LONG WAY GONE is a prodigal son story about a terminally ill man‚ who once had a promising music career. Upon returning home‚ he reconnects with his old flame‚ a mature country star whose fallen on hard times. They relive their romance through a series of flashbacks which also ignites memories of his childhood traveling around with his father‚ an itinerate preacher/musician. While this story is certainly catnip for the faith-based market‚ the overarching appeal of this film for a larger market
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her gifts. She affectionately nicknames her benefactor “Daddy-Long-Legs”. After completing her studies and initially struggling for work‚ Young-mi eventually obtains her dream job as a program writer in a nationally-syndicated radio station. On top of this‚ it has been arranged for her to stay rent-free in a nice house that the owner vacated due to health reasons. Young-mi believes that her good fortune is the work of her “Daddy-Long-Legs”. One day‚ Young-mi receives an email from the owner of
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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. • The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. • One needs something to believe in‚ something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. • As long as people believe in absurdities‚ they will continue to commit atrocities. • Moral skepticism can result in distance‚ coldness‚ and cruelty. Change • People are afraid of change but things always change. • Things are usually not as bad as you think
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Monday Oct. 19th What is Love? According to Webster’s dictionary the word love is described as a strong‚ positive emotion of regard and affection. But in society today it seems as if we throw the word love around in such a loose manner it really has lost its meaning. Ranging from “I love Coach purses”‚ to actually telling a person “I love you” is now a common thing. Throughout this essay I’ll be taking a philosophical approach to help give a better understanding of what love is according to the speakers
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20th Century European History Due Date: October 1‚ 2008 A Very Long Engagement In the movie “ A Very Long Engagament” there is a sadness of love buried underneath the trenches of the war. Along with this sadness is a strong showing of Militarism and how it ruined so many lives in the years 1914-1918. Matilde’s account of lost love and hope has made her goal to struggle through the harsh realities of life to try to find an answer‚ an answer which she surely knows will cripple her mind. The
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What does it take to be hopeful? Hope is an everyday human experience that is so ruthlessly clichéd. Such word has been sorely worn out that‚ to a mere mortal like me‚ arriving at its essence is such a hopeless plight. I take Marion’s explanation of how hope is distinctive from mere calculation of possibility‚ expectation‚ optimism‚ vitality and stoicism then later attempt to understand how hope can lead to transfiguration. According to Marion‚ hope is always directed towards the future‚ making
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Forbidden Love “There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable” quote by Mark Twain. Michael Ondaatje feels similarly in his poem “The Cinnamon Peeler” because he longs to be with his beloved but this is not possible. We infer that Ondaatje is in a lower caste than his love because he hypothetically states “If I were a cinnamon peeler…” (1). The idea of them being together is what sets off this love poem. He goes on a type of role-playing game in which he and his wife
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path. It’s like magic falling from the sky. And it creates the illusion of floating on a cold mist before dancing to the ground. The tiny star-shaped pieces of the clouds are mesmerizing. And not one of these small winter miracles is quite the same. I love to look out of the window at the white blanket that has been gently laid over the land. Everything disappears‚ hiding under piles and piles of white frozen water. While the sun sparkles‚ picking out glittery diamonds in its frosty surroundings. At
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here and give you a speech. Today I will focus on true love. As everybody knows love is of great importance in our life‚ but what love is ? One verse describes the characteristics of true love. "Love is patient‚ love is kind. It does not envy‚ it does not boast‚ it is not proud. It is not rude‚ it is not self-seeking‚ it is not easily angered‚ it keeps no record of wrongs. It always protects‚ always trusts‚ always hopes‚ always perseveres. Love never fails." However‚ dose love really likes this
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Love is one of the greatest gifts that were given to mankind. Love is a word whose definition is as broad yet it’s understood. As simple as the word Love may seem; to define it may be one of the most difficult things to do. People express Love differently as we seen in the four speeches from Phaedrus‚ Pausanius‚ Eryximachus and Aristphanes. Phaedrus who is considered to probably be least inexperienced than the others because he is the youngest of the speakers expressed a few valid points in his
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