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- 3021: Ray Bradbury's The Martial Chronicals
- ... was developed during this time as he read the Oz books, Alice in Wonderland, Tarzan, Grimms' Fairy Tales, and the works of Poe. In 1934 his family moved to Los Angeles, where Bradbury attended high school and joined the Los Angeles Science-Fantasy Society. While a member, Bradbury published four issues of his own magazine, Futuria Fantasia. After graduating from high school in 1938 he took various jobs which allowed him to devote much of his time to writing. His first story, published in 1940 by Script magazine, was "It's Not the Heat, It's the ...
- 3022: Summary of Jane Eyre
- ... nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie call's the apothecary. To him Jane says that she wants to go to school. For weeks nothing happens. At one day Mr. Brocklehurst arrives. He is the head of Lowood Institute. Jane goes to Lowood and meets Helen, a very intelligent child. Helen dies of tuberculosis. Many other children ... John Rivers and his two sisters Diana and Mary take her care of. After many weeks she wants to pick up her life and becomes a village teacher. Mary and Diana become both governess’. The school is a success thanks to Jane. One day Mr. Rivers arrives and wants to tell Jane something. He tells her that he is her cousin and that she has inherited a fortune from her deceased ...
- 3023: Ansel Adams
- ... plant. Ansel took an interest in music at an early age. He selfly taught himself how to play the piano, and he enjoyed being around the surroundings of nature. Ansel attended both public and private school. At home his father gave him lessons in math and French. In 1915 when Ansel was 13, his father bought him a season pass to the Panama Pacific Worlds Fair, in which he visited annually ... 1917 with Paul Strand. In 1940 Ansel directed the first show of photography that was ever held in California. It was called "A Pageant of Photography." In 1941 Ansel conducted classes at the Art Center School in Los Angeles. Also, during this year Ansel was appointed photo muralist for the department of the Interior in Washington, D.C. He was given an assignment to make large landscapes of monuments and national ...
- 3024: The History of Greek Music
- ... time. When the third and fourth parts were added, the music became truly polyphonic. Sometime after the mid-twelfth century, a new Notre Dame Cathedral was being built in Paris, and with it grew a school of composers. Two names have been preserved from that school- Leonin and Perotin. They stretched the organum to unheard-of lengths and embellished it with flourishes of long melismas, or many notes sung to one syllable. New rhythmic patterns developed, as did repetitions of motifs ...
- 3025: A Separate Peace: The Internal Constant
- ... not.(so here I am telling this to my English teacher...). Gene and Finny entered a large gymnasium and discovered a few pole vaults. Finny abruptly picked one up, ran, and pole vaulted, breaking the school record. He then told Gene never to tell anyone about Finny breaking the record. Both of these instances are incredibly alike. Finally, Finny was symbolicly killed because of society. Finny was wounded and wound up ... Gene is a lot like me in that he must deal with growing up and maturing. One step in maturing is knowing who to listen to and who not to listen to. At Gene's school, teachers enforce rules, cutting and chipping away at all that his friend Finny stood for -- freedom. Gene was torn between one question; Is it better to live by rules and boundaries which teachers have, or ...
- 3026: Gillian by Laurel Oke Logan
- Gillian by Laurel Oke Logan The book I read was Gillian, written by Laurel Oke Logan. This book is about a girl who has just graduated from high school and is in the process of looking for a job. Gillian has just graduated from high school. She is so thrilled to go to college and can not wait. Well the day comes when she is to leave for college. She and her friends are going to have so much fun. As ...
- 3027: Pierre Elliot Trudeau's Federalism and the French Canadians
- ... towards Federalism and its ramifications on Canadian citizenry. Born and raised in Quebec, he attended several prestigious institutions that educated him about the political spectrum of the country. After his time spent at the London School of Economics, Trudeau returned to Quebec at a time when the province was experiencing vast differences with its Federal overseer. The Union Nationale, a religious nationalist movement rooted deep in the heart of Quebec culture ... students to gaze upon, let alone only be recommended by critics who have studied the works of Trudeau. Such monumental beliefs embodied into one man is reason enough for a student in University or High School to open Federalism and the French Canadians and learn more about Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
- 3028: Phish
- ... taught by an instructor. Both began to play in the dorm lounges for other students and they realized they had complementary musical styles and tastes, so they decided to form a band. Trey’s high school band experiences made him realize they would need a group of committed players who would be willing to practice intensely and extensively in order to master the complicated music and the improvisational style that they ... to keep the band together. One of the integral parts of the Goddard College curriculum is the Senior Study. This is an exhaustive independent study that is completed during a student’s final semester in school. Page, Trey and Fish all completed Senior Studies, and each of these works is intimately connected to the band members’ roles in Phish. Page’s Senior Study is called “The Art of Improvisation.” His study ...
- 3029: Comparative Essasy - Comparing
- ... I could not go out for a couple of days. She showed me the way she grew up. She would make me help her with the housework! I remember the time I got suspended from school. By the time I went back to school my house was spotless. Needless to say, I was never suspended again and I actually seen something that I had never seen before. That space behind the stove! My father could care less about what ...
- 3030: The Infinity Mirror
- ... it is obviously full of metaphors on the basic belief of our society that everything must be forced into a plausable category, fit for inclusion into the human race. Tularecito should never have gone to school. He would have been happy living at home, simple as he was. In the end society takes Tularecito and makes him a monster. Since monsters are not allowed into human society, Tularecito goes looking for ... belief in fantasy. Tularecito creates another hole, and waits for his fantasy to show. Tularecito has only one flaw. He believes that what he created should not be destroyed. Whenever this happens, should it be school, work, or fantasy, Tularecito defends his creations with the only thing he can understand, violence. It is not like true, calculated violence, but very much like a motor nerve reaction. He reacts with pure emotion ...
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