The saxophone is my favorite instrument. The saxophone is in the woodwind family‚ even though it is made of brass. The saxophone is a normally used in jazz music‚ but can also be found in rock music and some classical music. 1. History and/or Manufacturers A. http://library.thinkquest.org It was invented by Adolphe Sax‚ a Belgian. He was born in 1814‚ and as a child he learned to make instruments in his father’s shop. There are a variety of saxophone‚ but the four most popular are the
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your life and discovering love. I am a serious movie fanatic. I watch movies all the time. But‚ if I had to pick my favorite one‚ it would be without a doubt “Love and Basketball.” This is due to the fact that I love basketball‚ it inspires me to keep reaching my goals and get through challenges in life‚ and it is a great love story. To begin with‚ “Love and Basketball” is my favorite movie because I love basketball. This movie obviously has something to do with basketball if you look at the title
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PHUONG Tet Holiday According to the lunar calendar‚ the next Jan. 30‚ 2014‚ no matter what you do‚ and where you are‚ you must come home. That day is the Lunar New Year Festival that we call Chinese New Year Day in China and Tet in Vietnam. On New year ‘s Eve (Jan. 30‚2014)‚ people are very busy to prepare for the new year by cooking for the next three days. Housewives are busy to prepare traditional square glutinous rice cake which is filled with green bean paste and pork meat and cooked for
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My Favourite Food Nutritious‚ inexpensive‚ and delectable‚ pizza has been my favorite food for years. Baked in the oven‚ pizza is a healthy food that is made mainly of flour. Topped with cheese‚ vegetables‚ and meat‚ pizza provides calcium from cheese‚ vitamins from vegetables‚ and protein from meat. Thus‚ it is a complete meal that provides the required nutrients. Not only is pizza wholesome‚ but it is also inexpensive. Pizza gives value for money; each piece costs less than $2 but it is sufficient
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Fourth of July. They were going to have plenty of food‚ drinks‚ fireworks‚ and games for kids and adults alike. We could not resist a good time. I invited my girlfriend over and we all walked down to the festivities. We could smell the barbecue as soon as we stepped out of the house. They had a game called Cornhole set up on one of the front lawns. My girlfriend‚ Samantha‚ pointed out that some of the kids were in the pool out behind the houses in the adjoining backyards. The three of us made our
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My favorite book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The first time that I read this book was for school‚ so I automatically assumed I would not enjoy it. I ended up being very wrong. I was not able to put the book down‚ it keeps you interested and wanting to know what happens next. In the book‚ two of the main characters Elizabeth and Darcy are destined to be together although at first they are not aware of this. In my opinion this really pulls the reader in from the beginning‚ they feel a
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Jewish culture. One of the holy days that stands out the most and will be described further in this paper is Rosh Hashanah‚ also known as the Jewish New Year. Rosh Hashanah‚ or in literal translation- “head of the year”‚ is the first of the high holidays which is celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur (Bamberger‚ B. J. 2010). History and celebration of Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is observed in the early fall‚ during the first two days of Tishrei- otherwise known as the seventh month of the Hebrew
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My Favorite Character Ezio Auditore da Firenze was a Florentine nobleman during the Renaissance well at least that what many thought he was but in reality he was a skilled assassin and Mentor of the Italian Brotherhood of Assassins. This is probably one of my most favorite characters of all time not only because he was an assassin‚ which is cool‚ and all but it’s mostly the kind of honor and character that he had. Ill talk about his story first so you can have some understanding as to how he became
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To understand the controversy that Billie presented one must first go to the root or source of such controversy and examine Billie’s childhood. Billie was born Eleanora Harris to her father Clarence Holiday and mother Sadie Fagan who were just fifteen and thirteen years old‚ respectively‚ at the time (A 91). Born between 1912 and 1915 in Baltimore‚ the date unsure‚ Billie grew up without her father‚ who moved away early on in her life. Billie and her mother used to fight a lot‚ when her mother
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What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another
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