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- 6951: Elvis
- ... his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, Elvis graduated from high school and began working as a truck driver while he studied evenings to become an electrician. One day, while driving a truck for his company, Elvis noticed a sign that read, "Memphis Recording Service-Make Your Own Records. Four Dollars for Two Songs." This sign would change his life forever. II. Career Elvis ... He soon followed with the hugely successful double-sided single record "Hound Dog"/ "Don’t Be Cruel" (1956) and "All Shook Up" (1957). Elvis’s musical influences were the pop and country music of the day, the gospel music he had heard in church, and the black R&B he had absorbed on Beale Street as a Memphis teenager. By 1956, Elvis was an international sensation. He had a sound and ...
- 6952: Nazism
- ... its membership merged with the communist left, seemed to be in for gentler treatment. They had, in theory, been part of the National Socialist program form the beginning. Reassuringly, Hitler declared May 1, 1933, a Day of National Labor. Labor was flattered. A big rally was held that night at the Tempelhof airport. There, Hitler warmed a crowd of several hundred thousand with his praise of labor's dignity and the need for unification behind the nation. His listeners cheered themselves hoarse. Patriotic songs were sung. Rockets flowered in the sky. Bright and early the next day regular police, together with detachments of SS and SA, occupied union headquarters throughout the land. Leading officials were arrested and dispatch to concentration camps. The Labor Federation's banks and businesses were seized. Files were ...
- 6953: Gatsbys Dream
- ... Lastly, he spends his money like pouring water. He held expensive parties, owns a huge mansion, a Rolls Royce, two motor boats, aquaplanes, a swimming pool (ironically that he has never used it except the day he has died), and a flashy wardrobe including a pink suit. Gatsby's materialism is not something to praise about. However, all of his amoral actions are caused by one purpose, which is to fulfill ... already a dreamer. In a strange way, he has never believed that he is just James Gatz, and he has had an ideal image of who he should be, which is Jay Gatsby. At the day he saved Dan Cody-the self-made millionaire's yacht, he has told Cody his name is Jay Gatsby and left his home. Gatsby strongly believes that as Jay Gatsby, all his dreams will be ...
- 6954: Violence 2 -
- ... writings have been viewed by others as an escape from the pain he felt in his life. "But he, the painter, took glory in his work, which went on from hour to hour, and from day to day". The repeated loss of loved ones can cause a fear of future loss and a reluctance to form new relationships. Those very same type of fears were a reality for Poe. "And he would not ...
- 6955: Instructional - How To Pick Up
- ... you, to build up you’re confidence, or you didn’t get lucky, there may be reasons behind this. A) You’re un-attractable (ugly). B) You have no confidence. C) You can’t dance. D) All, or a combination of the above. To overcome this you may; A) Get plastic surgery. B) Take dancing lessons. C) Drink alcoholic beverages before you enter to get the blood pumping and the confidence up. D) Don’t go to clubs. They may not be you’re type of scene. Try kicking back at a party or some other sort of non-dancing, big-drinking function.
- 6956: The Common Hemingway Protagoni
- ... normal peacetime world which the war had made him to see too clearly to accept" (Burhans 190). Krebs seeks refuge from this disillusion by withdrawing from society and engaging himself in individual activities. A typical day for Krebs consists of going to the library for a book, which he would read until bored, practicing his clarinet, and shooting pool in the middle of the day; this is common for a Hemingway protagonist. Hemingway realizes "that with the disappearance of the transcendent and the absolute from man's consciousness, the universe becomes empty of meaning and purpose..." (Burhans 284); a good ...
- 6957: Alice In Wonderland
- ... stammering Oxford mathematics professor. Dodgson was a deacon in his church, an inventor, and a noted children's photographer. Wonderland, and thus the seeds of his unanticipated success as a writer, appeared quite casually one day as he spun an impromptu tale to amuse the daughters of a colleague during a picnic. One of these girls was Alice Liddell, who insisted that he write the story down for her, and who ... which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to." There is plenty of fodder for psychoanalysts, Freudian or otherwise, who have had a field day analyzing the significance of the myriad dream creatures and Alice's strange transformations. There is even Zen: "And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown ...
- 6958: Ernest Hemmingway
- ... lieutenant in the Red Cross, but could not join the army because he had a defective left eye. Hemingway first went to Paris, and soon after receiving new orders he traveled to Milan, Italy. The day he arrived, an ammunition factory exploded and he had to carry mutilated bodies and body parts to a makeshift morgue. This was definitely a most terrifying moment for the young Hemingway. After being seriously injured ... idle hands in his Kingdom." Kreb replies, "I'm not in his Kingdom." (Hemingway 119) He seemed to have lost his emotions totally. Even as his mother tells him that she prays for him every day, he is too busy looking "at the bacon fat hardening on his plate." (Hemingway 119) The war had definitely taken its toll on people who survived World War I. They come home from the war ...
- 6959: The Awakening
- ... far more French than American, and Mrs.Chopin reproduced this little world with no specific intent to shock or make a point. . . . Rather, these were for Mrs.Chopin the conditions of civility. . . . People openly like[d] one another, enjoy[ed] life, and savor[ed] its sensual riches. (Walker 253) Creole women are very open and forward but also very careful with whom they make friends with (Shaffter 138). They show no ... society for once. Works Cited Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Avon, 1998. Culley, Margo. "Editor’s Note: Contexts of "The Awakening." "The Awakening": An Eaton Clement. The Civilization of the Old South. Ed. Albert D. Kirwan. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1968. 83. Qtd. in Walker, 252. Shaffter, Mary L. "Creole Women." The Chatauquan 15 (1982) : 346-347. Rpt. in "The Awakening": An Norton, 1994. 137-139. Walker, Nancy. "Feminist ...
- 6960: Obsessive-Compulsive Behaviors
- ... to the exclusion of pleasure. When pleasure is considered, it is something to be planned and worked for. Pleasurable activities are usually postponed and sometimes never even enjoyed. With severe compulsions, endless rituals dominate each day. Compulsions are incredibly repetitive and seemingly purposeful acts that result from the obsessions. The person performs certain acts according to certain rules or in a stereotypical way in order to prevent or avoid unsympathetic consequences ... over their body. The book,The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing by Judith L. Rapoport describes a long, sad case of a young boy who spent three or more hours in the shower each day. The boy "felt sure" that there was some sticky substance on his skin. He thought of nothing else. Our normal functioning probably consists of constant uncountable checking, a sort of radar operation, that we could ...
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