John Lennon was revolutionary for music. He was the lead singer of the Beatles. He was also very influential in the hippie revolution. He had huge success in his career. From forming the Beatles to his death in 1980‚ he was one of the most influential musicians in history. He was born on October 8‚ 1940‚ in Liverpool England. His mother bought him his first guitar when he was 15. When he turned sixteen‚ John formed a group called the Quarry Men. They performed rhythmic prison songs of the American
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Who is Bob Johnston? To fully appreciate the creative genius of legendary record producer Bob Johnston‚ read what musician Bob Dylan wrote in his autobiography‚ Chronicles‚ Volume One: “Bob Johnston had fire in his eyes. He had that thing that some people call ‘momentum.’ You could see it in his face and he shared that fire‚ that spirit. Columbia’s leading folk and country producer‚ he was born one hundred years too late. He should have been wearing a wide cape‚ a plumed hate‚ and riding with
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Rock’-n’-roll is always changing and evolving into specific sub-genres. Sub-genres break down a general genre of music into a more specific and sophisticated type of that category. For example‚ rock has many different branches‚ including soft rock‚ southern rock‚ and hard rock. Rock in general typically has a lead electric guitar with a vigorous 4/4 beat produced by the drums. Yet‚ in the sub-genre of southern rock‚ a southern country rhythm is combined with a touch of rock and roll. Hard rock separates
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Jennie Benson Dr. Jason Kush MUSI 473 01 3 May 2016 Regina Carter Regina Carter was born in Detroit‚ Michigan on August 6th‚ 1962. Her parents were not musicians (her father an autoworker and her mother an elementary school teacher)‚ but her cousin‚ James Carter‚ is a jazz saxophonist. She began piano at age two and violin at age four. She took lessons at the Detroit Community Music School. In addition to her musical studies‚ she took dance‚ focusing on tap and ballet. Regina was classically
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and being the “furthest end from the bellowing sloppy yards”. This emphasises his resentment for his work place and with ignorance creates an image of cruelty and how internecine the Meatworks is. Another technique Gray uses in his poems is synesthesia. In the poem “The Meatworks” this technique is frequently used to demonstrate why the persona is so repelled by the meatworks and chooses to be the “furthest end from the bellowing sloppy yards”. This technique helps demonstrate the power of imagery
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LSD was first synthesized on November 16‚ 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel‚ Switzerland as part of a large research program searching for medically useful ergot alkaloid derivatives. LSD’s psychedelic properties were discovered 5 years later when Hofmann himself accidentally ingested an unknown quantity of the chemical. The first intentional ingestion of LSD occurred on April 19‚ 1943‚ when Hofmann ingested 250 mg of LSD. He said this would be a threshold dose
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LITERARY DEVICES (ELEMENTS AND TECHNIQUES) Allegory Definition: An allegory is a symbolism device representing an abstract idea. Example: Faith is like a stony uphill climb: a single stumble might send you sprawling but belief and steadfastness will see you to the very top. Alliteration Definition: Alliteration is a literary device where words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group. Example: The Wicked Witch of the West went her own way. Allusion
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society has changed drastically within the recent years‚ and continues to change as time moves forward. Time creates history‚ and history is the recording of events that have brought an impact upon society. In the year of nineteen eighty-nine‚ Billy Joel‚ a musician‚ released the song‚ “We Didn’t Start The Fire.” The lyrics of this song name events that the majority of people knew and talked about in the time period those events happened. The musician put forty years of history into a song‚ starting
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Spring 2012 English 199 Prof. Morelatto Billy Joel talks about many controversial topics‚ events and people in the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire”. The topic that I have chosen to write about is the controversial issue of birth control. Contraception has been a controversial issue for many years and is still talked about in the news today. Birth control can be viewed as having a positive impact on the current society but it can also be considered as having a negative impact. Many of the
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out. I don’t really work to hard with my grades‚ so they are mostly average‚ except math I’m a 9th grader in the 11th grade class. I’m not popular‚ except in the Film Club and in Marching Band. The only thing that could make me stand out is my synesthesia‚ which is where you can see senses that aren’t sight.
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