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- 8711: Harry S. Truman 2
- ... the Senate war investigating committee, checking into waste and corruption and saving perhaps as much as 15 billion dollars. As President, Truman made some of the most crucial decisions in history. Soon after V-E Day, the war against Japan had reached its final stage. An urgent plea to Japan to surrender was rejected. Truman, after consultations with his advisers, ordered atomic bombs dropped on cities devoted to war work. Two ...
- 8712: Motowns Evolution and with Emphasis on Its Women
- ... vs. music. After staring at the posters, he noticed that the fighters were about twenty-three years old but looked fifty, and that the bandleaders were about fifty but looked twenty-three. He wrote That day I took off my gloves for good. Berry Gordy abandoned his ring ambitions to pursue a career in music. In the 1950s, there were very few black singers signed to record companies or played ...
- 8713: 2 Face Hip Hop
- ... love hip hop, but its the two sides that split them in half. The mainstream hip hop where the artists have their own music videos, their songs played over the radio many times a day and with everyone knowing them, gets played out fast. I mainly see it as wanting the fame and money that they can get. While the underground hip hop has no music videos, songs barely played ...
- 8714: Count Basie
- ... ensemble, the later band favored the ensemble sound of a well-rehearsed, tightly controlled group. From 1954 to 1961 singer Joe Williams performed with the band. Among his best-known recordings with Basie are Every Day I Have the Blues and In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) . Basie continued to lead his band in the 1970s and 1980s, although he sometimes did so from a wheelchair in his later ...
- 8715: The Emergence of Heavy Metal
- ... was defined by the guitar and vocals of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. The term "heavy metal" in a line of the William S. Burroughs' novel "Naked Lunch." Quotes from "Lunch" appear frequently to this day. It remains an important and impacting influence on the artistic creation and lyrical content. It has been attached to many things throughout the history of contemporary music. Mostly it has come to mean cliche musical ...
- 8716: Who Are You?: Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder
- ... from scattered dates on their abortive 1995 tour, Pearl Jam have not sustained a tour in more than two years. The scene is set, then, for a legendary show -- the band's triumphant return. You'd never guess it from Vedder's scowl. "Have you heard the new album?" he asks in his husky baritone. The applause is scattered. "Well," Vedder mumbles, "you're about to hear it again." With that ...
- 8717: Henrik Ibsen
- ... in 1868, then to Munich in 1875. In 1869, he wrote the comedy The League of Youth. The realistic style used to stage the drama Pillars of Society (1877) focused on various problems of the day. However, A Doll s House, published in 1879, marked the first major breakthrough for realistic drama. Ibsen s next two realistic contemporary dramas, Ghosts (1881) and An Enemy of the People (1882) were both successes ...
- 8718: Analysis of Five Pieces of Music
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- 8719: REM's Losing my Religion: An Analsysis
- ... for us as individuals or is it simply an easy way to control people who choose to follow it? That is a question I have asked myself for the last five years and to this day I do not have an answer. However, to shed a little light on the subject I have chosen to look into the R.E.M. song Losing my Religion", because I feel that is what ...
- 8720: Frankenstein: Roles Between Males and Females
- ... can never escape the "destruction" (223) that was awaiting him. The creature becomes Victor's "master" (194) and Victor feels trapped because he must "obey" (194). Somewhat like the creature, Victor could not endure one day without thinking of all the pain he had gone through: "But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge" (223 ...
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