|
Enter your query below to search our database containing over 50,000+ essays and term papers
Search results 9131 - 9140 of 30573 matching essays
- 9131: Frank Lloyd Wright
- " The greatest artist this country has ever produced seems to at last be coming into his own. America’s other great artists—our painters, sculptors, composers—don’t really rank with the tops of all time. They’re not Rembrandt or Michelangelo or Beethoven. Wright alone has that standing." (Robert Campbell) One of America’s most influential and imaginative architects was Frank Lloyd Wright. Throughout his 70 year career, Wright has not only designed nearly a thousand structures, but he has explored the ideas of living space, landscape, and ...
- 9132: Legislative Proposal for New Indecency Language in Telecom Bill
- ... the elements of criminal liability in vague and contradictory terms, and ii) eliminates safeharbors in the Senate bill that would define a clear standard of care, it might hold systems liable for actions that don't reach even a “ knowingly” standard of liability. As a result, access providers, system managers and operators, and employers may potentially be liable for actions of users over which they have no specific knowledge, intent, or ... be tied up in the courts for years to come. Companies will be particularly reticent to identify and eradicate prohibited communications when they are incapable of discerning which communications are “indecent” and when the company's consequent knowledge of the communications may actually make them liable. At worst, the proposal will either shut down systems entirely or will shut down any attempts to constructively monitor and screen systems, as providers take ... litigation, remains undefined, it is uncertain precisely what would be prohibited by this section. In the context of broadcasting, the Supreme Court has defined mere expletives as indecent See FCC v. Pacifica Foundation, 438 U.S. 726 (1978).: Would the use of an expletive in a communication that is made available to a minor trigger a criminal felony? An illustration. After this law passes, a 17-year old college freshman ...
- 9133: Death of a Salesman: The Control of Linda
- Death of a Salesman: The Control of Linda In the play, Death of a Salesman, Linda Loman is the character that is at fault for the downfall of her two son’s, Happy and Biff, and her husband Willy. Linda is a controlling mother figure who doesn’t allow her family members to become any better than they already are. This is why she is the cause of their demise. Linda Loman attempts to be a good mother but she doesn’t know her actions are harmful. When Willy first comes home at the beginning of the play because he wrecks the car again, Linda takes the blame off of him and blames the car. "Oh. ...
- 9134: Fredrick Douglass 4
- ... last saw his mother at the age of seven when he was then taken to a new plantation near Baltimore to work for Hugh and Sophia Auld, a relative of his master. At the Auld's home his only duties were to run errands and take care of their new born son, Tommy. It was there when Frederick learned the beginning steps of reading from Sophia, She would often read to him from the Bible. Fearing a educated slave Hugh put an end to his wife's teachings, however this did not stop Frederick. When he realized that the ability to read and write was his pathway to freedom, learning became a personal goal. He made friends with poor white children he met on errands and paid them bread for lessons. Little by little Frederick learned to read and write (T.S.Y.,2). In 1833 when Frederick was fifteen he was given up to another member of the Auld family, Thomas. The good days of Frederick's slave life were over. He was now ...
- 9135: The Die Hard Trilogy: McClain An Example of A Hero In America
- ... cut and dry, that was the typical ending of our childhood books and early movies. There was the perfect hero and the bad villain. That was in the pre-modern era, now our hero isn't always perfect and has his flaws. The hero in today's movies needs these flaws and needs to travel through a combination of paths to become a hero. In order to sell movies which decide who a hero is in today's society. A hero in today's society needs to admit that he needs help and isn't superman, he needs to have problems and prove that he doesn't belong up on a pedestal ...
- 9136: Imaginary Invalid
- Imaginary Invalid Moliere’s “The Imaginary Invalid” is a play about a hypochondriac who is so obsessed with his health and money that he ends up neglecting his family’s needs to better his own. Moliere sets up the exposition of the play in Act I by the apothecary bills Argon is reading aloud. After Toinette, the maid, then enters the scene she sarcastically makes ... instance, when Argon says, “You leave my insides alone.” She comes back with, “I wish you would. You’d be a different man.” She also lets the audience know by saying, “Why, if it wasn’t for him you wouldn’t even know you were ill,” speaking of the apothecary. The main conflict of the play is Argon’s unwillingness to accept that he is not ill and he is, ...
- 9137: Francesco Petrarch
- ... brother, who died at a very young age. His mother died when he was 15 years old, which was consequently when some of his earliest works have been recorded. At the age of 22, Francesco's father passed away, which caused Francesco to attain a career. Giovanni, his son, was born illegitimately in 1337. The relationship between the two was disappointment to Francesco. He describes him as: "Intelligent, perhaps even exceptionally ... intelligent, but he hates books" He let Giovanni live with him till he could no longer stand the sight of him and sent him to live in Avignon, at the age of 20. It wasn't until just before Giovanni's death, of the Black Plague, did they start to write each other. Just before his sons death, Petrarch's friends though of Giovanni as a good person and wrote Petrarch about this. He never ...
- 9138: The Phenomenon Of Professional
- ... is invested in keeping the characters fresh week after week, coming up with interesting storylines, and planning outcomes for the matches. Then, of course, there are the matches themselves. Just because they're fixed doesn't mean you know who is going to win. The atheletes sacrifice their bodies to all kinds of punishment for the fans. Professional wrestling is completely unlike any other form of entertainment on television. Professional wrestling ... the fans a great match. More likely than not, the good guy will lose (as this builds up the feud more). Detractors of professional wrestling usually misunderstand the purpose. When asked why a person doesn't enjoy watching wrestling, the most common answer is: "because it's fake." Of course, about 90% of everything on television is "fake," so why is it so wrong for professional wrestling to be fixed? It isn't wrong at all, but it does have the ...
- 9139: Trespasser: Computer Game Review
- Trespasser: Computer Game Review One of the most extraordinary games I have seen is Trespasser. From it’s stunning graphics to its haunting sounds Trespasser is the game to have. Trespassers story line comes from the aftermath of The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The story places you in the role of Anne, a castaway who must find a means of survival after landing upon "Site B" - the setting of The Lost World. Those who have seen Trespasser in action already know the story isn't the focus; it's the technology and gameplay. Along with Trespassers scenic background of lush jungle, lurks danger such as Raptor, T-Rex, and stegosaurus. Trespassers excellent graphics gives you the feeling you can see a great distance. ...
- 9140: Pygmalion +
- Bernard Shaw s comedy Pygmalion presents the unlikely journey of an impoverished flower girl into London s society of the early 20th century. Professor Higgins proposes a wager to his friend Colonel Pickering that he can take a common peddler and transform her into royalty. Eliza Doolittle is the pawn in the ... transforms from a defensive insecure girl to a fully confident,strong, and independent woman. When the audience first meets Eliza Doolittle she is a flower girl peddling at 11 PM in front of St. Paul s Church. The audience s first impression is one of sympathy because she is dressed in rags and pedestrians are unkind to her. Higgins calls Eliza you squashed cabbage leaf, you disgrace to the noble ...
Search results 9131 - 9140 of 30573 matching essays
|
