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    So L. A Song Analysis

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    of the City of Angels. So, while this was hard to narrow down as well, I give you the top ten songs about L.A. and Hollywood. Number Ten: “So L.A.” by The Motels. “So L.A.” is a song by The Motels, off of their 1982 album, All Four One. Lyrics include, “Jimmy cracked when he came out here / precious dream never seemed so clear / now he practiced a thousand times / the city that should have been his that night” and “walk of the woman that came to say / she come and walk there every day / her

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    In The Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s dream is to win back Daisy’s love and create a long and happy life with her, but his dream ends up being an inevitable failure, as both Gatsby and Daisy come from different social statuses, which in the end causes Daisy to not choose Gatsby. Daisy comes from East Egg as, “her voice is full of money...that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it...high in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl…” (120)

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    Dog Contest Essay

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    The Dog Contest “Jewl!” gasped Jane, as she ran through the hot, dry prairie. There had been no rain for weeks, and the temperature rarely dropped below thirty degrees, even at night. Ruff! answered Jewl, coming suddenly up behind Jane. Jane turned around and moaned, for the dog was a sight to behold, covered in dust, with brown leaves all over her. “Oh, Jewl!” sighed Jane, as she led her dog back to the house. Jane was a tall girl, with thick glasses and long, brown hair, which kept getting

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    age of three. He does have dreams of a boy which he thinks is his brother. He has a drawn picture of his brother from a dream, he had drawn this picture a couple years back. Junior turned 18 three months ago and was allowed to stay at the orphanage until he had a good paying job and an apartment. He is currently working at a technology repair shop for all electronics. He was going threw his old notes that he had written down as a kid and came across his old dream of becoming a DJ. Junior realized

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    of their dreams.” Dreams are really weird, but unique things that every human being does. Some dreams are taken literally, while others don’t have any meaning at all. Multiple people say that they don’t dream, which isn’t exactly true. They could just not remember them, which is normal because within ten minutes of waking up, 90% of your dream is forgotten. In our lifetime, we will spend about four years in a dreamlike state. Frequent questions people have over dreams are: Why do we dream? What do

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    What dreams are made of

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    What Dreams are Made of Since the beginning of time, dreams have been a mysterious wonder amongst humans. Everyone has dreams, and people who say they do not in fact do, but just don’t remember their dreams or recall the information that was in them. A person spends somewhere around six years of their life dreaming, which is about 2,100 days in a dream world (dreamfacts). A lot of people often have weird and unexplained dreams that they usually just overlook, or don’t remember, but research is

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    woven into the fanciful stories and scenes that we call dreams. The true meaning of what dreams are and why they occur has been speculated for many centuries and today there are numerous theories on why the human mind dreams. The state of unconsciousness, known as dreaming, is a universal human experience that is distinguished by sensory, cognitive, and emotional occurrences during sleep. The mind goes through five stages of sleep each night. The stages progress in a cycle from stage one to REM (rapid

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    Individuality and conformity is a battle between being a leader and being a follower, finding out who you are and your desires to be accepted by others. In Alice Munro’s short story “The Shining Houses” and Wallace Stevens’ poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’ Clock”, both the author and the poet shows how being an individual is more valuable than being one of those conformed ‘copies’. Is it better to stand out and compromise your values or is it better to stay comfortable in the crowd and give into peer

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    back to sleep and once I did it was a fitful sleep; I tossed and turned trying to renew my dreams, but they did not return. The following morning, I woke tired and most depressed. I should have been relaxed after experiencing such consuming orgasms, but I felt the opposite. I paced the floor thinking of the dream… I contemplated revealing the nights sensual “dreams” to Angelique then changed my mind. About ten thirty that morning, she sent a servant to ask that I join her for brunch. It was just across

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    cops realize the evidence found at the crime scene is linked to a case that occurred ten years ago when Bailey, Asher, and Dom died. They ponder over the idea whether Luster is guilty or is it linked to the urban legend? Vengeance, the urban legend, is the story of a man who comes back to kill the abusers and save the victims. He successfully killed Bailey, Asher, and Dom. Later that night, Aubrie has a dream of Bailey picking on a black girl telling

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