A 2006 study tried to verify whether the idealized Filipino notion of “the family that migrates together, stays together” has endured in Canada. In general, the study found that family ties were strongly maintained initially. This was especially so if the members lived near each other, could...
Charli XCX‘s music video performance ofYou’re The Oneis obviously a love song from the perspective of a woman finally realizing she’s found “the one” (i.e., the love of her life). But I would like to indulge your creativity to interpret the lyrics (reflected below) a bit differe...
The Cafe of the simple inn where they stayed was the meeting-place of the notabilities of the little city;the Sindaco, the avvocato, the doctor, and a few others;and among them they noticed a beautiful, slim, talkative old man, with bright black eyes and snow-white hair-tall and straig...
The Perplexing Notion of Depression as “Anger Turned Inward” An attack-self coping response to shame is prominent in depression. Depression 3 Min Read What to Do if You're Feeling Trapped When you feel trapped in a situation, depression sets in. Self Tests 3 min Do I Need ...
(e.g.,wonder,tenderness,nostalgia,tension) also occur in many other everyday contexts that do not involve music, or even works of art more generally. The notion of a ‘unique’ set of emotions evoked only by music can thus be rejected on empirical grounds. However, I believe the term ...
The notion that my mom of all people got this strange and random cancer is absolute crap. This person that walked nearly every day, ate healthy, meditated regularly. Yes. It’s all friggin crap. Again. I go back to the darn headache. I have one. Every. Single. Day. And. If I did...
The notion that Mark would fall in love with her so quickly seems implausible. I haven't read the source material, but maybe something was lost in the translation.Finally, there are negative implications to Han Suyin's career if she responds to Mark's advances. The relationship between a ...
“They say there’s irony in the music / It’s a tragedy, I see nothing Greek in it,” she sings, giving the middle finger once more to the slowly deteriorating notion that there’s anything except earnestness-with-a-capital-E about her work. There’s on...
"There is this notion that ignorance equals absolution, and it does not," Union says today. "You are still benefiting from the labor of someone else. Your white privilege is buoyed by that. Whether you are conscious of that or not, the reality is that you have gain...
I find this notion easy to detect in anime: whether it be Kabuto Kouji full of burning passion to defeat Baron Ashura and Dr. Hell, Akari Mizunashi full of curiosity and delight in the small things, or the complex characters of Macross Plus, emotions–both those of the characters and/or...