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- 361: Paralytic - Sylvia Plath
- ... there. It is a poem about a girl who is placed into a mental institution after attempting to commit suicide. The poem "Paralytic" goes as follows: It happens. Will it go on?- My mind a rock, No fingers to grip, no tongue, My god the iron lung That loves me, pumps My two Dust bags in and out, Will not Let me relapse While the day outside glides by like ticker ... it happens"? I believe that she is talking about life. She has tried to take her own but has not accomplished that task and so it goes on. Plath says that her mind is a rock. This statement has many connotations. Rocks are of course heavy, solid, and hard but I think that she is comparing her mind to a rock more in a sense that it is inanimate and therefore numb, as well as weighted down because of the weight of all of the pressures and disappointments it contains which makes it heavy. Plath ...
- 362: Hip Hop Music
- ... like. This group existed during the beginning growth of hip-hop, but they were not as popular then. This group is the Beastie Boys. Maybe they were not as popular because they began as punk rock artists and they were white. Rappers in the eighties were mainly Black. The Beastie Boys began their hip hop career just after Run DMC did. The Beastie Boys were influenced by Run DMC, and when ... all competition in the radio industry for weeks (Boehlert). The Beastie Boys have received an Artist of the Year Award in 1998 for these reasons. They play many different types of music from Santana to Rock (Hamlin). The Beastie Boys have all the characteristics of rap and hip-hop music in their new album but they are still not known as a rap group. Why is this ? I recently had an ... rap/hip-hop. They use their instruments to express themselves with all types of music instead of only sticking to rap or hip-hop. You can find some of their albums under the category of Rock or Alternative music. Rappers like Master P have stuck with rap their whole career so you can always find them in a rap category." In conclusion, I believe that the Beastie Boys are not ...
- 363: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... the 1950’s was a time of change. America and the world was experiencing a transition from innocence to a more knowledgeable society. Revolutions in all aspects of life were going on: civil rights, sexual, rock and roll and the introduction of new experimental drugs in the communities of San Francisco and Greenwich Village. Out of all of these revolutions came the beat generation, a group of young Bohemian writers who wrote and ...
- 364: Jerusalem
- ... the residents of this part of the Armenian Quarter practice the Greek Orthodox religion. The last section of the city is the Muslim Section. Atop the Temple Mount are the gold-domed Dome of the Rock (661 BCE) and the silver-domed al-Aqsa mosques. The Rock referred to in Dome of the Rock is Mt.Zion. This is where Abram went to sacrifice Isaac and Muhammed ascended to heaven.
- 365: Tina Turner
- ... hits, Ike wanted to leave “The Kings of Rhythm” with Anna, and move to California to start their own band. Once they moved to California, that when Anna became “Tina Turner”. Eventually everyone knew the rock n’ roll superstar, Tina Turner, but Ike wanted more. He knew he needed total control of Tina’s life, so he married her in Mexico, just by Tina signing a piece of paper. Before long Tina realized ...
- 366: Malcolm X
- ... a run in with FBI agents concerning the nation of Islam’s practices, and how their message was being used. He stands on the pulpit, and delivers a message. "We didn’t land on Plymouth rock, my brothers Plymouth Rock landed on us!" It’s a clear message to his followers. If you want to succeed, first get from under that rock. He insisted that "black is beautiful," and that African Americans must take control of their own destiny. As Malcolm was giving a speech at the autobahn in New York City. Three men gunned him ...
- 367: Cancun
- ... that one can choose to go to and have a great time. With all of the different clubs to choose, everyone can always find one that pleases their preference in music, be it reggae or rock-n-roll. If someone is in the mood for a delicious supper, there are many different restaurants one can choose. One can choose American, Italian, Mexican, or whatever kind of food is most satisfying. The great thing ...
- 368: Ron Howard
- ... of the clean-cut Richie Cunningham (Howard). Most of the episodes showed Richie at home with his family or plotting schemes with his high school pals at the local hamburger shop, where the jukebox played rock-and-roll songs of this period. The show struggled in popularity for a while but was said to eventually thrive because of the "skill of the oldest young professional performer in television, Ron Howard." Instead the show ...
- 369: Penguins and Their Eyes
- ... found in large numbers. Three of the 16 known species were located there: the Gentoo, which live on flat areas right off the beach; the Magellan (also called Jackass), which live in burrows; and the Rock-hoppers, which live among the rocks along the cliffs. The Rock-hoppers were by far the most common, having a population of well over 100,000. The general rule is, the smaller the penguin, the meaner the temperament, and the researchers did witness the odd fight ... penguin. Hel'll stand his ground in a face-off and if you're foolish enough to get too close, those flippers can knock you flat. Dr. Sivak and his associate, however, had little trouble. Rock-hoppers always congregate in fairly tight groups, as a defense against predatory birds such as the skua (a large seagull that thinks it's a hawk), and two more upright figures in their midst ...
- 370: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- ... 1840, profound changes left the earth not only in a Deep Time frame, but gave life a historical lineage. Scientists in turn-of-the-century Paris realized that the deeper the fossils lay in the rock strata, the less they looked like living animals. Life's ascent could be followed in the cliff face. It broke an archaic belief that animals were the same now as on their day of creation ... was a comparative morphologist. He described the similarity and dissimilarity in anatomy of diverse animals. Cuvier founded the science of paleontology and described the differences between the fossil flora and fauna in different strata of rock. Cuvier believed that the discontinuities between fossils in different strata were brought about by catastrophes such as floods, which caused the extinction of many species living at a particular time. This interpretation of earth's ... To some extent, the science of geology, which prepared the way for Darwin, devastated the religious faith of many Victorian intellectuals by the time the great biologist wrote. Geologists had convinced that the earth's rock structure was millions, even hundreds of millions, of years old. 4. Darwin added one additional component of the theory that proved devastating to orthodox belief. The notion of Natural Selection, which holds that species ...
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