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- 3471: The Devils Of Loudun, By Aldou
- ... Jesuit College in Bordeaux, and was ordained a secular priest after the necessary post-graduate studies. While his teachers purpose was to create well-rounded Catholics, in practice some of the Jesuits best pupils left school to become free-thinkers or even, like Jean Labadie, Protestants. Deprived of any other information regarding Grandier s youth, Huxley shrewdly turned instead to the autobiography of Jean-Jacques Bouchard, which provided him with an ... on the author s unspeakable depravitity. This was an ostensibly pious (if divided) age for France, but in reality everyone from the Dauphin at Versailles to the peasant in the field were regularly indulged: At school, under the good Fathers, there are no strenuous games, and the boys superfluous energy can find no vent except in excessive masturbation, and the practice, on half-holidays, of homosexuality. At age twenty-seven, Grandier ...
- 3472: Of Mice And Men
- ... Francisco with his family and more frequent trips to the Monterey peninsula (Fontenrose 2). In 1918, he became ill with pneumonia and almost died, but he was able to recover. After graduating from Salinas High School in 1919, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford University, taking courses in English and Marine Science (Bloom 11). He was always an excellent student, eager to learn both in and out of school, interested in books, music, science, religion, and sports (Fontenrose 3). During this time, he worked as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand, and factory worker, and left Stanford permanently in the fall of 1925 ...
- 3473: Vikings In Control
- ... of 795 they traveled to Iona, which is off the coast of Scotland. In the year of 800, they struck another monastery south of Jarrow. Because of their controlling outtakes, the churches made a new prayer. The prayer was From the fury of Northmen deliver us O Lord. Even though Vikings are addressed by one very large group, there are actually three kinds of Vikings. They are Norwegian, Swedish and Danish. The Norwegian ...
- 3474: Effects Of Graffiti 2
- ... over the place. A few examples would be under bridges, on the walls of many different buildings, and just about anywhere else you could possibly imagine. People place graffiti in bathroom stalls, on desks in school, and even on trains and tractor trailers. Graffiti is even considered a form of art by some individuals. There were a few web pages and books that displayed pictures of graffiti and called it art ... be totally empty. Douglas Barmore Throughout my life I have committed many acts of graffiti. Some of them I had realized were acts of graffiti, but some of them I didn't. I remember in school, some other student and I had a conversation on a desktop. Each of us had that class at different periods and would leave messages for each other. I hadn't realized that it was graffiti ...
- 3475: Effects Of Graffiti
- ... over the place. A few examples would be under bridges, on the walls of many different buildings, and just about anywhere else you could possibly imagine. People place graffiti in bathroom stalls, on desks in school, and even on trains and tractor trailers. Graffiti is even considered a form of art by some individuals. There were a few web pages and books that displayed pictures of graffiti and called it art ... be totally empty. Douglas Barmore Throughout my life I have committed many acts of graffiti. Some of them I had realized were acts of graffiti, but some of them I didn't. I remember in school, some other student and I had a conversation on a desktop. Each of us had that class at different periods and would leave messages for each other. I hadn't realized that it was graffiti ...
- 3476: Predestined Fate of Oedipus
- ... peoples fate. But very often they can be wrong. People change, their values change, and their plans for the future change. No one's future is engraved in stone. Some times a student in high school may be voted most likely to succeed and turn out to be a failure. Or the student that shows little promise in school may turn out to be a huge success. One can never tell. Social Mobility is one reason people move to this country from other countries with more rigid social structures. We've all heard the ...
- 3477: Arthur Miller-BIO
- ... York Drama Critics Circle Award. He was quickly catapulted into the realm of the great, living, American playwrights; and once was compared to Ibsen and the Greek tragedians. After his graduation from Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, young Miller worked as a stock clerk in an automobile parts warehouse for two and a half years until he had enough money to pay for his first year at the University of ... fooling around. It wasnt until he was above the age of seventeen that he read Tom Swift, and Rover Boys, and started to dabble into the books of Dickens
. He passed through the public school system unscathed. His family remembered him as a child handy with tools, he even built their back porch and planted roses in the back yard. In brief Arthur Miller was a very physical child. Some ...
- 3478: Violence on Television
- ... his latest issue of TV guide, carefully selecting the shows which he will watch that week and marking them off with a highlighter. On an average day the Addict will come home from work or school, put off all responsibilities, and escape into the world of TV. In this world, the Addict has no demands or responsibilities. The TV becomes his only focus of attention, and all of his energy goes ... of new technology such as video games, compact disc players, and computers, children are becoming even more accustomed to being involved in several activities at the same time. An average student may come home from school, turn on the TV, put on their favorite CD, talk on the phone, and do their homework all at the same time. The Non- Watcher's attention shifts to and from the TV, including it ...
- 3479: Violence on Television: Violence is Everywhere
- ... to revolve around violence. There are so many channels on TV that advocate violence on a daily basis. Sports that we see every Sunday stir up aggressiveness and bring anger to a high level. Around school conflicts seem to occur frequently. We get excited whenever we come across these situations and sometimes don't know what caused the ordeal in the first place but nevertheless it grabs us and we become ... crowd is louder over the thirty second fight than they are during the rest of the game. For those who think violence is only restricted to TV Land, well there is violence in our high school as well(shocker, huh?). Well every once in a while we get to witness a lovely fist-fight between two or more students, and the occasional unwilling faculty member. Those brawls aren't blown-off ...
- 3480: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... as organist and his ability to compose sacred and secular music. His stay in Cothen staged his fame in his country for his music. Bach's last job was as Cantor at St. Thomas's school in Leipzig. This was one of the most prestigious posts in Germany. There in Leipzig he spent 20 years constantly battling with the school and church authorities. However, he did write some of the best work in his lifetime during this period. Johann Sebastian Bach spent his life devoted to his music. In that respect he was a genius ...
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