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- 1121: Summer Of The Monkeys
- ... expect in a book. He had no explanation, nor did his father, for the monkeys' being. His grandpa and grandma were living down in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, also. They owned one of those big country stores that had everything in it. Jay Berry ran to his grandpa's store and told him about the monkeys down in the bottoms. His grandpa explained everything to him, including the reward for ... as new in a few weeks. She cost him seventy-five dollars. But when he was right in front of the house, he looked at the paint's leg and realized he had made a big mistake. He remembered Daisy's cripple leg and took the horse back to his grandpa. That night Jay Berry, his grandparents, and his parents put all their money together. His parents and grandparents had been ...
- 1122: Basketball
- ... for a very very long time and that many countries will play. As long as you try and practice you can be a great player and dominate the court. It also helps if you're big so you can get rebounds and dunk but if you are smaller you can still be an excellent dribbler and shooting and be a guard instead of the big center in the middle. To sum it all up basketball is a great sport that uses a lot of different skills so that everyone can try to play.
- 1123: The Old Ball Game
- ... having names like the Buffaloes, Braves, and Tigers" (30). In each case the rules remain the same, but that is where the major similarities end. Playing style differs the greatest. American baseball is known for big ball parks, grass infields, aggressive play, home plate collisions, small strike zones, battling pitchers, and homerun hitting all-stars. According to Ron Fimrite, the Japanese systems runs a little different: Their ball parks are considerably smaller, in some parks the infields are entirely dirt, the aggressive doubleplay breakup had to be introduced by an American, the strike zone is the size of a big screen television, constant hooking of troubled pitchers, and homerun hitters sacrificing runners along to abide to basic strategy. (64) Although Japanese baseball is well established, it can still use some help from the United States ...
- 1124: Multiculturalism In Music
- ... t like in rock music can be found in Elvis Presley. Elvis was the first white performer to expose an audience to rock music. However, the free-will style Elvis exhibited was not a real big hit with the adults, where he was condemned as a whirling dervish of sex. Rock music then went on a tear, evolving into many different styles and forms. As rock matured and diversified, many new ... and the Sugar Hill Gang. This style of music brought much over from rhythm and blues and funk. These two groups correlated the live jazz band feel with the new urban beat technology. The next big wave of hip-hop occurred a few years later, gansta rap. This style was highlighted by a group called NWA. Gangsta rap usually contained harsh lyrics about life as it would be living the gang ...
- 1125: Violence In The Media
- ... television, and the people who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why our society is so mesmerized by this big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Only a mere sixty years ago the invention of the television was viewed as a technological breakthrough with black and white ghost-like figures on ... floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes (Wurtzel 27). By excluding certain types of violence, the broadcasters are able to manipulate their data to support the conclusion that media violence does not incite hostile behavior in children. The big media giants cannot be trusted to present accurate surveys of violence, because evidence shows that their findings are the result of "loaded" statistics and data. The current networks stand, stubborn and deaf, to the cries ...
- 1126: The Ultimate Pet: A Pet Rock
- ... such as a companionship, I can get from a pet dog or cat. When I go shopping for a pet, I look for the appropriate size and color to meet my needs. Some people like big animals, some small. Some animals come in black, brown, white, yellow; yet some are spotted. The same goes for my rock. When I went "shopping" for my rock, I didn't want one too small, for it would get lost like a gerbil. I didn't want one too big like a Labrador, for I would trip over it every time I walked into the room. I needed a pet the size of a fat barn cat, like the ones back home in northeast Iowa ...
- 1127: Violence
- By: Kegman E-mail: Thekegman5@aol.com Violence The last five years have seen an increase in the stand on violence in movies. As action movies with their big stars are taken to new heights every year, more people seem to argue that the violence is influencing our country's youth. Yet, each year, the amount of viewers also increases. This summer's smash ... are "the best of the year," have violence in them. Silence of the Lambs, Unforgiving, and In the Line of Fire are just a few. Even with all this violence on both the small and big screen, Hinson makes a clear statement that real-life violence is the problem, not movie violence. He feels that people fear screen violence because they fear we might become what is depicted on screen. Hinson ...
- 1128: The Great Gatsby By Fitzgerald
- ... neighbor. F. Scott Fitzgerald's story of life in the 1920s is much more than it appears to be, though. Even such things as the colors used in description play a crucial part in the "big picture" of the entire novel. Symbolism adds a whole other level of comprehension to the story. Even from the smallest pieces of the puzzle, this symbolism broadens the view of what the "big picture" of the novel actually is. These pieces of the puzzle come even from the characters themselves when viewed merely as symbols and the setting when analyzed more closely. The character of Jay Gatsby himself ...
- 1129: The Catcher In The Rye
- ... feels that this character can prevent the children from becoming adults and remaining in that childish world. Holden pictured it this way, Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff. I mean ...
- 1130: How To Make A Movie
- ... to help shape the script for the screen. A good script is the foundation for a good film, but even the best one may need to be developed or molded to work well on the big screen. Sometimes the producer will develop a script and then hand it over to the director. In other cases, the director may work with the writer early on to help develop a script from its ... when you see the finished scene, all of the sounds and images work together. They appear to have taken place at one time and in one place. That is the magic of film editing. The Big Cut Editors select sounds and images from all the film that has been shot and arrange them to make the movie (Murch, 1995, 46). They also plan how one shot will best transition to the ...
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