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Help! Please! This is for my thesis

Hello! My name is Gulnaz, I'm writing my graduation paper on British concepts and I have to ask Englishmen which associations occur to them when they think of different concepts. Would you, kindly, answer my questionnaire, since I have to show the results. I'll be greatly obliged to you. The more people answer this questionnaire, the better it is for making any results

Age:

Sex:

Social status:

YOUR associations, images that strike YOU with:
- World
- TIME
- TRUTH
-WORD
- SPIRIT and SOUL
-GOD
- ANGEL
- PLAY
- LIFE
- DEATH
- CONSCIENCE
- FEAR, SCARE, DREAD, TERROК and HORROR
- FRIENDSHIP; FRIENDS
- LOVE
- HAPPINESS
- WATER
- KING/QUEEN
- FAIR PLAY
- HOME
- GENTLEMAN
-FREEDOM and LIBERTY
Age: 18

Sex: Male

Social status:Middle class (?) student

YOUR associations, images that strike YOU with:
- World: An image of planet earth
- TIME: A clock
- TRUTH: A sphere of glowing matter in the centre of a purple/green vortex type thing
- WORD: 3d letters seen from a low angle, a bit like word art. The letters are not specified.
- SPIRIT and SOUL: A man wearing ragged clothes running across a desert with a sword
- GOD: A kind of conscious void. Not an image, more a lack of image, but conscious.
- ANGEL: Traditional angel figure, but with wings alot larger than average and no face.
- PLAY: A theatre with actors frozen in certain positions watched by an audience.
- LIFE: Either the same image as TRUTH or a spring in some green area.
- DEATH: Complete darkness, no image, no echos.
- CONSCIENCE: the grasshopper thing off disney's ponnochio ("let your conscience be your guide"). If you had said "CONSCIOUSNESS" I would've said this infinite exspanse of blue nodes, interconnected by lines of blue/white light.
- FEAR, SCARE, DREAD, TERROК and HORROR: The colour orange, with faded black lines randomly placed across it
- FRIENDSHIP; FRIENDS: This is one I just downright can't get an image of.
- LOVE: Nothing for this either.
- HAPPINESS: Nothing here either.
- WATER: An infinite ocean.
- KING/QUEEN: A man and a woman sitting on thrones.
- FAIR PLAY: Two boxers facing each other in a ring with a refferee in between.
- HOME: A 2d view of my house as seen from the road.
- GENTLEMAN: A guy in a suit and top hat, complete with walking stick thing.
- FREEDOM and LIBERTY: The same image as consciousness except with a man speeding around inside it going where he chooses incredibly quickly, images flashing around him. Stopping and hovering would allow him to view one of the images in detail. The images are of just about anything.

If any of the above come across as trite or unoriginal, it's because they are honestly just what came to my mind first. I could've spent a while on each thinking about what's cool and symbolic and deep but that wasn't the point of the exercise. So yeah, alot of them are clichéd.
Waterfront bar, King's College
King's College London
London
Age:16

Sex:Female

Social status:Working Class/Student (if thats what you mean)

YOUR associations, images that strike YOU with:
- World-a blue and green globes that spins around
- TIME-watch
- TRUTH-image of Martin Luther King
-WORD-way of expression
- SPIRIT and SOUL - a book that i have to do with spirit and soul
-GOD-no image comes to mind just a kind of secure feeling for me
- ANGEL-guardians dressed in white and have wings.
- PLAY-chidren in a playground playing
- LIFE-a person living life to the full
- DEATH-image of a new life
- CONSCIENCE-a person setting on a pavement dwelling on what is the right thing to do?
- FEAR, SCARE, DREAD, TERROК and HORROR-images of 9/11,tusami(if thats how you spell it) people suffering from severe diseases in 3rd world countries.
- FRIENDSHIP; FRIENDS- image of all my friends
- LOVE-no image comes to mind,just a good warm feeling
- HAPPINESS-a child smiling who is free of responsibilites
- WATER-a clear,smooth lake
- KING/QUEEN-Elizabeth I comes to mind and she is sitting on her throne
- FAIR PLAY-a game of chess
- HOME-image of a 4 bedroom home,where my family are
- GENTLEMAN-Richard Gere from an officer and a gentleman
-FREEDOM and LIBERTY-image of people being released form the concentration camps in 1945.
Age: 17

Sex: female

Social status: middle class student

YOUR associations, images that strike YOU with:
- World: many countries, many people
- TIME: clock
- TRUTH: lies
-WORD: sentences, communication
- SPIRIT and SOUL: religion
-GOD: religion
- ANGEL: superstition
- PLAY: game
- LIFE: baby
- DEATH: sorrow
- CONSCIENCE: human
- FEAR, SCARE, DREAD, TERROК and HORROR: catastrophes, world, peace
- FRIENDSHIP; FRIENDS: fun
- LOVE: heart
- HAPPINESS: aim of life
- WATER: substance of life
- KING/QUEEN: monarchy
- FAIR PLAY: some games
- HOME: family
- GENTLEMAN: date
-FREEDOM and LIBERTY: prison, slavery

oops, I'm not English, damn!

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