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- 15391: Jim Morrison
- ... began on 8 December 1943 in Melbourne, Florida. Jim was the child of Steve and Clara Morrison who went on to have two more children, a sister named Anne and a brother named Andy. Morrison's father, Steve, was an Admiral in the US Navy and due to the ever-changing locations his work demanded, the Morrisons constantly moved from house to house and state to state. They resided in Melbourne ... mentality became publicly visible some years later. It was a combination of ideas like these plus many other childhood experiences which created the writer as well as the 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 world inside ...
- 15392: Generation Ecstacy
- Generation Ecstasy It’s been ten years since the English seized on Detroit techno, Chicago house, and New York garage as the seeds of what’s generally agreed—over there, at least—to be the most significant music since punk, and they’re celebrating with a slew of historical studies. Simon Reynolds attempts to bridge the gap with "Generation Ecstasy," an ... half-baked and momentous, that traces the digital Diaspora back and forth across Europe and America. Using the multiple perspectives of music critic, enthusiastic participant, and sociological outsider to trace the development of dance music’s "rhythmic phsycadelic," Reynolds, finds two predominant, contrasting strains: the search for gnosis, or spiritual revelation, and the desire to get completely out of it at the weekend. Setting these timeless traits in the context ...
- 15393: David Cronenberg
- ... with abusive parents, and living a very sheltered life in the suburbs of Toronto for most of his life. He went to the University of Toronto, where he studied film and producing and direction. David’s first big screen success came to him in 1969 when his simple and tasteful film "Stereo" got shot down at the box office. David was somewhat discouraged by this and in 1970 would shock the ... and experimental. With plots concerning the aftermath of some disastrous biological mishap. The Fly and The Dead Zone prove this point. These two movies in the 1980s have given David his cult status. David Cronenberg’s 1993 entitled, Madame Butterfly enraged critics even more but the artists found his work compelling. It was at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival that the bomb was dropped. The highly controversial "Crash" starring James Spader ... as a wonderfully observed piece of filmography whereas someone else might find it to be superfluous to the plot and find it to be tasteless, indecent, odious and just plain nasty. Many of David Cronenberg’s work has been stylish and experimental as I mentioned. Most of his plots have been overly and way too complicated for the average Joe to comprehend. It is not quite understood weather he is ...
- 15394: Charlie Parker At Storyville
- ... songs of this set the solos are packed full of notes. The tempo may be slow yet the soloist fills the spaces full of notes. Examples of these are "I'll Walk Alone" and "Don't Blame Me." A song from this set I especially like is the song "Cool Blues." It is very complex yet fun to listen to. I love to hear Parker play his horn. He really is ... play once through the chorus. The trumpet and sax together here sound really fabulous. The two match each other with amazing accuracy. Following the chorus Charlie launches right into a solo. This solo shows Parker's command of his instrument. He is able to pack his solos full of information. He is double-timing through most of the set. He slides up and down pitches, is all over the range of his horn and uses a stop time to build tension near the end of his solo. With the end of Parker's solo, Pomeroy takes over and plays a solo on his trumpet. The notes Pomeroy plays strike me as intentional and deliberate. It seems that each note is very carefully placed and played. Following Pomeroy, ...
- 15395: Analysis Of The Use Of Lighting In THE GODFATHER
- ... shot is highly dramatic in its lighting method, and the audience is drawn in immediately to one single detail. A man begins revealing the details of a tragic incident that befell his daughter. We don’t see who he is talking to. There is a spotlight directly above the man, and this is pretty much 95% of the light used. This really lights up the top of his head, which is bald, but there is no hot spot or reflective element which is good because reflection here would be aesthetically displeasing. The lighting causes dark areas under the man’s eyes, which emphasize the passion and eventually the hatred of what he is talking about. The scene is lit so that the background is completely black, so that the only thing we can see is ... highlight in the center of his black eyes. This highlight area of his eye is the part of the frame which has the greatest contrast, so naturally the audience is drawn directly into this man’s stare, and this is also achieved by having the man look right at the camera. As he speaks, the camera slowly pulls out and then we start to see a slight increase in the ...
- 15396: Vincent Van Gogh
- ... 1888 Langlois Bridge with Women Washing 1888 (Sweetman 378) Those are just a few of his accomplishments, though he has created many, many more works of art. In 1888, artist Paul Gaugin moved into Vincent’s house with him. At first everything worked out fine, but within the year, their personalities started to clash, and big problems arose. Then, on December 23, 1888, Paul Gaugin was taking a walk in the ... officers and citizens surrounding the house. When he went in the house he saw that there was blood everywhere- on towels and blankets, then a trail leading up the stairs. When he got to Vincent’s bedroom, he found him curled up on his bed covered in sheets pink with blood. Gaugin thought Vincent was dead, but when he went to touch his friend’s hand, it radiat! ed warmth from his friend’s body (Sweetman 290). Gaugin found out later that Vincent had cut off almost his whole left ear, wrapped it in newspaper, and given it to ...
- 15397: BB King
- B.B. King was a blues singer and guitarist. His full name is Riley B. King. He was born September 16, 1925, near Indianola, Mississippi. An important aspect in King's life was, of course, when he was first exposed to the blues. 'I guess the earliest sound of the blues that I can rremember was in the fields while people would be pickin' cotton or choppin' or somethin,' " he told Living Blues . " When I sing and play now I can hear those same sounds that I used to hear then as a kid." B.B. King's first musical influence came through religion. He was a member of the Church of God In Christ. He was forbidden to play blues at home. He sang in spiritual groups like the Elkhorn Singers and the Saint John's Gospel Singers. A relative who was a guitarist and a preacher showed King his first chords on the instrument. As a teenager he began playing streetcorners for coins, combining gospel songs with the blues. ...
- 15398: The Sun Also Rises : Moral and Social Values
- ... she runs back to Jake. Jake knows that he will never be able to have her for his own, and he accepts this as fact. This is clear when the Count asks them ³why don¹t you get married, you two? (68)² To this question, they give a lame half hearted awnser which implies that it will never happen. He is tolerant of her behavior because he loves her unconditionally and is willing to overlook everything she does. Jake¹s willingness to endure and forgive Brett¹s promiscuity and infidelity is an indication of the skewed values of the age. It was an ³anything goes² era right after the first war, and Jake¹s message to Brett seems to be the ...
- 15399: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Slavery From humankind’s emergence into modern times, people have been resistant to change of any kind. Once a group of people incorporate an idea into their society, it becomes ingrained in every heart, mind, and soul. Those individuals ... character, begins to doubt the validity of a practice that has emblazoned itself on his culture, slavery. By aiding a runaway slave and thereby questioning his own beliefs, Huck learns that “Just because an idea’s popular, like slavery, don’t make it right.” Having been raised in Missouri, a slave state, Huck does not even know how to doubt the morality of keeping slaves. In his eyes, an idea must be right if it ...
- 15400: The Fountain Head: Individualism
- The Fountain Head: Individualism Individualism, the only element which makes a person's character unique. In the Fountain Head, a character binds true to this belief and goes by the name of Howard Roark. This young architect who had his own viewpoint of the world and how he envisioned it, was condemned by the media and the public by doing so. Roark's lifestyle completely perpendiculates the mundane lifestyle that the average citizen lives. Roark conforms to only what he considers valid in his own conscience. The novel opens the door to lead the way against the oppression of conformity. The environment which Howard was placed into didn't help in his situation to freely express his thoughts on certain subjects. This was mainly made possible by the people who he had come in contact through out the years. Many examples of this ...
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