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    Repair café started from Amsterdam, Netherlands where Martine Postman and her family started to think about ways to reduce waste going into landfills. Today is has more than 1,100 sites across 30 nations. The idea of repair café is steered by the people who are aware of the environmental issues just like Annie Leonard, the creator of the film ‘The Story of Stuff’. As mentioned both from the film and this article about repair café, products today are manufactured in a way that make their parts…

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    Putting her right foot out, she mounted the log and shut her eyes. Lifting her skirt, leveling her cane fiercely before her like a festival figure in some parade, she began to march across. Then she opened her eyes and she was safe on the other side. 'I wasn't as old as I thought,' she said. But she sat down to rest. She spread her skirts on the bank around her and folded her hands over her knees. Up above her was a tree in a pearly cloud of mistletoe. She did not dare to close her eyes,…

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    Cold War Monologue

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    are marching, I can see the faces full of grief, despair and depression as they're leaving in their columns and us entering in ours. We pass by silently. A few moments pass by and all I can hear is a ear piercing ringing noise and the earth crying out as we were being attacked. I was lost among all of the smoke when suddenly all I can feel is the earth against my face. I hear a faint, “Quick, up, Albert” coming from Paul about three feet away from me. His image was blurry with the smoke in the…

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    in the closet because at the time society was in a different state and was not ready for homosexuality. Ellen would later on decide to come out on her show while Millions of people watched and it caused so much controversy, negative attention, and loss of advertisers for her sitcom. Due to the public watching over Ellen’s every move it lead to her withdrawal for a while. According to Biography.com Ellen was first person to ever come out on television and the coming out episode helped open the…

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    He asked her again two weeks later when she said she would but never did. Again, he reminded her into her fourth month, like the many times he did beforehand. His agitation growing along with his child that lay breathe her stomach’s convex shape. She said she would, and she also said she would when he offered his plea once more during her third trimester. By the time of my delivery he realized it was too late. He didn’t bother to show up to the hospital the day of his wife’s labor. No one was…

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    sooner, most people could never figure it out themselves, but I can’t help thinking about how irrational it all seems now. How could I actually think that as businessmen rush to work, coffee in tow, they’d have the time to point out my ratted mousey hair, or that mothers struggling to manage the babies propped on their hips even noticed how my stomach protrudes over my jeans. I shake the thoughts out of my head and rub my temples softly as I walk out of the door into the sterile halls. I…

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    to calmly get him to come out. "Can't you see," I said while knocking on the door, " Welby's not home? I sent him to a friend's for the night so I can bake his cake. It's a surprise." "He has to come home sometime," the man stubbornly said. He was aggravating me by the second, "Get out of there!" I shouted as I continued to pound on the door." You can still make the game if you leave now." Silence. I continued to pound on the door. Wallace had phoned multiple times, trying to speak to…

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    I was reading a forum post online and someone misspelled the word ‘activity’ as ‘activia’. Then other commenters pointed out the blunder and were poking fun at the mistake. Someone jokingly substituted the word into a horror movie, now titled Paranormal Activia. This two-word response prompted me to wonder, “What would Paranormal Activia be about?” This adaptive short film works in two ways to adapt two sources into a singular film. I took the comment and combined it with a similar story…

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    A Blossoming of the Soul I feel uneasy about getting to my innermost thoughts. See, every time I go “deep”, it gets dark. I suppose that makes sense, that the deeper you go the less light can reach, but it exposes a part of me that is rarely seen, by both others and myself. With that said, I really do have the mindset of an optimist, along with the independence and individuality that comes with thinking positive. This outside persona and the deep, dark one inside create a great deal of confusion…

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    across her true identity. Latisha, sister of Lionel and hardworking mother of three manages to take of her children and run a successful business. Though this was not always the situation. Latisha essentially met her husband when he decided to come out to the reserve for Indian Days. Liking him from the very…

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