31‚ 1803: The 307 sailors aboard the warship Philadelphia‚ captained by William Bainbridge‚ is forced to surrender after the ship founders on a reef close to Tripoli. The ship becomes part of Tripoli’s navy as The Gift of Allah. Feb. 16‚ 1804: Stephen Decatur and 67 volunteers aboard the USS Intrepid daringly attack the former
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act a certain way around family whilst acting a different way around friends and strangers. These personas can often be regarded as different masks of the human psyche‚ a subject that is gently touched upon in concerns with the main characters in Stephen King’s short novella. “Chattering Teeth”. And in particular‚ one ‘Bryan Adams’ showed all three of his faces or masks’ to Hogan‚ the salesman‚ and each one of them was just a progression to an even worse persona. The first face Bryan Adams presented
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self-worth that is seemingly intrinsic to Americans of all classes. This subject matter can be found in such works as Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer‚ Sut Lovingood: Yarns Spun by a "Nat ’ral Born Durn ’d Fool"‚ by George Washington Harris‚ and Stephen Colbert’s I am America (and So Can You). Most of George Washington Harris’s work was done in the middle of the nineteenth century. His most famous character is the stereotypical rural farmer‚ Sut Lovingood. Harris’s Sut Lovingood stories were told
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Spongebob Squarepants is an American animated television series created by animator and marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg. It was released by the TV show network‚ Nickelodeon and is its highest rated show. The series centers on the adventures of the title character and his many friends like Patrick Star‚ Sandy Cheeks‚ Squidward Tentacles and Eugene Krabs in the underwater city of Bikini Botom. Since it’s first airing last May 1‚ 1999‚ the show Spongebob Squarepants has definitely went a long
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Takes us Back into Past‚ Reflects the 80s Classics and Television The Duffer Brothers certainly deserve kudos for creating ‘Stranger Things.’ Viewers are raving about the television series and for many‚ watching it was like taking a trip down memory lane as the science-fiction horror series has multiple cinematic influences from the past. It would not be wrong to call the series an ode to Steven Spielberg’s children movies and 1980s television. This Netflix tale reminds
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Stephen Sondheim is an american composer and his age as of now is 87. He was born on 3/22/1930 And is known for writing lyrics for Gypsy and also many more such as Into the Woods and Follies. He is still a active writer he has been writing for more that 50 years he started writing in 1954 and he is currently writing. He was born in a jewish family in new york city. His father manufactured dresses for his mother. His most interest was theatre he always wanted to be in musical theatre. So he kept
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never poses. In the beginning of the novel Henry is a whiney‚ unrealistic teenager. However overtime he starts to develop some traits that lead to him acting more mature‚ and adult-like in the environment he is in. In The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane‚ Henry goes from being an immature teenager to demonstrating traits of an adult and reevaluates his own personal values of wanting the fame and glory of being a soldier‚ and also his value of taking responsibility for his actions. The first
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this moment - how we live‚ how we impact the earth’s ecosystems‚ and what we can do to change our course. The film features dialogues with experts from all over the world‚ including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev‚ renowned scientist Stephen Hawking‚ former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists‚ thinkers and leaders who present the facts and discuss the most important issues that face our
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product of the social‚ scientific‚ and psychological concerns of a society that had lost its faith in religion. Each monster was a manifestation of a ubiquitous fear that remains relevant today. In the 2004 film rendition of Van Helsing‚ the director Stephen Sommers calls upon the famed vampire hunter from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to restore order to a world interweaving the plots of Frankenstein‚ and The Wolfman. The hero of Van Helsing has been stripped of any memory of his character’s history and triumphs
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Lilacs‚ and The Sound of Music was based upon the memoir of Baroness Maria von Trapp. Stephen Sondheim was another influential writer of the American Musical Theater‚ mostly in the1970’s to 1980’s era. Sondheim too brought sophistication to the table of musical’s. Some of Stephen Sondheim’s works included Sweeney Todd which was debuted in 1979 along with Into the Woods (1988). A unique characteristic of Stephen Sondheim was that he used complex musical language that shows a classical
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