Bibliothèque nationale de France

The Grosse Pointe Public Library is in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and is a famous piece of architecture created by Marcel Breuer. This building diverges from his usual design style, in that this interior caters to the preservation of the books. The facades are designed in such a way that allows the light to shine in certain spots. The front façade of the building has large vertical windows and is slightly slanted forward to allow for shading certain times of the day. In the afternoon the front façade is lit with ambient lighting while the back of the building is well lit. The rear façade has well-spaced vertical slots for the windows to allow for a small amount of natural lighting to the spaces that contain books. The windows on the right rear of the building have a shading device that allows little to no light in the building. The rest of the windows do not have a shading device attached to the window due to the interior placement of the books. There is an area on the right rear of the building that is for business purposes only. On the exterior of the building, the business area has a porch with an overhang to allow for shading within the area. Although the porch is brick, the porch, the floor itself is not concrete but contracted of stone. The interior of the library has rows of horizontal lights that are in a checkered pattern. Most libraries have the vertical artificial lights going across the ceiling bring more light into the library than what is being given in this…

The 17th century up to the early 18th century is considered one of my favorite time periods. It is just something about the way the people spoke to one another, the way they wore their hair, and the way they dressed that always caught my eye, especially the women. Madame de Pompadour was the person I have chosen to write about for my research paper. I chose Pompadour because I read a brief summary of her life story seeing that she was born into the 17th century and I happened to like that time…

On January seventeenth and eighteenth of the year two thousand and fifteen, thousands of Americans tuned in to OWN (Oprah Interview Network) to watch the Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey. The ninety minute interview was done in Mr. Armstrong’s home located in Austin, Texas. Winfrey conducted this interview with Armstrong to address the public U.S. reports of him using banned substances during his professional cyclist career. For years he denied the fact of ever using any type of…

Drugs Should Be Banned In Sports There has been much discussion about drugs should be banned in sports, because it is really dangerous for the athlete 's life. Taking drugs to get extra energy for athletes has been a debatable issue for years. People who support drugs in sports think that winning is the most importing thing in life, they don’t care what could happen to the one who take it. However, in reality it is not good for the health and it causes a lot of health issues. Everyone knows it…

Europe. Think about your kids getting a better knowledge about Europe. Dream about walking through the perfect tiny little villages and seeing all the different types of people. The Pyrenees was the mountain range that the Tour De France features. The Spain region is made up of six French departments and six Spanish provinces (The Pyrenees pg. 1). The chain is about about 270 miles from the Bay of Biscay. The chains maximum width is about 80 miles. The central section is the highest of the three…

Keanah Santiago The Poem That Ruined My Life It was a dreary Saturday morning in England for all but me. Today my friend Marie de France was asked to be a court writer for the court of Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and she chose me as her lady in waiting. We were walking in the marketplace when we got this news, and Marie was ecstatic. No one knew why they chose Marie, some say that Eleanor wanted to have someone in the court who had a french background besides herself. Others…

and I wanted to find information about what kind of performance enhancing drugs Doping= Performance enhancing drug I will talk about what kind of doping is being used in particular sports, how in the most watched sporting event, doping has been used multiple times. I will also talk about the most doping using event of all time, the tour de France. I will also talk about the man Lance Armstrong, who used Doping in all his won Tour de France rides. Blood doping is the most controversial…

Before the scandal, Lance Armstrong was a beloved athlete, both in America and around the World, because of his struggles to overcome testicular cancer, all while winning seven consecutive Tour de France cycling titles. In 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Agency concluded that Lance Armstrong cheated by using performance-enhancing drugs over the course of his cycling career and had USADA CEO Travis Tygart state in his report, found at http://cyclinginvestigation.usada.org/, that Armstrong,…

“The best for their career” Lance Armstrong spent years vehemently denying his use of performance enhancing drugs, while literally dominating the world of cycling, amazing cash winnings, media attention and a worldwide following. After seven consecutive wins at the Tour de France, he was outed for his long-time doping use and in 2012 was stripped of all titles, and banned for life from competitive cycling. (Emily Kendy). Doping was the reason Mr. Armstrong had all of his success in competitive…

found using substances banned by WADA should forfeit all medals and titles, since it will not be known which events were done under the use of banned substances. It’s disappointing watching how athletes need to cheat to get a title, and while watching them I ask myself, did they enjoy winning like that, knowing that other athletes have worked harder, and they just effortlessly win a title like that? That 2 percent is much bigger than what you might think. In the London 2012 Summer Olympics 29…