he grew up in a box car with his family that they had made into their home. His father died in 1945‚ which forced his mother to leave Merle and his siblings for work. After these events happened‚ Haggard became a rebellious teen and had a criminal record. Around that same time‚ Merle became aware that he had a musical talent: he was teaching himself to play guitar. He had inherited it from his father who was a fiddle player and guitarist in his younger age. When Merle wasn’t in jail‚ he worked
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Rent is a rock musical that was created by Jonathan Larson. It’s based on the opera La Bohème. The musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City in a village called Alphabet City‚ under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a workshop production in a New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical’s initial home following its official 1996 opening. Jonathan Larson‚ the
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Social Security Act (1935) With a dramatic increase in life expectancy and decreases in mortality rates‚ many old People live their later lives with chronic illnesses and disabilities. As a result‚ long-term care is becoming an important part of service to the elderly population. The US General Accounting Office (1994) reports that more than 12 million Americans need long-term care and 55% of them are people aged 65 or older (Binstock‚ Cluff‚ & Mering‚ 1996). Accordingly‚ the government
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2 April 2012 Character Sketch of a Person Ahmed is a young man who was born in Somalia in 1989‚ who grew up in Ethiopia and now he lives in Ethiopia. He studies in the department of information technology at Haramaya University which is one of the best universities in Ethiopia. He is a famous man and is known by everybody in his city. He is a tall and muscular man with black hair and blue black eyes. He usually dresses in red clothes‚ but sometimes he wears black. He is also athletic and plays
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More than 90 percent of American adults own a mobile phone‚ and more than half of the devices are smartphones. But “smartphone” is a misnomer. They are personal computers that happen to include a phone function‚ and like any computer they can store or wirelessly retrieve enormous amounts of personal information: emails‚ photos and videos; document files; financial and medical records; and virtually everywhere a person has been. On Tuesday‚ the Supreme Court will consider whether law enforcement
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Today many people are familiar with the musicals South Pacific‚ The Sound Of Music‚ Oklahoma! and Carousel but do they know their origins? All of these plays were engineered by the dynamic due Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers who worked to broaden the boundaries of theater by merging theatre‚ music and film. Not only were they responsible for making their own plays but they formed musical scores‚ worked as lyricists‚ owned and operated the publishing company Williamson Music‚ and had their own
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Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for the use of technicolor
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I will never be able to watch High School Musical again. Not that I was an avid devotee of High School Musical before‚ in fact‚ I had only seen High School Musical once before I was cast in Danville Area High School’s version of “High School Musical On Stage!.” Being five years old when High School Musical aired on Disney Channel‚ I was a natural-born Gabriella Montez on the playgrounds of my elementary school. Of course‚ I was Gabriella because I best fit the physical description in our small class
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The pantheon is made up of two principal parts; the porch; which is a highly idealised and more greek interpretation and the circular building which is much more Roman in it’s display. The pantheon follows traditional Roman architecture designed with a portico held up by eight Corinthian columns almost 12m high. The monolithic columns shafts are made of Aswan grey granite contrasted with the white pentelic marble of the capitals.The porch is supported by these Corinthian columns and is made out
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Cameran Highlands is accessible by road. Cameran Highlands is about a 3 hours drive either from KL or Penang Its strategic location makes it a favourite weekened escape for cityfolk/ city-dwellers from all over the coutry. It is a popular haunt for both local and foreign tourists to let their hair down. For those who are faint-heated the ride along the steep‚ narrow roads can be quite an unnerving experience as there are numerous hairpin bends along the route from Simpang Pulai. After about a
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