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And Just Like That
And Just Like That And Just Like That the gals from Sex And The City have turned into The Golden Girls! Given all the differences between being 55 in 1985 and being 55 in 2022, perhaps we should call Carrie, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2020s, 50s, Actress, Age, Aging Process, And Just Like That, Appartments, behavior, Blanche, Botox, Carrie, Charlotte, Children, Dating, Doroth, Dyed Hair, Empty Nest, Fashion, Feminity, Fillers, Glasses, Grown Children, Guys, Hair, Heels, Independent, Life Doesn't End, Lives, Marriage, Men, Miranda, Motherhood, Mothers, Old, Older Than 25, Original, Pretty, reboot, Representation, Revolutionary, Roommates, Rose, Sad, Sadness, Sex, Sex and the City, society, Sophia, Teenagers, Television, The Golden Girls, Times We Live In, White Hair, Widow, Widowed, Widower, Work Done, Wrinkles
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Chasing The Scream
Chasing The Scream by Johann Hari Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari came out in 2015. It was the inspiration for the Hulu movie Billie Holiday vs The United States. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, 2021, Abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Billie Holiday, Broken, caged, character flaw, Chasing The Scream, Chemicals, childhood abuse and neglect, Compassion, Create a Safe Space, Crime, DEA, Disease, Drugs, felony records, Gangs, Henry Anslinger, Heroin, hooked, Hulu, Illegal Substances, Individual, Isolation leads to Loneliness, Jail, Johann Hari, legalization, Loneliness, Mafia, Morphine, Narcotics, Neglect, Netherlands, physiological, Portugal, Poverty, Prison, Prohibition, psychological, Punishment, Questions, Recovery, society, Sweden, The Bureau of Narcotics, The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, The United States, tools, unemployable
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Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays
Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather
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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
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Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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Red And Orange Narcissus
May 21, 2017 Red and Orange Narcissus Narcissism is named after the Greek Myth of Narcissus. Narcissus saw his own reflection in a pool and died because he refused to leave the pool. Poor Echo fell in love with him, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1861, 1998, 2017, Adolf Hitler, ambassadors, Andrew Johnson, Anxiety, applaud, Appointed, Big Bully, Breech, bs, bureau, bureaucratic, Business Man, Campaign, CEO, Checks and Balances, CIA, Citizens, classfied intellegence, classified files, classified info, Collusion, Comey, Committee, conservative, Cover-Up, Criticism, crucify, damaged self-ego axis, declassify, Defend, Democrat, Depression, dignitaries, Director, disdain, disregard, Disrespect, doing his own thing, Donad Trump, Echo, eduction, Emails, Emperor Nero, empty, erosions, excessive need for admiration, Facts, Fail, fake media, Fame, FBI, Fear, Fired, Firing, Flower, fragile ego, Freud, Government, Great Fire, Greek Myth, help, Hillary Clinton, Historical Figures, House of Represenatives, Impeachment, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, intolerance to criticism, Investigation, Journalism, Journalist, Jung, Lack of Empathy, left, left-leaning, liberal, lied, lose, Majority, manifestation, media, meeting, MIddle Class, Monica Lewinsky, Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissus, Nationwide Illness, New York Times, Nixon, No One Likes The USA, North Korea, NPD, Obama, Obstruction of Justice, Office, pass, perfect, plan, Poor, Power, precipice, Process, profit, profitable, Protocal, punished, Putin, Reality TV, Republican, Resigned, Rich, right, right-leaning, Rome, Rome Burned, Russia, School, self-absorbed, self-esteem, Selfish, Senate, Server, Sex, society, Sociopath, special, spoiled young adults, Star, support, The Washington Post, Theory, title 18, Tragedy, treason, Truth, Tyrany, Upper Class, US, USA, Watergate, Wealth, Whitehouse, WII, win, WWI
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Literature As Exploration
Literature as Exploration Louise M Rosenblatt 1965 Reprint 1995 Schools and Colleges are there to teach students about themselves and humankind. As students, we try to understand the psychology of the characters we read about. We try to figure out … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthropology, Book, Books, characters, College, Criticism, Culture, dissatisfaction, Emotions, experience, Flexabilty, framework, Growth, High School, Humankind, ideas, Individual, instructors, judgment, Knowledge, lack of knowledge, Learning, learns, Life, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature As Exploration, Louise Rosenblatt, motivations, personal experience, Personality, Psychology, Reader Response, Reading, School, society, Sociology, Students, Teachers, Understanding, will to learn
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