... is one such movable territory. When a family goes to an event like a fireworks display, they pile the car with blankets and food baskets. These are later moved to mark out a space for the family. A family will avoid placing their blankets too close to another's in fear of intruding upon that families territory and causing tension. The need for ... territory that people feel most strongly about. Humans grow increasingly uncomfortable when someone comes inside one's personal space. As a child an individual's personal space is only entered to either love or harm. As such this space around ...

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... caught my eye is the king. The human body is not too detailed but the actions they are doing or intend to do are very clear. The painter created visual space in this painting in a very witty way; he painted pillars and ceiling ornaments, which is an indication of height and ... space. I think it is a very successful method because the person who is looking at the painting has space to look around. The painting in my opinion is more realistic than naturalistic because I think he attended the ceremony and then painted what he remembered ... be the objects in the middle. Jesus and the kin...

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... , toilets, bathroom, Ladies" and Gents" are some of the more commonly used names for the restroom. The United States invented a very wide selection of synonyms and expressions for this "certain space". Any thesaurus will provide an impressive list of synonyms for the word restroom/bathroom. Society nowadays is making a considerable attempt to avoid the topic of releasing excess bodily fluids. Restroom ... of the "john." Certain privacy issues relating to public male restrooms impinge on their functionality. As implied by its obvious definition, the public male restroom is a non-domestic ...

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... eyes on Park Avenue and 52 & 53 street. In spite of his stylistic evolvement in light of scale and local methods, his consistent interest in glass and steel and modern space. Already his innovative proposal for the Friedrichstrasse skyscraper (1921) is distinctive in that it has strikingly similar outline with the Seagram building (1954) in his later days in America. Furthermore ... , the Barcelona Pavilion is Mies's first modern architecture, which is his gearing of glass and steel experiment. It contains so many issues of his space interest such as a seamless flow between outdoor and i...

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... earth, but the project was abandoned with the collapse of America's only rival, and the organization that had such grand plans for space exploration found itself suddenly underfunded, barely capable of launching missions into space to costruct the new international space station. Many realized that something had to be done, but the only real solution was a devastating war to shrink the population of ... ...

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... eyes on Park Avenue and 52 & 53 street. In spite of his stylistic evolvement in light of scale and local methods, his consistent interest in glass and steel and modern space. Already his innovative proposal for the Friedrichstrasse skyscraper (1921) is distinctive in that it has strikingly similar outline with the Seagram building (1954) in his later days in America. Furthermore ... , the Barcelona Pavilion is Mies's first modern architecture, which is his gearing of glass and steel experiment. It contains so many issues of his space interest such as a seamless flow between outdoor and i...

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... inspired him to write his book Der Judenstat that advocated the need for a Jewish homeland outside of Europe. Many Europeans took the title of an anti-Semite and took a popular stance of defending the public against the Jews. Politically, Jews became scapegoats for all of society's ills. A socialist anti-Semite would cast them as ruthless, money-grabbing capitalists, and a conservative would ... ...

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Part 1: Thesis: During the Middle Ages peasants made a number of revolts against taxation and duties forced on them by monarchs and the papacy, while monarchs made a stance against papal authority. Main Point 1: Peasants felt that "taxing life's essentials" was an unfair practice of the state, and they objected to governmental regulations disregarding their local traditions. (Mather 1, 2) Main ... ...

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... to global warming is the melting of large glaciers. This is serious because "The Earth's ice cover acts as a protective mirror, reflecting a large share of the sun's heat back into space and keeping the planet cool •Mastny 1). The most dramatic reports of this come from the polar regions where the Arctic sea ice has dropped 40% in thickness from 3.1m ... unable to continue; therefore, "shutting off •the Gulf stream. Europe would then become very cold and the ice or snowfall would continue to reflect the sun's heat back into space causing the earth to remain cold. The effects have al...

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... a trash-heap; for cinema, the 1950's were a time of shameless monster movies with non-sensical plots, poor acting, and special effects that were none-too-special. It Came From Outer Space, Invaders From Mars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and other even less noteworthy films polluted mainstream science fiction. Not all films of the B-movie era fit this archetype, however. Forbidden ... aliens came to warn mankind about its future. The 1960s passed with much the same mix of monster movies and novel adaptations. Then, in 1968, acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey m...

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... our eyes away from the couple and into this female pedestrian. There is also a slight use of framing in this picture. There is a space between the couple - merged with the female pedestrian - and the remaining pedestrians. This space frames the couple and also brings our attention to the couple. The focus is beneficial, with the couple having the sharpest focus while the ... ...

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... in more detail later on. People often discount risk in order to evaluate its level of threat. Discounting refers to the reduced level of awareness due to factors including time, space and distribution. Time discounting is the proximity in time of the risk. For example someone involved in a car crash yesterday is conscious of the risk involved in driving a car today ... . The greenhouse effect however is not perceived as an immediate risk so many people choose to ignore it. Discounting in space proximity to the individuals home. For example the floods in Europe are of no risk threat to Au...

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... author tackles this question. Perhaps answering this question to the public is what inspired him to write the book. Paul Johnson manages to answer this complex question in a very short space. He begins by giving a discussion of the economic, technological, and cultural factors that both brought about the Renaissance. He touches on significant dates of events that mark turning points in ... the overall, most important aspects of the Renaissance and has answered the question, "What is the Renaissance?". Weaknesses in his work are that because he chose to use such limited space, important ...

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... of imperialism and its relation and non-relation to nationalism and colonialism. Its importance in shaping the foreign relations of 1815 is, in contrary to the author's statements, overemphasized. This space may have been better used on individual and more recent events, that created deepened rivalries between the powers, sparking their grandiose aspirations in other parts of the world, also know ... civilization, may have been more relevant to a topic on the expansion of western ideals, however, its significance on the outbreak of World War I does not seem important enough to occupy sp...

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... Ptolemy and the Catholic Church wrong with his heliocentric view of the universe, shown in Document C, therefore proving the church's explanation for the creation of the world wrong. This gave space for man to think on their own and learn things outside of what the church told them. A similar reaction came from the discovery of what man's body was able to ... ...

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... the next generation. But they are still in the stage of youth. They are still collecting the necessary oxygen they need to send the message while wandering around the open space before them. Harmless as it may seem it invokes the rise of a revolution. Unconsciously gathering the source can create a great explosion. Like the smoke, humans and even the nation of ... ...

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... could enlarge their market and sell more CD's or books throughout the world. Thus mobility of information via the communication means' development did transform global trade with the abolition of space and time. Though transport and communication means are essential to international trade, they are not the only factors in it. Indeed if the global division is the best work nations ... ...

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... trying to rebuild London. In Febuary 1952 King George was succeeded by his eldest daughter, Queen Elizabeth 2. Afterward in 1961 Britain applied for a membership in European Community (EU), however this space was filled by France. William Churchill died in 1965. In 1969 riots in Londonderry broke out and troops were forced to come and regain control. In 1971 the IRA increased ... ...

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... , and the abbey was the main feature at the church. Other buildings were surrounded around the church, which formed a thing called the monastic compound. The monastery's cloister was an enclosed space surrounding all four sides of a rectangular court known as the garth. The four walls of the cloister were roofed. Inside the monks worked on such duties as copying the manuscripts ... ...

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... approach. He specialized in villas for gentleman farmers. These villas explore all the variations on the classical norms: governing axis defined in the approach, single major entrance, single major interior space surrounded by smaller rooms, secondary functions extended in symmetrical arms, and careful attention to proportion. They were immortalized by Palladio's publication The Four Books of Architecture (1570; trans. 1738), in ... ...

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... in the states. People seem more casual around each other. Upon greeting and saying good-bye to some one, they give a kiss on each cheek. I noticed the concept of personal space, which people did not take much notice of. People got real close, sometimes a little to close for comfort. There is an incredible difference in the variations of languages that I heard ... ...

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... the gargoyle is only part of a large block (most of which cannot be seen once it is in place) that serves as a counterbalance, stabilizing the heavy stone figure projecting into space. Some medieval gargoyles have short iron or lead pipes protruding from their mouths. Long cast-iron pipes, however, were not made during the Middle Ages, and those seen today are ... ...

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... . Telescope: A telescope is a device used to magnify an object from a distance. A very simple telescope can be made with just two convex lenses and some are very complicated and required massive space. It is undoubtedly the most important instrument in astrological exploration. The telescope was invented in Holland but there is a lot of controversy and argument over who the actual inventor was ... ...

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... states how the Congo and Africa have changed in his lifetime "it had got filled since my boyhood with rivers and lakes and names. It had ceased to be a blank space of delightful mystery- a white patch for a boy to dream gloriously over. It had become a place of darkness" (Conrad 11). In the context of this statement darkness represents the experiences of ... ...

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... ages". The culture, science and art started developing. As a result where are we? Today's civilization is the most advanced ever lived on the Planet. We can go to the outer space, to land on the Moon, and even we think how to colonize other planets! That was something unbelievable in the middle ages moreover the middle ages" people would burn the ... ...

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