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    This narrative showed how powerful is architecture in evoking emotions and disturbing ones senses and mental state. Throughout the coming chapters‚ Nostalgia‚ Fear‚ and Racism will be discussed and analyzed. However‚ the reason behind choosing these three emotional obstructions is that they are capable of creating spaces that we either run out to or run out from. These three emotions and senses have so much depth that they extend and branch into unlimited other emotional states‚ such as‚ thrill‚

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    immeasurable social costs and opportunity lost for the employee and their family. Due to his lack of job satisfaction and without a pay raise‚ he turned to bonsai and bekisar for extra cash and found himself a past time and a source of extra cash. Billy has been with the company for 7 years‚ moving up the ranks to 5 out of 17 pay grades. He is well educated and has shown competence in the past. He can do his job and do it well but he has been unmotivated. If I let his behavior slide‚ our customer

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    Billy Elliot This story shows us all the rewards of perseverance in following our own star despite parental or popular opinion. It demonstrates the redemptive agency of love in a family under enormous stress and shows a father coming through as a parent after some blatant errors. The film illuminates the tensions and sorrows of a family dealing with the loss of its wife and mother while the grandmother gently sinks into senility. (Billy lovingly takes care of his grandmother.) In this film a friendship

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    nostalgic emotions and yearning for the tranquility and yearning for the nature of her hometown. The vivid imagery‚ which stimulates the readers’ senses plays an important role in intensifying the vehemence of her emotions. Brewster also expresses her nostalgia in a way that makes readers empathise with her strong yearning. The lack of rhyming scheme in this piece conveys a sense of fickleness and unsureness. "People are made of places‚" she says‚ which I believe specifically means that people are made

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    April 2013 Shoeless Joe and Nostalgia Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball by Judge Landis and the fight to have him reinstated still rages on. W.P. Kinsella‚ author of New York Times Best Selling Novel‚ Shoeless Joe‚ expresses his feelings about a time in history when baseball was heart-pounding and thrilling to go and watch Joseph Jefferson Jackson play ball. In Kinsella’s heartwarming story he displays many types of rhetorical devices such as‚ nostalgia; a desire to return in thought

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    symbolises Erica’s current state and when the 9/11 attacks occur it symbolises the volcano erupting resulting in the island within being thrust in to turbulent seas and violence‚ as Erica finds herself post the attacks‚ resulting in a deep state of nostalgia regarding Chris‚ who at one point was also her -ironically- protective volcano. After the 9/11 attacks occur Erica became highly “introspective” and she states that she hasn’t been like this “since the first time‚ since Chris died”‚ her nostalgic

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    Nostalgia is a term that was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer as an equivalent to the German term Heimweh‚ which means homesickness (Tierny). Because of that‚ the word homesickness and nostalgia are closely linked to each other and are sometimes used interchangeably. Like many others‚ I will tackle both homesickness and nostalgia; namely their history‚ their effects‚ people’s views on them and how important they both are as emotions. The history of nostalgia and homesickness is a fascinating one;

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    Rising personal debt is one of the consequences of growing inequality. Over 60 percent of americans carry a personal debt every month and the average family is said to cary a nine thousand dollar debt. The reading talked about how people are now using credit cards to pay for things like groceries and gas‚ something we would of paid for in cash on the regular in the past. I find this very dangerous. The main reason i find this dangerous is because having to buy groceries and gas on credit probably

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    Introduction‚ Chapter 1‚ Chapter 2 The National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD) estimates at least 6000 rare diseases‚ affect fewer than 200‚000 people in USA‚ 25 million affected‚ many caused by genes approach to understanding of how life works has been profoundly affected by access to complete DNA sequence scientists go beyond emperical or superficial explanations of disease‚ instead into molecular basis. Pinpoint specific glitches in DNA sequence All DNA of organism = genome‚ size

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    Nostalgia is one of the main themes in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov. In fact‚ Chekov himself experienced strong feelings of nostalgia to Moscow where he was introduced to many men of letters but unfortunately‚ he was obliged to leave Moscow and go to Yalta because of his illness of T.B. Thus‚ his longing to Moscow kept torturing and irritating him all through his life. Hence‚ the sense of nostalgia is clearly reflected in his play The Cherry Orchard. Actually‚ the play concerns an aristocratic

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