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- 201: John Lennon
- John Lennon John Lennon was a great song writer and musician. He played the rhythm guitar, the piano, and sang. He was in the most popular group in the history of rock music. In 1959, John founded this group, called The Beatles. The original Beatles were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best. Brian Epstein became the manager of the Beatles in 1961. Epstein made ... Yesterday And since you've gone you're just Another Day How do you sleep? These lines were directed to Paul McCartney. John Lennon recorded seven albums during 1970-1975 which included Imagine--1971 and Rock and Roll--1975. John semi-retired from music in 1975-1980. He was raising his son, Sean, with wife, Yoko Ono. In 1980, John and Yoko released Double Fantasy. By November, their album was climbing to ...
- 202: The 1960s
- ... for housing hippies at night and for socializing during the day. As the 1960's progressed, the youth in America united. "In 1969 400,000 young people materialized for three dizzying days to listen to rock and blues music, to wear funny clothing or no clothes at all, to talk, sing, dance, clap hands, to drink beer or smoke pot and make love-but mostly to marvel again and again that ... the 1960's a radical group called the hippies shocked America with their alternative lifestyle and radical beliefs. They were young people who enjoyed life to its fullest. They used illegal drugs and listened to rock and roll music. With their alternative beliefs and practices they stunned America's conservative middle class. Concerned chiefly protesting the Vietnam War and with civil rights they made a huge impact on the America and the ...
- 203: Robert Johnson
- ... left the recording studio on Sunday, June 20, 1937. He hooked up briefly with Shines and they traveled together for a short while, performing throughout Texas. Then, while traveling through Arkansas, Shines stayed in Little Rock with his mother while Robert continued on. He met up again with Robert shortly after and once again began traveling. Fourteen months after Johnsons final recordings in Dallas, he was murdered. There are many ... one of the greatest blues artists to ever live, died in November of 1938, while his mother hung his guitar upon the wall. (Lomax 15) Robert Johnson contributed much to the world of blues and rock n roll. Several of his songs were redone by various artists, including the Rolling Stones ("Love in Vain"), and Eric Clapton ("Crossroads", "From Four Till Late") among others. "His walking Bass notes and poignant slide phrasing ...
- 204: Kurt Cobain
- ... line of a not-so-popular song he says, "I'd rather be dead than be cool." It seemed like the once unknown punkish Seattle band moved mainstream overnight. Nirvana caught on fast and changed rock and roll music forever. Nirvana, along with a few other Seattle bands, molded the music of the 90's, alternative. Where did it all start for Kurt? Kurt Donald Cobain was born February 20, 1967. He was ... note over microphones. The media went wild and some obsessed fans commited suicide in tribute. The slight soft-spoken Cobain will be remembered as the architect of grunge. He's responsible for the most creative rock music of the last decade. In his music he didn't communicate in complete sentences or elaborate arguments, his lyrics were a stream of conscieness insights to the short attention span of his audience. ...
- 205: Existentialism And Theatre
- ... like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the top of a mountain, only to have it roll back down again. For Camus, this related heavily to everyday life, and he saw Sisyphus an "absurd" hero, with a pointless existence. Camus felt that it was necessary to wonder what the meaning of ...
- 206: Buddhism And The Poetry Of Jac
- ... an inherently Buddhist view of the world through his own eyes. I stand on my head on Desolation Peak And see that the world is hanging Into an ocean of endless space The mountains dripping rock by rock Like bubbles in the void Here Kerouac offers imagery of a world contrived and almost surreal in it s nature. It is as though he is recognizing the true nature of the mountain and the ... work, don t have to marry, Don t have to carry burdens, don t have to gnaw and kneel, the taste of rain Why kneel? Don t even have to sit, Hozomeen, Like an endless rock camp go ahead & blow, Explode & go, I wont say nothin, neither this rock, And my outhouse doesnt care, And I got no body Here Kerouac relies on intuition to execute a Zen rambling, confusing ...
- 207: Creative Writing: Year Long Period of Solitary Confinement and What I Would Bring With Me
- ... the life deficient South Pole. My computer would also provide a source of entertainment with games and programs I could use to pass the time. I would bring my alpine ski equipment along with my rock climbing gear to the earth's frozen basement. The two passions of my life are snow skiing and rock climbing. On the Antarctic continent lie many mountain ranges that have the world's driest and most plentiful powder, and the most magnificent rock and ice faces and cliffs. These conditions are a skier's and rock climber's heaven. The mountains could provide me with a sense of extreme pleasure and make my stay in the earth' ...
- 208: Mrs Dalloway
- ... through his flesh; their stiff leaves rustled by his head. Music began clanging against the rocks up here. It is a motor horn down in the street, he muttered; but up here it cannoned from rock to rock, divided, met in shocks of sound which rose in smooth columns (that music should be visible was a discovery) and became an anthem, an anthem twined round now by a shepherd boy's piping (That ... through his flesh; their stiff leaves rustled by his head. Music began clanging against the rocks up here. It is a motor horn down in the street, he muttered; but up here it cannoned from rock to rock, divided, met in shocks of sound which rose in smooth columns (that music should be visible was a discovery) and became an anthem, an anthem twined round now by a shepherd boy' ...
- 209: The Influence That Hsi Yu Chi
- ... to make their observations. The book is very straight forward and littered with short poetry verses throughout. We are soon introduced to the main character, the monkey who is born from the embryo of a rock. The book describes the rock as having nine perforations and eight holes to correspond with the nine palaces of heaven and the eight trigrams. I could find absolutely no reason why the rock would have to have markings which correspond with divine symbols and I am sure that the author meant nothing by writing that they do, but apparently, many scholars have written long and tedious essays ...
- 210: Morocco
- ... export. Casablanca is the main industrial center. Mining employs less than 2 per cent of Morocco's labor force but is highly important to the economy. Morocco is the world's largest exporter of phosphate rock, which is used to produce fertilizers and other chemicals. Morocco has about two-thirds of the world's known reserves of phosphate rock. Other minerals include iron ore, lead, zinc, coal, copper, and natural gas. Energy sources. About three-quarters of Morocco's energy needs are supplied by imports, mostly of oil. The rest of the nation's energy requirements comes from its own coal, natural gas, and hydroelectric resources. Phosphate rock and phosphate products account for about half of Morocco's export income. Other exports include fruits, fish, vegetables, clothing, and such handicrafts as leather goods and rugs. The chief imports are oil, industrial equipment, ...
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