Athletics are a positive influence with students in middle school because it gives them a social group and a healthy activity to identify with and belong to. Anything that gives positive reinforcement and the opportunity for physical activity is extremely beneficial.
Because it's in the middle!
Zero is the middle. The neutral. There has to be something to separate the positive and the negative.
Positive: Cultural diffusion between Africa, India, The Middle East, and Europe. Negative: Depleted Natural resources of the area
Yes!.. Think of a number line, zero in the middle, negative to the left, positive to the right. If you start on the right (positive) and go a bit more right (more positive)... you'll still be on the right (positive)
Area is actually called space. So it is negative and positive space. Positive space is the space that is taken by the objects. Negative space is everything else. You have probably seen the picture of two silhouette profiles of a face which look at each other. In the middle of the two faces you can see a vase shape. This is an illusion where negative and positive space flip back and forth in the viewers eye. If you are looking at the faces, the vase is considered the negative space. If you are looking at the vase, the faces become the negative space. Artists carefully consider the use of negative space and try to make the negative space as interesting as the positive space. You rarely see tiny objects in the middle of a huge canvas. It leaves too much negative space. Sometimes as an artist draws, he checks out the negative space as well as the positive to make sure he is rendering the objects correctly.