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Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person, often as an embodiment or incarnation. [1] In the arts, ... For example, Bharat Mata was ...
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . In the first personifications in the Western World , warrior deities or figures symbolizing wisdom were used (for example the goddess Athena in ancient Greece), to indicate the strength ...
Examples of this are describing a storm cloud as "angry" or drawing flowers with faces. This penchant for anthropomorphism is likely because children have acquired vast amounts of socialization , but not as much experience with specific non-human entities, so thus they have less developed alternative schemas for their environment. [ 77 ]
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The Little Boy from Manly, drawn by Norman Lindsay during the 1916 Conscription Referendum. The Little Boy from Manly was a national personification of New South Wales and later Australia [citation needed] created by the cartoonist Livingston Hopkins of The Bulletin in April 1885.
Practices vary by country and by religion; for example, the United States allows human remains to be buried at sea at least 3 nautical miles from land, and if the remains are uncremated the water must be at least 600 feet deep, [81] while in Islam burial by lowering a weighted clay vessel into the sea is permitted when a person dies on a ship. [82]
One of the main attractions of a sandy beach, especially for children, is playing with the sand; it presents more possibilities than an ordinary sandbox. One can make a mountain, a pit (encountering clay or the water table ), canals, tunnels, bridges, a sculpture (representing a person, animal, etc., like a statue, or a scale model of a ...