In the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Chris McCandless enters the Alaskan wilderness alone. ... There are many places in America that could still be called untouched. ... Because of this fascination there is a certain amount of Americans that are going to look upon you as a hero for beating the wild and making it out alive. ... The farther society tries to pull away from the wild the more draw it will have the person seeking a challenge and trying to escape society. ...

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Films such as Wild Style, Style Wars, Beat Street, and Breakin', propelling the elements, and compelling outsiders with no understanding of the culture to explore this "new" phenomena. ... When Wild Style came around, only five or six members from Rock Steady would get to represent. ... Shortly thereafter, Wiggles, Fabel, and Freeze started their own crew called Electric Company. ... Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... I remember buying an album called, Electric Breakin', that came with a pullout that taught you ...

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One quote was good to me "We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and Indian and African, and, all in all, we men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. ... Everyone loves music, and music such as the blues, has been around for centuries and is what Du calls "Sorrow Songs". ... This paragraph a...

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I was a wild child. I was a little girl who always wanted attention. I was the best child my parents could ever have even though I was very loud and could get on their nerves very easily. Some incidents that made me a unique and best kid around was when I moved to a different country at a young a...

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Through the hardships of life in a wild, new land, the American settlers gained strength and a firm belief in the rights and liberties of the individual man. ... The other section was the South--11 Southern states that had seceded (withdrawn) from the Union and formed an independent government called the Confederate States of America. ...

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Since its victory in the Cold War over Soviet Union, America has flagrantly been declaring to introduce and impose its so-called New World Order. ... A team of U N inspectors was sent to Iraq to find out the so-called deadly weapons; but in spite of deep digging scrutiny they could find nothing of the sort. ... And the people who shed tears at the loss of wild life are now effacing the human life with their own hands. ... This so-called peacekeeping organization did really nothing but issue hollow and facile statements. ...

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Then in 1952, a multi-camera/widescreen projector process was introduced called Cinerama. ... Ansocolor was used heavily in Westerns allowing filmmakers to experiment with films such as The Wild North & Kiss Me Kate until 1955 when Eastmancolor was created and eventually took over as the main color system. ... Eventually this style diminished and a genre called "adult westerns " began. ... In the 1960's, films such as The Seven Year Itch and Some Like it Hot By Billie Wilder was the beginning of a cycle of cynical, sex comedies concerned with the strategies of seduction which reflected th...

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I don't want to ruin the end of the movie but I will say that he goes a little wild on cocaine and has some unwanted visitors enter his property. ... There is evidence of Jewish and Cuban people committing the same crimes as the so-called mafia before Italians and Sicilians immigrated to America. ... This process is called money laundering and is one of the most important ways that professional criminals hide their illegal money. ...

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The stadiums created to house these events are extremely large, loud and wild with the ability to pack in a massive amount of people. ... The ability of Bravo Company to call upon the flaws on the ideas of what American patriotism is comes from their experiences in a war that stands for America but not understood by its people. ...

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Girls Gone Wild: The Flapper Years The 1920s were a remarkable culturally influential era in United States history. ... "Flappers" as they were called, wore straight dresses with no cleavage, no waistline, and hair either cut short in a "bob" or neatly hidden under a hat. ...

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Irving was called the literary vagabond in England, Holland, France and Italy and frequently wrote using the creative tools of fiction to comment on historical background and events of American history. ... Rip vanishes into the wild wilderness, "From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country for many a mile of rich woodland. ...

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After the chaos of the boxer rebellion Hay called for an expanded "Open Door Policy," for all parts of China. ... Propaganda was spreading like wild fire through America; the people were fired up and were in the mood for war. ...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were at a particular disadvantage in the capitalist jungle.Workers were slaves to the whims of their masters, the capitalist who own and ran private industry. Many of the workers were immigrants ignorant of the language and ways of their new country were the most vulnerable members of this class...

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