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Victor M. Guerrero Prof. Jerry Selah Arch-210-1: Video Project #1 25 March 2010 Venetian Palazzos    When I was assigned to research an architect after watching a documentary, I chose Andrea Palladio, because of his unique and special designing style used in his buildings.    Andrea Di Pietro Della Gondola of the town of Padua, then as an adult he moved to the Rebublic of Venice. Palladio gained crafting experience as a stonecutter and a sculptor in the workshop of Bartolommeo Cavazza da Sossano, who is said to have imposed particularly hard working conditions.   In April 1524, after one failed attempt to run away, he fled into Vicenza. Her

Victor M. Guerrero Prof. Cynthia McDaniel Literature for Children 14 September 2010 Add Creative Title     When I was a toddler, I was introduced to Dr. Seuss books, both in English and Spanish. My three favorite books where Horton Hears a Who, How the Grinch stole Christmas and The Cat in The Hat. These three books are the most memorable ones that I have in mind. When reaching the age of eight I was introduced to a little more “mature” kind of literature and did not contained pictures; my paternal grandmother gave to me as a birthday present “Grimm's Fairy Tales”. As far as I knew it was the ultimate fairy book coll

Victor M. Guerrero Mr. Andrew Rempt ENG 281: Gothic Literature 27 September 2010 Double Entry Journals "Until Jerome should return at night, Theodore at length determined to repair to the forest that Matilda had pointed out to him. Arriving there, he sought the gloomiest shades, as best suited to the pleasing melancholy that reigned in his mind. In this mood he roved insensibly to the caves which had formerly served as a retreat to hermits, and were now reported round the country to be haunted by evil spirits" -Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto) In the castle of Otranto, the detail of the darkness within the novel is described in a gothic

Victor M. Guerrero Prof. Jerry Selah Arch-210-1: Research Paper 25 March 2010 Diotisalvi and the Baptistery of St. John    When assigned to do a research about a particular architect in history and one of his most memorable buildings, I decided to do my research on Diotisalvi, and relatively unknown architect that was born before 1153 and died in 1164. He is well known as the original architect of the Baptistery of Pisa (The tower of Pisa), in piazza dei miracoli, as we can read in the sign he left inside the building, with the date 1152: MCLIII, MENSE AUGUSTI FUNDATA FUIT HAEC ECCLESIA DEUSTESAL VET MAGISTER HUIUS OPERIS.    1153 in the me