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- 1041: Battle Of Gettysburg 2
- ... between Washington and Mead. On July 2, 1863, General George Gordon Mead arrived at Gettysburg with most of the Union army. Mead positioned his army in the shape of a U , occupying Little Round Top, Big Round Top, Cemetery Hill, and Culp s Hill. Still without hearing from Stuart, General Lee decided to prepare an assault. His main intention was to obtain the high ground, making it easier to take over ... by boulders at Devil s Den soon fired upon them. Mead called back General Sickles to his post, Cemetery Ridge, but it had already been too late. The Confederates had already started to run up Big Round Top, where Union General Oates saw a chance to ambush the Confederate soldiers. If he could get enough guns on Little Round Top, he could destroy all the Confederate soldiers. Without any news from ...
- 1042: Tupac
- ... in some movies. He became friends with a couple of popular rap artists like Snoop Doggy Dogg and Dr. Dre (Placid n.p.). He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. This really helped his popularity. He released a double CD with the songs on it and a lot of his own songs and sold millions of copies (u.a., n.t ... This is an influence because since people want to be like him, they will follow his beliefs. And if Tupac believes in non-racism, then the people will believe in that too. This is a big difference from him and other rap artists. A lot of others are racist to different people, and the different people then don't like him, don't listen to his music, don't see his ...
- 1043: Background Paper Of China
- ... 000 population. The main language in China is Chinese. The literacy rate in China is 81.5% in which is 89% of men and 73% of women. China has many poor people because of the big population but the government is helping the need. China has numerous mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east. The highest point on China according to sea level is Mount Everest ... because of its large population one of the main diseases is called influenza disease. Beijing the capital of China was hit by a epidemic disease and this leave many people infected. China is a very big country in area and population. It is located in East Asia. It has many resources and takes a great part of the world's economy. It has a communist government. It has some diseases problems ...
- 1044: History of Rock and Roll
- History of Rock and Roll In the early 50's, at the end of the big band swing era, came a form of music that, like others, parents would reject and their children would love. This type of music is known as Rock and Roll. Rock and Roll is defined as ... Roll at clubs that people could dance to and called it Disco. Disco brought back the bell bottoms and long hair except this time the costumes were a little more extreme. With tight spandex clothes, big gold chains and platform shoes it was bound to happen sooner or later that someone or something would rebel. This group was known as the generation swine or more often referred to as punks. The ...
- 1045: A Clockwork Orange
- ... a winding handle on the outside and you wind it up grr grr grr and off it itties, like walking, O my brothers. But it itties in a straight line and bangs straight into things bang bang and it cannot help what it is doing. Being young is like being like one of these malenky machines. Alex goes on to apply this condition to his own hypothetical son and says that even ...
- 1046: Chemical Warfare
- ... lot in warfare since World War I ended in 1918. Other chemical agents do not cause death, but they could make a person unable to fight. Some of these are called blister agents, which cause big blisters on your skin. A blister agent called mustard gas caused a lot of deaths on both sides during World War I. Some other chemical agents can cause temporary blindness or mental confusion. But people ... American and South Vietnamese military forces used them in 1965. Another place where a lot of herbicides were used was in the Vietnam War. In this war, the Agent Orange was used to destroy the big-forested areas that were used as guerilla bases.
- 1047: A Brave New World And 1984 - A Comparisson
- ... to shrink away from intense emotion, engage in casual sex, and take their pacifying Soma. In 1984, a first-person book partly narrated by the main character's internal dialogue, the great party leader is "Big Brother," a fictional character who is somewhat more imposing than "Ford," of Huxley's book, named after the industrialist Henry Ford (Astrachan). The main character Winston fears Big Brother and is much more aware of his situation than any of the characters in A Brave New World who are constantly pacified by soma. In A Brave New World history is ignored completely whereas ...
- 1048: Rock Music
- ... drugs and free- association poetry" ("Rock Music", Groliers, p.1). Groups like The Beach Boys, Crew Cuts and The Everly Brothers were replaced by more imaginative, non-descriptive names groups like The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and Holding Company. The Who, the most famous of these groups, were originally from England and were reknowned because of their bizarre stage performances, they would destroy their instruments after their performance finished. The ... metal bands were greatly pushed by videos, but most helped were the popular performers like Michael Jackson, Prince and Boy George. The influence of British bands of punk, disco, reggae and pop-rock was still big in the U.S. Rock scene. At the same time, there of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock music, like rhythm and blues, which was suggested by played by Elvis Costello. By the ...
- 1049: Death Of A Salesman 4
- ... going to ask his boss to be relocated is when the next journey into the past occurs. The point of the play during which this episode takes place is so dramatic that willy seeks a big hit of the flashback drug. Such a big hit in fact, that he is transported back to what was probably the happiest day of his life. Biff was going to play in Ebbets field in the All-Scholastic Championship game in front of ...
- 1050: Death Of A Salesman 9
- ... hundred and twelve dollars! A few moments later after Willy slowly explains how much he really made, Linda says, Well, it makes seventy dollars and some pennies. That s very good. When Willy boasts of big sales, Linda gently questions until she learns the truth, never showing any disapproval of him for exaggerating. She does the best she can with their meager income to pay their endless bills. Linda is Willy ... Howard to ask for a job, Willy thinks he is better than he really is when he says, (page 82) I put thirty-four years into this firm, Howard.... and in 1928 I had a big year. I averaged a hundred and seventy dollars a week in commissions. If Willy knew the truth that he was not good enough to make it in the business, he would not have taken the ...
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