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The Beach Boys: An American Family is a 2000 American miniseries written by Kirk Ellis and directed by Jeff Bleckner. [1] It is a dramatization of the early years of The Beach Boys, from their formation in the early 1960s to their peak of popularity as musical innovators, through their late-1960s decline (and Brian Wilson's beginning battle with mental illness), to their re-emergence in 1974 ...
An official sample of a Philippine passport with "Maria dela Cruz" as the fictitious placeholder owner of the document. Activists often portray Juan dela Cruz as a victim of American imperialism, especially since many editorial cartoons of the American period often depicted him alongside Uncle Sam either as a "Little Brown Brother" or as an Asian Partner.
Late antique philosophical books that made heavy use of personification and were especially influential in the Middle Ages included the Psychomachia of Prudentius (early 5th century), with an elaborate plot centered around battles between the virtues and vices, [30] and The Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524) by Boethius, which takes the form of ...
The Beach Boys and the California Myth is a 1978 biography of the Beach Boys that was written by American author David Leaf, editor and creator of the Pet Sounds fanzine. It was the first full-length book written about the band [ 1 ] and an early piece of writing that revealed much of their internal conflicts and family history.
Catch a Wave (subtitled The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson) is a 2006 book covering the life of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, written by American journalist and critic Peter Ames Carlin.
[1] The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion and conduct to things found in nature that are not human. It is a kind of personification that occurs in poetic descriptions, when, for example, clouds seem sullen, when leaves dance, or when rocks seem indifferent.
Example: "From up here on the fourteenth floor, my brother Charley looks like an insect scurrying among other insects." (from "Sweet Potato Pie," Eugenia Collier) (from "Sweet Potato Pie," Eugenia Collier)
On November 24, 2016, first revival series known as Caillou's New Adventures, has produced a total of 30 half-hour episodes (original 150 five-minute segments) per five seasons. The camera sets up into computer animation through the second revival series and aired on Peacock in the United States since February 15, 2024, replacing PBS Kids. [1] [a]