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    Late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists explored the ways in which men renegotiated their relationship with women in response to women’s demand for greater equality. Caillebotte’s two paintings -- Interior and Young Man at His Window—suggest that men responded by encouraging women’s return to their traditional gender roles. Susan Glaspell’s “Trifles” present women who are fully men’s intellectual equals, but it suggests that only their solidarity would ensure justice in a men’s…

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    Instead, they more than made up for the lack of welcoming with absurdly high amounts of tax. Following my visits, I was stuck in the predicament of wondering what to do with my leisure time. “What to do, what to do…” I thought to myself. Eventually, I decided to partake in some hunting. So, I called my men to the great hall of the palace to have them ready my horse and huntsman. As I waited for them, I finished sharpening my arrows…

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    Environmental Criminology and Patter Theory was developed by Brantingham & Brantingham. The theory believed that a person doesn’t randomly pick its next victim. It states that an offender’s past criminal activities or information from other offenders can help frame the offenders next search pattern. Search patterns are distinct ways that an offender will utilize in order to locate their next victim. The theory states, that a criminal offender will follow one of four search patterns. These…

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    responds to this again by citing their ease of life compared to that of their Northern neighbours. What use is an advantage in these fields when it makes life full of hardships? The South is proud of their economy because it allows them much more leisure time than the Northern economy. When it comes to culture or financial superiority both sides make their arguments for why they are are more superior than the…

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    began at daybreak and ended shortly after noon. Holiday travel became one of the push factors as a result of the infrastructure and superstructure development and consequently the spa tourism is developed. Romans had established trade and created leisure facilities to those who can afford the travel expenditure. The most famous place in this country is the Roman spa in Bath. Other than “bathing holiday”, Rome also developed an early form of “summer health retreat” in luxury thermal baths visited…

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    Michael Young and Peter Willmott (1973), both prominent sociologists for their time, wrote a book called; ‘The Symmetrical Family: A Study of Work and Leisure in the London Region’. They believed that over the course of history, both family structure & family systems were changing. They studies families in London and found that younger couples were adopting a more symmetrical way of dividing the household…

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    the context of art history in which they were created. La Grande Jatte depicts groups of people enjoying their leisure time on La Grande Jatte. Seurat was a Neo-Impressionist artist, who was fascinated with the scientific representation of optical light and color. His use of divisionism and pointillism is an application of scientific painting technique to the popular subject matter of leisure time of middle class people. Ernst, on the other hand, was a Dada artist, embracing new techniques and…

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    Fahrenheit 451 Breakdown It was a pleasure to burn. In the book fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury the author writes about how the world would be if their were no books. Ray Bradbury picked the title fahrenheit 451 for the book because 451 degrees fahrenheit is the temperature in which paper burns. The book takes place in a future world and oppressive society, where books are forbidden. Guy Montag is a fireman which means that he burns books. Montag begins to have doubts and starts to steal some of…

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    hockey or gym (required by our hockey fitness coach). At the time I understood activities health to refer only to achieving a healthy balance between participation in different areas of occupation (rest and sleep, social participation, work, play, leisure, personal management, survival skills and education). I determined, based on my rather limited knowledge of activities health, that I was activities unhealthy and that the only remedy for my activities health state, would be to stop playing…

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    After the past eight years of working within the medical sector as a Dental Nurse and Domiciliary Career I have gained valuable experience in patient care, whilst also gaining many certificates, including NVQ level 3 Dental Nursing, First Aid, Paediatric First Aid and Administration of Medications amongst others. After being encouraged by my friends and family, I feel I need to take my passion for patient care further by completing an adult nursing degree. I believe that the course at your…

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