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- 271: Lord of the Flies: Opportunity
- ... have been away from adults, the children will feel remorseful. Also, after the boys have been absent from structured discipline, they become blatant savages and retain absolutely no innocence. When Piggy and Ralph visit Castle Rock to get back Piggy's glasses, Golding says: Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. The rock struck Piggy. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across that square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. (200) Without apprehension, Roger performs the horrible and violent act of killing Piggy. Roger has now been without adults to discipline ...
- 272: Siddhartha
- ... waterfall and there with them at all times and yet it is always going, always flowing. Later, when Siddhartha again meets Govinda he tells Govinda of what he has learned. He first shows Govinda a rock, and explains how the rock is not just a rock now and maybe something else later, but that it is all things now; that it is everything it will ever be at this moment, because these different forms are only separated by time, which ...
- 273: Heros Of The Sixties Counter C
- ... was at the Human Be-In in January, 1967. Chet Helms-Chet Helms hailed from Texas, where a strong interest in civil rights and social issues attracted him to the Haight-Ashbury community. Believing that rock and roll provided a means to promote those issues, he formed a group called Big Brother and the Holding Company. Shortly afterwards, he took over the reins of a struggling concert promotion enterprise called The Family Dog ...
- 274: Noise Reduction In Hearing Aids
- ... noise reduction techniques in hearing aids is directly related to a reduction in hearing aid complaints, and an increase in client satisfaction. The directional microphone has been a valuable source for noise reduction since early Rock and Roll musicians wanted to reduce feedback during live performances as they got louder and louder. A hearing aid fitted with a directional microphone receives benefit from the assumption that a person will most likely want to ...
- 275: Australia
- ... tails serve as a counterbalance during locomotion and as a prop when standing upright. Kangaroo sizes and characteristics vary widely. There are burrowing rat kangaroos, tree kangaroos with shortened hind legs and exceedingly long tails, rock wallabies with granulated footpads for gripping, pademelons, and quokkas. The largest species are the grey (or forester) kangaroo and the red kangaroo. Males of both species may exceed 8 feet (2.4 meters) from nose ... sea snakes) are fatal to humans. Among the nonvenomous are blind or worm snakes, tree snakes, file snakes, and 13 species of pythons that suffocate their prey by constriction. The longest is the amethystine, or rock, python, which averages 11 1/2 feet (3.5 meters), and whose maximum length is 28 feet (8.5 meters). The most widespread is the common carpet snake. All 65 species of venomous snakes are ... natural and cultural sites have been identified, inventoried, and protected systematically only since 1970. National parks are intended primarily for public recreation. Other reserves are dedicated to protecting such significant or endangered features as prehistoric rock art, sacred or ceremonial aboriginal sites, wilderness areas, marine and terrestrial habitats, and sites of historic or scientific interest. Australia has five major zoos: Taronga Park, Sydney; Royal Melbourne Zoological Gardens; Adelaide Zoo; Perth ...
- 276: Changes During The 1950s-1990s
- ... effects. Literature was a main form of entertainment and leisure in the 1950s it still is in 1990s although not quite as popular. In the 50s the main form of music was country & western and rock 'n' roll. Now in the 90s people listen to a greater variety of different Styles of music. Such as techno, rap, r ' n' b, alternative, folk, soul etc. Sport was a poppular form of entertainment and leisure ...
- 277: Trespasser: Computer Game Review
- ... instance, if you throw a barrel into a pond, it will float and bob. Throw another barrel at that one, and they will react realistically based on the momentum of the projectile. Throw in a rock, and it will sink. Trespasser also features some interesting sound technology and light sourcing techniques to add to the realistic environment. Working with the realistic physics is a real time sound system based on your character's actual manipulation of the environment. Sounds are generated based on composition, structure, and velocity of two objects colliding. What this means is that if you throw a rock and hit a barrel, it will sound different than if the same rock hit a tree. The sound is top-notch, with great ambient sound effects, and effective dinosaur sounds, most coming quite close to what the movies had. The music kicks in at certain times and ...
- 278: The 1950s-1990s
- ... effects. Literature was a main form of entertainment and leisure in the 1950s it still is in 1990s although not quite as popular. In the 50s the main form of music was country & western and rock 'n' roll. Now in the 90s people listen to a greater variety of different Styles of music. Such as techno, rap, r ' n' b, alternative, folk, soul etc. Sport was a poppular form of entertainment and leisure ...
- 279: Jazz
- ... famous song "Giant Steps". Later he composed songs which were for modal jazz, such as "My Favorite Things". Jazz began to fall in the late 60s when younger audiences were exposed to soul music and rock. Jazz musicians developed fusion, a combination of jazz and rock, to gain back the interest of the nation. Once again Miles Davis participated, totally changing his style to record and play in fusion bands. From the 80s to the present all forms of jazz are ... of many styles. He was first influenced with bebop, and he improvised on the trumpet with a "cool" style soon to be copied by many other musicians. Later in his life he was influenced by rock, and he helped develop fusion. John Coltrane was a tenor saxophonist and composer. Appearing famous in the 50s and 60s, Coltrane was known for his awesome soloing on the tenor sax and the complexity ...
- 280: Alfred Nobel
- Alfred Nobel The inventor of dynamite was a very important roll to take part in. The ultimate inventor of it was a mane named Alfred Nobel. Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to blow holes in rock and other things. However it is too volatile and can explode incredibly easily. Alfred changed all this. Alfred Nobel was born on October 21st 1833 in Stockholm. He studied their until1842 when his family moved ...
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