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The Biggest News Stories of 2017 (Part 2)

Determining the biggest stories of any year is never a simple task. In truth, no one story can truly be the most influential since importance is localized and subject to cultural interpretation. However, despite the fact that every orbit of the Earth around the Sun brings countless new events to our eyes, the repercussions of some stories are so intense in their area as to be particularly notable. 2017, for many, was a turbulent year full of shocking turns and bewildering discoveries. Politically, the world seems to have gone topsy-turvy, with world leaders getting into uncharacteristic personal spats and the

20th January 2018
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The Biggest News Stories of 2017 (Part 1)

With 2017 having come to a close and 2018 quickly ramping up, it seems to be a great time to look back on the stories that made the most waves in 2017. For many, 2017 was a turbulent year full of both great excitement and shocking revelations. The world as a whole seems to have a very different attitude going into 2018 than it did going into 2017. Two stories, nearly inseparable in subject, however, seem to have grasped the collective attention of the world in 2017 and their developments continue even into this year. So, without further ado, let’s

11th January 2018
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To Read, or Not to Read

In May 2017, Ivanka Trump launched her book, Women Who Work. The idea behind the book was that of making Ivanka come across as a powerful woman, a compassionate person and someone who has had to work hard for everything all her life. What sets off as someone telling women how strong they are just because they go to work, how to manage their personal time and how to read e-mails, ends up showing people just how little she knows about real life issues and about what women normally go through when they have to make their own life choices

17th August 2017
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How the Women’s March Was Seen

How the Women’s March Was SeenThe race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was watched with a lot of interest by people all over the world. It was not a clean fight with severe accusations being flung from one side to another. But one thing stood out and raised a lot of concerns: the attitude of candidate Donald Trump toward women. Never have public events ended in such shock as when The Donald was caught referring to women as sex objects he could not control himself around. Women all over American were enraged, so you can only imagine the emotional

16th August 2017
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Health

Italy’s Water Shortage Is as Real as It Gets

Anyone with a trip to Rome planned for the summer of 2017 might be in for a nasty surprise as the city is going through one of the worst droughts in recorder history. City authorities are even talking about shutting up the water supply for about 8 hours a day and turning off the city fountains. So, unless you want your pictures of Rome to look drastically different than the ones other people got and your hotel experience to be an extreme one, then you might want to reconsider your travel plans. But what brought on this situation and how

16th August 2017
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Why Do Airlines Overbook?

Anyone who grew up watching The Jetsons knows that, come the 21st century, we were supposed to fly everywhere. OK, the cartoon was not set in 2017 and everybody has a flying car. So, while we are not that close to the idea, we are not that far away from it either. The truth is that we fly around much more than we used to. Travel across long distances has increased. And take a country like the USA, where such great distances can only be covered by air. Also, with travel becoming much more affordable to a larger number of

16th August 2017
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There’s No News Like Fake News

Any person with common sense knows not to believe everything he/she reads. Even teenagers know to tell the difference between what is worth reading and click-bait articles. So, then why are fake news so much of an issue now more than ever? What has happened in 2017 to cause such a rising concern about fake news? Was there any event behind it? Is this something new or is it something we just now noticed? To answer these questions, we need to take a step back and look at things overall. Once we identify the game changing factors, we manage to

16th August 2017
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Health

Same Brands, Same Promos, Different Taste and Recipes

At the beginning of the year, news bulletins sparked up this particular piece of news, and they made official what everybody in Central and East European countries had known for decades: that the food major brands sold locally was of lower quality than the products in Western stores. Countries such as Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia and others from the region have been constantly supplied with lower quality products of the same international brands. So, while you can get a Nestea or a Coca-Cola beverage in any European country, you will know exactly what market it was directed towards,

16th August 2017
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Entertainment

Celebrities We Have Lost So Far

2016 has been a tough year for fans and non-fans alike, as the world just became a sadder place. A lot of important public figures have died and they left some pretty big shoes for the next generations to fill. George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Prince, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman and others have made the list of sorrow. Now it seems that 2017 is not over and it has already claimed the lives of some of the much-loved movie stars and singers. Here is a list of the celebrities we have already lost this year and we

16th August 2017
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The Unexpected Condition of Venezuelan Life Today

Imagine having all the things you consider as a given taken away from you. Imagine your Western life-style suffered a severe change and you go from walking safely on the streets to praying not to get killed in front of your home. Now imagine how hard it would be for you to cope with this situation and adapt your way of thinking, all the while living in a great city that has shown such promise and that you never thought you’d have to flee. This is how people of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, are feeling. And what is maybe more

16th August 2017
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Celebrities We Have Lost So Far

By Keaton On 16th August 2017 No Comments

2016 has been a tough year for fans and non-fans alike, as the world just became a sadder place. A lot of important public figures have died and they left some pretty big shoes for the next generations to fill. George Michael, Carrie Fisher, Prince, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Muhammad Ali, Alan Rickman and others have made the list of sorrow. Now it seems that 2017 is not over and it has already claimed the lives of some of the much-loved movie stars and singers. Here is a list of the celebrities we have already lost this year and we can only hope that it ends here.

Celebrities We Have Lost So Far in 2017

John Heard

Although Macaulay Culkin is the ultimate star of Home Alone, we could not picture the movie without the whole McCallister family. The father, Peter McCallister, was played by actor John Heard. Among other projects the actor was involved in, we mention The Sopranos, Big, Beaches, Awakenings, The Pelican Brief, My Fellow Americans and many more. Unfortunately, John Heard died on July 21st, only two days after having undergone back surgery.

Chester Bennington

The news of the death of Chester Bennington has come as a great shock to everybody. In seems that the singer had been struggling with severe depression for many years. The 41-year-old artist was the lead singer with Linkin Park. The band experienced commercial success for the first time in 2000 with the Hybrid Theory album. Later on, album after album, it only consolidated the band’s success. Chester Bennington died on July 20th, the birthday of one of his best friends, unfortunately also on this list of celebrities who died in 2017.

Martin Landau

89-year-old actor Martin Landau died on July 15th. He was a representative of an older generation of actors and his biography includes playing a supporting role in an Alfred Hitchcock movie, North by Northwest and the role of Bela Lugosi in the 1994 movie Ed Wood. He won an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe Award. The actor died in a hospital, due to complications.

Nelsan Ellis

True Blood fans got some really bad news on July 8th when the actor playing Lafayette Reynolds died. Among other roles you may have seen Ellis in was the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in The Butler, and Bobby Byrd, a friend of James Brown in the biographical movie Get on Up. Nelsan Ellis died at the age of 39 due to heart failure. The actors had been struggling to quit drinking and this is a complication that appears in the case of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

Adam West

Adam West

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June 9th was the day the very first Batman actor, Adam West, died. He was 88 and he had an amazing career. The great thing about Adam West was the fact that he had become emblematic of DC Comics. Younger viewers may know Adam West from the voiceovers he did for The Simpsons and Family Guy, where he played fictional versions of himself.

Roger Moore

Sir Roger Moore died on May 23rd. Remember James Bond? This is a role he took over from Sean Connery in 1972. Another big role for Sir Roger Moore was that of Simon Templar in The Saint. The title of knight was granted to Sir Roger Moore in 2003 for “services for charity”. The famous actor died after losing the fight with cancer.

Chris Cornell

We mentioned Chris Cornell once again in this article. He was the friend of Chester Bennington, the Linkin Park vocalist who killed himself on July 21st. This date was the birthday of Chris Cornell. The singer would have been 53 if he had not died on May 21st. Cornell was the lead singer for Audioslaveand Soundgardenand he died right after a concert in Detroit. The cause of death in his case was also suicide.

Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry was one of the pioneers of rock and roll music and there probably is no person alive who does not know his famous hits like Johnny B. Good, Roll Over Beethoven and Rock and Roll Music. He was known for this lively performances, amazing showmanship, and lyrics about teenage life and consumerism. Chuck Berry died at age 90 of cardiac arrest on March 18th.

Bill Paxton

Bill Paxton

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The Terminator, Weird Science, Alien, Predator 2, Twister, Titanic, Edge of Tomorrow and Nightcrawler are just some of the movies Bill Paxton starred in. Unfortunately, the famous actor died on February 25th from complications following heart surgery.

Al Jarreau

If you liked the Moonlighting series, then you loved the opening song. Some of you know that it was sung by All Jarreau, famous American musician. After an amazing musical career, Al Jarreau died on February 12th, after he was hospitalized for exhaustion. Aged 77, the artist was still performing and going on tour. In fact, at the time of his hospitalization on February 8th, he had to cancer several tour dates.

Sir John Hurt

John Hurt

When actor John Hurt died, Harry Potter fans received a severe blow. With a career that spanned over 50 years, the English actor earned the appreciation of viewers and colleagues. Some of the amazing movies Hurt starred in are Harry Potter, The Elephant Man, Hellboy, The Skeleton Key, V for Vendetta and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He was knighted in 2015. This is the same year when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In 2017, the actor died on January 25th, only three days after his 77th birthday.

It is sad to think that 2017 is only half-way through and there are already such big names on the celebrity death list. Hopefully, the list will not become much longer by the end of the year. Even so, with every piece of bad news delivered, we feel it is the end of an era. We all grew up watching movies and listening to songs, we are all used to seeing these people perform. And even though they were not personal acquaintances, they still played an

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