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Second World War Return To Germany
1,666 wordsRobert Westall's The Machine Gunners has an exciting storyline but it is the aspects of the novel, such as its characters, themes and language, which captures and maintains the readers attention. Hence, the novel highlights the experiences and their effect upon juveniles in Britain during the Second World War. This is clearly seen through the novels protagonist, Chas, who undergoes changes in his personality, thoughts and feelings as the experiences bring maturity. With the backdrop of the Secon...
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R 038 B Jimi Hendrix
348 wordsJimi Hendrix, the greatest guitarist in rock history, revolutionized the sound of rock. In 1967, the Jimi Hendrix Experience rocked the nation with their first album, Are You Experienced? . Hendrix's life was cut short by the tragedy of drugs in 1970, when he was only twenty seven years old. In these three years the sound of rock changed greatly, and Hendrix? s guitar playing was a major influence. Jimi was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, 1942. As a young boy, whenever the chance cam...
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Jimi Hendrix Electric Guitar
1,467 wordsJames Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; a black American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada. His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as Jimi began to take a serious interest in music and playing the guitar. When he was 12 he got his first electric guitar the instrument which shaped t...
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James Marshal Hendrix Jimi Hendrix Chas
320 wordsJames Jimi Hendrix JIMMI HENDRIX James Marshal Hendrix was born on November 27 th 1942, in State Washington. He was considered by many to be the greatest guitarist to have ever lived. When he was 12 years old, his father traded his saxophone to buy an inexpensive acoustic guitar for Jimi. Though he never learned to read music, he tought himself by getting together with other local no-named bands and gigged for about 50 cents an hour and all the pop and food they could consume. When he was 17 he ...
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Thwarted Desire Howard Jacobson Kreitman
1,211 wordsThe bad sex guide Whos Sorry Now? Howard Jacobson 326 pp, Jonathan Cape Whod be a man, a woman or a child in a novel by Howard Jacobson? I didnt notice any animals getting it in the neck (apart from an off-stage cat), but that must surely be an oversight, because Whos Sorry Now? is, in its simplest form, an extended examination of unhappiness and misery. It has, by way of philosophical contortion, the added complication that some of its characters can only pursue happiness via unhappiness; other...
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Kreitman And Charlie Nice Sex Man
675 wordsTake my wife Whos Sorry Now? Howard Jacobson Cape? 16. 99, pp 325 The perils and pitfalls of lunching at length in Soho are many, but for Marvin Kreitman and Charlie Merriweather, a Monticello-fuelled marathon that spills over into supper their last, in many ways and ends in St Thomas A& E, some 14 hours later, has life-altering effects. Kreitman and Charlie are middle-aged men with nothing much except themselves to worry about, and as different as two comic archetypes could be. Kreitman is ...
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