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- 4561: The Azores Islands
- ... where the past meets the present. There are bullfights, golf courses, horseback riding, anything you would want for a safe relaxing getaway. There is a city, Angra do Heroismo, it is a city granted with world heritage status. It contains streets that maintain 16th century originality, beautiful churches, palaces, and museums. There are walls surrounding this island, to protect the islanders from the pirates. Graciosa’s land is covered with grapevines ... need of the sperm whale, they don not kill them for play. Lastly, the island of Corvo. Corvo is the Azores best kept secret. Not diminished by technology, the wave of the future, or the new millennium, Corvo lives in a time forgotten by most. Within the entire island, there still remains only one church that everyone attends on Sunday. Corvo has a close and strong community, that all work together ... each family, you can’t just go into a shop and see 20-30 of the same statue. The communities are very close. Everyone knows everybody, and they are extremely friendly and hospitable to a new family, or a family in need of help. The community in one aspect, is also like a big family; they work together, do their best to get along with one another, and help each ...
- 4562: Utopian Communes
- By: Mike Kerbe Mike Kerbe U.S. History to 1876 Professor Giaimis October 8, 1999 History of the Amana Communes With the new foundland of north America, Europeans saw a chance to apply their hopes and dreams of a perfect Utopian society. They saw an oppertunity to raise communities of so called ‘utopian societies’ that they could not ... socialism of these early communities was the kind that Marx, rightly or wrongly, would brand as ‘utopian,’ suggesting that it was idealistic and impractical. Rather than seeking to create an ideal government or reform the world, the members of these communal groups withdrew form the sinful, corrupt world to work their miracles in microcosm, actually hoping to imitate the elect state of affairs that existed among the Apostles, who were said to hold all things in common. The most interesting point of ...
- 4563: Louis Armstrong
- Louis Armstrong Heroes are needed in the world to give people something to look up to, someone to be like. Louis Armstrong over came such adversities as poverty, a lack of good education, and racism to become one of the greatest jazz player ... day he would be such a popular jazz player and also not knowing that one day he might even be called a hero. Armstrong was born on July 4, 1900 in the Storyville section of New Orleans. At the age of 12 his life changed. When he was parting for New Years Eve, he shot a gun into the air. He was soon arrested and taken to a center for juvenile offenders. He hated being there, but loved going to see the band at the ...
- 4564: Special Effects
- ... of the tools available. However the results of early special effects masters astounded audiences in their age in the same manner that modern artists do today. The ability to create an effect that was brand new was, and still is, the key to the industry. Techniques range from the expected to the bizarre in order to achieve a certain image or illusion. Cinematographers in the early fifties would use a black ... even in America, where thousands marveled at the intricate detailing of the blood-sucker's razor-like teeth, bulging eyes and a pointed nose and ears. "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" used a somewhat new technique of a body suit that the actor wore along with a mask made of latex rubber and foam. Using cooking oil or butter spread on the body and mask gave an enhancement of sliminess ... flight was thin strings attached to miniatures. Audiences did notice the obvious strings but it did not matter at the time because it was state of the art. The next major breakthrough in the effects world was stop-motion animation. A process by which objects were filmed for a very short period (3 or 4 frames) being altered or moved very slightly at each interval of "cuts". "King Kong" and " ...
- 4565: Eves Apology In Defense Of Wom
- ... Lanyer's poems, "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women," a reinterpretation of the past has been presented as a means to demand a better present, and future, for women. Though Lanyer lived when the world frowned upon women writers, she managed to be "one of the few published woman poets of the Renaissance" (p 1059). This fact of such a great accomplishment for a woman in the world did not, however, changes the forms in which it was acceptable for a woman to write. Therefore, because Lanyer was limited to write in the form of a journal, letter or devotation, her cry for sexual equality needed to be disguised in one of these forms. Thus, as a devotation to God, Aemilia Lanyer pushed her work to new heights within a feminist point of view. To accomplish this push, while staying within the accepted forms of women's writing, Lanyer discusses a few important biblical events. The earliest of said events being ...
- 4566: Business in Computers
- Business in Computers I understand that some students that have already graduated from College are having a bit of trouble getting their new businesses started. I know of a tool that will be extremely helpful and is already available to them; the Internet. Up until a few years ago, when a student graduated they were basically thrown out into the real world with just their education and their wits. Most of the time this wasn't good enough because after three or four years of college, the perspective entrepreneur either forgot too much of what they were ... expect the customers to come to them, they have to go out and attract them. This is where the Internet becomes most useful, in advertising. On the Internet, in every major consumer area in the world, there are dozens of ways to advertise. The easiest and cheapest way, is to join groups such as "Entrepreneur Weekly". These groups offer weekly newsletters sent all over the world to major and minor ...
- 4567: Admiration Of Anne Bradstreets
- ... faults with people, and that is he trusts people too much. He has too much faith in people and whether that is because of his deist ways, and how he looks at things in the world,and through reason. His trust in people and things often leads him into small troubles. His drunken friend Collins borrowed much money from Franklin promising to pay it back. Of course, it was never payed ... early in his life is salvation. He must have salvation. He believes he has been saved too and he goes on to point this out: “From the about that time I began to have a new kind of apprehensions and Ideas of Christ, and the works of redemption, and the glorious way of salvationby Him. I had an inward, sweet sense of these things, that at timescame into my heart; and ... I need no more, Farewell, my pelf, farewell my store.”(p. 133) She knows that all the things that she really needs are in heaven and that can’t be taken away from her. “The world no longer let me love, My hope and treasure lies above.” (p.134) Somewhat of a problem with Bradstreet is her attactment with some of her aquaintances. She is really attached to her granddaughter ...
- 4568: Charles Manson- Methods To The
- ... Process Church of the Final Judgment, labeled a Satanist cult by the media, was founded in 1963 by Robert DeGrimston, a former Scientologist. The basis of this religion was the book of Matthew of the New Testament, and it began as a mixture of Zoroastrianism and Scientology. The name “The Process” refers to the “changes necessary to avoid the end of the world with its associated judgment.” Processeans worship Jehovah, Lucifer, and Satan (“Process” par.17). Even though The Process fervently denies that Charles Manson was ever a member, many ideas from his philosophy parallel Process concepts. Both ... soon retreat into the desert to the Bottomless Pit, another concept shared with The Process, where they would live in comfort until they numbered 144,000 (Bugliosi 313). Then, they would return to the upper world where they would rule (333). When Manson’s followers numbered twenty or thirty and Helter Skelter had still not begun, he decided to start the spark that would light the fire. The members of ...
- 4569: Bubonic Plague
- ... although it may seem foolish to modern man. Bibliography Works Cited Bartel, Roland, ed. London in Plague and Fire. BostonD.C. Heath and Company, 1957. Blum, Jerome, Cameron, Rondo, and Barnes, Thomas G. The European World A History. BostonLittle, Brown and Company, 1970. Cantor, Norman. The Civilization of the Middle Ages. New York HarperCollins Publishers, 1993. Herlihy, David, ed. Medieval Culture and Society. New York Walker and Company, 1968. Hindley, Geoffrey. The Medieval Establishment. New YorkG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. Matthew, Donald. Atlas of Medieval Europe. New YorkFacts on File, Inc., 1983. Rowling, Marjorie. Everyday Life of ...
- 4570: Anthem
- ... Then one day while he swept the streets he found a grate that led to underground tunnel full of things from the unmentionable times. For two years he went to the tunnel and discovered a new glowing light. Then one day while in the tunnel decided that he must share his secret with his brothers. He decided that he would bring his secret in front of the world council meeting. When Equality entered the world council meeting the scholars got frightened and angry. They demanded that he tell them why he was there. He connected the wires and they glowed, the scholars backed up against the wall as they ...
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