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A sudden roar of laughter, followed by the clink of spilling champagne glasses while jazz softly sways through the air, humid with the spirit of the summer of 1922--the roaring twenties are not known for silence. Parties described in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby easily represent this load and rapidly moving time. A mysterious man known as Gatsby welcomes hundreds of strangers, from both West Egg and East Egg, into his home to drink and dance until the next morning. Compared to the…

Shadow yawned deeply, crawling to all fours and stretching out her back like the feline she was. Last night had been fun. Detrimentally lacking in actual sleep, but fun. She crawled out of bed, kicking aside her dark, silken sheets and padded over to the window, pulling up the blinds and letting the new day sun wash over her fur. It was fortunate the building’s windows had already been given a reflective filter to prevent people looking in. She loved being admired, but it was best not to…

BIRTH FACTS I was born in the year 2000, on May fifth which is also a Mexican holiday, “Cinco de Mayo.” I find it ironic considering I'm not mexican at all, and I’m only Native American. I was born in Gresham, that's where I grew up for part of my life. It was when my nana used to live in a trailer park with my mom. When I was born, I was 9 pounds and I believe it was about 6 a.m., my mom is still always surprised about how much I used to weigh because now I'm small and scrawny. I wasn’t…

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Introduction “Selma,” I think while meaning well, is another piece of counter revolutionary, ruling class propaganda. It is like a “how not to manual” in how not to make revolution, then and now. I was an activist in the days in question in this movie and all the thousands of revolutionary voices that were raised, back in the day, are more thoroughly crushed in this film than all the might of U.S. imperialist military, police, intelligence and public opinion creating machines…