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    The influence of the anti-immigration law to the American’s future. Every year people from all over the world, leaving their homes and moving to the United States. These people are willing to sacrifice themselves in the hope to start a new life, to find an opportunity for financial support for their families, to give a chance for their children have a better future in the safe country. Some of them immigrate in order to find freedom or relief from political and religious persecution. Each of these

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    3d Printer Course Project

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    would be appropriate for students in a variety of courses. The results of such a project will be shared. Introduction Using a 3D printer as a motivator for students to be creative can be a benefit to any currirulum. As Van Epps, Huston, Sherrill, Alvar, and Bowen (2015) state “3D printing not only promotes learning but inspires creativity and fun”. One of the major goals

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    1. INTRODUCTION The term Critical Regionalism was first used by architectural theorists such as Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivre, and has been given a slightly different meaning by the historian and theorist, Kenneth Frampton. Critical Regionalism can be briefly defined and understood as an approach to architecture which attempts to oppose placelessness or the lack of identity in today’s modern architecture (Linda, 2012). Kenneth Frampton states that: “Critical regionalism is not regionalism

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    characteristic in Modernism by introducing something new. This idea might also be supported by the fact the house is timber which has been preferred to stone unlike most modernist architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos although Alvar Aalto used timber in an urban area with The Pavilion in

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    The Appalachian Mountains are a mountain range in the eastern part of North America. The origin of the mountain ranges name came about when “Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his crew were exploring the Florida coast in 1528, they found a Native American town with a name they transliterated as Apalachen. The word ‘Apalachen’ was also applied to an inland mountain range, and through the course of time it became applied to the entire range and its spelling was changed” (“Appalachian Mountains”)

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    Wright demonstrating the Ideals of Organic Architecture in Taliesin West Exterior image of Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona “Organic can merely mean something biological, but if you are going to take the word organic into your consciousness as concerned with entities, something in which the part is to the whole as the whole is to the part, and which is all devoted to a purpose consistently, then you have something that can live, because that is vital” (1) (Meehan 52) The famous American

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    Analysis of Falling Water Introduction Frank Lloyd Wright was a renowned American architect famous for his work titled Falling Water. Wright made a significant contribution to the development of modern American architecture. Falling Water was a house commissioned by Edgar Kaufmann and his family used it as a modern vacation house in the mountainside. Although Falling Water is the most celebrated of his works, he did more than a thousand sketches that resulted in more than 500 completed projects

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    1 Introduction Longevity and falling birth rates will bring new challenges and opportunities for societies and companies all over the world. While the lifespan will rise and the share of older age cohort will increase, societies and companies must take actions to prepare for these changes to be able to survive with the increasing liabilities caused by older employees. Companies must also scrutinize their marketing strategies, so that they will be ready for the new powerful consumer generation

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    “Human houses should not be like boxes, blazing in the sun, nor should we outrage the Machine by trying to make dwelling places too complementary to Machinery. Any building for humane purposes should be an elemental, sympathetic feature of the ground, complementary to its nature-environment, belonging by kinship to the terrain.” - Frank Lloyd Wright Brilliant, inspirational, influential, innovative; these are a just a few adjectives that illustrate a very significant man with many traits. A pioneer

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    Pre-Columbian Period

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    [edit] Pre-Columbian period Main article: Pre-Columbian The earliest known inhabitants of what is now the United States are thought to have arrived in Alaska by crossing the Bering land bridge, at least 14,000 30,000 years ago.[10] Some of these groups migrated south and east, and over time spread throughout the Americas. These were the ancestors to modern Native Americans in the United States and Alaskan Native peoples, as well as all indigenous peoples of the Americas. Many indigenous peoples

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