Essays on Love Story

A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles

Film Review: La La Land – A Passionate Revival of Movie Musical Styles La La Land was released by Lionsgate and Black Label Media on December 25, 2016. It is considered a comedy/drama/musical production. Damien Chazelle is the director and writer of the film. Major stars in the movie are Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Rosemarie DeWitt (Platt & Gilbert, 2016). It has received 14 Oscar nominations and numerous Golden Globe awards. The plot involves the evolving and troubled love affair between an aspiring actress and a disillusioned jazz pianist. This is a musical production that includes drama, romance and comedy ...

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Xavier Dolan’s “Laurence Anyways” Film Review

An extremely ambitious project from a very young director, Xavier Dolan, the romantic drama “Laurence Anyways” follows the love story between Fred (Suzanne Clement) and Laurence (Melvin Poupad). Ironically, although they both have masculine names, Fred and Laurence are women. A transgender who had lived as a man, Laurence comes out with the revelation that he has always felt as a woman inside, and continuing his fake male life would kill him. The filmmaker situates this unique love story in the 1990s, a time when transsexuality was still considered an illness, and ...

The Horse Whisperer

The Horse Whisperer is considered as a romantic drama movie that mainly focuses on family stability as well as a western love affair. The author of the film creates the characters and setting to convey the message of family science effectively. The characters, Grace, her horse Pilgrim, Annie her mother and the horse whisperer, Tom Booker, have traits that objectify the message. Grace and her horse, Pilgrim, experience a traumatizing accident that leaves them critically injured. Annie decides to seek help from Tom, the horse whisperer who lives on a ranch in Montana. In the process of helping heal ...

The Lost Boys is a vampire movie that was released in 1987 and even after almost 30 years it still remains one of the most legendary movies about vampires, despite the fact that many other similar movies appeared after it. The movie became so successful that it won a Saturn Award for the Best Horror Movie and gathered over 32 million dollars in the American Box Office. The Lost Boys changed the perspective and images of vampires, and has made vampires more attractive by making them almost sex symbols. It is even possible to say that probably without The ...

In Coriolanus, the titular character’s mother tells him “You are too absolute” (Shakespeare). Volumnia, in this case, is trying to convince her son to approach the common plebeians for their votes to the Senate. Coriolanus is a proud man and an excellent soldier, but he struggles throughout the text with problems associated with his pride and his unwillingness to engage in political maneuvering. His mother, who ostensibly wants to see her son elected and placed in power, tries her hardest to convince him that he should participate in the process of trying to woo the people (Shakespeare). By “ ...

Tim O'Brien's “ The Things They Carried” is a work of fiction but throughout the novel there is a blend of truth and fiction. The novel is a collection of twenty two stories interrelated stories that speak of the author’s experience in the Vietnam war. By including fiction as well as the comments of the characters in his stories,O’Brien presents an ambiguous story about war. He says that war and its experiences cannot be generalized and there is so much more to it than heroism, courage, fear, death and pain. Especially in the story, “How to tell ...

In the English-speaking cinematography, 1995 was the year of Jane Austen. As if trying to celebrate the 220th anniversary of the writer, who since the 20th century became to some extent even a cult figure, the filmmakers created just three versions of her novels “Sense and Sensibility”, “Pride and Prejudice” and “Emma”. I like the Jane Austen’s creativity and read almost all her books. I saw a lot of different adaptations of the book “Pride and Prejudice”, and by and large I like all of them. After seeing the film adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility”, directed by Ang ...

The Chinese epic “Farewell My Concubine” by Chen Kaige is a cinematic masterpiece. It is a spectacle of action, history, culture, views of social and political landscapes that all intertwine in a love story that spans 52 years. It won the top prize in the 1993 Cannes International Film Festival and several other accolades in its time (Canby). The movie is vastly entertaining and enthralling. It is easy to get lost in the richness of the story – consider it a cultural achievement. This is an epic that covers years 1925 through 1977 in Beijing (formerly Peking), China. It showcases ...

I would like to start my analysis by introducing a little bit the movie background and how it was filmed. Almost all members of royal family of Jordan are Arabs related to the Hashemite dynasty, who consider themselves to be direct descendants of Prophet Muhammad. The exception is Prince Ali Bin Al-Hussein which is maternal Circassians. Sometime ago he came up with the idea to make a film about the Circassians living in Jordan. Choosing the director for the movie, Prince did not hesitate for too long. He called Mohy Quandour, who was living in London, known as many-sided ...

Book Review Pride and Prejudice

Historical and cultural context of Pride and Prejudice One of the cultural change that occurred during Jane Austen’s lifetime was the expanding of literacy and print culture in England. By the year 1800, most of the people either in the middle class or above could read. The novel Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen has been a very popular novel since its original publication. It has attracted wide coverage in reviews across different members of the society. From the literally reviews, academic, novelists and general public readers. The novel has sold more than 20 million copies since the ...

Summary of ‘How to Lie with Statistics’ by Darrell Huff

Introduction ‘How to Lie with Statistics’ was written and published by Darrell Huff. In the book, the author focuses on outlining various errors that arise as a result of statistical interpretation. He further states how often the interpretation errors lead tacticians to make an incorrect conclusion. The author has tried to assert the aspects under different topics within the book. Therefore, the current paper will provide a summary of the book based on the different topics within each chapter.

Chapter One

In this chapter, Huff mostly focuses on justifying his claim that sampling is the origin of any statistical problem. The ...

Shot in 1996 in Hong Kong, Comrades: Almost a Love Story by Peter Chan is a romantic drama on the complicated relationships of the Chinese couple. The film is a beautiful love story that takes place during the period of the political tension between China and Hong Kong, and the director’s main aim is to convey the atmosphere of the immigrants living abroad. Being a winner of the numerous awards, thus approved by the critics, Comrades: Almost a Love Story also touches the audience’s feelings by the director’s trenchant analysis of the destined love contrasted with ...

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“Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee,I have no joy of this contract to-night:It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;Too like the lightning, which doth cease to beEre one can say 'It lightens.” It the most known and talked about Shakespeare play hence becoming the ultimate classic love story. In the past, countless of love have come out that I contemplate superior love stories than that of Romeo and Juliet (“Baz Luhrmann's Romeo Juliet”). Juliet admitted that the relationship was too unadvised, too rush and too sudden, this confirms that it wasn’t actually ...

Introduction

This novel revolves around kitchen, and its contextual interpretation is in the Mexican society. The recipe was a major element to the Mexican kitchen, and it signified the life endeavors in this society. The thesis of this essay is a discussion on various attributes of the Mexican kitchen through the ailing Mama Elena, her three daughters and the surrounding love inferno between Tita and Pedro in the contextual ranch setup. 1. What was the general interpretation of this novel, and what impacts did it have? ( what conversations did it start or what understanding did the book generally bring to ...

When considering the genre of Romantic Fiction, it is important to distinguish two main criteria. The first one is that the story should tell about the relationship and romantic love between two people. Secondly, the positive end of the story leaves the reader believing that love and relationship are very real and endure right next to them, and that love wins at all. In literature, realism expresses real situations, real people and real events, whereas romanticism shows messages by using fiction. Romanticism focuses on plot, hyperbole, metaphor and feeling. In contrast, realism focuses on characters, details, objectivity and separation ...

We would like to analyze 4 films of the Hong Kong production and write about each of them a little bit. We have highlighted such movies as “Her fatal ways”, filmed in 1990, “Almost a love story” (1997), “Chungking express” (1994) and “Internal affairs” (2002). We will start with the film “Chungking express”, directed by Wong Kar-Wai in 1994. There are a lot of inhabitants in Hong Kong, but no place to turn around. High population density and narrow streets of the city – it is a good material, with which many would film an excellent dramatic movie about how ...

We would like to analyze three films of Hong Kong production and determine the presence of certain dreams in each of them. In addition to determining the so called “dreams”, we will discuss how the characters have chased it, which different approaches they used and what that dream actually meant for them. We chose to analyze the three following films: “Comrades, Almost a Love Story”, “Chungking Express” and “Durian Durian”. We will try as best as possible to understand the movie details and answer our own questions.       The next film is “Chungking Express”, filmed by the director Wong Kar-Wai ...

Love is depicted in different mannerisms in the love stories of Anna Karenina and Love in a Time of Cholera (Michael 1). Both films possess common themes as their characters carefully represent different roles to much acclaim the story of Love in the time of cholera is however based on few characters and the Love story is spurn among two major characters. On the other hand, the story in Anna Karenina spurns different people entangled in a love story. In the love story of Anna Karenina, there is a real depiction of married life while there is also true ...

When the film Titanic was released, it was released to an audience that was unsure about the potential success of the film. James Cameron, the director, had approached the film with such fastidiousness that caused the release of the film to be delayed significantly, and caused it to become one of the most expensive movies ever made up to that point (Maslin). There is no doubt that Titanic was a landmark piece for James Cameron, and Cameron’s ability and willingness to broach the hard subjects of death and class during the film made it even more powerful. While ...

Introduction

Yuan Zhen wrote the Yingying story during the time of the Tang Dynasty. This story is considered to be one of the first work of literature in China. The story revolves around a love story between a 16-year-old girl named Yingying and a 21-year-old man named as Chang, who was a student. In analyzing the story, one can get a glimpse of the Tang Dynasty and its culture. Another issue that can be observed is Buddhism in, which many people during that era were practicing it. However, in Tang Dynasty, the main religion was Taoism, but they had started ...

Andre Breton a well renowned French writer and a poet were born in a modest family in Normandy. In his research, he mainly majored in psychiatry and medicine. During the World War II, he participated as a doctor in a neurological ward in Nantas where his research on the artistic tradition started. The main influences for his study were the anti-social behavior that was exhibited by some of his patients. For instance, Jacques Vache, a young patient at the age of 24 years committed suicide and wrote several letters that were published in an introductory essay called Letters de querre in 1919. The novelist married ...

In George Browne: An American Soldier in World War I, an edited volume is presented of the letters of a WWI soldier. The soldier is Corporal George Browne and he was in the 117th Engineers, 42nd division. He was twenty-three years old when he was sent to civil engineer who decided to enlist in defense of his country once America entered WWI. The letters are intended to present a very human perspective of the war and how his ...

All art is political. Whether it is a deep, poignant drama or a flighty, effervescent musical, the performing arts in particular, including theater, has a uniquely political and socially vital point of view. There is something to be said for even the most lightly entertaining fluff piece, but even those can have very strong political overtones. Theater, to me, is a vehicle for conveying themes and subtext through the vitality of a live performed work; in a good work, all elements of a production must come together perfectly to provide substance about our lives and the world around us. I believe this is what separates effective theater ...

The ‘Gift of Magi’ is a short story written by the celebrated American writer, William Sydney Porter. His pen name is ‘O. Henry’ and the story was created in 1906. O. Henry was a brilliant writer and most of his works are known for their exquisite charm, wordplay and excellent characterization with intricate story endings. His stories are commonly set during the early 20th century and deals mostly with the ordinary civilians. The Gift of Magi is a humorous and colorful love story that uses surprise endings and scenic coincidences. The story is about a young couple who are in love with each ...

Korean culture has been revealed massively globally in today’s generation. This can be seen through the many modes of media coming from Korea that are shown in other parts of the world. They start to influence other people through their music, movies, TV dramas and other media. Due to the high quality production, they were recognized from people across the globe, gaining popularity as the days go by. One of the most popular Korean TV dramas is the “Princess Hour”. This TV drama shows all about Korean culture and the traditional socio-cultural practices with touch of modernism. ...

Abstract

This paper will clearly explain about the Prejudice and discrimination about the American English Movie Boy’s Don’t cry which was released in the year 1999. By taking the real story of an American trans man who was raped and murdered- Brandon Teena, the movie was taken in a clear and interesting way. Kimberely Pierce, who is a director of this famous flick, won an Oscar award. The movie has been considered as a thematically rich love story between two ill-fated lovers, as the story of Bonnie and Clyde. The family is about the search for freedom and identity in a society ...

The story brought me to the highs and lows of Jeremy and China’s love for one another. I was very anxious to continue reading the story and find out how something as good as it was going to end. During the first part wherein their love story was being described, I had this warm and light feeling. Their relationship was perfect, the kind that I believe most teenagers their age would love to have. They loved each other, and their parents and families accepted and supported their relationship. Even greater is the fact that despite the intensity of ...

[Professor]

My Relationship with Politics I never expected that I can be very interested in learning deeper about politics until this class. Previously, I was not paying attention to the burning issues of our society as I was disillusioned on the current social order. I believed that the world is one big cruel jungle where people survive using their own abilities. It is always the survival of the fittest. When our teacher starts talking about the current events, I was starting to yawn but there is something in his style of teaching that drew me into listening and ...

The start of cinematic vision in China was a contribution of a lot of factors pre-existing in the Chinese community. Before jumping into the factual statistics particularly related to Hong-Kong filming aura it will be apt enough to have an ideological understanding of the stream of certain social integrations in China which indirectly or directly affect the filming industry’s trend shifts in its evolution. To the viewer, martial- arts or the genre ‘Action’ might just be a mere theme of just another film but if the industry is responsible for producing several movies with same theme, this denotes the presence of ...

Film Studies: Hong Kong Cinema

Common themes in Hong Kong films include those that relate to human beings’ dreams, their journey, and their identity. Characters in some of the films we covered have certain dreams, often unattainable, and their stories revolve around their journey towards these dreams. Identity is also a prevalent theme in Hong Kong cinema, in terms of desired changes, lack of changes, or the transition of characters’ lives that influence or shape their identity. The succeeding discussion focuses on three Hong Kong films that explore characters’ dreams, journey, and identities particularly within the context of common themes such as love. In ...

Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together (1997) are two examples of “New Queer Cinema”, a genre defined in the early 1990’s by academic and film critic B. Ruby Rich. New Queer Cinema defined and described an already existing movement of filmmakers that were examining gay identity and existence from a queer perspective tand rejected heterosexual norms and values (Rich 14). Initially focused on the sociocultural elements of specific films by auteurs like Haynes and Araki, the term was soon broadened to include any films with gay and lesbian content (Berry 214). Initially, these ...

Young Gian Lorenzo Bernini hand carved the Apollo an Daphne from marble stone. His work is one among many representing the love story of Apollo and Daphne by Ovid. However, it is exceptional in its manner of featuring action and dynamism as it represents a 3-dimensional all round sculpture of the two lover touching a young tree. Choosing to depict the climax of the story, Bernini curves a sculpture representing nude human Daphne stretch her smooth curved body towards the top of the tree with Apollo right behind her. movement Bernini's skill in portraying movement makes him a remarkably exceptional artist ...

Literature possesses a vast territory for expressing meaningful human feelings, abstract emotions, or themes. Desperation and comfort is a common theme in literature, encompassed in short stories, poems and dramas and reflected differently through the mechanisms of each literary genres, the style of each literary piece or the personality of the authors. Various literary genres like short stories, poems or dramas, possess their unique mechanisms for reflecting the theme of desperation and comfort. Looking at Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”, the poet uses techniques specific to poetry space for transmitting his desperate adversity to resisting ...

Throughout the second half the 1800’s England was the most powerful country on Earth, undergoing rapid industrialization and experiencing tremendous social change. At the time, the “women’s question” was a societal conversation about the nature, identity and role of woman in society (Norton Anthology). With a growing middle class, and increased literacy rates, novels and periodicals became a popular medium which was often used to investigate and debate the "women's question" since “the fate meted to characters could reflect opinions of their behavior”(Waller). During the Victorian era, a woman’s fate and lifestyle were largely determined by their perceived social, ...

“Comrades: Almost a Love Story” by Peter Chan is a Chinese drama shot in 1996 in Hong Kong and New York City. The film won in several nominations in 16th Hong Kong Film Awards and Golden Horse Film Awards. The film tells a beautiful story of love of two migrants in the big city of Hong Kong. Li Qiao, a young beautiful girl from Guangzhou, is ambitious and has several jobs. Li Xiao-Jun, a fellow from North, has no definite goal in life and is lucky to get one job or another. She is mature, he is naïve. Though he has a girlfriend ...

Establishment

Tango is one of the most mysterious dances in the world, because it reflects the characters, the straightness of lines and unbridled naked passion at the same time. Argentine tango is a mixture of styles, directions and types of national folk dance rhythms with a touch of European and even African destinations. It is believed that the prototype of all styles of tango was the Argentine dance for couples, which, initially, people had danced in South America. However, some sources, in particular the French scientists, argue that the first Tango appeared in Spain. They consider that the founders of the ...

The article takes us through the poetic love story of the Song of Solomon and the different stages that are taken by lovers. The message is about the stages of love, from the time gets to know each other, to the stages of courtship and even marriage. Love is the most beautiful thing that can be best expressed and shown by a couple. The message is significant in helping us understand the love that God has for human kind. The various stages that are involved in a love relationship are significant in making us understand the stages of intimacy that we ...

The critical review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”

Introduction The need to create wealth is consuming humanity with the passage of time. The Wall Street is sharing a psyche of too much risk taking. The work calls the behavior of investors as casino mentality that causes adrenaline levels to increase in humans, and they receive direct dosage of the chemical straight to the heart. The investors experience addiction of the natural stimulant. The capitalism is based on the need to create social divides in the society. The social divides are created out of the economic inequality in the community. Human development does not occur because all of ...

Taj mahal, a monument defying words has been attracting a lot many visitors since the time immemorial. The shining white monument has been a centre of attraction gathering lot of praises for its spell binding gorgeousness from all around the world. The number of visitors to Taj Mahal has consistently been increasing with the data revealing about 2 to 4 million people visiting Taj Mahal each year. Taj Mahal grabbing a huge appreciation from each corner is now the one of the most loved monuments of the world. So far it’s too good! The facts portray a totally idealistic picture of Taj Mahal ...

The overall expositional context of the Great Gatsby concerns a societal conflict between new wealth and the established hierarchy of wealth. However, from the standpoint of the protagonist’s perspective, there is a theme more central than the societal context of the story. This story is a love story about a self-made man who earned his wealth as means to the end of getting the girl. This is the most enduring and universal story in the book. Like a good storyteller, F. Scot Fitzgerald uses symbolism, metaphor, imagery and diction to convey this central message. As this theme is a timeless one, it is one ...

Film Studies

Introduction Titanic is one of the most expensive films ever produced in American history, which had been reported to cost about $200 million. It brings to life the tragic sea accident that in April 15, 1912. It became one of the highlights in the life and career of director James Cameron. The irony of Cameron’s film “'Titanic” is that it has in its own right created an overreaching greatness that broke all blockbuster phenomena throughout the entire movie history. The film itself took the risk to gamble its stake on the visual splendor and technological achievement that ...

Introduction

As the US was involved in the war against the Germans during the 1940s, it was necessary to hire people for the army. Realizing the need to instigate the registration into the armed forces, the US used the media to promote nationalistic sentiments. Casablanca (Curtiz 19) is certainly one of the legendary films of Hollywood. The story’s most famous scene is a romantic one, where Rick and his ex-girlfriend bid goodbye. This, however, obliterates one of the strongest war propaganda symbolism ever made in a commercial and successful movie. While the general tendency is to remember the movie as a love ...

Nowadays, people tend to care too much what other people may think about them, sometimes making sacrifices beyond their possibilities, for the sake of appearances. The story “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant teaches us a very good life lesson regarding this issue and in another order of ideas, we can call it the deceptiveness of appearances. The main character of the story, Mathilde, never felt that the normal life she had fits her, and she always dreamed on being wealthy and making part of the social class. She had her change to bright for a couple of hours at a social ...

The movie “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring” starts with showing a small Buddhist temple on the river. In the temple, there were both old and young Buddhist monks. Leafy trees and clear spring weather evoke peaceful background of this movie. To gather medical herbs and to get into land, two monks have to take a small boat. A young monk teases small animals like frogs, snakes, and fish by suspending stones to them with his innocent smile; at the same time, the old monk observes young monk without any comments. That night an old monk suspends rock to young monk ...

Introduction

A literary review is any work that is designed to analyze or scrutinize some critical areas or points of knowledge, often subjectively, using certain theoretical and or methodological principles . In this case, what is being written is a literary review about two literary works that share the same theme. The theme or more specifically, themes, that will be focused on in this paper would be Race and Ethnicity. There are a lot of literary works that are centered on the themes race and ethnicity written between the early 20th century and the early 21st century, a gap of almost a hundred years. It ...

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions that people can feel. They can be creative emotions or destructive emotions, and much of literature is centered around what happens when people feel these emotions about each other. The Shadow of the Wind is a novel about a love story between two people; it is also the story of a love affair between a man and a book. There are many mixed emotions that occur within the novel, and the narrator is young and naive, especially at first. However, he comes to realize, over the course of the text, that to truly hate is ...

Romeo and Juliet’s love story appeared to be heading towards the path of tragedy, as even at the prologue of the play speaks about the tragic ending to the tale of the star crossed lovers. But was their death all fate? Was their death simply an investable ending for a forbidden love? It can be argued that destiny decided on the tragic ending, but human folly aided fate in giving an end to the love story. Romeo and Juliet, undoubtedly, Shakespeare’s most well-known work deviates from the typical happily ever after conclusion of most love stories, as it ...

James Cameron is a household name in the film industry. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise in film production, film directing and screen writing. His works include two of the world’s all-time best films. As a testament to the crucial role that Cameron has played to the general film industry, he has been nominated six times for the Academy Awards, something that few film directors have achieved. In essence, two of his movies, Avatar and Titanic are two of highest earning films of all-time, respectively raking $2.19 billion and $2.78 billion all over the world. Vanity Fair named him ...

When Helen Jackson wrote a report for The Bureau of Indian Affairs, on the plight of the Indians in southern California, she effectively controlled her feelings because the document was factual. Ramona, a popular novel, is the place where Jackson found a platform to let her emotions run free. Ramona is the story of a girl whose name is the title of the novel. The half Indian half white girl goes through a multiplicity of both emotional and physical journeys before the book comes to a semi-sweet end. In the book, Ramona is taken in by her foster mother’s sister Senora Moreno. The woman ...

A sensitive, yet realistic movie about the life and work of a popular Mexican artist, “Frida” tells the story of Frida Kahlo, a young woman who begins to paint after a trolley accident in which she was badly injured, bringing her close to her death. Although she felt the consequences of that accident throughout her life through insupportable pain, she managed to fight death with creativity, internal emotion, passion, inner feelings and talent, becoming a painter. The movie presents some of her works, which indicate a strong style, vivid passion and intense emotions, marked through the use of strong, dark colors. Likewise, Kahlo’s paintings also ...

Introduction

It is not that ease to clearly declare that Blackbird is a love story or not. However, it is rationally evident that it is more of a sexual abuse than a love affair. Considering the age difference of the two main characters, the time they stayed together, the driving motif of the whole engagement and finally the influential factor that led to the presentation of the play the play is a dramatization of child sexual abuse. However, for the sake of the theme of the play, it is a considerable horrible love story that destroys personality as the engagement between Una and Ray makes ...

The chosen Broadway show is 'Les Miserables'. The musical tells the story of two people's lives and how their conflict effects people around. The time of the story is French revolution France. The main characters are Jean Valjean, a convict trying to change his life; Javert, a policeman who is obsessed with his own perception of justice and considers catching Valjean his personal goal. Changing his life Valjean takes the name of Monsieur Madeleine and runs his own fabric. The woman called Fantine works at his fabric. She is an unwed mother of a girl Cossette, whom Fantine left in the family ...

Nicholas Sparks has occupied a genre that is not typically attributed to the masculine ilk - Romance Novels and he has captured the hearts of readers with Hollywood meticulously turning his books into movies. In so doing Nicholas Sparks has been able to reach people who may not necessarily have been book lovers as close to ten of his books have been turned into movies. His books portray the love stories of average Joes and have gone on to sell more than 50 million copies worldwide. Unlike most authors, Sparks found success instantly when he wrote a novel that was inspired ...

When you are not looking for love and love arrives at your doorstep, how would you respond? Would you welcome it with open arms or scare it away? If age is not an issue, would you let love guide you towards your love or would you let love run its course? If your heart finds a way to a far away land, would you let distance separate you or would you fly to the clouds to be with your love? Marco is an only child from a wealthy family whose dream is to find someone who would love him dearly and ...

For the interview project, I was able to browse through an advertisement (Craigslist) and to purchase an inexpensive item from someone I do not know, to go through with the purchase transaction and to conduct an interview. Last weekend, after searching through Craigslist of a particular inexpensive item, I selected a unique item: just one dragonfly earring, as shown below. I felt really curious about that, so I contacted the seller whose name was Alyssa. I said I wanted to buy that earing, and I wanted to interview with her in a public place, and she agreed without hesitation.

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Love is a very powerful force that can bring two people together, and bind them in a very strong bond. Once two people have fallen in love with one other, the bond between them becomes unbreakable. The story of such a love has been depicted in Moulin Rouge through the characters Christian and Satine. The best way to understand the love between the two characters is to compare it to fireworks. Fireworks leave an explosive mark on the sky with their gunpowder but they never disappear completely. In the same way, Christian and Satine share an explosive, fervent love that remains even after ...

Shakespeare's tragedy Antony and Cleopatra tells the tale of the titular characters, the historical figures Mark Antony and Cleopatra, as they navigate their life and rule of Rome and Egypt, respectively. The play is replete with historical and political intrigue, as the various rules and political figures attempt to wrest power from each other; also, it is a tale of war and the consequences thereof. At the center of it, however, seems to be the love story of Antony and Cleopatra, two leaders of distinctly different nations who find a common bond in each other. The character of Cleopatra, in particular, ...

Love is an articulation of fondness and care towards another. It is a feeling that individuals cannot live without – regardless of where love comes from. It may be parental love, sibling love, friend love, or the kind that lasts forever and ends in marriage. There are those who are lucky in love, while there are still those who are deprived of it. That is the theme of the movie, "Far from the Madding Crowd", which explores the various kinds of love. Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of Bathsheba Everdene, the young and beautiful mistress of a farm ...

Pride is the essential hallmark of tragedy - the best tragedies involve someone who is well-intentioned or honorable who are undone by their own assumptions and delusions of grandeur. This fatal flaw is understandable and tangible, and yet it allows us to see the inevitable downfall of people we relate to and wish to do good. The titular character from Shakespeare's play Macbeth suffers from immense pride, which is often inspired and egged on by various cultural and social factors, pressuring him to do things that are simply outside his capabilities. The result is a feeling of disappointment, and abject ...

Tragedy turned into comedy, comedy turned into drama. A woman turned into a man for following her artistic aspirations. A love story turned into an resigned acceptance of the life’s course, while never forgetting the shivering of love. “Shakespeare in Love” captures the paradox of life, love, friendship and gender relationship, aspects illustrated in the context of the Elizabethan England. Nevertheless, these aspects and their interpretations transposed in the movie are still applicable in our nowadays society. The movie is dynamic and appealing through its script, story, insight and interpretation. The tragedy of a love that cannot be or ...