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East is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. East is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of west and is perpendicular to north and south.
The word east comes from Middle English est, from Old English ēast, which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *aus-to- or *austra- "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn". This is similar to Old High German *ōstar "to the east", Latin aurora "dawn", and Greek ēōs or heōs.Ēostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal points.
By convention, the right hand side of a map is east. This convention has developed from the use of a compass, which places north at the top.
To go east using a compass for navigation, set a bearing or azimuth of 90°.
East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise. The practice of praying towards the East is older than Christianity, but has been adopted by this religion as the Orient was thought of as containing mankind's original home. Hence, most Christian churches are oriented towards the east.
David Brewster (born June 3, 1988), better known by his stage name Dave East, is an American rapper from Harlem, New York. He gained attention in 2014 from his mixtape Black Rose. Since the release of his mixtape, East has been signed to rapper Nas' label Mass Appeal Records and has made a number of guest appearances. On October 1, 2015, East released his mixtape titled Hate Me Now with features from Nas, Mack Wilds, Pusha T and more.
David Brewster was born in Harlem, New York and spent most of his life between Harlem and Queensbridge. He is of Bajan and Dominican descent. At a young age Dave had a love for basketball however his true passion was writing rhymes, using his rhymes to keep him above the circumstances around him. After Springbrook High school, Dave attended University of Richmond, then transferring to Towson University where he played in the Amateur Athletic Union with then-future NBA players Ty Lawson, Greivis Vasquez and Kevin Durant while also gaining attention from the NBA but ultimately decided to focus on his music.
The points of the compass are points on a compass, specifically on the compass rose, marking divisions of the four cardinal directions: North, South, East, West. The number of points may be only the 4 cardinal points, or the 8 principal points adding the intercardinal (or ordinal) directions northeast (NE), southeast (SE), southwest (SW), and northwest (NW). In meteorological usage further intermediate points are added to give the sixteen points of a wind compass. Finally, at the most complete in European tradition, are found the full thirty-two points of the mariner's compass. In ancient China 24 points of the compass were used.
In the mariner's exercise of boxing the compass, all thirty-two points of the compass are named in clockwise order. The names of intermediate points are formed by the initials of the cardinal directions and their intermediate ordinal directions, and are very handy to refer to a heading (or course or azimuth) in a general or colloquial fashion, without having to resort to computing or recalling degrees. For most applications, the minor points have been superseded by degrees measured clockwise from North.
Dalvin Ertimus DeGrate (born July 23, 1971, in Hampton, Virginia) is an American R&B and soul musician, singer and rapper, best known for his days as Mr. Dalvin, one-quarter of the R&B group Jodeci. He is the younger brother of Jodeci's founder Donald "DeVante Swing" DeGrate.
The rapper for the group, DeGrate rarely sang lead on Jodeci tracks, although he has production and songwriting credits on Diary of A Mad Band and The Show, The After Party, The Hotel. He occasionally played drums onstage.
From 1994 to 1997, he was in a relationship with TLC's Tionne Watkins.
He released his first solo album, Met.A.Mor.Phic, on 18 April 2000, with the single "Why Can't We".
He moved to Def Jam Recordings, and recorded his second album, Met.A.Mor.Phic 2: The Rivalry Of A Singer and A Rapper, with appearances by Method Man, Redman, Ludacris. The album was due to be released in 2010, but he decided to leave Def Jam and form his own label, DeGrate Productions, after a dispute.
According to an interview he is set to release a new album titled "Egomaniac" in August 2012.
Mass Appeal is a two-character play by Bill C. Davis. The comedy-drama focuses on the conflict between a complacent Roman Catholic pastor and the idealistic young deacon who is assigned to his affluent, suburban parish.
Father Tim Farley is highly popular with his parishioners due to his charm, wit, easy-going manner, and entertaining (but unchallenging) sermons. One Sunday, seminarian Mark Dolson interrupts Farley's sermon to challenge his stance on the ordination of women. The pastor is outraged yet intrigued by the young man, and asks to have him assigned to work with him.
Dolson is a firebrand eager to change the Church. He enjoys attacking Farley's "song and dance theology" and questioning why he drinks so much. Dolson feels it's his job to shake parishioners out of their complacency. Farley likes Dolson, but sees that he'll never succeed as a priest if all he does is irritate people and make enemies. Each man has something to teach the other about how to perform his priestly duties.
Actors: Kristen Kress (writer), Kristen Kress (director), Kristen Kress (producer), Kristen Kress (producer), Barbara Miluski (actress), Barbara Miluski (actress), Evan Zelnick (actor), Evan Zelnick (actor), Eduardo Almendras (composer), Paula J. Riley (actress), Paula J. Riley (actress), Bonnie Loren (actress), Gordon Holmes (editor), Bonnie Loren (actress), Constance Stellas (actress),
Plot: Eleven-year-old Ricky attempts to brighten the spirits of his ailing grandma by telling her a story in which her bridge club turned superheroes fight off an evil villain: Ricky's teacher, in this story about a young boy who shows grandma just how much she means to him! The real question - is it just a story?
Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Bobbi Owens (actress), Jeffrey Goldenberg (actor), Alexander Lang (editor), Alexander Lang (writer), Alexander Lang (producer), Alexander Lang (director), Joshua Holland (actor), Jennifer Kent (actress), Thomas Woodson (actor), Earl Biddy (actor), Malisa Langdon (actress), Courtney Lang (producer), Robert Lefkowitz (producer), Sue Wang (producer), D.J. Kambo (composer),
Plot: Cooper, a twenty-two year old drug dealer, finds a laptop left aboard a commuter train. Cooper quickly becomes obsessed with the family pictures on the computer. He soon discovers that the daughter of the family, Muriel, is a crystal meth addict who frequents the same dance club as Cooper's partner, East. Cooper and Muriel form an unlikely relationship that leads to Cooper's ascent out of the drug world. Unfortunately, Cooper finds that the journey to a better life is often hindered by the decisions of our past.
Keywords: drug-dealing, drugs, mental-illness, soren-kierkegaardActors: Steve Christian (producer), Cathy Doubleday (miscellaneous crew), George Faber (producer), John E. Keane (composer), Stephen Fry (actor), Julian Wadham (actor), Gerard Horan (actor), Sian Sutherland (miscellaneous crew), Charles Pattinson (producer), Stephen Boxer (actor), Sharon Milton (miscellaneous crew), Ashley Pharoah (producer), Ashley Pharoah (writer), Jemma Redgrave (actress), Dan Connolly (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Drama about life at Rugby School in Victorian England. The headmaster is fair but not effective and life is brutal for the young boys because of bullying and it's consequences. The acting and character development are good and the roles well cast. It's a good adaptation of the novel and was filmed at The Rugby School.
Keywords: abortion, anarchy, bare-butt, barn, based-on-novel, bath, bathtub, beating, boarding-school, boyActors: Craig Fairbrass (actor), Suggs (actor), Nick Reding (actor), Jan Ravens (actress), James Aubrey (actor), David Ferguson (composer), Gillian Kearney (actress), Nicola Stephenson (actress), Zoot Money (actor), Sheldon Lazarus (actor), Paula Tilbrook (actress), Corinne Skinner-Carter (actress), Lorraine Peters (actress), Paul Oremland (director), John Jardine (actor),
Plot: When the notorious rock star East is murdered on stage at an Animal Rights benefit gig, young filmmaker Hadi captures vital evidence on videotape. He finds he has possession of the most sought-after footage in the TV industry - and the most lethal.
Genres: ,Actors: Tsurutarô Kataoka (actor), Yoshiyuki Okuhara (editor), Chôichirô Kawarasaki (actor), Sanma Akashiya (actor), Takeshi Ôbayashi (actor), Kunio Murai (actor), Noriyuki Higashiyama (actor), Kazukiyo Nishikiori (actor), Katsuhide Uekusa (actor), Hiroshi Yagyû (actor), Kôji Naka (actor), Natsuki Ozawa (actress), Hitoshi Ogura (producer), Chinfa Kang (writer), Chinfa Kang (writer),
Genres: Fantasy, Sci-Fi,Actors: Arthur Howard (actor), Bernard Bresslaw (actor), Harry Robertson (composer), Milton Reid (actor), Harold Orton (writer), Harold Orton (producer), Patrick O'Connell (actor), Richard Mason (editor), Martin Beaumont (actor), David Ash (writer), Edward Kemp (actor), Mildred Mayne (actress), David Spooner (actor), Sally Anne Marlowe (actress), Brian Forster (actor),
Genres: Family,Actors: Walter Woolf King (actor), Hank Mann (actor), Dean Jagger (actor), John Close (actor), Robert Burton (actor), Richard Anderson (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Edward Andrews (actor), Ernest Borgnine (actor), Andrew Duggan (actor), Franklyn Farnum (actor), Frank Faylen (actor), Harry Carter (actor), Roy Glenn (actor), Joe McGuinn (actor),
Plot: Bernie Goldsmith, a long-time civilian employee of the U.S. Navy is suspended as a security risk when investigators discover he had communist affiliations in his youth. Snubbed by former friends and harassed by others in the community, Goldsmith hires a lawyer to fight the charges and clear his good name.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, anti-communism, anti-communist-zealotry, atomic-age, based-on-article, based-on-true-story, biased-authority, biased-inquiry, bitterness, board-of-inquiryActors: Michael Ward (actor), Kathleen Byron (actress), Beatrice Dawson (costume designer), Francis De Wolff (actor), Amy Veness (actress), James Hayter (actor), Michael Hordern (actor), Michael Brennan (actor), Hermione Baddeley (actress), Robert Newton (actor), Richard Addinsell (composer), Noel Langley (writer), John Howard Davies (actor), Brian Desmond Hurst (producer), Ben Aris (actor),
Plot: A faithful rendition of the Thomas Hughes book of life at the famed Rugby School for Boys in 1834, when Dr. Thomas Arnold, headmaster, was trying to alleviate the brutality of the 'hazing system' which was supposed to make men of the young boys, but which actually was a mask for passionate, unregenerate cruelty. The primary story has Tom Brown ragged continually by one particularly brutal upper-class-man, Flashman. Tom's bravery and school-spirited silence gains him Arnold's admiration.
Keywords: 1830s, 19th-century, abuse, admiration, based-on-novel, boarding-school, boys'-school, bravery, british-school-system, brutalityActors: C. Graham Baker (producer), Lionel Belmore (actor), Polly Moran (actress), Charles Smith (actor), Walter Tetley (actor), Frank Mills (actor), Alexander Pollard (actor), Harold Entwistle (actor), Peter Madden (actor), Jimmy Lydon (actor), Barlowe Borland (actor), Cedric Hardwicke (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), Alec Craig (actor), Gene Towne (producer),
Plot: Thomas Arnold is hired to be the new headmaster at Rugby, whose students have acquired a reputation for being wild, disruptive, and dishonest. He institutes strict disciplinary policies, and expels numerous boys as a result. Many of the teachers, trustees, and parents turn against him. Squire Brown, his most vocal supporter, decides to send his own son Tom to Rugby as a demonstration of confidence. Tom soon learns that the school is plagued by bullies, and he is frequently targeted by them. He and the other boys are hindered, though, by an unwritten understanding that none of them will ever report the misdeeds of another to the authorities.
Keywords: based-on-novel, boarding-school, boy, boys'-school, bully, bully-comeuppance, character-name-in-title, discipline, educator, expulsionAll last night we were learning
Drank our cheques by the bar
Somewhere bridges were burning
As the walls came down at the Star
Squadcars fanned the insanity
Newsteams fought through the crowd
Spent last night under custody
And the sun found me on the road
At the Star Hotel
At the Star Hotel
They better listen cause we're ringin' a bell
Ain't no deals, we got nothing to sell
Just a taste of things to come at the Star Hotel
(Here lies a local culture
Most nights were good, some were bad
Between school and a shifting future
It was most of all we had)
Those in charge are getting crazier
Job queues grow through the land
An uncontrolled Youth in Asia
Gonna make those fools understand