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bitter. She wanted to help her people and knew it was her responsibility but she was too afraid to go outside the castle walls. “If only I was a pretty princess,” she whispered gently. Gloria gulped. She glanced at her reflection through the glass window. “I would do anything..” she thought. Tomorrow was Gloria’s birthday but instead of being excited she dreaded it. It marked another year she had been without her parents. As the sun went down she gazed over the city. With a sigh, Gloria closed the

In the first to the fourth centuries, Roman bath houses were built with large, windows which are facing south to let in the sun's warmth. This was because they demanded a great amount of heat. In the early Roman Empire most baths faced the afternoon sun in wintertime when they had the most use. They also had their large windows covered with either transparent stone like mica or clear glass, which was one of the great breakthroughs in architecture and solar technology. (Links, 1999)The Romans discovered

The knocking on the door was the loudest he had ever heard fist on wood. It wasn't the banging noise on the door that jarred his concentration off track, but rather the reason behind the blasted knocking. He hears it yell unspoken threats to him behind one of the 20 identical wooden doors that line up and down the hallway. He knew this moment would come, but expected it to arrive much later. He truly doesn't belong in this clan. No one in the Clan of Knowledge is allowed to be wrong. Five seconds

      “Lesson Learned”                                               As I was standing in front of the judge many emotions proceeded to give me a nudge, my heart sank and the tears rolled down my face as if I was trying to fill a river. I knew I

Conservation Strategies 15 STRUCTURAL DESIGN 16 Structural Design Philosophy 16 Critical/Preliminary Member Sizes 17 REFERENCES 20 HOUSE DRAWINGS 25 PD1 – INTERIOR LAYOUT DESIGN 25 PD1 – INTERIOR LAYOUT PLAN 26 PD1 – WINDOW & DOOR 27 PD2 – SITE EVELVATION 28 PD2 - BUILDING ELEVATION 39 S01 – FOUNDATION LAYOUT PLAN 30 S02 – UPPER FLOOR FRAMING LAYOUT 31 S03 – ROOF FRAMING LAYOUT 32 S03 – TRUSS DESIGN 33 S04 – WALL FRAMING LAYOUT 34

droplets slowly began to fall on the window pane. Each one becoming more and more aggressive and mesmerizing. The loop of the pitter-patter was all I could hear even though my parents were making small talk. In Mexico, I would watch all the people on the street, all the stores and billboard signs and tall buildings. My favorite thing to watch were the lights on a car when it was raining, but now no one would stay close enough to see their lights though the backseat window. My dad was excited that we had

Need New Windows? 3 Reasons To Consider Sliding Windows When the time comes to purchase new windows, the amount of options to pick from may feel overwhelming. Not only do you need to select the windows material, but there are different styles of windows as well. One style that you may not have thought of before are horizontal sliding windows. Consider these 3 reasons for buying them. Sliding Windows Are Durable Traditional double hung windows have various moving parts, many of them being necessary

in 1920, and is on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Fresh Widow is a bluish green miniature French window, which he constructed with wood and leather. The Fresh Widow is considered to be a part of the Dadaist period and retains qualities of dadaism in that it is a stand alone object, that has been completely stripped of its utility and function. In addition, across the window sill, Duchamp wrote “COPYRIGHT” in capitalized black letters referring to the classic dadaist rejection of the

The windows in your home are responsible for many things. A well-built Renewal by Andersen replacement window can have a positive impact on energy-efficiency, potentially reducing heating and cooling expenses. Modern double-pane windows with gas-between-the-glass and high-performance seals block air and moisture leaks, reducing condensation and damage to sills and interior trim. And, with all of the performance advancements possible with advanced technology, factory applied colors and textures enhance

History of Stained Glass Unlike the function of the ordinary windows that we know today, which is “to allow a view of the outside and admit light into a building; the purpose of medieval stained-glass windows is not to allow people to see outside, but to beautify buildings, control light, and often times to tell a story” (Herren, n.d.). History offers two accounts of the origin of glass; one from a legend about the accidental discovery of glass by the Phoenician sailors and the second, points