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- 201: Madonna
- ... birth name is Madonna Louise Ciccone. However, most people know her as simply Madonna. She is known as a controversial singer, actress, dancer, songwriter, and has become one of America's biggest and well-known stars in the late 1980s. Madonna's assertive behavior, outspoken personality, and aggressive acts of sexuality, along with her great efforts to push back the borders of the acceptable, have brought her tremendous commercial success in ... Woody Allen's film, Shadows and Fog, produced in 1992, and the film, A League of Their Own, produced in 1992, were also part of her movie career. Her latest movie, Evita, in which she stars, was given some praise in the box office, and is probably considered her best work yet. Madonna is currently trying to gain more control of what is being produced about her. She has entered the ...
- 202: Does The Mass Media Cause Unde
- ... as only being able to fill male sexual desires. To say that pictures featuring nudity, etc, are making objects out of women is foolish. One should consider females who pin-up posters of male rock stars or children who collect hockey or baseball cards. Society, however, does not say that objects are being made out of these rock stars and sports heroes; pictures of clothed people are no less objects than pictures of naked people. Many complaints are also made to the effect that pornography only offers a one- dimensional view to life; that ...
- 203: Abraham Of Chaldea
- ... encourage Abram through a distinct and detailed repetition of former promises He had made and by a solemn covenant contracted between himself and God. God told him his seed should be as numerous as the stars of heaven, that his posterity should grow up into a nation under foreign bondage, and that after four hundred years they should come up and possess the land in which he sojourned. After living in ... Lord Will Provide." 23 After this, the angel of the Lord called Abraham a second time and said, "Because you have done this, I will indeed bless you. I will Multiply you descendants as the stars of heaven and as the sand on the seashore. They shall possess the gate of their enemies, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed by them, because you have obeyed my voice ...
- 204: Golf Ball Industry
- Golf ball industry Golf is a multi-billion dollar industry that is showing a growth in popularity due to media attention on rising young stars of the sport. Many different golf products are needed and sold to the millions of consumers who play this sport annually. Because of the large market which exist, there is strong competition between equipment makers ... and Poor’s also claim that this industry is expected to grow at least by 5% a year due to increased prices of premium products and because of increased participation rates due to emerging young stars like Tiger Woods. It has been estimated that around 25 million people in the United States play golf. As seen in Table 1, golf participation rates took a dip after the early 90’s, however ...
- 205: Cary Grant
- Cary Grant Perhaps the most dashing of all Hollywood film stars, Cary Grant stole the hearts of millions of audience members during his 40 years of acting. Born Archibald Alexander Leach on January 18,1904 in Bristol England, he was the only child of impoverished parents ... Lockwood; Leach negotiated with them, and they settled on the name Cary Grant. Grant's feature debut was in This Is the Night in 1932. He soon found himself playing opposite such top Paramount female stars as Nancy Carroll, Sylvia Sidney, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West . In 1935 Grant appeared with Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett. When his Paramount contract expired in 1937, Grant chose not to sign with another studio ...
- 206: Is it an Open Road?
- ... amazing. This car is purple. Not just any purple, but a rich, gleaming purple. The purple only a strong women would drive. The voice continues to say only one more catch. “It’s a million stars, just a moon roof away”. Imagining looking up at those stars on a warm night does it for me. I’m hooked. I want this car. I had to rewatch the commercial, this time fully conscious and aware, to see what the advertisers did to manipulate ...
- 207: Marilyn Monroe
- ... to keep their morale high. Those pictures that he took were the first that ever appeared in a publication. They appeared in hundreds of army camp newspapers, including the army’s famous Yank magazine and Stars and Stripes. When David phoned Marilyn a few weeks later, he said he had shown her pictures to a commercial photographer friend in Los Angeles and told her that if she was interested in modeling ... to keep their morale high. Those pictures that he took were the first that ever appeared in a publication. They appeared in hundreds of army camp newspapers, including the army’s famous Yank magazine and Stars and Stripes. When David phoned Marilyn a few weeks later, he said he had shown her pictures to a commercial photographer friend in Los Angeles and told her that if she was interested in modeling ...
- 208: In The Skin Of A Lion
- ... contorts other characters’ identities as his own. The readers are introduced to this concept of reflecting light even before the novel begins. This is indicated by, "(D)riving the four hours to Marmora under six stars and a moon." Patrick is the moon; he can only reflect a star’s light. When reflecting light from the six stars, the main characters in the novel, Patrick is able to gain a temporary identity. This is what Patrick is searching for— his true identity. Throughout the novel, Patrick becomes like the people he associates with ...
- 209: Enochian Scripture
- ... current popularity: he believed that many species besides the human race had inhabited the Earth, and that much knowledge was passed to mankind in encounters with being from other "spheres". He shared the belief that stars are like our sun, and have their own unseen planets with their own life forms, but elaborated this belief with a good deal of metaphysical speculation in which these beings were part of a cosmic ... these traditions. According to Alhazred, the Old Ones were beings from "beyond the spheres", presumably the spheres of the planets, and in the astrology of that period this would imply the region of the fixed stars or beyond. They were superhuman and extrahuman. They mated with humans and created monstrous offspring. They passed forbidden knowledge to humankind. They were forever seeking a channel into our plane of existence. This is virtually ...
- 210: Shannon Lucid
- Shannon Lucid Ever since children have dared to dream, they have always dreamt of going to the moon or to the stars. For the millions of children who dream this, only an infinitely small portion actually achieve this goal. In 1943 in war- torn China, a girl was born who had this same dream. Her name was ... s and here to stay are the days of science and for the good of man not the military. Shannon Lucid has been one of the people that has allowed everyone to dream for the stars. She hasn't had quite the effect of Neil Armstrong "one giant leap for mankind" but she has made a great leap for everyone who dares to dream.
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