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- 5451: Marilyn Monroe 2
- Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career. Born as Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles General Hospital, her mother, Gladys, listed the fathers address as unknown. Marilyn would never know the true identity of her father. Due to her mother's mental instability and the fact that she was unmarried at the time, Norma Jeane was placed in the foster home of Albert and Ida Bolender. It was here she lived the first 7 years of ... rest home in Santa Monica. Grace McKee, a close friend of her mother took over the care of Norma Jeane. "Grace loved and adored her", recalled one of her co-workers. Grace, telling her..."Don't worry, Norma Jeane. You're going to be a beautiful girl when you get big...an important woman, a movie star." Grace was captivated by Jean Harlow, a superstar of the twenties, and Marilyn ...
- 5452: Ku Klux Klan - The History
- The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of America's oldest and most feared groups. Driven by the dream of a world with only one master race, the KKK often uses violence and moves above the law to promote their cause. They didn't start of violent, or to promote white supremacy. They have been in the shadows for over 130 years and continue to thrive in America's society today. The Ku Klux Klan began almost accidentally during the reconstruction period after the civil war in the Southern United States. The southern people had suffered greatly from the effects of the great ...
- 5453: The Outsiders
- The Outsiders BY S.E. Hinton Chapter 1 In chapter one, you meet the main character Ponyboy. He is fourteen years old. His parents died in a car accident, and he now lives with his two brothers. Darry and ... to hurt him. Before anything really happened Soda and Darry pulled him away from the Socs. Ponyboy was afraid to complain to Darry. Sodapop and Dary always took Ponyboy with them places. One of Soda’s friends Steve was always with them. He was Soda’s best friend. They both worked at a gas station. They always were the busiest. Maybe it was because Steve knew so much about cars or maybe because Soda could have any girl he wanted. ...
- 5454: The play "Amadeus" is Mainly Concerned With the Destructive Nature of Jealousy
- The play "Amadeus" is Mainly Concerned With the Destructive Nature of Jealousy This passage is all too true, both in Peter Shaffer's ‘Amadeus' and in life in general. However the play is also concerned with the destructive nature of ignorance and naivety. Salieri is jealous not just of Mozart's talent, but of the fact that God gave the talent to “Mozart … spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart”. He is envious of the vessel of God's laughter at the ‘patron saint of mediocrity' as he had dubbed himself. Not only did God double-cross Salieri, but he did it using this “obscene child”. It was this jealousy and the rage ...
- 5455: Compare And Contrast Essay
- ... it is not animated there are many differences. In Ever After , Drew Barrymore portrays the character Cinderella, who in the beginning of this movie is called Danielle. In the very beginning, it shows how Danielle s father died and how she went off to live with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. In Cinderella , both of the stepsisters are wicked, but in Ever After , her sister Jacqueline is not so wicked and ... pretty one. One similarity is that in both movies, Cinderella and Danielle are servants to their stepmother and stepsisters. They are also not allowed to eat with them, only serve them. In Ever After , Danielle s only friends are the other servants of the house, this is similar to how Cinderella is friends with the mice that live in her house. In both cases their friends are always protective and willing to help. In Cinderella , Cinderella doesn t meet the prince before the ball, she doesn t even really expect to be going to the ball. In Ever After , Danielle meets the prince in a confrontation where the prince was actually stealing ...
- 5456: Abortion: Abusive Parents
- ... drugs and alcohol totally ignoring the living, growing person inside them. Then, when these children are born, they are usually born with a drug addiction or birth defects which sometimes leads to death. One thing's for sure, these children's lives are greatly complexed before they even reach the light of day. Which leads to my position that the rights of the child should be extended to the unborn. A mother should not have the ... life. If a mother beat her baby and was reported to the child welfare board they would be thrown in jail without a second thought, but just because a child is not yet born doesn't that mean that a mother can do anything she wants to it. Take a child who has been born, then goes through the pain of having an abusive parent. If the parents are exposed ...
- 5457: The Great Gatsby 12
- In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism adds depth to the story, without introducing confusion. Fitzgerald's symbols are large, concrete and obvious. Examples of this symbolism are the valley of ashes, T. J. Eckleburg's huge blue eyes, and the green light on the Buchanan dock which Jay Gatsby idolizes. The valley of ashes is "a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque ...
- 5458: Brave New World
- Brave New World BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to have kept nearly all of it’s meaning for the past 67 years, mostly because of its story of a tightly controlled, homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in 1932, perhaps more so. Reproductive technology plays a ... is also here that their caste designation determines how much oxygen they will receive in their bottle. "The lower the caste, the shorter the oxygen." The lower caste Epsilons are oxygen deprived because they don’t need smarts for the work that they do. The "Bokanovskified", pre-sexed, caste designated embryos are then taken out of storage when needed and "decanted" where as children, they are subjected immediately to sleep learning ... naturally assume the responsibilities and the rules of their castes. Very few question, as their caste is assigned from birth. If they do, they are exiled to an island (usually Iceland) where their questioning can't affect others. Thus, the society is stable and unquestioning. Identical genetic material, rigidly enforced social caste using oxygen deprivation and sleep tapes for brainwashing. Everyone easily fulfils society's expectations and there are no ...
- 5459: Common Problem Faced in First Time College Students
- Common Problem Faced in First Time College Students When I was in the eleventh grade, I thought I was taking an easy to pass English course. When I got there, I realized it wasn’t as easy as I thought it was going to be. Reading this article - “How To Say Nothing in Five Hundred Words” by Paul Roberts - reminds me of that class. In this essay he explains restraints keeping first time college students from being successful writers. Everything this article says you shouldn’t do, I did. This entire essay was extremely beneficial to me. There were a few recommendations Roberts hinted at that I found the most useful. “ Take the Less Usual Side” was the most interesting. Basically ... issue than every one else in your class, your paper will have a better chance of getting the ideal grade. This idea is a common sense idea that I just never thought about. Maybe that’s why I found it to be the most contributive idea in this essay. Perhaps the reason why I the article talking about taking the least obvious point of view is my first choice is ...
- 5460: Transformation of Macbeth
- Transformation of Macbeth In the beginning of Shakesphere's, Macbeth, the character, Macbeth is basically an everyday normal type of soldier fighting and killing for his king. His title at this point is the Thane of Glamis. Upon having a great day on the ... like “If you were a real man you'd do it”. This upsets Macbeth, and he begins to think that he is actually going to do it, and eventually carries it out. What he doesn't realize is that he will later regret his actions, and wish that he could turn back time. As soon as Macbeth has killed Duncan, he seems to start to lose his mind. He just doesn't know what to do with himself. In fact, he cannot finish smearing the blood on the chamberlains, lady Macbeth had to. As time goes by Macbeth begins to think that to keep his name ...
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