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reality depending on what you make figure or ground. We see the world through figure-ground. What can be background can be figure. What can be figure can be background. Figure is what one pays attention to, while ground is what one blocks out. An example…

Harold is a young boy out of place in the world. He is obsessed with death and grief. Maude comes along and teaches him how to live his life and discover his true individuality. She adopts Harold and tries to bring him out of his depression and put…

And it was at that age¡­Poetry arrived in search of me. I don¡¯t know, I don't know where it comes from, from winter or a river. I don¡¯t know how or when. No, they were not voices, they were not words, nor silence, …

by Kimberley Peirce. In 1993, Brandon Teena, a teenage drifter who was famous locally for romancing the females in Falls City, Nebraska, was found shot dead in a farmhouse just out of the town. But Brandon, despite his…

many magnificent movies have been put into production. They’re has been ground-breaking developments in all of the different genre, not to mention in animation and other aspects of film. If we were to list the greatest films of this era, we would find…

more than a comical spoof of the music industry, “Spinal Tap” was instead rocketed to cult icon status. The characters in the movie are so fully thought out that almost all rock and roll bands that became popular prior to and half a decade later than…

Aniston (this actress also stars in the comedy "Friends") star in the comedy movie "Office Space." Peter Gibbons (Livingston) is a computer software programmer who hates his job and his bosses. One of his Bosses is Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole),…

that ecstasy is a serious drug in America. The use of ecstasy is referred to as “rolling” or “trolling.” Ecstasy or MDMA (methylenedioxmethamphetamine) is not considered a new drug, but is just now beginning to rear its ugly face in today’s society. …

just take too long and knowing my skills of explaining, I won‘t even try. So, to sum it up as short as possible. I would have to use one single phrase from the movie “Dead Poets Society”. It’s said by Mr. Keatings on one of his first days teaching.…

and the loss of innocence. It brings all childhood insecurities, fears, and dreams intosharp, crystal-clear focus. It begins, as childhood stories often do, with curiosity. Four friends, each with his own emotional baggage, decide to go on an…