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Concert Review Of Punk Band Nofx
830 wordsOn November 26 th I went to the Stone Pony in New York to see another of my favorite bands, NOFX. NOFX is a punk-ska band. Punk meaning fast paced drumbeats and quick singing and ska meaning a song played with trumpets. The band members are Fat Mike (vocals, bass), El Here (guitar, trumpet, vocals), Eric Melvin (guitar, vocals), and Erik Standing (drums). The one thing I found out there was that El Here sings a lot. I thought he only sings in a few songs but when I heard them play, I noticed tha...
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The Effects Of Music Therapy On Mentally Handicapped
1,048 wordsMusic therapy is a controversial but effective form of rehabilitation on mentally handicapped people. A great amount of research has been completed on this subject. It has been proven that our brains respond to music as if it were medicine. Music therapy is not a commonly used health care, but recent studies have suggested it can have a wide range of benefits. Music therapy is the prescribed use of music and related strategies, by a qualified therapist, to assist or motivate a person towards spe...
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Christianity And The Roman Catholic Mission In Africa
1,405 wordsDespite the beliefs of many early Christians, religion in Africa is everywhere. Traditional African beliefs and rituals, as in recourse in sacred objects when an individual is about to embark upon a journey or the worship that one pays to natural objects, such as the Hottentots who dance in the moonlight in praise of the moon, is not understood by Christians (New Advent 7). Many early Christians believed that there were tribes without any form of religion in African as well as tribes like the Ho...
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Land Of The Cyclopes Sirens Odysseus Men
577 wordsIn the Odyssey there were three main characters. Odysseus is the hero of the epic. He is the son of Laertes and is the king of Ithaca and a very respected warrior. He enjoys life, even while struggling to get home. He is restless, clever, and even tricky and is able to invent lies easily. After the Trojan War, the gods and goddess were mad that his plan helped the Greeks defended the Trojans. So they made Odysseus journey home as hard as possible. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is very brave, overcome...
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Nubians Singing Chorus Guru Les Nubians Singing Chorus Guru People
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Trust Fund Long Beach
434 wordsW hat went wrong I thought to myself? I remember hearing the news of his death on a local radio station. I've been a Sublime fan since my senior year of high school. The single 'Date Rape' made the Chicago airwaves and I was hooked. I did a little research and I discovered that Bradley had been in and out of rehabilitation centers since 1992. Many people that I've talked to about Bradley's death really didn't seem to care. Being a huge Sublime fan, I was angered by their ignorance. Most of the t...
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Francis Ford Coppola Forty Five
594 wordsFollowing careful thought on which director to study, I chose Francis Ford Coppola. Although he has directed more films than I have had the opportunity to experience, I have viewed enough to understand his progression and style of his work. Over almost forty years of work, Coppola has directed about twenty-five films, produced near forty-five, composed two, and acted in eight. He is known predominantly for Apocalypse Now (1979) and The Godfather I (1972), II (1974), and III (1990). However, he h...
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B Du Bois W E B Du
988 wordsHarlem Renaissance The Harlem renaissance was a time of creative ingenuity among blacks confined to the ghetto s of America by racism and an implied social class. In the Early 20 s black s had progressed far enough along where some didn t need to work 16 hour days to make a living. This, coupled with the coming together of lots of blacks in ghetto s, the exposure of some blacks to European whites who weren t racist like American whites, combined to raise the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of bla...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt World War Ii
2,044 wordsHistory Coursework: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Essay, Research History Coursework: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Assignment Two: Objective 3 1. Source A is a speech made by Governor F. D. Roosevelt in 1930, when the Depression was really beginning to bite. ? He says that Central Government has a responsibility to those citizens who are in real trouble, or even starving, to help those people. Source B is another speech from Gov. Roosevelt, this time in 1932, while campaigning to become President. ? He...
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Country Music Pop Music
758 wordsDuring the past seventy years, country music has gone through many changes. On the other hand, country music has always dealt with real issues of ordinary people. Country music comes from simple stories of everyday life. Country was once limited to the rural South and Southwest but is now successful throughout all of the United States. The first country artists became widely known and achieved popularity in the late 1920? s. The two most important figures at this time were Jimmie Rodgers and the...
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Louis Armstrong Cool Jazz
648 wordsThe History Of Jazz The first jazz was played in the early 20 th century. The work chants and folk music of black Americans are among the sources of jazz, which reflects the rhythms and expressions of West African song. Ragtime, an Afro-American music that first appeared in the 1890 s, was composed for the piano, and each rag is a composition with several themes. The leading ragtime composer was Scott Joplin. The first improvising jazz musician was the cornetist Buddy Bolden, leader of a band in...
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Billie Holiday Louis Armstrong
633 wordsBillie Holiday Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was born April 7 th, 1915, in Baltimore. Her original name was Eleanor Fagan. Although her father, Clarence Holiday, was a guitar / banjo player in Fletcher Henderson s band, she didn t break into the music world until her late teens. After being signed by Columbia Records John Hammond in 1933 for her debut record. Holiday went on to work with Teddy Wilson, Buck Clayton and Lester Young, who gave her the nickname Lady Day. He also toured the w...
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Acute Father Figure
1,546 wordsHow Does The Immigrant Italian Setting Add How Does The Immigrant Italian Setting Add To The Tragedy Of The A View From A Bridge? A view from the Bridge´ is set in Brooklyn, amongst an immigrant community who are poor and struggling, most working as longshoremen when the work is available. Eddie is of Italian ancestry, his father emigrated from Italy to America, and therefore he has been brought up with the strong, passionate Italian/Sicilian codes of honour and loyalty. Marco and Rodolfo ...
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Ten Thousand Isn T
721 wordsIsn = t it Ironic? Although I am generally content with my meager day-to-day existence, there are a few days when I feel that I might as well have not been born. These are the days when I feel like asking the world Why is this happening to me? These are the same days Alanis Morissette denounces in her aptly named song Ironic However, despite the verbal lyrics, there is an overall message that is quite the opposite. Alanis is quite good at setting the mood of her chart-rocking songs and Ironic is...
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Dream Come True James Dean
1,137 wordsAs far James Dean Bio As far back as I can remember, the one constant in my life has been music, says Jessica Andrews. I was raised around it. My mom was in some bands, and her whole family had a talent for singing. Wed all get together and play music everyone would sing a cappella. Those sing-alongs were my favorite pastime. To be able to make a record and perform all over the country is just a dream come true! With her debut DreamWorks release, Heart Shaped World, Jessica Andrews is seeing the...
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Janet Jackson Famous Black Started
473 wordsThis essay is to help you learn a little bit more about the one and only Janet jackson I will device the program in 3 parts 1 - Her career 2 - her lifestyle 3 - How she produces her songs and videos She started off being a sister... of 5 big brothers! Who once formed the jackson 5. A famous black pop group When she was still a very young lady. She wanted to sing like her brothers... but her father who was the directer of the jackson 5 thought hat girls didn, t belong in the world of singing. Jus...
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Janet Jackson Famous Black Started
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Death Of His Mother Rock And Roll
1,315 wordsMini Documentary John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940 in Liverpool, England. When he was four years old, his parents separated and he ended up living with his Aunt Mimi. Johns father was a merchant seaman and John did not see a lot of his father when he was small. As a child, John was a prankster and he enjoyed getting in trouble. As a boy and young adult, John enjoyed drawing grotesque figures and cripples. One of the reasons for his obsession with cripples and deformities was because of the...
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One Of The Reasons Warner Brothers
1,524 wordsMadonna is an Madonna Madonna Madonna is an artist that has been around for years. I am going to use her in my senior project to find out things about her life and the many things she as an artist has accomplish, and what she has plan for her future. How she had affective millions of people with her songs. Madonna has been in the music business for over 20 years now. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone who is named after her mother, was born in Bay City, Michigan in August 16, 1958. Now turning the ...
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Slobodan Milosevic Mass Media
381 wordsMEDIA INFLUENCE The media play an important role in our lives and influence us in our choices and things we value in life. We definitely live in an information society, large groups of people receive information and store it. There are many opinions about the mass media of communications served as a vehicle for rational discussion featuring the range of political and cultural perspective. If communications controlled by an elite group, then the given information the people will be the only the e...
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