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- 4311: A Brief History of Ledd Zeppelin and Its Musical Impact
- ... time period did, or ever will. The amount of evolution of music that occurred in this time period is amazing as well. The mainstream went from listening to songs like Bill Haley and the Comet's "Rock Around The Clock," to The Beatles' frightening "Revolution 9." While these two examples may seem completely different, they are not as distant as one might think. Nearly all music from the '60s and '70s ... earlier and could no longer handle the pressure of touring. The band members, Keith Relf, Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, and Jimmy Page decided to throw in the towel and let the band collapse. Playing wasn't the same rush it used to be, and it just wasn't fun anymore. Each member elected to follow their own projects. Dreja planned a career in photography, McCarty and Relf intended on starting bands of their own. Lead guitarist, Jimmy Page was given legal rights ...
- 4312: The Vietnam Era
- ... and society and became their own person. They were not hindered by what they were supposed to be or what society expected of them. No one expected "hippies" to amount to anything, therefore they didn't experience the pressures that their parents had. During the Vietnam Era, there was often a division between parents and their children because of the vast differences in opinions and lifstyles. "Hippies" contradicted everything their parents based their lives on. Many parents didn't understand their children or know how to deal with them. My father had a friend named Leif who was a hard core war protestor and hippie. His parents were very important people in their town and very conventional. His parents viewed him as an embarrassment and sent him to a psychiatrist. his parents didn't try to understand him, they just gave up. They were more concerned what other people thought than what he thought. Many parents could not understand their kids because their lives were so different. It ...
- 4313: Character Analysis Of The Gran
- ... is the central character in the story "A good man is hard to find," by Flannery O'Connor. The grandmother is a manipulative, deceitful, and self-serving woman who lives in the past. She doesn't value her life as it is, but glorifies what it was like long ago when she saw life through rose-colored glasses. She is pre- sented by O'Connor as being a prim and proper lady dressed in a suit, hat, and white cotton gloves. This woman will do whatever it takes to get what she wants and she doesn't let anyone else's feelings stand in her way. She trys to justify her demands by convincing herself and her family that her way is not only the best way, but the only way. The grandmother is determined ...
- 4314: The Origin Of Basketball And I
- ... The game of basketball is one of the most popular and exciting games to watch or play on any skill level. In December of 1891, Dr. James Naismith was a teacher at the Young Men s Christian Association Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was winter and one of his superiors, Dr. Luther Gulick, asked of Dr. Naismith to come up with a game that could be played during the winter months ("History"). Dr. Naismith had played rugby and he didn t like the roughness of that game. He wanted a team game which would get rid of most physical contact ("Basketball"). The game contained elements from American football, soccer, and hockey ("History"). Dr. Naismith contemplated the ... in which the players would have to throw the ball in an arc. This would mean less force would be needed to get the ball in and it also meant that the opposing players wouldn t be able to block a shot so easily (Anderson, 5). He then asked a custodian to hang to boxes from the balcony in the gym. The custodian came back and said that he only ...
- 4315: The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression of Women in Society
- The Yellow Wallpaper: Male Opression of Women in Society Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a commentary on the male oppression of women in a patriarchal society. However, the story itself presents an interesting look at one woman's struggle to deal with both physical and mental confinement. This theme is particularly thought-provoking when read in today's context where individual freedom is one of our most cherished rights. This analysis will focus on two primary issues: 1) the many vivid images Gilman uses to illustrate the physical and symbolic confinement the ...
- 4316: Hamlet 17
- HAMLET 1. As the play opens, Hamlet is troubled by the turn of events following his father's death. It seems (and later becomes apparent), that Hamlet's upset is caused more by the remarriage of his mother and her love and devotion towards Claudius so soon after King Hamlet's death, than by simple mourning of his fathers passing. This is shown in lines 147-162 "Why she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on. ...
- 4317: College Costs
- College Costs Introduction It's no secret that financing a college education is getting tougher. College costs have skyrocketed over the past decade or so, and there's no relief in sight. Average tuition at four-year colleges will increase 7 percent this school year, double the rate of inflation. Student aid is not increasing fast enough to plug the growing gap between ... to send a person to RIT. The Financial Burden First and foremost a family has to live. The Census data indicates that the minimum a family must earn is "a poverty level income." So, let's assume a family needs $16000 per year for living expenses. The cost of attending RIT is $15651 per year. Books and supplies are approximately $1200 per year. Finally, travel expenses will be approximately $500 ...
- 4318: Tar Baby
- ... heart instead of your mind because it will never lie to you. However, when you follow your heart you are not always prepared for what the outcome may be. This is proven in Toni Morisson's novel Tar Baby . Tar Baby is Morrison's fourth novel and it took three and a half years to write . The story was based on an old African American folk tale about Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby. This book is said by some to be an excess of what made Morrison's other books good but despite the criticism the book still made it to the best seller's list. The story takes place on an isolated island of L'Arbe de la Croix. this was ...
- 4319: Self Expression
- ... starting with her early childhood years. As a young black girl being raised by a strong, independent homosexual mother living a hetrosexual lifestyle, Lorde shows us how she secretly takes on many of her mother s characteristics. Audrey Lorde uses her mother s sexual identity as a foundation in developing her own sense of sexuality while struggling to express herself as a young, homosexual black woman in an extensively critical society. Audrey Lorde paints a picture throughout this book of how her mother s sexuality played a major role in allowing her to come to terms with her own sexual identity. Lorde allows us to see that her mother lead a hetrosexual lifestyle only because back in the ...
- 4320: Andrea del Sarto: A Statement Worthy of Examination
- ... is the story of a painter who, with un-Godly amounts of talent, never fulfills his potential in becoming a great, prolific painter, in the exalted ranks of Raphael. Browning attributes this to del Sartos wife, as is the case with most women, she binds del Sarto with love, thus oppressing him from his destiny, which is to become one of the worlds finest artists. Andrea del Sarto, one of, if not, the finest poems ever written by Browning contains a much deeper meaning that holds true for several of the poets, rulers and people that we have studied this past semester. That meaning, symbolized by del Sartos life, is summed up best in lines 137-138. Browning writes, In this world, who can do a thing, will not;/ And who would do it, cannot,. . . These lines represent the struggles of most ...
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