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    The Bungalows: A Brief History. • Introduction: America has been in a love affair with the Bungalow style houses for more than two torrid decades. This exotic word Anglo has been derived from Indian language, which came to be a new American house style. The word bungalow has been around for more than hundreds of years, but did not brought up anything sooner. When the English travelled to India, they described their homes built by the native labour as long, low buildings with wide verandas and deep

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    The book The Bungalow Mystery is about a girl, Nancy Drew. Nancy is a detective and loves solving mysteries. One day, Nancy and her friend Helen are on a boat ride, and they come across a huge storm. Their boat sinks, and they almost drown when someone named Laura Pendleton comes and rescues them. She then explains that her mother just recently passed away, and she came here to meet her new guardians. Her mother had said that they were nice, but when Laura met them, they seemed awfully rude. She

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    1901, utilizing wood and quarter-sawn oak as a main material. (Heinz 2004) The compilation of all of the Greene’s influence and creation of a new style it is known as “utltimate bungalows”. As the

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    Californian Bungalow

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    Ass. 2 Part 2- Investigation- Karmen Lang Arts and Craft Period in Wagga Wagga NSW Within Wagga Wagga’s city centre are a large number of Californian Bungalows, dating back to the Arts and Craft period of the 1920’s. Currently sort after residences and places of business to the people of Wagga Wagga. History of Californian Bungalows in Wagga Wagga City Centre - After World War 1 much of the farming land around Wagga Wagga was designated for settlement by returned soldiers to farm. Wagga

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    The architecture of a time period may reflect more than just our personal style. The California craftsman bungalow style house was named this because of its introduction to the United States in California and abundance in California in the 1900s to the 1930s. Craftsman refers to the style of house; whereas, bungalow references the features of the house and overall use of the house. The bungalow originated in India where it was as an alternative to tent living among English colonial traders and officers

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    Three weeks after we had settled into Grandpa Greene’s whitewashed bungalow mom and I were sitting at the dinner table, next to two empty chairs when the telephone rang in the middle of franks, macaroni and cheese, and my least favorite Brussels sprouts. As mom rose to answer, I seized the opportunity to heap some macaroni and cheese on top of the lopsided pile of Brussels sprouts. I was smiling to myself at the clever way I’d camouflaged the sprouts when mom let the phone fall with a clattering

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    The Bungalow Craze The bungalow style was a major influence in the drastic change of American society and how people lived. It influenced a major shift in gender role of women in society, creating easier housekeeping techniques and greater employment and career opportunities for women by confronting economic and social issues in society using domestic architecture. The simpler home design expressed many tensions of Progressivism in attempting to solve social issues of the time. The transformation

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    Muhammed Ali stated that “He who is not courageous enough to take risks in life will accomplish nothing in life.” It was gutsy of Rikki-Tikki to fight to fight the snakes Nag and Nagaina because they are one of the most deadly creatures in the Bungalow. There is a huge variety of similarities throughout the book and the movie such as the characters, setting and conflict. The characters in the book and the movie are a lot alike. Such as the main character, and the protagonist, Rikki-Tikki. Rikki-Tikki

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    Untidy Bungalow Quotes

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    and her indifference toward the world. In the second chapter, Burnett narrates, “...they wore shabby clothes and were always quarreling and snatching toys from each other. Mary hated their untidy bungalow...” (9) The verb “hated” implies that Mary cannot even bear the “shabby clothes” or “untidy bungalow”. She is not able to be satisfied with life without maidservant, luxurious house or elegant clothes, either. Growing up alone in a world full of shallow materialism, Mary, like her mother, also has

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    international designs many houses were decorative thus there was the emergence of the Californian Bungalow within the 1920s. This housing structure began during the “early nineteen-twenties which became a leading fashion” (Boyd, 1962, p.70). Due to the fact that Australian designs were not as independent as it is today the Californian Bungalow was mainly influenced from the American Californian Bungalows. The bungalows in Australia was an approved style for a suburban house as a result of its simplistic building

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