Nicholas Sparks
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Editors Note: What’s it all about anyway?
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As the winter stretches on and the days (slowly) get longer, I find myself having too much time to reminisce on past moments I’ve…
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Swifties Invade Football
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Football and Taylor Swift. Two subjects that typically exist in separate universes, the only exception being when she rejects participating in the Superbowl halftime…
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What “Vienna” by Billy Joel teaches us
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I don’t know about you, but I love listening to music, especially songs that have a deeper meaning behind the lyrics. I found a…
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The importance of projects and personal pursuits
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The human being craves a purpose. Without a purpose, we rot and wither away in a self-destructive decline into madness. The human brain has…
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Don’t get too excited about life on Venus
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David Bowie had it wrong—screw Mars. But before you get too excited about aliens, the ‘life’ we’re talking about is microbial. Within the clouds…
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Estimating the odds of your existence
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How selfish are we to worry about death? We act as if it’s not incredible that we get to be alive in the first…
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It’s a “Blue, Blue Christmas” for University students
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Ever since I was a little kid, the holidays have been one of my absolute favourite times of the year. I’m an unabashed lover…
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A successful life is defined by the individual
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” This quote from Oscar Wilde and others like it…
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Anticipated new reads coming soon
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Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks This new novel, by Nicholas Sparks (most known for A Walk to Remember and The Notebook), tells the…
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Hollywood success requires actors being one with their character
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To be successful in Hollywood, it is expected that an actor completely immerses themselves into a role in order to make the audience believe…
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