Flatliners is a 1990 American sci-fi thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin and Oliver Platt. Five medical students attempt to find out what lies beyond death. They conduct clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The movie was directed by Joel Schumacher, and it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (Charles L. Campbell and Richard C. Franklin). It was filmed between October 1989 and January 1990. == Plot == Nelson Wright (Kiefer Sutherland), convinces four of his medical...

"Roses are red" can refer to a specific poem, or a class of poems inspired by that poem. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19798. It is most commonly used as a love poem. == Lyrics == The most common modern form of the poem is: Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet, And so are you. == Origins == The origins of the poem may be traced at least as far back as to the following lines written in 1590 by Sir Edmund Spenser from his epic The Faerie Queene (Book Three, Canto 6, Stanza 6): It was upon a Sommers shynie day, When Titan faire his beames did display, In a fresh fountaine, farre...

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consisted of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout and a note on the versification. It is considered by critics to be Milton's major work, and helped solidify his reputation as one of the greatest English poets of his time. The poem concerns the Biblical story of the Fall of Man: the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen...

Besom is a dialectal or historical word for what is now known as a broom, a household implement used for sweeping. The term "besom" is now mostly reserved for a "traditionally constructed" broom, made from a bundle of twigs tied to a stouter pole. The twigs used could be broom (i.e. Genista, whence the modern name "broom" for the tool), heather or similar. The song Buy Broom Buzzems from Northern England refers to both types of twig. From the phrase broom besom the more common broom comes. == Description == As a result of its construction around a central pole, the brush of the besom is rounded...

Le besoin recouvre l'ensemble de tout ce qui apparaît « être nécessaire » à un être, que cette nécessité soit consciente ou non. De nombreuses classifications des besoins ont été proposées (cf. ci-dessous). Elles sont souvent contestées au motif qu'elles postulent que les besoins sont identiques pour tous les êtres humains. Ce postulat est en particulier relativisé sinon contesté par l'existence du désir, du projet ou de la vocation, qui – pour les psychologues et les psychanalystes – constituent le fait majeur de la personne en tant que sujet. == Étymologie == Le terme provient du francique «...