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DARK ALLEYS OF THE MIND

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Edgar Allan Poe’s book “The Black Cat and Other Stories” is composed by The Black Cat, The Oval Portrait, Berenice and The Mask of the Red Death. Four stories full of scares, murder and mystery, and main characters who seem to be losing their mind in different ways. The stories I have decided to compare are the first three with a book named Cujo, another one called The picture of Dorian Grey and a character from the second season of American Horror Story. The Black Cat is a story about a man who lives with his wife and his animals, they have many different kind of animals, but his favorite is a black cat. He says he loves “the little thing” but as time passed he gets sick, and when he says that, he is talking about alcoholism, which turns him into an evil and hateful person, and because of the illness he hates the cat, he loathes him and one night he hits his cat and rips his eyeball out. After a while the cat recovers and now hates the human for what he did, the man gets pa
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Opening our eyes to a new world.

One of my favorite leisure time activities is to read. Reading can be a relaxing activity where you can escape from the reality of the world for a while, or you can learn many things that you might never know before. I remember that when I was little I used to like reading some books for kids that were in my school. When I grew up I didn’t read anymore until a day (I can’t remember very well) I was bored of TV, so I decided to look for something to read online. At the moment I didn’t realize how the books captured my attention so strongly again, but ever since the I haven’t stopped reading. As I said before, they have a certain magic that captures you and never lets you go. They have a way to let your imagination fly, and if they are really good they will make you feel angry, sad, scared… They are a whole new world to explore. I think leisure time activities are important for our living, because sometimes we focus too much on things like work, loans, and other problems that w
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A look into our future?

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The movie “Her” talks about a guy named Theodore, he has been in the process of divorcing for almost a year when he buys a communicative computer. In the course of the movie he starts to fall in love with it. "Her” is a movie that shows what could become of human interactions if a machine started to develop “feelings” and ideas of its own. I think it is a dangerous line that seems really near on our future and we shouldn't be crossing it.  When I was watching the movie I couldn't help but notice how similar it is to other one called “Bicentennial man” in order of how evolved machines can become in the future, in both movies the machine begins as something that has been created to help the humans solely, but through the movie it begins to realize how much  potential it really has and decides to make changes and grow as much as possible on its own. Both of them have different endings, though. So it's important to say that we couldn't tell which would becom
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Changes.

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When my dad was younger, he used to do a lot of exercise, usually three to four hours per day, three days a week including the weekend, but now he can't do as much exercise as he would like to. The reason for this is because he has some joint, knees, and shoulders problems, and those  make him feel bad or in pain when he tries to exercise. My dad in his athlete days. On the other hand, my dad didn't use to ride a motorcycle, but he has learned and now uses it almost every day. Also, he didn't have reading habits but now he does it very frequently because he finds it entretaining and enriching. When my was in college he also worked, now he has his career. At that time my dad used to work as a carpeter, but now he's a teacher. And also, he used to be married to my mother, but know they are divorced. I think changes are something important and inevitable in our life, changes are what makes us who we are and we should embrace them as something that is natural and
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Not a very interesting vacation, but a vacation nowadays.

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My vacation were not really interesting, if I am honest, what I did the most was  resting and relaxing. I watched many movies and TV shows I wanted to watch from a long time ago, my new favorite so far is one called House M.D. I also read a lot of books that I already had but never got the chance to read. Some weeks in December, my dad, sisters, and I did some "remodeling" on some old furniture in my house. It was extremely exhausting but it totally worth it. For Christmas and New year's eve we went to my grandmother's place where we celebrate with the whole family, it's kind of a traditional thing in my family. The most exciting thing we did was going to Melgar for two days before my parents vacation ended, we had a good time and I was glad the weather was not very hot those days. These last few weeks, I had been getting bored, so I am glad I am studying again. My family and I celebrating christmas.
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