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- 631: A History Of The Beatles
- ... countless more, and have sold more copies than those of any other band in history. The roots of the Beatles date back to Liverpool, England in the late 1950s. Inspired by the growing skiffle craze, John Lennon bought a guitar in March 1957 and formed a skiffle group called the Quarrymen, named after his high school, Quarry Bank. The lineup changed frequently, but by October 1959 it consisted of Lennon, his ... was withdrawn, reissued the following week with a new, mundane cover of a steamer trunk. (Today copies of the album with the original cover are worth thousands of dollars.) Further controversy plagued the group when John Lennon claimed in a newspaper interview that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." Many radio stations stopped playing their songs, and protesters appeared outside their concerts. Meanwhile the group was increasingly under the influence ... to as The White Album but officially called The Beatles, was released in November of 1968, and featured a guest appearance by Eric Clapton on the single "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." That same month John Lennon released a solo album recorded with his controversial new lover, Japanese artist Yoko Ono, entitled Unfinished Music No. 1 - Two Virgins. Late in 1968 an animated film inspired by the song "Yellow Submarine" ...
- 632: Eye Deep in Hell: Book Review
- Eye Deep in Hell: Book Review This book, “Eye Deep in Hell”, was written by John Ellis. It deals with the way in which trench warfare was conducted on the “Western Front” during World War I. He not only talks about the tactics used in this type of warfare, but he ... to almost put us in the shoes of the men whom were actually there, making us realize what it was like being on the front line of World War I, fighting on the European countryside. John Ellis’s thesis or statement of proposition in this book is really quite simple. However, he is very in depth in his book when showing it to you, therefore drawing it out over the length ... codes of conduct that created a certain amount of order. These rules created some sort of meaning for the men in the eyes of the chaos in which they were living through. The motive of John Ellis in “Eye Deep in Hell” is to show what these men incurred in the treacherous conditions of trench warfare on the European countryside in World War I. Probably even more important than that, ...
- 633: Dark City
- Dark City I did my book report on Dark City by Frank Lauria. The main characters in the book were John Murdoch, Mr. Hand, and Mr. Book. Since Murdoch woke up in the icy bathtub in a strange room, he has been suspicious of everything. He is wanted for a series of brutal murders which he ... that he is being pursued by an alien race who call themselves the Strangers. They want him because he is immune to their brain manipulation, so he is a threat to their bizarre world order. John Murdoch is the protagonist in this book and he seeks to unravel the twisted puzzle of his past and identity. Mr. Hand is a smart character who also possesses the method of tuning. When he ... He is very wise and thinks up the procedures for taking over the city. He assigns each one of the strangers to a sector in the city. When he got news that a man named John Murdoch was immune to their tunning, he knew he has to think up something fast. Mr. Book can also tune. Same with the other Strangers. The secondary characters were Inspector Frank Bumstead, Dr. Daniel ...
- 634: Grease: Theme
- ... GREASE is a cult favorite that appeals to everyone from teenagers to nostalgic baby boomers, even people like me who aren't too fond of musicals. So what's the appeal? Let's start with John Travolta. He's been enjoying the comeback of a lifetime these past two years and so have all his old movies. Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy, they get rented out of the video store ... on a daily basis. People are so Travolta-hungry they watch the dread American Bandstand reruns on VH1 waiting for the one episode he performed (i.e. lip-synched) in. Then there's Olivia Newton-John. She's actually pretty in GREASE, you can't say that about her "Physical" and "Twist of Fate" days of the 80's. This is also her only good movie -- you can't say anything ... station across the country is playing the "Grease Megamix," a medley of the three most popular songs from the movie ("You're the One That I Want," "Greased Lightning" and "Summer Nights"). Travolta and Newton-John's songs in the film have become karaoke favorites, and the movie soundtrack is actually back in the upper reaches of the charts. Travolta, the archetype of cool, plays Danny Zuko, car- loving greaser ...
- 635: Canterbury Tales - Humour
- ... Nicholas, a lowly clerk, portraying a higher class gentleman when in essence he just wants a sexual pursuit and the meaning of his name uses an ironic humor to show he is an idiot. With John, the carpenter, Alison, his wife, and Absalom, the priest, in "The Miller's Tale" they also put on "airs" of being an upper class citizen.. They also bring you back to the basic idea they ... to interest you in the story. Another way Chaucer uses humor in these tales is his choice of language. In "The Miller's Tale" Chaucer uses the word "pivetee" for God's secret affairs when John talks to Nicholas in his room. "Men sholde nat knowe of Goddes privetee" (Oxford, line 346). It appears again in reference not to God but to the affair of Nicholas and Alison. This is a ... t played down his dream. Nicholas wouldn't have been "speared" if Alison wouldn't have had teased Absalom at the window. One more way Chaucer uses humor is the actual events or situations themselves. John is easily doped by being naive which leads to his downfall. Nicholas being a scholar in astronomy tells john that he has seen the next Noah's flood and should tie tubs to the ...
- 636: Watergate Scandal
- ... of espionage against the political opponents and a trail of intrigue that led to some of the highest officials in the land. The officials involved in the Watergate scandal were former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell, White House Counsel John Dean, White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldman, White House Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman, and President Nixon. On April 30, 1973, nearly one year after a grand jury investigation of the burglary and arrest of the people involved, President Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman ...
- 637: Abraham Lincoln 4
- ... of the party and was one of the authors of the removal of the capital to Springfield, where he settled in 1837. After his admission to the bar (1836), he entered into successive partnerships with John T. Stuart, Stephen T. Logan, and William Herndon, and soon won recognition as an effective and resourceful attorney. In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, the daughter of a prominent Kentucky banker, and despite her somewhat ... 1860 the Republicans, anxious to attract as many different factions as possible, nominated Lincoln for the presidency on a platform of slavery restriction, internal improvements, homesteads, and tariff reform. In a campaign against Douglas and John C. Breckinridge, two rival Democrats, and John Bell, of the Constitutional Union party, Lincoln won a majority of the electoral votes and was elected president. Immediately after the election, South Carolina, followed by six other Southern states, took steps to secede ...
- 638: Nicholas Ferrar
- ... of the fens was bad for his health and he traveled to Europe, spending time in the warmer climate of Italy. On his return to England he found his family had fared badly. His brother John had become over extended financially and the Virginia Company was in danger of loosing its charter. Nicholas dedicated himself to saving the family fortune and was successful. He served for a short time as Member ... English Protestant Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire, England. After Ferrar was ordained as a deacon, he retired and started his little community. Ferrar was given help and support with his semi- religious community by John Collet, as well as Collet˙s wife and fourteen children. They devoted themselves to a life of prayer, fasting and almsgiving (Matthew 6:2,5,16). The community was founded in 1626, when Nicholas was 34 ... Little Gidding, a village which had been discarded since the Black Death (a major outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century), a few miles off the Great North Road, and probably recommended by John Williams, Bishop of Lincoln whose palace was in the nearby village of Buckden. About thirty people along with Mary Ferrar (Ferrars˙ mother) moved into the manor house. Nicholas became spiritual leader of the community. ...
- 639: The JFK Assassination: Conspiracy or Single-Gunman?
- ... said, "The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it." Although this may sound ludicrous, we can see many example of this in the world's history. One example would have to be the John Fitzgerald Kennedy assassination. For over thirty years the people of the United States were led to believe that a single gunman shot and killed Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p ... Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Later, police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, at a nearby theater. By the next morning, Oswald was booked for the murder of President John F. Kennedy. Two days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner, while he was being moved from the city to the county jail. At a glance, the above story sounds as ... be an open-and-shut case. After all, according to the facts above, Oswald must have killed Kennedy. However, you must take a deeper look into this case. Many people who witnessed the murder of John F. Kennedy dispute the facts above, saying that they heard shots from places besides the book depository, and other things that may contradict what is stated above. One of these witnesses, Abraham Zapruder, captured ...
- 640: Technology Spontaneously Approaching `Humanity' With the Passage of Time
- ... definition, tools are designed specifically for certain tasks, and as technological tools, the T800 and the replicant are deigned to meet specific specifications. In Terminator 2, the T800 is a multipurpose cyborg assigned to save John Connor, given a series of “mission parameters,” initially characterized by his computer logic. He often advises John based on permutations of the T1000's next move, similar to the way a chess computer decides what move to make next. Just as the T800 is designed to perform solely as a unemotional computer ... already changed. Such a process implies an exponential curve, characterized by a extremely slow rate of change at the time short after their creation followed by rapid increases. The T800 is extremely slow to understand John's justification for why “you just can't go around killing people,” because a purely logical brain cannot impose new boundaries on its decisions without parameters. In other words, logical reasoning requires that all ...
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