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Ahead Of His Time Freedom Of Speech
1,254 words
Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred Schneider, or more
commonly known as Lenny Bruce, was a comedian, a
family man, drug addict, and philosopher. A
conventional Jewish child from Long Island, who
joked about homosexuality, drugs, religion, and
race. Arguably, he paved the way for the comics of
today, paying the price for being twenty years
ahead of his time. Addicted to vulgarity and drugs
he became a regular in courtrooms across America.
The humiliation he caused a Philadelphia judge is
thought to be an...
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Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury
1,196 words
It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special
pleasure to see things eaten, to see things
blackened and changed, begins Fahrenheit 451 (1).
This opening of Bradbury's novel immediately
evokes the consequences of the careless use of new
technology and modern-mans refusal to recognize
these consequences (de Koster 44). The book
Fahrenheit 451 is one of only two novels that Ray
Bradbury has written, the other being Something
Wicked This Way Comes. (Many believe that
Dandelion Wine and The Martian Chr...
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Los Angeles Federal Prison
1,089 words
American Me is a harsh look at the "reality" of
prison and gang life, especially within the
Chicano community. Based on a "true story",
American Me traces the life of a Latino crime
lord, Santana, from his youth growing up in the
barrio of East Los Angeles, through his rise to
power behind the walls of Folsom Prison. Set
against a backdrop of hopelessness and prejudice
the movie brutally attempts to portray the
continuing cycle of violence inherent within a
crime-based life-style. In the end San...
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Southwest Airlines Delta Airlines
1,202 words
... ess efficiency. We are expecting Delta
Airlines will have some strategies changes if
Slugair decided to attack Delta Airlines
territory, such as establish a hub in Dallas.
Delta probably will change their flight schedules
around and give some promotions to lower their
price to dry Slugair out of the market. Since
Delta Airlines is the 3 rd largest carrier for the
United States, they are in a very strong market
position right now. For those reasons we think
that Delta is not the best target f...
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La Cosa Nostra Obstruction Of Justice
1,831 words
What is the Mafia? Many people ponder the true
definition of Mafia. The literal translation of
the word Mafia means my daughter. According to
Rick Porello of American Mafia. com, the Mafia,
more specifically the Italian-American Mafia, is a
group of criminals organized into "families, " and
operating primarily in North America. Also known
as La Cosa Nostra, at one time there were 26
families in the United States - roughly one for
each major city. The Mafia "commission, " composed
of bosses of nu...
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Los Angeles Times School Uniforms
1,124 words
Violence has been around since this world began,
whether being in biblical times or in the modern
times. Although violence has been around a number
of years, there is on place where parents trust
they can send they children with worries, school.
Everyday a mother wakes up, kisses her children
goodbye, and sends them to school. Unfortunately,
in these times that we live in parents may have a
legitimate cause to worry about their childs well
being. Parents often wonder if their children are
gettin...
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Moses Und Aron Twelve Tone Technique Schoenberg
761 words
Arnold Schoenberg was born on September 13, 1874,
to a Jewish family in Vienna. He taught himself
composition, with help in counterpoint from the
Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky, and in 1899
produced his first major work, the tone poem
Verklrte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string
sextet. In 1901 he married Zemlinsky's sister
Mathilde, with whom he had two children. The
couple moved to Berlin, where for two years
Schoenberg earned a living by orchestrating
operettas and directing a cabare...
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Racial Stereotypes Rap Artists
710 words
Race relations in the United States are much
better now than they were when Toni Morrison wrote
A Slow Walk of Trees 25 years ago. The United
States prides itself in being considered the most
diverse country in the planet. Living in Los
Angeles, California, one of the biggest
metropolitan cities in our country, I have the
opportunity of seeing different races every day.
Our cultural melting pot of a country has evolved
so much from the mid- 1970 s, that interracial
marriages, minority executives...
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Los Angeles County Roman Empire
1,387 words
In the Los Angeles County Art Museum A man dies.
He winds his way down into the underworld to reach
the banks of the river Acheron where he meets the
ferryman Charon. He takes a coin from his mouth to
pay the toll across. On the opposite bank he is
greeted by a Maenad or perhaps Bacchus himself who
offers him a kylix of wine. Drinking deep, the man
is transformed and resurrected from death to a
higher plane. Instead of living a miserable dream
in the underworld he receives redemption from his
go...
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Parents Music Resource Center Types Of Music
1,522 words
In today's society, all types of music artists are
expressing their views, opinions and feelings in
their songs about what they see and what they
know. This is on of the great things about this
country, the freedom to express yourself. It is
not fair, nor is it constitutional that music
should be censored in anyway. It is not only rap
music trying to be censored it is in all types of
music. They are taking away their rights and it
isn't fair. As reported in the New York Times.
"Wall-Mart CD stan...
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Ronald Reagan The Great Communicator
2,200 words
There are few people in America, Im sure, that
have never dreamt of becoming Americas next
president or one of Hollywood's many stars and
living The American dream. Our 40 th president
Ronald Reagan, however, did both. Ronald Wilson
Reagan was born on February 6 th 1911 in Tampico,
Illinois two years after his brother John Neil
Reagan. His fathers name was John Edward (Jack)
Regan. He was the son of John Michael and Jennie
Cusick-Reagan. In the 1860 s during the great
potato famine Ronald's pate...
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Pierre De Coubertin First World War
1,573 words
The most important thing at the Olympic Games is
not to win, but to take part, just as the
important thing about life is not to conquer but
to struggle well. The words spoken by Pierre de
Coubertin, father of the Modern Summer Olympic
Games. Baron Pierre de Coubertin may have intended
for the new Olympic Games to be a period of
concord in which all differences of status,
religion, politics and race would be forgotten but
unfortunately as the Games have progressed, so too
have the political overt...
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Los Angeles Bad Luck
1,807 words
When the mention of the name Rudolph Valentino
happens, it is mostly likely that the response
received would be, The Great Lover and The Sheik.
Valentino's jaw-dropping appearance and great
looks aside, he was also a very fine comedian,
something that very few people realize. It was
through Valentino that the now very common concept
of hot actors such as Tom Cruise came about.
(Stiff 2 / 23 / 02) Valentino was a fine actor, a
film pioneer, and a film icon. (Hill 2 / 3 / 02)
Born May 6, 1895 in C...
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Nation Of Israel Mount Sinai
2,150 words
... pon the princes, and health to him. (Brenton's
LXX) As you can see, the Septuagint calls the
coming Messiah the "Angeles (Angel) of Great
Counsel. " Both the Hebrew and Greek versions of
this verse link the coming Messiah to the Angel of
the LORD. The evidence is substantial that the
Angel of the LORD and Yeshua the Messiah are one
and the same! Another appearance of the being we
know as Christ is recorded in Joshua 5: 13 - 15.
Here he calls himself the "Commander of the host
of YHVH. " JOSH...
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Law Enforcement And Society
1,029 words
In order to understand contemporary law
enforcement, we should recognize the conditions
that impact our profession. It is agreed upon by
many scholars that major changes in law
enforcement occur every five years. Policing is
sometimes characterize.".. like a sandbar in a
river, subject to being changed continuously by
the currents in which it is immersed... "
(Swanson, Territo and Taylor, p. 2). However, in
recent years some major changes have occurred in a
shorter time period. Innovations in la...
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Express His Ideas House Of Usher
1,766 words
Ray Douglas Bradbury was born in Waukegan,
Illinois on August 22, 1920. He was the third born
son of Leonard Spaulding Bradbury and Esther Marie
Modern Bradbury. In the fall of 1926 the Bradbury
family moved from their home in Waukegan to
Tucson, Arizona. However, their stay there only
lasted until May of 1927 when they moved back to
their original habitation. Bradbury began writing
his own literature on butcher paper when he was 11
years old. Ray and his family moved again moved to
Tucson, Ariz...
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Ahead Of His Time Freedom Of Speech
1,283 words
Leonard Lenny Bruce Lenny Bruce Leonard Alfred
Schneider, or more commonly known as Lenny Bruce,
was a comedian, a family man, drug addict, and
philosopher. A conventional Jewish child from Long
Island, who joked about homosexuality, drugs,
religion, and race. Arguably, he paved the way for
the comics of today, paying the price for being
twenty years ahead of his time. Addicted to
vulgarity and drugs he became a regular in
courtrooms across America. The humiliation he
caused a Philadelphia judge...
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Le Monde Dans Le
584 words
Les Millions Des Dollars Defense Dans Le Les
Millions Des Dollars Defense Dans Le Monde De
Hockey. (The Millions Of Dollars Spent On Hockey)
LES MILLIONS DES DOLLARS DEPENSE DANS LE MONDE
DHOCKEY. Bonjour aux juge's, aux professors, et
aux autres participants. Tous les jours on reve de
gagner a la lotteries mais on sait bien que cela
ne va pas arrived. Cependant si on est jour hockey
ce nais pas un reve. Le monde de hockey nest plus
comme hockey original. Ce nest plus un sport, qui
develope une ...
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One Of The Major Ray Bradbury
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Ray Ray Bradbury Ray Bradbury Bradbury Ray
Bradbury was a dreamer. Bradbury had a skill at
putting his dreams onto paper, and into books. He
dreams dreams of magic and transformation, good
and evil, small-town America and the canals of
Mars. His dreams are not only popular, but
durable. His work consists of short stories, which
are not hard to publish, and keep in the public
eye. His stories have stayed in print for nearly
three decades Ray Bradbury was born on August 22,
1920, in a small town o...
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Martin Luther King Major League Baseball
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Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was one of the
best players that proffesional baseball has ever
seen and greatly helped major league baseball
accept African American players that otherwise
would not have played. Jack Roosevelt Robinson was
born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Hill 1).
Jackie's grandfather was a slave and his father a
sharecropper (1). His mom and dad got a divorce
when Jackie was just a baby (1). He, his mother
and four siblings moved after his parents got a
divorce (1). His...
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