November 2010
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Chatting with hormone-driven teenagers
It feels horrible. But then they tell you to stay, so that when their crush leaves they’ll have someone to fall on, to unload all their burdens on, and to talk about their lovesick feelings.
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Facebook conversations and good people
People who manage to bring a smile to your face every time you see them, or talk to them, or even hear their voice from across the room.
Just when you stop expecting to meet people that wring your emotions, in that awesome way, like one of those books that leave you feeling happy, that leave you seeing life in a whole different light. Short, but ample doses of hope for humanity.
Bless you,...
Goodbye forever NCEA English. :)
It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and no thing hurts along with one’s burned tongues and skinned knees, that one’s aches and pains are all one’s own. Even more terrible, as we grow older, to learn that no person, no matter how beloved, can ever truly understand us.
Donna Tartt
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There is always one woman to save you from another, and as that woman saves you, she makes ready to destroy.
Charles Bukowski
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God blessed the broken road to lead me straight to...
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An Introduction
“Shakespeare’s characters often suffer from delusion, or are deliberately involved in the delusion of others.” Discuss the representation of delusion and its consequences in one or more plays by Shakespeare you have studied.
For the common man, the greatest form of suffering would be a permanent entrapment in reality. It is no surprise, then, that Shakespeare would weave the theme of delusion into...
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You know you're chatting with Adrian Mendoza
When you construct each reply as a grammatically correct sentence
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Don't let your partner use Facebook
Muise et al. (2009) found that participants who spent more time on Facebook were more jealous of their partners. This is probably because they are finding out things about their partner—who they know and where they’ve been—which, in the days before social networking, could have been kept quiet.
So, don’t let your partner see your Facebook profile. Unless you want them to be...
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Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
Franz Kafka
Eight O'Clock
goodpoetry:
Supper comes at five o’clock, At six, the evening star, My lover comes at eight o’clock— But eight o’clock is far. How could I bear my pain all day Unless I watched to see The clock-hands laboring to bring Eight o’clock to me.
Sara Teasdale
October 2010
20 posts
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Marco Evaristti
Marco Evaristti is a Danish-based artist that specializes in gory and grotesque explorations of humanity. He has been under much public scrutiny under the claims of animal cruelty, cannibalism and vandalism.
Evaristti came to international attention in 2000 when he placed goldfish in electric blenders filled with water. Visitors to the exhibition at Denmark’s Trapholt Art Museum could choose to...
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Étienne-Jean Georget (1795–1828) was a French psychiatrist and is often dubbed the father of social psychology. His main specialization was psychopathology, defined as the study of mental illness, mental distress and abnormal, maladaptive behavior. He elaborated the idea of monomania, identifying specific preoccupations such as “theomania” (religious obsession),...
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Largoza
Safe in my virtual memory.
