Geography Received 13 July 2012; reviewed 4 October 2012; accepted 12 December 2012 Abstract: The paper focuses on the development of „dark“ tourism as a type of special interest tourism. The study included analysis of the definition of „dark“ tourism‚ tourist motivations for this type of tourism‚ Stone ’ s typology of dark destination offers‚ and a portion is devoted to the role of „dark“ tourism in contemporary society. Also there are important „dark“ tourism destinations in the world as an example
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May it be the monobrow‚ dark shadow of moustache ‚the braided hair and that unsettling gaze ‚her work grabbed attention due to the representation of her raw beauty with a painful message. Self portrait in velvet dress (1926): her first self-portrait‚which she painted for her student boyfriend‚alenjandro Gomez arias as a plea for his love
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Taking a look at the overall composition of Renoir’s “Bathers” and “Blonde Bather”‚ one must take into account the many similarities‚ as well as the many differences of the pieces. Renoir uses many visual elements to guide the viewer’s gaze around and through the paintings. These elements also contribute to the reactions and emotions we feel as the viewer when we look upon these works of art. In “The Blonde Bather”‚ Renoir’s use of color provides a sense of the model’s innocence. “The image is
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Throughout centuries‚ Greek mythology proved to be one of the most influential cultures in history‚ which is why we still see it in today’s media in Western modern culture. Exploring today’s media through Laura Mulvey’s lens of her theory of the Male Gaze‚ we were able to see how Greek culture affects the way women are portrayed in Western culture. Focusing on one specific female character of Greek mythology‚ we analyzed how Greek mythology is still present in modern culture. Additionally‚ we found
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Christ in her left arm as her gaze strays away into the distance. Christ reaches up with his arm brushing aside the Virgin’s veil. Both figures’ heads are surrounded by halos surrounded by a gold background. The Virgin Mary wears a dark‚ rich blue robe lined with a gold rim while Christ is wearing a red robe. At the bottom of the painting is a parapet‚
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When viewers gaze upon Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas (painted in 1656)‚ they can experience the avant-garde aura of its time as the Baroque painting displays both candidness and movement. In the way that Velázquez painted his work of art‚ Las Meninas can be classified as Baroque Naturalism (Stratton-Pruitt 5)‚ suggesting influence from Caravaggio who painted with realism and strong chiaroscuro (“light-dark” spotlighting tones). The shift from Mannerism to Baroque developed a thematic motto for artists
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particular‚ were videotaped and utilizing computer-assisted image analyzing techniques the pair were able to collect data on and compare several facets of the external structures of the primates’ eyes. These included the way the gaze direction varied in different species‚ and how the gaze direction correlated with the numerous body sizes and habitat types attributed to those specific primate species. They also looked at the ratio of horizontal scanning to the frequency of vertical scanning as well as duration
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Given an official Emirati ecological perspective of desert greening‚ is desert reclamation consistent with wider UAE greening policies? Does ecologically motivated reclamation based on revenue from luxury-based tourism condone ecologically unaware tourist behavior? Keywords: deconstruction; desert reclamation; Dubai; eco-tourism; luxury tourism Introduction The purpose of this paper is to argue that eco-tourism is not inconsistent with luxury‚ and‚ by using a case study of the resort of Al Maha
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become stored into the person’s long-term memory. Bayliss‚ Bartlett‚ Naughtin‚ and Kritikos (2011) completed a study about gaze perception and how it affects the social attention from one person to another person. Bayliss‚ Bartlett‚ Naughtin‚ and Kritikos (2011) stated‚ “the
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this impossible gaze when it shows one thing to have a purpose or any given meaning---this could be an event or some action‚ but‚ in entirety‚ it’s for another purpose. The tale portrays babies collectively living on an island together looking back‚ saddened‚ on how their parents left them behind. However‚ these babies had been born into an alternative universe‚ having been born on the island and they have no idea about their parents and that they were left behind. This impossible gaze is vaguely impossible
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