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- 2251: Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
- ... for a popular band called Nirvana. Another person was Cole Porter. Porter was one of the most famous songwriters in the United States in the early twentieth century. The third person was the fiction writer, John Cheever. Cheever obtained the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had psychological problems ... 1951, Porter spent several months undergoing electroshock therapy. Porter was also an alcoholic during his time of fame. In these ways, Porter's personality and social behavior were also effected by fame. Schaller(1997) indicated John Cheever got a National Book Award in 1958. Cheever was on the cover of Time in 1964. In 1975 he entered an alcohol treatment program. He had been an alcoholic for quite a while before ...
- 2252: It Feels it Just the Same: Animal Experimentation
- ... v. 28, Winter 1997. pages 40-43 Chambers, K. Tate, and Katherine Hines. “Recent Developments Concerning the Use of Animals in Medical Research.” Journal of Legal Medicine, v. 4, March 1983. pages 109-127 Cottingham, John. “A Brute to the Brutes?” Philosophy, v. 53, October 1978. pages 551-559. Day, Nancy. Animal Experimentation-Cruelty or Science? New York, NY: Enslow Publishers, Inc, 1994. pages 8-15 French, Richard D. “Animal Experimentation ... 1983. pages 475. James, Carolyn. “A Rabbit’s-Eye View.” Science ‘84, v. 5, March 1984. pages 88-89. Perry, Tina. “Unsafe on Any Plate” Animal Issues, v. 29, Summer 1998. pages 60-64 Pranger, John. “Not a Pretty Picture” Animal Rights Resource. http://arrs.envirolink.org/suppSpeak/not_pretty.html Pratt, Dallas. Painful Experiments on Animals. New York, NY: Argus Archives, 1976, pages 207. Regan, Tom. The Case for Animal ...
- 2253: The Tempest
- ... and dramatic significance of Antonio On June 2, 1609, five hundred colonists set out in nine ships from Plymouth in association with the imperial Virginia Company. It was the aim of this expedition to fortify John Smith's colony in Virginia. While eight of the party's vessels securely arrived at Jamestown, the flagship, called the "Sea Adventure" , was conspicuously absent. This ship --which carried the fleet's most valuable cargo, the admiral Sir John Somers and the future governor of Virginia Sir George Somers --was separated from the other eight during a fierce storm off the coast of Bermuda, the legendary Isle of Devils, dreaded by superstitious sixteenth-century ...
- 2254: The Cybernetic Plot of Ulysses
- ... Ulysses. But lest the listener persist in harboring doubts, as we say, concerning the cybernetic signature of the Joycean narrative, let me anticipate the first sentence of the 'Lotus-Eaters' episode: BY LORRIES ALONG SIR JOHN ROGERSON'S QUAY MR BLOOM walked soberly, past Windmill lane, Leask's the linseed crusher's, the postal telegraph office. As befits the narcotic theme of the episode, this first sentence is itself not quite ... signal, to put meaning to narcotic sleep, but again (as with Simon Dedalus' telegram about "Nother dying") Joyce is fascinated by the meanings born of random error. Like the bicycle tire's lemniscate that fascinates John Shade, in Nabokov's PALE FIRE, the noise that seems to spell out its own new meaning offers another kind of pseudo-signal: not one without an intended audience, this time, but one without a ...
- 2255: Alan Dean Foster
- ... magazines followed. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was bought by Betty Ballantine and published by Ballantine Books in 1972. It incorporates a number of changes suggested by famed SF editor John W. Campbell. Since then, Foster's sometimes humorous, occasionally poignant, but always entertaining short fiction has appeared in most of the major SF magazines as well as in original anthologies and several "Best of the ... a turn-of-the-century miners' brothel, along with assorted dogs, cats, fish, several hundred house plants, visiting javelina, porcupines, eagles, red-tailed hawks, skunks, coyotes, cougars, and the ensorceled chair of the nefarious Dr. John Dee. He is presently at work on several new novels and film projects.
- 2256: A Separate Peace - A Journey T
- The novel A Separate Peace includes many important themes. The author, John Knowles, was able to make the book more realistic because of his personal experiences. Knowles, like the characters in the book attended a boarding school. Many of his dilemmas were similar to those of Gene ... Finny. Fifteen years later Gene was able to terminate his perennial guilt and forgive himself. Gene had finally matured from an insecure child to a self-accepting adult. Each theme in A Separate Peace by John Knowles has a major impact on the reader. All teens experience the good and bad elements of friendship, conformity, and growing up. This novel helps us all realize that accepting yourself and being true to ...
- 2257: The Role Of The Wife Of Bath A
- ... follow the masculine roles of the day, she believes in supremacy over her spouse. Likewise, she supports the antifeminist beliefs of matrimony, quoting from such passages of the bible which include the Wedding at Cana (John 2:1) and Christ's reproof of the Samaritan woman (John 4:16-18). However, as she supports these views she does so from a female perspective, poking fun perhaps at the fact that while she abhors marriage as a rule, she certainly enjoys it! It ...
- 2258: Standardization of the English Language
- ... the border between Midland and Southern and its dialect shows certain characteristic Southern features. Written London English of the close of the fourteenth century as used by a number of Middle English authors, such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer, had not achived the status of a regional standard but was soon to become the basis for a new national literary standard of English. It was the language of the capital ... the "spelling-reformers" first to appear on the scene, beginning with a book in Latin by Sir Thomas Smith, entitled: De recta et emendata Linguae Anglicanae Scriptione (1568). Soon followed on the same subject by John Hart An Orthographie (1569), William Bullokar and Richard Mulcaster's book The right writing of our English tung (1582), Simon Daines Orthoepia Anglicana (1640). However, none of these achived anything like the stabilizing effect on ...
- 2259: The Role of Entertainers as Educators
- ... troubadours (Sebastian "). A famous early fifteenth-century manuscript at the University of Heidelberg contains hundreds poems by the most famous meistersingers as well as illustrations which are "as entertaining as they are instructive" (Young 44). John Wilbye represented another new form of entertainer, the madrigalist, and provided studies of English landscapes in the words and music of his madrigals (Young 7'). Again, there is a wealth of evidence to show that ... The Women Troubadours. New York: Paddington Press, '976. Burdick, Jacques. Theater. New York: Newsweek Books, '974. Edwards, Scott N. "Homer." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Flaxman, Jacob. "Dutch Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Gasset, John. "Spanish Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Grunfield, Frederic V. Music. New York: Newsweek Books, '974. Henderson, Florence. "Greek Literature." Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. '996 ed. Hering, Jack. The Gypsies: Wanderers in Time. New York: Hawthorne ...
- 2260: Men Fear Death
- ... people see death as the end, almost wasting the talent the person could have had or what they could have done. This is the case in the literary work titled Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther. This is a story written by Gunther about his child John Jr. It seems that in society we view death in a young person with an especially sad expression. In the story, the parents of Johnny do whatever they can to support their son in his ...
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