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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Greta Gerwig ? Greta Gerwig Explores Mother-Daughter Love (And Angst) In 'Lady Bird'
 Actress Greta Gerwig  has made a career starring in movies about quirky women.  She  played a driftless dancer in Frances Ha and a punk photographer in 20th Century Women. Now  she 's written and directed  her  first film  an exploration of mother-daughter relationships called Lady Bird.
"I don't know any woman who has a simple relationship with their mother or with their daughter "  Gerwig  says. "It has a tremendous amount of love â and a tremendous amount of angst."
Gerwig felt Hollywood wasn't giving mothers and daughters the screen time they deserved  so  she  set out to change that.  Her  new film stars Saoirse Ronan as a high school senior who renames  herself  "Lady Bird " in part as a rejection of the name  her  mother gave her.
Though the main characters argue about everything from choosing a college to prom dresses  neither is presented as the villain. Instead  Gerwig says   she  wanted the audience leaving thinking  "Oh man  it's so hard to love people and to be in a family."

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Antonin Scalia ? With “Scalia Speaks: Reflections on Law  Faith  and Life Well Lived ” Christopher J. Scalia and Edward Whelan have given us a treasure that captures Justice Antonin Scalia’s brilliance  wit  faith  humility and wide range of knowledge. When I read this collection of his speeches  edited by the justice’s son and one of his law clerks  I feel like  Scalia  is in the room with me. Taken together  the speeches are a book-length argument for constitutional originalism and for  Scalia ’s understanding of the role of judges in the United States. Anyone who wants to understand Scalia as a person and as a judicial philosopher should start by reading this book.
[ Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia  dies at 79]
 Scalia   in my view  is the best justice who has ever served on the Supreme Court in its 227-year history.  He  and Justice Joseph Story are the only two justices to have published books on constitutional and statutory interpretation.  Scalia  articulated a clear philosophy of a judge’s role  to which  he  always adhered.  He  was one of the two best writers ever to serve on the court and was equal on this score to Justice Robert Jackson  known for  his  fine literary style. No other justice traveled so much and spoke to so many audiences in the United States and abroad. Finally   he  was to originalism what Saint Paul was to Christianity — a tireless and widely traveled evangelist of the gospel. Understanding Scalia is thus imperative for all law students  lawyers and educated lay people. Because the book is a collection of speeches  many of which were given to lay people  it is very readable  understandable and fun for most age groups.
“ Scalia  Speaks ” by Antonin Scalia  Edited by Christopher Scalia (Crown Forum)
Addressing the difference between American and European values   Scalia  notes that “the United States was settled primarily by people seeking  in one way or another  refuge from the ways of Europe. The men who founded our Republic did not aspire to emulating Europeans at all — to the contrary  the project of drafting the American Constitution was largely about ensuring that the American people would never languish under the yoke of a European-style government.”
This is a critically important point that many fail to appreciate. The legal academics and public intellectuals who love European socialism overlook the fact that the United States  under its unique Constitution  is the third-most-populous country in the world  covering the fourth-largest territory  and has by far the highest gross domestic product per capita of any of the Group of 20 nations  a strength that allows us to do more to help the poor around the world while offering military defense to a range of countries. Few people choose to move from the United States to other countries  but millions of people want to live here.  Scalia  appreciated that the reason for this is that the U.S. Constitution is an engine of power and economic growth that sustains “life  liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
As an excellent writer   Scalia  offers advice on the craft. “Time and sweat ”  he  says  are the keys to good writing  and a well-written document emerges only after many drafts. “I think there is writing genius ” he  says  just as there is musical genius  “which consists primarily  I think  of the ability to place oneself in the shoes of one’s audience; to assume only what they assume; to anticipate what they anticipate  to explain what they need explained  to think what they must be thinking; to feel what they must be feeling.”
 Scalia  regrets that most American college and law students never read the Federalist Papers and therefore do not understand our Constitution or the American founding very well.  He  tirelessly urges us to learn from the wisdom of the framers of our Constitution  which so few Americans tend to do.
In a chapter on “Original Meaning ” Scalia reveals that at a conference  he challenged Attorney General Edwin Meese III on how to assess the Constitution’s original intent. Meese argued in favor of a judicial philosophy that searched for the original intentions of the framers. Scalia said he favored searching for the original meaning of the words of the Constitution instead. In his speech at the conference  he strongly set out the case for original public meaning  persuading Meese’s chief of staff  Ken Cribb  by the force of his argument. After  Scalia  finished speaking  Cribb scrawled the word “Stipulated” on a piece of paper and taped it to the podium. Two days later  President Ronald Reagan informed  Scalia  that  he  was going to be nominated to the Supreme Court.
 Scalia  speaks in  his  own words in this magnificent volume that should be on the bookshelf of every educated American.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Drake Has Topped ? Hip-hop superstar Drake  has kicked off 2018 in the best way possible  and  he âs made a bit of charting history in the process.
 He  recently dropped a short EP called Scary Hours  and this week  both tracks on the collection  âGodâs Planâ and âDiplomatic Immunity â have debuted inside the top 10 on the Hot 100. âGodâs Planâ has started at No. 1 (making it one of fewer than 30 songs in history to do so)  while âDiplomatic Immunityâ opens at No. 7  giving him his twenty-first and twenty-second top 10 hits in this country.
 Drake  has now become the first musician in U.S. history to debut two songs inside the Hot 100âs top 10 not once  but twice.  He  first did so last year when  he  unleashed  his  playlist project More Life  which itself debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The first week they were eligible to chart   Drake  debuted two songs from the collection  âPassionfruitâ and âPortlandâ (which features Quavo and Travis Scott) at Nos. 8 and 9  respectively. The Canadian superstar was just the second artist to achieve such an impressive feat of charting dominance  and surprisingly  the only other act to do so beat  him  by just a few months.
Ed Sheeran became the first to launch more than one new title inside the top 10 on the Hot 100 in very early January 2017  when his tracks âShape of Youâ and âCastle on the Hillâ were both instant success stories upon arrival. âShapeâ quickly became Sheeranâs first leader in the U.S.  while âCastleâ started at No. 6  which would end up being its peak. While  Drake 's first time starting two tunes inside the top 10 didn't involve a No. 1  he has essentially replicated the beginning of Ed Sheeran's 2017  which might be a sign that he's setting up what could be the biggest year of his career.

SOLUTION:
Positive