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The Rolling Stones Two young men in their mid twenties named Mick Jagger and Keith Richards met at a station and immediately became friends again after going to college together and started a rock band that is now known worldwide and is named The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones was formed in 1962. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards decided to join Ronnie Wood. Mick Jagger was the singer of the band while Keith Richards played guitar and now currently plays piano. The other instruments were played by

Hunting is what grows to become the most valuable in the society on the island, but in the beginning, the boys value and pursue rules and rescue. The conch helped with the important rules and it has value at the start because of the strong need to have organization and structure. An incident that projects the conch’s value is when Piggy announces, “I got the conch… I got the right to speak” (Golding 44) This is an example of how the boys used the conch to give them the right to speak when they held

TED is a nonprofit organization that seeks to spread ideas in a range of topics via short web-based talks. These talks are performed in front of a live audience where the speakers are from a wide range of disciplines and career fields. This particular form of spoken discourse is considered part of a discourse genre and therefore, it is expected that those who speak, share at least in part, some commonalities in the area of how they spread their ideas, as is customarily associated with a TED Talk

Shakespeare is it Worth Learning? Shakespeare, has known worldwide for his outstanding plays, poems, and sonnets. He wrote around 38 plays, poems, and sonnets, they were later translated into 75 different languages. A play that many might be firmer with is Romeo and Juliet, this story is meanly about two star crossed lovers. Not only was he a amazing writer he was also an actor, Shakespeare even acted in some of his plays that he wrote. Shakespeare should not be taught in the ninth

The Most Dangerous Game The story, The Most Dangerous Game, had many different settings in the story. It used vivid descriptions to add suspense to the scenes. The author mad the story seem dark and creepy, while keeping a quick pace. There were three main settings in the story, each helping to build the suspense up until the very end. The story started with a conversation between two hunters on a yacht at sea, in the dead of night. As they spoke, “the dark tropical night was palpable as it pressed

The protagonist, Sanger Ransford is well-known hunter. While he is on a boat to arrive at his destination he hears three gun shots. He is so engrossed on finding out where the shots came from, that he looses his balance and falls into the sea. Once he arrives on land he looks for inhabitants. He arrives at a mansion and he meets Ivan, a man servant and General Zaroff the antagonist of the story. Conflict occurs between the two immediately during dinner. General Zaroff tells Ransford he is also aficionado

discrimination, people in the performing arts pushed their audiences to reconsider their prejudices and assumptions regarding classification and disparate treatment of people based on race. Broadway’s and Hollywood’s most famous musical theater writing team, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Jr., both reflected and powerfully commented upon these racial tensions in two of their most famous musicals: The King and I and South Pacific. These musicals reached immense

After countless protests, anti-war movements, and “battles” on the home front, President Richard M. Nixon made the decision to withdrawal American troops from Vietnam. As a Marine, being stronger, faster, and smarter than your enemy is only half the battle. What keeps troops going is the support they receive from those who are back home waiting

I chose my topic for my History Fair Project after my father picked my brother and me up from school. When I got in the car he asked me “How was your day?” I replied with “Good, we talked about this project in school about taking a stand in history.” I then asked “Could you help me come up with a topic for it?” He then responded with “Sure Buddy” Then when it was time for dinner my Father and I discussed it and came up with Ronald Reagan. I conducted my research for my History Fair Project after

William M. Tweed was head of the great dramas of the postbellum period, “Tweed Ring.” The group was composed of Tweed, Oakey Hall, Richard Connolly , and Peter Sweeny, among other people. Historians believe that between the 1860s and early 1870s the Tweed Ring defrauded the City of New York from anywhere between $50 million or $940 million in today's money and $100 million which is $1.8 billion in today’s standards. When “The Ring” collapsed short after it was found to be corrupt it sent a shockwave