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- 3851: Selena
- ... bankrupt and had to be shut down. So Abraham bought a bus and “Selena Y Los Dinos” began to tour the Texas countryside. At age 13 Selena had to leave 8th grade and start taking high school correspondence courses by mail. Selena sang almost exclusively Spanish. She sang a Tex-Mex pop called Tejano. They made there first recording in 1984, slowly people started to notice and love Selena, but by her ...
- 3852: Robert E. Lee
- ... of 18, Lee entered the United States Military Academy at West Point where his classmates admired him for his brilliance, leadership, and love for his work. West Point was not his first choice for a school, but there was no money left to send him to Harvard because his older brother, Charles Carter, had used it for his own studies at Harvard. He graduated from the academy with high honors in 1829 and was ranked as Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers at the age of 21. He headed for home at the age of 22 with $103.58 (Thomas 54). Lee served ...
- 3853: The Godfather: Gangster Genre
- ... by 1915, they cross the same paths, but now they are graduating to more advanced, young-adult pursuits. Tom's straight brother Mike works as a street car conductor during the day and goes to school at night, "learnin' how to be poor," according to Tom. Putty Nose offers Tom and Matt a "sweet" opportunity - a larger, more profitable heist and crime - the gun-wielding armed robbery of a fur warehouse ... justice has failed. Ostensibly, the Don is a gentle, restrained, 62 year old ageing man, sitting behind his study's desk. His face has a bulldog appearance with padded cheeks, and he speaks with a high-pitched, hoarse, raspy, gutteral mumbling accent. On his lap is a cat whose head he lovingly and gently strokes. Although he moves stiffly, he wields enormous lethal power as he determines the dispensation of justice ...
- 3854: One Hundred Years Of Solitude
- ... martialed immediately. Tibbet though proud to be chosen for the job still could not resist accepting the fact that one bomb dropped from a single aircraft could equal the force of twenty thousand tons of high explosives. Ordinarily, some two thousand bombers would be required to deliver such a payload. [ Thomas 13 ] Tibbet, immediately after being briefed, arrived at Wendover along with his Heavy Bombardment Squadron. The officers and men hated ... and stayed on the ground while his crewmembers gazed upon the empire like vultures searching for food. The purpose of these drills was to accustom the fliers to combat and the Japanese to seeing single high-flying aircraft that dropped only one bomb. The men had orders that if their given targets were weather-bound, they must under no circumstances drop their blockbusters on Hiroshima, Koto, Kokura, or Niigata. Other than ... crew practiced along the coast of Tinian with a test sample similar to the atomic bomb only without any explosives. Test bomb was designed so that the scientists could make sure that when dropped from high altitude, the bomb would still explode. In order for this test run to signify that everything had gone according to plan, the bomb was to emit a slight puff of smoke at 1,850 ...
- 3855: Educating Rita – Coursework Piece
- ... do you think they are, human? Proper students don’t read and study. RITA – Y’ what? FRANK – A joke, a joke.” Despite this she uses some sarcasm of her own. “[She is describing her old school] Nah, just the normal, y’ know; borin’, ripped up books, broken glass everywhere, knives and fights. An’ that was just in the staff room.” “Does Forster’s repeated use of the phrase ‘only connect’ suggest ... anything except the examiners terms and urges Frank to let her continue. “Here, it’s crap. So we dump that in the bin (She does so) an’ we start again.” When Rita returns from summer school at the beginning of the next act she is a different person altogether. She is wearing new second-hand clothes when she enters and is jubilant and happy. “Frank, it was fantastic!” She has moved ... hand gear in the market.” She has learnt a lot and is a long way towards her final goal of becoming ‘educated’. “I’m dead familiar with Chekhov now.” “We did him [Blake] at summer school.” She has also given up smoking. “I’ve packed it in.” She also has a flat of her own with her “flatmate, Trish” who is “dead class. Y’ know like, she’s got taste.” ...
- 3856: Elvis Presley
- ... to pursue a better life. They lived in low - income housing. He buys his clothes on the famous, Beadle Street, and he absorbs the gospel and blues that he hears there. Elvis graduated from Hughes High School in 1953. He recorded an album for his mother as a present at Sun Records in 1954. In late 1955 his recording contract was sold to RCA Records. The songs that he recorded was " My ...
- 3857: Abstract Expressionism
- ... long streaks of paint, our eyes move freely around the painting, providing some sense of unity. Another influential Abstract Expressionist was Hans Hofmann. Hofmann was born in 1880, in Weissenberg, Bavaria. He opened an art school in Munich and taught in california during the summers of 1930 to 1931. In 1932, he moved to America and opened an art school in New York soon after. "The highest three- dimensionality is two-dimensionality, which no layman can ever understand," said Hofmann. "Depth is nothing less than suggested volume. I have students who come to me painting ... we see pretty much the same amount of darks as we see lights, and, again, neither overpowers the other. Willem De Kooning was born in Rotterdam, Holland in 1905. He owned and operated an art school in Munich, and then moved to the United States when he was 22. He first did drawings, then switched to painting, using only black and white paint as a transition from the paper to ...
- 3858: Egyptian Cosmogony
- ... the music world. This had a profound affect on the self-image of many blacks during the sixties. For example, Brown s record Don t Be a Drop-Out, encouraged young people to stay in school and to get an education. He went further when he recorded Say it Loud, I m Black and I m Proud. Brown shouted out to America that he was proud to be black. His music ... but a sort of combined soft rock and Rhythm & Blues sounds. Today in 1980, there has been a resurgence of the R&B sound. Such black entertainers as Teddy Pendergrass and Stephanie Mills are riding high on the charts. Even the groups that were once popular in the sixties such as the Temptations, the Spinners and the Manhattans have enjoyed the spotlight again. What is ahead for black music? The possibilities ...
- 3859: Poe
- ... enlisted in West Point on July 1, l830 (Asselineau 410). While at West Point, Mr. Allan, who had remarried, continued in not providing Poe with enough money. Poe decided to have himself kicked out of school. Cutting classes and disregarding orders were his solutions. He was court-martialed for neglect of duties in January, 1831, and left West Point the following month (Asselineau 411). "Poe was great in three different fields , and in each one he made a reputation that would give any man a high place in literary history. Poe wrote great short stories, famous not only in his own country, but all over the world (Robinson V)." "Hawthorne, Irving, Balzac, Bierce, Crane, Hemingway and other writers have given us ...
- 3860: China In The 20th Century
- ... population living in the countryside and about 65 percent of the national income generated in the agricultural sector. (Liu and Yeh 1965, 66, 212) At that time, very few people could read, inflation was so high that prices sometimes rose daily, and the tenants were greatly exploited by landlords (Kristof and Wudunn,61). The period of 1949 to 1952 was largely the reconstruction and rehabilitation period. Land reform began promptly after ... s Republic. The Communist halted inflation, restoring confidence in its new paper currency, divided up the land, tried to end up opium addiction and prostitution, banned child marriages, and encouraged the peasants to go to school and breathed new hopes into the people. It was the first time a moderate degree of equality ever existed for most of the Chinese people (62). Most people were delighted by the communist, reconstruction works ...
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