Michael Jackson is dead (this is a bad thing).

... McLure style, or something. It seems to be that he was so traumatized by his childhood, his alternately abandoning/abusive father, his lack of interaction with peers, and so on, that he romanticized childhood innocence. There's a blog by a righteous chick who shares my initials, where in a recent entry she mentioned about her own issues with her childhood, although her issue was more common- ...

Argument Challenge Fic

... known it. He should have. She loved Ron deeply, but learning to live with him wasn’t easy. Not one bit. When he had suggested moving in together, she had been thrilled. Perhaps she had romanticized the whole idea. Perhaps she thought it would be a breeze. What could be better or simpler than living with the bloke she loved? That’s what she had thought as they had moved boxes, decorated ...

I'm suicide romanticized I'm sitting in the dark hands pulsing viscera coasting on the tracks looped in the park I remember the end. Swells of anger rose and fell in rhythm with waves of regret. She tore his shirt off her back threw it to the floor watched its blurred, chaotic form against the dirty carpet as she crumbled whimpering to the floor. I seem to forget How it all began ...

Degrassi: TNG // Little Sister // Rating K

... be on my own, I wanted to stay in Toronto. At first my reason was immature. And as I later discovered, stupid and faulty. I had stayed for a girl. Darcy. I was in love with her. I had romanticized the idea of being with her, the two of us alone, at my place. I had agonized over leaving her, and she had vehemently battled against my departure. And so for her, I stayed. But love had an expiration ...

What's a Modern Girl to Do?

... lamé gown cut on the bias, cavorting with Cary Grant, strolling along Fifth Avenue with my pet leopard. My mom would just shake her head and tell me that my idea of the 30's was wildly romanticized. "We were poor," she'd say. "We didn't dance around in white hotel suites." I took the idealism and passion of the 60's for granted, simply assuming we were sailing toward perfect equality with men, a...

The Arrivals

... simple. It's the haves verses the have nots. I suppose seeing ourselves as a fundamentally flawed human species is not very flattering. We'd rather see ourselves as the victims of some romanticized version of evil, rather than believe we are the creators of our own misery. It certainly makes for good entertainment and makes us feel better about ourselves and helps up cope with life, especially ...

... is: nice. I admit, the superficial part of me really likes the idea that I’m seen as so independent. Independence is something I admire, aspire to, and generally value like hell. Our culture has kind of romanticized the whole “Lone Rider” thing: America loves self-reliance. It’s about capability. It’s like: yeah, that’s right, I can handle my own shit, I don’t need help, I got it together, I’m ...

MYTHOLOGY - (Part 2 of 5)

... myths. The West was a reality. There were cowboys, Indians, outlaws, and federal marshals. The stories now presented in Western fiction and in the movies and on television, however, are highly romanticized versions of a reality that was far less glamorous.   Mythmaking has traditionally looked to the past to try to make sense out of the present. Some modern myths look instead to ...

旅行

... tripled my social circle and allied myself with year-long students who already know what's going on and can explain in English with ease. Nara Park is the exhilarating reality of my romanticized vision of Japan; beautiful traditional-style ryokan (Japanese hotel) are set in the pale green, hilly landscape of twisting trees, smooth lakes, and perfect stones. Deer appear in droves, tottering and ...

The sociology of Violence among the Adolescence in America

... and Fagan 110) As we can see some of these statistics are rather scary, and only made worse by the fact that pop culture has glorified or romanticize such actions.               This romanticized “Code of the Street” as one researcher called it is a loose collection of seemingly shared ethics or beliefs among inner city youth especially in African American adolescents but in recent years not ...