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The Story of the Yardbirds, released on 25 November 2008 (Loar, 2009), is a documentary about one of the most known British rock groups Yardbirds. The film is remarkable and informative, it gives the group’s fans and rock admirers valuable information about the creation of the group, the impressions of its participants and producers, and allows viewers to enjoy their favorite songs and rare shots from concerts. It contains exclusive interviews of members and producers of the group along with witty comments of critics.

The genre of an essay is now experiencing an obvious increase in its popularity. It expresses a profound knowledge of a specific theme but there is also important an original thought and an attractive style of presentation.
The essay can be of different types and now we are going to describe the writing process of history essays and its criteria.

Some essays we read with pleasure, others we look through and do not remember what it was about. It's not just the talent of the author. A lot of moments depend on what theme you disclose and whom you write to.
There are many types of essays. For example, philosophical, artistic, historical, spiritual-religious, literary-critical essays. They are also divided by the way of presentation into descriptive and narrative, analytical and critical, essay-illustrations, classifications, and others.

Сriticism is the most harmful genre of the publicist to author's karma. The word "to criticize" means finding bad in everything. However, critically writing usually deals with the analysis of the work of art, theatre performances, literary works, painting, and its aim is exploring the object from different sides, both from conditionally bad and from conditionally good ones.

Reading Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc I firstly paid attention how narration is organized. It starts with Jessica’s youth and pretty much linearly follow her time-line as she grows up, so reader can see where she had a choice and made a good (or more often, a bad) one. But book’s focused not only on Jessica in these first chapters. Author spreads her telling and writes stories of people, who surround Jessica in her life. That’s what makes book social valuable.

The poem When the Green Lies over the Earth by Angelina Weld Grimke is an example of intimate lyric with landscape including. The narrator sees the spring coming and everything around is green, new and fresh again, so the desire of love re-births along with the nature, making the narrator long to see her beloved. The poem seems cheerful and full of regrets at the same time, because the narrator feels the beauty of everything arising and blooming in nature, and it touches her deeply but the beauty of the nature reminds the beauty of the beloved person which is no longer here.

The history of music and progressive rock, in particular, is rich in the widely known and praised names. Pink Floyd is worthily considered to be one of the most prominent and significant representatives of this music genre continuing to with the hearts of generations and attracting new admirers even nowadays.

The issues of child development have been widely researched and discussed for decades with numerous theories being offered and experiments – including even highly unethical ones being held. Developmental psychology deals with the changes in human abilities and behavior throughout the life.

To understand artists from different periods it’s important to know what ideas and better sensations intellectuals of that period shared, how they thought about the modern time they live in, and about eternal things. To understand artist from period of Modernism, such as James Joyce, Marcel Proust or Virginia Woolf understanding of intellectual background is even more important, because their ways of writing are extremely different from everything had been written before. To face a question “what is novel about” reader firstly must deal with a question “how’s novel written and how should it be read”.

Looking at issues of human morality and justice from the point of view of religious doctrines, one can come across certain distinctions between the perceptions of different denominations’ adherents.

It’s hard to perceive Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings novel without constant reminding somewhere on the backyard of my consciousness that I’m reading a true story, autobiography of a great woman from the 20th century whose fate is already a fascinating novel by itself. But what I really wanted from this reading was to perceive it as a piece of art as pure as possible. We know a lot about Maya Angelou, the public person. In memories, the author opens his intimate characteristics, hidden parts of personality and reveals his talent in sensing beauty. So mostly I’m going to talk about Maya Angelou, the author.

Thinking about Colin Smith’s loneliness and running I consider his condition, not like a personal one, but more like metaphorical. In literature timeline, the main hero of this story can be placed somewhere between Kamus’ existential hero from The Outsider and one from Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange.

Jews and Islamic cultural and religious traditions were the closest during the “Golden Age” – a period since early 8th century when Arabic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula took place. Until this time Jews of Spain have suffered persecutions from Roman Empire where they were considered to be not an independent ethnos, but a religious group firstly, because Jews were strange to heathenism, then to Christianity within the Roman Empire and later, under the Visigoth monarchy.

Human Services is a multi-faceted field incorporating a wide range of social disciplines aimed at improving people’s lives and increase its quality.

Hitler is commonly perceived as an ultimate evil and a madman responsible for death, misery, and suffering of millions of people.

The decline of the World War II was marked by the use of the terrible and deadly weapon that had changed the whole trajectory of the global political and social development. Nuclear weapon bringing death and devastation was applied to Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people and making Japan finally surrender (Hamner).

Being probably the most favorable defense mechanism in human psyche, sublimation has been acquiring great importance in the Western society constituting the basis for social benefit, development of culture, science and civilization itself.

Hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) is a method in the oil and gas producing industry, used to extract energy valuable substance from deep earth’s layers. Water, sand and chemical ingredient are mixed and horizontally injected into a drilled well in order to crack the shale and increase valuable substance flow. The fracking method has started to become popular in America since the late 1990s and keeps this tendency nowadays.

One of the main reasons people needs media is to get information. And of course information values more (and coasts more) when it’s new and has good quality. So I’m focusing on news side of media and on visual, digital future of journalism.

There’s no doubt that the fact that the global community functions more or less consistently is predetermined by a certain form of social and political order.