... characteristics and visual style of Film Noir are: low-key lighting, the use of chiaroscuro effects, strongly marked camera angles, either low or high; jarring and off balance shot composition; tight framing and close-ups that produce a claustrophobic sense of containment. The films are predominantly urban, the action taking place at night and filmed night for night on location, to produce a strong ... contrast between the enveloping dark and intermittent pools of light; (126) Each of the described visual elements contributes to the feeling of entrapment that prevails throughout the fil...

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... traditional Japanese methods. Traditional Japanese housing construction is based on a post-and-beam method with little lateral resistance. Exacerbating the problem is the practice of using thick mud and heavy tile for roofing, resulting in a structure with a very heavy roof and little resistance to the horizontal forces of earthquakes. U.S.-style frame housing with light-weight roofs is now coming into use in Japan and ... combined tensile and shear stresses. In one of the units, six of the eight main steel columns forming the lateral-load-resisting system had fractured. Despite the ser...

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... the inhabitants of the villa must nonetheless translate into their own narratives. This absence of locating identification poses a problem for anyone who seeks to "read" the English patient in the terms of what Foucault names in his essay the "Author Function," which (among other things) demands that we name the writer in order to understand the text. An anonymous narrative is problematic, since it stands outside the framing ... operation which for the modern reader provides a comfortable (if ... of it without a historically locatable author? Or is the map, in this case, the territory? T...

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... (www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw, see Schneider 2000; 2004; Bunch 1990; 1997). Like this book, the report grounds the problem in larger social structures of inequality rather than the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Thus, the 1990s and 2000s saw a dramatic expansion of the international movement against gender violence. Through international conferences, UN declarations, and international NGO activism, violence against women was ... human rights ideals and the importance of framing universalistic reforms in local cultural terms. Trafficking in Women One of the hottest current issue...

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... order in any language. We have translators to read and write in all languages." The company's Modern Homes were hot sellers in the 1920s. Pre-cut lumber in the house kits made skilled carpentry unnecessary and solved the problem of lumber shortages. The Sears Modern Homes catalogs of the early 1920s were the largest the company published. They offered 90 different house designs, as well as plans for garages ... . Lumber was stamped with a letter and a number, which was then referenced in the 75-80 page instruction book. The letters and numbers helped homeowners figure out how to assemble...

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... higher in 1996 than in 1950. (Gornick 2000) In England, the infant mortality rate in the lowest socioeconomic class is double that of the highest class. That has not changed since the implementation of the National Health Service. (Whitehead 1999, Ross and Mirowsky 2000, Gunning-Schepers, and Stronks 1999, Brown 1999, Fuchs 1998) The problem extends beyond the usual boundaries of health services. In fact, access may not ... continue care deemed inappropriate. Demands for inappropriate care are a distortion of patients' rights. Given the discomfort and uncertainty associated with framing...

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... humans in industrial spaces, is difficult to access and leaves what I consider important questions unanswered. Different kinds of theories about work and the history behind these, too. Marx Adam Smith neo-liberals These are important as a way of framing the way we see the world and what we believe should or should not happen. Is what is happening good or bad? What is ... . In this section I have attempted to outline the logic that lies behind the macro elements of The Globalisation Story. What the macro literature leaves us with are the following impressions: that "globalisation" is some...

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... to be a passive unthinking work force, therefore the employers could manipulate their minds, doing whatever they were told. The system forces the pupils to intake pure hard facts, nothing else, therefore not exercising the imagination at all. Leading the pupils to be lost in the surrounding world when a difficult problem requiring experience or maturity arises, as the Gradgrind system of education denies access to this knowledge ... . The Gradgrind system of education seems to wipe out any ... he received he goes to any extents to get money, with no regards to other peoples feelings an ...

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... Europe around 6700 BC before snakes and other varieties of plant life were common in the country. When the Ice Age ended the sea levels rose and Ireland and Britain were both cast away from Europe, hence preventing the spread of snakes to Ireland. The problem with this story is that the first one sounds more impressive. It is important to remember though, that Irish history in ... a period of consolidation; a time when the Protestants established themselves in their ascendancy. The Treaty of Limerick made at the end of the war was framed in such a way as to protect religious toleration ...

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