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This narrative showed how powerful is architecture in evoking emotions and disturbing ones senses and mental state. Throughout the coming chapters, Nostalgia, Fear, and Racism will be discussed and analyzed. However, the reason behind choosing these three emotional obstructions is that they are capable of creating spaces that we either run out to or run out from. These three emotions and senses have so much depth that they extend and branch into unlimited other emotional states, such as, thrill, pleasure, sadness, loss, and so much more. In addition, they will always lead to one another, like if we face fear or racism we will always run to a space that gets us to our comfort zone and relates to our childhood or a beloved memory. However,

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