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Elea Almazora - ArticlesElea Almazora currently works as a contributor to many information-based websites, writing about many subjects ranging from culture to sciences.
On the Recognition of ArtIt is rather fascinating to observe the fact that nowadays, our concept of what makes art and literature had expanded to such vastly different media concepts that it has become difficult to define it as strictly as it had been defined before. For most people, art is something beautiful. How to Eat a Bar of ChocolateIt's so incredibly pleasant to know that nowadays, nobody thinks of hedonism – that is to say, the pursuit of the pleasure of the senses – as all that bad. Decades ago, any act that gives you sensual (it need not be erotic; sensuality should not be limited to sexuality, as its roots come from “sense”, which may very well be limitless in possibilities of experience) pleasure is thought to be sinful and is immediately frowned upon by most. Questions of Political CorrectnessWhy does everything have to be held up to a standard of political correctness nowadays? Lately, it has pretty much become obvious that people are very careful about what they say to certain people, because they will be slapped with accusations of being politically incorrect – which, of course, includes words like “discrimination”. Food and the FamilyI grew up in a culture where everything – I'm not kidding, I do mean EVERYTHING – is pretty much celebrated with food. We have fantastically wonderful spreads during the Christmas and New Year seasons, treat each other to a special lunch or dinner on birthdays, even bring little snacks over to work because Gina in accounting is going to have a baby and we all just found out. The Matrix: a Dying LegacyIt's been almost a decade since the original Matrix movie introduced popular culture to the idea of reality as an illusion. Not that it's new idea at the time – millenia worth of philosophers have been saying again and again that reality as we know it, reality as we sense it, cannot exactly be thought of and regarded as real. After Market Sales and the Slow Down EconomyI have been a proper consumer – and by “proper” I mean I pay for my own stuff and have stopped mooching money off of one or both of my parents – for almost a year now, and as most consumers who are thought of as part of the middle class, I am always looking for a good bargain. And by “good bargain”, I obviously mean “will haggle within an inch of my life, if it means I could haggle it down to seventy-five percent of its original price.” On Eating PlumsMy family never really was into plums; as people, we were more into the sickly nectar sweetness of mangoes or the crispy tangy flavor of barely ripe apples. Of course, this may have been because where I come from, there aren't too many places that sell plums. Women and the Workplace: Dependent CareIn the past, women had been expected to stay at home and take care of the children while the man of the house would go forth and earn money so that they can all live as happily and as comfortably as possible. Now, I'm no radical feminist – I simply try to see it as it was. Close Encounters of the Acid Reflux KindMy stomach has this rather unfortunate and annoying monthly habit of waking me up very early in the morning, swirling and spinning with acid that has made it its mission in existence to claw its way up my food pipe and spew out of my throat into the waiting mouth of the proverbial porcelain god. On Death Vs. TaxesBenjamin Franklin once said that “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”...
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