Standing amongst musically-adept buildings that easily dwarf it and construction that does not help its aged appearance, the Schmidt Vocal Arts Centers (SVAC) stands as a rehearsal, office, and studio spot for all vocal students—major and minor alike. Looking back into the history of the building, it once stood as the Koinonia House and was changed after in honor and recognition of the William E. and Casiana Schmidt's gift to the Opera Theatre program. This could explain the exterior design of the building which does not appear as expressionistic as one would expect. The building is bland with a plain, rectangular shape, brick walls, and a detached atmosphere surrounding it. The building, however, is not actually as old as it may appear. After expressing my opinion about …show more content…
A group of mix-matched chairs is forced into a singular, tight space in the lobby. Anyone who enters and waits must wait in such close contact with those around them. Awkward silence is seemingly inevitable. People constantly remark about the little amount of sitting, making comments such as “if only we had a couch,” but they fix this problem by using the open area of the floor. While this goes against the design of the building, it works well and allows a larger group of students to interact. Despite this closeness, I noticed this forced contact has actually engaged conversation rather than limited it. While the SVAC is not a designated social circle, it can certainly become a hub if one goes at the right time. Students come in, happily singing away at their favorite show tunes, arias, or contemporary pieces. Some join in. Mini-performances stem from even the smallest of conversations with students singing casual phrases in a joking manner. There is a performance air around the older students, as would be expected due to years of practice, preparation, and
Approaching the auditorium from outside, one can see clearly what is on the inside due to the large glass windows and doors that cover about half of the front view of the building. In the large lobby, there are bathrooms, drinking fountains, the ticket office, and doors that lead to the hallway to the auditorium. This hallway has a fork, giving the people who enter the choice of entering the auditorium on the left or right side. When the hallway ends, there are seats that seem never ending, even though there are only about 1500 seats. The seats are split into two tiers, a lower tier and an upper tier. The lower tier is the main level and is close to the stage, while the upper tier is a mezzanine with stairs that lead to the rows of seats, with the seats farthest from the stage being the highest seats in the auditorium. Within each tier, there are three sections: left, middle, and right. The left and right are angled to the stage, while the middle section is parallel with the front of the stage. These separate sections allow for easy access to the seats because there are aisles on both left and right of every section o...
Sandra Cisneros born on December 20, 1954 grew up in Chicago settling with a neighborhood known with Hispanic immigrants. Until then her migrating with her six brothers, from different communities in Chicago, and visiting her grandmother in Mexico, she has never really make ones home in. Being the only girl with no sisters, Cisneros only way that would deprive her from loneliness, is by reading books where she found her talents in writing. Fast forwarding to college Sandra Cisneros worked on her master’s degree at University of Iowa Writers Workshop where found her interest as Mexican-American woman with a self-reliant passion and how being a Hispanic were different in the American culture.
Marching for days without water, soldiers lost morale and the energy to reach their destination. To solve this situation, their general told them that a forest of plum trees was steps away. His words not only caused his soldiers to salivate and quench the thirst to some degree, but also motivated some to keep marching to a place that had water. The plums and the water abundant region associated with them were the soldiers’ hope—a belief that something good would happen in the near future. This hope facilitated the materialization of positive things by incentivizing the soldiers to proceed. However, this folktale also entails a negative influence of hope. The hope made the soldiers less thirsty at first, and some soldiers thought this mechanism would continue to work; they took no actions to turn the hope into the reality and were doomed to death.
The first way that the University nonverbally communicates it’s pro individualism and simultaneous lack of regard for the handicapped is through the dauntingly steep staircase of the Rauch Business Center. Upon arrival at the bottom of the Rauch Business Center staircase, we are forced to take a deep breath before climbing the very steep stairs. Since the steps are carved into a steep hill typical of Lehigh’s campus, the precipitous stairs show no mercy as they are unnaturally very close together (See Exhibit A). Additionally, the slope of the staircase makes it difficult for students to walk at a normal rate as either students walk extremely fast or extremely slow down the stairs. It also encourages small conversation in groups as there is only enough space for three or four students to walk side by side and discourages large groups like an elevator would encourage. Through the functional nonverbal communication of the steep staircase and the symbolical non-verbal communication of promoting individualistic qualities since we are repelled from traveling in large groups like paths and elevators might otherwise inspire, Lehigh is trying to dissuade students from following a herd-mentality through the physical design and layout of
House on Mango Street is a novel written by a Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. It is a collection of short stories centered around the coming of age. The novel is centered around Esperanza Cordero life and each story represents an element of her life growing up in Chicago. In one of her short stories “Papa Wakes up Tired in the Dark” she is told the shocking news from her father, one morning “ Your abuelito [grandfather] is dead” (Cisneros 56). Her father begins to cry which is the first time Esperanza has seen her father in a weak state. The father then leaves for Mexico as Esperanza refers to it as “that country” (Cisneros 57) as trying to say the country of sadness. Mr. Cordero goes to Mexico to bury his father. In the meantime Esperanza, as the oldest one in her family has to take charge around the house and take care of her family while he is gone. She's the one that has to break the news to her siblings about their grandfather passing away and explain to them why they must stay quiet and not play today. Soon after, as every morning passes by her father wakes up in the dark filled with sadness in his face. All she does is hold him in her arms.
Space is crucial when it comes to communicating, the space that you are surrounded by will shape all aspects of the communicating you do. Space is always communicating meaning and from the spaces I observed on campus and in the Student Center I drew meaning from them which allowed me to understand what each space is communicating and what see how each space encouraged or hindered communication. In this paper I will explain my critiques as well as my approval of the quad on campus and the Student Center, I also will give students opinions how the Student Center succeeds or fails in encouraging communication and lastly give my ideas of how space in the quad as well as the Student Center can be improved to encourage a greater level of communication.
Secure and comforting or strict and oppressive, the idea of home can greatly influence the emotions, dreams, and worldviews of literary characters. Different parts of the home setting can be used symbolically to represent a character’s struggles and even an aspect of a character’s personality. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros are two stories that employ a home setting to achieve their meaning. Laura, a central character in The Glass Menagerie, is confined to her home by a fear of the outside world. Esperanza, the main character in The House on Mango Street, aspires to escape the cycle of poverty and brokenness in her home, but her family’s economic situation prevents her from doing so. While these two works of literature view the
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They traveled in pairs and were very focused on completing the sheet they need for a class. They went from exhibit to exhibit answering their questions and moving on and it was clear the space was not meant to cater to their needs. They were less relaxed than the other patrons, and much less engaged, only about half of them touched animals in the touch tanks. The Seymour center’s unorganized setup, meant to cater to the short attention span of children, caused the students to navigate through the center in an inefficient way to answer their questions, or to go through their question sheets out of order but going through the seymour center in a more efficient way. They were interested in getting the information they needed in the most efficient way possible and, for the most part, ignored the activities of the
Creating such an environment entails arranging a practical physical layout that allows me to move about the classroom and interact with students, as well respond quickly and unobtrusively to student behavior that interrupts a classroom. A practical arrangement ensures that students move comfortably to the areas in the classroom where they can obtain materials and work respecting personal space. (Rule 3, 4) Also, arrangement should support the type of academic
What does it take for a certain place to make a person happy? That is too broad of a question, because everyone has different wants, needs, and desires in life. It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy; but I couldn’t have gotten any luckier. My childhood home was prime for a little adventurous go-getter, like me. Growing up, I lived in this beautiful wooden cabin, it looked like something from a kid’s dream. Miles of fields and woods behind our quaint little home, it was perfect! My grandfather built the house in 1982 and most of my family lived in the log house, at one time or another. Whether it be my aunts, my uncles, or cousins we all lived there. That house is such a big part of my family; everyone in my family has some unforgettable memory there. My mom broke her collar bone there, three separate times. My uncle had his second wedding there, that’s where I learned to ride a four wheeler, it was the first house I lived in! That was the most influential time and place of my life; not only because of how young I was, but because of everything I got to experience while I was living there. It was a constant world of wonder, especially though my childish eyes.
Throughout choir this school year, huge advancements have been made within many of the students, leading to tremendous growth. Coming into the first few weeks of choir class, the confidence of the students were low and it was a lengthy process to get through warm-ups, solfege, and ta-ka-di-mis correctly and on pitch. Walking into class currently, more students can be heard singing out and scales being sung in tune with ease. As voices have matured over this school year, many positive growths can be seen. For most students, this being their first year of high school choir, have more room to improve and achieve the level of talent as the members of concert choir. As the final concert of the year comes to a close, progress and direction for future years can be heard and seen through the music.
As I approach the island on which my dream house awaits, I catch a quick
Both of my parents are working, so m family is a two income family. Differed from the general idea and the previous research mentioned above, wife should do housework, both father and mother should do house tasks in my family. For me, their division of labor in house seems pretty equal. Usually, my father does (1) cooking for dinner, (2) taking out the trash, (3) cleaning bathroom, and (4) washing dishes while my mother does (1) cooking for breakfast, (2) washing clothes, (3) maintaining a flower bed, and (4) cleaning living room. My younger sister folds up our clothes. Any other tasks are done by who realizes first. Since my parents was working, they hired two housekeepers as domestic outsourcing, “which is paying non-family members to do family-related tasks” (Wade and Ferree, 2014, p. 354) when my sister and I was small. They cared us. After growing up, the biggest sister began to take care of younger siblings. Before I realized the equal division of housework between my father and my mother, almost all house-tasks seem to be done