Vista

(noun)

From Italian vista ("view, sight"). A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or a passage.  

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Examples of Vista in the following topics:

  • Administrative Corruption

    • Three naval oil fields, Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills in California and the Teapot Dome Oil Field in Wyoming, were tracts of public land reserved for underground supplies to be used by the U.S.
    • Earlier in 1922 Fall had leased naval petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome, Elk Hills and Buena Vista Hills at favorable rates, and without competitive bidding, to Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company and Mammoth Oil, a subsidiary of Sinclair Oil.

  • "The War on Poverty"

    • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work towards empowerment of the poor
    • The OEO was responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs, including VISTA, Job Corps, Head Start, Legal Services and the Community Action Program.

  • Painting in the Early Roman Empire

    • In the case of the Villa of Livia, architectural vistas are replaced with a natural landscape that completely surrounds the room.
    • In this style, masonry details of the First Style reappear on bottom registers, and architectural vistas of the Second Style are once more fashionable, although infinitely more complex than their Second-Style predecessors.
    • Detail of an architectural vista from a second style wall painting.
    • Second style garden vista from the Villa of Livia, Primaporta, Italy.

  • Scenario

    • Mario surfs several well-known search engines such as Google, Galileo, Yahoo, and AltaVista to retrieve information on possible travel destinations and points of interest.He also finds a few sites like Dogpile, Webcrawler, Metacrawler, and AllTheWeb that are unfamiliar to him but he finds provides an interesting array of data, facts, figures and statistics.

  • Summary and discussion questions

    • (Buchanan and Espeseth 2009) "Developing a Bed and Breakfast Business Plan 2009", North Central Regional Extension Publication 273, http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/vista/pdf_pubs/b&b.pdf, accessed June 22, 2009.

  • Pioneer Women

    • Historians Katherine Harris, in Long Vistas: Women and Families on Colorado Homesteads (1993), and Elliott West, in Growing Up with the Country: Childhood on the Far Western Frontier (1989), write that a rural upbringing allowed children to break loose from urban hierarchies of age and gender, promoted family interdependence, and in the end, produced children who were more self-reliant, mobile, adaptable, responsible, independent, and in touch with nature than their urban or eastern counterparts.

  • The Great Society

    • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), a domestic version of the Peace Corps, which placed concerned citizens with community-based agencies to work toward empowerment of the poor;
    • The OEO was responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs, including VISTA, Job Corps, Head Start, Legal Services, and the Community Action Program.

  • Urban Gentrification

    • In Gentrification Amid Urban Decline: Strategies for America's Older Cities, Michael Lang reports on the process and socioeconomic and cultural impact of gentrification in Darien Street in the Bella Vista neighborhood of Philadelphia.

  • The Mexican–American War, 1846–1848

    • On February 22, 1847, Santa Anna personally marched north to fight Taylor in the Battle of Buena Vista.