Monthly Archives: November 2012

Silver Moon Drive-In Theater Review

Welcome to the Silver Moon Drive-In Theater!! This wonderful little gem is located in Lakeland Florida and boasts the claim to be the last drive-in theater in all of Polk county. Open since April 14, 1948, Mr. Spears can still …

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Are Affairs More Common These Days or is it Just Easier to Get Caught?

Just this past Sunday, word got out about Central Intelligence Agency Director, David Petraeus, and his recent resignation due to an extramarital affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. Information about the scandal is arising left and right from emails, text …

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Finding a Balance between Recognition and Solitude

William Deresiewicz brings up a few great points in “The End of Solitude”, but the one that strikes me the most is the idea of what the contemporary self wants. During the period of Romanticism, the soul or the self …

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When Twenty-Four Hours Isn’t Enough: How to Manage Our Time

There are twenty-four hours in a day. This seems like plenty of time, but for some of us, this is just not enough. As a college student, I know that time management is a necessity to be able to survive …

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An Alternative World

In the article Expressing My Inner Gnome: Appearance and Behavior in Virtual Worlds, Lam and Riedl explore the “role-playing” behavior of gamers. The authors go on to mention the video games: World of Warcraft and Second Life. A game …

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The Multi-Media Platform Quest for Fame

In the glorious days before internet gave everyone a chance of being heard, wanna be stars had to run off to Hollywood to get their chance at fame.  This kept the greater LA area stocked with waiters and most of …

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Courting the media: the story of a love affair

For the last week mainstream political news in the U.S. press has been dominated by the story of David Petraeus’ resignation. As is often the case these days, the saturation of news coverage of the Petraeus story has moved on …

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Social Media: The End of Isolation

There are some people in the U.S. who refrain from using social media sites entirely. People who don’t interrupt conversation by browsing their Facebook feed on their I-Phone 5’s do exist. But many of those people are still tweeting via …

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I’m NOT crazy, I’m Just Celibate.

I choose to be celibate.  It’s been nearly a year and a month since I last embarked in those activities.  When I was active, I didn’t understand why I felt  so disgusted and dirty afterwards.   More often than not, I …

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This is the What Can be Considered Growth

Crystal Castles new album (iii), doesn’t cause the trouble that (i, 2008) did and it also does not hit the sonic high that (ii, 2010) achieved just a few years later.  The progression made is clearly visible though, no matter …

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