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Finding Fulfillment at Midlife: The Second Chance Career
Are you ready to make a change? Get some tips for getting started on a successful second career.
Music Therapy
Music, they say, soothes the savage beast and this is so true when we consider how music in its magical way works on our body rhythms bring harmony, literally, back into the body.
A story is told in the Bible of a King named Saul, who had an evil spirit that would torment him and make him feel terrible. It was suggested that they find someone who could play he harp and then the evil spirit would leave and King Saul would feel better. So they searched and found a young shepherd boy named David
The Anime That Makes Fun Of Itself: Lucky Star
The Japanese anime industry often does not like to make fun of itself, because self-deprecating humor is rarely appreciated in Japanese culture. Occasionally, such things tend to slide by without causing too much of a stir, but up until the release of Lucky Star, there has never been an anime that has consistently used the anime industry and its fans as a source of humor.
Organized Chaos: A Look Into The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
The year 2006, arguably, can be considered by anime fans with more than just passing knowledge of the industry as the year of Haruhiism. The show, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, was the unexpected hit of the year, showing numbers and interest that very few shows aside from established franchises have gotten. The show is fun, accessible, and with just the right amount of sheer insanity to entertain without shattering the already reality-bending premise.
Lost and Found In Adaptation: Fate/Stay Night
Adapting something from the literary world, whether a traditional novel or a Japanese visual novel, can often be difficult. There is usually a large amount of detail that must be removed for the adaptation to work, with some attempts cutting too much of the original material. For less hardcore fans of the source material, the anime adaptation of Fate/Stay Night presents a workable balance, though still missing some arguably essential details.