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- 2811: Music Censorship
- ... the law enforcement agencies. The arrests of Tu Pac Shakur, Snoop Doggy Dog, and Flavor Flav show what little effect rap actually has in the real world (Leland 64). These people should be the classic American success story: young unknown men, who through a lot of hard work and talent, rose to be the millionaire with the mansion on the hill. Ironically, most rappers do not own a mansion; they choose ... s music is not intended to cause people to go out and kill people and steal and do drugs. Instead, it is intended to make people STOP committing violent crimes. Taneika Archer, 17, an African- American girl, believes this about Snoop Doggy Dogg: He tells it like it's supposed to be told. People will always try to bring you down no matter what you do. It's the same with ... the restriction of language, for any reason, becomes possible, that could be extended to include politically unorthodox lyrics (Editors 13). Radicals and people who believe they can change the country constantly try to convince the American public that censorship is a very good thing and it is "healthy." People were born with minds for a reason, to use them and make choices for themselves. Censoring music takes away that whole ...
- 2812: The Fortunate Pilgrim
- The Fortunate Pilgrim The Fortunate Pilgrim is a poignant novel, truthfully written and one of the most deeply felt portraits of an Italian-American family. The novel vividly illustrates one women’s courage to overcome the many misfortunes in her life and in her children’s lives. Lucia Santa is an unforgettable woman who came to America hoping for ... the opportunities of having the summer off and being regular children having fun, playing in the hot summer sun. Gino, Lucia Santa’s first son from Frank Corbo was the one that aspired to achieve American pursuits that she could not understand. Lucia Santa always cursed her son by saying he was just like his father. He never wanted to work or be a responsible young man. Lucia Santa’s two ... judgment day. She thought about each and everyone of her children’s dreams. Lucia Santa knew her son Gino would never come home after the war. He would become a pilgrim in search of the American dream. She begged for mercy that if she could hear his footsteps at the door she would do it all over again, she would become a pilgrim to sail the fearful ocean to America ...
- 2813: The Enlightenment
- ... many were written to popularize, simplify, and promote a more reasonable view of life among the people of their time. The Enlightenment came to an end in western Europe after the upheavals of the French REvolution and the Napoleonic era (1789-1815) revealed the costs of its political program and the lack of commitment in those whose rhetoric was often more liberal than their actions. Nationalism undercut its cosmopolitan values and ... early 1800s, and the cultural leadership of the landed aristocracy and professional men who had supported the Enlightenment was eroded by the growth of a new wealthy educated class of businessmen, products of the industrial revolution. Only in North and SOuth America, where industry came later and revolution had not led to reaction, did the Enlightenment contribution to the literature of human freedom and some institutions in which its values have been embodied. Included in the latter are many facets of modern ...
- 2814: Computer Crimes: Laws Must Be Pass To Address The Increase In Computer Crimes
- ... Laws Must Be Pass To Address The Increase In Computer Crimes THESIS: Laws must be passed to address the increase in the number and types of computer crimes. Over the last twenty years, a technological revolution has occurred as computers are now an essential element of today's society. Large computers are used to track reservations for the airline industry, process billions of dollars for banks, manufacture products for industry, and ... interstate telecommunication systems. "Computer crime often requires more sophistications than people realize it."(Sullivan, 40:4) Many U.S. businesses have ended up in bankruptcy court unaware that they have been victimized by disgruntled employees. American businesses wishes that the computer security nightmare would vanish like a fairy tale. Information processing has grown into a gigantic industry. "It accounted for $33 billion in services in 1983, and in 1988 it was ...
- 2815: Timeline of Art
- ... is raised to the status of content by the artist's attitude to it." as it emerged from the experiment of the fifties, Pop art was the ideal instrument for coming to grips with the American urban environment. Although the imagery referred to popular culture, the works of the pop painters were as much art made out of art as the self-conscious purely formal arrangement. Pop art was the product of industrial revolution which succeeded it. It brought together fashion, democracy, and the machine. Andy Warhol, a leading Pop artist, as a commercial illustrator used, whimsical methods in "Ethel Scull 36 Times", grotesquely made up Marilyn Monroe and ...
- 2816: Tobacco Advertising Makes Young People Their Chief Target
- ... from R.J. Reynolds, who is shown as a dromedary with complete style has been attacked by many Tobacco-Free Kids organizations as a major influence on the children of America. Dr. Lonnie Bristow, AMA (American Medical Association) spokesman, remarks that "to kids, cute cartoon characters mean that the product is harmless, but cigarettes are not harmless. They have to know that their ads are influencing the youth under 18 to ... tobacco; kids smoke for reasons all their own." U.S. News & World Report. 18 Apr. 1996: 38. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. Thomas, Roger E. "10 steps to keep the children in your practice nonsmokers." American Family Physician. Aug. 1996: 450. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996. Breo, Dennis L. "Kicking Butts-AMA, Joe Camel and the 'Black Flag' war on tobacco." JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association. 29 Oct. 1993: 1978. Infotrac. Online. 27 Oct. 1996.
- 2817: Great Rock Musicians: Their Achievements and Effect on Rock and Roll
- ... folk- rock, giving it the recognition it desperately needed. Before this song was released the Folk-Rock genre was hardly viewable in the public eye, and was only popular in small folk circles. Bringing the American folk scene mainstream did gain Dylan a lot of popularity, but it also got him some unwanted criticism from folk musicians across the Atlantic. In particular from a big name in British folk music , Ewan MacColl. "I have watched with fascination the meteoric rise of the American idol and I am still unable to see him as anything more than a youth of mediocre talent. Only a completely non-critical audience nourished on the watery pap of pop music could have fallen ... tenth-rate drivel. 'But the poetry!' they say, what poetry? The cultivated illiteracy of his (Bob Dylan's) topical songs, are the embarrassing fourth grade schoolboy attempts at free verse." MacColl failed to see that American youth were not as interested in an idol following literary protocol as they were in the message and the overall sound. Despite the criticism, Dylan produced many more incredibly successful songs for himself and ...
- 2818: Censorship...Who gives a F**k!!!
- ... to that. All that negativity is not good for children, all day long. It was always interesting to me as to why we recited the pledge of allegiance in school, what if you are not American? I also was not allowed to watch the news. My parents felt it was "real violence", and not appropriate for me, that was parental censorship. When I was old enough to go out with my ... the First Amendment allows many different interpretations. Because of these various interpretations, ProCensorship and Anticensorship organizations/factions have formed. One of the most powerful groups you want on your side for anti-censorship is the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). From 1925 to the present, the ACLU "has been on the forefront of the fight to protect constitutional freedoms through the court systems." Legislation has been proposed for the prevention of ... Hook". I really like this song. Soundgarden had things to say as well. Soundgarden's Matt Cameron interviewed by Angie Beardslee in the Rock Out Censorship Website in 1996 said he feels censorship is un-American. He also was very clear on his opinion that "Every kind of music is art. Music is art!" Kids have been put right in the middle of this mess. Who are their parents? Most ...
- 2819: Neil Simon Utilizing Charatter Exaggeration
- NEIL SIMON: UTILIZING CHARACTER EXAGGERATION "Neil ("Doc") Simon stands alone as by far the most successful American playwright of this century and most probably in the history of the American theater" (Litz 573). He has entertained audiences for over thirty years with many Broadway productions, screenplays and television scripts. "He has been hailed as the most formidable comedy writer in American theater" (Geitner 253). Despite his great success, the majority of critics have refused to look past Simon's "detonatingly funny" quips and punchlines to the subject matter in his plays (Geitner 253). "He has ...
- 2820: Music In The Romantic Period
- ... inspiration, musical compositions were often named with descriptive titles and or complied to literary programs like paintings that attempted to illustrate stories. Romanticism can be thought of as a subconscious rebellion against the increasing Industrial Revolution and machines taking over work which some believed threatened mankind's dignity. Artists got their inspiration in stories of distant lands and times. They would also turn to nature, examining the raging sea and storm ... attained. Romantic artists were also concerned with the slightly opposing ideas of nationalism and the universal brotherhood of man, longing for political and social freedom. The music represented the period of time that saw the American and French Revolutions, then the joining of Germany and Italy, and the abolition of slavery in the United States. The Romantic Era spawned the popular idea people have of a composer being a "long- haired ...
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