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- 3471: Five Against The World - Perl Jam
- ... are two Eddie Vedders. One is quiet, shy, barely audible when he speaks. Loving and loved in return. The other is tortured, a bitter realist, a man capable of pointing out injustice and waging that war on the homefront, inside himself. On a warm and windy late-spring day in the San Rafael, Calif., it's easy to see which Eddie Vedder is shooting baskets outside the Site, the recording studio ... pioneers Green River. When Love Bone singer/songwriter Andrew Wood died in 1990 of a tragic heroin overdose, Ament - the Montana-born son of a barber - downshifted, playing around town with a group called the War babies and returning to his other love, graphic arts. Gossard - a Seattle native whose father is a lawyer - barely put down his guitar, playing constantly, moving away from the trippy atmospherics of Love Bone and ... him in my heart.") Have fun with it. You hear the phrase often around Vedder. He rarely has a response. Have fun with it. Certainly his rock dreams are coming true: to sing "Masters of War" at the Bob Dylan tribute concert last year, to sing with the Doors at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and to finally meet his hero Pete Townshend. But to have fun with it, ...
- 3472: Nicaragua: People and Way of Life
- ... followed liberal economic and political policies. The union began to fall apart because of conservative landowners and the clergy to regain their old privileges. In 1838 Nicaragua left the Union. In 1979 their was a civil war which drove the Somoza family out of government office. They had ruled from 1937 to 1979. Somoza was assassinated in 1980 while leaving the country as an order by the rebels who fought and won ...
- 3473: Mrs. Dalloway By Virginia Wool
- ... couldn’t say anyhow else, things that needed an effort; possible to go much deeper. But not for her; not yet anyhow. (Woolf 171) Kramer 2 With Septimus, seeing his best friend Evans die at war has been a major trauma in his life. His wife Rezia must constantly take him away from his reality and have him focus on things not involving war or him thinking of it. Septimus sees beauty in small lifeless things that surround him. Beauty can be seen as a plane that writes in the sky, deciphered but which signifies beauty. Subconsciously, he reveals ... were to now die, ‘twere now to be most happy”(Woolf 184). She felt if she was to die, it was a good point in her life to die. As for Septimus, he knows of war, death, and destruction; he knows that society will not change and that he cannot live in a world that can be so constricting. Septimus takes a leap of faith and ends all of his ...
- 3474: Fidel Castro 2
- ... dissension. After waiting to see if Batista would be seriously opposed, Washington recognized his government. Batista had already broken ties with the Soviet Union and became an ally to the U.S. throughout the cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As ... his sycophants bitterly and sweepingly attacked the relations of the United States government with Batista and his regime". He accused us of supplying arms to Batista to help overthrow Castro's revolution and of harboring war criminals for a resurgence effort against him. For the most part these were not true: the U.S. put a trade embargo on Batista in 1957 stopping the U.S. shipment of arms to Cuba ... to achieve its goal in Cuba provided the catalyst for Russia to seek an advantage and install nuclear missiles in Cuba. The resulting "missile crisis" in 1962 was the closest we have been to thermonuclear war. America's gain may have been America's loss. A successful Bay of Pigs may have brought the United States one advantage. The strain on American political and military assets resulting from the need ...
- 3475: Severan Copy Of Athena Parthenos And 13th Century Virgin And
- ... Commodus succeeded his father in 180, only to inherit an empire that was becoming increasingly harder to uphold , and imperial order was being threatened. Eventually, he was assassinated , and the Roman world was thrown into civil discord. Septimius Severus emerged as the new emperor in 193 after proclaiming himself to be Marcus Aurelius¹ son. 2 The Severan¹s hometown was called Lepcis Magna, on the coast of what is now Libya ... was sculpted in ivory and leafed with gold, again making her inaccessible as she was too valuable to be used in any interactive plans as the Virgin was.8 Furthermore, Athena is a symbol of war- she dons armor, weapons, and a protective shield, while the Virgin and child are a divine Christian symbol of peace and caring. The two statues differ greatly in subject even though both represent women of ...
- 3476: Emily Dickinson
- ... from 1847 to 1848 she studied at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, a few miles from Amherst. During her lifetime, she published only about 10 of her nearly 2000 poems, in newspapers, Civil War journals, and a poetry anthology. The notion that Dickinson was extremely reclusive is a popular one, but it is at best a partial truth. Emily never married and certainly became more selective over the years ...
- 3477: Joseph Stalin
- ... s abduction had led to even more social chaos in Russian. As a party member Joseph was chaired on April 11the national conference of Bosheviks delegates urged cooperation with the temporary existing successor goverment . The civil war in 1918 to 1921 had a huge effect on the new regime. It led to a comprehensive nationalizationof economy to establish the virtual one-party rule (Americana). After Lenin's death, Joseph used the control ...
- 3478: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the spokesman for the Jazz Age, ruled America s decade of prosperity and excess, which began soon after World War 1 and ended around the time of the stock market crash of 1929. The novels and stories for which he is best known examine an entire generation s search for the elusive American Dream of ... relationship(_______). His first stories appeared in Princeton University s literary magazine, which was edited by his friend and fellow student Edmund Wilson whom Fitzgerald considered his intellectual conscience(_______). Leaving Princeton for the army during World War 1, Fitzgerald spent his weekends in camp writing the earliest draft of his first novel. Demobilized in 1919, Fitzgerald worked briefly in New York for an adversing agency. His first story, 'Babes in the Wood ... life appear in The Great Gatsby, which was published in 1925. Like Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway is a thoughtful young man from Minnesota, educated at an Ivy League school, who moves to New York after the war. Like Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is a sensitive young man who idolizes wealth and luxury, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman while stationed at a military camp in the South. Like Nick ...
- 3479: Compare And Contrast
- ... lived it to its fullest. They used illegal drugs and listened to rock and roll music. With their different beliefs and practices they bewildered America's traditional middle class. Concerned primarily in protesting the Vietnam War and civil rights they made a huge impact on America and the world. Even today the effects of the Hippie movement are still felt. They made huge advantages and set examples for the youth of today for ...
- 3480: Critic On Huckleberry Finn
- Critic On Huckleberry Finn I felt that this novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain is appropriate and necessary to illustrate the attitudes of pre-Civil war Americans. To me, this book just shows the life of two runaway people and their life along the Mississippi River. The first time I read this book, I really did not realize that Mark Twain ...
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