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- 4341: Celebrities And Their Salaries
- ... average annual American household income is $34 076. And Steven Segal? He makes $10 million per picture. We want celebrities to be like us, and then we don't. We want them to inhabit a world of glamour, but we don't want them to be stuck up. We want to gaze at their big faces on the screen, yet it's our own narcissism we are feeding. Yet one thing ... was the only studio film nominated for best picture amid a slate of independently produced critical favorites - The English Patient, Fargo, Secrets & Lies and Shine). There is also another problem that is not exactly a new but has gotten worse in recent years, stars rewriting their lines. "When stars start pulling in these incredible $20 million salaries, it gave them a sense of entitlement," observed Hollywood writer Budd Schilberg. "They think they can do anything now-act, write, change the dialogue, whatever." Needless to say, a lot of movie stars are not the greatest writers in the world-or even very good readers-and the results of their meddling are seldom attractive. Take for example, the movie update of the classic novel Great Expectations, actor-turned-writer Ethan Hawke took is upon ...
- 4342: Chritmas
- ... think about lights, trees, presents, food, friends and family, along with the birth of Christ. Some view these added meanings as a good change and some view them as a bad change. In today s world Christmas is not defined only as celebrating the birth of Christ but also the celebration of giving, and the celebration of family and friends. From Old English, Cristes maesse Christ s mass, was the origin ... held mass to celebrate the birth of Christ. This is still true today, almost two thousand years later. However over the course of two thousand years the definition of Christmas has picked up a few new meanings. The celebration of giving, and the celebration of family and friends are not really new but they are new in that today they are viewed as more a part of the definition of Christmas The wise men gave gifts to Christ on the day of his birth. Today most ...
- 4343: Mining in Space
- Mining in Space On December 10, 1986 the Greater New York Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the engineering section of the New York Academy of Sciences jointly presented a program on mining the planets. Speakers were Greg Maryniak of the Space Studies Institute (SSI) and Dr. Carl Peterson of the Mining and Excavation Research Institute of M ... economic drawback necessarily translates into a political problem. Maryniak continued by noting that the early settlers in North America did not attempt to transport across the Atlantic everything then needed to sustain them in the New World. Rather they brought their tools with them and constructed their habitats from local materials. Hence, he suggested that the solution to the dilemma to which he referred required not so much a shift ...
- 4344: Monets Green Reflections
- ... art as “the production or expression of what is beautiful, appealing or of more than ordinary significance”. I interpret the word art to refer to the physical reproduction of the artists own perception of the world around them. A masterpiece is defined as “a consummate example of skill or excellence”. Therefore, when in search of a masterpiece of the artistic category, we must take into account the proficiency and dexterity displayed ... feelings in achieving a goal. Monet’s technique developed over many years. By the mid-1880’s Monet, generally regarded as the leader of the impressionist school, had achieved significant recognition. It was with this new-found fortune that Monet purchased the property at Giverny, just outside of Paris. “Green Reflections” was painted in 1906, on this property. His garden was a splendid juxtaposition of colour, lush over-growth and dense ... artists. With a combination of abstraction and impressionism, combined with simplicity and a varse use of colour, this painting is a true exemplar. bibliography NON-FICTION BOOKS Gerstein, Marc S. 1980. IMPRESSIONISM. Hudson Hills Press. New York, USA. Spate, Virginia. 1992. MONET: LIFE AND WORK. Rizzoli. New York, USA. Tucker, Paul. 1995. MONET IN THE 90’s: THE SERIES PAINTINGS. Museum of Fine Arts in association with Yale University Press. ...
- 4345: The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- ... Evil (1886), On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), MAJOR IDEAS Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree possible. Struggle, through which individuals achieve a degree of power commensurate with their abilities, is the basic fact of human existence ... by modern value systems. Christian morality, which identifies goodness with meekness and servility is the prime culprit in creating a cultural climate that thwarts the drive for excellence and self realization God is dead; a new era of human creativity and achievement is at hand. -- Great Thinkers In The Western World. By: Ian P. McGreal, 1992 PREFACE Much information is available on Mr. Friedrich Nietzsche, including many books that he wrote himself, during his philosophical career. I took this as a good sign I would ...
- 4346: Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein was probably the most famous scientist of the twentieth century. He revolutionized and reshaped scientific thinking in the modern world. By general consent he is acknowledged as the greatest theoretical physicist who ever lived. Best known as the creator of the Theory of Relativity, Einstein would still rank among the greatest scientists for his part ... went to spend a year at the German University of Prague, and two more years at the Zurich Polytechnic before settling in Berlin in 1914 as professor at the university and later director of the new Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics. Beginning in the late 1920's, Albert Einstein tried to combine electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena in a single theory, called the Unified Field Theory. Einstein failed to establish this theory ... took his property and deprived him of his position and his citizenship. Einstein then moved permanently to the United States where he became a member of the newly created Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1939, the pacifist Einstein -- fearful of a world in which only Hitler would have an atomic bomb -- urged President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a famous letter to start the United States in ...
- 4347: Kiss The Hype
- ... at the consumer. The rock group Kiss has been performing for over twenty-six years. In that time, they have sold over ninety million albums, amassed legions of fans, and sold out stadiums around the world. There is a reason for the extraordinary success of Kiss. It has something to do with their music, but it has more to do with the way they are hyped and packaged. So lets unwrap that package. In 1972, Gene Simmons was a sixth grade school teacher in New York City. With guitarist Paul Stanley, he formed a band called Wicked Lester that played in small clubs and bars around New York. That band quickly failed. "Wicked Lester just wasn't the deadly rock n' roll assault squad they had always wanted" (Kitts 12). But Simmons and Stanley felt they could and would become stars. ...
- 4348: History Of Photography
- Daguerreotypes In 1839 the Academy of Science in Paris, France made an announcement that would change our view on the world and ourselves forever. An artist named Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre and a amateur french scientist had developed a process by which a permanent image could be printed on a silver plated sheet of copper and the process could be duplicated and used commercially. France decided to give this gift to the world and thus the first Daguerreotype was born. Although daguerreotypes in truth were not the first photo ever taken but because of his development of the commercial process Mr. Daguerre is usually credited with developing the ... a cameraless photographic process called photogenic drawing, which creates images of plant forms, lace and other objects placed directly on a sheet of light-sensitive paper. In September, the first American daguerreotypes are made in New York City. 1840 William Henry Harrison is elected President of the United States. 1841 William Henry Fox Talbot patents the calotype, or paper negative process. President William Henry Harrison dies and is succeeded by ...
- 4349: History Of Arabic Music
- ... relatively long pattern. Moreover, the performers do not simply play the pattern; they elaborate upon and ornament it. Often the pattern is recognizable by the arrangement of downbeats. In Arab tradition, good musicians offer something new in each performance by varying and improvising on known pieces or models in a fashion similar to that of jazz musicians. The inventions of musicians can be lengthy, extending ten-minute compositions into hour-long ... performance and in shaping the piece of music by encouraging musicians to either repeat a section of the piece or to move to the next section. Modern Era Born of the cultures of the Arab World stretching from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Arabic music is becoming popular world-wide. It is made up of an astonishing variety of folk, classical, and popular musical traditions. Many of these have survived for centuries, reflecting the musical sensibilities of the ancient world as well as ...
- 4350: Beatles 2
- ... their lyrics? They had a certain personality, too. Was that it? Let's look at each of these, and some other factors as well. What is the first thing you wonder when you hear something new on the radio? You wonder who sings it. The first thing you see when you pick up an album is who sings or performs it. Hmm? This suggests the power of a catchy title. Something ... Of course, the most prominent of those things are raw passion and sexuality. When the Beatles, or any group for that matter, sang about love, and the actions and emotions associated with teenage love, the new generation was naturally attracted to their singing. Of course, there is also the age-old issue of teenage rebellion. Think for a second, here. What is the last thing a parent wants their child listening ... long hair and carefree attitudes. The Beatles also acted as kind of a bridge. They came from England, all the way across the Atlantic, which gave them an air of foreignness, something not of this world. This separateness helped them immensely. The Beatles had an appearance of group strength, and people wanted to be included in their world. Aside from their personalities, their voices went together well. They could blend ...
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