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- 2871: The Dead: Summary
- The Dead: Summary In 1987 director John Huston brought “The Dead” to life. His interpretation of James Joyce’s short story could be verbatim to the text aside from a few added lines and scenes. This reproduction of the story must have ...
- 2872: Talk Shows and Their Effects on the Audience
- ... but one would hope it would get the attention anyway because these are a brand new type of laws that fundamentally shifts the burden of proof, and that is designed to chill free speech,” said John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy and co-author of a new book, “Mad Cow U.S.A.” The “Oprah” show that sparked this conflict aired on April 16, 1996. That was shortly ...
- 2873: Arsenic and Old Lace
- ... his Brewster family. Throughout the entire movie, Mortimer finds himself ashamed of his Brewster name. He discovers that his aunts keep twelve bodies in the basement. Mortimer also receives a visit from his lunatic brother John, who, like his aunts, murders people. While Mortimer discovers more about his insane family, he still must deal with his brother Theodore, who believes that he is President Roosevelt. Finally, Mortimer commits his brother Theodore ...
- 2874: Character Change in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House
- ... 1613-1614. Kashdan, Joanne. “A Doll’s House in a Community College.” Approaches to Teaching Ibsen’s A Doll House. Ed. Yvonne Shafer. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1985. 50-53. Lutterbie, John, and Barry Witham. “A Marxist Approach to A Doll House.” The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St Martin’s. 1999. 1630-1632.
- 2875: The Nature of Art
- ... that if the Greeks did not explore these avenues of art, then the world would not have benefited from all the works of art that have followed in the tradition of the Greek artists. Bibliography: John Boardman, Greek Art. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1985). J.J. Pollitt, The Art of Greece. (Cambridge: 1990). Susan Woodford, An Introduction to Greek Art. (London: 1986). WWW and Internet. HTTP://WWW.Indiana.edu./~kglowack ...
- 2876: Rosa Parks
- ... lost her job because of the boycott, moved to Detroit, Michigan, the following year, and again took in sewing. She also worked as a fundraiser for the NAACP. In 1965 she was hired by Congressman John Conyers, Jr., also a cvil rights leader, to manage Detroit office. She remained active in the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In 1987 she founded the Rosa and Raymond parks Institute for ...
- 2877: 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 ...
- 2878: Tragic Knowledge, Comedic Idiocy
- ... the unwashed masses of the rest of the lower class. Thee aristocracy often relied on their servants for information. Green was the man who told the king both about the uprising in Ireland and of John of Gaunt's ill condition. Green is the first one to announce, "The banished Bolingbroke repeals himself / And with uplifted arms is safe arrived / At Ravenspurgh." (II, ii, 49-51) The Queen had no idea ...
- 2879: Bungee Jumping
- ... of the practice. Atop the Golden Gate Bridge, dressed in tuxedos and top hats, the first form of bungee jumping came to existence. In 1987, bungee jumping moved to the American commercial scene. Two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman, began jumping from bridges over river gorges in the Sierras. Recognizing the sport's commercial potential, they opened Bungee Adventures in 1988. Bungee jumping spread rapidly throughout the world, ever-growing in ...
- 2880: The Hartford Whalers Are Going Going ...
- ... teaches inner city kids how to ice skate and it provides equipment. If Connecticut does not go all out to save the Whalers then we will lose all of this excellent community service (Hartford Whalers). John Rowland, the governor of Connecticut, cannot continue the take it or leave it attitude toward the Whalers because pretty soon the Whalers just may leave it. The Whalers currently have the worst lease of any ...
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