Disclaimer: While not graphic, the article discusses an unrated movie. Younger readers, please read at your parents’ discretion. A romanticized hero. Insurmountable odds. A triumphal, fairytale-like ending snatched rewardingly from the jaws of defeat. Somehow, these common narratorial antics, though recycled and appearing in innumerable works, still satisfy the viewer […]
Arts & Culture
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Chicago, United States of America. June 1902. Ladies are wearing puffy sleeves and long silk skirts while men look dashing in clean suits and bowler hats. They enter the Chicago Grand Opera House for a performance of the up-and-coming new musical, The Wizard of Oz. It is a show based […]
Andrea Bocelli: A Blind Man with a Miraculous Voice
Andrea Bocelli, an Italian tenor, rose to fame in 1994 by winning the 44th Sanremo Music Festival. Since then, Bocelli has recorded fifteen solo studio albums for both pop and classical music, three Greatest Hits albums, and nine complete operas. Currently, over 75 million albums from Andrea Bocelli have been […]
Changing the World One Letter at a Time
By the fading light of a candle, an African-American slave girl furiously composes poems that will change her world; a youthful girl on a plantation buries herself in her Father’s books while composing her own epic. A young girl, though mute, reads the famous writing of her time and begins […]
Myths and Misconceptions About Dogs
Dogs are familiar creatures to most people, since many families either own one or know somebody who does. People spend so much time with dogs, learning about their mannerisms and other actions, and yet there are an incredible amount of myths about them. What some might say is a “common […]