“Born to Die” “Feet don’t fail me now, take me to the finish line. Oh my heart it breaks every step that I take cause’ I’m hopin’ that the gates, they’ll tell me that you’re mine.” Lana del Rey opens her ballad with these short sentences, setting the stage for the rest of her story. Viewers and listeners are instantly brought in by this haunting yet charismatic song. While the fan video does not have the same artistic depth as Lana’s version, they are telling the same story. Lana del Rey and the…
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Earth destroy the planet. This chaos all happens within hours. Thankfully, Arthur’s best friend, Ford is a much friendlier alien who gets Arthur and himself off Earth before its destruction and hitch a ride on the Vogon’s ship. They are quickly discovered and kicked off the Vogon ship into space to die. Luckily, Ford’s partial cousin and president of the galaxy, Zaphod Beeblebrox has stolen…
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days I need to be more careful especially due to what happened to Marzettie getting shot just for a girl. I wonder why did McCurry have to die, like what was his background like? Looking at the article, I can see that McCurry being a pimp had many prostitute workers and as a result that might have brought more argument. Probably McCurry and Marzettie had a friendship background because knowing that Marzettie is the boss there and McCurry arriving at Lipstix. If we sit back and think for a moment now…
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father. Even though Albert truly misses Joey, Joey eventually moves on to other people and forgets about Albert for now. He learns to love and loose others. When Joey began the war he didn't only learn to pull carts, he learned loyalty, and friendship and that started with Captain Nicholls. Captain Nicholls was Joey's companion. Captain Nicholls would always comfort him, reassure him, and make him feel safe and protected. Joey could always count on Captain Nicholls. Captain Nicholls was always…
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When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare. Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that we are not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster. Which is not to say that a really good horror movie may not surprise a scream out of us at some point, the way we may scream when the roller coaster twists through a complete 360 or plows through a lake at the bottom of the…
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hunky-dory boyfriends and a fabulous job in the fashion industry. We could be forgiven for thinking this princess cruising around in her die-for BMW, has everything a girl could wish for in life, but in true reality show style, LC realises there’s more to life than BMWs as she tries to juggle work, school and relationships. The show that ‘seemed’ to portray youthful friendships turns towards more predictable cruelties - good-looking playboys only committed to those young women who wear low-rise pants and…
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helps plan Jonas escape and gives him as many memories as he can before Jonas runs away with Gabriel, a baby about to be released the next day. The journey is long and cold, but they when they find a sled waiting for them at the top of the hill, they ride it towards elsewhere. One famous book in American Literature is Tuesdays with Morrie, written by Mitch Albom. In the book, Morrie Schwartz fulfills the role of a wise old man. Morrie Schwartz was Mitch Albom’s favorite professor. Morrie and Mitch…
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live with yourself when you don’t give your best effort. When I did give my best effort and things didn't go my way I became more determined to succeed, a trait that was one of Coach Grinde's trademarks which was to always give 100% and have a "never die" attitude. Coach Grinde taught me to constantly stretch my boundaries and test my limits. It gave me an avenue to express my…
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fearing that Norton might die from shock, drives to the nearest tavern, the Golden Day, which serves black people and also happens to be a brothel. Naturally, Norton is offered alcohol as a solution for him to calm down from a bad event that he remembered driving with the invisible man. Events unfold and now Mr. Norton is upstairs with prostitutes after a fight with black veterans, and then the invisible man drives him back to the college for a really awkward car ride. Bledsoe arrives at Norton’s…
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are each other’s soul mates. You will always be my best friend and sister, nothing can tear us apart, nothing.” We cried and I got in the car and drove off leaving my sister behind, not knowing that this move was about to take a huge toll on our friendship. We kept our promises and stayed in touch every day. But after a year or so, she…
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