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- 4261: The Avant-Garde Architecture O
- ... achieved. Another of Pei’s buildings that stirred up local controversy is the Bank of China Building in Hong Kong. While the geometrically beautiful building stands out as the tallest in the area at 70 stories, its design has been criticized by many citizens of Hong Kong: “The building’s four right-angled triangular prisms, placed together to form a long, thin square column topped by twin antennas, have been condemned ...
- 4262: Oscar Wilde
- ... outrage and the play made very little money. In 1891 two of his prose were published The House of Pomegranates, which he also wrote for his sons and Lard Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories. Over the next few years many of Oscar’s plays were produced. Salome was a drama about obsessive passion written in 1891. It was produced in Paris in 1894, made into an opera by German ...
- 4263: Modern Music
- ... She responds, “I needed a change from the regular music that I normally listen to. I like it because the lyrics of some songs are quite deep, and I could relate to some of the stories that are incorporated in the songs. The songs make me feel free, and I need that after a hard days work.” -4- I am not a country fan, and I often cringe when I hear ...
- 4264: Led Zeppelin
- Led Zeppelin was one of the giants of the 1970’s in hard rock. They were also one of the greatest success stories that ever played hard rock music. The group was one the more popular hard rock groups that performed in the seventies, and even had some hits in the 1960’s. The members of the group ...
- 4265: Jimi Hedndrix Are You Experien
- ... hear it the statement is oddly comforting. The song leads out with Jimi pleading repeatedly to you: "Get Experienced." If a thousand bands haven't covered "The Wind Cries Mary", it is out of reverence. Short and simple (okay, I'm not a musician), this song is like a dream. The colorful descriptions (the traffic lights turn blue tomorrow.) are a hint of what is to become Axis: Bold as Love ...
- 4266: Old Man And The Sea
- ... part or reference in the story was the dream of lions on a beach of Africa, which this fisherman probably had never even visited much less seeing lions on a beach. This was like most stories in the main plot. First characters are introduced, then a threat reveals itself, showing true natures of all the characters, and finally the threat is fought off or it remains, leaving the reader in suspense ...
- 4267: Heart Of Darkness And Apocalyp
- ... This gruesome attack was motivated mainly by the fear of cultural intermixing which would impurify the "Master Race." Joseph Conrad’s book, The Heart of Darkness and Francis Coppola’s movie, Apocalypse Now are both stories about Man’s journey into his self, and the discoveries to be made there. They are also about Man confronting his fears of failure, insanity, death, and cultural contamination. During Marlow’s mission to find ...
- 4268: Gummo - Movie Critique
- ... other hand, it must be realized that in most instances natural disasters do have a history of bringing communities together in times of hardship, something that is not at all seen in the film. In short, the social order, much like the town itself, is in shambles, with little or no social solidarity. Gummo is meant to be entirely symbolic in one way or another. One of the more notable symbolisms ...
- 4269: Frank Lloyd Wright The Pioneer
- ... weeks, Wright kept wondering why the tragic incident occurred. Weeks later, it was revealed that the cause of the buildings collapse was a lack of support from the pilars which held up the above 3 stories. The architect and the builder both reglected to test the pilars before they were introduced into the buildings structural design. After Wright learned this, he vowed that if he became a architect, he would thourghly ...
- 4270: Dave Mathews Band
- ... then complain and pray for more from above, You greedy little pig Stop, just watch your world trickle away Oh, it's your problem now It'll all be dead and gone in a few short years” Again Mathews uses the power of words to send a message to the masses. In today’s world of money and power people tend to lose sight of the things that are important. People ...
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