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- 941: 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 ...
- 942: A Look Back on the Great Depression of 1936
- ... anger by not reelecting Hoover, but instead, electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt for president the next time around. He was the one who helped get the economy back in shape by creating a program called the "Big Deal." The Big Deal was a government funded program that gave jobs to the jobless, and homes to the homeless. In return for getting the economy back in shape, FDR was elected again for another term and yet ...
- 943: Causes Of Civil War
- ... Orleans. Wilmont Proviso was to ban slaves from territories that might gbe aquired from Mexico. Kansas- Nebraska Act was the result of Douglas wanting to build railroads from Chicago to San Franciso. Douglas was a big believer in popular sovereignity, where the people have the right to decide if they want to be free of slave state, and he completely ignore the Missoure Compromise. The Compromise of 1850 stated that should ... result battered women spoke out. Prohibiton did no separate the North and South because the majority of the men from both sides loved alcohol too much to listen. Abolitionists' Movement not gain any support from big cities up North. So how can the issue of slavery suppose to separate the North from the South when they can not even gain support from the North? Garrison, who wrote the Liberator, was mobbed ...
- 944: The Ocean
- ... gas and petroleum. These materials are all unaltered. After you have take them out, you need to use machine to take out the dirt. For example the petroleum is use to sucked out by the big pipes. The asphalt road and the clean oil can be the fuel. South china sea has a big processing plant that produces the oil and natural gas. In late 1980¡¦s, offshore wells produced about 25 percent of the world¡¦s oil and about 20 per cent of the world¡¦s gas. Scientists ...
- 945: Mp3 Argument
- ... beginning of a complicated argument. Now that it is possible for consumers to download copyrighted material free of charge, major record labels have a great fear. “Tons of people use it [MP3] online, but most big record labels have not embraced it for fear of privacy, since the format also allows for widespread copying of illegal files.” (Sullivan 1999). On the other hand, MP3 technology has given the unsigned artist an ... ban the distribution of copyrighted material. The emergence of MP3 has tremendously excited unsigned musical artists. Many believe this is the beginning of a musical revolution where the “little guys” are going to conquer the “big guys.” ZDNet, an online magazine, recently interviewed Michael Robertson, CEO of MP3.com which is an web site devoted to the distribution of MP3 files created by independent/unsigned musicians. “People keep asking me, ‘When ...
- 946: Water Pollution
- ... is our main source of our life. We need it to live, drink, bathe, recreation, manufacturing, and power. We need water for almost everything; if we don't start cleaning up we will be in big trouble. Bunches of families dispose of chemicals everyday. It affects us drastically and we depend on it to be clean. Right now the government is fining people for illegal dumping. But that is all the ... and went out to the ocean and cleaned it up. I think the people are taking this more seriously than the government. We need to start cleaning up the water or we will be in big trouble. the government needs to get active and so does the public. In some places water pollution is a main concern. The last defense of water pollution is water treatment. Their are two main reasons ...
- 947: Living With Parents Vs. Living
- ... to pay. And you can t ask your parents for financial assistance, it will only prove to them thatyou can t make it out on your own. While moving out on your own is a big step for most young people, it is also alearning experience that willl help them to realize just what it takes to survive in the real world. Every young person should realize that living on your own is a big step towards becoming a responsible adult.
- 948: Great Powers In The 17th And 1
- ... going to private hands. The system was greatly flawed, and it showed, in how much money the government got to spend on the navy and military. Geographical placement of France boxed it in to one big lowland, with openings to the North, which was good for defense, but not as good for expansion and conquest. France could have been much more powerful if it wasn’t for their long list of ... the Western Hemisphere, without much success. French victories over the Dutch, Hanoverians, and the Prussians, made France even more powerful in west-central Europe, and was now able to build up its Navy almost as big as that of Britain’s. France was stronger than ever. Constant attacks and a large seizure of corn ships off French ports during a bad winter could not stop Louis’s empire. In the Americas ...
- 949: Plastic Not Paper
- ... about 7.25 inches, while paper reaches a soaring height of 7.5 feet. This means it takes seven trucks to deliver the same amount of paper as one plastic delivering truck. Talk about a big waste of gas. Plastic bags cost about ¼ of a cent to make, while paper cost close to 3 cents. This is money we save as well as the store owner. This is a lot of ... more damaging to wildlife than plastic substances, like 6pack rings. If you choose paper over plastic you are supporting higher levels of pollution. The choice of plastic over paper doesn't seem to be that big of a decision, but as you now know it does effect the environment. If you don't care about the environment then use the plastic bags for there great other practical uses. So the next ...
- 950: Globe Theatre
- ... was quite horrendous. (Hornell 30) Holes in the roof over the stage were constructed to let more wind in, and the stench of dirty bodies out. (Yowell 42) Rats and fleas were also a very big problem inside the theater. This was mainly due to the audience's behavior. During plays, audiences ate, drank, spat, argued, booed, fought, and even threw fruit at the actors. This was the main cause of ... a major problem the theaters faced. Smallpox, scarlet fever, and tuberculosis were just a few of the diseases that regularly killed thousands of people in the Elizabethan time period. When fights broke out, there were big risks of the disease spreading when blood was dispersed. Other diseases were due to the rodent and flea problem. (Yowell 6) In 1613, a great tragedy happened. During a performance of Henry VIII, a blast ...
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