Flip-flop

In the early morning, the doves outside sing a lovely melody outside the window, in which the light of the sunrise beads into the empty bedroom of Oliver Rain. The young eager lad is up earlier than usual, busy making sure all the belongings are secure in the back of his rented 16 foot moving truck. Today is the day he set’s out for Los Angeles, a place to start anew, and find the real Oliver within himself. Having just enough money to cover one month’s rent, deposit, and some cushion…

Music 050 – Final Paper I am going to explore the issue of identity within producing music through ethnographic research with the Collctve. Specifically, how an artist syndicates his or her own taste with today 's popular culture to produce and play music and how this relates to “selling out.” Before delving into the complexities associated with the music industry, it is important to define the terms “identity” and “selling out.” These interpretations will set the foundation for the discussion.…

at my waste. "Do you really hate me?" he says in a broken tone. I stair up at him with a blank look on my face and take a step back into the room and slam the door. How do get into situations like this? I think to myself as I lock the door then go flop onto the bed. While im laying their contemplating my life i look over at the alarm clock that reads 7:53, great school starts in half…

Introduction In this work, On Grief and Grieving Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and I wanted to revisit the stages for clarification in grief and loss. The stages have evolved since their introduction and they have been very misunderstood over the past three decades. They were not designed to keep the bad sensations under control. They are the manner in which people react to loss or any disappointments in life; usually it cannot be static in a particular form but alternate around the sat phases. Our…

In one episode, My Struggle, I saw tension. I didn’t find it entertaining (arguments I found cute when the characters were thirty are not so cute when they’re pushing sixty), but it was there. The canon here needs clarification. As has been repeated ad nauseam, their breakup and reconciliation (especially reconciliation) do not make sense. Their reason for returning to the FBI and staying there does not make sense. The timeline in which all this takes place does not make sense. Trading in nine…

I knew in advance that it was going to happen. I knew the situation would get extremely detrimental. I told them. They listened. They laughed. I was treated like an insane kid who shouldn’t be paid any attention to. Perhaps if they had listened, they would’ve been more prepared and the conditions wouldn’t have been as bad. It was still more my fault than theirs. After all, if I hadn’t been so determined to make the others accept me and my words, I could’ve spent more time trying to sort things…

It was a long summer’s evening in Colorado Springs, July 03, 1975. The air was warm and still, radiating through my chest and embracing my tanned arms and legs. Carole King’s “You’ve Got a Friend” and Rod Stewart’s “Maggie Mae” were spinning on the AM station of my friend Paul’s Earl Schrieb freshly-painted turquoise-blue Karmann Ghia. “When you’re down and troubled, and you need a helping hand…” I felt accomplished to have memorized each song and with a convincing smile confidently sang the…

Familiarity Familiarity: the security of knowing; close acquaintance with or understanding of something or someone; the quality of being known; the comfort in that which you have already experienced, places you have already been, conversations you have already had; a face you have seen walk by already; movies with known endings; songs that have play over and over so many times that you can turn the song off and still hear it playing in your head. Familiarity has its perks. It’s like home…

a much more expensive one than the other mob members. We noticed that in Pulp Fiction this concept is not totally respected, as we see Vincent and Jules all dressed up at the very beginning of the movie whilst they end up in t-shirt, shorts and flip flops at the end of the film discarding the gangster stereotype. -Involvement in illegality from childhood: We have no clue if the gangsters in the movie had a borderline childhood, only Butch, the rival character is haunted by a childhood encounter…

Everyone's had a bad run of luck when it comes to poker. For example, you're playing Texas Hold 'Em, $2-4 blinds, with no limit. You're dealt AA, a great starting hand. Someone else raises the blind, so you call, deciding against a re-raise. The flop turns K-8-A, and the betting begins again. You raise, believing you have the best hand, three aces. The turn shows another 8. The other players at the table don't seem to react, and no one raises, so you still believe you have the best hand. You…