Boy Bands
.... Bands that have left
their impression in 1998.
Unless you've been living under a rock, the Orlando based group, Backstreet Boys
reigned supreme as the top Boy Band in 1998. With the top selling album in 1998 behind
Titanic, the Backstreet Boys have just released a new album and are planning a second world
tour. The band enjoyed 4 top 10 singles in 1998, including "As Long as You Love Me",
"Everybody (Backstreet's Back)", "I'll Never Break You Heart", and "Quit Playing G .....
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Braveheart
.... educated and learned to speak
Latin with his uncle who he also took him on a
pilgrimage to Rome. He returned home to Scotland
while in his late twenties to raise crops and a family.
He soon was married to a girl he knew as a kid in
secret so that none of the guards could enforce the
law of Primal Nuctar, which is to bless the marriage
by sleeping with the bride. He tried to dodge the
law but failed. He fought off the soldiers of the
king for what he knew was right. But his wife w .....
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Breakdancing
.... the competitive toasting of Bronx musicians in concurrently developing rap music.
Like other facets of the hip hop movement, breakdancing met with commercial success and public notoriety in the early 1980s. Paralleling Soho's embrace of Bronx graffiti art, Manhattan dance clubs welcomed breakdancers to their floors. And like rap, breakdancing appeared in a number of popular films, including Wild Style (1982), Breakin' (1984), and Beat Street (1984), which featured the Rock Steady Crew, breakdancing' .....
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British Invasion
.... Oasis’ dazzling effects that seem to pulse with the music. These flashing lights seem to activate the rowdy crowd found at the typical Oasis show. The model fan is ready to jump for two hours straight and they are the complete opposites of the usual Dave Matthews Band fan.
While the Oasis fan hops, you notice they casually dress in plain pants and striped T-shirts. The Dave Matthews fan is uniformly dressed in Old Navy clothing and preppy khaki pants. They are concerned how close they look like t .....
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Braveheart Vs. Full Metal Jacket
.... new recruits make ready for their deployment to Vietnam. The camp plays a pivotal role in the movie, as the story of the lives of the recruits becomes more intricate. One recruit, nicknamed Private Pyle by the Sergeant due to his inadequacies, goes insane after the weeks of emotional and physical abuse. The catalyst of his insanity occurs as the platoon has had enough of paying for his mistakes. They return the favor by holding him down and beating him with bars of soap encased in towels. This leads to h .....
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Beauty And The Beast
.... Elliot was based loosely on the young Spielberg, but unlike Spielberg, who invented imaginary friends to play with, Elliot found a real friend in E.T. "Beauty and the Beast" is an age old fairly tale intended to show that love could overcome any obstacle and heal any wound. If Belle did not love the Beast before the last petal fell from the enchanted rose, he would remain a beast forever and society would never accept him. Both works were widely accepted by the American public as “feel-good” films. .....
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Capoeira-itsnot Just A Dance
.... the Capoeira again in the quilombos. Since these quilombos were often chased after and hunted down, the Capoeira was used more as a fighting style instead of a dance. Then in the 1800s, the Capoeira was outlawed in all of Brazil, but it was later surpressed because its frequent hidden practice could not be controlled, so the government decided to allow it again if it was not used violently.
Today, the Capoeira consists of a stylized dance, practiced in a circle with sound background provided by .....
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Cather In The Ryes Vs. Generation X
.... most hated character, asks why they fought and Holden tells the readers that "I didn't answer him...I almost wished I was dead." And later on, when he is alone in his hotel room , after the hooker leaver he begins to think about his younger brother's death. To Holden he also sees sex as the same as aggression. As in his reaction to his fight with Stradlater, he treats aggression in the same way as he does sex. After losing the fight he says, "I'd only been in about two fights in my life, and I lost bot .....
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Cesar Chavez Mural
.... director of CSO in California and Arizona in 1958. Cesar Chavez resigned and moved to Delano, California to organize his own farmworkers movement. In the Central Valley of California, he created the National Farm Workers Association ( now the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO). He received help from Dolores Huerta, Gilberto Padilla, Fred Ross Sr. and many others. In the mid 1960's, the union boycotted and striked many agricultural products with progressive succes. In 1975, the California Labor R .....
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Charlie Parker At Storyville
.... is a master. This piece is in a 12 bar blues form. There is a short intro by Charlie Parker on the sax. Then Herb Pomeroy and Parker play once through the chorus. The trumpet and sax together here sound really fabulous. The two match each other with amazing accuracy. Following the chorus Charlie launches right into a solo. This solo shows Parker's command of his instrument. He is able to pack his solos full of information. He is double-timing through most of the set. He slides up and dow .....
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Chinese Music
.... During the reign (ad 58-75) of Ming-Ti the Han palace had three orchestras comprising in all 829 performers. One orchestra was used for religious ceremonies, another for royal archery contests, and the third for entertaining the royal banquets and harem. During the T'ang dynasty (618-906) Chinese secular music (suyue) reached its peak. Emperor T'ai-Tsung (597-649) had ten different orchestras, eight of which were made up of members of various foreign tribes; all the royal performers and dancers appeared .....
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Chinese Pottery
.... of as the greatest of all Chinese emperors; the Empress Wu fought her way to the throne with bloodthirsty ruthlessness and yet brought twenty years of peace and prosperity to the empire; and the lastly T’ang Ming Huang who brought the empire to the peak of its prosperity and cultural splendour, and then, alas, in the foolishness of his old age saw the whole splendid fabric torn to shades.
During these hundred and thirty years not only did agriculture prosper, especially in the rice-growing land .....
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Chinese Art
.... and real greatness. Since the comming of the Manchu
Dynasty (1644-1911) the art of China has not been outstanding.
In architecture China has just one style, which serves for all purposes from
temple and palace to public building and private dwelling. The design is well
known, being four-sided but not square, built in two sections with a steep
overhanging roof with upturned corners, a raised ridge board with an
elevated section at each end. The buildings in the Forbidden City, Peiping,
are .....
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Cinema Paradiso
.... Alfredo's desire to become the male role model in Toto's life. Instead of meaning his own children, Alfredo is referring to Toto. It also portrays Alfredo as a father by having Toto ride on the handle bars of the bicycle.
Throughout the film, there are many scenes containing adult males that resemble Toto’s lost father. Cinema Paradiso is telling us, the viewers, that the missing link is the fact that Toto’s father is gone. A scene which caught my eye, is where Toto and his mother are returnin .....
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Cinematography Everything You Need To Know
.... in some way remember the impression of
an image after it has been withdrawn from view. The critical flicker
frequency is the minimum rate of interruption of the projected light beam
that will not cause the motion picture to appear to flicker. A frequency
above about 48 interruptions a second will eliminate flicker.
Camera
Like a still camera (see CAMERA), a movie camera shoots each picture
individually. The movie camera, however, must also move the film precisely
and control the shutter, ke .....
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