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- 4701: James Cameron
- ... Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, and he drew himself crazy trying to figure out how they had shot that film. Cameron also wrote sci-fi stories and fantasized a lot instead of doing his school work. It was actually during one boring biology class that Cameron wrote a short story which would later become the movie The Abyss. When Cameron was 17, his family moved to Orange County, California because ... 5 million the first week, but box office dropped steadily as the weeks went by. It settled with a total domestic gross of $150 million which was not that impressive when the budget was as high as $125 million. The total world gross went up to $350 million. Cameron had, since the middle of the eighties, thought about during a kind of sci-fi movie taking place a couple of days ...
- 4702: Waxing A Snowboard
- ... well lets just say the temp.. of the snow is about 20*. Well the thing you need to do is find a low temp. wax. The way you determine a low temp. wax from a high temp. wax is by the rating.. Low temp. waxes will be in a range from -20* to about 25*. A high temp. wax will be in a range from about 25* to 40*. There are waxes made for higher conditiond above 45* that are used in conditions that are referred to as, summer conditions. The wax that is used in summer conditions is a harder wax that will protect your board from sand, dust, and ice crystals. If you are riding in low temp. conditions with a high temp wax your performance will not be that good. If the conditions are going to go back and forth in temp. you should wax your board with a low temp. wax or you can ...
- 4703: Voiced Opinion
- Voiced Opinion There are several people in this plain west Texas town that are constantly turning up their noses at people who are contrasting to their high society cradle of humanity. It has gotten to where people can no longer express their individuality without having the proverbial finger shaken at them. If a person is not wearing the most elite of brands ... are petrifying to the well-grounded fashion eye. The look that is now strongly desired by outgoing youth is very much nineties. Gadzooks is presumed to carry alternative apparel, but in fact, they simply convey high dollar designer fashions to the privileged few who have no fashion sense whatsoever. These clothing lines are filled with tie-dyed, skimpy attraction-getters. They are trimmed with costly Doc Martin s and expensive jewelry. This store was designed for the high society youngsters who believe that they are acting naughty. In actuality, they are falling into fashion snare. The choices of a freethinker are not comparable to any other individual. They each have their own ...
- 4704: Indira Gandhfemalei
- ... For the Nehrus, who were permanently in the forefront of the movement, the twenty-five long years of civil disobedience and jail sentences meant a suspension of family life(Malhotra 53). Indira’s completion of school, just after her sixteenth birthday, was greeted by a telegram from her father informing her that he was once again going to jail, and, even more disturbing, that her mother, who as suspected of having ... arrest. "In India democracy has give too much license to the people," she said. "Sometimes bitter medicine has to be administered to a patient to cure him." The crisis began with the decision of a high court judge in Mrs. Gandhi’s native Allahabad, convicting her on two rather minor counts of electoral corruption-using government officials and government jeeps for her campaign. The judgment erased her annulled her election to ...
- 4705: Howard Hughes
- ... orphaned and inherited $2,000,000 and Hughes Tool Company. His uncle was Hollywood writer Rupert Hughes. Howard took his first airplane ride when he was fourteen years old. Howard Hughes attended private elementary and high school in California and Massachusetts. He attended the Rice Institute in Houston, Texas. He also attended the California Institute of Technology. Howard had a fine education because he attended highly educational schools. His father’s great ...
- 4706: Waiting For Godot
- ... of the entire play is Lucky's monologue, which might be a parody of intellectual speeches, due to weird references and the comical stutter. It is full of classical references to things with which many high school students are not familiar. Additionally, a lot of the words are distorted versions of slang words: "Belcher" as "belch," "Fartov" as "fart," "Testew" as "testes," "Cunard" as "c---," "possy" as "p----," and "Feckham" as "f ...
- 4707: Ultimate Fighting Championship
- ... a player hauled off in a stretcher. UFC doctor Dr. Joseph Estwanick has seen no serious lasting injuries to any of the participants. In a quote from Estwanick he says, "The UFC is safer than high school soccer or football." Another safety mechanism in the UFC rules is called a tap out. This signifies that they are "surrendering with honor." More than 79% of all matches have ended this way which evidently ...
- 4708: The Crucible
- ... There is a dead silence in the room. Then the girls start screaming. Abigail turns pale, and her temperature drops considerably. The camera angles in this scene are quite interesting. It starts off with a high angle tilt, just before the girls start screaming. A pan shot is used when they are screaming. It circles around the courtroom to show the expressions of the other people. An eye level shot is used when Abigail sees the spirit. Then a high angle zoom is used to simulate the bird like spirit coming down on her. In Act IV Scene visual and audio techniques are used very well. There is also a good image in this scene ... viewer is a rope swinging from side to side. This in it self says a lot. There weren’t a whole lot of camera shots in this part of the movie. One caught was a high angle tilt. The camera is focused down on the platform from way up above. Aside from that there were a few eye level shots and a low angle tilt. This was when the crowd ...
- 4709: The Color Of Water - A Search For Identity
- ... McBride felt that his mother's color was hindering him, so he began his "own process of running, emotionally disconnecting [himself] from her" (138). Though he was previously an outstanding student, he dropped out of school and began his search for someone with whom he could identify. He joined a gang made up of black boys and participated in their criminal activities. Although he physically fit in with the gang, he ... to discover the religious aspect of her identity. Her family was extremely strict in its Jewish beliefs, and her father was an Orthodox rabbi. Because her father forced her to spend her time outside of school working at his store, she became lonely and unhappy. At school, the painful name-calling she received from the other students made her feel further separated from society. With the exception of Frances, she was friendless. Ruth was "starving for love and affection" (83). When ...
- 4710: Henry VII
- ... to swear the Oath of Supremacy. He would not acknowledge that I am ranked above all foreign rulers, including the Pope and that I am the head or the Church of England, this constitutes treason, high treason. I am angry and most hurt that he now chose to go against me in more ways than one. I don’t wish to charge him with treason, but I have no choice. Thomas was offered pardon, but he still refused to accept that I could be head of the spirituality. Thus I commuted the sentence for high treason at Tyburn to the beheading in the tower. I am not attending the execution. I am on my way now, south on a midyear progress I have with me my entourage and I do ... dynasty. Today, December 12th, 1546, my guards have arrested Norfolk and Surrey and I have had them sent to the Tower. They now await trial. DATE: January 27th, 1547 Today Norfolk has been condemned a high traitor by Act of Parliament. I am dying, I will see Cranmer soon but not yet, first I will take a sleep. When Henry awoke, he could hardly speak. Around midnight the archbishop arrived, ...
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