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- 651: Creative Writing: A Day in the Life of a Gnome
- ... with some of her fairy dust. She handily carried it around in her turban. She naturally invited him in for dinner where they ate lots of mosquitoes. After dinner, they watched a cheap imitation of television. They used a big box to put different animals in and called it the Discovery channel. By the end of the day Knob was getting a little weary, so he decided to return home. When ... friends. After meeting at his teepee Door and Knob went to the town festival. At the festival they saw many entertaining attractions. One of which was a 9 foot sasquatch. Other attractions were an actual television, a real life dog, and a basketball. The main attraction was a real life human whom they had kept in captivity for three months. After a fun-filled day at the festival Knob and Door ...
- 652: Richard Milhous Nixon
- ... campaign, and when the New York Post announced that he had received secret campaign contributions from wealthy sources, he was nearly pushed off the ticket. Instead of giving up, Nixon went on national, prime-time television and appealed directly to the voters. He delivered what has come to be known as the "Checkers Speech," fully exposing his financial situation and revealing that he was not a wealthy man. The speech was ... figure running against the young, inexperienced John F. Kennedy, who was little known nationally and had a reputation as a playboy inside Washington circles. Kennedy, however, took advantage of modern campaigning techniques, which employed the television more than personal contact, and he was given a big push by the first-ever televised presidential debates. The healthy, attractive, charming Kennedy came off as strong, confident, and in control, while Nixon, who refused ...
- 653: In Our Time By Ernest Hemingwa
- ... at the same time and have had to reread several times. "The Three-Day Blow" offered an interesting irony to the title "In Our Time", but maybe it is just my jaded view of the television. Nick and Bill sit and discuss intelligently on various topics like books and baseball, but I fear this sophisticated discourse is becoming rare in "our" time of cable television which has done much to dry up serious dialogue.
- 654: Timothy Findley
- ... was The Wars that gave Findley the recognition that he deserved; he received the Governor Generals Literary Award for this novel. In his early years of his writing career, Findley also wrote scripts for television, radio, and film. The most success of his film career came from the television series The Whiteoaks of Jalna, and The National Dream; for which he received an ACTRA award for co-writing with his partner, William Whitehead. After The Wars, Findley came out with six other popular novels ...
- 655: Walt Disney
- ... practical know-how enterprise and ingenuity. He accomplished many things in his life time. Completing twenty one full length animated films, 493 short subjects, forty seven live-action features, 330 hours of Mickey Mouse Club television programs, and two extraordinary amusement parks, just to name a few. On December 15, 1966, at 9:35 am in St. Joseph's hospital in Burbank, California, Walt Disney died. Many people were shocked as ... only sixty six years old but accomplished so many things before his death. By that time, 80,000,000 people had at one time purchased Disney licensed merchandise, 10,000,000 had watched a Disney television show, 240,000,000 people had seen a Disney movie, and 800,000,000 at one point read a Disney book or magazine. In addition, Disney received a total of thirty nine academy awards through ...
- 656: Ronald Reagan
- ... in 1947 on the influence of Communists in the film industry, Reagan took a strong anti-Communist stand testifying before the committee. Reagan emerged on the national political scene in 1964 when he made fervent television speech supports for the Republican presidential candidate, United States Senator Barry Goldwater from Arizona. Although the election was lost, Reagan's speech brought in money and admiration from Republicans around the country. After the speech ... election of 1980 Reagan spent years making political friends at party fund-raising dinners around the country. In the election of 1980 for the president, the candidates were Carter and Reagan. The contrast between the television personalities of two candidates was very important to people. Carters nervous manner had never been popular to people, while Reagans charm and happy face was a call for return to patriotism, which appealed ...
- 657: The Watergate Scandal
- ... John Ehrlichwan, because they were on the line of being charged for the crimes. But they were still convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury. On may of 1973, they broadcasted the hearings on television to millions of people, the public felt that it was very gripping and made them distraught A official told the court that Nixon had tape-recorded all the conversations on tape. Nixon had hoped these ... and still acted as if he was innocent. At a press conference on November, his famous quote was " I am not a crook". He avoided questions and was agitated. People that day who were watching television knew that Nixon was gonna be in hot water. Internal Revenue Services also discovered something that could harm Nixon. They noticed that in 1970 and 71' he had only paid $800 in taxes when he ...
- 658: My Trip To Woodstock
- ... 150 Too Much". I rationalized that people always complain. I thought that this was not different from any other frustration, or at least it should not have been. For days after the concert newspapers and television dissected Woodstock- but only one aspect of it. They focused only on the negative- only on the stupidity and heedlessness of a percentage of those who attended the concert. Not that I am trivializing the ... media can not get past what a small percentage of the people there did destroyed what Woodstock was for me. I went home, eagerly anticipating concert reviews, interviews, maybe even a glimpse of myself on television- but I was let down. I did not see anything but reports of the fires and looting. It was so frustrating to see the media make the assumption that the actions of those few people ...
- 659: Business Planning
- ... in the same way, by sticking signs to the stools and tables. This is something that will not bother the customer especially if the products of the selected company interest him/her. ADVERTISING THROUGH OUR TELEVISION SCREENS This advertising is somehow used in hotels; not to advertise others, but to give information to people about the hotel e.g. when the restaurant closes. On the peak hours of our restaurant background light music will be playing and on the screens of the television, advertisements will be played in a video format. This will include smaller companies. In the same way the bar and club TV screen will be operating with the difference that one will be advertising all ...
- 660: Futures Truth
- ... normal for the society in which she lives. Like Brave New World, characters escaping from reality through the use of soma, Montag's wife, and many other characters, escape through watching a sophisticated form of television. The problem with this is that Montag's wife takes the program as a substitute for reality. She is almost addicted to the program, much as people were with soma in Brave New World. Bradbury uses this television and it's programs as a way of showing the escape he is worried people will look for in the future. Without actively questioning society's values, he is concerned that people will look for ...
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