It was December 4‚ 2016 when I walked into the Apache café located by the Varsity on 3rd street downtown Atlanta. The café was small and close knit‚ with beautiful vibrant art to catch your attention. With dimmed lights and great jazz music the host were very nice as they asked me for drinks. I also got a chance to talk with the owner of the Café Mr. Charles Chaffer. As I watched the Poetry Slam many sat at circled tables with maybe one to two chairs‚ the café had an intimate setting about itself
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The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the story of a group of the most affluent socialites of the East Coast‚ written from the perspective of the newly moved Nick Carraway. As Nick has just moved away from his upper class family in the Midwest to make his own fortune in the New York stock market‚ he finds himself to be the neighbor of the richest‚ most luxurious man on the island of West Egg: Jay S. Gatsby‚ who‚ at his incredible mansion‚ is credited with throwing the most extravagant
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understand or live by this philosophy. She disowns her own daughter when Maggie becomes a prostitute‚ and throws her out of the house. It is evident that Maggie is only trying to survive in any way possible after her boyfriend‚ Pete‚ leaves her heartbroken and discouraged. She is exposed to this awful and forbidden lifestyle after being abandoned by Pete‚ her lover‚ who is constantly surrounded by prostitutes while working as a bartender in the "classy" bars. Because Maggie doesn’t know any better
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distressed. The Capulets misinterpret it‚ and threaten to disown her if she does not marry Paris. Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion that will put her in a death like state. Balthasar‚ unaware of the plan‚ gives Romeo false news that Juliet is dead. Heartbroken‚ Romeo purchases a poison and goes to the Capulet tomb where he murders Paris. Still believing Juliet to be dead‚ Romeo drinks the poison which kills him instantly. Juliet awakens‚ finding Romeo dead beside her‚ and stabs herself. The families
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bedroom‚ Vince still had his head on top of Dewey‚ I went over and moved Vince to the side so my mother could have a better look at Dewey. She grabbed her stethoscope and went to listen for a heart beat‚ her faced while listening looked mournful and heartbroken. I asked if I could have a listen‚ she put the stethoscope on me and I laid it on his belly‚ I waited for a second‚ but all I heard was nothing. As sad as this story is‚ it made me want to help people and try to make them better so I wouldn’t have
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In 1860s post-U.S. Civil War Texas‚ Jim Coates (Fess Parker) leaves home to work on a cattle drive‚ leaving behind his wife Katie (Dorothy McGuire)‚ older son Travis (Tommy Kirk) and younger son Arliss (Kevin Corcoran). While Jim is away‚ Travis sets off to work in the cornfield‚ where he encounters "Old Yeller" (Spike)‚ a Labrador Retriever/Mastiff mix. He was called that because "yeller" is a dialect pronunciation of yellow and the fact that his bark sounds more like a human yell. Travis unsuccessfully
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keep her company. Also Cisneros recalls that aloneness allowed her time to “think and think‚ to imagine‚ and to read and prepare herself”. She includes this in her story‚ because it shows that she felt her brothers are not only making her feel heartbroken‚ but they are helping her become a better writer. In “Caramelo” the central idea is similar. The narrator tells a story of Cisneros being forgotten and left playing by herself building sand houses while her family are off having fun together‚ taking
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level and begins to write about his own family. King explains how he has found himself without words to try and explain to his young daughter why she cannot go to a theme park that is being advertised and continues to write how his daughter was heartbroken‚ King also writes how the children begin to question why the white people are so mean to the colored people. King uses all those examples and emotions to get to the reader to a more personal and accomplishes by having the reader feel what he feels
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Love at First Sight? Love at first sight is one of the many myths of all time‚ especially during the time of Romeo and Juliet. According to Elliot D. Cohen‚ from Psychology Today‚ he states “The idea of love at first sight appears to be somewhat of a misnomer since it cannot reasonably be taken literally. This is because merely seeing someone does not afford a sufficient window into the nature of the person seen.” In other words‚ looking at someone does not do justice‚ whereas getting to know someone
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it comes to music and love. John Lennon‚ the main contributor of the song “Not a Second Time” is noted for his darker edge about his lyrics. John is the hopeless romantic who no matter what outlet presents itself for him he is destined to be heartbroken by it. It is this quality that many argue makes a soulful artist. John has a profound understanding of blues and R&B and really anything of the like where artists with tough lives or childhoods thrive. John is really a tortured soul‚ he’s never
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