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    Sing Street

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    Sing Street is by far one of the greatest Coming-of-Age films that was released this year. Sing Street will keep your foot tapping and a smile on your face. I would have never discovered the film it was not for‚ Netflix‚ and it is a film that every teenager‚ adult‚ especially 1980’s lover should take the time to watch. Prepare for nostalgia and a mind blowing film‚ Sing Street is going to be on your top ten list of Coming-of-Age films to watch. Sing Street is a film about identity‚ young love‚ escape

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    The Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Expedition The Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Expedition – the only expedition that was successful in colonizing the Philippines. After the unsuccessful expedition of villalobos‚ King Charles I decided to stop sending colonizers to the Philippines. When his son‚ King Philip II tool over‚ he continued the expeditions. Philip sent Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and fray Andres de Urdaneta. Urdaneta survived the de Loaisa expedition. On February 13‚ 1565‚ Legaspi’s expedition landed

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    San Miguel Corporation is one of the Philippines’ largest and most diversified conglomerates‚ generating about 6.5% of the country’s gross domestic product in 2013 through its highly integrated operations in beverages‚ food‚ packaging‚ fuel and oil‚ power and infrastructure.  San Miguel is one of the nation’s largest employers‚ with a direct workforce of about 18‚000 employees. For each job created within the San Miguel system‚ many additional jobs are created through suppliers‚ distributors‚ retailers

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    Unconditional Love in “The Song of Songs” What is Love? Robert Frost once wrote “Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.” Love is one of the strongest emotions we feel‚ yet it is the hardest emotion to ever be understood. “The Song of Songs” by Ellen Gilchrist‚ explores the theme of love‚ particularly a mother’s love for her child‚ and the impact it has on one woman specifically‚ Barret Clare. In Gilchrist’s short story “The Song of Songs” Barret Clare is a woman who has never

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    as Saint Miguel Pro‚ was born on January 13‚ 1891‚ in Guadalupe‚ Mexico. He was one of eleven children‚ the oldest boy. Sadly‚ four of his siblings died as babies or young children. From an early age‚ he was heartily spiritual‚ as well as mischievous; he constantly entertained his family with his humor and practical jokes. St. Miguel was a dauntless child and sometimes took his pranks and fun too far‚ putting him in several near-death mishaps. The third oldest in his family‚ St. Miguel was unquestionably

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    Another critic named George L. Cowgill‚ a professor at Brandeis University in Massachusetts‚ argued that Leon-Portilla’s use of sources mostly came from Sahagun’s Codex Florentino and other numerous native sources that fit well to create the Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico. Cowgill felt that Leon-Portilla’s book did a successful job in achieving its purpose of telling the story through the account of the natives and the overall story seemed to flow very well as a narrative. Cowgill felt

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    Mean Streets

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    Mean Streets is Scorsese’s breakthrough film‚ his first financed by a major studio – Warner Brothers‚ though it’s not exactly a blockbuster-budget affair. Charlie‚ the film’s protagonist‚ struggles to maintain his sense of Catholic values despite being in the world of the petty Mafiosi – he’s not a made man by any stretch of the imagination‚ but he’s trying. He’s also a devout Catholic‚ who understands that “you don’t pay for your sins in church; you do it in the street – you do it at home.” He

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    Song analysis

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    Man in the Mirror (Song Analysis) Man in the Mirror is a former number one single performed by musical pop sensation Michael Jackson. The theme of the song is easy to pick up when you have a look at the chorus "I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways. And no message could have been any clearer. If you wanna make the world a better place. Take a look at yourself and make a change." The theme of the song clearly incorporates the idea that all wide scale change (changing

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    can’t touch someone but when you add the accompaniment it speaks volumes. I received the song “Suggestion” by Fugazi‚ and when I listened to it for the first time I just thought it was another song. As I listened to the song more and more and focused on the lyrics and the rhythm‚ the song started to speak to my soul. This song is all about violence on women in the forms of rape‚ sexual harassment‚ violence‚ and street harassment. It also emphasizes the aspect of power dynamics and gender roles in our

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    AA00218MN3 Beat Street is a 1984 drama film‚ following Wild Style in featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s; breakdancing‚ DJing‚ and graffiti. Set in the South Bronx‚ the film follows the lives of a pair of brothers and their group of friends‚ all of whom are devoted to various elements of early hip-hop culture. Kenny Kirkland (Guy Davis) is a budding disc jockey and MC‚ and his younger brother Lee (Robert Taylor) is a hardcore b-boy who dances with Beat Street Breakers (the New

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