On Monday‚ January 18 of this year‚ Glenn Frey‚ the lead guitarist of the rock band Eagles‚ passed away at the age of 67 due to a heart attack. Glenn Frey was an American singer‚ songwriter‚ record producer‚ actor‚ and painter. However‚ you could not know Frey without first knowing the Eagles. Will Hermes‚ Gersh Kuntzman‚ and Alex Suskind all express their very different opinions on Glenn Frey as a person as well as their views on the Eagles. Hermes (2016)‚ an author and journalist for The New York
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Thomas Edison Inventions helped the world because he didn’t give up.According to Thomas Alva Edison “Thomas Edison made many inventions‚ including the telegraph and the light bulb and when he failed‚ he didn’t give up‚ he kept on working on it until he got it right(Thomas Alva Edison).” Thomas Edison was one of the greatest minds of the 1900s he helped the people leave the dark age and to the light age by making the light bulb. It took Thomas Edison 1000 unsuccessful attempts to invent the light
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A leader in the field of medicine that truly inspired me to gravitate towards a career in medicine is retired neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson. Benjamin Carson an african-american neurosurgeon and was the first neurosurgeon to separate conjoined twins. HOwever‚ I’m not inspired by Carson’s achievement‚ I am greatly inspired by his story on how he was able to achieve success. Dr. Carson was raised by a single mother‚ in a very tough society. He always struggled with school‚ and especially his anger.
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Throughout many years of political debate and policy‚ John Adams established himself as a key leader in the creation and upholding of America in the 1700’s. Harvard-educated‚ John Adams was a very intelligent man who displayed this intelligence on many different platforms (Massachusetts historical society). With Adam’s political skill and whit it would be thought that he was taught this at an early age but‚ John Adam’s father was very opposed to a life of law and politics (biography.com). John Adams
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Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more- Louis Armstrong He means that the musician doesn’t stop playing the music until he has no more music to play and for a good musician they make songs all the way until they are deceased. Louis Armstrong was an important figure in American history because he is the most influential person of jazz if he didn’t do what he did jazz probably would have went unnoticed and people probably would have turned the other cheek to that genre of music. Born
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Today‚ we would like to celebrate a highly influential baroque German composer that has transcended centuries with his distinctive musical compositions. It has been claimed that Johann Sebastian Bach’s style truly pioneered and set a foundation for other German Composers such as Beethoven‚ Mendelssohn‚ Brahms and Mahler. Bach was born in 1685‚ in fact his birthday befittingly was this past Tuesday. But what exactly makes him so highly regarded? There are two reasons. First‚ during his lifetime
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Webster’s dictionary defines honor as “respect that is given to someone who is admired.” Jacques Cousteau was born in a village in the southwest of France on June 11th‚ 1910. As a child‚ Cousteau had a strong curiosity of water and mechanical objects. He graduated from College Stanislas in Paris and in 1930 he entered the French Naval Academy. In 1933 he broke both of his arms in a car accident and nearly died. He began swimming in the medditeranean as rehibilitation. He was given a pair of swimming
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If there’s one name synonymous to United States of America’s National Basketball Association‚ or the illustrious NBA‚ it would definitely be Michael Jordan. People who haven’t heard his name of known his story is either living under a rock or have no sense of appreciation whatsoever. Many sports analysts have commented that Jordan’s journey as a basketball hero in NBA is incomparable and despite the many number of youngsters who have shown greatness on their chosen path‚ MJ would definitely float
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Thomas Edison lived from 1847 to 1931 and during that time he achieved greatness‚ and will be remembered for ever. Hist first great feat was when he was 15 he wrote and printed a newspaper and sold it to 400 railroad workers. Then when he was 16 he saved a kid’s life‚ so his dad taught him how to become a telegraph worker so he did. When Edison was 20 he tried to join the military‚ but he was kicked out because he was partly deaf. Another great thomas invented was the phonograph (Phone-O-graph)
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The 1920s‚ also known as the Roaring Twenties‚ was a time period full of decadent parties and an abundance of hope and reform. The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ described this time period in New York directly following World War I. It portrays the exciting social and economic changes that came with the 1920s through a complicated love story that eventually leads to a bitter end to an American Dream. He uses his writing throughout the novel to evaluate the lifestyle of the 1920s.
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