Dark tourism scholarship: a critical review Philip Stone Philip Stone is Executive Director: Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR)‚ School of Sport‚ Tourism and The Outdoors‚ University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)‚ Preston‚ UK. Abstract Purpose – Commonly referred to as dark tourism or thanatourism‚ the act of touristic travel to sites of or sites associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with media imaginations and academic scholarship. However‚ despite
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Dr. Velvet Pearson English 801A 9/30/13 The Dark Secrets We Keep From One Another Everyone‚ no matter who you are or how perfect you think you may be‚ lie on a daily basis. We all tell lies whether it’s to protect someone’s feelings or oneself. Lying on a justified standard can be the dark secrets we all tend to keep from one another. Everyone has them‚ so we keep telling these lies to not only ourselves‚ but our friends and loved ones as well. If we were ever to tell these secrets to one
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Key Objectives The aim of the report is to study dark tourism and discuss what are the issues generated by the evolution of this phenomenon. 1.2 Scope The report includes a definition of dark tourism‚ the history‚ a description of its target markets with its marketing implications‚ the push and pull factors and the various impacts caused and the challenges faced. Lastly‚ conclusions will be drawn. 2.0 Main Discussions 2.1 Definition Dark tourism is demarcated as encompassing the visitation
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A critical investigation into the interests and attitudes that young adults have towards dark attractions. Alexandra Constantinescu Albert Robert Gordon University 4/18/2014 THE ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT Aberdeen Business School Department of Communication‚ Marketing and Media A critical investigation into the interests and attitudes that young adults have towards dark attractions. by Alexandra Constantinescu Albert (1002430) Word count: 13‚109 A research
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"A Meeting in the Dark" This short story by Ngugi wa Thiong’o‚ is a captivating story about a young man trapped in a conflict that many young men face today. The young man‚ John‚ rebellious of his father and living in two different worlds‚ struggles with his girlfriend‚ Wamuhu‚ to find a solution to their problem. Unsure of what his parents will think when they find out what John and Wamuhu have done‚ John begins to panic and accidentally does the unthinkable. John’s father was a very religious
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The Dark is Rising Written by Susan Cooper From The Dark Is Rising The Characters Will Stanton The last and youngest of the Old Ones - appears for the first time as the main character in The Dark Is Rising. He appears in each of the following books. Merriman Lyon The first and oldest of the Old Ones - appears in each of the DR books. Mentor and friend to Will Stanton in The Dark Is Rising and guardian of each of the quests. ’Great Uncle’ to the Drew children. The Lady Matriarch of the Old Ones
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There is much more dark matter than normal (visible) matter in the universe. According to (this source) roughly 68% of the universe is dark energy. Dark matter makes up about 27%‚ while everything else in the universe (physical matter like the atoms that make up planets and stars) makes up less than 5% of the universe. According to (this source) the universe is actually 96% of dark matter and dark energy. With 73% being dark energy and 23% being dark matter but the implications of this
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Why is Dark Chocolate Healthy?: Chocolate is made from plants‚ which means it contains many of the health benefits of dark vegetables. These benefits are from flavonoids‚ which act as antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from aging caused by free radicals‚ which can cause damage that leads to heart disease. Dark chocolate contains a large number of antioxidants (nearly 8 times the number found in strawberries). Flavonoids also help relax blood pressure through the production of nitric oxide
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Do the Benefits of Dark Tourism Outweigh the Morbidity Maameegate Zheng Jun Cheston Tay Kai Ren ENG114 – Section 1006 University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas / Singapore Campus Do the Benefits of Dark Tourism Outweigh the Morbidity Introduction Dark tourism encourages people to reflect on mortality‚ bringing them closer to death (Stone‚ 2010). It is a multitude of history‚ heritage‚ tourism and tragedy which plays an important role in delivering information by bringing the past to present (Niemelä
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After Dark By Haruki Murakami “After Dark is a streamlined‚ hushed ensemble piece...Standing above the common gloom‚ Murakami detects phosphorescence everywhere‚ but chiefly in the auras around people‚ which glow brightest at night and when combined.” (The New York Times Book Review) The appraisal given by The New York Times undoubtedly highlights how the characters in the story of Haruki Murakami weave their lives together in just one night. The characters in this novel have established deeper
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