During the excitement of the first lunar landing, Herblock, a credible cartoonist, illustrates that the world was more focused on getting a man on the moon than addressing problems occurring at the time to the readers of the Washington Post. The lunar landing had everyone enticed with its inauguration, which allowed Herblock to draw his cartoon. As the prominent cartoonist, Herblock, puts it, he draws a picture of a man who is seated in a lounge chair and is watching television while he is on the
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“Ragtime: a form of syncopated music with a lively melody line and a steady bass line that was popular from 1890-1920.” Like many other jazz like styles, Ragtime has its own unique features that make it unlike any other style. It’s the composers, pianists, guitarists, and some lyricists who have made Ragtime popular. Ragtime, like many other styles, has its own unique instruments. These instruments include pianos, guitars, banjos, acoustic guitars, and drums. The instrument most associated with Ragtime
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I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION/ADDITIONAL PERSPECTIVES In 1986, a group called London Greenpeace which is an activist body campaigning on a variety of environmental and social justice issues, produced and distributed a leaflet entitled ‘What’s Wrong With McDonald’s? – Everything They Don’t Want You To Know’ outside a McDonald’s store in the United Kingdom. It criticized almost all aspects of the corporation’s business accusing that McDonald’s: is complicit in Third World starvation; buys from greedy
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BESSIE SMITH 1894 – 1937 Bessie Smith, known as “Empress of the Blues”, was born on April 15 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was one of seven children to a part-time Baptist preacher and his wife. However, by the time Bessie was nine years old both of her parents were dead. Bessie and her brother Andrew were already singing on the streets of Chattanooga for spare change. Bessie’s older brother Clarence had joined a travelling vaudeville1 show as a comedian and dancer and in 1912
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Edgardo Del Rosario MUS 114 Richard Armandi 21 February 2016 Billie Holiday The career of jazz singer, Billie Holiday, was full of intense, life-changing moments. Billie was born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia. One of the first major events in her early life was being raped at the age of 11. Billie was always an outspoken person, who often swore. At the age of 14, she joined a brothel. She claimed she was 24, but her lie was soon exposed and was punished. These types of experiences molded
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The beat movement had a huge impact and helped shape the culture of the 50’s to 60’s significantly by the writings published during this time. The themes written about in novels and poetry influenced music as it started to trickle out. As the years progressed on beatniks, which is a mixture of sputnik and beat, came out during the late 50’s as well as hippies during the 60’s. Jack Kerouac, Allan Ginsberg, and Lucien Carr to name but a few of the authors of the beat generation first met at Columbia
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According to some scientists, the moon is not a natural satellite rotating around Earth but actually an artificial one. Furthermore, some believe that beneath the lunar surface is a hollow society developed by aliens. Of course, no proof of this exists yet but the evidence continues to grow. MOON CONSPIRACY GETS ATTENTION OF SCIENTISTS There are various conspiracy theories out there but per pass one of the most interesting is the Hollow Moon Hypotheses. In the past, some have thought Earth's satellite
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I chose to talk about Space Explorations: Apollo Missions. I chose this because landing on the moon was a wonderful thing we were able to accomplish and I do consider the crew to be a heros. They very easily could have died and I don’t know that a lot of people think about that they were willing to give their lives to be able to move Science forward. In the book “Apollo Moon Mission: The unsung heroes” it said “In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge: the United States would land a
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Lieutenant Philip B. Frothingham Memorial: The Lieutenant Philip B. Frothingham Memorial is located in the Western Promenade of Portland, Maine. Like many WWI monuments throughout Maine, the memorial is composed of a granite boulder and bronze plaque. Erected in 1921, and sponsored by the Frothingham Post of the Veterans of Foreign War (also a memorial to Frothingham), the monument was created in memorialization to the memory of Lieutenant Philip B. Frothingham. Born in Portland, Maine, August
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Tim Hamner gets to a party thrown by the Sutters and announces that a comet he discovered has been authenticated and named the Hamner-Brown. The "Brown" is a young amateur astronomer who reported his own sighting around the same time as Hamner. Tim explains that he found the comet first but waited to make sure that it really was an undiscovered comet before reporting it. The next few months, people started to worry that the comet would hit the Earth and some people prepared for an end-of-the-world
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