After watching the 1974 version of “The Great Gatsby”-by: Jack Clayton, and the 2012 version by: Baz Luhrmann, Obviously i thought the 2012 version was a lot better. Both have good and bad parts in my opinion, but i overall enjoyed the excitement of the 2012 version, the loud people, the intense parties, and the mic of common day ideas to jazz age ideas, it was great to me. Although most think that the 1974 version is more real to the story. Although most people think that the 1974 version
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To steal the words of others… Just let me say that this weekend Bellefonte was all jazzed up…. It was the 2015 Summer Jazz Celebration. The Jazz Celebration was originally in State College until 2008 when it moved to Bellefonte. It has been growing ever since. Jazz takes a little from all the music styles and builds it into a wonderful form of jazz. A great deal of the energy, drive and passion that makes the festival happen comes from Catherine Dupuis, she grew up in Centre County and loves
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I have always been fascinated by the Apollo missions especially Apollo 11 mission, which was the grand landmark of the first humans to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. Although it is stated by NASA that the primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy there was so much more to this incredible experience. Scientific exploration by far was the key motivation that led these astronauts and scientists to discovery more about the moon. Not only this
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At exactly 7:50 am on the chilling day of December 21, 1968; the first successful spacecraft of Apollo 8 was launched in the depths of the unknown. The first manmade mission that successfully managed to orbit the the small astronomical body that already orbits us. Within the Apollo 8 space mission included the three crewmen of Frank Borman, William A. Anders, and James A. Lovell. These three brave men were taking the bigger step to complete a task that to everyone else was nearly impossible. These
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Squidoo – Squidoo has an interesting blog post on why this author believes that the 1969 moon walk was a hoax. With many reasons to back up this argument, this writer uses many scientific and image-proven facts to get this point across. The article is broken down into the following categories, and is able to give evidence for each topic: 1960’s Technology, Time Frame, Photographic evidence analysis, Astronauts on wires, footage we weren’t meant to see, and so on. If you like reading articles that
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Is the Hoax a Bunch of Jokes? Since the amazing Apollo 11 landing on the moon, no one questioned whether it might have been a hoax, until February 15th 2001 when Fox released a documentary called “Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?”. Here, “hoax believers” argue that NASA faked the landing to prove that U.S. technology was greater than that of the Soviets, by not only meeting the standards of the Russians in space travel, but surpassing it, marking a bit of territory on another planet
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* First owner loses his canine custody battle. * Papadopoulos lost his bid to win back interim custody of his beloved Pluto. * There is hold a trial to resolve the messy dog custody dispute. * Papadopoulos believes his can get back his dog by himself. * Papadopoulos is a lonely man on a disability; his dog likes his best friend even more like his son, so Pluto is really important to him. * Papadopoulos had to go home to deal with his mother’s estate in last October, so he given
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The following are US space programs, stations and objects (telescope) that had provided Earth with outstanding accomplishing, information and improvements. Provided below are descriptions of each program, followed with the goals included in them. “Project Mercury was the United States' first man-in-space program.” It was brought upon in 1958 and completed in 1963. Six manned flights were conducted under this program from 1961 to 1963. The life of Project Mercury was about 4 2/3 years. The goals
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Define jazz in your words Jazz is a form of expression that does not confine itself to music and expands itself to influence beautiful art pieces––such as paintings, poems, novels and essays––that intellectuals represent themselves in. Is that truly what jazz is? Not really, as it is a culture that has more than one identity, as well as, more than one definition. Describe jazz Jazz culture consists of different types of art, but they have many elements in common. Jazz music is truly innovative; the
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The fourth of July, 1997, a celebrated day in the United States of America. Along with the traditional national holiday, something else is being celebrated for another reason. The first exploration rover has landed on Mars, in Ares Vallis. Launched eight months before the landing, the Pathfinder mission was declared a success after a quick systems check. Over a total of two months and twenty-three days, Pathfinder sent back 2.3 bits of data, including 16,500 pictures from the lander itself and more
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