If you’re an avid cinephile, then the idea of watching your favorite flicks from the comfort of your home might sound like a dream come true. With all the streaming services available online, you can watch all your favorite movies from the comfort of your home.
To have access to all the movies available on the streaming platforms online, you need a strong internet connection. Moreover, to enjoy your movies in high resolution, choose an internet service provider that offers you a high-speed internet connection. There are many internet service providers like Spectrum Internet® that offer high internet speeds which can be used to stream movies online in 4K and HD. Once you have a strong internet connection, you can enjoy a smooth streaming process online without facing any agitating buffering sign on the screen.
There is no shortage of sites where you can stream movies online; it’s just a matter of finding the right platform for your needs. Here are our top picks for the best streaming platforms for movies online:
Amazon Prime Video
One of the biggest competitors of Netflix is Amazon and millions of people use Amazon Prime. Many people prefer Amazon Prime over Netflix because their library is more extensive than Netflix. Amazon Prime Video is a streaming service that offers a wide variety of movies and TV shows. You can watch movies and TV shows online or download them to watch offline.
Amazon Prime Video has a vast selection of movies and TV shows to choose from. You can find channels like HBO, Showtime, and Starz, as well as a variety of movies and TV shows from major networks and studios. You can also find independent movies and TV shows. Amazon Prime Video has something for everyone.
If you’re looking for a great streaming service for movies, you can’t go wrong with Amazon Prime Video. Prime Video offers an impressive selection of movies and TV shows, including both popular titles and hidden gems. Plus, with a Prime membership, you get access to a ton of other great features, like free two-day shipping and exclusive deals.
Netflix
One of the most widely used streaming platforms is Netflix. There are millions of users from around the world who consider Netflix as their prime source of entertainment. You can find movies from all genres that you can watch according to your preference. From thrillers, and horror, to romantic comedies, you can search for the reviews and then opt for the one that you like the most. Moreover, all the Netflix original films cannot be streamed anywhere else other than Netflix as well.
Netflix is not a free streaming platform, you have to pay almost $9.99 a month for a Netflix subscription. You can also share screens with your family or friends.
Hulu TV
With Hulu TV, you can stream movies and TV shows. It has a wide selection of titles, including popular shows and movies, and it also offers an ad-supported service, which allows you to watch shows and movies without having to pay for a subscription. However, it is important to note that Hulu TV does not offer all of the same titles as other streaming services, so you may want to check out other options before you decide to subscribe.
Hulu TV has a variety of movies and TV genres to choose from, so there is something for everyone. The service is affordable and easy to use, making it a great option for those who want to watch their favorite movies and TV shows without hassle.
Disney+
Disney TV offers you a huge selection of Disney movies and TV shows. It is available in a variety of countries, including the United States, Australia, and Canada.
Disney TV offers a comprehensive selection of Disney movies and TV shows. It is a great option for families with young children, as it offers a wide variety of kid-friendly content. Since it offers a wide selection of both classic and contemporary Disney titles, Disney TV is also a good choice for fans of Disney movies and TV shows.
Disney movies are now available to stream on many different platforms, including Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+. You can also purchase or rent Disney movies through iTunes, Google Play, and other digital retailers.
If you’re looking for a specific Disney movie, you can usually find it by searching for the title on your streaming platform of choice. You can also browse the Disney section on most digital retailers to find new and classic Disney movies to watch.
Conclusion
You can always kill your boredom by watching your favorite shows without being restricted to your TV screen. With the availability of streaming services, you can simply stream any movie that you want to watch online without any hassle.
Jerry Lee Lewis, the influential rock n’ roll known pioneer known for hits such as ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’ and ‘Great Balls of Fire’, has died. According to The Guardian, the singer, often referred to by his nickname “The Killer,” died of natural causes at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi. He was 87.
Lewis was born in 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana and grew up in a poor farming family who mortgaged their home to buy Lewis his first piano. He started playing at age eight and made his public debut at 14 in a Ford dealership parking lot. His mother enrolled him at Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie, Texas with the hope of steering him toward Christian music., but Lewis was kicked out of the school after performing a boogie-woogie version of ‘My God Is Real’.
After traveling to audition for Sun Records, Lewis landed a job as a session musician, playing on records by Sun artists like Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins before he began recording as a solo artist. He found success in 1957 with his rendition of Big Maybelle’s ‘Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On’ and its follow-up, ‘Great Balls of Fire’, an Otis Blackwell cover. He showcased his wild and energetic performance style that same year on The Steve Allen Show, where chairs were thrown at him around the stage.
Having achieved international stardom, Lewis was embroiled in scandal during a 1956 tour of England, when a journalist discovered he had married Myra Gale Brown, his first cousin once removed and the daughter of his bass player. Lewis told reporters that she was 15, though it soon became known that she was in fact 13. Though his career would never reach those same heights, it wasn’t over. His Live at the Star-Club, Hamburg album was released in 1964 and found critical acclaim.
In the late ’60s, Lewis transitioned to country and gospel music. ‘Another Place Another Time’ was the first of a string of country hits, and by the early 1970s, he returned to the pop charts with songs like ‘Me And Bobby McGee’ and ‘Chantilly Lace’. He played the Grand Ole Opry for the first and only time in 1973.
In 1989, Lewis’ life was chronicled in the 1989 biopic Great Balls of Fire!, starring Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder. He continued performing and releasing music through the end of his life. His 2006 album Last Man Standing became his bestselling release included guest performances from Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Robert Plant, Keith Richards, and Kid Rock. His final LP was 2014’s Rock and Roll Time. Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind, a documentary about Lewis’ life directed by Ethan Coen, premiered at Cannes earlier this year.
“I was always worried whether I was going to heaven,” Lewis said in a 2015 interview with The Guardian. “I still am. I worry about it before I go to bed; it’s a very serious situation. I mean you worry, when you breathe your last breath, where are you going to go?”
Before Light Moving Time, Babehoven released six EPs over four years, each with a distinct sonic palette yet encompassing a world of complexity. Part of the strange charm of listening to a new project from the Hudson Valley duo was not just following their evolution but seeing the new and beautifully contradictory ways they’d managed to capture that growth at a particular moment in time. Rather than reaching a point of finality with each release, singer-songwriter Maya Bon and musical collaborator Ryan Albert took a fresh-eyed approach while wrestling with the cyclical nature of a lot of the same personal themes. Last year’s Nastavi, Calliope and March’s Sunk EPs both balanced quotidian detail with existential struggle, addressing, among other things, the pain of losing a beloved family dog and trying to communicate with a long-absent father; but they made sense of – and broke from – the heaviness in starkly different ways. Sunk was softer and darker in its blend of slowcore, shoegaze, and country, once again leaving things open.
Even at its bleakest, Bon has always had a way of bringing levity to Babehoven’s music through humour. There’s a self-conscious moment in Light Moving Time, their wonderful debut album out today via Double Double Whammy, that might make you think she’s drained of it: “I am trying to write something funny/ To get a good rating this time/ But I’m not funny.” But whether or not there’s less humour in it, light is all over the record: sunbeams and sunrise, bedroom light and bright, wide-open skies, lightness of heart, a house fire and burning phoenix. It’s there, in subtle yet evocative ways, in Bon’s poignant lyricism and Albert’s warm, organic production, which offers support as much as it feels like a culmination of everything they’ve achieved so far. And it’s there, unequivocally, on ‘I’m on Your Team’, the pair’s most anthemic and genuinely magnificent song to date: “Someone’s going to listen/ Give you back what you’ve given,” Bon sings, “In the cold, you will have a warm home.”
Following our Artist Spotlight feature last year, we caught up with Babehoven to talk about the importance of the mundane, loss, family, Roy Orbison, and other inspirations behind their debut album.
The Mundane
This record deals with a lot of big themes, like loss and time and change, so I thought it was interesting that this was your first pick. How did the mundane take on a new significance against the backdrop of everything that was happening in your life?
Maya Bon: I don’t think it’s necessarily that the mundane took on new significance for me, I think it’s more that I often root my songs in a feeling of small, detailed moments. I use ‘June Phoenix’ as a good example of it, starting with waking up, reaching my hands out in the darkness and wondering if this is real, and focusing on this shirt that has a picture of a person on it that I root myself in and remind myself of this person. These kinds of everyday moments that feel really small but can balance the larger pain and larger, revelatory experience of songwriting, rooting it in the mundanity of life.
Growth
Listening to the record, there’s a confusion and a desire for growth happening at the same time, where it’s almost like growth is happening to other people rather than yourself – when you’re at the centre of it and you don’t realize it’s also happening to you.
MB: I think for me, the songs can be a funnel for me to put a lot of the weighty, painful feelings that I’m experiencing into. I don’t know if necessarily that feels true for me, that I’m witnessing other people’s growth, I think it’s through externalising some really heavy feelings I feel like I’m able to listen back and see my growth – and not just see my own growth through the process of it, but I try to push myself forward through my songs.
Can you give an example where you felt that happening?
MB: ‘Often’ is a really good example of that. ‘Often’ a prayer for acceptance for me, like letting go of a certain very painful situation and trying to just hold that as what it is. And when I wrote it, I wasn’t actually in that place. I was really in the pain of it, when I was trying to create a beacon for what it would look like to be like, “This is the way it is, I accept it.” And it’s helped me reach that point, by having something to work towards that I had written it as.
The inspiration comes from the urge to reach that place, even if you’re not there yet.
MB: And it actually really fucked me up. The initial writing of it was really beautiful and exciting and felt very hopeful, and then it kind of sent me into this spiral for a few weeks of really feeling a lot of pain and making a lot of really big decisions for myself. But I’m realizing that it is in that pain and in those big decisions that I ended up where I’m at now. I feel that I’ve reached where I wanted myself to be at when I wrote the song, but through almost forcing myself into it, like: This is it, I have to get there.
Loss
Last time we talked, you mentioned you’ve dealt with a lot of loss in your life, and often the kind of loss where things are left unsaid. Having processed loss in your songwriting before, what angle did you approach it from this time? What was the weight you were grappling with?
MB: Pretty similar – family is always that pinnacle for me. But also, ‘Do It Fast’ is an example of deep loss and feeling like, Am I cursed? Is the world trying to like give me a sign that I just shouldn’t keep going? I hit a deer with my car, I was living in Vermont at the time and was feeling really depressed. I just didn’t know what I was doing and felt like there are all these mounting examples of, This isn’t working, life isn’t really working for me right now. Kind of compounding small pains that then reach these large breaking points. Just general family loss, family pain, ‘Philadelphia’’s friend loss. Loss really does seem to be where I turn to music the hardest. But that’s not all of the album. There’s also ‘Marion’, there’s also [‘I’m on Your Team’].
You start by laying it out in the first song, where you sing, “I lost everything I loved.” It’s kind of out there, and then the album can go on a journey. Was it an intentional choice to open with ‘Break the Ice’?
MB: It wasn’t intentional, lyrically, but it was intentional sonically. We really liked the vibe of that song.It just really sucks you into the album.
Winter in Upstate New York
What’s winter like there?
MB: It’s lovely. It’s really cold. The light is very piercing because all the trees lose their leaves and the ground is covered in white snow. It’s an interesting time because it’s darker, you have less light throughout the day, but the quality of light is quite piercing. And the leaves are gone, so light comes into your house and it’s quite warm and bright in the house. It’s a good time for focus, because you can go outside – I love to hike and Ryan likes to hike, we hike all throughout the winter – but it’s not like you can spend time just hanging out by the lake, you have to be moving, it’s cold. So for that reason, you really do turn inward and turn into the house. I love to puzzle, I love to make tea, I love to make cakes. I’m definitely a homebody of sorts, as is Ryan. So, recording for us has become this winter haven, because we have a focus, we have something to put our hearts into. Whereas the first winter I lived on the East Coast, it was really dark and cold and I didn’t feel inspired or excited, and I didn’t have anything I was really working on. I’m from LA, it’s like, there’s no winter. There’s nothing like that. Summer, it’s too hot to go outside on the east side, but that’s a different kind of depression.
What was the timeline like in terms of writing and recording the album?
MB: The recording takes place in the winter; the writing happens kind of sporadically throughout. I don’t actually spend a lot of time writing, I kind of just press record on my voice memos and it comes out. Some artists have a chunk of time that they write, which can help because then there’s a theme. Me, I kind of have to piece together meaning, because I’m writing randomly over months and something will compel me to pick up the guitar and I’ll sing, and then a song comes out. I’m not a super thoughtful like, “I’m gonna take two months out and sit down and write.” Though I’d be curious to see what would happen if I did do that.
Can you share some memories from recording that are also tied to winter?
MB: Ryan works as a farmer, so he has more time in the winter because there’s nothing to farm. There’s something that’s cozy about, Ryan will be recording and I’ll stay in bed –
Ryan Albert: You’ll knit, usually.
MB: Oh yeah, I’ll knit while he records, or I’ll read.
RA: A lot of times what happens is Maya will be knitting or doing some type of craft, and I’m coming up with different potential parts to the song. And Maya will look up and be like, “That’s good, I like that.” And then I’ll be like, “Okay, that’s staying.” And then I’ll work from that.
MB: I’m kinda like a fly on the wall. I feel like I witness Ryan sculpt songs. And sometimes, yeah, I’ll be like, “Cool.”
RA: Which is good for me because I have too much self-doubt. It’s the most helpful for me that Maya is there to be like, “This is good” or “This is what the song is.” If Maya wasn’t there, it would be literally like one of those memes you see where it’s like, “I’ve been working on this EP for like seven years, thinking it’ll be out in spring though.”
Family
There’s that heartbreaking line on ‘Often’: “You are family/ And that means loss to me often.” But if I’m reading the lyrics correctly, the next line – “You are family/ And that’s lost to me often” – is just as meaningful, because it frames the song as almost a reminder to not lose sight of that.
MB: Yes, absolutely.
Why end the album with that reminder?
MB: Well, I feel emotional, just because just because no one’s ever recognized that, that there is a little hopeful – that it is lost to me, that I’m trying, I’m searching for it. For me, the challenging thing about the losses that I’ve gone through is it’s not death – it’s dysfunction. It’s people who hurt each other and disown each other or disappear. And I feel like in a way, it’s been like navigating a battlefield a lot of my life and trying to hold love for all these people that I really care for and would like to know. And this year, post writing this album, has been really big for me because I have been able to make a lot of reconnections, which were some of the bigger pains in my life and deep traumas in my life that have been in stalemates for over a decade.
MB: And that is precisely why I wanted to end the album with something like that, because it’s a prayer for me to accept, “You will go when you go.” Like, “I can’t control other people but what I can control is that you’re family to me, and I want to know you.” The metaphor of – “There’s a way that you are/ In the back the of my car/ I’ve been wanting you too/ With your eyes on the road/ I’m letting it go/ I’m letting you go” – it’s like, I do feel like I’m driving around, I’m carrying these people with me who I love and I want to know and I want to hold and I want them to be in my car. I want to be able to know them. It’s just the frustrating aspect of humans where there’s so much – people grow up with intergenerational trauma and they don’t know how to unlearn the behaviours that they were raised, and they don’t even recognize it as, “I’m causing it.” It’s like, “You can change. We can change.” And pride and ego… It’s beyond frustrating.
MB: But the reason I wanted to end the album with ‘Often’ isn’t just that it’s a great song. It is a great song, but it’s also a beacon for what it looks in dysfunction to say, “I told you I can love you. I can be present with this. And I can also let you go.” All of that can happen at once, because the holding on and trying to control and trying to be like, if I do this thing then they won’t freak out, or if I somehow can manage to get this person to talk to me –it’s all of these chess moves, and it’s really just releasing that. Like, “I release you.” And I think it was that release. As I was saying, I wasn’t even there when I wrote it. It was attempting to make that release that allowed me, I think, to be where I’m at now, which is that I have been able to reconnect with a lot of the people who formerly I wasn’t and their doors were closed. That is what I mean by music being a point of growth in my life. I turn to music to externalize some really heavy things. Which is hard, also, because that’s my public face now, is this very raw, very personal music, that if we met and just you just came to my house and we’re having dinner, you would have no idea –
We wouldn’t necessarily start talking about intergenerational trauma.
MB: Yes. [laughs] But it’s where I go to funnel it. And it’s where I go to grow.
Can you remember the moment when the song was transformed, where you saw the light and hope in it and it wasn’t all just loss?
MB: I think, interestingly, it was the first time, it was the beginning of writing it. It was first couple of weeks that I was almost – I felt high. I felt like, Wow, I can refocus. I can find a way through this mess. And I remember I showed my housemates that night because we recorded the demo, which ended up just being the song because we couldn’t make it any better. And my housemates were crying when they listened to it, and I was just sitting there like, “Isn’t it so good?” And they were like, “Maya, this is really, really sad. And good, but–”
RA: With Marion, it made her think of her grandmother. So, when Marion said that it made her think of her grandmother and not Maya’s experience, to me, that’s then I was like, “ Oh, this is a universal song. This isn’t me latching onto Maya’s feelings.” It’s people having their own feelings and this song helps them access those.
MB: For me, it felt like – this is kind of a gross example, but I recently got a weird reaction to some antibiotics that I was taking and I threw up a lot. As I was throwing up – and I very rarely throw up – I was thinking, I’m gonna feel so much better when this is out of me. There’s an end to this, and it’s through this courage that we’ll get there. That’s the ‘Often’ feeling. It felt like I have to get this out of me, and when I do, I’ll be clear. Like it’s gonna hurt – and it did hurt. The first two weeks I was like, “Lala, I’m so happy this is out of me.” Then, like I said, it really sent me down a painful hole, but it was in that hole that kind of forced my hand to be like, “I need to make some real changes. I really need to try to connect with these people.”
Light and Time
Can you start by explaining what Light Moving Time means to you?
MB: It’s a lyric in the song ‘June Phoenix’: “When the years could mean everything/ Light moving time/ I don’t know how to grow up/ And start wasting mine.” I just was looking through the lyrics and listening to the album and I really liked that phrase, Light Moving Time, because I realized that maybe that’s the most synthesised truth I’ve ever written in song. Light literally does just move time; the sun moves around the Earth, that’s how we mark time just from a basic standpoint. It’s also, we visualise time because we are experiencing something through light, and we are alive because of light. Plants grow because of light. Everything feels like it’s revolving around light. I liked that phrase, because it just came out of me and I was like, “Well, that works.” And Danielle [Norris] had already painted the album art, and I thought, “This works really well with the album art.” But in terms of what it means to me, I think a lot about what perception is, what reality is, what illusion is, and how we experience our life. I think lightness is something I strive towards. I sing about it in ‘Marion’, seeking lightness, seeking this levity, the richness.
We talked about ‘Break the Ice’ and how it starts with this sentiment of “I lost everything I’ve loved,” but it also starts with, “I’m in the light.”
MB: That’s so true, I didn’t even think about that!
RA: It’s as if we planned it.
I know, it’s as if we planned it, but unfortunately we didn’t. [laughs]
‘May Your Kindness Remain’ by Courtney Marie Andrews
MB: She is a next-level good singer. That definitely makes me sing in certain ways because I’m inspired by voice, but her song ‘May Your Kindness Remain’ I think is just a beautiful homage to a person who has struggled in their life. I wanted to write a song holding a similar weight, but less specifically about one person, more about the human condition at large. And I wanted to encapsulate a feeling of hope and love for humanity, for home, for support networks – for myself, really. Again, this is an example of me writing to create something for myself. But I think also in general, I want that for everyone. I want all humans to feel love, to feel support, to feel that, when you need it, home will be there for you. And that concept of home has been very pivotal and painful for me, and I’ve been seeking home. It is a really impactful song for me, but in terms of Courtney Marie Andrews’ influence on it, it’s both sonic, we like the way ‘May Your Kindness Remain’ sounds and we tried to emulate that a little bit in ‘I’m on Your Team’, but also her country lilts, the chorus of the song is definitely is inspired by her. I actively was thinking about her and wanted to write a song her, which is when I wrote ‘I’m on Your Team’.
When did upstate New York start to feel like home?
MB: Well, I’ve been thinking about that a lot recently, because Ryan and I have been talking about how we’re kind of home to each other these days. We’ve lived together now for four years, so we’ve literally created home spaces together. But then there’s the kind of sad answer, which is, it’s not my home still. It feels like home in some way, but my home home still feels like my childhood home. But now if I went to my childhood home, it would be another thing. You know, home is a concept and it changes, but you kind of hold those homes with you. So, there’s home one, and there’s home one a, then there’s home one b. You create different homes, and this is definitely a home for me. When it started to feel that way was when I moved in because I’m with Ryan. He is my home. It’s like, we create home through who’s there. And we live in a home that’s with a bunch of friends, and it’s kind of chaos in here right now because we’re packing for the tour, but it’s really cozy and it’s beautiful. We have a fireplace and there’s these big windows. I grew up kind of similar, really beautiful wood home with big windows, really nice light. I lived in the woods. So things like that make me feel like, “Yeah, this is home.”
‘You May Feel Me Crying’ by Roy Orbison
I read that you inspired by ‘You May Feel Me Crying’ in terms of the production for ‘I’m on Your Team’. How did that reference come up?
MB: It came up organically because Ryan started listening to late ‘80s Roy Orbison music just out of curiosity and was totally floored by this one song – well, really a lot of them, but this one song ‘You May Feel Me Crying’ is just very strange lyrically. It’s like, what is he saying? And because we were obsessed with it, we kept listening to it over and over again and we realized like the production of it is just profoundly weird li. The way it’s mixed is strange and also very ‘80s. It’s kind of a masterpiece in the sense that it’s really bizarre and good. So we mixed the production of ‘You May Feel Me Crying’ with ‘May Your Kindness Remain’ and that’s where ‘I’m on Your Team’ came from. Lyrically, it has nothing to do with ‘You May Feel Me Crying’. [laughs]
Were you surprised with how it ended up sounding as a whole?
MB: I’m always surprised because I’m amazed by what Ryan can do, but I think we had a pretty set goal. We knew what we wanted and it came out exactly as we wanted. We wanted late ‘80s, really watery, snare-tapping and almost sexy energy coming in. And it’s not just ‘You May Feel Me Crying’, a lot of that album we took inspiration from, and his voice also inspires me – The Big O, he was called. He was just a character.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and length.
Academic success for every student depends on their ability to express their thoughts and opinions in writing. Every high school and college student is expected to know how to write an essay. Choosing the correct type of essay impacts your chances of success in whatever field you find yourself in. Creating a well-written and engaging essay does not necessarily translate to success, so you must have a good grasp of the different formats and styles of writing articles.
Essay writing is categorized into five distinct types, each one having its application and features. Each of these styles entails writing skills that every student will need throughout their academic journey while helping them to focus more on content instead of form. This piece will break down the types of essays and explain the features of each one, especially as it applies to students.
What Is an Essay?
An essay is an interpretative, analytic or critical literary composition that is usually formal, less systematic and shorter than a thesis or dissertation. Therefore, an essay is designed with a focus to either persuade or inform the reader. An ideal piece is made up of three core components, which include the introduction, body and conclusion. The introduction is where the reader finds out what they are about to read and is presented almost in the form of a thesis statement.
The body of this write-up gives the content or evidence used to persuade the reader to accept the writer’s position. An article conclusion is a part that summarizes the body of the text and briefly discusses the findings.
Expository Essay
An expository essay is one of the types of essay which helps in communicating factual information. Usually, they depend on certain structures to convey their views, such as process essays, compare and contrast and the analysis of cause and effect.
When writing, your focus shouldn’t be to appear clever or witty. You are expected to state your observations and facts clearly.
An expository essay involves analyzing any information assigned to you. It also involves critically thinking about the concepts behind it while giving detailed explanations of the reasons and processes backing your conclusions. An expository essay is supposed to help the reader understand the viewpoint of the author.
Argumentative Essays
An argumentative essay is a type of writing which involves the author proposing their views on certain issues and attempting to back up the same with evidence.
High school and college students often fear this type of article as it may seem multilayered and complex. They are given to students on ACT, SAT, IELTS and TOEFL tests and can also be assigned as coursework.
An argumentative paper is designed primarily to inform and not convince the reader, which makes it different from a persuasive essay. Argumentative essays can significantly improve a student’s debating ability and, by extension, their public speaking ability. The elements of an argumentative essay include position, evidence, and counterarguments. Note that there are three major ways to approach an argumentative essay: the Classical Approach, Rogerian Approach, and the Toulmin Approach.
Descriptive Essays
A descriptive essay attempts to paint a vivid picture in the mind of the reader in as much details as possible. Typically, a paper could be about a place, object, person, situation, or emotion. This type of writing is adopted to help improve the students’ analytical skills, which is quite significant in their professional and educational lives.
This, perhaps, is why it is given to college and high school students. The components of a descriptive essay include sensory details, figurative language, precise language, and a central theme. When writing this, you are expected to choose a topic, create an outline, write the introduction, create a thesis statement, compose the body paragraphs, and write the conclusion.
Narrative Essays
When applying for college, a student may be asked to engage in narrative writing about the candidate’s personal qualities. Ideally, this paper type is written from the first person perspective, and you are to engage the reader of the texts fully. Narrative essays involve descriptive techniques and vivid details. One drawback of a narrative essay is that it is always limitations in its length. In order words, your summary technique must be top-notch, and you must be able to tell a complex story shortly. Sometimes, students may engage the services of experts such as research writing service by Edusson to help with the process. Note that narrative essays are non-fiction written from the author’s viewpoint, and they include the elements of a story and give information in a defined order. Also, this type attempts to inform the readers of something and involves a lot of details used in describing a person, event or scene.
Persuasive Essay
A persuasive essay is designed to help explain a certain topic and attempts to influence the audience into adopting your view as the best. This is one of the types of research papers, also known as an argumentative essay. Persuasive essays have the same structure as expository and informative reports.
The critical elements of a good persuasive essay include an opening paragraph introducing the thesis, a clear thesis idea, body paragraphs and smooth transitions. They also use counterarguments to refute and summarize opposing views and the conclusion.
To Sum Up
Every college or High school student will write a paper at some point in their academic or professional journeys. Essay writing shouldn’t create fear in your heart, especially if you are equipped with the relevant information about the five types of essays. It doesn’t matter if you write a persuasive, narrative, argumentative, descriptive, or expository essay. What counts is your ability to comprehend the topic, research it and present it in a manner that conveys the message.
Whether you agree with the practice or not, sequelitis is a regular disease of Hollywood movies. Due to the success of high-budget TV shows, it’s a phenomenon that has also made its way to streaming networks like Netflix, Disney+, and HBO. Not so much in the form of a story continuation, as a true sequel tends to be, but as a parade of related spin-offs, one-shots, and mini-series.
Family Trees
A good example is the Star Wars franchise, which is currently on its 22nd movie or TV show release, inclusive of the second seasons of both The Mandalorian and Star Wars: Resistance. Marvel, too, is testing the limits of our fondness for superpeople by releasing 38 products since 2011. That’s around 3.4 movies or other properties each year, a release schedule that would seem ridiculous in another other creative industry.
Via The Walking Dead and its six spin-offs, we arrive at the Game of Thrones (GoT) franchise, which wrapped up its first show in disasterous fashion back in 2019. We’ve already been treated to the first prequel series, House of the Dragon, which tells the story of the Targaryan clan, several hundred years before the beginning of GoT. A prior series, set 10,000 years before GoT, was cancelled.
A spin-off set on either the Targaryan, Stark, or Lannister families was perhaps inevitable. George R.R. Martin made sure of that by creating family trees stretching back several generations of our favourite and least favourite houses. An infographic detailing the Targaryan clan was recently put together by ExpressVPN, depicting up to 15 generations of the enigmatic family.
Dunk and Egg
While the latter image describes the Targaryan clan as far back as Jaehaerys I, House of the Dragon is focused on a clash occurring two generations later, in the shadow of King Viserys I’s death. The series didn’t achieve the stellar ratings that HBO might have expected, despite posting the strongest start in the network’s history, sitting second-to-last for ratings across the franchise, after GoT series 8.
The bad news is that a raft of GoT spin-offs may have already been cancelled. The Wiki of Thrones website claims that production company Startling may have cut its plans for GoT by half, from four shows to just two, including House of the Dragon. This would leave Dunk and Egg the sole live-action show still on HBO’s release calendar. Based on a series of novellas, Dunk and Egg tells the tale of another Targaryen, Aegon V, and Ser Duncan the Tall.
This is all speculation (other than the fact that Dunk and Egg is already in production) but an earlier estimate of ten different GoT spin-offs seems to have produced the obvious conclusion, namely, that somebody got too excited about the franchise and HBO is now having to scale back its plans. A stage show – Harrenhal – and a cartoon called Ice Dragon are still being made, however.
What this means for the potentially dropped spin-offs, like Nine Voyages of the Sea Snake and Ten Thousand Ships, remains to be seen.
Women have been thwarted for years now. Some have fought through the test of time while others showed a blind eye to it and perceived it to be their destiny. This Portrait of a Lady on Fire review will showcase how women throughout history have battled a constant struggle for survival.
Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire is set in 18th century France and features two young women, Marianne as an artist and Héloïse as the subject of her latest commission. The mansion of the countess had called for her to draw a portrait of the countess’s daughter who was getting married.
The movie portrait of a lady unwinds as they find themselves slowly drawn into a romantic love affair—a brief love affair that is about to remain in their memories for the rest of their lives. A plot that talks about cherished love between two people while also showing us the condition of then France with an excruciating finesse.
This coming-of-age movie embodies the metamorphic power of love and how someone’s love can leave a lasting impression on your heart. It talks about how the duration or the depth of your love is not what matters but rather the strength that true love could bring into your life.
It was a time when there was systematic oppression of female painters. Marianne in the portrait of a lady on fire braved as a portrait artist during these times when male artists were abundant. It throws light into the multifarious identities that womanhood carries. It does so by moving away from dominant monologues about women in cinema.
There is a use of symbolism throughout Portrait of a Lady on Fire that gives us a wider perspective on the plot. Their love affair between Marriane and Héloïse in Portrait of a Lady on Fire is compared to the chaotic character of fire throughout the film. It develops a cosmic connection between the pair, demonstrating how both alluring and destructive their relationship could be.
There has been a conscious choice in the depiction of the female body that does not meet conventional standards of female beauty. In a particular scene, Marriane sits naked by the fire where her protruded belly is quite visible. The very scene shows us a woman who is not shameful of the fact that she does not have a flat belly.
The Portrait of a Lady on Fire explicitly defies the standards set for women of the time. In a time when women were merely even exposed to the outer world, Marianne fearlessly illustrated nude paintings of both sexes on her canvas.
The love tale between Héloïse and Marianne was warm and heart-wrenching at the same time. An art about love that goes beyond the standards set for women, that shows how two women find freedom through love. Love that gives us a glimpse into the intimate feminine world, that holds harsh realities we might be unaware of.
Even without showing any male characters onscreen, Sciamma depicts the countless ways in which the patriarchy clenches the lives of her female protagonists. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is a movie about profound female solidarity. Sciamma makes a powerful statement by letting sisterhood bloom organically out of the setting’s forbidding traditionalism.
A home is something that reflects your lifestyle and personality. It is your haven – where you can relax and rejuvenate. Not only does it welcoming and comfortable, but it also offers a sense of security. All these things can only be achieved when the house is designed with care and love.
Making a house feel like a home is not just about furnishing and decorating the room but also about selecting the right furniture and accessories such as a wall headboard. Investing in the right furniture creates a serene space and ensures that your room is organized and clutter-free.
To help you create a luxurious room setting, we curated this bedroom essentials list that you can use to turn all of your fabulous ideas into reality.
Get a Great Tight Sleep with a Comfortable Bed
When it comes to adequate rest and deep sleep, most people will agree that there is some furniture that can make all the difference. A bed is one of the essential furniture items for tight sleep. Not only does it add functionality to your room, but it also adds aesthetics to your room. A lack of sleep can cause you feel tired and stressed throughout the day. So it’s vital to make sure that your bed is comfortable.
While purchasing, you need to take your time and try to choose something that will give you the best sleep experience. Sizing is also a crucial aspect of comfort when you sleep. Choosing a very large, however, is not recommended since it could take up valuable space for other bedroom pieces and limit your mobility. Investing in a bed that fits the size of the room with the other essentials, including mattresses, cushions, and duvets, will provide comfort and aesthetically balance the rest of the furniture.
Don’t Forget the Mattress
Head of the list of every room essentials and vital for restful sleep, a mattress should never miss. Not only does it help you sleep better, but it can also improve your overall health, reduce back pain and improve your quality of life.
With so many bedroom mattress options for you to choose from, deciding on the right size, style, and material can be difficult. And, just because you settle on a mattress that you love the look of wouldn’t mean it’s going to give you the comfort you seek.
Adding a Comfort Deluxe Memory Foam Mattress to your bedroom will create the perfect romantic atmosphere while not disturbing your partner by rolling around or tossing and turning. From back-pain-sufferers to chronically stiff necks and front-sleeper to side-sleepers, the Plush Memory Foam Mattress is specially designed to accommodate everyone.
Add Some Storage in Your Room with a Chest of Drawer
The chest of drawers is an iconic piece of furniture for every room. It can be designed to hold clothing, linens, and other household items. It also keeps all those belongings that we might need in an emergency. With a lot of storage in these drawers, you can make your every room clutter-free and organized. Also, it can save you time when you want to go on vacations with friends and family. You just need to take their things out of the chest of drawers and put them in the suitcases or carry-on bags. Unlike closets, chests of drawers can store books, CDs, DVDs, toys and games, kitchen supplies, and more.
Every room must have one chest of the drawer as it helps you stay organized, but the size, style, material, colour, and placement are things that impact your ambiance. Depending on the rest of your decor and the size of your room, you should consider single or double-drawer models.
Add Colour to your Bedroom with Armchair
The room in your home where you spend the most time is probably your bedroom. It’s a place where you can relax and unwind after a long day at work. Moreover, it’s also a place where you have your personal space — so it’s crucial to make it comfortable and inviting. A good-quality, well-padded chair will provide you with hours of comfort.
However, there are various types of sittings available, including recliner chairs, rockers, ottomans, and much more. But the armchairs tend to be smaller and more compact than recliners, allowing you to sit back in a more relaxed position. To enhance the ambiance further, consider adding a custom wall mural to bring a splash of color and personality to your space. Pairing a beautifully designed mural with a stylish armchair creates a cozy corner where you can sit back, read a book, or watch TV while surrounded by an environment that truly reflects your style.
When selecting an armchair, you need to find one that adds an element of interest to your living interior while providing support to the backrest when you want to sit up or read a book or watch TV.
Add Some Privacy in your Room with Window Treatments
To make a safe sleep environment in your room, you will need to add some sort of blackout window treatments, like curtains, drapes, and blinds. Not only do all safeguard your privacy, but also regulate the temperature in your room and block out light.
If you want to add extra privacy and add visual interest to a room, drapes are the best option as it is lined with heavy fabric to block all outside light. Like drapes, the curtain also adds pops of colour and texture to your room. Both are typically wider and are used for large windows, while blinds cover small windows. When choosing window coverings for your bedroom, it is vital to consider the size of your window, colour, and fabric selection.
For instance, heavier curtains can help block the heat from sunlight to make your bedroom relaxing and more comfortable. Going with a neutral colour helps keep your home cooler, while darker shades hold heat inside your home, which can be helpful to keep your home warmer in the winter.
Conclusion
From sumptuous beds and mattresses to a gorgeous chest of drawers and armchairs, every room needs utmost care and attention while designing. We hope you will enjoy your new space by adding these essentials to your room.
Digital marketing is no new part of selling a property, nowadays. However, the increasing reliance of real estate on the internet is still changing how we do things. Certain aspects of the process get new priority and, of course, new technologies shape how we sell homes too.
Online listings and apps
The biggest difference is, of course, the fact that we have a whole new market (or a platform full of markets) to sell our property through. There are plenty of listing sites and apps that you can peruse and, while it can be hard sometimes to tell which and how many you should put your property on, there’s no denying the advantage. The potential audience that your home listing can reach is much wider than it has ever been. Of course, this means that there are more properties to compete with for attention, too, but there are ways to address that.
Increased reliance on visuals
Photos existed in print form as a part of real estate marketing well before the internet. However, now it’s much easier for users to peruse homes with high-fidelity visuals on screens of a wide range of sizes, the importance of a good photo cannot be stressed enough. Working with experts at real estate editing, you can make sure that your listing has the photos putting your home in the most flattering light. The combination of accurate and honest depiction, while still making the home look as attractive as possible, plays a much bigger role in getting people to sign up for viewing than ever.
If you’re hoping to sell your property fast, then getting it out to the right audience is crucial. The listing sites and apps might seem like your only option but, in reality, they are just the digital version of traditional listings formats that have always existed. Taking your listing and your property to social media is how you connect it to the widest possible audience. Using the right mix of hashtags, connecting with prevalent real estate accounts, and the appropriate use of paid ad posts for your property can see you get way more engagement. What’s more, people can easily share your posts with others they think might be interested.
Virtual tours and plans
Photos are still a vital part of marketing the home, but some people are opting for a more immersive experience, as well. Virtual tours and plans can allow the potential buyer to get an idea of what it’s like to really set foot in the home. This often relies on 360 photography, allowing the buyer to click through them (much like with Google Maps.) However, some are going even further, making use of actual virtual reality goggles. The technology for that particular innovation is still a little too expensive to be more than a partial trend, however.
If you’re selling a home, then it is pretty essential to keep up with the digital world’s footprint on the process and market. Keep the above tools in mind when you’re selling yours.
Cloud Nothings, Frankie Cosmos, Deerhoof, Charlotte Cornfield, Oceanator, Finom, Guerilla Toss, Mamalarky, and more have contributed to Sub Pop‘s new digital-only compilation The Eleventh Hour: Songs for Climate Justice. Filmmaker Adam McKay and podcaster producer Matt Dwyer curated the album, which also features previously unreleased music from Fake Fruit, Death Valley Girls, Shanon Lay, Ya Tseen, Kevin Devine, and others. Funds raised from the compilation will directly benefit Climate Emergency Fund, which supports nonviolent, disruptive climate activism. Listen to it below.
Adam McKay shared the following statement about the project:
This is a frightening moment we’re living through. The climate is warming at an increasingly dangerous pace and Governments and Businesses seem hell-bent on ignoring the problem. And it’s at exactly moments like this when we need inspired artists to interpret, express and F.S.U. Add in the fact that all of the proceeds go to the Climate Emergency Fund and support international civil disobedience and this is one hell of a good trouble-making album.
Play it loud.
Play it soft.
Play it while occupying an oil CEO’s office. They won’t like this album and would rather you play Rod Stewart’s Christmas album. (God bless Rod Stewart) The climate activists thank you for lending your ears and any and all possible support.
Show Me the Body have released their new album, Trouble the Water, via Loma Vista. The New York-based hardcore trio recorded the follow-up to 2019’s Dog Whistle at Corpus studios in Long Island City and produced it with Arthur Rizk. Ahead of its release, the band shared the singles ‘Loose Talk’, ‘We Came to Play’, and ‘WW4’. “The record is a continuation of what we have been witnessing our whole fucking lives with our city being turned into a playground and people being treated like they can be shipped around,” vocalist Julian Cashwan Pratt told Alternative Press. “The hardlines of capitalism are there but we definitely witnessed the pandemic, although awful, giving us more time to be in the streets. It was beautiful for everyone to be together and become militant together.”
The Hudson, NY duo of singer-songwriter Maya Bon and producer Ryan Albert have issued their debut album, Light Moving Time, via Double Double Whammy. The 10-track record follows Babehoven’s March EP Sunk and includes the previously released singles ‘I’m on Your Team’ and ‘Often’. Its cover artwork, which depicts Bon as a headless figure, was created by painter Danielle Norris. “This whole album and the whole picture is frozen and moving all at once, which is kind of my experience of trauma,” Bon explained in press materials.
Nosaj Thing, the moniker of Los Angeles producer Jason W. Chung, has returned with his fifth studio album. Out now via LuckyMe, Continua follows the 2017 record Parallels and features guest contributions from Toro Y Moi, Panda Bear, serpentwithfeet, Pink Siifu, Duval Timothy, Coby Sey, Slauson Malone, Sam Grendel, Eyedress, Julianna Barwick, and HYUKOH. The album was inspired by “tectonic shifts” in Chung’s personal life, including family health scares and house break-ins. A series of singles, including ‘All Over’, Condition, ‘Look Both Ways’, ‘We Are (우리는)’, and ‘Blue Hour’, arrived prior to the release.
Martha have followed up their 2019 LP Love Keeps Kicking with Please Don’t Take Me Back, out today via Specialist Subject Records. The 11-track effort includes the previously shared cuts ‘Baby, Does Your Heart Sink’, ‘Hope Gets Harder’, and the title track. Speaking about the album, drummer/vocalist Nathan Stephens-Griffin said in a statement: “The entire culture is built around nostalgia, recognisable IPs, rebooting, remaking, re-quelling the past. It’s a time where it’s extremely easy to despair. Perhaps the worst it’s ever been. But the future is unwritten and there’s hope in acknowledging that.”
Protector is the sophomore album by Irish singer-songwriter Aoife Nessa Frances, following 2020’s Land of No Junction. Frances began working on the album – her first for Partisan – in the spring of 2020, when she left Dublin and moved to rural County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, and recorded it with Brendan Jenkinson, Brendan Doherty, Ailbhe Nic Oireachtaigh, and Conor O’Brien. “Writing and recording this album was a spiritual experience,” Frances reflected in a statement. “I experienced love for my family on a level I didn’t know existed, while slowly putting myself back together and watching the ‘protector’ in me grow much bigger. Protector acknowledges the part of myself that steers me towards a brighter path.”
Fred again.., Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022)
Fred again.. has put out the third installment of his Actual Life trilogy via Atlantic Records. The producer previewed Actual Life 3 (January 1 – September 9 2022) with a string of singles, including ‘Danielle (smile on my face)’, ‘Bleu (better with time)’, and ‘Kammy (like i do)’. Like his previous albums, Actual Life 3 takes the form of a musical diary and carries an overarching sense of grief, grappling with the realization that it can’t be easily resolved. It’s about “drawing a line in the sand … because I need to give myself permission to do something else,” Fred again.. told The Guardian. “And write about something else.”
Changes, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s third and final album of October, has arrived. It follows Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava and Laminated Denim and was previewed with the single ‘Hate Dancing”. “I think of Changes as a song-cycle,” frontman Stu Mackenzie explained in press materials. “Every song is built around this one chord progression — every track is like a variation on a theme. But I don’t know if we had the musical vocabulary yet to complete the idea at that time. We recorded some of it then, including the version of ‘Exploding Suns’ that’s on the finished album. But when the sessions were over, it just never felt done. It was like this idea that was in our heads, but we just couldn’t reach. We just didn’t know yet how to do what we wanted to do.”
Dazy, the project of Richmond, Virginia-based powerpop musician James Goodson, has dropped his debut full-length, OUTOFBODY, via Lame-O Records. Following last year’s MAXIMUMBLASTSUPERLOUD: The First 24 Songs, which collected Dazy’s early EPs and singles, the album includes the previously unveiled tracks ‘Split’, ‘Rollercoaster Ride’, and ‘On My Way’. Goodson recorded the collection at home, with mixing and mastering by Justin Pizzoferrato (Dinosaur Jr, The Pixies, Wild Pink) at Sonelab. “I wanted to make music that feels ‘big’ but also ‘homemade,’ which is sort of an odd target but hopefully I’m getting close,” Goodson told The Big Takeover.
Dear Nora, the recording project led by singer-songwriter Katy Davidson, has a new LP out titled human futures (via Orindal Records). The follow-up to 2018’s Skulls Example was preceded by the singles ‘scrolls of doom’, ‘shadows’, and ‘sinaloan restaurant’. Speaking about the album with Talkhouse, Davidson said: “human futures is the most thematically and sonically cohesive of our albums; it has the most astute lyrics, with several threads weaving the songs together (and also to Skulls Example, which is the clear prequel to this album), and it features the infinitely creative and talented performances, arrangements, and co-writing of my collaborators Zach Burba, Greg Campanile, and Nicholas Krgovich.”
Hiding in Plain Sightis the latest album from Drugdealer, the Los Angeles-based project led by Michael Collins. Released via Mexican Summer, the follow-up 2019’s Raw Honey includes the early singles ‘Pictures of You’, ‘Madison’, and ‘Someone to Love’, as well guest appearances from Kate Bollinger, Sean Nicholas Savage, and Tim Presley. “I hadn’t been feeling very confident about my voice for a while, when a chance encounter with an older artist, Annette Peacock, happened,” Collins explained in a statement about ‘Madison’. “She helped change my perspective, and style. She told me I wasn’t singing in my correct range, to modulate it up. She was right and it shifted my perspective on singing.”
Other albums out today:
Moin, Paste; Natalia Lafourcade, De Todas las Flores; Hammered Hulls, Careening; Guided by Voices, Scalping the Guru; Fauness, The Golden Ass; Arm’s Length, Never Before Seen, Never Again Found; Junior Boys, Waiting Game; Cakes Da Killa, Svengali; Felicity Mangan, Wet on Wet; Westside Gunn, 10; Darkthrone, Astral Fortress; Scout Gillett, no roof no floor; Abraxas, Monte Carlo; NANCY, English Leather; Benjamin Clementine, And I Have Been; Tom Odell, Best Day of My Life; Daisy the Great, All You Need Is Time; Jackie Hayes, Over & Over; Mister Water Wet, Top Natural Drum; Molly Joyce, Perspective; Ripatti Deluxe, Speed Demon; Sea Moss, Seamoss2; Babyface, Girls’ Night Out; Lee Fields, Sentimental Fool; Girlpuppy, When I’m Alone; TVAM, High Art Lite; Luke Haines & Peter Buck, All the Kids Are Super Bummed Out; Smino, Luv 4 Rent; Dead Cross, II; Fantasy Camp, Casual Intimacy; Lala &ce & Low Jack, Baiser Mortel; Dragonette, Twennies; Field Guide, Field Guide; Theo Parrish, DJ-Kicks; Dorian Concept, What We Do For Others; Blessed, Circuitous; I Was A King, Follow Me Home; Deadbody, The Requiem; DeFeKT & Jensen Interceptor, Free Your Body; Yung Gravy, Marvelous; Curd Duca, Waves 3; Ella van der Woude, MOLOCH; Skye Wallace, Terribly Good; Let’s Eat Grandma, The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself (Original Soundtrack).
Show Me the Body have released their new album, 
The Hudson, NY duo of singer-songwriter Maya Bon and producer Ryan Albert have issued their debut album, 
Nosaj Thing, the moniker of Los Angeles producer Jason W. Chung, has returned with his fifth studio album. Out now via 
Martha have followed up their 2019 LP Love Keeps Kicking with 
Fred again.. has put out the third installment of his Actual Life trilogy via 
Changes, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s third and final album of October, has arrived. It follows Ice, Death, Planets, Lungs, Mushrooms and Lava and Laminated Denim and was previewed with the single 
Dazy, the project of Richmond, Virginia-based powerpop musician James Goodson, has dropped his debut full-length, 
Dear Nora, the recording project led by singer-songwriter Katy Davidson, has a new LP out titled human futures (via 
Hiding in Plain Sight