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    The Void: A Short Story

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    The Void     Gannon wrestles in her sleep, trying to find a comfortable position. Her once soft and irresistible blankets had now felt like she was sleeping between two human sized sheets of sandpaper. She thrashed around once more and decides she's going to wake herself up. She sat up against her headboard and rubbed her eyes, wiping away the rest of her sleepiness. A gray light had creeped in through the windows, giving everything around Gannon a gloomy tint. The room felt cold as it lacked the

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    Voids are the spaces between filaments and are rare because most galaxies exist around voids in sheets or filaments. Most void galaxies scattered throughout the universe. They are are connected by relatively direct void filaments usually 11 to 150 megaparsecs in diameter and which are lighter versions of the typical galaxy can be defined by the absence of galaxies. They filaments that surround voids. These galaxies are theorized to have formed from mass are theorized to have formed from pure

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    Jewish museum, we discussed the idea of what the voids and gaps throughout the museum are to symbolize to the visitors. When the tour guide asked the group what do these voids/gaps represent, I replied that the voids are to represent the missing individuals and the Jewish history. These voids extend throughout the entire height of the museum to represent the void that is being felt throughout the sequential generations.The discussion on how these voids represent the loss of Jewish history through the

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    Does the void exist?      One of the main controversies in Pre-socratic philosophy is the dispute of the existence or non-existence of the void. Two groups of philosophers argue this idea. The first group, namely Parmenides, argues that the void does not exist. This is the opinion of the Monist philosophers. The other group is the atomists who argue this thesis and believe there is a void. This group is primarily represented by the philosophers, Democritus and Leucippus

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    A testament of cinematic genius, a daring and psychedelic composition, an adventure through reality and the afterlife: Enter the Void is unlike any movie one has seen or probably will see in the future. Written and directed by the Frenchman Gaspar Noé, Enter the Void is a complex film that constantly experiments with the director’s unique visual style. Enter the Void follows the tragic story of a young American drug dealer, Oscar, as he struggles to survive in the neon-lit and chaotic streets of

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    touching the void chapter summaries. Chapter one Joe and Simon get set up for the trip up the mountain Sulla Grande in the Peruvian Andes. On the way up they stay in a farming house with two girls who work there. The next day Joe and Simon set up the base camp next to two lakes. they do a few smaller climbs to get ready for Sulla Grande. Chapter two They sleep in a snow hole at the bottom of the mountain. Joe writes about a climb he did two years ago when he slipped off a cliff with a friend

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    ‘Touching The Void’ is a documentary based on a true story about two men called Joe Simpson and Simon Yates who climbed on the west face of Siula Grande (6,344m) in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the PeruvianAndes. The first five minutes of the documentary is very effective because it draws you in and makes you want to watch the rest of the documentary, the director does this by using a lot of effective techniques. The techniques used are Photography, Camera angles, Music and sound effects, Narrative

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    The sense of falling into a void has always set me to become the person I am today. Isolated, scared, and shying away from the world has always been second nature. Creating friendships and compassionate relationships with my family has been a considerable challenge that I have experience throughout my lifetime. Although these issues don’t seem life threatening, they are significant when you aren't able grasp them. Sprouting from a large family, I never felt loved. Television shows and movies always

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    #include<dos.h> #include<process.h> #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> #include<string.h> // PUBLIC FUNCTION TO DRAW A HORIZONTAL LINE(x1,x2,y) void lineh(int row1,int row2,int column,char c) { for(row1;row1<=row2;row1++) { gotoxy(row1,column); cout<<c; } } // PUBLIC FUNCTION TO DRAW A VERTICAL LINE (y1,y2,x) void linev(int column1,int column2,int row,char c) { for(column1;column1<=column2;column1++) { gotoxy(row,column1); cout<<c; } } // STRUCTURE CONTAINING

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    Partners in the Void After reading the amazing and thrilling book Touching the Void by Joe Simpson, I found the relationship between the book’s two main characters Joe and Simon very intriguing. I found myself wondering what would have happened if they were with different partners? Would their outcome have been different had they chosen inferior or inexperienced partners? Or would their situation never have happened had they been with more skilled partners? I also found myself wondering whether

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