Along with the larger tasks of exploration, warfare and diplomacy, the player has to make decisions about where to build new cities, which improvements or units to build in each city, which advances in knowledge should be sought ( and at what rate ), and how to transform the land surrounding the cities for maximum benefit.

Spiral served as a collective of conversation and artistic exploration for a large group of artists who " addressed how black artists should relate to American society in a time of segregation.

Chief among these were the definition and configuration of the area to be allocated to contractors for exploration, the fees to be paid to the Authority and the question of how to deal with any overlapping claims that might arise.

Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament is Jamison's exploration of how bipolar disorder can run in artistic or high-achieving families.

The novel is an exploration of how meaning is created, whether that be written via words ( by the author, via the book, since the characters in the book cannot speak to each other ) or by images ( the tarot cards — considered prophetic to some and are themselves open to many symbolic interpretations ).

Stowe's puritanical religious beliefs show up in the novel's final, overarching theme – the exploration of the nature of Christianity and how she feels Christian theology is fundamentally incompatible with slavery.

There, scientists pioneered exploration of the ionosphere by perturbing it with radio waves in the 2 – 10 MHz range, and studying how the ionosphere reacts.

Set in Mississippi sixty-seven years after the American Civil War ended race-based slavery and twelve years after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution entitled American women to vote, this novel by William Faulkner shows how racism and misogyny can persist ; but its exploration of human prejudices goes well beyond those two.

Running at just under 3 minutes long, A Study in Choreography for Camera is a fragment but also a carefully constructed exploration of a man who dances in a forest, and then seems to teleport to the inside of a house because of how continuous his movements are from one place to the next.

To prevent Truman from discovering his false reality, Christof has invented means of dissuading his sense of exploration, including " killing " his father in a storm while on a fishing trip to instill in him a fear of the water, and making many news reports and ' adverts ' about the dangers of travelling, and featuring television shows about how good it is to stay at home.

Her first book, Seductio ad Absurdum: The Principles and Practices of Seduction -- A Beginner's Handbook ( 1930 ), was a tongue-in-cheek exploration of how men court women.

* Scientific American: Father of Spirit and Opportunity With the success of twin rovers on the Red Planet, Steven W. Squyres and his team are showing how to conduct robotic missions — and setting the stage for human exploration

Geddes encouraged instead exploration and consideration of the ‘ whole set of existing conditions ’, studying the ‘ place as it stands, seeking out how it has grown to be what it is, and recognising alike its advantages, its difficulties and its defects ’:

The action-adventure later became an established genre with Shigeru Miyamoto's The Legend of Zelda ( 1986 ), which became a success due to how it combined elements from different genres to create a compelling hybrid, including exploration, transport puzzles, adventure-style inventory puzzles, an action component, a monetary system, and simplified RPG-style level building without the experience points.

That is, this work is not a geometric discussion of catoptrics or dioptrics, the traditional subjects of reflection of light by mirrors of different shapes and the exploration of how light is " bent " as it passes from one medium, such as air, into another, such as water or glass.

If building an entertainment company was his public goal, his private exploration was how to build a company that could grow rapidly and not become crappy -- losing its entrepreneurial spirit in the process.

* According to some theologians in evangelical circles, it is used to refer to the topical collection and exploration of the content of the Bible, in which a different perspective is provided on the Bible's message than that garnered simply by reading the biblical narratives, poems, proverbs, and letters as a story of redemption or as a manual for how to live a godly life.

There are echoes of Herbert's exploration of the effect of greed on the leaders within a society and how greedy leaders will warp a society in order to consolidate their own power, a theme in the Dune books as well as The Dosadi Experiment.

This reflected Monroe ’ s analogy of how the use of Hemi-Sync serves as a ramp from the “ local road ” to the “ interstate ” in allowing people to go " full steam ahead " in the exploration of consciousness, avoiding all of the stops and starts.

Each partner in a relationship is supported in a way that allows an exploration of the internal relational dynamics in each person, and a growing understanding of how these dynamics are played out in the relationship.

An exploration into how sustainability pressures are transforming the ways people work, live, and compete.

He also asked her to take on the challenge of educating about the need to ban ALL space-based weapons by educating decision makers and the grassroots about how the military industrial complex can feasibly be transformed into a peaceful world cooperative space exploration complex ... creating a global cooperative space program that will be large enough to replace the entire war game and mindset ... and build a security system based on collaboration and information sharing, a stimulated economy that will provide more jobs and profits ( and training programs ) than during any hot or cold wartime, applied technologies and information that can provide solutions to urgent and potential man-made or natural disasters and solve problems of human needs, our common environment, and new energy.

In August and September 2005, artist Stephen Turner spent six weeks living alone in the searchlight tower of the Shivering Sands Fort in what he described as " an artistic exploration of isolation, investigating how one's experience of time changes in isolation, and what creative contemplation means in a 21st-century context ".

Many critics have written that the film is also an exploration of how eroticism in Japanese culture is often morbid or death-obsessed.

Papua New Guinea was the first country in the world to grant commercial exploration licenses for seafloor massive sulphide deposits when it granted the initial license to Nautilus Minerals in 1997.

These four world views are the Postmodern-ironist, which sees truth as socially constructed ; the scientific-rational, in which truth is found through methodical, disciplined inquiry ; the social-traditional, in which truth is found in the heritage of American and Western civilization ; and the neo-romantic, in which truth is found through attaining harmony with nature and / or spiritual exploration of the inner self.

* 1972 – In Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.

In the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas, ratified by the Pope, these two kingdoms divided the entire non-European world into two areas of world exploration and colonization, with a north to south boundary that cut through the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern part of present-day Brazil.

Western culture has used the term " discovery " in their histories to subtly emphasize the importance of " exploration " in the history of the world, such as in the " Age of Exploration ".

Since the European exploration of the world, the " discovery " of every continent, island, and geographical feature, for the European traveler, led to the notion that the native people were " discovered " ( though many were there centuries or even millennia before ).

Portugal was the leading country in the European exploration of the world in the 15th century.

The team decided to make it impossible for the player character to die, which focused gameplay primarily on world exploration.

To create freedom of exploration, and more fluid control in a 3D world, the designers created a dynamic system in which the video camera was operated by the in-game character Lakitu.

They certainly could not spare ships to indulge in world exploration — in any case, their ships were not sturdy enough to cross an ocean and could not carry enough water for more than a few days.

Oildorado is an ongoing testimony for Taft as a certified " Oil Town "-its origins owing solely to oil production and exploration, a rare distinction among any town in the world.

The heroic phase of trench exploration culminated in the 1960 descent of the Bathyscaphe Trieste, which set an unbeatable world record by diving to the bottom of the Challenger Deep.

The hub world is more open-ended when it comes to exploration, for the first time allowing the player to stray from set paths between established area or level markers.

Through an engaging project involving a photographic exploration of Jewish and Muslim communities around the world, and honest, unflinching online dialogue, participants form a network of advocates and ambassadors for ground-breaking Muslim-Jewish relations in six continents.

This magazine reaches over 100, 000 members of The Planetary Society all over the world, with news about planetary missions, spacefaring nations, space explorers, planetary science controversies and the latest findings in humankind's exploration of the solar system.

The episode storylines focus on the family's efforts to survive and find a way back to their own world, but the exploration of the exotic inhabitants of the Land of the Lost is also an ongoing part of the story.

After the mid-20th century, perhaps influenced by ideas from science fiction, perhaps because exploration had made many places on the map too clear to write " Here there be dragons ", many fantasy worlds became completely separate from the author's world.

In general, all these elements must be assessed via a limited ' window ' into the subsurface world, provided by one ( or possibly more ) exploration wells.

They helped fuel the new world exploration by providing a means for transport of goods between the new world and the Iberian peninsula.

Career counseling provides one-on-one or group professional assistance in exploration and decision making tasks related to choosing a major / occupation, transitioning into the world of work or further professional training.

Yet his contributions to science, the exploration of the Western U. S., and the lore of great world explorers, are considered incalculable.

I think that the home is the proper base for the exploration of the world which we call learning or education.