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Well, thank you for tearing me a new starfish. It took a while, but I think it was worth the wait. That's exactly what I wanted to get out of this thread, thank you for your time.

Damn when I saw how old it was I thought you already turned it in, here I will help further with some examples.

Opening Sentence: As an opinion it should be forceful such as : All art forms have importance in our life, but only architecture takes the skill and understanding of multiple arts to master.

Thesis: Architecture is the greatest of all art forms because it is necessary to survival, it takes mastery of many talents to utilize effectively, and it inspires people more than any other art.

The thesis is simple and to the point, and it has the topics for your paragraphs

Paragraph 1: Architecture is the most necessary of all art forms. Followed by 3-5 sentences proving this is true.
Paragraph 2: Architect requires an innate understanding of other arts and sciences to master. 3-5 sentences proving this true.
Paragraph 3: Architecture truly inspires the inhabitants and channels life into them in a way other arts can't. 3-5 sentences proving this true

Now the conclusion, the conclusion you want to strengthen and restate your points and include a bit of your opinion, try not to start with In conclusion or end with something cliche such as "that was my paper" or  any form of question.

    Arts are a necessary part of our lives, they distinguish us as humans. Architecture is arguably the most important art form known to man. Architecture gives us protection, inspiration, and let's our creativity flow. I respect this form of art more than any other because I realize the impact it has on how we live and think. Architecture is the most ancient form of art and carries with it all of our heritage and ancestry, making it the greatest and most important of all arts.

I am in a rush so you definitely want to reword everything I said, but I just wanted to show you a basic form and I didn't have any other topics I could think of.

Thank you so much, man. Serious help right here on this and future papers. Thanks for the time spent helping a complete stranger.

Thank you so much, man. Serious help right here on this and future papers. Thanks for the time spent helping a complete stranger.

This is what they will be teaching you all sophomore and junior year, 2 years of something that simple.

This is what they will be teaching you all sophomore and junior year, 2 years of something that simple.
Well I guess I'll start this Freshman year, then.

Bump for revised version. I'm still not 100% satisfied with the last few sentences but I think this is a major improvement. I needed to get this posted before I had to go somewhere.

Art is an esteemed and sacred part of our identity as humans. It shows us the essence of cultures and eras and carries with it emotion manifested into the medium the artist chose. It can inspire us and move us, but the one thing it does not do is physically sustain us. Of the three human necessities, water, food, and shelter, two mediums facilitate any one of these. One is the culinary art, the second is architecture; what I believe to be the greatest of all arts.
Architecture is the most vitally important art to human beings. Our society is literally built on and around buildings; if they were all generic gray boxes our collective mood would mirror the drabness of these structures. Besides the fact of beauty, we could not live the way we do without buildings. Humans are the only species that have adapted to nearly any climate on Earth and this is due almost solely to buildings.
   Architecture also transcends a single form of art; in fact, it is the manifestation of several arts. It takes proficient drawing and creative skills to conceptualize a building, but the physical building of the structure is closer to making a sculpture. Unlike a sculpture, however, every square foot of this building must function cohesively with the rest of itself. No matter how beautiful a building is, if it doesn’t complete the task it was built for it’s simply a leviathan sculpture.
    More than any other art, architecture can inspire us. It inspires other arts and can influence and define an entire era. The Empire State Building was so revolutionary in it’s time that it not only was an icon; it was a cultural manifestation of everything that generation stood for. Architecture also defines the way people superficially think of a city or a place. Until 2001, the iconic skyline of New York City was the Empire State Building in Upper Manhattan and the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan.
   Buildings are required for survival. Architecture is required for almost everything else in our daily lives; creative output, inspiration, and carrying on our artistic legacy. Painters have their beautiful masterpieces, musicians have their timeless songs, but at the end of the day we do not lay our heads in these paintings or take physical refuge in a song. This job and privilege lays with buildings, and architecture’s job is to make this building beautiful enough to be the considered the greatest of all arts.

Bump for revised version. I'm still not 100% satisfied with the last few sentences but I think this is a major improvement. I needed to get this posted before I had to go somewhere.

Art is an esteemed and sacred part of our identity as humans. It shows us the essence of cultures and eras and carries with it emotion manifested into the medium the artist chose. It can inspire us and move us, but the one thing it does not do is physically sustain us. Of the three human necessities, water, food, and shelter, two mediums facilitate any one of these. One is the culinary art, the second is architecture; what I believe to be the greatest of all arts.
Architecture is the most vitally important art to human beings. Our society is literally built on and around buildings; if they were all generic gray boxes our collective mood would mirror the drabness of these structures. Besides the fact of beauty, we could not live the way we do without buildings. Humans are the only species that have adapted to nearly any climate on Earth and this is due almost solely to buildings.
   Architecture also transcends a single form of art; in fact, it is the manifestation of several arts. It takes proficient drawing and creative skills to conceptualize a building, but the physical building of the structure is closer to making a sculpture. Unlike a sculpture, however, every square foot of this building must function cohesively with the rest of itself. No matter how beautiful a building is, if it doesn’t complete the task it was built for it’s simply a leviathan sculpture.
    More than any other art, architecture can inspire us. It inspires other arts and can influence and define an entire era. The Empire State Building was so revolutionary in it’s time that it not only was an icon; it was a cultural manifestation of everything that generation stood for. Architecture also defines the way people superficially think of a city or a place. Until 2001, the iconic skyline of New York City was the Empire State Building in Upper Manhattan and the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan.
   Buildings are required for survival. Architecture is required for almost everything else in our daily lives; creative output, inspiration, and carrying on our artistic legacy. Painters have their beautiful masterpieces, musicians have their timeless songs, but at the end of the day we do not lay our heads in these paintings or take physical refuge in a song. This job and privilege lays with buildings, and architecture’s job is to make this building beautiful enough to be the considered the greatest of all arts.

I can dig it.


I agree, although, archatechure, is hard to do, and isn't as beautiful in a computer as it is in real life, so, Archatecture, is the greatest art ever.
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