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- 5941: Health
- ... Poe Who is Edgar Allen Poe? He was a 19th century American writer born to Elizabeth ( betty ) Arnold Hopkins and David Poe. (Internet source) Poe was an well-educated individual. He would attend a private school in London and then an academy in Richmond. Later being accepted to the University of Virginia, this however would not work out for him. He then would travel to Boston for work in which there ...
- 5942: Martial Arts
- ... of practice to get any good at it and decades to master. Another example of martial arts is Koreas Tae Kwon Do. The main differences between Tai-Chi and Tae Kwon Do is the uniforms and idea of movement. In Tai-Chi you can wear whatever clothes you feel comfortable in, but in Tae Kwon Do or Karate you have to wear a Gi and must practice barefooted unless you ...
- 5943: Major Personalities Behind The Secularization Of Music
- ... understanding of where their fields of study had came from. Music was no exception. People learned ancient Greek just to be able to read Aristotle's views on music. This group of people founded a school called Notre Dame. However, the hand of the church was still holding on. Just because its power had waned, did not mean they were letting go any time soon. There were still certain things you ...
- 5944: Kiss The Hype
- ... It has something to do with their music, but it has more to do with the way they are hyped and packaged. So lets unwrap that package. In 1972, Gene Simmons was a sixth grade school teacher in New York City. With guitarist Paul Stanley, he formed a band called Wicked Lester that played in small clubs and bars around New York. That band quickly failed. "Wicked Lester just wasn't ...
- 5945: Halloween: A Groundbreaking Film
- ... The film opens with a long, single-shot introduction that takes place on Halloween night, 1963. A young Michael Myers watches as his older sister, Judith, sneaks upstairs for a quickie with a guy from school. After the boyfriend has departed, Michael takes a knife out of the kitchen drawer, ascends the staircase, and stabs Judith to death. The entire sequence employs the subjective point- of-view, an approach that writer ...
- 5946: Johann Sebastian Bach 2
- ... his parents died, he continued to devote his early life to music. His brother Johann Christoph continued to teach him how to play the organ. Furthermore, he won a scholarship and became part of the school choir of poor boys in Luneburg. Already seen was his sheer genius and talent that he possessed for music. Clearly, his childhood played a big factor of building a solid foundation for his music. Bach ...
- 5947: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... a demanding one; he had to compose cantatas for the St. Thomas and St. Nicholas churches, conduct the choirs, oversee the musical activities of numerous municipal churches, and teach Latin in the St. Thomas choir school. Accordingly, he had to get along with the Leipzig church authorities, which proved rocky going. But he persisted, polishing the musical component of church services in Leipzig and continuing to write music of various kinds ...
- 5948: Jim Morrison
- ... topics of writing covered by Morrison. Morrison's parents used a type of punishment known as dress-them-down which involved no physical violence but instead used verbal abuse until tear followed. It was high school where Morrison's writing began its early course. In his spare time Morrison poured his racing mind into the pages of notebooks, stuffing them one by one. The passion of writing was fueled by the ...
- 5949: Jazz 3
- ... Luks, Glackens, and other members of the Eight. He studied with Robert Henri from 1910 to 1913, made covers and drawings for the social realist periodical The Masses, which was associated with the Ash-can School, and exhibited watercolors in the Armory Show, which made an overwhelming impact on him. After a visit to Paris in 1928 he introduced a new note into U.S. cubism, basing himself on its synthetic ...
- 5950: Japanese Anime
- ... in its fight for Peace. One of the most famous animes of the 90s in North America is Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon is an Anime about a klutzy, crybaby, 14-year-old junior high school girl named Serena/Usagi. She receives special powers from a talking cat named Luna. Her Powers help her in her quest to fight evil and to find the "Moon Princess". With a locket Luna gave ...
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