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- 5011: Louise Brooks
- ... on November 14th, 1906. At the age of ten, she was already dancing at men’s clubs and women’s clubs, fairs and various other gatherings in Southern Kansas. At age 15, she went to New York where she auditioned for, and was accepted by, the newly formed Denishawn dance troupe. For the next two years she shared the stage with Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Charles Weidman- some ... a leading London nightclub, the “Café de Paris,” where her appearance as a dancer is a stunning success. Brooks is the first person to dance the Charleston in London. Later in 1925, she returns to New York and found work dancing in the chorus of George White’s Scandals, a Broadway comedy with Leon Errol called Louie the 14th, and finally as a showgirl in the 1925 edition of the Ziegfeld Follies. Here she was the bane of her directors and often her co-stars as well due to her cavalier approach to the business. When the Follies went on tour, Brooks stayed in New York. Already she had made a brief appearance in The Street of Forgotten Men, a film shot at Paramount’s Astoria Studio on Long Island. She was in many other films later after that ...
- 5012: Genetic Engineering And Its Future Impacts On Society
- ... are often hereditary will also be eliminated. We could also use genetics to enhance our immune system making us less susceptible to other disease strains, but this will be better discussed further on. This powerful new science will allow doctors to cure so much of the worlds sick, to not allow this science to be applied to medicine could be viewed as genocide. In Agriculture genetics can also become extremely useful ... is useful, and highly so, as discussed prior, we can do so in order to restore extinct species or produce animals which we consume in order to provide more food for the people of the world. The big question now is about cloning humans. Cloning a human for the purpose of cloning a human is wasteful, ignorant, and pointless. Lets think a moment. What do we get from cloning a human An exact copy of the human we cloned. Now if everyone on the world had a clone we would have a slight overpopulation problem on our hands. You simply don't benefit from cloning other then getting a duplicate of the person you copied. Its a waste of ...
- 5013: Sex in the Net!
- ... and punishments for selling pornography to underage persons, are not high enough. So why don't we raise them? The answer to this question can be found on the screen of every computer in the world. The Internet, or as one person put it, "The closest thing to true anarchy that has ever existed." How is one to censor the Internet when it is literally impossible? What is the use of ... the age of the user. How can one even trace the user when there are twenty-five billion members and it is impossible to follow them all. How can we delete the pornography when a new batch arrives every day and it is impossible to stop it. Another point which makes censorship difficult is the fact that censorship laws have only recently being required. In England for instance, censorship laws have ... are finding it difficult to "step around," the law. It is obvious that people are putting an effort in to censor the pornography, however when it comes to censoring material which goes all over the world, a balance must be found between the censorship laws of all the countries that are hooked into the net. Here a problem arises, because Denmark has no censorship of pornography, so obviously they are ...
- 5014: Frank Lloyd Wright
- ... roofs and extended lines that blend into the landscape. Between the year of 1903-1906, Wright began using more modern materials, such as concrete. In 1904, he designed the strong, practical Larkin building in Buffalo, New York. In 1905, Wright left the United States for the first time to travel to Japan for three months. In 1911, feeling too restricted by building primarily suburban structures, Wright began the construction of his new home and studio, located on his uncle’s Wisconsin farm, called Taliesin (Welsh for ‘shining brow’). “No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to ... disturbed; her accusations cause a lot of bad publicity for Wright, even leading to his brief arrest in 1926 on charges so violating the Mann Act. (The charges were related to his association with a new lover, Olgivanna Milanoff, who was threatened with deportation from the United States.) Another fire destroyed the Taliesin living quarters in 1925 (though without the loss of lives that had marked the earlier destruction in ...
- 5015: Novelty Never Lasts
- ... drive up to the VIP pool hall almost every weekend and shoot pool until midnight; and we really enjoyed it. Now we only go the pool hall if there is absolutely nothing else in the world to do. My loss of interest in pool is not half as distressing as my loss of interest in traveling. My lack of interest in seeing new places is nothing short of a tragedy I feel, and it, like other things, is a result of doing it too much. Just about every summer, spring break or Christmas vacation my family travels to a new part of the country, or a new part of another country. It seems to me like we've been to so many places around the United States that there isn't much left to ...
- 5016: Ecology Asssignment
- ... for territory so they have no concerns of another group taking away their food supply. Magpies for example attack other individuals when the individual gets anywhere near their tree, this occurs especially when they have new borns. 7. Consider a classroom aquarium or a small pond as a habitat. Give examples of micro habitants it might contain. A pond or aquarium may contain some microhabitats and different microenvironments. For example, one ... and recycling are a great way to do this. We must be aware that we are not the only ones on this planet and we must set aside some for the other animals of this world. 12. Brief definitions of the following. Population: is the number of individuals in an area at a particular time Community: is a group of individuals in an area Habitat: is a dwelling of any living thing Niche: is a place where a person is best fitted 13. Write brief essay on a major environmental problem facing our world today. A major environmental problem facing our world today is the Global Warming. This is the increase of the earth's temperature caused by the use of fossil fuels and other industrial processes leading ...
- 5017: Serial Killing: Is It An Addiction?
- ... the serial killer is addicted to what he does cannot be properly supported without a discussion of addiction. While the pharmacological examples such as alcoholism and heroin addiction are still the clearest examples of addiction, new models of addictive behavior including exercise addiction, compulsive gambling, and even sexual addiction have gained acceptance. Just as alcoholism was once thought to be a conscious choice, these latter examples have long been thought to ... defective moral character. Recently, however, it has been recognized that the sexual addict or the compulsive gambler can stop their compulsion no more easily than the alcoholic. An underlying statement, accepted by most in the world of addiction research, recognizes addiction as an integrated, bio-psycho-social illness (Johnson, 1993). In other words, an addiction is not an isolated physical or social illness. The addiction contains elements of society, biology and ... is another part of the serial killers psyche, and studies show that they require more thrills than normal people (Holmes and De Burger, 1988). Just like young children, they must constantly be in search of new entertainment, and like the young child they show little ability to restrain the occurrence or the nature of their behavior. The difficulty in controlling their own behavior is not dissimilar to the findings of ...
- 5018: Comparison Of Racism In Histor
- ... think about hate crime too much. We can feel safe when going to the corner store without being pasteurized by a mob of haters . We live in a very safe country, but instances during the World Wars make us pray that non-of that will ever happen in Canada again. This ISP will examine the similarities and differences of racism and racial issues between a true-story novel called Obasan, by Joy Kogawa, and a fictional play called The Komagata Maru Incident , by Sharon Pollock. Each story is set in a different period during Canada s history: World War I and II. In the play The Komagata Maru Incident , Sharon tells a story of the racist Canadian Government. The setting of the play is in Vancouver and it takes place right after World War I. It s about a group of 376 East Indian Immigrants who sail to Canada to start a new life, but are not excepted due to the racist immigration officials. The immigrants had ...
- 5019: Shakespeare - His View On Kingship
- ... of how Scotland is suffering act4 sc3 L168-169 ‘Where sighs, and groans, and shrieks that rent the air, are made, not marked’. Act4 sc3 L40-41 Malcolm says, ‘it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.’ In the same scene Macduff also says, ‘bleed, bleed poor country.’ Also, ‘Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face, that it resounds as if it felt with Scotland, and yelled out like a syllable of dolour.’ People don’t talk highly ...
- 5020: Men Fear Death
- ... way. Other beliefs across the globe have different theories. Hindus say that the spirit undergoes a form of reincarnation. So for many Hindus, death is a welcome event. A chance for them to enter the world anew, and escape the old. For them death truly is an awakening. For others though, it is an escape for many people, with religious beliefs or not, just want to die. This can be for ... of death is the good the dead body can do for others. With today’s medical technology, a dead body can be used in many practical ways. One of the most prevalent in today’s world is for organ transplants. Being an organ donor can save many lives from one that has ended and we are thinking of new ways to take advantage of healthy parts of dead bodies everyday. Making life out of something that is lifeless is nothing less than a miracle. Another use for the dead body is simply for ...
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