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- 26791: RIP Tupac Amaur Shakur (1971-1996)
- RIP Tupac Amaur Shakur (1971-1996) "Bury me smilin, with G's in my pocket, have a party a my funeral, let every rapper rock it, let tha hoes that I usta know from way before kiss me from my head to my toe..tell all my ... movies. He sold more then ten million records and made millions from his movies this is a man that was born into violence and went the opposite direction by doing everything everything his parents didn't do. 2Pac attended art school in the studied of sensitive poetry. He was shot out side the Tyson fight by a thought to be east coast rival. A white Cadillac rolled up on the side ...
- 26792: Franz Liszt and Kurt Cobain
- ... Hungary, on October 22, 1811. Much like Mozart, he was a very great piano player at a very young age. Liszt composed an opera called Don Sancho at the age of fourteen. Professionals of Liszt's time thought that he was only a genius with the piano, which was not enough to give his ideas the great recognition they deserved. Many people thought that Liszt was "a mover and a shaker ... was hospitalized for a heroin addiction. It was not entirely unexpected that Cobain committed suicide. He had had entered a coma by overdosing on a mixture of champagne and tranquilizers on March 4. Also, Kurt's family history showed that two of his father's uncles committed suicide, along with the fact that there were a lot of dysfunctional marriages and alcoholism present. During a concert, Kurt would jerk around as if he was being electrocuted. After his death, ...
- 26793: Euthanasia
- ... MW Euthanasia Euthanasia has brought great attention to the public eye since Dr. Jack Kevorkian was discovered for contributing to these horrible inhumane acts. At the present time, the state of Oregon has the world's only law specifically permitting a doctor to prescribe lethal drugs for the purpose of ending a patient's life (http://www.iaetf.org/faq.htm). Why has only one state that happens to be in the United States contributed to this horrible controversy? Euthanasia tends to attract people that are terminally ill who desire death and are usually depressed. A "good" medical doctor would prescribe an individual some antidepressant medication before taking ones life. Euthanasia allows a "bad" doctor to have too much control over an individual's life before resulting to the necessary and proper measures of their true mental state. Also, modern medicine today has proven to be very beneficial to dealing with pain. A person needs to find a ...
- 26794: Pythagorean Philosophy and its influence on Musical Instrumentation and Composition
- ... will call him the father of science. To musicians, nonetheless, Pythagoras is the father of music. According to Johnston, it was a much told story that one day the young Pythagoras was passing a blacksmith's shop and his ear was caught by the regular intervals of sounds from the anvil. When he discovered that the hammers were of different weights, it occured to him that the intervals might be related ... Mozart composed within the arena of his own mind. When he spoke to musicians in his orchestra, he spoke in relationship terms of thirds, fourths and fifths, and many others. Within deep analysis of Mozart's music, musical scholars have discovered distinct similarities within his composition technique. According to Rowell, initially within a Mozart composition, Mozart introduces a primary melodic theme. He then reproduces that melody in a different pitch using ... this, a second melodic theme is created. Returning to the initial theme, Mozart spirals the melody through a number of pitch changes, and returns the listener to the original pitch that began their journey. "Mozart's comprehension of mathematics and melody is inequitable to other composers. This is clearly evident in one of his most famous works, his symphony number forty in G- minor" (Ferrara, 1991). Without the structure of ...
- 26795: Gen X
- ... 50% of registered voters under the age of 30 turned out to vote. In that election, Bill Clinton received fifty percent of the less than 30 votes (Bush received thirty percent, Perot twenty percent). Clinton's twenty percent margin of victory in the young persons vote was his largest in any age group and may have very well put him in the White House. The biggest issues which affect younger voters ... to the American people about? I do not want to take part in an institution who regularly lies to the people who trust the government most. By the time the government is in my generation's hand, we will be left with a huge national debt, and we will probably never see half of the money we have put into social security. Is my one vote really going to change this ... different organizations such as SADD (Students Against Drunk Driving), The Sierra Club, and Republican or Democratic Clubs. Just the other day I received an E-mail requesting my presence at a meeting for the Republican's club. Two days later I received another E-mail for a Democratic group. There are a few students interested in government and hopefully their interest will rub off. Who knows, maybe Generation X will ...
- 26796: Gender Selection
- ... around the idea that one sex, the male sex, was dominant. Oppressed and considered inferior, women would obey the men, forgo all rights and accept all responsibility. Only recently, with the emergence of the women’s liberation movement, have both sexes been considered equal. For the first time in human history, both sexes have been given the chance to fulfill their potentials without discrimination. Parents, despite preferences of having a girl ... poor. Humans “playing God” has long been a controversial topic, however, when it comes to tampering with the life of a human being, the choice is clear. Leave the child how it was created, don’t recreate the child and strip it of its identity. Word Count: 726
- 26797: Personal Interpretation of the book of "JOB"
- ... bad. Job was a man who God had allowed to obtain riches and fame. He had all of the finer things in life. Satan knew this, and wanted to bring sorrow and pain into Job's life, for the main purpose of showing God that these were the reasons why Job obeyed God. Satan was wrong as always. Job understood that it is the Lord that gives and it is him ... becoming the chief figure in the bible(Psalms 23, Hebrew 12:11, James 5:11). God ways are often beyond our understanding, because we view the issues of life from a limited earthly perspective. God's viewpoint is from above, he sees all things from the standpoint of eternity. We must simply trust him even when we cannot understand what he is doing. Whenever we do not understand why God allows us to be afflicted, we are simply to trust him fully, believing that he knows what is best for our benefit and glory. We must always understand that God's thoughts and ways are not our thoughts and ways, and he has eternity in view, and he is moved by considerations too vast and profound for our earthly minds to comprehend(Deuteronomy 29:29, ...
- 26798: Gangs in America
- ... the constant money. This is obviously appealing to the youth and the potential inductees to the gangs. However, with every good thing there also comes a bad side. The bad side is everything we don’t see. The life of crime, violence, and prison. Nobody really can understand that until they live it, and once they had lived it, it can sometimes be to late. Now of course there are situations ... the street with blue bandannas on their heads I would probably walk the other way. That is all because of the fear factor, not respect. One thing that I feel a lot of people don’t understand is what gangs stand for. I mean yes they do symbolize violence in a way, but they can also symbolize unity amongst a community. It is not the faults of the kids that they ... member from non-gang member. In order to wear the flag you must know the codes. If you have a flag on and someone approaches you and asks you a coded question and you don’t know the answer you can be identified as “false flagging” False flagging simply means that you are not truly part of the gang. This can a lot of times be potentially dangerous, as a ...
- 26799: Hcokey Night In Canada
- ... to get records like Wayne Gretzky did, or even close. Its going to be a while before you see another team with people as talented as the former Edmonton Oilers did back in the eighty’s. Why should there be teams in places like Nashville? Or even Anaheim? Also some players are too greedy, or too popular, and their price tags are too high. Sport teams in Canada like Calgary, or even Vancouver can’t afford the hefty price of top-class players. While places in the United States get government funding and tax cuts. The Canadian government should help out Canadian teams, before we lose everything to the United ...
- 26800: Buddhism
- ... great religions of the world. To call Buddhism a religion by itself would do injustice. Buddhism is a school of moral thoughts and principles as well as a religion to worship. Unlike other religions Buddhism's' sole purpose is not to worship a god or gods, it is only to preach the thought of spiritual development which leads to kindness and wisdom. Throughout this paper I will discuss the history of ... well to go to heaven for the rest of your next life. It is totally your decision where you go to in your next life in Buddhism based on your actions. Through Karma (a person's acts and ethical issues) your next life will be decided. Good deeds are rewarded with a great place in the next life. Evil deeds are punished in the next life. This provides the decision of ... western world would only be in larger cities, but that is not the case. There is a local temple in Chesapeake. Buddhism has gained wide expectance because of its lack of a god and it's use of common usage. The Yin Yang symbol and the concept of Karma are widely used in popular culture today: even though they may have never studied Buddhism at all. This goes to show ...
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