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Today, the action takes place in a distant time and place, which gives the viewer a sense of detachment from what's happening, a sense of separation.
And when the action is pre-recorded and takes place in a distant time and space, watching seems like a passive activity.
Unlike a trophy head that's taken in battle, that represents the luck and skill it takes to win a fight, when a beheading is staged, when it's essentially a piece of theater, the power comes from the reception the killer receives as he performs.
The event no longer takes place in a single location at a certain point in time as it used to and as it may still appear to.
In one incident, Achilles, the famous warrior of Greece, takes his troops out of the war, and the whole war effort suffers.
And everybody is shocked when the old man takes off his head covering and shows himself.
And then Achilles takes the body of Hector, he hands it very tenderly to the father, and the two men look at each other, and see each other as divine.
Startups compete with each other for investment, it takes hundreds of meetings to get a check.
Here's to a new age of design, a new age of creation, that takes us from a nature-inspired design to a design-inspired nature, and that demands of us for the first time that we mother nature.
Well, that takes us to 65.
A portly Miller, barely sober enough to sit on his horse, rambles on about the flighty wife of a crotchety old carpenter and the scholar she takes as her lover.
Do you know that it takes years for a drug to go from an idea to being tested on cells in a laboratory, to animal studies, to then clinical trials on humans, finally to go through a regulatory approval process, to be available for your doctor to prescribe to you?
Not to mention the millions and billions of dollars of funding it takes to go through that process.
But that takes forever, it's very expensive, and so it's quite risky to take those big boats out.
An evaluation of a person takes place and there's only one power-player in the world with the authority to say who's who.
Sometimes a poem takes a metaphor and extends it, building on one idea in many ways.
First, because it takes a huge effort to tear yourself away from the bottom.
To be clear, I don't hold anything against the Silver Spoon; getting into and graduating from an elite university takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice.
Then you notice something else... using a stopwatch, you measure the time it takes for the piece of cork to go over its highest position down to its lowest and then back up again.
Suppose this takes two seconds.
That is, how long it takes a wave to go through its full range of motion once.
If you know how many seconds one full wave takes, then it's easy to work out how many waves go by in one second.
In this case, since each wave takes 2 seconds, the frequency is 0.5 waves per second.
To do this, the algorithm multiplies your scores, then takes the nth root, where "n" is the number of questions.
It takes about a tenth of a second for your perception to be created.
This portion of his journey takes some finite amount of time.
Again, this takes a finite amount of time.
Once he gets there, he still needs to walk half the distance that's left, which takes another finite amount of time.
You can see that we can keep going like this forever, dividing whatever distance is left into smaller and smaller pieces, each of which takes some finite time to traverse.
The first half of the journey takes half an hour, the next part takes quarter of an hour, the third part takes an eighth of an hour, and so on.
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