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Words about skills, to simple communication with others came flowing out of her mouth as her hands move like they were trying to support the air around her. I feel the beat of my heart as if it’s trying to escape from my body and the ticks of the clock get louder in my mind as if they are an approaching train. I reach for my water bottle hoping to cure the dryness in my mouth and come to realize my water bottle is shedding tears for me. The refreshing sensation of water dances in my…

“What if my problem wasn’t that I don’t understand people but that I don’t like them? What if I was the kind of person who was obliged to hurt you?” Lou Bloom, a hungry, sociopathic freelance crime cameraman played by the magnificent Jake Gyllenhaal is deeply unsettling. He’s a man on a mission; hell-bent on growing his ‘company’, he takes to the LA streets and hires a lowly intern (Riz Ahmed) to assist him in Lou’s endeavours to make as much money as possible by capturing horrific incidents.…

focus on the writing assignment in front of me. I locked myself in my room, turned off my phone, and took out a pencil and a blank sheet of paper to begin my writing assignment. After an endless minute of staring at the blank paper and counting the ticks of the clock, I realized I could not concentrate at all. Where is my eraser?! I started to belittle myself for the loss of the eraser. If I can’t even take care of an eraser, how can I be responsible for more valuable things? That’s not how I…

Muscle Pain, Adult Muscle pain (myalgia) may be caused by many things, including: • Overuse or muscle strain, especially if you are not in shape. This is the most common cause of muscle pain. • Injury. • Bruises. • Viruses, such as the flu. • Infectious diseases. • A chronic condition that causes muscle tenderness, fatigue, and headache (fibromyalgia). • A condition, such as lupus, in which the body’s disease-fighting system attacks other organs in the body (autoimmune disease).…

hundreds of blockbuster movies. The award is an initiative of the Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. It is given to the industry professional who possess the best qualities in leadership, service and philanthropy. Interestingly, Cruise ticks all the three boxes. Firstly, as an award winning actor who has featured in hundreds of films, he was a clear contender given his…

Though Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future is extremely successful in being a fun, blockbuster film, it does a very job in how it crafts the relationships between specific characters. Though Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is facing a struggle to get back home, there’s another struggle occurring in the movie between his father, George (Crispin Glover), and town bully, Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). By tracing their acting and relative staging of these two in certain shots, a narrative between them…

After reading the novel Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, I have indicated that I relate mostly to one of the main characters, Eleanor. We have a relation due to her not so great home situation, her surprising love life, and the fact that she is still functioning. Eleanor hasn't been satisfied with her home life nor have I. We both struggle with men mistreating our family, meaning late in the night waking up to fights and hearing our mothers cry. Both having to make sure that our siblings are…

mental disorder is crazy. However, that really is not the case. Mental disorders are actually fairly common. In fact, nearly everyone has psychological symptoms of some sort. Everybody has days that they are down. Everybody has something that makes them tick. Everybody has some sort of obsession. A normal behavior crosses the line to a disorder when it begins to affect yourself and the people around you. There is specific criteria that needs to be met in order to be diagnosed with a…

The number of animals dying is unbelievable. People are the cause for animal death for food, or just cruelty. According to the number of animals abused on ASPCA char is that there are 10,000 estimated puppy mills in the U.S., 100,000+ American horses are slaughtered each year for human usage, and 250,000 animals fall victim to hoarding. The cause of these is because people want their meat, entertainment, physiological, poaching/hunting,and test. Animal hoarding is a different thing. Animal…

The only definite thing in life is that it will one day end. That truth is perhaps the defining feature of the human condition. Mortality is inevitable act, so we can either accept it, or continue to deny the coming day of our own deaths. In Ambrose Bierce’s short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” the principal character, Peyton Farquhar, experiences both the denial and acceptance of his impending death. Farquhar is sentenced to be hanged by Union soldiers and as he faces his final…