On Monday‚ January 18 of this year‚ Glenn Frey‚ the lead guitarist of the rock band Eagles‚ passed away at the age of 67 due to a heart attack. Glenn Frey was an American singer‚ songwriter‚ record producer‚ actor‚ and painter. However‚ you could not know Frey without first knowing the Eagles. Will Hermes‚ Gersh Kuntzman‚ and Alex Suskind all express their very different opinions on Glenn Frey as a person as well as their views on the Eagles. Hermes (2016)‚ an author and journalist for The New York
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Thomas Edison Inventions helped the world because he didn’t give up.According to Thomas Alva Edison “Thomas Edison made many inventions‚ including the telegraph and the light bulb and when he failed‚ he didn’t give up‚ he kept on working on it until he got it right(Thomas Alva Edison).” Thomas Edison was one of the greatest minds of the 1900s he helped the people leave the dark age and to the light age by making the light bulb. It took Thomas Edison 1000 unsuccessful attempts to invent the light
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Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more- Louis Armstrong He means that the musician doesn’t stop playing the music until he has no more music to play and for a good musician they make songs all the way until they are deceased. Louis Armstrong was an important figure in American history because he is the most influential person of jazz if he didn’t do what he did jazz probably would have went unnoticed and people probably would have turned the other cheek to that genre of music. Born
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Today‚ we would like to celebrate a highly influential baroque German composer that has transcended centuries with his distinctive musical compositions. It has been claimed that Johann Sebastian Bach’s style truly pioneered and set a foundation for other German Composers such as Beethoven‚ Mendelssohn‚ Brahms and Mahler. Bach was born in 1685‚ in fact his birthday befittingly was this past Tuesday. But what exactly makes him so highly regarded? There are two reasons. First‚ during his lifetime
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Webster’s dictionary defines honor as “respect that is given to someone who is admired.” Jacques Cousteau was born in a village in the southwest of France on June 11th‚ 1910. As a child‚ Cousteau had a strong curiosity of water and mechanical objects. He graduated from College Stanislas in Paris and in 1930 he entered the French Naval Academy. In 1933 he broke both of his arms in a car accident and nearly died. He began swimming in the medditeranean as rehibilitation. He was given a pair of swimming
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If there’s one name synonymous to United States of America’s National Basketball Association‚ or the illustrious NBA‚ it would definitely be Michael Jordan. People who haven’t heard his name of known his story is either living under a rock or have no sense of appreciation whatsoever. Many sports analysts have commented that Jordan’s journey as a basketball hero in NBA is incomparable and despite the many number of youngsters who have shown greatness on their chosen path‚ MJ would definitely float
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Thomas Edison lived from 1847 to 1931 and during that time he achieved greatness‚ and will be remembered for ever. Hist first great feat was when he was 15 he wrote and printed a newspaper and sold it to 400 railroad workers. Then when he was 16 he saved a kid’s life‚ so his dad taught him how to become a telegraph worker so he did. When Edison was 20 he tried to join the military‚ but he was kicked out because he was partly deaf. Another great thomas invented was the phonograph (Phone-O-graph)
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The 1920s‚ also known as the Roaring Twenties‚ was a time period full of decadent parties and an abundance of hope and reform. The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ described this time period in New York directly following World War I. It portrays the exciting social and economic changes that came with the 1920s through a complicated love story that eventually leads to a bitter end to an American Dream. He uses his writing throughout the novel to evaluate the lifestyle of the 1920s.
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Elvis was adored and very popular in the 1950s. “Elvis Aaron Presley was born on January 8‚ 1935 into a hard scrabble existence in East Tupelo‚ Mississippi” (ABC-CLIO). Elvis built up his career on his own and was very successful even with all the hate he would receive. He maintained his fame even when he was drafted into the army. He was influenced by many genres and singers so most of his music was by other musicians (ABC-CLIO). In December of 1957 “Presley was drafted into the U.S army…in 1967
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Without a doubt‚ Abraham Lincoln is one of the most celebrated president in American history. Like George Washington and all the presidents before him. Lincoln is deeply respected as a man of rare ability. Lincoln shaped the united states in his own image. Lincoln benefited all of the Americans who followed in his wake. Abraham Lincoln is one of the most celebrated in president in America because of his military strategy’s. He derived his ideas primarily from his generals‚ also from his prescient
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