To me, I am quite a dull, uninteresting, and difficult topic; I know me, very well in fact, so what else is there to say? To others, I may not be a boring person. I may even, at times, be interesting, but as a topic for discussion, nothing about me seems particularly worthy.
Read More...The exact specifics of when I first saw it I do not remember at all. I am not sure how old I was, or why even we were at my grandpa's office. I don't know if the light reflected off it just right, or if it was somehow yelling at me, insisting that I notice it, but regardless of how it caught my interest, what I saw was a small metallic paperweight shaped roughly like a mouse. He seemed a friendly little fellow, I thought; although perhaps a little arrogant, with his nose pointed proudly up in the air.
Read More...Does violent media have a harmful effect on families? I think it certainly desensitizes us to violence. And if our sensitivity to the harm violence causes is dulled, then I think we won’t try to prevent violence in the future. But I believe that Beyer is assuming to much when he claims that just because we shoot at aliens in video games we’re going to kill our best friend...
Read More...So was I once myself a swinger of birches / And so I dream of going back to be. -Robert Frost
Read More...The world -however you define that for yourself, whether the planet Earth, the world of a successful businessman, the world of an artist, or of anything else- is full of things that we could each very gladly live without. The film Serenity? Well, as its creator Joss Whedon says, it is a film that "should not exist."
Read More...Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was a complete failure as far as profits; it did not even generate enough income to pay for the advertising, let alone the creation of the movie. Its failure is due, at least in part, to the fact that it did not rigidly follow the hero myth structure that Linda Seger identifies.
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