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- 2671: Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin
- ... 1914 he was offered a job at Remick s Music Publishing House in Tin Pan Alley. Gershwin jumped at the chance to become the youngest pianist ever employed at the popular music capital of the world. So at the age of fifteen, he quit school and became a song plugger (Schwartz 21). The purpose of a song plugger was to make a song become a hit. Everyday hundreds of singers and ... a party and he liked it so much that he incorporated it into his show Sinbad at New York s Winter Garden. It was a huge success selling over two million copies of sheet music world wide and earning Gershwin and Caesar each over ten thousand dollars (Gojowy 303)! From 1920-1924 Gershwin signed on to write the music for a new Broadway musical, The George White Scandals. This production featured ... a standard orchestra and he added three saxophones and four taxi horns (Peyser 227). It was a score rich in color, texture, and jazz techniques. It was described as . . reflecting the mood of the new world (Adam 25:25). Serious critics did not care for it but the public loved it and they made it a success. His next two musicals were political satires. Gershwin was not into politics, but ...
- 2672: Genghis Khan
- ... Genghis Khan, a title which is thought to mean universal ruler or oceanic ruler. Now, Mongol ambitions began to look beyond their homeland and Genghis Khan was poised to begin on his great adventure of world conquest. Genghis Khan’s new nation was organized, above all, for war and Genghis used the same techniques in disciplining his armies as he had in his earlier years. Initially his troops consisted only of cavalry, riding the hardy Mongol pony, which has no need for fodder ... cause. These early conquests, however, involved only the raiding, plundering and destroying of cities and were simply a show of Genghis’s power. The great conquests of the Mongols, which would transform them into a world power, were still to come and China, to the south, was Genghis’s main goal. Genghis Khan first secured his western flank by fighting a tough campaign against the Tangut kingdom of Hsi Hsia, ...
- 2673: AIDS: Is It A Modern Plague?
- AIDS: Is it a Modern Plague? In some parts of the world there are still wars being fought and dictators in power. There are societies which consider themselves at the peak of evolution and progress. They are able to create state of the art automobiles, luxurious homes ... submicroscopic pathogen consisting of a particle of nucleic acid, enclosed in proteins, and able to replicate only within a living cell. Socially, it is responsible for an enormous amount of chaos and fear in the world today, and pronounces the human fault of ignorance. Can it be considered to be a modern plague? This complex and confusing king of all tyrants is called Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV. HIV is a ... of HIV infections in Africa are due to heterosexual transmission. An AIDS epidemic is also emerging in Asia, where new HIV infections increased by 80 percent in the last three years, and estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that AIDS in Asia will cause unprecedented rates of infection and death. The major strain of HIV in the North America, Europe, and central Africa is known as HIV-1. ...
- 2674: Stephen Crane
- ... of Crane’s work, Throughout his writings he tried to shake the thought that God was wrathful (Colvert, 12:101). Stephen Crane began his formal education at a military school where he studied the Civil War and military training ("Stephen" n.p.). After military school he proceeded to attend Lafayette College in the fall of 1890 where he played baseball. Eventually, he was forced to withdraw from Layette because he refused ... law wife, Cora Taylor ("Crane" n.p.). The lived together at the Hotel Dedream, a hotel, nightclub, and brothel. While in Jacksonville he wrote about the Commodore sinking. He also reported on the Spanish-American War for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World in an attempt to pay off debts that he had incurred during this time. Crane made famous friends here such as H.G. Wells and Henry James. Crane then moved to London, England, where ...
- 2675: Kubla Khan
- ... speaker then attempts to recreate a vision he saw. Through the description of the visions of Kubla Khan’s palace and the speaker’s visions the poem tells of the creation of an enchanting beautiful world as the result of power of human imagination. The second part of the poem reveals that although the mind has the ability to create this paradise-like world it is tragically unable to sustain this world. It is believed that “Kubla Khan” was created by Coleridge when he was in a deep sleep that was induced by the use of opiates which were prescribed for dysentery. He fell asleep while ...
- 2676: Canada - Of The United States of America
- ... important social institutions are far superior to those of the U.S.A. although it is well known that the U.N. (United Nations) has chosen Canada as the best place to live in the world two years running. These successful institutions promote Canada's cultural identity for they can be used as models to countries around the globe. Americans should not underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere ... this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself .... as a mirror image of the United States. Pierre Trudeau (1969)17 Culturally, Canadians are Canadians but economically Canadians are Americans. Ever since the end of World War I the U.S. cleverly began to purchase our country. Through foreign investment “the Americans accumulated Canada at the unbelievable rate of a billion dollars worth yearly”18 from 1955 onward. Not only were ...
- 2677: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... Puritans, the plainly clothed but wealthy Puritan seemed to be a hypocrite."2 As it became more difficult for the Puritans to practice their religious beliefs in England, many opted to move to the New World to seek their religious freedom. By 1640 the Massachusetts Bay Colony had about 10,000 settlers. The colonists built churches, where they gathered in song and prayer to receive moral instruction. Their churches not only ... in the end, dwell with Him in heaven. Those who were not a part of the elect would be cast into hell, as Lucifer had been. The Puritans who made the journey to the New World faced many hardships such as crop failure, hunger, cold, war, and attacks from both wild animals and hostile Native Americans. The Puritans did not coexist as well as they would have liked. Tension arose, and many began to doubt their religion. This led some ...
- 2678: Media Effect
- I. Introduction Media nowadays is considered a window for learning and is also considered to be our main window to the world. Media has evolved from simple text in papers, to voices in radios, to voices with pictures in television and movies, to the very broad and information packed Internet. But as we all know, media has ... it the place most people heard about such historical events as the crash of the Hindenburg zeppelin at Lakehurst, N.J., the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the landing of Allied troops at Normandy during World War II, and, more recently, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Although Billboard has covered radio since the medium's infancy, it was not until the late '20s that ...
- 2679: Frank Sinatra
- ... are just regular men and women that are placed high on a pedestal simply because they can sing or act, hence, becoming all the more famous. Although he was famous and popular in the entertainment world for almost four decades, Frank Sinatra was a singer and actor that had a side to him that not everyone knew. He hid behind the facade of an entirely happy, successful performer, when, in reality ... miscellaneous jobs at nightclubs, roadhouses, amateur shows, and even democratic meetings in the city (Sinatra 24). After much effort, he developed his own unique style; one that people took notice of. During this time, the war had just begun, and Frank, who was a tremendous patriot, was infuriated that he was denied enlistment. The birth defect that he had as an infant was the cause of his rejection, burdening him once ... did try and recompense the performance on the show by starring in a whopping twenty movies during the 50 s. Nevertheless, it was still hard for Frank to keep up with the new change the world was making in affiliation with music. There were different styles that Sinatra was not used to. In the meantime, he was aging, and fell farther and farther behind. (Auster Frank Sinatra: the television years ). ...
- 2680: American Indians 2
- ... in 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue , and that Peter Minuet bought all of Manhattan Island from the Indians for only twenty-four dollars worth of trinkets. In high school, we were taught that in World War II, the Germans were all heartless savages, and that the best course of action to end the war was to use the atomic bomb on Japan. It is seen that the victor writes the history books. In other words, the dominant cultures and societies that conquer and overshadow lesser societies have the ...
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