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D C First Time
1,609 words... over I had to constantly remind myself that the recovery process takes time. Just as I was recovering, my mother broke down weeping on the telephone on the night of April 18 th. She said to me in fragmented sentences, "It's Wendy. Oh, my God. She's missing. " Wendy was my mother's identical twin sister. Apparently, she drowned or passed away because of hypothermia in the Trinity River in Northern California. Wendy was my beloved aunt. The aunt that always included me, the aunt that knew how ...
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View Of Life Double Standard
1,516 wordsIn Society today, men are bombarded with rules regarding behavior and the image of masculinity they must project. Media and pop culture display masculinity without properly defining its boundaries, creating a double standard for men which is both confusing and impossible to live up to. The confusion and doubt that such a double standard causes often has disastrous social implications. Not only does it make men miserable and self-conscious, but in addition it places a stereotype on men that is ex...
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Rob Past Understand His Current Laura
732 wordsOn High Fidelity High Fidelity On the surface, High Fidelity is a story about breaking up and getting back together again. Only, thanks to director Stephen Frear's? narrative technique, we don? t realize this until the credits start to roll. He plunges into the life of Rob Gordon, played by John Cusack, on the night his girlfriend, Laura, leaves him. Rob? s subsequent depression and self-analysis is the focus of the film; getting the girl back becomes secondary. Rob? s frustration from his break...
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Order To Stay Stay Healthy
702 wordsPeople s lifestyles often reveal and contrast their person philosophies. My uncle Joe, who lives in the States, and my cousin Rob, who lives in Europe have very different attitudes towards medicine. When you talk to a person with definite beliefs in the superiority of one culture, it almost always turn out that this superior culture is his / her own. My uncle is not a very open minded person towards traditional medicine and never admits that other cultures can bring any benefits. My family alway...
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Speak To My Friends Relate To Robs Rob
944 wordsIn Nick Hornbys High Fidelity, the main character, Rob, relates music to every aspect of his life. He utilizes music as an escape from his anxieties regarding his failing record store, relationship, and sense of self. Music provides Rob with the inspiration that keeps him going: Records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it Im looking for someone. (169) Music prompts Rob to isolate himself, hold an unrealis...
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