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Ryan LaMountain

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Christianity

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While liberal Christians argue the Bible should be interpreted as society changes, conservatives argue for a more literal reading, leading to differences in belief about God and homosexuality.

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Entertainment

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Every time I get up to go on a trip I feel an irresistible need to stay at home. As if every trip signified the end of a stage in my life, which the journey turns into an irreparable loss. It doesn’t matter if the reason for the trip is pleasure and enjoyment. That sensation, a mixture of failure, melancholy and anticipated nostalgia, always accompanies me when I set out on a trip.

Broken Embraces

Volver ( / ˌ v ɒ l ˈ v ɛər / ; Spanish : "return" , pronounced: [bolˈβer] ) is a 2006 Spanish thriller film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . Headed by actress Penélope Cruz , the film features an ensemble cast starring Carmen Maura , Lola Dueñas , Blanca Portillo , Yohana Cobo , and Chus Lampreave . Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid , Cruz plays Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene comes back from the dead to tie up loose ends.

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Talk to Her ( Spanish : Hable con ella ) is a 2002 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar , starring Javier Cámara , Darío Grandinetti , Leonor Watling , Geraldine Chaplin , and Rosario Flores . The film won the 2002 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign-Language Film . The film's themes include the difficulty of communication between the sexes, loneliness and intimacy, and the persistence of love beyond loss. In 2005, Time magazine film critics Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel included Talk to Her in their list of the All-TIME 100 Greatest Movies . [ 1 ] Paul Schrader placed the film at 46 on his film canon of the 60 greatest films. [ 2 ]

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Talk to Her - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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All About My Mother - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

All About My Mother ( Spanish : Todo sobre mi madre ) is a 1999 Spanish-French drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar . The film deals with complex issues such as AIDS, transvestitism , faith , and existentialism . The plot originates in Almodóvar's earlier film The Flower of My Secret which shows student doctors being trained in how to persuade grieving relatives to allow organs to be used for transplant, focusing on the mother of a teenager killed in a road accident.

Ferit Orhan Pamuk (born 7 June 1952), generally known simply as Orhan Pamuk , is a Turkish novelist. He is also the Robert Yik-Fong Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University , where he teaches comparative literature and writing . [ 1 ] One of Turkey's most prominent novelists, [ 2 ] his work has sold over eleven million books in sixty languages, [ 3 ] making him the country's best-selling writer. [ 4 ] Pamuk is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature 2006, [ 5 ] the first Nobel Prize to be awarded to a Turkish citizen. Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a wealthy yet declining upper class family; an experience he describes in passing in his novels The Black Book and Cevdet Bey and His Sons , as well as more thoroughly in his personal memoir Istanbul .

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Orhan Pamuk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Snow ( Turkish : Kar ) is a novel by Turkish author Orhan Pamuk . It was published in Turkish in 2002 and in English (translated by Maureen Freely ) in 2004. The story encapsulates many of the political and cultural tensions of modern Turkey and successfully combines humor, social commentary, mysticism, and a deep sympathy with its characters. Kar is the word for Snow, but the main character also abbreviates his name to Ka (his initials) with the novel set in the eastern Turkish city of Kars .

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Snow (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Museum of Innocence ( Turkish : Masumiyet Müzesi ) is a novel by Orhan Pamuk , Nobel -laureate Turkish novelist published on August 29, 2008. The book is a long and detailed account of the obsessive love that Kemal, a wealthy businessman, bears for Füsun, a lower class shop girl 12 years Kemal's junior, for over 30 years starting in 1975. Kemal loves without regard to the interests or situation of Füsun.

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Istanbul: Memories of a City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Istanbul: Memories and the City ( İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir ) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past.

Music

Jazz

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Vincent Anthony " Vince " Guaraldi (July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pianist noted for his innovative compositions and arrangements and for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip . Guaraldi was born in San Francisco, California . He was the nephew of musician, singer, and whistler Muzzy Marcellino . Vince graduated from Lincoln High School , attended San Francisco State University , and served as an Army cook in the Korean War .

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader , and composer. Widely considered [ by whom? ] one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, [ 3 ] Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music, including bebop , cool jazz , hard bop , modal jazz , and jazz fusion . Miles Dewey Davis was born on May 26, 1926, to an affluent African American family in Alton, Illinois .

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John Coltrane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz . He organized at least fifty recording sessions as a leader during his recording career, and appeared as a sideman on many other albums, notably with trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk .

Classical

Johann Sebastian Bach [ 1 ] (21 March 1685, O.S. 31 March 1685, N.S. – 28 July 1750, N.S. ) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist of the Baroque Period . He enriched many established German styles through his skill in counterpoint , harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms, and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France. Bach wrote much music, which was revered for its intellectual depth, technical command, and artistic beauty. Many of his works are still known today, such as the Brandenburg Concertos , the Mass in B minor , the Well-Tempered Clavier , and his passions , cantatas , partitas , and organ works.

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