The Great Gatsby. First issue of the New Yorker goes to press. After John Scopes is charged with teaching from Darwin’s Origin of Species‚ Clarence Darrow takes his case. 1926 The value of bootlegging in the U.S. estimated at $3.6 billion. Benny Goodman records his first solo‚ "He’s the Last Word‚" with the Ben Pollack Band. Henry Ford institutes the 5-day workweek and 8-hour workday. 1927 The Jazz Singer opens as the first talking motion
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Silence. Silence is what the audience awarded to Jerry Lee Lewis in London‚ the first stop on his European tour. While he sat at the piano--banging his bony fingers onto the keys with all of his strength‚ his hair flying in front of his face‚ sweat dripping down his face‚ putting all of his energy into his music until he simply had to kick the bench to the side and stand because sitting did not do the song justice--the audience refused to engage in his exuberance. Noticing this‚ he withdrew from
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According to Benny Morris‚ historical truth is a truth about a historical event that exists independently of‚ and can be detached from‚ the subjectivities of scholars’ . Hence‚ is Morris implying that historical truths are objective? If they are indeed objective‚ why are historians constantly rewriting history books? Although the objectivity of some historical truths is indisputable‚ one must realise that most truths in history are influenced by the historian’s biases‚ limitations and his subjection
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The Jazz music of the Big Band Era was the peak of over thirty years of musical development. Jazz was so innovative and different that it could literally sweep the world‚ changing the musical styles of nearly every country. Big band Jazz that makes the feet tap and the heart race with excitement that it is recognized with nearly every type of music. The musical and cultural revolution that brought about Jazz was a direct result of African-Americans pursuing careers in the arts following the United
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performed with a piano player other times she would perform as part of a group. At age 18 she already had more experience than most adult musicians had‚ and was spotted by John Hammond and made her first record as part of a student group that was led by Benny Goodman. In 1935 she recorded four side songs that became hits and gave her career a big push forward. Two of those tracks were “Ms Brown to you” and “What a little moonlight can do” Those four tracks helped her get her own contract. From then all
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took her professional pen name from Billie Dove‚ an actress she admired‚ and the musician Clarence Holiday‚ thus was born “Billie Holiday”. The producer John Hammond arranged for Holiday to make her recording debut‚ at age 18‚ in November 1933 with Benny Goodman‚ singing two songs: "Your Mother’s Son-In-Law" and "Riffin’ the Scotch." The latter being her first big hit. "Son-in-Law" sold 300 records‚ but "Riffin’ the Scotch‚" sold 5‚000 records. Hammond was very impressed by Holiday’s vocalization style
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in Paducah Kentucky along with a secret recipe for yeast-raised doughnuts in 1933 acquired from a New Orleans French Chef. Rudolph began selling the yeast doughnuts in Paducah and delivered them on his bicycle. The Krispy Kreme logo was designed by Benny Dinkins‚ a local architect. A HOLE IN THE WALL – 1937 As Vernon’s new business grew he expanded to Winston-Salem in North Carolina was located in a rented building on South Main Street in Winston-Salem in what is now called historic Old
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great time with their friends and to feel the floor shaking atmosphere as they jump up and down to the tune. Several artists and DJ’s in the past 5 years have really brought electronic music out into the spotlight. Heavy hitters like David Guetta‚ Benny Benassi‚ Deadmau5‚ Swedish House Mafia and Avicci. These artists have remixed top chart hitting tracks that have really done well in the music markets and are played everywhere from commercials to department stores across America. Even on the internet
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Great Gatsby are well mannered and elegant‚ usually found wearing cream or white dresses. They ensue an implied‚ established social code that requires conformity and leaves many female characters replicas of one another. On page 63‚ we see that Benny McClenahan “arrives always with four girls” to Gatsby’s parties who are “never quite the same ones in physical person‚ so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.” This certain observation by Nick implies that
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spend long time on the SNS will have the autism. “in a recent survey of incoming college freshmen‚ 87 percent favored watching TV and movies online instead of subscribing to a cable service‚ while 76 percent spent more than an hour a day on Facebook” (Benny Evangelista‚ August 22‚ 2011). Just because they spent so much time on that kind of social networking sites‚ they indulge all day in the fantasy and are separated from the reality. When they face to the real world‚ they don’t dare to communicate with
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