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- 2821: A Brief History of Ledd Zeppelin and Its Musical Impact
- ... evolution of music that occurred in this time period is amazing as well. The mainstream went from listening to songs like Bill Haley and the Comet's "Rock Around The Clock," to The Beatles' frightening "Revolution 9." While these two examples may seem completely different, they are not as distant as one might think. Nearly all music from the '60s and '70s was bred from its earlier ancestors. Music has been ... Love, and Rush's Can't Quit You, and it was working. The blues riffs incorporated into their own music later influenced bands heavily, and opened doors to new tastes in music for the predominately American audience. The most significant thing about Led Zeppelin's music today, is that it doesn't sound dated. The music seems similar to music today. The lasting impression of their music is obvious, and can ...
- 2822: Spelling Of Emigre Russians
- ... native language deteriorates2. As the second language becomes more frequently relied on than the first, several aspects of the second language will affect the first, which is why many emigre Russians will speak Russian with American accents or with English intonation. In this project, I wanted to test emigre Russians in America on their spelling and test the interference of English phonetic rules on Russian spelling. Preliminary Work This phenomenon captured ... being a more complex selection, including words that the older Russians in my group should not have used on an everyday basis3. The Diktant Takers and Selected Procedure I selected 6 Russians and 6 advanced American students of Russian for my experiment. Four of the Russians were heritage speakers, and two had emigrated to America at 14, having studied English in school for 4 years. The Americans had been studying Russian ... All of the Russian subjects, save one young man, claimed that their English was better than their Russian, due to their higher education in America (all of them studied in average of 3 years in American high schools, and also universities). The young man in exception had been in America for 6 years and claimed to use his Russian much more frequently than his English. All students were taught English ...
- 2823: Baron De Montesquieu
- Baron de Montesquieu was a French philosopher who lived around the late 1600 s and early 1700 s. This was before the French Revolution. He believed strongly in Thomas Locke, who was another French philosopher. Montesquieu also wrote many books that greatly influenced the society he was in at that time. Although Montesquieu was thought to be fair, he ... political institutions rather than the social economic problems that existed there. So, this means that in most of his writings, the lower class people are left out. Montesquieu lived during a time before the French Revolution, but his ideas had a great effect on the development of governmental structure in that period of time. There were great problems in France at that time, with the lower class people growing in number, which means that the country was growing in poverty. This provided less of an opportunity for the lower class earning a good living. During the French Revolution, the peasants were not happy with the monarch. In part due to the ideas of Enlightenment and Montesquieu, the people were given objectives for which to revolt. The king was forced to make a ...
- 2824: Marlow VS. Willard
- ... for each man were unique. While both Marlow and Willard had to put up with natives, they had crews that were different. While Marlow had a crew with mostly natives, Willard had a crew of American soldiers who were serving their country. Willard’s crew was comprised of mostly young men who had no idea what they were doing. “Come on all of you big strong me,” writes Joseph McDonald, “Uncle ... of Kurtz. Marlow wanted to meet Kurtz very bad. He was so fascinated with his accomplishments that he wanted to meet him. Willard, on the other hand, was on a mission. He was sent by American Military forces to do one thing, exterminate Kurtz. While he wanted to meet this man, he knew that he would only decide to kill him when he met this man. Willard knew that he would ... and all his work in the military made Willard wonder why the government would want such a powerful man dead. The other big source where Willard found out many items on Kurtz was by the American photographer in Kurtz’s camp. On each of their journeys, Willard and Marlow observed so many different things going on around them. While Willard made a stop during a battle, he was trying to ...
- 2825: Living Theater
- ... wing company was ready for a new theater, a theater that was out to change the state of things, performing plays that were not being done and doing them in new untried ways(Gottfried 95). American theater of the past was made up of complete right-wingers. Right wing plays, right-wing directors, and right-wing theatergoers. In the 1940's left wingers started stepping into the theater challenging the traditional ... Living Theater going, she was successful in keeping the theater alive until 1993 when there was once again problems. The small storefront space of the Living Theater was condemned. The Living Theater opened doors to American theater. They did what no one else had done. Eyes of the right wing theater were exposed to a whole new idea of art. The Living Theater untied the strings that America had put on theatrical art. Work cited Gottfried, Martin. The Theater Divided. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1967. Downer, Alan S. The American Thaeter Today. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1967. Wilson, Edwin, Alvin Goldfard. Living Theater- A History. The Living Theater. Acid Dreams: The Living Theater. http://www.levity.com/aciddreams/samples/livingtheater. html. 3/20/ ...
- 2826: Affirmative Action
- ... were almost completely closed off to minorities and women. If one believes discrimination is not an individual issue but a system issue Affirmative action is the best remedy for past and continuing disenfranchised groups in American society. Affirmative action levels the playing field just as a democratic society should, where all parties are considered . It would therefore seem more logical and indeed fairer to actively deconstruct white privilege rather than let ... it requires substantial governmental funding . CONCLUSION By researching for this project I was first amazed by the various strong opinions on this matter. However strong opinions are something one gets quite used to in the American society. There is no doubt Affirmative action is causing quite a stir, especially in such modern times. One would like to think people have lost their prejudices against race and gender, nevertheless in this “melting ... the most equal society in the world in that perspective. It is surely one thing I have remarked while living for almost four years abroad and I truly hope it will develop further in the American society. America needs to solve and address its many issues based on race and gender. The pot here is not melting it is boiling and affirmative action would be one way to turn the ...
- 2827: The Grapes Of Wrath 2
- ... suggest that the Mexican's were well fed and content to live freely on the land with little desire to need more. Thus they were in little position to try and stop the onslaught of American's who wanted the land much more than the Mexicans did, and were too weak to stop them from doing so. This lead to the turning over of the land to the American's in the California region. This same land was kept by the same families and worked with much success. So much success that they needed to work only part of it to stay leisurably comfortable ... peace and understanding towards our fellow human. The Joads weren't trying to cause trouble and turmoil within the landowners of California. They were simply trying to look for a better future. It is, the American dream.
- 2828: America and the Computer Industry
- ... invention is the computer. The electronic computer has been around for over a half-century, but its ancestors have been around for 2000 years. However, only in the last 40 years has it changed the American society. >From the first wooden abacus to the latest high-speed microprocessor, the computer has changed nearly every aspect of people's lives for the better. The very earliest existence of the modern day computer ... for many other tasks (Osborne, 146). In 1971 Marcian E. Hoff, Jr., an engineer at the Intel Corporation, invented the microprocessor and another stage in the deveopment of the computer began (Shallis, 121). A new revolution in computer hardware was now well under way, involving miniaturization of computer-logic circuitry and of component manufacture by what are called large-scale integration techniques. In the 1950s it was realized that "scaling down ...
- 2829: Rise Of Communism
- There were many events that lead up to the Bolshevik Revolution. First off, in 1848, Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels published a thought-provoking book. The Communist Manifesto expressed their support of a world in which there was no difference in class. A world in which ... was no high and supreme ruler. Many intellectual Russians began to become aware of this pamphlet as well as the advanced state of the world compared to Russia. Other countries were going through an industrial revolution, while the Czars had made it clear that no industrial surge was about to happen in Russia. The popularity of the Czars further went down hill as Nicolas II’s poor military and political decisions caused mass losses in World War I. Eventually, the citizens could take no more and began a riot in St. Petersburg that led to the first Russian Revolution of 1917. The Russian Revolutions of 1917 led to the riddance of the czarist Russia as well as the ushering in of the socialistic Russia. The first of the two revolutions forced Nicolas II ...
- 2830: Porgy and Bess
- ... blend music into its structure. In the 20's many of the dramas that had to do with black life, music became a necessity. In the 30's this trend prevailed, musical elements of Afro-American culture were showcased primarily in dramas rather than in musicals. In Hall Johnson's "Run, Little Chillun!", a folk drama about the conflict between the Christian and African religious heritage in black life, critics praised ... come from stereotypes that were common in white plays about black life that had appeared on Broadway since the 1920's. Porgy did excel, however, in its acting talent. Director Rouben Mamoulian, a young Russian-American immigrant who had trained at the Moscow Art Theater, reviewed the black plays and musicals of the 20's in his search for performers. Frank Williams was cast as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess ... but the work earned real approval and favor only after the 1940 Theater Guild presentation of a slightly revised version. For years it was performed more frequently in Europe, where it was considered a true American opera. Porgy and Bess received its first uncut production in Houston in the 1970's, conducted by John DeMain, to great approval, and it was finally produced at the Met some 50 years after ...
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