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A related point is that N-ellipsis must be introduced by a pre-noun element in the noun phrase. In other words, the ellipsis cannot be phrase-initial, e.g. *He likes papers about gapping and she likes papers about stripping. - Failed attempt at N-ellipsis; the ellipsis must be "introduced" *We have pictures of Sam, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
There are three basic possibilities that one might pursue in order to develop a formal account of N-ellipsis: 1) N-ellipsis is truly ellipsis; part of the noun phrase has indeed been elided.2) A covert pronoun is present, which means ellipsis in the traditional sense is actually not involved.3) An overt pronoun is pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
The ellipsis analysis assumes the presence of the elided noun. The null pronoun analysis also assumes ellipsis, but what is absent is not an actual noun, but rather it is a covert pronoun that would perhaps surface as one if it were not elided. The overt pronoun analysis entirely rejects the notion that ellipsis is inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Instead, it grants the one pre-nominal element the status of an indefinite pronoun. Each of these three analyses has its strengths and weaknesses, and which analysis is preferred varies based in part on the theoretical framework adopted. The traditional ellipsis analysis has an advantage insofar as it is the most strai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
The ellipsis analysis cannot, however, so easily account for the systematic variation in forms seen with possessives, since it suggests that there should be no such variation. The covert pronoun analysis can easily accommodate the fact that N-ellipsis has a distribution that is close to that of the indefinite pronoun o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Both are also challenged by the observation that the null element must be "introduced". The third analysis, the overt pronoun analysis, accommodates the systematic variation in possessive forms, since it assumes that the distinct pronoun forms appear precisely in order to indicate when a pronoun is present. The overt p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Furthermore, it quite obviously accounts for the fact that the "ellipsis" must be introduced, for there is in fact no ellipsis, but rather a pronoun appears. The overt pronoun analysis is challenged, however, by other data. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
The overt pronouns would have to be unlike most other pronouns, since they would have to allow modification by an adverb, e.g. You took the second train after I had taken the very first. The adverb very is modifying first, which should not be possible if first is a pronoun. In sum, the theoretical analysis of N-ellipsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Corver, N. and M. van Koppen 2009. Let’s Focus on Noun Phrase Ellipsis. In: J.-W. Zwart (ed. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
), Groninger Arbeiten zur germanistischen Linguistik 48, 3–26. Lobeck, A. 1995. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Ellipsis: Functional heads, licensing, and identification. New York: Oxford University Press. Netter, K. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
1996. Functional categories in an HPSG for German, volume 3 of Saarbrücken Dissertations in Computational Linguistics and Language Technology. Werner, E. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
2011. The ellipsis of "ellipsis". A reanalysis of "elided" noun phrase structures in German. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Master's Thesis, Utrecht University. Winhart, H. 1997. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Die Nominalphrase in einem HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. In E. Hinrichs et al. eds., Ein HPSG-Fragment des Deutschen. Teil 1: Theorie, chapter 5, pages 319{384. Universität Tübingen, Tübingen. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_ellipsis |
Signwriters design, manufacture and install signs, including advertising signs for shops, businesses and public facilities as well as signs for transport systems. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Traditional signwriters use methods closely related to those of their forebears in this craft and do not depend on technology - they are able to set out a sign with chalk and write it by eye in freehand. They do not rely on fonts and normally have their own individual lettering styles, yet also have the ability to rend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Specialist enamels are also employed to fashion a long-lasting finish along with the traditional use of gold leaf. Historically, signwriters drew or painted signs by hand using a variety of paint depending on the background i.e. enamel paint for vehicles and general signs, and water-based paints for short-term window s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Many use vinyl masking screens in order to replicate traditional signwriting. Modern print-based signage producers design and 'output' signs with the assistance of computer software and a range of equipment such as large format digital printers, plotters, cutters, flat bed routers and engraving machines. Signwriting an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Signs created with large-format printers may use solvent inks, water-based inks, latex inks or ultraviolet-curable/cured inks. The last material is the most modern, and can be printed directly onto many different substrates such as wood, metal and plastic, adhesive-backed or non-adhesive films. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Adhesive-backed films are then laminated to another substrate. So called 'permanent' signage for use in shopfronts can be cut by machine or hand from acrylic or metal. However these deteriorate and lose pigmentation and surface polish after two to three years. Many traditional signwriters point out that a painted sign,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Signwriters were employed to paint signs for a wide variety of purposes. They required good hand-eye coordination as well as the ability to produce different styles of font, ornamentation and lettershapes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Signwriting for these establishments is typically elaborately painted, cast in metal or gilded, for the latter sometimes also for the menu case. This is typically done by signage machine specialists or by visual (manual) artists and/or metalworkers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signwriter |
Adaptive Behavior is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the field of adaptive behavior in living organisms and autonomous artificial systems. It was established in 1992 and is the official journal of the International Society of Adaptive Behavior. It is published by SAGE Publications. The editor-i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Behavior_(journal) |
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, the Science Citation Index Expanded, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.942. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Behavior_(journal) |
Timbral listening is the process of actively listening to the timbral characteristics of sound. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
In timbral listening, "pitch is subordinate to timbre". Instead, the specific quality of a musical tone is determined by considering "the presence, distribution and relative amplitude of overtones. "When using this listening technique/ method of perception / interpretation there is "a relation between timbre and spectr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
"The most common form of timbral listening is listening to speech. This is demonstrated by listening to, for example, the vowels /a/ and /i/ spoken at the same pitch and intensity. The difference between the two sounds is entirely one of spectrum, or as the term is used in this article, timbre. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
It has been suggested that "timbral listening is an ideal sonic mirror of the natural world". It is often (but not always) used in association with musics that are based in mimicry of sounds in the natural environment. Valentina Suzukei suggests that 'it was the nomadic way of life and its focus on the timbral qualitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
As timbre has "no domain-specific adjectives" it "must be described in metaphor or by analogy to other senses". This method also has limitations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
Traditional music in Tuva and other Turkic cultures of inner AsiaThe composition of timbre-centered music in the nomadic communities of Tuva involves mimicry of sounds heard in the environment. Timbral listening is a fundamental component of listening to, understanding and being able to correctly perform this music usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
It consists of "a whispered text, accompanied by the inanga, a trough zither of eight strings. To listen correctly (using timbral listening), one must consider "the effect of the combined timbres of the noisy whisper and the inanga" as a whole sound. Some forms of contemporary electronic musicMore recently, computers a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
Contemporary composers state timbral listening as the correct technique to adopt in listening to and analysing their timbre (as opposed to pitch) based compositions. 'Pure timbres' are explored using methods such as granular synthesis in works such as Dragon of the Nebula by Mara Helmuth. Shakuhachi music in JapanThe m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
The technique of timbral listening is used by sound engineers to evaluate timbre difference. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbral_listening |
Emotion perception refers to the capacities and abilities of recognizing and identifying emotions in others, in addition to biological and physiological processes involved. Emotions are typically viewed as having three components: subjective experience, physical changes, and cognitive appraisal; emotion perception is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
How emotion is experienced and interpreted depends on how it is perceived. Likewise, how emotion is perceived is dependent on past experiences and interpretations. Emotion can be accurately perceived in humans. Emotions can be perceived visually, audibly, through smell and also through bodily sensations and this proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Emotions can be perceived through visual, auditory, olfactory, taste and physiological sensory processes. Nonverbal actions can provide social partners with information about subjective and emotional states. This nonverbal information is believed to hold special importance and sensory systems and certain brain regions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The visual system is the primary mode of perception for the way people receive emotional information. People use emotional cues displayed by social partners to make decisions regarding their affective state. Emotional cues can be in the form of facial expressions, which are actually a combination of many distinct muscl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
A great deal of research conducted on emotion perception revolves around how people perceive emotion in others' facial expressions. Whether the emotion contained in someone's face is classified categorically or along dimensions of valence and arousal, the face provides reliable cues to one's subjective emotional state.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Research on the classification of perceived emotions has centered around the debate between two fundamentally distinct viewpoints. One side of the debate posits that emotions are separate and discrete entities whereas the other side suggests that emotions can be classified as values on the dimensions of valence (positi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The alternative dimensional view garnered support from psychologist James Russell, who is best known for his contributions toward the circumplex of emotion. Russell described emotions as constructs which lie on the dimensions of valence and arousal and it is the combination of these values which delineate emotion. Psyc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Culture plays a significant role in emotion perception, most notably in facial perception. Although the features of the face convey important information, the upper (eyes/brow) and lower (mouth/nose) regions of the face have distinct qualities that can provide both consistent and conflicting information. As values, eti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
In western cultures, where overt emotion is ubiquitous, emotional information is primarily obtained from viewing the features of the mouth, which is the most expressive part of the face. However, in eastern cultures, where overt emotional expression is less common and therefore the mouth plays a lesser role in emotiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Although facial expressions convey key emotional information, context also plays an important role in both providing additional emotional information and modulating what emotion is actually perceived in a facial expression. Contexts come in three categories: stimulus-based context, in which a face is physically present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The auditory system can provide important emotional information about the environment. Voices, screams, murmurs, and music can convey emotional information. Emotional interpretations of sounds tend to be quite consistent. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Traditionally, emotion perception in the voice has been determined through research studies analyzing, via prosodic parameters such as pitch and duration, the way in which a speaker expresses an emotion, known as encoding. Alternatively, a listener who attempts to identify a particular emotion as intended by a speaker ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Pitch and duration tend to contribute more to emotional recognition than loudness. Music has long been known to have emotional qualities and is a popular strategy in emotion regulation. When asked to rate emotions present in classical music, music professionals could identify all six basic emotions with happiness and s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Aromas and scents also influence mood, for example through aromatherapy, and humans can extract emotional information from scents just as they can from facial expressions and emotional music. Odors may be able to exert their effects through learning and conscious perception, such that responses typically associated wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Theories on emotion have focused on perception, subjective experience, and appraisal. Predominant theories of emotion and emotion perception include what type of emotion is perceived, how emotion is perceived somatically, and at what stage of an event emotion is perceived and translated into subjective, physical experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Following the influence of René Descartes and his ideas regarding the split between body and mind, in 1884 William James proposed the theory that it is not that the human body acts in response to our emotional state, as common sense might suggest, but rather, we interpret our emotions on the basis of our already presen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Thus, the idea that felt emotion is the result of perceiving specific patterns of bodily responses is called the James-Lange theory of emotion. In support of the James-Lange theory of emotion, Silvan Tomkins proposed the facial feedback hypothesis in 1963; he suggested that facial expressions actually trigger the exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Laird found that these cartoons were rated as being funnier by those participants holding a pencil in between their teeth. In addition, Paul Ekman recorded extensive physiological data while participants posed his basic emotional facial expressions and found that heart rate raised for sadness, fear, and anger yet did n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Walter Bradford Cannon and his doctoral student Philip Bard agreed that physiological responses played a crucial role in emotions, but did not believe that physiological responses alone could explain subjective emotional experiences. They argued that physiological responses were too slow relative to the relatively rapi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Stanley Schachter and his doctoral student Jerome Singer formulated their theory of emotion based on evidence that without an actual emotion-producing stimulus, people are unable to attribute specific emotions to their bodily states. They believed that there must be a cognitive component to emotion perception beyond th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Participants were then either told what the effects of the drug were or were told nothing, and were then placed in a room with a person they did not know who, according to the research plan, would either play with a hula hoop and make paper airplanes (euphoric condition) or ask the participant intimate, personal questi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Emotion perception is primarily a cognitive process driven by particular brain systems believed to specialize in identifying emotional information and subsequently allocating appropriate cognitive resources to prepare the body to respond. The relationship between various regions is still unclear, but a few key regions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The fusiform face area, part of the fusiform gyrus is an area some believe to specialize in the identification and processing of human faces, although others suspect it is responsible for distinguishing between well known objects such as cars and animals. Neuroimaging studies have found activation in this area in respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis plays a role in emotion perception through its mediation of the physiological stress response. This occurs through the release of hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor, also known as corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), from nerve terminals in the median eminence ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The amygdala appears to have a specific role in attention to emotional stimuli. The amygdala is a small, almond-shaped region within the anterior part of the temporal lobe. Several studies of non-human primates and of patients with amygdala lesions, in addition to studies employing functional neuroimaging techniques, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
In addition, the amygdala is involved in the response to non-facial displays of emotion, including unpleasant auditory, olfactory and gustatory stimuli, and in memory for emotional information. The amygdala receives information from both the thalamus and the cortex; information from the thalamus is rough in detail and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
There is great individual difference in emotion perception and certain groups of people display abnormal processes. Some disorders are in part classified by maladaptive and abnormal emotion perception while others, such as mood disorders, exhibit mood-congruent emotional processing. Whether abnormal processing leads to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Past research has found atypical, piecemeal face-processing strategies among autistic individuals and a better memory for lower versus upper regions of the face and increased abilities to identify partly obscured faces. Autistic individuals tend to display deficits in social motivation and experience that may decrease ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Individuals with schizophrenia also have difficulties with all types of facial emotion expression perception, incorporating contextual information in making affective decisions, and indeed, facial perception more generally. Neuropathological and structural neuroimaging studies of these patients have demonstrated abnorm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Neuro-pathological and structural neuroimaging studies in patients with major depressive disorder have indicated abnormalities within the subgenual anterior cingulate gyrus and volume reductions within the hippocampus, ventral striatal regions and amygdala.Similarly, anxiety has been commonly associated with individual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
As a form of anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has also been linked with abnormal attention toward threatening information, in particular, threatening stimuli which relates to the personally relevant trauma, making such a bias in that context appropriate, but out of context, maladaptive. Such processing of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Moreover, child maltreatment and child abuse have been associated with emotion processing biases as well, most notably toward the experience-specific emotion of anger. Research has found that abused children exhibit attention biases toward angry faces such that they tend to interpret even ambiguous faces as angry versu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Researchers employ several methods designed to examine biases toward emotional stimuli to determine the salience of particular emotional stimuli, population differences in emotion perception, and also attentional biases toward or away from emotional stimuli. Tasks commonly utilized include the modified Stroop task, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Increased response time to indicate the color of threat words relative to neutral words suggests an attentional bias toward such threat. The Stroop task, however, has some interpretational difficulties in addition to the lack of allowance for the measurement of spatial attention allocation. To address some of the limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
Different response times between target (e.g., threat) and neutral stimuli infer attentional biases to the target information with shorter response times for when the probe is in the place of the target stimuli indicating an attention bias for that type of information. In another task that examines spatial attentional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
The spatial cuing task asks participants to focus on a point located between two rectangles at which point a cue is presented, either in the form of one of the rectangles lighting up or some emotional stimuli appearing within one of the rectangles and this cue either directs attention toward or away from the actual loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_perception |
A pedagogical agent is a concept borrowed from computer science and artificial intelligence and applied to education, usually as part of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS). It is a simulated human-like interface between the learner and the content, in an educational environment. A pedagogical agent is designed to mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
The history of Pedagogical Agents is closely aligned with the history of computer animation. As computer animation progressed, it was adopted by educators to enhance computerized learning by including a lifelike interface between the program and the learner. The first versions of a pedagogical agent were more cartoon t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
By 2006 there was a call to develop modular, reusable agents to decrease the time and expertise required to create a pedagogical agent. There was also a call in 2009 to enact agent standards. The standardization and re-usability of pedagogical agents is less of an issue since the decrease in cost and widespread availab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
Distributed cognition theory is the method in which cognition progresses in the context of collaboration with others. Pedagogical agents can be designed to assist the cognitive transfer to the learner, operating as artifacts or partners with collaborative role in learning. To support the performance of an action by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
Socio-cultural learning theory is how the user develops when they are involved in learning activities in which there is interaction with other agents. A pedagogical agent can: intervene when the user requests, provide support for tasks that the user cannot address, and potentially extend the learners cognitive reach. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
Extraneous cognitive load is the extra effort being exerted by an individual's working memory due to the way information is being presented. A pedagogical agent can increase the user's cognitive load by distracting them and becoming the focus of their attention, causing split attention between the instructional materia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
It has been suggested by researchers that pedagogical agents may take on different roles in the learning environment. Examples of these roles are: supplanting, scaffolding, coaching, testing, or demonstrating or modelling a procedure. A pedagogical agent as a tutor has not been demonstrated to add any benefit to an edu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
A co-learner pedagogical agent is believed to increase the student's self-efficacy. By pointing out important features of instructional content, a pedagogical agent can fulfill the signaling function, which research on multimedia learning has shown to enhance learning. Research has demonstrated that human-human interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
This finding is supported by social agency theory. Much like the varying effectiveness of the pedagogical agent roles in the learning environment, agents that take into account the user's affect have had mixed results. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
Research has shown pedagogical agents that make use of the users’ affect have been found to increase user knowledge retention, motivation, and perceived self-efficacy. However, with such a broad range of modalities in affective expressions, it is often difficult to utilize them. Additionally, having agents detect a use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
The appearance of a pedagogical agent can be manipulated to meet the learning requirements. The attractiveness of a pedagogical agent can enhance student's learning when the users were the opposite gender of the pedagogical agent. Male students prefer a sexy appearance of a female pedagogical agents and dislike the sex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
Pedagogical agents have reached a point where they can convey and elicit emotion, but also reason about and respond to it. These agents are often designed to elicit and respond to affective actions from users through various modalities such as speech, facial expressions, and body gestures. They respond to the affective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
The design of a pedagogical agent often begins with its digital representation, whether it will be 2D or 3D and static or animated. Several studies have developed pedagogical agents that were both static and animated, then evaluated the relative benefits. Similar to other design considerations, the improved learning fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
Other research found results that suggest static agent images improve learning outcomes. However, several other studies found user's learned more when the pedagogical agent was animated rather than static. Recently a meta-analysis of such research found a negligible improvement in learning via pedagogical agents, sugge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogical_agent |
The Taub Urban Research Center is a research institution affiliated with New York University. The Taub center aims to produce cutting-edge research in urban policy. Research at the center has focused on national issues as well as those relating specifically to New York City. Technology, economic development and immigra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taub_Urban_Research_Center |
An alter ego (Latin for "other I") means an alternate self, which is believed to be distinct from a person's normal or true original personality. Finding one's alter ego will require finding one's other self, one with a different personality. Additionally, the altered states of the ego may themselves be referred to as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
Cicero coined the term as part of his philosophical construct in 1st-century Rome, but he described it as "a second self, a trusted friend".The existence of "another self" was first fully recognized in the 18th century, when Anton Mesmer and his followers used hypnosis to separate the alter ego. These experiments showe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
He considered that "We may most aptly describe them as cases of a splitting of the mental activities into two groups, and say that the same consciousness turns to one or the other of these groups alternately". Freud considered the roots of the phenomenon of the alter ego to be in the narcissistic stage of early childho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
The title characters in Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde represent an exploration of the concept that good and evil exist within one person, constantly at war. Edward Hyde represents the doctor's other self, a psychopath who is unrestrained by the conventions of civilized society,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
In the novel, the Count of Monte Cristo rewards those who had been good to him while punishing those who contributed in one way or the other to his imprisonment. He leads M. Danglars to lose all his fortune, M. de Villefort to his madness, Fernand Mandego to commit suicide, and others more to their fate. Norman Douglas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
Published in 1905, the Scarlet Pimpernel is the prototype hero with a secret identity. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently just a wealthy fop, but in reality he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking master of disguise and escape artist. By drawing attention to his alter eg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
In comic books, superheroes and their secret identities are often considered the alter egos. The archetypal comic book hero, Superman, assumes the identity of the "mild-mannered" newspaper reporter Clark Kent to live among the citizens of Metropolis without arousing suspicion. The Incredible Hulk comic book series furt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
In the film and novel Fight Club, the narrator has an alter ego he loses control of, Tyler Durden. In the Indian Malayalam film Ustaad, written by Ranjith and directed by Sibi Malayil, Mohanlal plays the character of Ustaad, the alter ego of the character Parameswaran. In Disney's Hannah Montana, Miley Stewart (played ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
Likewise, Miley's friends, Lilly Truscott (played by Emily Osment) and Oliver Oken (played by Mitchel Musso), also lead the lives of high school students and are what make up Hannah's entourage, Lola Luftnagle and Mike Stanley III respectively. In Pretty Little Liars, Vivian Darkbloom is the alter ego of Alison Dilaure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
In Beavis and Butt-Head, Cornholio is Beavis's alter ego. Several famous musicians have adopted alter egos over the years, usually to indicate a new creative direction or a deep dive into their emotions removed from their popular stage persona—notable examples being David Bowie (with Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane) an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
Particularly during the 2000s, several big-name singers dedicated album eras to reveal their alter egos, including Janet Jackson with Damita Jo, Mariah Carey with The Emancipation of Mimi, and Beyoncé with I Am ... Sasha Fierce. Many rappers have also employed alter egos, notably Eminem (Slim Shady), Shock G (as Humpty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
The rapper MF DOOM has used a lot of alter egos throughout his career, notably Madvillian, Viktor Vaughn, JJ DOOM and DANGERDOOM. Darth Vader is considered to be the alter ego of Anakin Skywalker following his fall to the dark side of The Force. In OMORI, the story revolves around a boy named SUNNY and his "alter-ego" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_ego |
The meridian 22° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 22nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 158th meridian west. Part of the border bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_meridian_east |
Starting at the North Pole and heading south to the South Pole, the 22nd meridian east passes through: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_meridian_east |
Meridian 22.5° East crosses most countries (sovereign states) from all meridians: 26 in total. When Svalbard (in the North) and Antarctica (in the South) are added it crosses 28 territories. From North to South: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia (Kaliningrad), Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22nd_meridian_east |
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