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- 4391: Appearance vs. Reality of Modern Music Affect on Teenagers
- ... do this? Well teenagers have a great amount of time to read so much into things. Its the first age in most peoples lives where real independence is given, so they are desperate for something new to be controlled by. The one main reason why teens are the only age group subject to the manipulation of "rock stars" is because most of these "rock stars" are still in a teenage state ... they have millions of following teenagers. The biggest one I can think of (in modern music) would be Nirvana. Their lead singer Kurt Cobain was the creator of this whole "grunge" thing that took the world by storm a couple of years ago(baggy ripped jeans, plaid, easy repetitious music). Kurt Cobain was basically to be a savour to all teens, he related every thing he wrote to when he was a teenager and put words to peoples experiences and looked like a rebellious teen himself. When he died the whole world was in mourning all of teens never even have met him were taking the death way to far. There were three suicides that week in the USA, with notes reading they could not live ...
- 4392: Time Machine Book Report
- ... about the future are surely detrimental. As the Time Traveler is standing on the shore of a dead sea, he thinks to himself, I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world. The red eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurt ... to give a grim indication that without major social reform, the future for humanity will not be too bright. He thought what we do now is the most important thing to the future of our world. I his eyes, there will be no second chances to correct what goes on now. Wells' prophecy of the future continues in his novel, The War of the Worlds. It was written in response to ... no effect on fibers. Wells implies, here, that in the future, a person could actually create an army of invisible men. With all the focus of war in Europe in this time frame, war and new inventions to aid war, were often written about. The Island of Dr. Moreau is perhaps the most far-fetched novel by H.G. Wells. It is about a man, Dr. Moreau, who genetically engineers ...
- 4393: The Clifford Ball
- The Clifford Ball The Ball, the ball, the ball. The Clifford Ball 1996, the greatest musical performance I've ever witnessed, a time I'll never forget. "Where the fuck is Plattsburg, New York?" That was the main concern on a warm summer afternoon, as we began to pack up the car for a trip that will remain crisp in my mind better then vacation I've ever ... show, I figured I could wait till they came to Giant Stadium, or The Meadowlands. One day I decided What the hell!! Plattsburg was a good 6 hours up I-87 from quiet River Vale, New Jersey. So we spent most of the afternoon at Shop-rite, Campmor, and Ramsey outdoor. We had sleeping bags, coolers of beer, soda, food, and more beer, tents, stoves, lanterns, bug torches, and clothes. At ... were asleep!!! Didn't bother me, the more the merry. It was really strange. Once I stepped out of the tent, I think I left something behind. I didn't have a care in the world. I forgot about my job, my house, my life back home. I WAS AT A PHISH SHOW, that's all that mattered. Yeah, in an ordinary situation, the crickets would have bothered me. I ...
- 4394: Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple
- ... Jim Jones was born in Lyn, Indiana in 1931 during the Great Depression. Jims parents were so caught up in surviving because of the depression, Jim was allowed to go off and explore the world around him. He came upon a Pentecostal congregation and joined it is known as the Gospel Tabernacle, here the members dwelt on the fringes of the community(crime library). After finding out how interested he ... women. As Jim Jones claimed to have cures for cancer, heart disease and arthritis he decided to move to Ukiah, California as investigations started to take place. He started preaching that the end of the world is coming band it will end in a nuclear war. To keep members he told them Ukiah was the safest place to be if a nuclear war broke out, but then as the Temple grew he moved to Los Angeles. When suspicions were raised by newspapers on how Jim Jones was condoning illegal activities he moved again as far as he could get from the outside world. When Jones decided to move to the lush jungle of Guyana no one questioned him they seemed happy on their 4,000 acres of dense jungle away from the outside. The temple came up ...
- 4395: Ernest Hemingway: Allegorical Figures in The Sun Also Rises
- ... unhappy medium. D. Romero provides an image of integrity against which Barnes and his generation are weighed. From this point, Pedro can be seen as the real hero, man whose code gives meaning to a world where love and religion are defuncts, where the proofs of manhood are difficult and scarce, and where every man must learn to define his own moral condition and then live up to them. VI. Summary ... is a novel by Ernest Hemingway (1926). Hemingway deliberately shaped the protagonists in The Sun Also Rises as allegorical figures (Bloom, 1985, pp. 107). The novel symbolizes the impotence felt by the main characters after World War I. Jake Barnes, the narrator, had a wound from an accident that happened during the war. The injury damaged his genitalia. As a result, Barnes could no longer make love, but could still feel ... insecure about his masculinity. For this reason, he later found himself strongly attracted to the young bullfighter, Pedro Romero, whose manhood stood without women. The wound is a symbol of life in the years following World War I. It was used as a metaphor of the impotence felt after the war. The wound can also be seen as a parable that reminded Barnes constantly that accidents could always happen and ...
- 4396: Henry James And William Dean Howells
- ... of the nineteenth-century, used typical realistic methods to create an accurate depiction of changing American life Henry James was one of five children of affulent, eccentric parents. While his birth in 1843 was in New York City, his parents were purposly rootless, and by the age of eighteen he had already crossed the Atlantic six times. He avoided participation in the Civil War because of a poor back and began ... 14) For Henry James, the years of 1882 to 1895 brought less success. His novels now took on a more political tone. (Matthiessen 15) In 1886, he published The Bostonians, regarding the feminist movement in New England. Here, "he complained that women who wanted to become just like men were disregarding their own uniqueness." (Norton 616) The Tragic Muse, published in 1890, continues this trend as it contrasts art with politics ... by the dying heroine's tragedy. A year later, "The Ambassadors, which James' called the best, all round' of my productions' describes the initiation of an aging American into the relativistic ethics of the Old World in huge iridescent' Paris. The Golden Bowl verbosly analyses father-daughter and adulturous relations." (Matthiessen 16) Ultimately, James' genius was recognized by those who share his craft. His works explore psychological subtlies; he is ...
- 4397: Race Relations
- ... R. Feagin says the answer may lie with both options. His interpretation of the lack of adolescent racism is that reality has not fully set in for those who have not yet experienced the real world. "You have to be out looking for jobs and housing to know how much discrimination is out there" (Farley, 1997; 88+). Feagin contends that those who have a better grasp of racial reality are those ... ultimately shape the future of the country. Being on campus allows people the opportunity to intermingle more frequently with those of other races, which may give them the false impression that the rest of the world is as friendly with one another as they are at school. Unlike out in the real world, campus life encourages the fraternization of racial groups, attempting to overthrow the narrow- mindedness often found on the streets of reality. Noel Barrion, Asian American Student Union president, observes this difference each and everyday ...
- 4398: Universial Themes in "The Return of the Native" and "Great Expectations"
- ... of Pip can serve as the perfect guide not to become a victim of false ideology. Undoubtedly people of my age should come away with a better understanding of life and our place in the world just as I have. It is quite appropriate for people of our education level to be enriched in the world of classic literature. The timeless nature of the stories is reason enough. Regardless of the great amount of reading, I can truthfully say that I enjoyed the experience. Classics hold something for all people so therefore I would recommend it to others being on our grade level or not. Work Cited Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations, New York: New York Scholastic Inc., 1957 Hardy, Thomas. The Return of the Native, New York: New York Nal Penguin Inc., 1987 Thompson, Frank H. Cliff Notes on Hardy's The Return of the Native ...
- 4399: Uncle Tom's Cabin: An Analysis
- ... from near drowning, Eva's father, Augustine St. Clare, buys him. Life in the household is carefree. Another person living in the house is Ophelia, St. Clare's cousin from Vermont who just moved to New Orleans. She and Augustine argue long and hard about slavery, he defending it, and she opposing it. Augustine buys Topsy for Ophelia to raise, in order to test her theories about education. Topsy is bright ... by the political conventions or by Henry Clay, which was to test the conscience of the nation. This was the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Was this only an event, the advent of a new force in politics; was the book merely an abolition pamphlet, or was it a novel, one of the few great masterpieces of fiction that the world has produced?(Wilson 24). The compromise of 1850 satisfied neither the North nor the South. The admission of California as a free state was regarded by Calhoun as fatal to the balance between the ...
- 4400: The Great Gatsby 4
- ... of the novel Nick and Gatsby are men of morality and conscience in a time and place where neither is valued. At the end, one is dead and the other is embittered towards the corrupted world around him. A comparison can be made between the initial interaction between Nick and Gatsby and what transpires during the lunch when Gatsby challenged Daisy s feelings for Tom and the portion of the book ... from the war, understandably restless and at odds with the traditional, conservative values that, from his account, have not changed in spite of the tumult of the war. It is this insularity from a changed world no longer structured by traditional values that had sent young men to war, that inspires him to go east to New York, where he endeavors to learn about the bond market. Nick settles in West Egg as a young, impressionable man hoping to rise with the times. Speaking as the narrator, he establishes himself as ...
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