as long as it is not political related. Hence‚ drama are based in olden times were popular because it would not have any relation to present day politics. Another favourite genre would be drama focused on love stories. These led to TV dramas like Winter Sonata‚ depicting a love story that became a hit in Asia‚ and
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The Petrograd Inflitrators Hello‚ I have no name. I am just a part of the masses that overthrew the corrupt Provisional Government. Me and hundreds more have been pushed into a stinky French-style taxi. In the taxis transporting us‚ we saw an enraged Petrograd (St. Petersburg). There were soldiers everywhere and slogans such as “Mir‚ Khleb i Zemlya!” (Peace‚ Bread and Land) on blood red flags donned the apartment blocks and buildings. When I stepped off at the meeting point near St. Isaac’s Cathedral
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It is a terrible yet bittersweet coincidence that I am writing a response to Timothy Morton’s “Queer Ecology” as my friends and family in the Philippines are being besieged by yet another tropical cyclone. Terrible because I feel guilty sitting cozily in front of my screen while halfway around the world hundreds of thousands of Filipinos who live in areas at risk of flash floods‚ landslides and storm surges are struggling to be evacuated as Ruby (the misleadingly sweet name the cyclone has been baptized
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Aliens are a world’s mystery. Lots of people have claim to have seen aliens‚ while others create fake photos to get others to believe in them‚ but It’s not the aliens that are terrifying‚ It’s the things that come after the aliens; The men in black. Many people who report the sighting of aliens also see The Men in Black. Like the movie‚ these scary men in black suits also do the same thing. While in the movies the main protagonist zap the people with a small device to make people not remember things
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complex of monuments built along a bend of the River Boyne known collectively as Brú na Bóinne. The other two principal monuments are Knowth (the largest) and Dowth‚ but throughout the region there are as many as 35 smaller mounds. Each year the winter solstice event attracts much attention at Newgrange. Many gather at the ancient tomb to wait for dawn‚ as people did 5‚000 years ago. So great is the demand to be one of the few inside the chamber during the solstice that there is a free annual lottery
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I hate winter and my radio wants me dead. You heard me: dead. Actually‚ I can’t say with confidence that it’s the radio at all. I’ve swapped it out three times‚ finally settling on an ancient cassette deck excavated from a musty box in my garage. But it’s not the station‚ or who’s speaking‚ or even how modern (or ancient) the radio is. There’s something in the air and it has a home: The Silver Memorial Bridge. Ten days before Christmas in 1967‚ the original Silver Bridge collapsed during rush
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you feel the pressure to come back to at the end of a day—cooking‚ children‚ pets‚ taking care of your family? When are the “promises” we need to keep made explicit‚ and when do they remain unspoken? The evening is “the darkest evening of the year‚” winter solstice. It is also the shortest‚ in a period of cold and darkness. The images of the frozen lake‚ the dark‚ the deep‚ could be used to argue that Frost is thinking of death. Death here is beckoning‚ an escape from care. The repeated lines at the
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Psychology of Human Development August 27th‚ 2013 Developmental History of Timothy Timothy was born on March 12th 2005 in Little Rock‚ Arkansas at UAMS Medical Center. At birth‚ he weighed 2.2 kilograms and his length was 44 centimeters. He is currently the only child. Tim’s parents were never married. Tim was born at term to a single mother Jacklyn who was 22 years old and had just dropped out of Pulaski technical college. Her pregnancy was complicated due to extensive alcohol use during
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Teeya Blatt Before reflecting on the role of rites of passage in our modern day lives‚ lets first remember what they did for our ancestors‚ when we lived closer to the Earth and to the natural cycles. There were the rites that marked the cycles‚ the winter solstice‚ the summer solstice in northern Europe‚ the rites that marked the time of fruiting trees‚ the run of salmon upriver. There were also the rites that marked thresholds in life‚ menarche‚ boy-to-manhood‚ marriage‚ parenthood. Very few rites
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a wilderness that testifies of human hardihood and endurance. The barrenness of the surroundings in which Anne and John lived was almost unbearable‚ isolation and loneliness. The prairies of Saskatchewan are covered with snow with blue sky during winter. During a snow storm Ann’s husband decides to travel on snowshoes to his father’s farm to help him. John gets ready and to brave the oncoming storm to his father’s house; Ann does not want him to go and leave her alone. Against Ann’s requests
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