Jackson’s album Thriller is one of the best-selling album of all time‚ with estimated gross sales of about 65 million copies worldwide. His other albums‚ including Off the Wall (1979)‚ Bad (1987)‚ Dangerous (1991)‚ and HIStory (1995)‚ also ranked among the world’s best-selling albums. The world of media refers to Michael Jackson as the "King of Pop" because‚ throughout his musical career‚ he transformed the art of music videos and paved the way for modern pop music. For most of his career‚ he had
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Columbus Day‚ the second Monday in October‚ represents the day Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. America should no longer continue to celebrate Columbus Day because he had a miserable legacy‚ he did not really discover America‚ and he was cruel. He had a bad legacy because he committed genocide‚ started slavery and racism. Columbus did not really find the United States‚ there were indigenous people there already that were settled and lived off the land. On top of all that he was very
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Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann;[1] October 22‚ 1913 – May 25‚ 1954) was a Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War‚ the Second Sino-Japanese War‚ World War II across Europe‚ the 1948 Arab-Israeli War‚ and the First Indochina War. He documented the course of World War II in London‚ North Africa‚ Italy‚ the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris. His action photographs‚ such as those taken during the 1944
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Princess Diana accomplishes many things during her life; her legacy still lives on today. Her main focus was on charities and helping those who were less fortunate than her. Equally as important‚ she supported many research funds for diseases such as HIV and Leprosy. Princess Diana‚ a single political leader‚ made many choices that impacted her life‚ the world around her‚ and made choices on how the genres of literature we use to bring awareness to choice and consequences make a proactive tool in
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Walt Whitman’s Legacy in American Free Verse An American poet who desired to stand out from the crowd. At the time‚ free verse appeared to be strange poetry writing format that didn’t have any rules. But Walt Whitman learnt to embrace this form of writing‚ and is known today for it. Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist who expressed his beliefs and perspective freely. He chose to cover a diverse array of themes ranging from elegies‚ democracy‚ equality ‚ death and growth to sexuality. Thus he
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now have webcams‚ phones have multiple cameras‚ there are small video cameras you can attach to your hat‚ and even pocket sized Polaroid cameras. We have the ability to capture anything‚ so how can a print still influence us in today’s culture? The legacy of documentary photography has been evolving for decades. In 1933‚ the Farm Society Administration devised a new plan to raise money for rural America: photograph the
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A Longstanding Legacy Dr. King was born into the climate of the American Civil Rights movement in Atlanta‚ Georgia on January 15‚ 1929. His grandfather was the founder of the Atlanta Chapters of the NAACP‚ and his father was the Pastor of the Eboniza Baptist Church where he worked as a Civil Rights Leader. Dr. King attended Morehouse College and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1948. Dr. King married Coretta Scott King in 1953. After graduating with honors from Crozer Theological
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the greatest military commander that the world has ever seen. He was born in July of 356 B.C to King Philip II of Macedonia and Olympias. Since his youth‚ Alexander was tutored and trained by great philosophers such as Aristotle and Leonidas. His legacy of greatness started with the taming of the wild horse‚ Bucephalus. Alexander of Macedonia is worthy of the title‚ Great‚ due to his strategic military operations‚ his expansion of the Greek Empire‚ and the cultural diffusion of the Greeks across
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A Residential School Legacy From the late 1800s to the 1980s‚ more than 100‚000 First Nations children in Canada attended residential schools (Llewellyn‚ 2008‚ p. 258).2 To attend these schools‚ children were taken away from their families and communities. At the schools‚ the children suffered from emotional‚ physical‚ sexual and spiritual abuse (Steckley & Cummins‚ 2001‚ p. 191). The worst abuses were often used as punishment for speaking their indigenous languages (Petten‚ 2007‚ p. 22). The
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Bree Britton Riede Literature and Film 19 November‚ 2014 The Legacy of a Film Films that are based on true stories about pain‚ hardship‚ or disability can be difficult to emotionally process. One example of this is The Elephant Man. It was directed to twist the emotions of the average viewer to make him both curious and sympathetic for a deformed man. This film was very well done and created an opportunity for a deeper understanding of society and one’s identity. Many people argue that the film
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