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- 5481: Woodstock
- ... People from as far away as Michigan and California came to listen to the 24 rock groups ("Age, 1"). Thousands more people would have come if police had not blocked off access roads. By the day before the official opening, traffic jams miles long blocked most roads leading to the area. The intense traffic on Route 17B towards Bethel, New York that afternoon didn't seem to bother anyone as people ... an abundant amount of mud at the festival. The spontaneity comes from the fact that the rain caused the site to be switched twice, which resulted in the loss of preparation time. On the opening day of Woodstock, the stage was not finished, the sound system had been dangerously thrown together, and last but not least, the rain and muddy ground had disintegrated the gates and fences. Many people got into ...
- 5482: Hemingway
- ... fiction. In May of 1918, Hemingway became an honorary second lieutenant in the Red Cross. He could not join the army due to a defective left eye (resentfully inherited from his mother). On his first day of service across seas, he and other ambulance drivers were assigned the horrific duty of picking up body parts from an exploded munitions factory. Death, mostly of women, on such a scale was most definitely ... was very ashamed of this. He had always felt that life was for the testing of death. Suicide was the surrendering of life to death. This was forbidden in his code of courage. From that day on, Ernest turned his back on his father. 1929 marked the release of A Farewell to Arms. It was instantly accepted as a great work by critics and the public. With the success of this ...
- 5483: Beowulf And Norse Mythology
- ... the head god, and leader of everyone. He is the wisest of all the gods (http://www.anglo-saxon). On each shoulder sat a raven, one named Thought (Hugin) and the other Memory (Munin). All day they would fly around gaining knowledge, and then came back to Odin reciting everything they had come across. He did anything to obtain knowledge; once in exchange for knowledge, he gave one of his eyes ... of the world) will eventually come. Odins job is to gain as much knowledge as possible, and prolong the destruction of the world (Hamilton, 455). The Ragnarok, the destruction of the world, is a day everyone dreads. The signs that it will be coming are: first there will be a world war, masses of people killing friends, neighbors, and even family members. Next will be the Fimbul winter, where there ...
- 5484: "Down and Out Paris and London"
- ... life of poverty he discusses the redeeming features of povertythe fact that it annihilates the future. In other words, without money, one does not need to think about the future and just take one day at a time. Orwell says: "Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. When you have a hundred francs in the world you are libel to ... When a badly dressed man passes them they shudder away from him with a quite frank movement of disgust, as though he were a dead cat." (p. 130)Orwell compares the feeling of the first day in tramps' clothes to being in a jail cell saying "You might feel the same shame, irrational but very real, your first night in prison." (p. 130) I certainly felt that after reading George Orwell ...
- 5485: The Sun Also Rises: A Review
- ... I felt was speaking. Gradually I came to enjoy it, in another plane of reading, figuring out from whom words were originating. To not notice it, as if it were one of those annoying 3-D posters that you can't see until you make a concerted effort not to try and see, became simple - much like those 3-D pictures are once you know what not to look for. (I abhor ending sentences with prepositions...) His not telling was heightening to the story. It made things come even more alive. As a conversation that ...
- 5486: An Autobiography: Tom Landry
- ... of a Florida college team, had plans for buying the team. After he bought it, he fired Tom Landry. The firing happened on February 25, 1989. Jerry Jones named himself head coach. Up to this day Jerry Jones has never been the coach that Tom was. Tom Landry's life really was significant to people across America, because he was so upstanding. Tom had a lot of morals, probably one reason was because he was a Christian. He was so looked up to that Dallas made "Tom Landry Day" on April 22. In 1990 he was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. After reading this book I like Tom more that before. After reading what he feels on things I understand why ...
- 5487: The Real World Of Technology B
- ... generations past. The goal for leaving the house is not to enter the natural environment, because in Franklin s terms environment essentially means what is around us that constructed, manufactured, built environment that is the day-in-day-out [sic] setting of much of the contemporary world of technology. (p.89). Nature today is seen as a construct instead of as a force or entity with its own dynamics. (p.85). The book ...
- 5488: Talk Shows
- Do It Publicly With talk shows ruling day-time television, people are left with little choice but to watch this humiliating form of entertainment. Turn the television on in the afternoon and you will find a large variety of talk shows to choose ... world, things that we can change. The best thing to do is to shift through all the talk shows and get rid of the garbage. In the nineteen eighties, soap operas and game shows ruled day-time television. If we can find something entertaining to replace talk shows, we can make them a fad of the past(Schiff 10).
- 5489: The Civil War
- ... a De Kalb regiment of German American clerks, the Garibakdi Guards made up of Italian Americans, a "Polish Legion," and hundreds of Irish American youths form Boston and New York. But in Ohio and Washington, D.C., African American volunteers were turned away from recruiting stations and told, "This is a white man's war." Some citizens questioned the loyalty of immigrants who lived in crowded city tenements until an Italian ... On Good Friday, April 14, 11 days after Union troops had entered Richmond, an actor named John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln as the President watched a play from his box in Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C. The one man who might have brought about a just peace was dead. The Civil War had solved some old problems for the United States. But it created some new problems as well. But ...
- 5490: The Yellow Wallpaper 4
- ... while she is there. In this way the house still is the cocoon for her major change that will take place. The house does not take the form of the conventional symbol of security for day to day activities of a woman, but it does allow for and contain her transformation. The house also facilitates her release, accommodating her, her writing, and her thoughts. These two activities evolve because of the fact that ...
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