суббота, 23 февраля 2013 г.

Rendering 2


The headline of the article is Artists warn Pickles' homes policy may price them out of their studios.
The article is from а newspaper the Guardian.
 It's printed on the 22nd of February by Robert Booth. The article is devoted to allowing landlords to convert workspace into housing without planning permission will damage creative industries.  
The main idea of the article is to tell a reader about intentions of policy to allow landlords to transform workshops into homes without consent could price out poorer people from the creative industries, and to undermine economically productive sectors. The author goes on to say that the policy applies to occupied buildings, so artists, designers, textile workers and new media firms now fear they could be forced out of colonies of cheap workspace. In conclusion Jules Pipe, Hackney's elected mayor, said the policy could tear his borough's creative cluster apart,He said it risked "turning the borough into a dormitory village full of luxury apartments that do nothing to tackle the affordable housing crisis"
 The message of the writer is clear to understand and on the whole I found this article very interesting as it touches upon the privacy of the painters and their private property.

понедельник, 18 февраля 2013 г.

Individual Reading Chapters 1-3

The narrator recollects the circumstances in which he first met Charles Strickland, who is now famous. He begins by pointing out that there seems to be nothing special about Charles Strickland, but then says that the man is a genius. The narrator talks about how Strickland is relatively obscure in life, and that his emotional style of art is misunderstood. He then lauds the legends which have risen up about Strickland, saying that such legends are the key to immortality.
The narrator says that, although he knew Strickland in early life, he would not be writing about his friend if he had not gone to Tahiti. Apparently, the most obscure parts of Strickland's life took place in Tahiti, and now the narrator has a chance to interview those who knew Strickland during this time in his life.

My Pleasure Reading

The first term- Agatha Christie " Murder in Mesopotamia"
The second term - Sophie Kinsella "Confessions of a Shopoholic"
The third term -  Ian Mcewan "Saturday"
The fourth term - Ian Mcewan "Antonement"
The fifth term - Stephen King "The Green Mile"
The sixth term - John Fowels "The French Lieutenant's Woman"

Rendering №1



The headline of the article is Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects. The article is from a newspaper under the name The Guardian.
 The article is printed on the 17th of February, 2013.
 The author of the article is Vanessa Thorpe. 
The aim of the article is to provide the reader with the information about the rights and capabilities of women in the art. The author starts by telling the reader about Dame Zaha Hadid, the world's leading female architect's saying about the fact that there is some opposition against women-architects in London where women's rights to do something more perfect are limited. According to the text the British Iraqi, who is a former winner of Britain's Stirling prize and the international Pritzker prize, said it was frequently assumed that a woman architect could not take on a big commercial project and that she was better suited to residential properties, public buildings or leisure centres. In conclusion the author believes that women need to be encouraged and to have their confidence built up.
I found the article interesting and important as the theme about the women's rights is very actual today. Personally, I don't understand why do British are so against women architects? I don see a big difference between men and women. Everyone who wants to do something unusual, is capable to do it, I think.