Compare & Contrast My grandmother and I are like dust and dawn‚ complete opposites. We have different points of views; we come from total different generations; we have different interest. My grandmother was born in Atlanta‚ GA and married at a young age. She and my grandfather later move up to Jersey City‚ New Jersey when she was pregnant with my eldest aunt. Life was a lot different in the 1940s than it is now. After sitting down with my grandmother‚ talking to her about different stuff made
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Imagine going to Hollywood‚ and ones experience goes from great to awful. This happens Eddie‚ a character in a poem “Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty. Eddie just got out of highschool‚ he moved to Hollywood in hope to accomplish his dream career‚ a rockstar. “Into the Great Wide Open” a poem by Tom Petty‚ tells a story about the life of a one hit wonder‚ using a shifting tone in a realistic fashion. “Into the Great Wide Open” delineates the rise and fall of a one hit wonder named Eddie. Eddie
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Art is important to our culture‚ mostly because it is a part of which that makes our culture. It tells our human history and gives us the ideas of what is important to humans in that time period. These arts tell us history‚ in a similar way to what writing tells us‚ from oral history. Without many of the artworks that we now have‚ we would not have a clear look at what all happened. Some examples of this are Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt and Race Riot by Andy Warhol. These two very different pieces
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Brazil is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. And it is the fifth largest country of population and Portuguese as an official language. The music of Brazil has many regional music styles which was influenced by the African‚ European and Amerindian forms. During 500 years of history‚ Brazillian music developed a unique and original music‚ such as modinha‚ brega‚ frevo‚ funk carioca‚ maracatu‚ choro‚ trpicalia‚ gaucho pagoda‚ sertanejo‚ MPB‚ bossa nova‚ samba and new music
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Ahmet Ertegun who was from atlantic records went to the Birdland nightclub to see Billy Ward and the Dominoes‚ mostly to hear Ward’s lead singer Clyde McPhatter. When the Dominoes performed‚ Clyde McPhatter was missing so Ahmet went backstage to find out where he was. Billy Ward informed him that he had fired McPhatter for breaking group rules. Ahmet left to find McPhatter‚ and an hour later he located McPhatter in a rented room in Harlem rehearsing a new group. Ertegun signed Clyde McPhatter and
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Buddy Holly‚ was “born on September 7‚1936” (Biography.com Editors). Holly was “born as Charles Hardin Holley” (“Buddy Holly”). Buddy was a nickname given to him by his mother‚ because she thought Charles was too big of a name for her little boy. Holly‚ was the name given to him after a spelling error on his first contract Buddy was an “American singer/songwriter” (Biography.com Editors). Buddy Holly’s musical talent was pretty obvious due to the fact that he had learned how to play 4 different instruments
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B.B. King Early life B.B. King is a famous blues guitarist‚ songwriter and singer. Riley B. King was born on September 16 1925 in Itta Bena‚ Mississippi. When he was a young child‚ his parents divorced. He lived with his mom. When he was nine‚ his mom died. He was alone until his father‚ Albert King found him a few years later‚ working in a cotton plantation. King sang in the choir at church and he also performed professionally with the Famous St. John Gospel Singers. During this time
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African American religious music is the foundation of all contemporary forms of so called "black music." African American religious music has been a fundamental part of the black experience in this country. This common staple of the African American experience can be traced back to the cruel system of slavery. It then evolved into what we refer to today as gospel music. The goal of this paper is to answer three main questions. What are the origins of African American religious music? How did
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THE GOLDEN CANGUE Translated by Eileen ChangSHANGHAI thirty years ago on a moonlit night ... maybe we did not get to see the moon of thirty years ago. To young people the moon of thirty years ago should be a reddish-yellow wet stain the size of a copper coin‚ like a teardrop on letter paper by To-yün Hsüan’ worn and blurred. In old people’s memory the moon of thirty years ago was gay‚ larger‚ rounder‚ and whiter than the moon now. But looked back on after thirty years on a rough road‚ the best of
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Forever Young. Two words with meaning beyond their miniscule size. Rod Stewart’s 1980’s anthem ignites a spark in one’s mind to truly think deeper into the meaning of his decades old lyrics. Being young is something that every person has to go through and I believe that through the experiences of our youth we are able to grow not only in years but also in intellect‚ knowledge‚ and wisdom. By growing and going through the hardships that we experience as young people‚ we are then in turn able to give
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