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Music is an escape from the challenges of reality. It is also an escape from oneself. In The Soloist which is based off of a true story, Nathaniel Ayers and Steve Lopez are two strangers with different life challenges that bring them together. Steve Lopez is a reporter for the Las Angeles Times who needs a story for his column. Nathaniel Ayers is a homeless musician who struggles with schizophrenia. Through their challenges an unlikely friendship begins to occur. Walking along the streets of Las

real-life struggles of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who developed schizophrenia in his second year of Juilliard School, and his friendship with Steve Lopez. After being diagnosed with the illness, Ayers becomes homeless, living on the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles, and the story is based on Lopez’s attempts to help Ayers improve his situation. Steve Lopez, a writer for Los Angeles states “a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges,

The last season of The Real Housewives of Orange County was all about if Brooks Ayers really had cancer or not. Brooks was never able to confirm that he had cancer, but still swears that it is true. Now E! Online is sharing that City Of Hope is finally speaking out and confirming that they never treated Brooks for cancer at their facility. So far Brooks' rep is refusing to speak out on this matter. Last week Brooks Ayers did an interview with E! News' Melanie Bromley and he brought paperwork along

focused on the policy of containment, which is the strategy to prevent the spread of communism(Ayers 818). Kennedy focused on flexible response, which is strengthening the U.S. forces so the U.S. would have other options for weapons(Ayers 886). All the presidents were worried about the idea of domino theory. Domino theory is theory that if one country would fall to communism the others around it would too (Ayers 950). Harry S. Truman was the first cold war president. Truman focused on using the policy

Emotivism is a meta-ethical theory developed by AJ Ayer and agreed upon by C.L Stevenson which says that ethical sentences do not possess moral propositions but only emotional attitudes. This theory surged in the late 20th century, and was commonly known as the hooray/boo theory. I will discuss why I believe that this theory is correct and will discuss the problems that Emotivism faces, and I will give reasons on how emotivism can overcome these challenges. I will also be discussing why I think more

of car A as it was not their choice to begin with. According to Ayer the problem with holding someone responsible for accidental errors is that they simply could not control the

starring Jamie Foxx (Nathaniel Ayers), and Robert Downey Jr. (Steve Lopez). It is based on a true story, and is about a musician who had schizophrenia, who attended Julliard,

and Truman believed strongly in the Policy of Containment, while President Kennedy believed in Flexible Response (Ayers 819). Containment was a policy made in the 1940’s to stop communism from going to more countries/cultures(Ayers 819). All of the presidents used economic aid, but each used it differently. Economic aid is help from a developed country to a less developed country (Ayers 886). They also used foreign

spreading to other places. (Ayers et al. ***) George F. Kennan was a big advocate for containment and his writings inspired the three presidents’ foreign policies. (Ayers

year-old Ronald Ayers. Once he was topped, the police officer claimed Ayers had alcohol on his breath, was communicating with slurred speech and didn’t pass the field sobriety tests he was given. Consequently, Ayers was arrested and transported to county jail. When Ayers’s blood alcohol level was tested once he arrived at the county jail, his blood alcohol level measured 0.000. A urine sample that he was given also determined there were no intoxicants present. This means that Ayers, although arrested