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Hrushita Davey PA101614 Masters in Architecture Thesis Proposal December 2015 Guided by: Professor Jigna Desai Abstract My point of departure for this thesis is that in many of our post-industrial cities, the civic realm has increasingly shrunk and the private realm has continuously expanded and civic spaces are arguably more important today than ever. Most people are found using the unplanned public spaces rather than the planned public spaces. The issue is approached by focusing on a middle ground-

urban population, people constructed the cities and cities will be extended to fit the population. How to recognize a city? What kind of medium affects the relationship of people, society and cities, and changes the shape of them Simultaneously? Calvino takes the observation of the real city to represent in the description of his novel (1978). "If on arriving at Trude I had not read the city 's name written in big letters, I would have thought I was landing at the same airport from which I had taken

Use Irony and Magic Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude       In Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, the realistic description of impossible events is an example of both irony and magic realism. Irony is the use of words, images, and so on, to convey the opposite of their intended meaning. Garcia Marquez employs irony on several levels. Sometimes a single word, such as a character's name, suggests something opposite to the character's personality: for example, Prudencio Aguilar

Franz Kafka is one of the greatest writer of German Literature . His name only comes next to great German writer like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky , Thomas Mann . His work’s translation in English has all made him one of the classic and most popular writer of the world . Though he never wanted his works to be published. In his letter to his Friend Max Brod he requested him to burn all his writing as mentioned in epilogue by Brod in Franz Kafka’s Trial . “Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I have

Close your eyes... Imagine yourself sitting in a comfortable chair in a beautiful field filled with vibrant colored flowers letting off your favorite floral fragrance. There is a side table with your favorite warm drink filling the air above it with artful steam. The book you hold in your hands resembles the length of a novella and had a dark color theme on the front cover with sharp cursive as the title font. You open it gently with anticipation, wondering what this story could possibly be about

brief point to be made here is that literature is only useful so far as it's understood and appreciated. Assuming one satisfies both criteria then there is no telling how important literature can be in one's life. The plain fact is, and as Italo Calvino noted, "Every reading of a classic is in fact a rereading" and "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." In other words, literature has resonance throughout one's life. Themes in literature are timeless and universal

By reading a classic, the reader will come away with a lesson that they have learned, and they will begin questioning themselves. Authors who write classics have to have unique styles to their writing to connect to the world, so that the reader can understand the message the book is telling them. Three famous authors who write classics, that you may know are O.Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck. O.Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck all write with their own unique styles in their writing that

Anyone who reads Don Quixote for the first time inevitably has some preconceptions about it, beginning with the dictionary def MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA was born in Alcala de Henares in Spain near Madrid in 1547. Nothing is certainly known about his education, but by the age of twenty-three, he enrolled in the army as a private soldier. He was maimed for life in the battle of Lepanto and was taken captive by the Moors on his way home in 1575. After five years of slavery, he was ransomed;

“Little Red Riding Hood” is an extremely well known fairy tale that has been told across the globe in a multitude of versions. The story is often told with a young girl dressed in a hooded red coat, sent by her mother to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother. On the journey to her grandmother’s house, Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf, whom she assumes to be good-natured. She tells him where she is headed and who she is planning on visiting. Although the little girl trusts the wolf,

In this present technologically superfast world, where the click of buttons is changing the way people think, plan and execute their works and live their lives, “virtual reality”, “surrealism”, “hyper reality” are the terms in vogue. They are so commonly used everywhere that they may not seem fanciful any more. However, the excitement in superstitions, magic and mysticism still prevails. India has always caught the imagination of foreigners as the land of hidden secrets – it is viewed as a “hub