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In the second phase of Soderbergh’s career, the characters’ personal connection to the director becomes even less visible and the stories becomes more symbolic. Soderbergh films are all personal but they not necessarily about his own life. Soderbergh said that his real tuning point was, “I wasn’t interesting in making film about me anyone, but instead my take on things.” Soderbergh’s films moved away from the characters life and more to the issues of craft. One distinct technique of Soderbergh…

Mother Teresa once said, “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” A recurring presence in Of Mice and Men, loneliness is an inevitable suffering all characters in the novella experience, some more than others. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck successfully portrays the most terrible poverty Mother Teresa describes in the era of the Great Depression among farm workers. George Milton, the protagonist, is a short, intelligent man who takes care of his…

7. Gambling is poor stewardship of God’s money. The scriptures teach that all Christians are stewards of God’s possessions. All that we have has actually been entrusted to us by God who will one day soon call us to account for our stewardship. This principle is clearly seen in Jesus’ words in Luke 16:2: “give an account of thy stewardship…” It is seen further in the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30) where it is clearly demonstrated that future rewards will largely depend on our present…

WORD COUNT: Cy Layne Cushenberry P.O. Box 2491 Amarillo, Texas 79105 (806) 220-7616 cy.cushenberry@gmail.com SUGARTIME- THE SWEET AND STICKY LIFE OF COUNTRY MUSIC LEGEND CHARLIE “SUGARTIME” PHILLIPS BY CY CUSHENBERRY This book is dedicated to Therese Kelley and Mike Mc Millen for their love, dedication and support throughout the writing process And to Gloria Cushenberry, a woman who after every battle in life Is the first to raise the flag And rally the troops to victory And of course to Charlie…

portrayed in the original tales. Sexton does her best to take the focus of her poem “Cinderella” off of how ugly the step-sisters and move it to how black hearted and cold they are. She says that they are “pretty enough” but have “hearts like blackjacks.” Through these descriptions Sexton does a very good job of moving the focus to where she wants it. In doing this she is able to downplay the importance of outward appearances in social situations and relationships. While she revises through…

With the use of the Salesforce Platform, Diamond Cluster Entertainment would be able to develop a deeper relationship with their loyal customers and attract new ones. With Salesforce CRM applications and their mobile cloud-computing model, businesses can follow their customers and their budget at the same time from anywhere (Salesforce, 2013). Salesforce also allows companies to build their own custom applications using their Force.com platform. This app can be downloaded on mobile devices or…

Part 1 – A Woman on the Street Jeannette starts the memoir with a scene of her as an adult taking a cab home, and seeing her mother rummage through a dumpster. She feels ashamed of her parents since they live on the streets and are barely scraping by while she has a great home and lives very comfortably. Later on she calls her mom and they decide to meet at her mother’s favorite Chinese restaurant, during lunch she asks if there is anything she can do for her mother to help her but her mother is…