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- 3601: Jimi Hendrix
- ... 1997, yet another attempt was made to recreate the album Hendrix was working on at the time of his death, but this time the project was overseen by Hendrix co-producer Eddie Kramer and historian John McDermott--and it had the Hendrix family stamp of approval. The seventeen-track album, First Rays of the New Rising Sun, is arguably the best assemblage of Hendrix leftovers so far. Despite these transgressions against ...
- 3602: Stephen Sondheim
- ... straightforward music, reaching back beyond Berlin to barbershop and Stephen Foster, and almost to our own time with an ironic parody of the Carpenters. Not everyone feels comfortable watching Lee Harvey Oswald singing along with John Wilkes Booth, but, in stretching the possibilities of the musical, Sondheim is seeking to prove that the form has just as wide a range as the straight play. And for that we should all be ...
- 3603: Violence In Sports / Hockey
- ... be done in sport because the violence is a part of the game which would only hurt its popularity. The reasons that the violence is occurring in sport is due to six theories according to John Schneider. "The violence in sport mirrors the violence found in society, violence as the result ofeconomic incentives, the influence of crowd behavior on player violence, genetic causation for player aggression, learning theory and player aggression ...
- 3604: Utilitarianism
- ... actions should be directed toward achieving the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. This objection is also considered the aim of all legislation and is the ultimate criterion of all social institutions. Philosopher John Mill responds to an objection about Utilitarianism in the text. The object is that utilitarians are moralists.They believe that a person is judged by their actions and not by their character. For example, if ...
- 3605: Science And Religion Rely On Each Other
- ... the two genres that it was (and in some ways, still is) voilently debated as to which would be taught in schools. The teaching of evolution in a Tennessee high school by Darwinian views earned John Scopes a trial and a guilty verdict, simply because religion was the favored way of thought. The very debate of how Science and Religion interact was brought into a new light by two men, each ...
- 3606: The Advancement of War
- ... Idealists insist that that the threat of nuclear war has created the final driving force necessary for the outlawry of war, for disarmament, and for world peace based on world government and world law. Pope John XXIII seems to have thought if we need to continue unrelentingly to explore possibilities for arms control and disarmament. He hopes for settlement based on mutual faith and understanding. The more pessimistic see in mutual ...
- 3607: Sir William Lawrence Bragg
- ... He enrolled at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in 1909 to continue studying mathematics, but switched to physics at the suggestion of his father. Lawrence Bragg began research under the direction of British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson in 1912. Bragg served in the British army during World War I, developing techniques to locate the enemy by the sound of their artillery fire. After the war, he held positions at Trinity College ...
- 3608: Sports and Nationalism
- ... made governmental funds available to all Canadian athletes starting at the amateur level. Massive restructuring of coaching programs and athletic facilities were carried out to ensure that Canadian athletes were properly developed for international competition. John Munro, who was one of the heaviest supporters of Bill C-131 expressed his opinion on the importance of sports as a "nationalist" tool by saying, "many nations, most notably the Soviet Union, its Eastern ...
- 3609: The United States has Changed from a Melting Pot to a Vast Culture with Varying Racial Backgrounds.
- ... to explode, . . . a cult of ethnicity erupted both between non Anglo whites and among nonwhite minorities. (22). Until recently, the only country who has made a multiethnic society work, was the United States. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur said, in America ³ . . . individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men. Is this still true? The creation of the U.S. . . . was not to preserve old cultures but to ...
- 3610: The Hoa Lo Prison Camp
- ... be answered. However, if any men remained and died there, they should know they died with dignity, they died for their country-America. Bibliography Colvin, Rod. First Heroes. New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc., 1987. Hubbell, John. P.O.W. New York: Reader's Digest Press, 1976. Blakey, Scott. Prisoner At War. New York: Anchor Press, 1978.
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