...The legend of Michael Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson was born in African American working-class family, in 1958, Gary, Indiana. His career began at age 6 with his brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon in a band formed by his father. An R&B, soul, funk, disco group “The Jackson 5” was founded in 1964 and became very famous after reaching the top of Billboard hot 100 with their four first major labels “I Want You Back”, “ABC”, “The Love You Save” and “I'll Be There”. It became noticeable that Michael is the most talented member of a band so he began a solo career in 1971 and released his debut album “Got to Be There” in 1972. In the early 80's, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. The music videos of his songs like “Beat It”, “Billy Jean”, “Thriller” were credited with transforming the medium into an art form and a promotional tool. Popularity of his videos helped to bring a new TV channel MTV to a fame. Jackson's album “Thriller” (1982) is the best-selling album of all time with his other albums also in top 10. This unique case of extreme popularity and fame from such a young age made Michael Jackson a mysterious figure surrounded by more rumours and legends than any other artist. Even now, after his death in 2009, it's hard to tell what is true and what is false and even to describe what exactly image Michael Jackson has because his personality is really controversial and there are so many aspects and variations in his career. Although there are no doubts...
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...Michael Jackson English Michael Joseph Jackson[1][2] (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter, dancer, businessman and philanthropist. Often referred to by the honorific nickname "King of Pop", or by his initials MJ,[3] Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. The eighth child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and began his solo career in 1971. In the early 1980s, Jackson became the dominant figure in popular music. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller," were credited with breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the then relatively new television channel MTV to fame. With videos such as "Black or White" and "Scream" he continued to innovate the medium throughout the 1990s, as well as forging a reputation as a touring solo artist. Through stage and video performances, Jackson popularized a number of complicated dance techniques, such as the robot, and the moonwalk, to which he gave the name. His distinctive sound and style has influenced numerous hip hop, post-disco, contemporary R&B, pop,...
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...Michael Jackson Michael Jackson’s childhood wasn’t your average kid’s childhood. His childhood was just as extraordinary as he is. He was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, an industrial city near Chicago. He was the eighth child of ten, living in a 3 room house of an African American working class family. Growing up, Michael had troubles with his father, Joe. In 2003, Joe acknowledged he regularly whipped Michael as a boy. Jackson stated that this caused physical and emotional trauma, though he also stated his father’s discipline played a very big role in his success. In 1964, Michael was 8 years old when he joined the Jackson Brothers, a band formed by brothers Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine, Marlon joined as well. He started by playing congas and tambourine then moved on to back up vocals and dancing, finally making his way to sharing lead vocals with his older brother Jermaine. The group was changed to The Jackson 5; the band toured the Midwest extensively from 1966 to 1968. They recorded several songs and started peaking to the top of the charts. Michael Jackson was quickly becoming known as the prodigy. After leaving Motown they signed with Epic Records and renamed themselves The Jacksons. In 1978 Michael played a lead role in the movie The Wiz. In 1979, Michael broke his nose; his rhinoplasty wasn’t a success and caused breathing problems that would affect his career. In 1980 he started winning multiple awards for all his work. Also in 1980 he secured the highest...
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...Michael Jackson fact file: Michael Joseph Jackson was born August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009 was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Called the king of pop his contributions to music and dance, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. Michael Jackson has his own websites so his fans could check out his songs and updates also honour his music. Michael Jackson did his autobiography in a book and was published in February 1 in 1988. Five months after the release of Jackson’s 1987 Bad album, and named after Jackson’s signature dance move, the moonwalk. Michael Jackson was 58 when he died. Dubbed the "King of Pop," singer-songwriter Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana. As a child, he performed as the lead singer of the Jackson family's popular Motown group, the Jackson 5. No single artist – indeed, no movement or force – has eclipsed what Michael Jackson accomplished in the first years of his adult solo career. Jackson changed the balance in the pop world in a way that nobody has since. He forced rock & roll and the mainstream press to acknowledge that the biggest pop star in the world could be young and black, and in doing so he broke down more barriers than anybody. But he is also among the best proofs in living memory of poet William Carlos Williams' famous verse: "The pure products of America/go crazy." When Jackson died on June 25th, 2009, of apparent cardiac arrest...
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...2014 Prof. Mitchell Jackson There are two kinds of people who cry at your death, people who hated you and people who loved you. If you ask me…well sometimes through life experience we figure it out June 25th, 2009 a very hot day as the summer was trickling in. The sky was clear, the wind was blowing just enough to cool you down it was a quiet peaceful afternoon. Not a single soul outdoors I was walking home from school, and as I reached my apartment I went to my room enveloped in MJ posters. I quickly turned on the television to flip from channel to channel and nothing captured my attention except for one thing. I stopped at the news channel because I heard the strangest thing. “Michael Jackson was found dead this morning it seems to have been from an overdose of drugs”…What! I couldn’t believe it, MJ was gone, and at that moment I didn’t want to believe any of it. I didn’t want to accept the erratic news of Michael Jackson’s death. I was so astonished my mouth opened, my lips almost touching the floor. I couldn’t fathom the truth of MJ’S death. I began to look around he room at all of the posters. I turned over to the news only to hear the details of his death I heard, “Michael was found dead in his rented home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, as he was preparing for a series of comeback music concerts at London’s o2 Arena. The cause of death was an overdose of the drugs propofol and benzodiazepine”. In the mist of all the confusion it was 8:00pm and it was...
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...Period 1 Michael Jackson; the King, the Legend Michael Jackson was truly a legend. If you don’t know who he is or not his number one fan then you at least know him as “The King of Pop”, as everyone knew him for. Or if not, you at least know classics like “Thriller”, “Billie Jean”, and “Bad”. Michael Jackson was always surprising people; always causing controversy. Despite what you think or what you believe one thing is for sure Michael Jackson was a great and talented artist. He was a life lost too soon. Michael Joseph Jackson was born was born on August 29, 1958 to Katherine and Joe Jackson in Gary, Indiana. His older siblings are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, LaToya and Marlon. Later, his younger brother Randy and baby sister Janet join...
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...remains have been in a location and to try to determine a possible cause of death. Forensic toxicology falls into the category of forensic chemistry. Forensic toxicologists study toxins, drugs, poisons, alcohol, and other things found in the blood or tissues of crime victims or perpetrators. Forensic toxicologists study the blood and tissues of living people as well as deceased persons. The rapid advancement of technology in the last century and, in particular, the last three decades, has helped forensic scientists solve many crimes, even those that had been cold for decades. Technology is quickly changing and improving the methods by which crimes can be solved. The first evidence of scientific methods being used to identify people occurred in China in 700BC. Chinese artists used fingerprints to identify pieces of art they had produced. Of course, there was not computerized system to file or categorize these fingerprints. However, this is the first known instance of fingerprints being used for identification purposes. Clearly, things have dramatically changed since that time in terms of using forensics to improve the efficiency of the criminal justice system. Toxicology has been a particularly useful type of forensic science. Forensic toxicology is an interdisciplinary field applying the methods of analytical chemistry, pharmacology, and toxicology to the analysis and interpretation of drugs and chemicals in...
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...be considered unethical. If a treatment would cause more harm than aid for a patient the doctor has a duty to deny the patient treatment. Unethical medical practices such as the dissemination of unneeded medicine, performing unneeded and life endangering surgeries and exploiting patients for profit can lead to harm to the patient. Doctors who perform procedures or treatments that are superfluous and result in detrimental consequences to the health of the patient are practicing unethical medicine. The rampant epidemic of prescription drug abuse in America can be traced back directly to unethical doctors prescribing medicine without validating a legitimate patient need. Recently we have witnessed many high profile cases where doctors have prescribed and even administered medicine to patients for reasons other than the intended usage or without determining if there is any legitimate need. The case of Michael Jackson’s death comes to mind. Michael Jackson suffered cardiac arrest after improper use of the “anesthetic propofol” (Wilson, Canning, & Caravati, 2010). Conversely...
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...reports that have been published in the last few years have shown that young black men are being incarcerated at a rate far greater than their number in the overall population. In the fall of 1995, Vincent Schiraldi, executive director of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco, released a study that found that nationally 33% of the black men in their 20~s were under the control of the criminal justice system in some way, shape or form. This shows an increase from 1991, when 25% of the black men nationwide ages 20 to 29 were incarcerated, on probation, or on parole (Butterfield 1996). Schiraldi, attributed the higher incarceration rates for black men to tougher punishment for the use of crack cocaine than for other drugs; harsh new sentencing laws; the prison construction boom; and poverty, lack of good jobs and poor education in inner cities. We will address how tougher punishments have resulted in worse treatment for minorities in the criminal justice system. The tougher punishment for the use of crack cocaine, which is prevalent in minority neighborhoods, and the harsh new sentencing laws are a result of a new, stringent brand of law enforcement in which officers are trying to arrest as many people as possible. Unfortunately, as a result of this new brand of law enforcement, minorities, who are disproportionately thought to be suspects of crime (see "The Rise of Local News and...
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...Music Journal Table of Contents 1-4 1. Two Trains Running................................................................………...5 2. Almost Lost My Mind.............................................................................5 3. Do You Love Me....................................................................................6 4. One Fine Day ..............................................................................................6 5. Fingertips (Part 2)..........................................................................................7 6.Mona Lisa……………………...........................................................................7 7. Shop Around......................................................................................................8 8. Please Mr. Postman...........................................................................................8 9. Save the Last Dance for Me...............................................................................9 10. Hello Stranger.....................................................................................................9 11. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Hunny Bunch)..............................................9,10 12. Stop! in the Name of Love..................................................................10 13. Love Don’t Love Nobody..................................................................................10,11 14. You Can't...
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...The year is 1959, a pivotal moment in American cultural history, when rock and roll was giving birth to the Sexual Revolution and everything in America culture was about to be turned upside down. Record companies were releasing more than a hundred singles every week and the country was about to explode. Grease, generally considered a trivial little musical about The Fabulous Fifties, is really the story of America’s tumultuous crossing over from the 50s to the 60s, throwing over repression and tradition for freedom and adventure (and a generous helping of cultural chaos), a time when the styles and culture of the disengaged and disenfranchised became overpowering symbols of teenage power and autonomy. Originally a rowdy, dangerous, over-sexed, and insightful piece of alternative theatre, Grease was inspired by the rule-busting success of Hair and shows like it, rejecting the trappings of other Broadway musicals for a more authentic, more visceral, more radical theatre experience that revealed great cultural truths about America. An experience largely forgotten by most productions of the show today. Like Hair before it and The Rocky Horror Show which would come a year later, Grease is a show about repression versus freedom in American sexuality, about the clumsy, tentative, but clearly emerging sexual freedom of the late 1950s, seen through the lens of the middle of the Sexual Revolution in the 1970s. It’s about the near carnal passion 1950s teenagers felt for their rock...
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...What Is LGBT? LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and along with heterosexual they describe people's sexual orientation or gender identity. These terms are explained in more detail here. Lesbian A lesbian woman is one who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to women. Many lesbians prefer to be called lesbian rather than gay. Gay A gay man is one who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to men. The word gay can be used to refer generally to lesbian, gay and bisexual people but many women prefer to be called lesbian. Most gay people don't like to be referred to as homosexual because of the negative historical associations with the word and because the word gay better reflects their identity. Bisexual A bisexual person is someone who is romantically, sexually and/or emotionally attracted to people of both sexes. Transgender or Trans Is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (internal feeling of being male, female or transgender) and/or gender expression, differs from that usually associated with their birth sex. Not everyone whose appearance or behaviour is gender-atypical will identify as a transgender person. Many transgender people live part-time or full-time in another gender. Transgender people can identify as transsexual, transvestite or another gender identity. Gender Identity One's gender identity refers to whether one feels male, female or transgender (regardless of one's biological...
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...Praise for Jesus Is _____. “Judah Smith is a unique gift to my generation. In Jesus Is _____ , he will motivate you to let go of your preconceived, limited view of Jesus so you can embrace who He really is in our lives—more real and relevant than we have ever imagined.” —S te v en F u rtick , le a d pa Stor , e le vation c h u rch a n d author oF th e Ne w Yor k T im es beStSeller G r e aTer “Perhaps the most daunting and humbling task we have as Christians is to finish the sentence ‘Jesus is . . . .’ As many of us saved by His grace are aware, He is King. He is Lord. He is salvation. But to many in our world, He is most prominently . . . misunderstood. There is not another human being on earth whom I know personally, who could tackle a book subject like this as well as Judah Smith. To Judah, Jesus is everything. And from that platform he writes this book. I eagerly await its impact in my city, New York City, and beyond . . . it’s overdue.” —c a r l l entz , le a d pa Stor , h illSong c h u rch , n e w Yor k c it Y “Every once in a while a book is written that does not only contain a powerful message but the author is a living embodiment of the message thus making the book all the more life changing! The book you are holding in your hands is one of those. As you read through this book you will discover that Jesus is not at all like you thought and so much more than you imagined.” —c h r iStin e c a in e , Fou n der oF th e a21 c a mpa ign 00-01_Jesus Is.indd...
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...Praise for The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down “Fadiman describes with extraordinary skill the colliding worlds of Western medicine and Hmong culture.” —The New Yorker “This fine book recounts a poignant tragedy…It has no heroes or villains, but it has an abundance of innocent suffering, and it most certainly does have a moral…[A] sad, excellent book.” —Melvin Konner, The New York Times Book Review “An intriguing, spirit-lifting, extraordinary exploration of two cultures in uneasy coexistence…A wonderful aspect of Fadiman’s book is her even-handed, detailed presentation of these disparate cultures and divergent views—not with cool, dispassionate fairness but rather with a warm, involved interest that sees and embraces both sides of each issue…Superb, informal cultural anthropology—eye-opening, readable, utterly engaging.” —Carole Horn, The Washington Post Book World “This is a book that should be deeply disturbing to anyone who has given so much as a moment’s thought to the state of American medicine. But it is much more…People are presented as [Fadiman] saw them, in their humility and their frailty—and their nobility.” —Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic 3/462 “Anne Fadiman’s phenomenal first book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, brings to life the enduring power of parental love in an impoverished refugee family struggling to protect their seriously ill infant daughter and ancient spiritual traditions from the tyranny of welfare bureaucrats and intolerant...
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...OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY OUTLINE OF OUTLINE OF U.S. HISTORY C O N T E N T S CHAPTER 1 Early America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 CHAPTER 2 The Colonial Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CHAPTER 3 The Road to Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 CHAPTER 4 The Formation of a National Government . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 CHAPTER 5 Westward Expansion and Regional Differences . . . . . . . 110 CHAPTER 6 Sectional Conflict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 CHAPTER 7 The Civil War and Reconstruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 CHAPTER 8 Growth and Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 CHAPTER 9 Discontent and Reform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 CHAPTER 10 War, Prosperity, and Depression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 CHAPTER 11 The New Deal and World War I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 CHAPTER 12 Postwar America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 CHAPTER 13 Decades of Change: 1960-1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274 CHAPTER 14 The New Conservatism and a New World Order . . . . . . 304 CHAPTER 15 Bridge to the 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 PICTURE PROFILES Becoming a Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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