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- 1461: Dave Matthews Band, The Most Compelling Band Around
- ... FAQ) This rich texture from the blend of influence is what creates the most compelling band around, Dave Matthews Band. The band came to be in April 1991, playing its first gig for an Earth Day celebration. Dave Matthews had always dreamed of starting his own band. He approached his favorite jazz players, (who he also served drinks to as a bartender) LeRoi Moore and Carter Beauford to make a demo ... band after playing the violin in the song, “Tripping Billies” in the album Crash. Soon the band began playing gigs at area bars, fraternities, Universities, They soon later joined the band circuit, H.O.R.D.E. In 1993, they released their first Album, Remember Two Things, which sold over 150,000 copies. After that, another successful album, Before These Crowded Streets, was released, selling more than 30,000 copies in ... He is a one of a kind with the image he presents of himself, musically as well as physically. “My whole life pretty much revolves around working out..”, Boyd says. He spends three hours a day, six days a week working out, making him the most in-shape sideman in music. (Spin Magazine: “Fanfare For The Common Man”) This is quite a picture; a dreadlocked, 6’2’’ violinist. Boyd is ...
- 1462: Demystifying The A-Team Formula
- ... word that arises. B.A. even coined the phrases "Howling Mad" and "Crazy Man" to describe Murdock. Murdock has this invisible dog "billy" that he talks to. A parallel event on The Bugs Bunny/Roa d Runner Hour is the episode "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper (the mouse looking kangaroo). In this episode Sylvester mistakes Hippety Hopper for a giant mouse. Only Sylvester sees Hippety ... duped. Similarly, who would keep getting tricked into being drugged before they had to face their biggest fear? This would be B.A. His fear of flying always forces his team members to slip a d rug into his milk or knock him out with a wooden plank. This cartoonish prank added the comic relief that The A-Team is so well known for. Another genre that The A-Team incorporates ... They have strange plot twists that mainly involve Face. He most represents a soap opera character on the show. He always is in pursuit of his next woman, even while being chased by the ba d guys. The episode "The Only Church In Town", was more like a soap opera than an action packed show. In this episode Face receives a package from Ecuador with his fraternity pin, given fifteen ...
- 1463: The Presidential Election of 1972
- ... George McGovern of South Dakota and Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Other candidates who didn't receive quite as much recognition were Alabama governor George C. Wallace, Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana, former Senator Eugene J. McCarthy of Minnesota, Mayor John Lindsay of New York City and Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York. Chisholm was the first black to ... primary, Bremer stepped forward out of a shopping-center crowd and shot him four times. Wallace survived, but at the cost of being paralyzed from the waist down. Maryland's voters surged out on election day to give Wallace a huge victory, his last of 1972. While Wallace recuperated, the millions who would have voted for him as a Democratic or independent candidate began to move in overwhelming proportions behind the ... and women, that he beat his wife, and then the topper which claimed that Muskies' wife was an alcoholic. These false statements destroyed Muskies' campaign and reputation of being a calm trustworthy candidate. Then one day "mounting the bed of a truck parked outside the offices of the archconservative Manchester Union Leader, Muskie launched an attack on the paper's publisher, William Loeb. As he spoke of Loeb's unflattering ...
- 1464: The Conspiracy Behind the Beatles
- ... away. This will also turn up again later as well. Inside the album there is a picture where the Beatles are sitting down. There is a patch on Paul's arm that says O.P.D. O.P.D stands for "officially pronounced dead". It was said though that it was taken at such an angle though because it really said O.P.P., which stands for Ontario Provincial Police. Then again, William Campbell ... a year during Paul's disappearance he happened to be incommunicado on his new Scottish farm. (Castleman) "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated. However, if I was dead, I'm sure I'd be the last to know." (Smith, 1) Paul McCartney told Life magazine in 1969. Some still believe that Paul is in fact, dead today. From all the evidence provided that by the albums it ...
- 1465: Labor Unions
- ... national union made up of affiliated, individual craft unions” (Boone, 1996, p. 288). The first president of the AFL was Samuel Gompers. On the contrary to the Knights of Labor, Gompers’ focus was to raise day-to-day wages, and continue to improve the working conditions (Dessler, 1997). After the formation of the AFL, the period included significant developments. In the early 1890’s, the United Mine Workers was formed, becoming the first ... Encyclopedia, 1996). According to Dessler (1997), this act prohibited union unfair labor practices and lists the rights of employees as union members and rights of employers. History from 1951 to 1960. Several years later Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president and the Republican party began taking control over congress (Encyclopedia, 1996). At this point in time, the AFL and CIO were seen as enemies but had moved closer together. Their ...
- 1466: Ford
- ... restructured everything from the salaries of employees to the work ethic they demonstrated. He did numerous things that were considered absurd and unrealistic at the time. This included the introduction of the $5.00 work day, and with this the desire to control his workers lives. In a way he did this for the better of the workers and the better of the company. The $5.00 per day rate was not as dumb as people perceived it to be. In reality, it was the perfect thing to do. Henry Ford gradually increased the wages of Ford Motor Company employees. His main objective in ... being especially munificent to his workers, but he was in no way parsimonious. His salaries did not often exceed the going rate of about $1.90 for Model T production workers for a ten-hour day in 1908. The average salary for production workers increased to around $2.50 by 1913 with a minimum of just $2.34. In October of 1913 a man named John R. Lee, recruited from ...
- 1467: Cross-Cultural Child Rearing
- ... common as getting a drink of water” (Reynolds p. 26). Women in the United States also start to put their children on a feeding cycle where the feed their children at certain times of the day. This is not so in other cultures where mothers feed their children whenever they are hungry. For example, the Javanese feed their infants whenever they appear hungry. “Nursing continues until sometime after the first year ... six and twelve months of age, but begin by giving only small amounts” (Novartis p.1). In Kaliai West New Britain, infants are fed on demand and children of all ages snack frequently during the day instead of being limited to two or three large meals. “Breast-feeding usually continues for a minimum of two years, for it is thought that a child who is weaned earlier will be slow to ... them when they are crying, but tend to put them to the side in cribs or playpens at other times. Americans also leave their children with baby-sitters and at nurseries and daycare during the day while they participate in other activities. This is different in other cultures where mothers’ seldomly put their children down and even carry them into the fields while they work. “Indigenous mothers whom I lived ...
- 1468: Child Abuse in Today’s Society
- ... to survive and flourish as adults. But in today’s society the majority of perpetrators of child abuse (about 77%) were the child’s parents and another 11 percent were other relatives of the child. Day care providers, foster parents, and other people who were in caretaking relationships to the abused child account for 2 percent of the assailants. Perpetrators unknown to the abused child accounted for only 10 percent of ... these families. When parents or other caretakers are able to take care of their children but cannot do so because of the lack of economical resources the society and government must provide assistance. Bibliography Bender, D. & Leone, B., eds., Child Abuse: Opposing Viewpoints, Greenhaven Press, Inc., San Diego, 1994. Jacobs, N., Landes, A., & Quiram, J., eds., The Information Series on Current Topics: Child Abuse: Betraying a Trust, Information Plus, Texas, 1995 ... National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, In Fact… Answers to Frequently Asked Questions on Child Abuse and Neglect, April 1, 1999. National Research Council, Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect, National Academy Press: Washington D.C., 1993. Sedlak, A., & Broadhurst D., Executive Summary of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, 1996.
- 1469: Internal Conflicts Of Beloved
- ... unbearable. And Beloved was merely an extension of that guilt, incorporated into the real world and a way for Sethe to subconsciously torture herself while providing a constant reminder of the crime itself. When Paul D. "forced" the spirit away, it came back in a fleshly form to cause even more problems. There are even indications that Beloved is feeding off of Sethe, in a way as a succubus. "Sethe's ... have everything. Had Sethe been able to forgive herself, the healing of other characters would have stemmed from this. She would have been able to rejoin the community, thereby also the exile of Denver. Paul D. would have been able to live there in peace, and the idea of "a family" may have been possible. Even the spirit of Beloved (had my idea of a "projection of guilt" been wrong) would have been able to sleep in peace and trouble Sethe no more. Yet the actual ending of the book is different. Denver turns out to be the savior of the day by gradually gaining the support of the community, who grew concerned and forced away the spirit of Beloved to liberate Sethe. Sethe ends the novel emotionally shattered, but with the strong souls of both ...
- 1470: Why Did the Polls Get it Wrong in 1992?
- ... hung parliament; one put the Conservatives 0.5% ahead, one put Labour and the Tories neck and neck, the other two showed Labour ahead by a narrow margin (Crewe, 1992, p. 8). On the actual day of the election, exit polls carried out by the BBC and ITN both showed there would be a hung parliament, although both of them had the Conservatives slightly ahead. They were both not far from ... and follow-up surveys, and a systematic underestimation of the Conservative lead, due to the aforementioned 'shame factor'; and also an overestimation of Labours position, due to the poll tax, as explained above. Bibliography Broughton, D. (1995), Public Opinion Polling and Politics in Britain, Harvester Whitsheaf, Hemel Hempstead. Coxall, B. & Robins, L. (1994), Contemporary British Politics (2nd Ed.), Macmillan, London. Crewe, I. (1992), 'A Nation of Liars: opinion polls and the 1992 general election', Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 45, pp. 475-495. Crewe, I. (1992), 'Why did Labour lose (yet again)?', Politics Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 8-9. Jones, B. & Kavanagh, D. (1994), British Politics Today (5th Ed.), Manchester University Press, Manchester. Ippolito, S.D. (1976), Public Opinion and Responsible Democracy, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
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