Ida B. Wells lived during the late 19th and early 20th century, fighting for civil and women’s rights movements. She was a well-established journalist and most famous for her anti-lynching campaigns. Born in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ida lived with her parents until they and her youngest brother were killed by a severe yellow fever epidemic. Left with her five remaining siblings, she took the responsibility of being their primary caregiver. Deciding to move to Memphis with her aunt, Wells became a leading woman figure in the African-American community that she had been living in. “By her late twenties, Wells had become one of the preeminent female journalists of her day, and the editor and co-owner of the Memphis, Tennessee, newspaper Free Speech and Headlight” (page 4). Also launching a strong investigation into lynching and its conquests in the South, Wells found herself to become exiled from there forever.

Ida B. Wells stands today as one of the black pioneer in regards to social welfare. Wells was also considered one of America’s greatest teachers who taught European Americans that lynching was barbaric (Pinar, 2006). No small accomplishment for a Memphis school teacher who had to battle not only white racism, but misogyny and envy from her fellow black reformers (Pinar, 2006).

Ida B. Wells was born to slave parents in 1862; six months after her birth the slaves were freed. A few years later her father helped open Shaw University; which is where Ida received her education. After her parents and one sibling died from a fever epidemic Ida had no choice but to leave her education and care for her younger siblings. She lied about her age and became a teacher, later pursuing journalism. She worked at the Free Speech Press where she also became an editor. The Free Speech newspaper was an anti-segregation paper funded by african-americans. She passionately investigated and wrote about the injustices of american black citizens.

Ida B. Wells was a Journalist who lead a campaign against lynching. Ida was born July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs Mississippi. She grew up as a slave on a plantation along with her mother and father. When Ida grew up she went to school to become a teacher and also took college courses and began to write and edit for a local journal. She is remembered as one of the early leaders in the fight for African-American civil rights. Ida passed away from a kidney disease in Chicago on March 25, 1931. At the age of sixteen Ida’s parents died from yellow fever so, in order to keep her family together Ida went to work as a teacher and took care of her brothers and sisters. She moved to Memphis a couple years later to work for a job making more money. While

Daughter of slaves, Ida B Wells was born in 1862 and surely made history when she became a journalist in Mississippi. Wells was best known by her fighting for gender and racial equality in the 1890s.

The significance of this specific building is apparent from the moment you enter its domain. The door, witch is not shaped like a door you will find in an average office building or home, is designed to be deliberately dark, narrow,