Ali's Articles

  Changes are inevitable in life. We can go through a lot of changes, like graduating school, seeing friends move far away, ending friendships, our bodies change, parents seeing kids grow up and leave the nest, moving away and sometimes places we’ve been to have changed, like the playgrounds I used to play at or the times I came to my older schools, they look a lot smaller than I remember. One of the biggest and most inevitable changes we can experience in life is death. We all will lose someone we loved for many reasons, whether it comes to illnesses like cancer or pneumonia, old age, vehicle accidents, car crashes due to drunk drivers (don’t call that an accident because the driver was being an idiot for driving while intoxicated), or fires. I haven’t dealt with a lot of losses in my life but the ones I had experienced were definitely not easy.   The first ever loss I experienced was my grandmother, who I called Grammy. For 4 years she was one of the coolest ladies I’ve ...

  A lot of good stories can have an antagonist. They could have different types of personalities, they could be jerks, they could be bullies or they could be outright evil. We can despise or love to hate some of those characters like Lotso, Gaston, Scar, Hal/Titan or Mother Gothel. However, sometimes, there can be times when there are characters that we despise that aren’t actually the villains but really people who have really unlikable or detestable qualities that make it hard for us to like them, to the point where we might despise them more than the actual villains. TV Tropes would describe this trope as Jerks Are Worse Than Villains, and I would like to talk about some characters that fall into that category. Maybe the reasons certain characters can be more hateable than the supposed villains or antagonists, might be because they can be people that can exist, real bullies, real toxic people and true narcissists, people who can make the world lose faith in humanity, it can be d...

  Since yesterday was the 8 th anniversary of this great Pixar sequel, Finding Dory, let’s talk about a certain movie from Disney that is quite similar to it, but before this, let’s go into a little personal history. On Christmas 2003, a little girl who became a big sister, was going to be five in a couple of months and had already started elementary school, was unwrapping her Christmas gifts, she had gotten a toy dolphin, Nemo sticker sets, and so much more. She got her big Christmas wish which was Finding Nemo on DVD, but then another gift she unwrapped was a DVD called The Tigger Movie, and she got to watch both of them, but had to come downstairs by the “How To Be A Tigger” scene. The little girl had no clue that the first DVD she got would get a sequel years later and it would have a plot that is quite similar to The Tigger Movie’s story, it’s like Santa Claus had predicted the future. I remember being excited to see Finding Dory and it was great, sure Finding Nemo is bette...