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- 4041: Movie: Life, Like The Great Gatsby
- ... cats and dogs in Scott Fitzgerald's jazz age novel, The Great Gatsby. Toward the end of the novel, Nick Caraway refers to the hot summer days on Long Island as dog-days(Kehul, 118). John Kehul goes on to mention that many of the characters in the novel are portrayed in canine terms. They cynically, in the sense of the Greek root kynikos, meaning dog-like. Their bites, particularly in ...
- 4042: Robert E. Lee
- ... These usually involved dull service such as a seat on a court-martial. However, there was one such duty that proved to be much more important. In October of 1859 he was sent to quell John Brown's bloody raid at Harpers Ferry (Grimsley). In the nations capital, setting just below Arlington, there were heated debates over states' rights union verses disunion, and slavery. All the salons of Congress and in ...
- 4043: Similarities of Two Famous Tales of Love
- ... to fight with anymember of the Jets or Tony. However, Anita, Bernardo's girlfriend, approved of their love because she just wanted to see Maria happy like the Nurse. Overwhelmed by all the fighting, Baby John was much like Tybalt's peace keeping foil character, Mercutio. Lastly, Doc tried to help Tony and stop all the insanity around him like Friar Laurence. In both stories, comic relief occurred to keep the ...
- 4044: Ray Bradbury
- ... in 1962, and his teleplay of The Halloween Tree won an Emmy. Also he has written for such T.V. shows: Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the Twilight Zone and in 1953 did a screenplay for John Haston's Moby Dick. Ray Bradbury's writing has been honored in many ways, but perhaps the most unusual was when an Apollo astronaut named the Dandelion Crater on the Moon after Bradbury's novel ...
- 4045: Events leading to the American Revolution
- ... and preserve prpromote a mutually beneficial intercourse between the several constituent parts of the empite"", yet those duties were always imposed with design to restrain the commerce of one part". This statement by the colonist (John Dickinson), shows that the sole rason for new taxes is just for the British gov't to make money, at the expense of the economy of the colonies. Dickinson makes a important distinction between the ...
- 4046: Movie Review: A Time To Kill
- Movie Review: A Time To Kill I never read A Time To Kill by John Grisham because the book bored me. But I wonder why it did bore me because the movie was engrossing and entertaining. Maybe it is because Akiva Goldsman took out most of the boring parts. I ...
- 4047: Richard Nixon
- ... selected Nixon, age 39, to be his running mate. As Vice President, Nixon took on major duties in the Eisenhower Administration. Nominated for President by acclamation in 1960, he lost by a narrow margin to John F. Kennedy. In 1968, he again won his party's nomination, and went on to defeat Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and third-party candidate George C. Wallace. His accomplishments while in office included revenue ...
- 4048: The Meaning of Chow Yun-Fat (It's In His Mouth)
- ... he loves using slow motion and freeze frames to pinpoint important moments in his movies, and he saves a few of the most elegant slow-motion sequences for Chow blowing smoke and looking cool. In John Woo's over-the-top classic, Hard Boiled (the rough literal translation of the Chinese title is Spicy-Handed Gun God), Chow plays with a toothpick. There are few movie moments more violently cool than ...
- 4049: "In Cold Blood" Review
- ... similar to novels written today, and if it was published in the 1990's, it would be just as successful as it was when it was first published in 1966. Today big writers such as John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell could be compared to Capote, but they do not use real world events for their crime-fiction novels. This is what sets Capote apart from other writers and makes him one ...
- 4050: Rudyard Kipling
- ... won the Nobel prize in literature in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterized his writings. Death of both his children, Josephine and John, deeply affected his life. Both these incidents left a profound impression on his life, which his works published in the subsequent years after their deaths displays. Between 1919 and 1932 he traveled intermittently, and continued ...
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