The Flaming Lips

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (The United Nations, 1948) outlines in article 25.1 that everyone is entitled to sufficient social and civil living standards. This encompasses the rights to food, clothing, shelter, access to healthcare and social security. In many privileged nations, copious amounts of people never give these rights a second thought. Most were born into an abundance of security. Unfortunately, many were not. The World Health Organization estimated in 2010 that over…

which is the soft back portion of the roof of the mouth. There is also a Cleft Lip which is where there is a physical split or separation of the two sides of the upper lip and it would appear as a narrow opening or a gap in the skin of the upper lip and this separation could extend beyond the base of the nose, which includes the bones of the upper jaw or upper…

Children’s hospital of Wisconsin, approximately 1 in every 700 live births; most cases (80 percent) occur in males. Cleft lip/palate are birth defects that occur when the lip or mouth do not form properly during pregnancy. The causes of orofacial clefts among most infants are unknown. Some children have a cleft lip or cleft palate because of changes in their genes. Cleft lip and cleft palate are thought to be caused by a combination of genes and other factors, such as things the mother comes in…

Bill Clinton and Independent Ross Perot in a contentious campaign. Bush had garnered the votes of the American people in the 1988 election under the pretense that taxes during his presidency under no uncertain terms, or as he famously stated “Read my lips. No new taxes”, would rise. Bush soon breaks this oath to deal with the rising deficit, this action resulting in a lasting effect on his popularity and perceived trustworthiness. Clinton ran his campaign almost primarily focusing on this…

There’s a wave of populism sweeping the globe that appears to have made everyone feel either defiantly jubilant or ready to shit their pants, depending on which side of the ideological aisle they’re on. The most prominent example of this populist wave is Donald J. Trump’s upset win over Hillary Clinton in our recent presidential election, but this is not isolated to the United States. Much of Europe, parts of Asia, and South America, as well, have seen such crusades gain momentum, as people…

narrator and the woman serves as the beginning of the narrator’s “dangerous” lifestyle, with the music increasing in intensity when he describes sex with the woman (Matanle and Ankerson). To continue the symbolic affair, a red flash of the woman’s “flaming…

close Banquet repeating “cause I’m on fire” over and over because this track would ignite anyone in a 10 meter-radius. With equal parts disco and punk, Bloc Party gets its guitar in interlocking mode for a dizzying masterpiece that’s as hot as her lips.…

through the thick sand, looking for a small crumb of food, but only to find the unsatisfying, disgusting, horrid worms that dig through the underground for eternity, The child stuffs the worms into their yellow, slimy, rotten mouth and smacks their lips together, with yellow teeth flying everywhere, guts squirting from torn, bloody creatures that suffer a sickly, awful death. The buildings. The dead, silent buildings. The brutal torture that the survivors suffered in those death traps. The…

Ontelles is a mystical world that has two suns. The people of Ontelles are superstitious, they read the stars. For example, the flight of birds can be interpreted as good or bad omens. In order, to prevent “surprises” the people of the village will give lip reverence to the gods. Each human child on Ontelles is required to have their village,…

despite being married to Leonce, Edna has several different love interests. When Arobin was at Edna’s house one night “he leaned forward and kissed her, she clasped his head, holding his lips to hers”. Even in Leonce’s home Edna feels no shame in being with another man. Edna even describes the kiss as “a flaming torch that kindled desire” (110). Arobin was not the only man that she was intimate with; in fact, Edna said to Robert when he returned from Mexico “now you are here we shall love each…