Angela’s Ashes is the first and best of a trilogy of Frank McCourt’s memoirs written after he retired from his 30-year career as an English teacher. In heartbreaking detail, McCourt tells of his childhood and coming of age in Limerick, Ireland around the time of the Second World War.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Census Bureau informed us that the median age for women to marry is 26 and the median age for men is 28. The study also concluded that these median ages are on the rise. One of the main reasons for delayed marriage is a career.
The epic love story that has been read by millions in the book Twilight was utterly bland when it came to the big screen. Bella Swan played by Kristen Stewart and Edward Cullen played by Robert Pattinson are two individuals who fall in love despite Edward’s innate vampire desire to kill Bella for her blood.
Australia If the outback is this boring, I don’t want to vacation there anymore Romantic films are pornography for women; they bring an unreal fantasy that reality just doesn’t offer. And for that reason, men will hate Australia while the women who dragged them to it will love it.
Cha-cha is a phone service that will answer any question for you at any time of day. Kind of makes you wonder why you’re spending all that cash on tuition, doesn’t it? The UVU Review will ask Cha-cha important questions every week, starting with what is possibly the most important question of all: What came first, the chicken or the egg? “It’s generally accepted that the egg came first (at breakfast), followed by the chicken (around lunchtime).
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has been said to deserve a place in the American literary canon alongside the best of Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. It is the tale of Janie Crawford, a beautiful, independent black woman living in Florida a few short generations after the abolition of slavery.
If socially active UVU students are any representation of general opinion, brunettes are officially more attractive than blondes. At the dating auction held at Centre Stage on Nov. 5, four boys and four girls were auctioned off. Dates with brunette women sold for an average of three times more than blondes.
Just like most people my age, I watched lots of James Bond flicks with my parents. While I always considered them fun movies, I never thought anything more of them – that was, until the franchise was rebooted in 2006 with Casino Royale. Seeing the beginnings of Bond and following him through his first double-o-seven mission brought a new Bond for a new generation.
The lights are dim, vibrant colors all around, while drumbeats fill the air. The hum of chatter and laughter can be heard throughout the room. “Things like this, having powwows, helps people to go back to their roots, to want to discover where they came from,” Billie Atsitty, vice president of the Native Sun Club, said.
Travis Barker, the former drummer for Blink-182, is recovering nicely after sustaining third degree burns to his body when his private jet crashed immediately after take-off on Sept. 18. DJ AM, Travis’ bandmate, is the only other survivor of the crash, which claimed the lives of the two pilots?as well as?two of Barker’s friends, Chris Baker and Charles Still.
