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- 1451: Jon Woo
- ... well. He combines montages with slow motion to create a tenser environment. Of course Woo directs very fast and furious action sequences in which viewers often get caught up in, mixed in are the duel gun battles and the Mexican standoffs. Woo is known for action, and this is where a great deal of the "new breed" of action directors (and some old veterans) get their "inspiration" for their action sequences. One of Woo's trademarks, men shooting it out with a gun in each hand, has almost become a clichι of the action genre. Even Pamela Anderson in the "fluffy" Barb Wire took out the "bad guys" with dual guns blazing. Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing ... stages kinetic scene of over- the- top gunplay with fluid camera movements, extremely long takes, and perfectly timed choreography of movement. Woo's on the spot improvising that also delivered one of the most amazing gun blazing sequences when in the middle of the movie a full-blooded gunfight erupts, but is played out in balletic slow-motion to Somewhere Over The Rainbow, heard through child's headphones. The song ...
- 1452: John Coltrane
- ... solo before Tyner borrows from Coltrane's frenzied attack. Tyner's left pounds out a series of dramatic, seemingly unrelated chords while his right scurries across the keys. Coltrane then sprays notes like a machine gun, firing off in a million directions. Somehow, it never sounds frivolous each squawk has passion, each note has meaning. Finally, on the closing "Psalm," he seems to have found what he's been searching for ... given his nickname through an unknown person Many people have analyzed his nickname and they find it very fitting. Here's how the metaphor of a train fits his life. He was a man in control of himself (similar to the conductor of a train). He was always conscious of where came his roots or his heritage (a train has a starting point and a destination). He was self-disciplined and ...
- 1453: Joseph Stalin 2
- ... the position of commissar of workers and peasants inspection. He finally gained the power he desired most in 1922, when he became general secretary of the Central Committee. With this position Stalin was able to control appointments, set agendas, and transfer officials and increase his own power. When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin used the current power he attained and crushed his opponents to become the dictator in 1929. Stalin used ... production of household items and necessities such as clothing and food. Secondly, Stalin wanted to use collectivization to increase the production of agricultural products and to end private farming. Stalin also decided to transfer the control of the farms to the government, and as a result, caused a severe resistance in the peasant class especially the kulaks. The measures taken by Stalin to discipline those who opposed his authority were either ... he suddenly died. An entirely unrelenting and determined man, Stalin s climb to power was not always honest and moral. He disposed of his opponents and plotted against many distinguished politicians. Once Stalin was in control of the Soviet Union, he used any means possible to make his country a world dominate powerhouse. Because of the great famine, labor camps and his infamous purging, many of his people suffered greatly. ...
- 1454: John Locke
- ... more for others in the common store, one was not infringing on another s natural rights. Irrelevant because property production or the use of labor was completely individualistic and one should not be able to control another s labor as it is an infringement on their natural rights. There are however limits, as far as property and labor are concerned. One limit is that of non destruction. God did not create ... here that we begin to see the limits of men as well as the limits of the soveriegn. After all, how anyone interfere with the wishes of God? Locke believed that the power for social control must come from the sovereign. This sovereign is responsible to the will of the people, but has a protective authority, governing both over land and people. Locke believed that if a body of people, that ... that the sovereign, created out of the need for the protection of individual rights, that is, out of the need for protection of the privacy of property, could not manifest itself publicly through excessive social control. Perhaps Locke s idea is better explained this way. From privacy of possession, publicity of sovereignty does not follow...`no Man could ever have a just Power over the life of another, by Right ...
- 1455: Issac Asimov
- ... researchers of U.S. robots become the victims of their own creation, and I would say victims of the robotic laws When Susan learns that the robot was lying about her dream man, she loses control and attacks the robot bitterly, forcing it to burn out its own brain because the paradox of being forever aware of what would make people happy and to be unable to provide it. It is ... so when the man said, You cant hit me. You won t hit me. You re not human. You re a monster, a make believe man. (I, Robot, p. 235). Byerley must have temporarily lost control of himself, and he took his aggression out on this man. A few years later, Byerley who is now mayor runs for the office of World Co-ordinator. He achieves this office, and Asimov creates ... future, it is up to humans of the world to decide and lead itself to the future. Robots in the workplace are already causeing problems with human workers. Hopefully these creations will stay under human control, no matter how smart the get, and above all the robots must remain loyal to the humans. Bibliography Isaac, Asimov I, Robot New York: Doubleday edition, 1950 Bantam edition, 1991 Sidney, C. Schaer science ...
- 1456: Henry Ford
- ... know. The farm is a sound teacher of ingenuity and elementary mechanical skills. Before long however its lessons are ended, and the youth whose imagination is fired by railroads, steamboats, cotton mills, machine shops, and gun factories looks to a larger sphere. 2 Henry Ford was born on July 30, 1863 in the Detroit, Michigan area. He was the oldest of six children born to William and Mary Litogot O Hern ... so long. This would make Ford also a liaison in his company. Ford however did not deal with his workforce directly. He hired Harry Bennett as head of the infamous Ford Service Department to maintain control over his rapidly expanding following of workers. 11 Ford s indirect management of his workers would therefore disqualify him from the leader role in his company, making him a figurehead/liaison type manager. Henry Ford ...
- 1457: Genhis Khan The Great
- ... of the Na-Chung Empire, the Khan ruled all of Asia. He was nearly invulnerable. His empire stretched from Hungary to Korea and from Tibet to Russia. There were over seven hundred tribes under his control. His empire was considered one of the safest. It was said that a person could walk from one side of the empire to the other without ever having the fear of being attacked. His road ... His men never abandoned him. With the help of his men, he created the largest empire. Other leaders have dreamed of this, but none have ever come close. He also kept his entire empire under control. Other leaders who didn t even have empires half as big couldn t keep control. Since his empire was so safe many people came to visit. Marco Polo loved the empire. He wrote many things about the emperor and his land. He (Genghis) was a man of great steadfastness ...
- 1458: General George S. Patton
- General George S. PATTON Soldier, General, Pilot, Athlete, Father, Gun Owner, Hero, Legend UNLIKE many war heroes who had no intention of ever becoming famous, George Patton decided during childhood that his goal in life was to be a hero. This noble aim was first ... ahead of the American infantry with his primitive Renault tanks, receiving a Silver Star for his efforts. During the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, Patton led his tankers into battle once again but was wounded by machine gun fire while looking for help to rescue some tanks which were mired in the mud. For the Meuse-Argonne operations, Patton received a Purple Heart, a Distinguished Service Cross and a promotion to colonel. While ... was not willing to appropriate funds to build a large armoured force. Still, he carried out experiments to improve radio communications between tanks and helped invent the co-axial tank mount for cannon and machine gun. Despite all of his efforts, however, Patton reverted to his regular rank of captain in 1920. The Tank Corps was dissolved as a separate entity at the same time, with the tanks being assigned ...
- 1459: Emily Dickinson 5
- ... You realize this because of the words used to describe the scene and because of the dashes used. As the eye is looking of something it becomes cloudy. The dying person seems to have no control over the clouds covering his or her eyes, which is frantically looking for something that it can only hope to find before the clouds totally take away his or her vision. Death seems to be an uncontrollable force and seems to sweep over the dying giving them no control of what is happening to them. There is uncertainty that there is anything after death because the poem does not say so. I figured that the eye was searching for evidence of an afterlife, but ... ran around the room the observer sees the eyes journey. The eye is looking frantically for something beyond death. There seems to be a sense of panic in the dying person because they have no control over death. Then in the end the eye closes and stops searching the room. Without telling the observer what it saw, or if it saw anything. What the eye did see is permanently sealed ...
- 1460: Essay On The Life Of Frederick Douglass
- ... black children growing up on the plantation, the master was seen to be a man of great power and not to be taken lightly. This was exactly what the master wanted, a form of mental control over the youngest of the slaves that would last a lifetime. A fact from the narrative that was unexpected was that there was discrimination between slaves from different plantations concerning the wealth of their masters ... ordered Demby to get out of the creek to receive the rest of his lashes, Demby refused. Gore gave Demby to the count of three to exit the creek and on three he raised his gun and took Demby s head off with one shot of his musket. With this extreme example of absolute cruelty of the overseers and masters, Douglass gives an excellent example of the total abuse of power ...
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