Brussels, the capital of Belgium, is head of the European Union and the home of Tintin. It is also a fantastic place to visit if you are vacationing in Europe and are a chocolate aficionado as Belgium produces 172,000 tons of chocolate each year and has 2,000 chocolate shops. Brussels, Belgium is over one thousand […]
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Jim Carrey is one of my favorite actors. He made his name with his silly face and silly jokes, but he’s just as great as a serious actor. Some of his more recent movies have shown this. Born in 1962, and acting since the 1980s, Jim Carrey has made it into 39 movies or tv […]
We hear sounds, see images, taste flavors, smell scents, and can touch near any kind of object that we can feel. Our brain is responsible for interpreting the complex interactions of the sensory information. We have relied on this method for survival thousands of years, however there are those that find their senses colliding […]
T.S. Eliot’s Hysteria was published alongside his more famous The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock in Prufrock and Other Observations in 1917, yet remains one of his more little known poems, overshadowed by the momentous Prufrock and later works such as The Waste Land. Although the short, stream-of-consciousness poem has neither the length nor […]
In Charles Baudelaire’s ‘Correspondences’, referring directly to the thematic concept in the title, he shows the connection between Nature and the Metaphysical World. Synathesis is said to “put the reader in contact with the force of a perceptible presence, the primitive integrity or synthesis of an impression” (Hassan, 439). Through synathesis, in which sounds, colors […]
Crossover superstar, Sarah Brightman, returns with Symphony, her first album of new material in five years. Recorded in Germany, and produced by longtime producer, Frank Peterson, Symphony is an exciting mix of classical, pop, and rock. The album opens with the eerie “Gothica,” which serves as the perfect intro for the surprisingly hard rock “Fleurs […]