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Conclusion

 

The conclusion is your final opportunity to persuade the reader of your position based on the information you have presented. An effective conclusion establishes a sense of completeness.

Your conclusion should:

  • restate your position
  • summarise how the most important evidence supports this
  • show how your position is related to the broader body of knowledge of this field/topic.


Click on the buttons to explore through each part of the paragraph.

Brasilia was an attempt to advance a nation by rejecting history and embracing new ideas and technologies based on ideologies of a utopian future: making the planned city a useful context through which to analyse modernism and its inherent failures. It is evident that the philosophies of Brasilia’s designers, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, have led to a breakdown in autonomy between perceived ideas of utopia and the desires of its inhabitants. The strict ordering and bureaucratic regulations that control life within the planned city have led to social segregation, where people are denied the freedom that modernism promised. The city has been meticulously structured, rooted in the principles of modernism that control any spontaneous event. The concepts of functionality and rationalism that are fixed in modernism can be useful in planning civic spaces. However, rejection of historical context and denial of freedom of thought of its occupants has led to a refusal to accept these theories as a way of living.

 

[Restate the argument] Brasilia was an attempt to advance a nation by rejecting history and embracing new ideas and technologies based on ideologies of a utopian future: making the planned city a useful context through which to analyse modernism and its inherent failures. It is evident that the philosophies of Brasilia’s designers, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, have led to a breakdown in autonomy between perceived ideas of utopia and the desires of its inhabitants. [End restate the argument] [Sum up the points] The strict ordering and bureaucratic regulations that control life within the planned city have led to social segregation, where people are denied the freedom that modernism promised. The city has been meticulously structured, rooted in the principles of modernism that control any spontaneous event. [End sum up the points] [Relate to the broader topic] The concepts of functionality and rationalism that are fixed in modernism can be useful in planning civic spaces. However, rejection of historical context and denial of freedom of thought of its occupants has led to a refusal to accept these theories as a way of living. [End relate to the broader topic]

 

Brasilia was an attempt to advance a nation by rejecting history and embracing new ideas and technologies based on ideologies of a utopian future: making the planned city a useful context through which to analyse modernism and its inherent failures. It is evident that the philosophies of Brasilia’s designers, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, have led to a breakdown in autonomy between perceived ideas of utopia and the desires of its inhabitants. The strict ordering and bureaucratic regulations that control life within the planned city have led to social segregation, where people are denied the freedom that modernism promised. The city has been meticulously structured, rooted in the principles of modernism that control any spontaneous event. The concepts of functionality and rationalism that are fixed in modernism can be useful in planning civic spaces. However, rejection of historical context and denial of freedom of thought of its occupants has led to a refusal to accept these theories as a way of living.

Key words
(themes,
concepts and
framework)


Now see what keywords have been used. These include, themes, concepts and frameworks.

Brasilia was an attempt to advance a nation by [Keyword] rejecting history [End keyword] and embracing [Keyword] new ideas and technologies [End keyword] based on ideologies of a [Keyword] utopian future: [End keyword] making the [Keyword] planned city [End keyword] a useful context through which to analyse modernism and its inherent failures. It is evident that the philosophies of Brasilia’s designers, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, have led to a breakdown in autonomy between perceived ideas of [Keyword] utopia [End keyword] and the desires of its inhabitants. The [Keyword] strict ordering [End keyword] and bureaucratic [Keyword] regulations [End keyword] that [Keyword] control [End keyword] life within the planned city have led to social [Keyword] segregation, [End keyword] where people are denied the freedom that modernism promised. The city has been [Keyword] meticulously structured, [End keyword] rooted in the principles of modernism that control any spontaneous event. The concepts of [Keyword] functionality [End keyword] and [Keyword] rationalism [End keyword] that are fixed in modernism can be useful in planning civic spaces. However, rejection of historical context and denial of freedom of thought of its occupants has led to a refusal to accept these theories as a way of living.