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    Cagayan – A true spelunker’s paradise 2007-04-30 Cagayan is the Regional Seat of the Cagayan Valley Region. Tuguegarao City‚ the capital‚ is the seat of commerce and trade and center for learning. The province has 73 percent of the region’s potential fishing area. Known as the spelunker’s‚ trekker’s‚ and gamefisher’s paradise rolled into one‚ Cagayan provides a never-ending adventure with ecotourism in the forefront of its offering. Both foreign and local tourists continue to explore its caves

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    What is fashion photography? In general terms‚ it is a photograph that is done to specifically display or depict clothing and/or accessories as visual advertising. The majority of the times the purposes of photographs are to document or sell the prevailing style or custom of dress of the time. What the term fashion photography stands for has changed and evolved over time‚ and there are key photographers who have influenced this change. Even though the main component of a fashion photograph is to

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    through the lens and with open eyes. In this case‚ I agree with Sontag in the fact that we can’t learn about the world just from what the camera has captured‚ but disagree with her idea that photography is negative in the way that it allows for us to fill our minds and makes us feel. Sontag says that "photography implies that what we know about the world if we accept it as the camera records it. (LI‚ P1)"A photographer takes a picture of a regular‚ old weapons factory; a simple picture. In reality

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    everybody can still try and follow and achieve their dreams or passions. My passion is photography. I am a nature enthusiast and i just love taking pictures of everything that nature has to offer and more. Photography brings inside me a special spark. Whenever i am with my camera‚ i can forget the world for a few hours and just do what i love doing. No other thing in the world brings such joy to me than photography. Do not get me wrong i am nowhere close to a professional level photographer. I just

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    insight into how the business was ran by merchants. They also detail the hardships experienced by those traded like animals. When reading accounts from both sides‚ you see how truly unfair the business was. Antera Duke’s diary paints an inaccurate portrait of the African slave trade by making it out to be business as usual. Meanwhile‚ Mahommah Baquaqua’s autobiography shines light on the harsh

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    Through my passion for photography‚ I realized beauty is not based on what I do not have‚ rather it is what I do and what I experience that truly makes me beautiful. Even though the woman I captured in my image had no home and had exposed her life full of struggle‚ the intensity

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    Right Place‚ Right Time Episode 3 of 6 Duration: 1 hour Being in the right place at the right time’; ’the decisive moment’; ’getting in close’ - in the popular imagination this is photography at its best‚ a medium that makes viewers eyewitnesses to the moments when history is made. Just how good is photography at making sense of what it records? Is getting in close always better than standing back‚ and how decisive are the moments that photographers risk their necks to capture? Set against the

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    1. For various reasons‚ portraits hold much importance in many different places. Portraits can be used judicially‚ for propaganda‚ personal uses‚ and much more. Many portraits have been produced for public places such as religious institutions‚ in the form of money‚ and even city squares. Portraits are made to serve specific functions such as a president on a coin or an important Saint for a religious painting in a church. They can be used to record special events or to commemorate important figures

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    Overall in the novel Portrait‚ religion is depicted as an overbearing burden which clouds and heavies the mind and conscious while assuming power over its believers. From early on in his life‚ religion hinders Stephen and his desires. At the beginning of the novel Stephen likes a young girl and thinks of marrying her later in life. His mother finds this completely wrong due to the fact that the girl’s family is Protestant‚ and not Catholic like Stephen’s family. As Stephen grows up‚ especially

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    preoccupied with his own conscious whilst avoiding the demands of his body . The novel thus becomes thematically concerned with the connection between the body and mind as the displacement of presence within the self. Similarly Adams writes that Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a text concerned with the body and ‘the idea of self as a body’ . However Joyce provides a penetrating insight into the life of the main character Stephen Dedalus who accepts the limitations of the physical body as

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