Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were friends and influential singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt
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A Personality and a Pioneer: Jack Cole’s Influence on Modern Jazz Countless of women have marveled over Marilyn Monroe’s stunning performance of “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The way she captivates the men around her while maintaining a dominant, sultry poise has made this an iconic scene in the history of American film. She comes across as a natural presence, dancing flawlessly and confidently
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Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Very soon after his birth, Louis’ father left him, his mother, and his sister. So Louis and his sister were forced to move to his grandmother. Louis and his sister moved back with his mother when Louis was five. Soon after, he was enrolled in the Fisk School of Boys and helped his mom by delivering newspapers and hauling coal. When Louis was eleven, he dropped out of school, joined a quartet of boys that sang on the streets, just
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Sputnik, a Russian satellite with no other purpose than show, was launched into space on October 4, 1957 and took a toll on the hearts of many Americans, as shown in both the first and second essays. In the first essay the author conveys a purpose none other than to appeal to detail and emotion. The first essay evokes the reader's sense of pride by the accomplishment of mankind but also seems to capture the emotion of sorrow, as shown when the author states, “..relief about the first ‘step toward
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Were the moon landings real? There has been rumors that Neil armstrong landing on the moon was fake. That it was all filmed in a studio. Some people think it actually happened. But it’s up to you on what you think were they real or was the whole thing faked? This is what I believe… I believe that the moon landings were real. I think the whole thing happened. That NASA sent a man to the moon. Sure I have seen evidence to prove why it didn’t really happen but there is one piece of evidence I saw
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Wapakoneta, Ohio on a farm Neil A. Armstrong was born (Neil Armstrong UXL). First, Neil made sure to live his life to the fullest being adventurous and going out of his comfort zone. Armstrong found his hobby at a young age he said, his youngest memory at the age of two was going to an air race in Cleveland (Neil Armstrong UXL). Now interested in flying, Neil began building model airplanes to learn about the basics of flight mechanics (Neil Armstrong UXL). In 1947, “Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University
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understand.” Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5,1930 when he was six he flew his first plane. Six hundred million people watched the first man walked on the moon on tv. Neil Armstrong was a pioneer of space exploration. He was an American hero. He became something more then he become. Neil Armstrong was so talented on so many ways. His love for flying started at a young age his father took him to a air show. He took pilot lessons with his dad. Neil A Armstrong the first man to walk
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moon lander set down on the moon, a moment frozen in time just the same as the footprints frozen on the surface. Although, that is not exactly what happened; humans did not land on the moon in 1969. The supposed first man to walk on the moon, Neil Armstrong, delivered a famous quote known as “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” (FACT CHECK). One of the main reasons why America was pushing to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s was to further the Cold War between America
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Biography Assignment #4 I choose to do a biography on AC/DC for three main reasons. Two of which I will explain. The first reason is that I was required to choose a topic to write a biography about. The other reasons are that I like the band (and grew up listening to them), and that I am somewhat curious about the history of AC/DC. AC/DC is important to rock because they have been around since the 1970s, and are technically still around today, and they continued to perform and record music even
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“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” This phenomenal quote was stated by none other than the legendary Robert Goddard. The father of modern rockets was born on October, 5, 1882 in Worcester, MA in the United States of America and passed on August, 10, 1945 in Baltimore Maryland. Who knew that one man could influence the whole world in a single lifetime. During his lifetime he had plenty of significant accomplishments
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