Capannori
If you’ve seen Pixar’s “Wall-E”—which I would highly recommend you do if you haven’t—there’s a good chance that you’ll feel a tinge of guilt mixed with sadness during the introduction scene, which depicts a
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Sic Semper
In the good old days you couldn’t really get into a ruling position without being a tyrant of some description, and while my hopes are high for Donald Trump, most modern dictators can’t hold
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On Turkish Prog
The English have dominated the rock music genre since the sixties; a very large percentage of the most memorable and influential rock musicians of the second half of twentieth century were English. The case
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Human Nature
We all grow up in a collectivist social state of life; regardless of what part of the world we belong to, we as humans are inherently collective beings. A widely held notion regards the
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Best Role Models
“Who is your role model?” This is a question that you’ll eventually have to face. I don’t know why, but many teachers, employers and interviewers are interested in your answer to this question. It’s
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Jazz Rap: The Roots of Conscious Hip-Hop
A considerable number of recent successful hip-hop releases contain traces of ’80s and ’90s style, and I think this is a consistent trend that might have been expected to occur. As mentioned in an
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Over the holidays, I watched an inspiring movie about an inspiring woman named Hannah Arendt. I had meant to watch “Schindler’s List.” While I was searching for it, fate intervened, and I came across
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My fellow columnist Berire last week mentioned in passing the prospect of selling one’s soul, and this is of course a topic I am deeply and personally interested in (because…er, because it pops up
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