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- 13151: Muscle Cars
- ... tract to cars intended to be raced on the street. The cars were not just for fun, they were a selling point for the make of cars they were. Buyers in the market for a new car in 1970 saw two street heroes racing and one was driving a 1970 Chevelle and the other was driving a 1970 Mustang and the Chevelle won would you go and buy a Mustang or ... 000 it will not be affordable to many (Brown 52). AMC had its own arsenal of muscle cars Javelin , Gremlin ,and AMX. The Javelin had a 401 V-8; the 71 model year had a new sleeker longer and wider look . Most of the AMC’s were blocky and were not liked by the public. The Gremlin X was another of AMC tire smokers with a 304V-8, the car is ... cars give the driver character too. What I really like about the muscle cars are on Friday night I can go out and find these rich little brats that have their daddies go buy them new sport cars that they think are fast, I pull up in my 1968 Cougar, that I built and paid for with my sweat and tears, and I just blow them away. I put up ...
- 13152: Frederic Douglass
- ... defintion of "man". Once Douglass escaped from slavery he was surprised to find that the north also a very racist place. Not only did the majority of northern whites still feel that blacks were inferiour, New York was full of people looking to turn in fugitive slaves. Frederick also found that his abolitionist friends were not free from this prejudice. At gatherings they often asked Frederick to tell the same stories ... fully pursue the happiness that is such an integral part of the American dream. The final and more specific part of the American Dream is that of having equal opportunity to move up in the world. This can be looked upon as ones ability and oppurtunity to make an upward move concerning their life. This idea comes back to the reasoning that, if someone is willing to work hard enough, they ...
- 13153: Saving Private Ryan
- Saving Private Ryan The movie Saving Private Ryan is about a group of American soldiers walking around in Europe during World War II. The objective of this mission is to find one man whose three brothers were killed and return that man back to his mom in America. Private Ryan and the rest of the airborne ... the largest battles in history. Many American soldiers died on the beach. The ones that survived were unfortunately put back into fighting with out any sort of break This movie gave an excellent portrayal of World War II. It makes me think about what if this happened and I had been drafted into the war. The soldiers in the movie were all around my age bracket. Those were people my age ... a strange land. It is like leaving your family and everything you know to go away uncertain if you were to return alive or in a box. When this movie first came to theatres, many World War II veterans had horrible flashbacks and had to leave the theatres, many of them in tears. This was nothing to laugh about. Something that horrible that it can leave deep emotional scars for ...
- 13154: Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire: Tragic and Comic Elements
- ... these two characters. The comic aspect of the tragicomedy is displayed through irreconcilability. Through the character Mitch, Williams successfully juxtaposes the comic with tragic elements, which are central to the tragicomic genre. While Blanche’s world is increasingly closing in on her becoming more tragic in implications, hence her wanting a husband, Mitch is almost completely blind to her overtures and sexual advances. For example, while Blanche is virtually dying inside ... is allowed into the Elysian fields because she has come from the Tarantula arms, representative of debauched living, to wearing the Della Robbia Blue of the Madonna, which symbolizes her epiphany and rebirth as a new soul now reconciled for her past deeds. Concerning Stanley, Williams does not condemn him for his harsh yet necessary actions against Blanche. Instead, Stanley has won a sort of victory in that he has maintained ...
- 13155: Romeo and Juliet: Love and Their Ends
- Romeo and Juliet: Love and Their Ends The love story of Romeo and Juliet is widely read and known throughout the western world. Friar Laurence states one of the major themes in the play: “Therefore, love moderately, long love doth so”(II, vi, Line 14). He sees that the two lovers are so passionately in love that it ... party, Romeo meets up with Juliet at the balcony outside of her room. They exchange vows and soon get married. That very same day, Romeo witnesses the slaying of his best friend Mercutio by his new kinsman Tybalt. In a blind rage Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge of Mercutio’s death. When the Prince of Verona arrives on the scene and graciously banishes Romeo, sparing him from death. The lovers are ...
- 13156: Fashion in the 60's
- ... s gradually gave way to flares, bell bottoms, and loon pants, bright colors, novel materials, chunky rings, and sports cars were all part of the 60's look. In the early 60's, the teenagers world was suddenly hit by the rock- n- roll of phenomenon of the Beatles. Teens idoled rock stars and let their hair grow long and wore bright, wild colored clothes. Leather offered great opportunities for self ... and materials like paper, nylon, plastics, and elastic. The Hippy movement, which first surfaced in California, nurtured a form of anti-fashion in which virtually all types of clothes were permissible whether short or long, new or second hand, patterned or plain, as long as the materials were natural. All the fashions of the 60's were care free and expressed each individual person. Some of the fashions of the 60 ...
- 13157: The National Endowment for the Arts
- The National Endowment for the Arts There are few things in today’s modern world that can bring as much joy and satisfaction as seeing a beautiful painting, an intricate sculpture, or hearing a powerful piece of music. These works do not spontaneously create themselves. Rather, each one has its ... a rebirth called the ‘Renaissance.’ People started caring for things of beauty again and began expressing themselves more openly. Artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael helped bring about a revolution in the world of art. As a result of this rediscovery, the overall quality of life dramatically improved. If we were to suppress the natural inclinations of people to create and show emotions, we would be neglecting the ... of the technological advancements that have been made to supposedly make our lives better would seem futile in comparison to how much joy a fine work of art can bring. Living life in a sterile world would not be much fun at all. For all of those reasons, it is simply unacceptable to allow the government to eliminate funding for the arts programs. The reasons to keep the National Endowment ...
- 13158: Hamlet: Hamlet's Greatest Crime Was His Inherent Goodness
- ... for in thinking there is both life and death. Trapped inside the prison of his mind, chained by a grief consciousness served only to torture him with, Hamlet, the prince of Denmark, reveals to the world that more gruesome than the death thinking brings him is the carnage it brings to those around him. The question that puzzles everyone is: Was Hamlet truly insane or was it all an act? The ... sight of his objective to expose the King’s sin of murdering his father and obtaining revenge. Hamlet was completely sane throughout this Shakespearean tragedy. Hamlet's greatest crime was his inherent goodness. In a world of evil, goodness is scarcely seen and often hunted prey. In believing the world could be one of happiness and success, Hamlet was only preparing the cell into which the darkness of reality would exile him and the chains of thought would keep him forever bound. Reality made ...
- 13159: George F. Handel
- ... and eclectic genre, neglecting the lutheran poetry (preferred by Bach) in favour of the Italian an Viennese writers (Zeno, Pariati, Pasquini etc.) was Reinhard Keiser who, naturally, claimed to be the master to all the new-comers, including Haendel who far from accepting this rule, successfully sought the friendship and maecenatism by Gian Gastone de Medici (1671- 1737) , son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany: Cosimo III. And in what it ... The greatest success ever, "il Sassone"as Haendel would have nciknamed by the Italian opera fans He had to achieve it 120 miles south of Rome, at Naples where the successful 27 replicas of his new opera: "Agrippina" made him to fully "graduate" as an operist. Really Haendel had to be numbered among the most reknowed Italian operists if the Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani, the cousin of the last duke of Mantua ... presented to the London public his most reknown operistic triology: Giulio Cesare, Ottone and Tamerlano proving them not only to be the latest master of the italian "seicento" but also a composer opened to the new perspective of the fusion of national styles in an highly personal language, Ariosti left London and went to Madrid together with a clever impresario a certain Tarchi who eventually left him in a state ...
- 13160: Much Ado About Nothing: Pretense
- ... Why does Shakespeare use eavesdropping as a transportation of pretense? What is Shakespeare trying to tell us? Most if not all of Shakespeare's plays have a moral. In this play, Shakespeare models a small world after society. In it everyone and everything is just as he sees it - a façade. Shakespeare captures this theme in "Much Ado About nothing" because pretending is something people often do whether it is positive ... for his betrothal to Hero, for his demonstration of outraged honour, for his repentance, and finally for his marriage. But at times the mask, behind which they seem so secure, betrays them into a realistic world where they are no longer in control. Beatrice's wit flows freely until it is suddenly stopped by the quietly serious question she had not expected: 'Will you have me, Lady?' (II.1.301). This ... controls. Similarly, Benedick's playing of the passionate lover trying to convince his mistress of his devotion may be genuine enough. However, his reaction, like Beatrice's, is to retreat: 'Ha, not for the wide world'. And after that moment the advantage is Beatrice's. In these two characters, Shakespeare has given us something far more subtle than merely true love finding its mate: they underline the power of language ...
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