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The Broadcast Of "War Of The World" In 1938On November 2, 1938, a nationwide radio station broadcast a radio
show that was based on the best seller, War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells.
The play was performed by many people, namely Orsen Wells and John Houseman.
It was during a time when the radio was the primary source of
entertainment. ...
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Jazz Movement In The 1960sThe Avant-Garde Movement in Jazz in the 1960's
The avant-garde movement in jazz in the 1960's was a period in music that was marked by several specific traits. The United States in the 60's was going through rapid changes socially, and having some major political changes also. In this paper, I ...
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The Journey Of Odysseus And TelemachosIn The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore,
several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time
period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the
actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs of this
characteristic were ...
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Morrison's Jazz: Characters' ActionsThe novel Jazz by Toni Morrison is an extremely well written
account of black life during the mid 1850's to the late 1920's. Morrison
manipulates the three main character's personas while analyzing their
lives to show the effect that a person's history has on their present day
life. The most ...
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BraveheartMedieval Society has had much of a affect on society today. For example, many movies
have been based off the Middle Ages and the society there. One of the greatest movies
that took place in the Middle Ages was . Mel Gibson, most likely best movie,
had a great affect on society today. It tought ...
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Brave New Worldwas published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant today as in ...
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Interview And Death“Everyday life seems unbelievably minuscule when faced with the prospects of death and dying.” These are the words of Dr. David Avery. David is thirty years old, unmarried, a successful doctor, and has recently been confronted with the knowledge that he is suffering from a terminal form of acute ...
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Hazing A Benefit Or BurdenThe concept of hazing has long since been a source of debate, yet it has also served as a means of training designed to save lives. Hazing has been around almost as long as mankind but its formal introduction became most apparent in the military. Hazing is used to bring a group of people ...
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"Miss Brill": Emptiness In One's LifeIn "Miss Brill," Katherine Mansfield describes an aging teacher who visits a public park on a weekly basis. Every Sunday afternoon, Miss Brill ventures to the park at the same time and watches the band play. On this Sunday, Miss Brill wears her old fur coat. To her, the fur coat was a long ...
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Leonardo Da Vinciis one of the greatest and most ingenious
men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art,
science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single
man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing.
Da Vinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited ...
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Symbolism In The Glass MenagerieThe Glass Menagerie uses an extensive pattern of symbolism that
describes the characters of Tom,Amanda,Laura and Jim.Glass,light,color and
music constitute the substance of the dominant symbols and motifs,serving
to reveal deeper aspects of characters and underlying themes of the
play.Tennessee ...
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Rand's "Anthem"Anthem, a science fiction novel, deals with a future primitive society
in which the forbidden word "I", which is punishable, has been replaced by
"We". Anthem's theme seems to be about the meaning and glory of man's ego.
In this novel, Rand shows that the individualism needed for building ...
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The 1960'sMany social changes that were addressed in the 1960s are still the
issues being confronted today. The '60s was a decade of social and
political upheaval caused by student and anti-war protest movements,
political assassinations, and ghetto riots. The decade began under the
shadow of the Cold War ...
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Canada - Of The United States Of AmericaThe Canadian identity has always been difficult to define. We, as
Canadians, have continued to define ourselves by reference to what we are not -
American - rather than in terms of our own national history and tradition. This
is ironic since the United States is continuing to be allowed by ...
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Genetic Engineering 5“Just as the success of a corporate body in making money need not set the human condition ahead, neither does every scientific advance automatically make our lives more meaningful” (Wald 45). These words were spoken by a Nobel Prize winning biologist and Harvard professor, George ...
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Participants In The Wars Of ThIn the late 1400’s the House of York fought the House of Lancaster for the English crown. Because Lancaster’s heraldic badge
was a red rose and the Yorks was a white rose, the long conflict became known as Wars of the Roses. The real lives of the
main participants of the Wars of the Roses will be ...
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MimosaSeparation from their original home was one of the many past events that caused tensions and turmoil between a father and his two daughters. While each individuals thoughts about each other fluxuated between both positive and negative, one thing remained constant through out the progression of the ...
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Civil War 2Amateurs Go to War From the Novel: Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era By: James McPherson Summarized by: Vladimir Ristich Writing about recorded history should be a relatively easy task to accomplish. Recorded history is based on facts. Regardless of what time period one may write about, one ...
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The Man In The Iron MaskIn The Three Musketeers is a very good book. It is about 4 heroes who save the day like in most heroic books. They are successful in defeating the evil because of the heroic deeds of d’Artagnan.
D’Artagnan is introduced to the three musketeers by incidentally insulting all of them. ...
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Biblical Analysis On Genesis And ExodusAfter Adam and Eve the Hebrew ancestry grew on the shoulders of Abraham. From there we learn of the many books that comprise and make up the collection of stories that is The Bible. Depending on who you ask, The Bible according to the first full English translation (, King James Version,) ...
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