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- 2151: Sci-fi Gibberish Or A Glance A
- ... masterpiece of science fiction cinematography, Star Wars, appeared at the movie theaters they were simply flooded by young and energetic people. And Star Wars is a genuine specimen of a modern myth. Let me quote George Lucas, the producer of this saga: "One of the reasons I started doing the film was I was interested in creating a new kind of myth and using space to do it, because that's ...
- 2152: Similarities Between Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... Liszt was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. In some ways he was much like Kurt Cobain, the late lead singer of the rock band Nirvana. Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was passed on to several relatives after his parents divorced when he was eight years old. For some time he even lived under a bridge and was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was ...
- 2153: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- ... important turning point in his life. While he was in the hospital he read a lot of modern drama and was inspired to become a playwright. After he recovered from Tuberculosis he studied playwriting at George Pierce Baker's Workshop 47 at Harvard University. (Strecker,Eugene O'Neill,p.1535.) In 1916 O'Neill became associated with the province town players, they produced several of his plays in the following years ...
- 2154: Sex On Television
- ... but about relatives? This was something new. Master of your domain otherwise known to the characters of Seinfeld as: masturbation, was the subject of conversation during an episode. While sitting around doing nothing Kramer, Elaine, George, and Jerry, came up with a bet to see who could go without masterbation for the longest amount of time. Whoever won would be the Master of their Domain . On March forth, 1997, ABC announced ...
- 2155: Martin Luther King Reflection Essay
- ... followers held sit-ins at lunch counters and rode on segregated buses. Others in the country boycotted discriminatory companies and their products, that practiced legal segregation and discrimination. The largest ever non-violent protest in Washington August 23, 1968, where 200,000 people attended. This was where King gave his famous " I have a Dream " speech. Although King insisted on nonviolent ways, violence persistently occurred. Marchers and protesters were attacked by ...
- 2156: Biography of Robert Frost
- ... POUND, who wrote the first American review of Frost's verse for Harriet Munroe's Poetry magazine. (Though he disliked Pound, Frost was later instrumental in obtaining Pound's release from long confinement in a Washington, D.C., mental hospital.) Frost was more favorably impressed and more lastingly influenced by the so-called Georgian poets Lascelles Abercrombie, Rupert BROOKE, and T. E. Hulme, whose rural subjects and style were more in ...
- 2157: The Life of Sally Ride
- ... to Earth she had made history as the first American woman in space. In 1984 Ride took a second trip to space, again in the Challenger. In 1986, she moved to the NASA headquarters in Washington, DC. where she became the Assistant to NASA's administrator for long range planning. This is when she created the Office of Exploration. When the Challenger exploded in 1986 she was also assigned as a ...
- 2158: Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams Contributing to "Selling the Revolution"
- ... controversy between England and the colonies prompted him to write to write Common Sense. Through this pamphlet he caused the people to support breaking away from the British because of the way he denounced King George the 3rd (1689-1702) as a royal brute, a murderer and a thief, and stated that we should not be a continent that is attached to an island. In 1776 while Paine was on the ...
- 2159: William Carlos Williams: A Poet On A Mission
- ... genre to the poetic world. THE SIMPLE THINGS IN LIFE William Carlos Williams; born on September seventeenth, 1883, in Rutherford, New Jersey; was the first of two sons born to the middle class status of George and Raquel (Helene) Williams. Having an English father and a Puerto Rican mother, with ancestry from the French, Dutch, Spanish, and Jewish sides, Williams had an interesting mix of culture from birth (Bloom 4338). As ...
- 2160: Stern V. Fcc
- ... can only regulate broadcasts. They cannot censor broadcasts, that is determine what is offensive in the matters of speech (essay). Pacifica was a radio station that in 1978 aired a twelve-minute monologue by comedian George Carlin. This twelve-minute monologue called Filthy Words consisted of, according to Carlin, words you couldn t say on the public airwaves (qtd in essay). This caused one of the most controversial cases in the ...
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