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When heat breeds plots and lusts; They will love to play:

                                GoT ― where " The game is played among elites ."   “ Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you. ” ― George R.R. Martin For many authors, historians and political scientists , the HBO hit show "Game of Thrones" raises issues that overlap with today's most combustible political debates. Some of the characters, they say, even have modern parallels.   Click through the gallery see some of these examples -- though please keep in mind this is a comparison of personality traits, not a suggestion that any of these real-life figures should meet the same fate as their fictional counterparts. HBO's Game of Thrones reigns as cable's highest-rated ...

'ACO' is anything but a bedtime #story

Alex — " You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured ! "                                 I was cured alright. — Anthony Burgess Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange   is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meanin...

The Play that Changed American Theatre forever:

Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama, ' A Raisin in the Sun' ― set to good Reviews ! Set on Chicago's South Side, A Raisin in the Sun revolved around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: Playbill.com offers a behind-the-scenes look at opening night of the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, ― cast of the new ; son Walter Lee ( Denzel Washington ), his wife Ruth ( Sophie Okonedo ), his sister Beneatha ( Anika Noni Rose ), his son Travis ( Bryce Clyde Jenkins ) and matriarch Lena, called Mama ( LaTanya Richardson Jackson ). When her deceased husband’s money comes through, Mama dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama . The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window :  Hansberry gave this c...

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The practice had evolved from commonplace books, a Renaissance tradition of compiling important and memorable information into bound sheets of paper. Students were encouraged to keep the books during class, and eventually they became a place to store anything and everything their owners found interesting-including the signatures of other classmates.