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    Living on this planet has its ups and down. When I noticed the #ReasonsToLeaveEarth trending on twitter today, I thought to myself “I have to write about that”. So, here you go. My Top 6 Reasons to Leave Earth: #6- BILLS I mean, really, I hate to spend money. My dad taught me a lot of thing about money: here are the top two. Number one is to hold on to as much of it as you can, especially when you are young, because life isn’t just about today. You need to have some wiggle room when life

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    Spain has in its possession a very interesting depiction of the goddess of love Venus; this particular depiction is known as Afrodita agachada or Venus crouching and is illustrated in figure 4. As we all know by now, Venus was the Roman goddess of love and beauty, and is usually compared or associated to the Greek goddess Aphrodite. The name of the Goddess Venus is made out of symbols for “daughter”, “son”, and “Isis.” According to author John Erskine, the name “Venus” identifies her as a daughter

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    The telephone rings. It 's one of those collection calls we all have gotten at least once (if not more). “You owe a debt”, the ominous voice on the other end of the line says. “How will you pay it?” There is, perhaps, no more important question for a Christian to be asked. Jesus walked intentionally to the cross where He absorbed into His body the full power of sin and by overcoming death itself indebted each of us who claim the name Christian until He shall come again. How will you pay the debt

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    The best way for me to understand what Jesus was really like is to look at the people around me in my own life. So many of them constantly reflect characteristics of Jesus talked about in the Bible. The smaller pictures in my art piece are pictures of the people written about in this paper. Each picture is not simply of the person; it also demonstrates the quality of Jesus that I see the most in them. Jesus was selfless, encouraging, welcoming, accepting towards little children, and went to all the

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    The Effectiveness of Kenneth Branagh’s Depiction of Act 1 of Hamlet To begin, many parts of Kenneth Branagh’s depiction of Hamlet are effective, as they use cinematic elements to illustrate the depth of the play. First, Branagh’s version uses music throughout the scenes to emphasize emotions and conflict. During scene one, at the battlements of Elsinore Castle, the director incorporates trumpets and bells to signify the royal aspect of the setting, but then transitions into softer, more haunting

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    there is a connection that unites each and every individual, films offer a different perspective of the lives of whom may be misunderstood and enable audiences to discover that others live under similar circumstances as themselves. How might the depiction of 21st century Latino immigrants be compared to that of 19th century southern slaves in feature films? Time nor race is a boundary that can stop two groups from relating to each other, such is the case with African-American slaves and today’s immigrants

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    The vampiric Id An Insight into the Reflection of the Freudian Id in Bram Stoker's Depiction of Vampirism Being key figures of the Victorian era both, Bram Stoker and Sigmund Freud, were influenced by the mindset of their time. Especially in Stoker's most famous novel Dracula, which laid the foundation for the modern vampire novel, and in Freud's structural model of the psyche, which is still a key concept in psychology, there are striking analogies. In Freud's model, the human psyche is split into

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    The depiction of Barcelona given in Temma Kaplan’s Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona is similar to today’s Barcelona, but Barcelona does look physically different than it did because of all the new architecture and culture that has emerged. Kaplan described the scene of the Rambla as an “oasis of plane trees within the tumult of the industrial city [that] was often crowded with people strolling” (Kaplan 2). This could not be more similar to what it is today. I witnessed

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    In this scene where Jesse and his family are seen on their way to church, leaving Robert behind in his house. Robert then proceeds to go into Jesse’s room, puts on his hat, drinks from his glass of water, lies on his bed and runs his fingers over his ribs where Jesse has been shot and manufactures himself a hand where the top two knuckles of his index finger are missing. At the end of the scene, we see Charlie crying in his bed because he’s scared that Jesse is going to kill both him and his brother

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    “I’m headed straight for the castle, they wanna make me their queen, and there’s an old man sitting on the throne that’s saying that I probably shouldn’t be so mean” (Halsey). These lyrics from Halsey’s song, Castle, are an exact description of Buttercup’s life. The Princess Bride is a story told from grandfather to his grandchild all about romance and action. Westley is the farmboy on Buttercup’s farm, and he has a crush on the growingly beautiful young girl. Prince Humperdinck, the soon to be inheritor

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