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- 711: Jordan Does It All
- ... kinds of commercials. Some of those commercials are for Nike, Wheaties cereal, Hanes underwear, Rayovac batteries, MCI phone company, Ball Park hot dogs, and the latest is for his own brand, Jordan. Michael is as big as an icon off the court as when he still played basketball. Jordan can do it all. No matter when you see Michael Jordan he is always in the good light. No one ever sees ... 1996). Of course, Michael Jordan was one of those fifty players. It was one of Michael’s biggest achievements to be named one of the best ever to play basketball. Jordan went out with a bang in 1998. He won his tenth scoring title. He was the NBA Most Valuable Player for the fifth time and was selected to the All-NBA First Team (Sporting News, 1999). He went to the ...
- 712: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... if he just wants to protect her. Holden does not want her to change. Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible but it's too bad anyway. Anyway, I kept thinking about all that while I walked. Holden's sister, Phoebe, is his connection ... any direction and gave him something to focus on. Holden expresses his wish of becoming a catcher in a quiet speech to himself: I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and 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 ...
- 713: The Chrysanthemums
- ... clear as water. Her figure looked blocked and heavy in her gardening costume, a man's black hat pulled low down over her eyes, clodhopper shoes, a figured print dress almost completely covered by a big corduroy apron with four big pockets to hold the snips, the trowel and scratcher, the seeds and the knife she worked with." As evidenced by this excerpt you can see that she has covered up her hair with a "man ... She hints to the reader that she would like to take on more masculine responsibilities after her husband Henry says that he wishes she'd work out in the orchard and "raise some apples that big." She reacts to this by saying "Maybe I could do it too. I've got a gift with things." All of these descriptions show the reader that Elisa Allen strives to be more than ...
- 714: Bill Gates
- ... teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. In 1974 Intel announced their new chip: the 8080. The two college students sent off letters "to all the big computer companies, offering to write them a version of BASIC for the new Intel chip. We got no takers"(Gates 15). While at Harvard, the cool thing to do was to slack off on classes ... sleeping regularly, their version of "BASIC was written- and the world's first microcomputer software company was born. In time we named it 'Microsoft'"(Gates 17). Gates left Harvard on leave in 1975. Microsoft's big economic break came in 1980 when "IBM- the computer industry leader- asked Gates to develop an operating system for its new personal computer"(Clayton 452). IBM usually did not use external help in software design ... antitrust jurisdiction with the Department of Justice, took the first crack, quietly opening an inquiry "(Cook 64). Many other software companies have "cheered"(Pain) the government and offered a deluge of help. One of the big complaints of computer manufacturers is that they "must agree to pay software royalties...for every computer they ship, regardless of whether the computer is sold with any Microsoft software." It is "an all or ...
- 715: Louis Armstrong’s Influential Career
- ... to North Africa and Egypt, but the state of Armstrong’s’ lips forced him to cancel his remaining shows and not play for over eight months (Brown 154). In 1935 Armstrong formed a commercial style big band with fifteen other musicians (Brown 76). For the next twelve years he starred in various films and played with his new band. It was in 1947 that he abandoned the big band and returned to small band format. He joined the All-Star’s, made up of Jack Teagarden, George Wettling, Big Sid Catlett, Dick Cary, Peanuts Hucko, Bob Hagart. That turned out to be the group he worked with until his death. In the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Louis Armstrong was called an “ ...
- 716: Bob Dylan
- ... Chicago. He pestered the local record store for the newest singles from Hank Williams, Chuck Barry, Howlin' Wolf , and John Lee Hooker, just to name a few. These early influences played, and still play, a big role in Dylan s unique musical style. Somewhere around the age of ten, Dylan realized that he wanted to be a guitarist and a singer. Soon he formed his own bands, The Golden Chords, The ... in the University of Minnesota, but never graduated. Instead, he started playing in nearby coffeehouses, and was quickly taken in by the artistic community. There he was introduced to rural folk music of artist like Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Roscoe Holocomb, and the great Woody Guthrie. Throughout his life, Dylan will blend these three (blues, rock 'n' roll, and folk) musical styles together. Dylan soon realized that if he wanted to ... became, and still remains the fastest selling single in Warner Brothers history. This type of protest song, as they would come to be called, were single handedly started by Dylan. He had made such a big impact upon the folk stages of America in the early sixties, that when he started moving back to his original rock 'n' roll roots (by incorporating the electric guitar into his music), there was ...
- 717: Negotiation
- ... down. Have a vision of where, when and how to set up for success. Don’t look at the small picture of how to get an agreement reached for today’s issues. Look at the big picture. Where do I want to be in 1, 3, 5, years don’t give up something today that you might want down the road. Identify and Prioritize your goals look for obstacles that are ... be this type. I break down the proposal into smaller pieces and try to get the other part to agree to one piece at a time. I look for one concession from them on the big items and I’ll concede on the smaller ones. I have to always keep my eye on the big picture and make sure I understand how all the pieces are going to come together as a whole. To deal with this type you need to pin them down specifics of their proposal. Make ...
- 718: 1984: Some Prophecies Have Come True
- ... even know it. For example people are always being brainwashed into buying a certain product by advertisements on the televisions or by subliminal messages. Winston was brainwashed into conforming to the normal society by loving Big Brother. The brainwashing in the book might be a little exaggerated but it is still the same concept. Yet another example is how people are tagged with numbers. People today are identified by a social ... in newspeak that a reason for them being convicted was for sex related charges. Today sex is legal (thank God) and although it might not be the most safe thing, it is still a very big part of society today. Another stagnant prophecy was that Orwell predicted that there would be thought police reading our minds in the year 1984. This is a really scary concept and luckily this prediction was ... a part of present day society. In 1984 they had thought police that knew what people were thinking at all times. People were convicted for thinking about anything that had to do with going against Big Brother. Parsons' children were thought spy's and they turned in their own father. This is a major invasion of people's rights and thats why it would not be accepted in society today. ...
- 719: Catcher In The Rye
- ... motivated Holden to want to be Christ-like. Holden’s desire to be Christ-like is best evidenced in the following quotation: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousand 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…" Previts 3 ... nine of ten murders, whackos, serial killers and, oddly enough, disgruntled teenagers. John Lennon was killed to promote this book. In the movie Silence of the Lambs, the serial killer John Hinkley was also a big Catcher in the Rye fan as well. The level of general craziness surrounding the book is so bad the movie Conspiracy Theory made it a running joke, even tracking the protagonist portrayed by Mel ...
- 720: Pain
- ... helmet if he or she goes bicycling in a park. This is the idea behind misery being optional. Misery is extreme bodily injury or extreme mental suffering, or unhappiness. Small risks are always taken, but big ones aren t because of their consequences. In this sense misery can be avoided, at least physically. As for mental suffering this usually occurs when something that means a lot to someone goes wrong or ... During one s life time pain is inevitable because of it s unpredictability, but because of this it does not interfere with happiness, if it did many people would be miserable, it is not a big deal. Because misery is due to the wrong turning of something that means a lot to a person, the magnitude is great. These meaningful things however can be keep on the right path because they are big, and need planning (unlike unpredictable painful situations). This provides people with a chance to put their priorities straight and choose whether or not, in the long term, if they want to be miserable.
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