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- 2751: Cassablanca
- ... between Ilsa, her husband Laszlo, and Rick keeps the viewer in suspense until the very last minutes of the movie. This movie contains all the factors that a make a movie a classic. It has great performances by a top cast, a flawless script story line and director, and superb production techniques. In addition, it blends a raging love story with tormenting schemes which makes it one of ! the best Hollywood ... the minds of audiences everywhere. These quotes help keep the movie and the memories of the actors and actresses alive even fifty seven years after the original shooting. Let's not forget the variety of great music the viewer is treated to while watching this movie. The wonderful sounds are unforgettable. Even if it may be old, it is still bound to catch the attention of any viewer young or old. The line-up of sounds not only features the original score by Max Steiner but also other great's such as Perfida, It Had to Be You, Shine, That's what Noah Done, Muse's Call, Knock On Wood, The Very Thought of You, and of course, As Time Goes By. These ...
- 2752: John D. Rockefeller
- ... of oil, warehouses for refined oil, and plants for the manufacture of paints and glue. Standard prospered and, in 1882, all its properties were merged in the Standard Oil Trust, which was in effect one great company. It had an initial capital of $70 million. There were originally forty-two certificate holders, or owners, in the trust. After ten years the trust was dissolved by a court decision in Ohio. The ... gift of $10 million, which brought his total contributions to the university to about $35 million. In withdrawing from further activity there, he wrote: "I am acting on an early and permanent conviction that this great institution, being the property of the people, should be controlled, conducted and supported by the people." CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY Rockefeller recognized the difficulties of wisely applying great funds to human welfare, and he helped to define the method of scientific, efficient, corporate philanthropy. The method was this... To create charitable corporations and give them title to great funds, whose management and ...
- 2753: Diversity Of Leadership In Ame
- ... George Washington and Dwight D. Eisenhower, may warn or even alarm us. Whether they contain the polished prose and delivery of President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address or the broken English of Bartholomew Vanzetti, great speeches remind us of the power of language and the diversity of leadership skills. Washington was the first president of the United States and one of the most important leaders in history. His role in ... that he truly deserved the title “Father of his Country.” Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence. He was considered a very brilliant man. His interests were boundless and his accomplishments were great and varied. He was a philosopher, educator, naturalist, scientist, architect, inventor, pioneer in scientific farming, musician, and writer. He was the leading spokesman for democracy in his time. As president, he strengthened the powers of the executive branch. He was the first president to lead a political party, and through it he exercised control over the Congress. It was his optimism and great leadership that is the essence of what came to be called Jeffersonian democracy. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States and was considered one of the greatest men in U. S history. ...
- 2754: Development Of Sino-us Economi
- ... took his hand and said: ¡°You have reached across the world¡¯s largest ocean to shake my hand.¡± The historic handshake ended the more than two decades of hostile separation of the world¡¯s two great nations, and China established officially diplomatic relations with the US on January 1, 1979. During President Nixon¡¯s visiting, China purchased 10 Boeing airplanes from America, which is a real beginning of Sino-US economic ... enhancing understanding, expanding common ground, developing cooperation and achieving the goal of building the future together. And it is the need of common economic benefits of the two countries. China holds a huge market and great demand for development, and the United States holds advanced science and technology as well as enormous material force. The economies of the two countries are therefore highly complementary with each other. At the same time ... million telephones. The United States has an investment edge in these areas, all these provide good commercial opportunities for it. China¡¯s potential market, once combined with America¡¯s advanced technology and capital, will produce great vigor for development. Thus it can be seen that the cooperation of Sino-Us economy and trade has great potentialities, and their cooperation will be bound to facilitate the development of economic and trade ...
- 2755: David And Solomon
- ... it. King David, a member of the tribe of Judah was chosen by God to lead his people. As everyone knows, he proved by his wise choices to be a very effective leader. As a great military strategist David united the tribes and extended the national boundaries so that in his time Israel enjoyed a greater fraction of the land promised to Abraham than has ever since been the case. David ... Mesopotamia. A serious spiritual weakness was starting to materialize in the Temple during this time. “Its elaborate organization and its heavy indebtedness to Syro-Phoenician religious architecture and practice. The danger of syncretism became very great- so great that the following centuries were characterized by bitter intermittent conflict between religious assimilators and religious separatists”(Albright 150). In other words, the representation of both pagan and Judaic beliefs complicated the effort to reach ...
- 2756: History And Culture Of The Renaissance
- ... Because of the increase of literacy people learned that the Catholic Church only told them what they wanted them to hear. This caused many to break away from the church and form Protestant religions. Many great minds were also produced in the Renaissance times. Leonardo da Vinci was one of these. Although he was not highly thought of in his time, he had many great works of art such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He now is thought of as a great inventor also. He was given the credit of coming up with the helicopter. He also did autopsies to learn more about human anatomy. Another great man was a German monk, Martin Luther. He taught ...
- 2757: History Of Jazz And Classical Music
- ... structure. In the swing era, popular songs were arranged by an arranger and soloists played improvisations over the repeating sections in order to lengthen the song for dancing. With the advent of Bop, improvisation assumed great importance. The musicians memorized the chord changes to a song, along with the melody, but then played very loosely and in the end substituted new chords along with greatly embellishing the original melody to the ... along with the ability to interact with each other, became important and remains so in the Fusion music of today. In Classical music, modern listeners are mostly unaware of the fact that many of the great composers of the past were not only excellent performers but also great improvisers. Starting with J.S. Bach (1685-1750), the greatest composer of the Baroque era, he in fact made his living through his great skill as an improvisor. It was common for the Lutheran ...
- 2758: Czechoslovakia
- ... the plains of Hungary. At some point, Charlemagne joined in the battle against the Avars in this part of the world, cooperating either with Samo or with the state structure that came after him - the Great Moravian Empire. Again, reports on the Great Moravian Empire are fuzzy. According to period chronicles, the people living along the Morava River at the time were already known as "Moravians," and their short-lived empire existed "somewhere" between today's Slovakia and ... include today's South Moravia, the southernmost bits of present-day Poland and Silesia, the western part of Hungary and, for a short time, the whole of Bohemia. Perhaps the most important thing about the Great Moravians is that theirs was the first legal sort of state structure in the area to accept Christianity, and the cultural development of the Greater Moravian Empire is inseparably linked to the spread of ...
- 2759: Jim Thorpe
- ... the Canton Bulldogs, located in Canton, Ohio. A year later, through his skills developed at Carlisle, he led the Bulldogs to a national championship. He also managed professional baseball, but he did not achieve the great accomplishments as he did in football, so he slowly stopped and concentrated on football. By 1924, at the age of 37, his football skills finally began to fade as a star. He eventually stopped in ... a few minutes for the Cardinals, but was unable to get anywhere. In his forties and muscle-bound, Thorpe was a mere shadow of his former self." 5 With out a doubt, Jim Thorpe, achieved great heights for any person, especially being Indian, where he was being faced with the white assimilation and etc. I look up to this man in great awe, for the great accomplishments he achieved, but had no one to share it with. He lost his father to stroke, his twin brother to pneumonia, and also his mother. It was not always ...
- 2760: How To Make A Movie
- ... at his or her disposal. The most common of these are the establishing shot, long shot, medium-shot, over-the-shoulder shot, and close-up. (Wordplay, 1999) The establishing shot is normally taken from a great distance or from a "bird's eye view," that establishes where the action is about to occur. The long shot shows a scene from a distance (but not as great a distance as the establishing shot). A long shot is used to stress the environment or setting of a scene. The medium shot frames actors, normally from the waist up. The medium shot can be ... The producer always has his or her eye on the prize: the completed film (Houghton, 1992, 50). The Actor No cinematographer or film editor, no matter how gifted, can turn a terrible performance into a great one. The right actor can give a screenwriter's words exciting new depth and. Actors are essential for conveying emotions to an audience, for bringing the words and ideas in a script to life. ...
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