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Some of My Movie Collection12 Monkeys / 17 Girls / 127 Hours
@martin-narrod500
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An Essay on CreditIt has become clear, since the Great Recession began, that the American banking and the political, *"systems,"* are 'one-and-the-same' entity. Neither works for the majority of Americans but both appear to be working quite well, historically-compared, in fact, for the richest or most advantaged people. / Life should model to become a, *"heaven,"* on earth for all people not just those at the foremost of political benefit, wealth or talent. This current state of affair is not what Plato envisioned. It is not what the Founding Fathers intended. America should not be about exclusion and private benefit but the public as a whole and the individual inclusion; **Every Man a King.** / Not Kings among the men who serve them...even Jesus would be appalled.
@david-john-mowers16
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You don't (2008)We have / Been there / Remember?
@jan-svoboda8
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New Year 2008Another year quickly gone / Twelve months poured down the drain / Some foolishly wasted them all
@AmandaKayBurke12
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a journeyBarely a person / A person with no identity / Identity of a white room
@cecelia18
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Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet. He was a communist in his early life, but after a visit to the Soviet Union, decided that communism was too disciplined and confining. McKay was involved in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award f...

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