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    Architecture and language Architecture and language it's a term that can describe the culture of its own people, and speaks to the world with the small details in each side of it. Cultural signs and symbols derived from customs and traditions, cultural and environmental impacts inherited, and which still continues in the development of signs and symbols of a new coherent in the current cultural and technological development. Understand the language of architecture, we must consider it as a living

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    Chennai is an ideal place to live for its many business opportunities, cultural activities, and tourist industry. Villas are a suitable option whether you want to invest, rent commercially, or make one your permanent home. As with any large purchase or house hunting, there are a lot of factors in place which should be thought through carefully as they will affect your decision. They can be confusing at times but these are some of the main ones to think through before you start your villa hunting journey:

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    What is a villa? Villas originated in Italy. They used to be the country houses of the city dwellers who wanted to unwind amid peaceful surroundings at different time of the year. Many of the Italian villas still fulfil similar needs. Ironically though, their popularity is no longer limited to the country itself. They are now one of the most common architectural types of family home seen worldwide. Villas as your permanent home vs villas as your holiday home Many luxury villas still continue to be

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    afford to pay for bigger homes. The addition of second bathrooms and extra bedrooms became common. Many families built a 'family' or 'rumpus' room, providing two living areas and some homes were air-conditioned. As car ownership increased, many new houses were built with a garage or carport. New building materials like plastic paints, linoleum floor coverings and laminex kitchen benches made household cleaning even easier. Other designs had rooms being extended rather than being added. The picture

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    apartments and student accommodation. The combination of the increased demand for inner-city housing against high vacancy rates for office buildings is providing lucrative development opportunities for adaption into residential apartments. The forecast for house price growth in 2016 was 17% in Perth, 6% in Adelaide, 6% in Melbourne, 8% in Darwin, 19% in Sydney and 16% in Brisbane. Developers are looking towards the adaptive reuse of C and D grade office space across Australia capital cities into residential

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    Many homeschool families choose to learn the lessons that are necessary without the use of text books or worksheets. Many use the lesson plan approach of homeschooling. A lesson plan usually takes one or more weeks to complete. It encompasses all, or most, or the subjects that a normal school day covers: math, science, history, language arts, writing, and art. Using lesson plans is often more enjoyable that doing straight reading and answering questions from a textbook. While it may seem very confusing

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    space. In the year of 2014 I was a damaged little girl who didn't know what I felt like to be loved for real or what real joy was until I moved in with my parents. Through my life I have stayed from house to house with people I barely knew or just met. But than their was that one day I was taken to a house where I was automatically wanted, loved, and treated as if I was part of the family. I was welcome. The years living with my dad we have had our ups and downs, who hasn’t, we have had downfalls but

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    Both literature and cinema have the ability to emotionally engage its audience not just through the language and visuals but through the poetics created from it. While literature focuses on precise language and structuring, film can also make use of various mediums to build on a theme. Many of the poetic themes in both mediums, however, are found in their use of disunity. Robert Stam appropriately describes this power of disunity: Each of the filmic tracks can potentially develop an autonomous temporality

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    Performance in “This Blessed House” Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “This Blessed House” is one of many stories in her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Interpreter of Maladies and follows a newlywed Indian-American couple, Sanjeev and Twinkle, settling into their first suburban home together. As Twinkle begins to find and admire Christian objects scattered around the house, Sanjeev wants to throw them all away, underscoring that Sanjeev deeply cares about how they will look if they display these Christian

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    Reflection Paper on Ecotopia Ernest Callenbach was an successful American author, editor, and simple living adherent. He’s well known as author of the visionary semi-utopian novel Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold almost a million copies. In his book Ecotopia, Callenbach describes parts of the American northwest (Northern California, Oregon, and Washington) were to secede from the USA and form a new nation, called Ecotopia, founded on eco-friendly ideals. And some of the idea would

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