Essays Tagged: "seventies"

Bill Gates

became friends and 'began to mess around with the computer'(Gates 2). Back in the sixties and early seventies computer time was expensive. 'This is what drove me to the commercial side of the software ...

(7 pages) 750 16 4.5 Jul/1996

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Fallen from Grace. On the use of symbolism in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily.'

ite, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies' (Faulkner 69). This description suggests that the house was built not only for function, ...

(3 pages) 334 0 4.5 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Pornography - - Sex or Subordination?

In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape,mutilation, and murder of over a dozen yo ...

(9 pages) 331 2 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Shakespeare Reread.

the women in Shakespeare. Little attention had been given to the women of Shakespeare prior to the seventies feminist movement. The women in King Lear deserve attention just as women in every Shakesp ...

(8 pages) 68 0 4.4 May/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

Emergence of Violence in American Cinema

lence has always been present in film in one form or another. It was not until the late sixties and seventies that such visionaries as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Pecki ... the present day. Graphic violence has become as important to film as the happy ending. The nineteen seventies was a time that filmmakers started to make extreme statements about our society and they o ...

(6 pages) 333 4 4.6 Aug/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Greg graffin

a, which is now the punk rockcapital of the world. 'Like millions of othervictims of divorce in the seventies I had todeal with the fact that my father was nowliving far away(In Racine, Wisconsin) and ...

(3 pages) 42 0 3.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Great rock musicians

on of rock and roll by focusing on three of the arguably greatest rock musicians of the sixties and seventies. The origin of the blues can be traced to the emancipation of the slaves in the rur ...

(8 pages) 90 0 4.2 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Violence and Pornography, pornography -- Sex or Subordination?

In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outragedby the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen yo ...

(15 pages) 291 0 3.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Remote Sensing

tifiable facts through the use of space objects and their component parts.' Throughout the nineteen seventies a number of working definitions were used by the United Nations when discussing remote sen ...

(7 pages) 79 1 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Jack The Ripper-From Hell

e people, all prostitutes, all in East London, and all ranged in age from their late teens to their seventies. He raped the women and they were all found in the road nude, one women was found in her h ...

(4 pages) 57 0 4.7 Jul/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers

This essay is about the slang used in the past and how it realtes to the slang children use in the present.

th one another as well as in a way rebel against what parents call acceptable language. In the late seventies one of the most common slang used would have to have been the word groovy. In present time ... similarities and differences will be evident.The use of the word groovy was seen all throughout the seventies positive in meaning and catchy in phrase. In the movie Austin Powers, which setting takes ...

(2 pages) 56 0 4.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Watergate & Nixon: A Political Chameleon

reasons why one must analyze the life and political career of Richard M. Nixon, and the mood of the Seventies.Nixon's career in politics began a long time before he even had dreams of the White House. ...

(5 pages) 104 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay is about Led Zeppelin =)

r played hard rock music. The group was one the more popular hard rock groups that performed in the seventies, and even had some hits in the 1960's.The members of the group are Jimmy Page, born on Apr ...

(4 pages) 53 0 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Foreshadowing in "A Rose For Emily" by Willam Failkner

ngeniously to achieve a shocking and powerful yet certain endingMs. Emily lived in a white, square, seventies style house that is now rundown, un maintained, rotting and decaying. The inside of the ho ...

(2 pages) 131 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Aids

AIDS Related Stigma Since the appearance of AIDS in the late seventies and early eighties, the disease has had attached to it a significant social stigma. This s ...

(7 pages) 92 1 3.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The Thatcher Years This essay is about the charismatic leader that took Britain by storm for over ten years and managed to crush the corrupt powers of the trade unions with her iron fist.

, lower taxes and restore power to the individual. What Thatcherism was promising at the end of the Seventies was the formula for renewed economic success in Britain through reinvigoration of the supp ...

(6 pages) 131 1 2.6 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Punk Music History.

something, that they can fit in with the other "punkers".Corporations in the late Sixties and early Seventies began to promote trends using music and spoon-feeding the public music whose sole purpose ... Division, The Clash, MC5, The Cramps ,The Stooges, and the first all-female group was The Slits.The Seventies was a confusing time for the punk culture. The Vietnam war had destroyed many dreams, and ...

(3 pages) 68 0 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

"A Rose for Emily" By WIlliam Faulkner,

ite, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies"(87). This house was considered "an eyesore among eyesores," set on what had been a premie ...

(5 pages) 164 1 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Serial Killers.

The nineteen-seventies was an incredible decade. It was a decade of change, one of freedom, a time for great musi ...

(3 pages) 89 0 4.1 Oct/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

This essay is how to clone.

Since the late seventies scientists have been cloning mammals using cells taken from embryos. In July 1996, medical ...

(5 pages) 71 1 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics