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Essay for Rise (by Carsten Rees)
Erik Krause 2021-Jan-09 19:50:21
Now, if some of the last few themes should have been a little too
specific for you - this new theme comes with quite a wide variety of
synonyms: Rise
Let?s have a quick look at the Thesaurus:
For the noun with the meaning ?increase, improvement?:
acceleration, advance, ascent, boost, climb, growth, hike, increment,
inflation, progress, surge, upsurge, upswing, upturn, accession,
accretion, addition, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation,
breakthrough, distention, doubling, enlargement, heightening,
intensification, multiplication, promotion, raise, step-up, swell,
upgrade, waxing, piling up, stacking up
For the noun with the meaning ?upward movement?:
ascendance, ascension, climb, ascending, climbing, lift, mounting, rise,
rising, scaling, spring, clambering, take off
For the noun with the meaning ?upward slope?:
acclivity, grade, gradient, incline, ramp, rise
And there are even more meanings and contexts to the word and its other
grammatical forms:
- A yeast dough or a sourdough will rise, if treated properly.
- Christians believe that Christ is risen from the dead.
- The Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916 was an armed fight for Irelands
freedom.
Some of us might think of the use of the word ?rise? in movies and music:
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer ? a quite important movie
for all those Marvel fans.
- Rise, a 2014 film from Australia ? with a remarkably low approval
rating of 20%, as Rotten Tomatoes tells us ? though the audience score
is quite high.
- Rise, a studio album by Herb Alpert, from 1979 ? trumpet players might
remember.
- Rise, a Katy Perry album from 2016.
And of course, there are some organisations by that name:
- Rise, an American NGO and civil rights organization for sexual assault
survivors
- RISE ? Scotland's Left Alliance, a Scottish eco-socialist party
Furthermore, there is a perfume by that name ? also known as Beyonc?
Rise, a climbing robot developed by Boston Dynamics called RiSE, ? you
get the gist.
One last point: Please do forgive us if the above list is not even
slightly close to being complete: That?s because there can by so many
associations with that word. You could probably write an entire book on
the semantic field of the word ?rise?.
But luckily the World Wide Panorama is not all about semantics. So ?rise
and shine? and take some inspiring, surprising, irritating, astounding,
beautiful panoramas for this WWP event.
This is the link:
https://worldwidepanorama.org/worldwidepanorama/?/index.html
Credits: Many thanks to Ed Fink - a veteran of the World Wide Panorama -
for the permission to use one of his panoramas for the banner of the
current event!
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