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- 2551: Madonna
- ... career. She always had two career objectives in mind and believed she would definitely achieve one or both of them. She joined Alvin Alley Theater's third company group. She danced with them for a short time period, however, she felt she could do better by focusing her main efforts and ideas in the popular music and film industry. Her first debut album was called Borderline. In addition to the album she also produced a short musical video to accompany the album. Her music and video were featured on MTV, a music television channel found on cable television. After heavy airplay of her music video on the MTV cable channel, her ...
- 2552: Kurt Cobain: Biography
- ... Chad Channing on Drums, Kurt Cobain on guitar and vocals, and Krist Novaselic on bass. Bleach only ending up costing $600 to produce and did not sell big. After recording Bleach the band made a short west coast tour that started in February of 1989 in Seattle and moved down the coast. However the band was just preparing for the tour for Bleach which started on June 22, 1989 in San Francisco and ended in New Castle, England, the bands first European show. Nirvana started another short US tour in February of 1990 and one month later Chad left the band to be replaced with Dave Grohl. To break in the new addition they did a seven show west coast tour. Chad ...
- 2553: Walt Disney
- ... cartoons. He set up his first studio in the back half of a real estate office. For several years, Disney stuggled to pay his expenses. He gained success in 1928, when he released the first short cartoons that featured Mickey Mouse. Earlier filmmakers had found that animals were easier to animate than people. Mickey Mouse, drawn with a series of circles, proved ideal for animation. In 1927, sound that had been ... U.S. government as well as cartoon comedies. After the war, Disney created fewer animated movies. He concentrated on making films that starred real animals or human actors. In 1948, Disney released Seal Island. This short movie was the first in a series of ''True-Life Adventures'' that showed how animals lived in nature. In 1953, Disney released his first full- length nature film, The Living Desert. All of his nature ...
- 2554: The Marquis de Sade's Attitude Towards Women
- ... of whom incriminate her in something not of her doing. She finally finds her long-lost sister, Juliette, who she recites her life's story to. Her sister grants her freedom. She lives for a short time afterwards, shortly disfigured by lightning and eventually killing her (Lynch 43). Juliette, sister of Justine, lives a different life altogether. Her early life revolves around her tutors, who introduce different trades. Her first tutor ... The woman he saw in the future were a bolder, free-spirited kind, represented in Juliette. It was the promise of this new genre of women he looked forward to and was enlightened by. In short, Sade disliked subjugated women and liked empowered women. He liked women closer to his own persona. Sade was probably the first pornographer, and as such, caused quite an uproar. Most of the judgements made about ...
- 2555: Gaius Marius: Savior.. or Destroyer?
- ... day-to-day political activities is difficult. However this much is certain, his military reforms, such as offering la nd to veterans and accepting army volunteers from the capita censi, while saving Rome in the short run, ultimately led to the downfall of the Republic. Born into an unimpressive equestrian family, Marius found himself better suited to the life of a warrior than that of a philosopher. He had little tolerance ... gain great military glory, many tributes, and even a clear mandate by the people for consecutive consulships, a rare occurrence, he would never be considered a social equal by most of the upper class. A short time later, Marius votes down a popular law that would have increased the grain dole to citizens. Plutarch explains that this was a demonstration of Marius' political savvy, that he can both play toward the ...
- 2556: Niccolo Machiavelli
- ... the republic ended. When Machiavelli opposed this he was taken away from his position. He was accused of joining the rebellion led by Pietro Paolo Boscoli against the new government and sentenced to serve a short period of jail time. Later it is decided that he is going to be kept under surveillance and at his home. But since he was obsessed with the politics he spent most of his time ... very important new political job as controlling the supplying of the castles, embassy secretary and defending of Florence. But because of failure of Clemens VII. In 1527 the Medicies were thrown out of Florence and short period republic was set. Machiavelli tried to take place in the new republic but couldn't. He died shortly after. Machiavelli, not only started a new modern way of political thought depending on separated politics ...
- 2557: Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
- ... the substance and Interpretation of life............. [And] life is struggle, often, if not usually, unsuccessful struggle. (Henry, Eugene O'Neill, p.157.) O'Neill has achieved an international reputation throughout the world, his plays and stories are the subject of countless books and articles. Eugene was born at the Barrett Hotel in New York on Oct, 16 1888. His father James O'Neill was one of Americas most popular 19th Century ... they produced several of his plays in the following years. Eugene was fortunate in having several of his first plays produced. This helped his name get known and for people to get interested in his stories. His plays have been staged throughout the world and transformed into film and opera. O'Neill's first play he wrote which was a success was The Emperor Jones produced by the Provincetown Players in ...
- 2558: The Life of Emily Dickinson
- ... 1,700, her poems highlight the many moments in a 19th century New Englander woman's life, including the deaths of some of her most beloved friends and family, most of which occurred in a short period of time (Benfey 6-25). Several biographers of Dickinson point out her methods of exploring several topics in circumference, as she says in her own words. Death is perhaps one of the best examples of this exploration and examination. Other than one trip to Washington and Philadelphia, several excursions to Boston to see a doctor, and a few short years in school, Emily never left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. In the latter part of her life she rarely left her large brick house, and communicated even to her beloved sister through a ...
- 2559: George Washington: Biography
- ... Howe. In New York he committed a military blunder but he saved his army by skillfully retreating from Manhattan into Westchester County and through New Jersey into Pennsylvania. In the last months of 1776, desperately short of men and supplies, Washington almost despaired. He had lost New York City to the British; enlistment was almost up for a number of the troops, and others were deserting in droves; civilian morale was ... battlefield Washington relied on a policy of trial and error, eventually becoming a master of improvisation. Often accused of being overly cautious, he could be bold when success seemed possible. He learned to use the short-term militia skillfully and to combine green troops with veterans to produce an efficient fighting force. After the war Washington returned to Mount Vernon, which had declined in his absence. Although he became president of ...
- 2560: The Legend of Baby Doe
- ... strike and demanded more money and more working hours. When it was all over, the miners were forced to go back to work at the usual $3.00 a day with 12 hour days. A short time afterwards, Ex-President Ulysses S. Grant came to visit Leadville. Tabor was quick to take control of the festivities that were in honor of the Ex-President and the first to volunteer to show ... couple years later, Horace got appendicitis. The disease was allowed to get infected because doctors were afraid to do surgery on a 69 year old man. He soon slipped into a coma and died a short time later. Baby lived alone with her two daughters in a small cottage next to the Matchless mine. The last thing Horace told Baby to do was to hang on to the Matchless. Elizabeth, Horace ...
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