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- 1961: A Separate Peace - Symbolism
- ... the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace" (Knowles, 832). As he watches the snowball fight, Gene thinks to himself, "There they all were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high IQs and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowballs"(843). Another of the principal themes in this novel is the theme of maturity. The two rivers that are part of the Devon School property symbolize how Gene and Finny grow up through the course of the novel. The Devon River is preferred by the students because it is above the dam and contains clean water. It is ...
- 1962: A Separate Peace - Symbols
- ... the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace" (Knowles, 832). As he watches the snowball fight, Gene thinks to himself, "There they all were now, the cream of the school, the lights and leaders of the senior class, with their high IQs and expensive shoes, as Brinker had said, pasting each other with snowballs"(843). Another of the principal themes in this novel is the theme of maturity. The two rivers that are part of the Devon School property symbolize how Gene and Finny grow up through the course of the novel. The Devon River is preferred by the students because it is above the dam and contains clean water. It is ...
- 1963: Woodstock
- ... t conform to society's standards and advocates a liberal attitude and lifestyle. Most of the people at Woodstock were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school or college students from middle class homes ("The Big Woodstock, 33"). But at Woodstock they exhibited to the world many of the hippie values and life styles, from psychedelic clothing to spontaneous, unashamed nudity to ... is widely believed that a large amount of the population at the festival was smoking pot or tripping on acid, and if you weren't, there is a great chance that you had a contact high throughout the festivities. As the saying goes, "if you remember the '60's, you weren't at Woodstock." The drug laws were suspended throughout the festival because the police were afraid of a potentially ...
- 1964: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schonberg and Igor Stravinsky, all of whom he later celebrated in many of his own classically-inspired compositions: 'Theme For Sunday,' 'Sunset Tower,' 'Concerto To End All Concertos.' Upon graduation from Bell High School he worked during the day as a rehearsal pianist in dance halls and theaters. At night he paid his dues in a succession of after-hours bars, clip joints and five dollar-a-night speakeasies ... country had ever known and I probably would have been a millionaire many times over. I also would have been bored out of my skull and no doubt ended up on some 'pillow farm' somewhere high atop the Hollywood Hills." Anyone who was following the band at this time knew he was sincere about continuing to seek out new and innovative ways to make the Orchestra sound as exciting and ...
- 1965: Rosa Lee Parks
- ... Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress. Rosa Parks was well educated in a rural schoolhouse. When she completed her education in Pine Level at the age of eleven her mother enrolled her in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private institution. She went to Alabama State Teachers’ College for Negroes for eleven and twelth grade. She was unable to graduate because of her grandmother’s illness, Rosa Edwards. After her grandmother’s death she decided to return to school, but her mother got sick so she had to stay at home with her mother. Rosa then married Raymond Parks on December 18, 1932. He supported Rosa’s desire to complete her formal educaton ,and in 1934 she recieved her high school diploma. The whole boycott started when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus when the bus- driver told her to move so a white customer could sit down. She ...
- 1966: Jimi Hendrix: A Reflection Of A Man Through His Music
- ... Jimi listened to the music which affected his music so greatly later: “‘everyone from Buddy Holly to Muddy Waters and through Chuck Berry way back to Eddie Cochrane’”. He played in a few bands in high school, but then dropped out before his senior year. After working as a laborer for a few months, Jimi decided that he was not destined for that line of work, so in 1959, he enlisted into ... publicly allowed it to show through in his music (Redding 38). Jimi said it best in “If 6 was 9” on Axis: Bold As Love when he said “I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.” Hendrix’ first forays into professional music came after he received his honorable discharge from service in the summer of 1962. His background in R&B, a type of music dominated by black artists at ...
- 1967: Gap Between Rich And Poor
- ... network: common membership in specific social institutions and friendships based on social interactions within those institutions. Social cohesion creates a group identity where members of the social groups are seen to be exclusive and of high status. “The social bonding can be seen as one reason why the social rich are cohesive enough to dominate the rest of society despite their numbers.” (Domhoff, G. William, Who Rules America? p.72) Used ... with a set of routines and traditions that encompass most of their waking hours” (p.83). The students graduate feeling separate and superior over those outside of the upper class community. One alumnus stated, “At school, we were made to feel somewhat better [than other people] because of our class”. There is more funding through parental and alumni support, therefore private schools are able to offer a wider variety of classes ... tools in a comfortable learning environment. The schools in the poor neighborhoods are unable to provide for their students in any of these ways. One student described how she had to take a shower after school to remove the plaster from her hair. Kozol asked a principal what he considered helped in making a good school. His reply was, “ The building and teachers are part of it, of course. But ...
- 1968: Stephen Bantu Biko
- ... and his mother was a housemaid. Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Biko was just 17 years old when he became a political activist. He started to become active when he got expelled from Lovedale High School and his brother was arrested in a nationwide police crackdown on political activists. He ended up graduating in 1966 at a boarding school in Natal named St. Francis College. By then, his mind and character were those of a leader. He had a quick brain with huge mental force and ideas. He had the gift to cut ...
- 1969: 2Pac Shakur
- ... he showed us how hard life can be. Tupac was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1971. His family and he moved to Baltimore, Maryland early in his life. He took Performing Arts classes at his school; his teachers said he looked promising. He never finished school. He dropped out and moved to a small town outside Oakland, CA (“Associated”), however he did go to college and finish his high school credits. All his life he was raised by his mom, with his sister. He always led a violent life; April 5, 1993, he assaulted a fellow rapper with a baseball bat. October 31, ...
- 1970: Magnificent Minds Of The Renai
- The high renaissance of the 1500's was a time of scientific, philosophic, and artistic awe and inspiration. Many new discoveries were being made in the field of science, and philosophers expressed their assumptions on the world ... perfected around 1508, Raphael was sent to Rome to decorate four rooms of the Vatican Palace with scenic frescoes. These four rooms contain some of Raphael's finest work, such as the magnificent fresco The School of Athens which depicts an open building scene in which Plato, Aristotle, and other ancient philosophers are in deep contemplation and conversation. In addition to Raphael's Vatican Palace "project," he was also appointed to ... the Chigi Chapel. Raphael died in Rome on his 37th birthday, April 6, 1520. And even now, Raphael is remembered as one of the greatest artists of all time. A third man living during the High Renaissance was the spectacular thinker, Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was a man of epic proportions. Born in 1452 in the small town of Vinci, Italy, Leonardo grew up during the time of ...
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