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    understanding that the province of Nova Scotia took part in being a white settler society in relation to the Africville community. According to Razack (2002), aspects of a white settler society take place when there is a racial hierarchy present and spaces are organized to maintain unequal social relations. The landscape of this community was structured in this way because the community was predominately of black individuals and therefore the inhabitants were not regarded as being an important part

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    The medical tricorder used in the Star Trek series and movies is a multi functioning portable device used to help diagnose health issues and collect important health information. This device was used, primarily, by the character Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy when he would need an assessment of what was wrong with anyone who was injured or feeling ill. Being that the original Star Trek series was set in the 23rd century, and shown to the public in the 1960’s, the medical tricorder was something truly

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    Flatland Analysis The world as we know it today is three dimensional, but have you ever thought about what would happen if width did not exist? Author Edwin A. Abbot plays on this idea in his book Flatland: A romance of many dimensions. Though there are multiple characters introduced throughout the story: the main character is a square that lives in Flatland. The idea of the book is to show what the world would be like for characters who only know the land they are from. It shows the comparisons

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    The bending of time and space is usually reserved for science fiction and the dreams of young kids who enjoy the thoughts and fantasy of being great space captains and saving the galaxy. Now if we imagine both time and space being physical things, thing that could be changed, or bent, to our will, we will get the basis of the idea we are trying to present. Space is already viewed as physical, as space doesn’t necessarily mean the “Final Frontier” but as the area around us and all that it contains

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    "...I 'm here..." He murmured, not really sure if it was to himself or Amaimon, mostly just a confirmation that he was awake that a greeting honestly. He wanted to fall back asleep, it sounded wonderful, even here in the rain. How nice it would be to forget the pain that had once more begun to well up within him and trade it for the sweet darkness of sleep. How nice it would be to pull Amaimon down to him and sleep, just as he had been frightened to do earlier. His tail flicked about before it found

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    and nuclear researchers, which reveal that the universe is not a dream. Forcing society to question if we are alone in the universe and wonder what is going on out there. After WWII, the improvement of the atomic bomb and Space Technologies influenced science fiction creating space age themes (E. D., 2015, February 8). Highly creative architecture is the result of its response to science fiction films that are derived from real life, tangible objects. Architecture will always be

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    Creating bigger space in a smaller space. Extensions varied from project in a huge scale, such as the Great Court in British Museum, to a single one storey housing extension. As the population grows while land not shrinking, it certainly raises concerns from the experts in the field of architecture. We need more space. As we all know technologies are getting better and better every year, we now have some more innovative buildings than before, but it is always good to have conserve the old buildings

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    thinking about the space of East Asian studies, we often only look at China, Japan, and Korea based on their physical boundaries on the world map. However, retaining one understanding of East Asia means we are not considering the problem of geography. In order to manoeuver with or around the problem of geography, we must constantly reinterpret and criticize the space we take for granted. The objective is not solving this problem, but to think of ways which can aid in our approach to it. Space is shaped by

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    This paper will explore a range of perspectives on the relationship between the live event and the document within performance practice, specifically focus on in relation to body, time and space. Performance art is commonly known as a performance presented to a viewer within a fine art context. Through performance artists emphasize the body’s role in artistic production. Historically, performance archive has been characterized as an unfaithful representation of the momentary art experience. Yet,

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    weighting each desirability factor. They trusted the same analytical approach with their house purchase decision; for the purposes of this discussion I’ve condensed their table as follows: House A House B Commute Time 45 minutes 10 minutes Quality of Space High Medium Relative Price 200,000 200,000 While Jennifer and Jimmy recognized that the daily Commute Time was an important attribute, it ended up being severely underweighted in their final decision. Having just moved from New York City, neither had

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