B. B. King (born 1925) is one of the most successful artists in the history of the blues. Today his ability as a blues guitarist is remains unparalleled. "B. B. King is widely recognized as the greatest living blues guitarist," Dimitri Ehr...

Pa Chin (Ba Jin) was the pen name of the Chinese author Li Fei-kan (born 1904). An idealist of humanitarian passion and revolutionary fervor, he was one of China's most prolific and beloved novelists of the 1930s and 1940s. Born into a lar...

In the business-centered city of Zenith, George F. Babbitt is, "to the eye, the perfect office-going executive": he is a successful and wealthy realtor, has a nice suburban house, and owns everything that is modern and expensive. Yet, he i...

SOURCE: “The Languages of Science Fiction: Samuel Delany's Babel-17,” in Extrapolation, Vol. 34, No. 1, Spring, 1993, pp. 5-17. In the following essay, Malmgren examines the function of language in Babel-17, which he views as the novel'...

Honey Out of the Rock is far too self-conscious in expression to contain much of the rich warm emotional essence its title would suggest. The predominating feature of the book is its coldness. And not in the sense that many people mis-apply...

Babar the Conqueror (1483-1530) was a descendant of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, who founded the Mughal (Mogul) dynasty of India and, although a devout Muslim, bequeathed a legacy of toleration for non-Muslims that characterized the Empire ...

SOURCE: Macnab, Geoffrey. Review of The Baby of Mâcon, by Peter Greenaway. Sight and Sound 3, no. 9 (September 1993): 41. In the following negative review, Macnab argues that the acting and the technological innovations in The Baby of Mâc...

Women have contributed enormously to the formation of Australian society. Women's accounts of their experiences only started to emerge throughout the 1970's. In the past 150 years, the rights and roles of women have changed considerably. Wo...

[Reggae], as played by Bob Marley and the Wailers, is both a well-spring of homespun adages and a canny cultural tool with great facility for adaptation and innovation…. [The] band's evolution is so dramatic that one realizes the music ha...

The Babylonia empire was far superior to the Assyrian empire in many ways some economically, technologically, socially, and agriculturally. The capital city of the Babylonian empire, Babylon was positioned on the Euphrates River. This ri...

On ABC's television show "The Bachelor", Bob Guiney begins the program with 25 beautiful women to choose from. Guiney will get to know these 25 women via a series of social gatherings and exotic, romantic dates. "The Bachelor" follows a g...

SOURCE: Montrose, David. “Waiting for the Future.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4321 (24 January 1986): 82. In the following mixed review, Montrose provides a stylistic overview of the stories in Tobias Wolff's Back in the World. The ...

Everyone falls in love at some point of their live, but love doesn't always fall in the way everyone wants. Love is not always at everyone's expectations. There are ups and downs during a relationship, and some just do whatever they can to ...

Group of microscopic, single-celled organisms that inhabit virtually all environments, including soil, water, organic matter, and the bodies of multicellular animals. Bacteria are distinguished in part by their morphological and genetic fe...

In the Bad Beginning, the three Baudelaire orphans are on the beach, their parents sent them their as sort of a vacation but they had to be home by dinner. They saw Mr Poe, a very close friend to the Baudelaire family and the executor of th...

Going from friends to enemies to friends once again you might not consider a good relationship, although when you bear in mind what Bad Religion has accomplished then you may need to reconsider that theory. Bad Religion has written 9 fully-...

It may be a bad sign for any would be suitors when I say that I want my love life to mirror a Jane Austen. Not a Harlequin mind you, which always ends up with no marriage license, and as C.S. Lewis put it, "four bare legs in a bed", b...

Erykah Badu's song "Bag Lady" is a prime example of the healing power of music, and the lessons that can be taught through music. Erykah Badu's "Bag Lady" serves as a wake up call for women across the world. From the first verse of the son...

small Arab state situated in a bay on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf. It is an archipelago consisting of Bahrain Island and some 30 smaller islands. Its name is from the Arabic term al-bahrayn, meaning “two seas.” L...

procedure by which a judge or magistrate sets at liberty one who has been arrested or imprisoned, upon receipt of security to ensure the released prisoner's later appearance in court for further proceedings. Release from custody is ordinar...

Throughout history every democratic society has had political extremists, whether they are violent or non-violent. Political extremists, or radicals, are people who desire to change their society drastically. Some people argue that we sho...

(1912–13) Two military conflicts that deprived the Ottoman Empire of almost all its remaining territory in Europe. In the First Balkan War, the Balkan League defeated the Ottoman Empire, which, under the terms of the peace treaty (19...

Why would someone nick name a city "Bombingham"? Eighteen unsolved bombings in the city of Birmingham, Alabama would be the correct reason. In a span of six years, eighteen different African American churches and homes of civil rights lea...

Have you ever wondered if a country ever launched a missile against America; what would happen? In this paper, I'm going to talk about the importance of ballistic missiles, because it is very vital. What I'm going to talk about is histor...

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a very complex book with many hidden and double meanings. The book is based on the Little Seamstress and how she reacts to many aspects of life. Although she was introduced later in the novel, s...