...Introduction Ray Charles is considered a musical genius in many different fields. He has a large success in pop, jazz, blues, country, and R&B. Charles is also known as an inventor of soul music. Background In the first golden age of rock and roll they only called one man The Genius, and that was none other than Ray Charles. Born in Albany, Georgia, throughout the depression, and blind by the age of seven, Ray Charles Robinson absolutely had the deck stacked against him from the earliest starting point. “Lots of folks shifted musical styles when their sales figures or their muses indicated it, but Brother Ray alone knew how to cross so many musical boundaries at once. Not even Elvis Presley at his peak could claim such a seamless blend of pop, country, gospel, and blues” (Robert Fontenot). Discussion Biography Ray Charles Robinson was conceived in Albany, Georgia, on September 23, 1930, Charles was brought up in Greenville, Florida, where he made the knowledge of a piano-playing neighbours. As a youngster, Charles apprenticed with him at his little store-cum-jukejoint while processing blues, boogie-woogie and big band swing records on his jukebox. At age six, he was affected by glaucoma, which inevitably left him blind by age of 7. Charles examined structure and beat a mixed bag of instruments, piano and saxophone primary around them, throughout nine years used at the St. Augustine School for the Deaf and the Blind. When he was 15 his mother passed away and he...
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...Siddhartha is a book about a young man who goes on a endeavor to reach enlightenment. Through his journey he travels with a group of Samanas and his friend Govinda but when he reaches the Illustrious one (Buddha) he leave’s all of them to find a new way of enlightenment. He travels to a women named Kamala who tells Siddhartha to get a job. A man named Kamaswami gives him a job which allows Siddhartha to have money and the love of Kamala. He later leaves after one two many parties and goes to learn the ways of the river and how to be a ferryman. The book was written by Hermann Hesse who was born in 1877 in Calw, which was on the edge of the Black Forest where he was raised in a missionary household, people believed that he would some day...
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... SUBMITTED TO: Nazia Manzoor Lecturer English SUBMITTED BY: Nusrat Jahan Nishi SUBJECT: ENG102 SECTION: 5 Date: 30/11/2011 History made History “Gladiator” Gladiator is a historical epic film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Ralf Möller, Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou, Derek Jacobi, Jorhn Shrapnel and Richard Harris. Released in the United States on May 5, 2000, Gladiator was a box office success, receiving positive reviews, and was credited with briefly reviving the historical epic. Channel 4 (UK TV) poll named it as the sixth greatest film of all time. The film was nominated for and won multiple awards, particularly five Academy Awards in the 73rd Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Russell Crowe), Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, Best Sound (Bob Beemer, Scott Millan and Ken Weston) Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows...
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...A Little Bit of Soul and a Lot of Success* IN the fall of 1983, a young man from Houston, named Michael, enrolled in the University of Texas intending to major in pre-med as his parents had wished. While taking classes, he continued the business he had begun in high school, upgrading personal computers for friends and teachers—this time out of his dorm room. By the start of the second semester, he had made enough money to move himself (secretly) and the business to a condo. By semester's end, he had rented office space, hired a few employees, and officially launched the Dell Computer Corporation. University days were over, and a great American business success story had begun. Ten years later at age 28, Michael Dell had become the youngest person to be CEO of a Fortune 500 company. During the 1990s, his startup had surpassed IBM to become the second largest computer manufacturer in the world. And by the end of that decade Dell passed Compaq to claim the title as top computer manufacturer and seller globally. In doing so, Dell achieved a seemingly impossible goal he had set early on. Michael Dell's success was due in part to his high intelligence, healthy ambition, and exceptional will to win. He also surrounded himself with smart people and allowed them to manage important functions of the company. He developed the strategic vision of being a global leader in personal computer markets by staying close to the customers and selling direct. And, Dell worked closely with his...
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...For one thing, like it or not, it fundamentally determines how we live. I want to be Matt Lauer, hobnobbing daily with the world’s most powerful and interesting people, but that’s not my job. Likewise, the fellow who sits behind a desk 9 to 5, Monday through Friday, can believe with all of his heart he has the soul of an explorer, but in fact, he’s an accountant and will remain so unless he changes jobs and realities. A major theme of this book is has been about defining what kind of job you desire and how to get it, recognizing, of course, that in tough times, just getting a cash flow started may be your overriding goal. That’s okay in the short term. What happens, though, once you’ve landed the job? Your first day at a new job is bound to be exciting, fraught with expectation, high hopes, and maybe a little...
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...Disney’s dolls Institution Name Disney's dolls In Disney's dolls current animated movies the color of the female skin characters Might be diverse and the promotion more complicated. However, Kathi Maio suggests that beneath the entire fleece and the balance there are still contented homemakers searching for a man. It is so ironical that the Walt Disney Company’s current animated attribute which is Mulan, repeats Chinese fights of foreign invasions that are an ancient legend. The first animated Destiny dolls feature the snow white and the seven Dwarfs. It was animated in 1937. Disney recognized a new pattern for its hero and set an average animation full-length. The Snow White is an attractive, young, submissive and sweet-natured doll. She is not put off by the domestic grind since she is aware that one day, a gorgeous chap will save her. Whenever the Snow White is faced the threat, she runs very first on her high-heeled shoes and fall on a lament heap. She gets shelter from a dusty chalet and feels obligated to clean it up. Snow White’s one antagonist is her immoral and dominant stepmother, who is the Queen. However, the Queen is ultimately smashed just like most Disney clones. After feeding her lovely, step-daughter a disillusioned Apple puts her into a death-like coma. Snow White is affectionately awakened by her housemates who put her on a bier. However, she is only naked when Prince charismatic puts one on her lips. After a moment of thought, Snow White rides missing with...
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...Adding labelmates J.R. Donato to the track, "Make A Play," Ty Dolla $ign to, "Lit," Chevy Woods to, "No Permission, and to finish off the masterpiece Juicy J too, "iSay." Although, nobody was featured on, "Most Of Us," it still definitely had that TGOD sound on it. All of these songs were basically anthems for Taylor Gang. However, I decided to save the one song that caught my attention the most. The tenth song on the album, "Zoney," touched everyone's soul. It isn't often when a music artist decides to put their children on a song, but Khalifa's son Sebastian made a remarkable appearance on this song. Although, it was nothing more than a conversation between a father and son, it was still very touching and the track that will likely be the most talked about song from this album for that reason alone. Overall, Khalifa was an absolute classic. As a fan myself, it was hard to envision the direction Khalifa was heading for this album after the recent release of, "Cabin Fever 3," which wasn't exactly a, "let down," but there was a ton of features, which kind of ruined it for some of the fans. The moment I knew that the album would indeed be another classic, was when Khalifa tweeted:...
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...country that attracts immigrants with the offer of freedom in various aspects that other countries do not. In the book, The Immigrant Experience: The Anguish of Becoming American by Thomas C. Wheeler, he demonstrates the down side and the struggle of immigrants who does it’s best to survive in America. In the book, Wheeler leaves a strong message to the audience by stating “For the America of freedom has been an America of sacrifice, and the cost of becoming American has been high. For every freedom won, a tradition lost. For every second generation assimilated, a first generation in one way or another spurned. For the gains of goods and services, an identity lost, an uncertainty found. The great immigration…created a scarred American soul."...
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...Atmosphere of your home Home, the Foundation of Society: Society is composed of families, and is what the heads of families make it. Out of the heart are”the issues of life”, and the heart of the community, of the church, and of the nation is the household. The well-being of society, the success of the church, the prosperity of the nation, depends upon home influences. The elevation or deterioration of the future of society will be determined by the manners and morals of the youth growing up around us. As the youth are educated, and as their characters are molded in their childhood to virtuous habits, self-control, and temperance, so will their influence be upon society, If they are left unenlightened and uncontrolled, and as the result become self-willed, intemperate in appetite and passion, so will be their future influence in molding society. The company which the young now keep, the habits they now from, and the principles they now adopt are the index to the state of society for years to come. Bit of Heaven on Earth: Home should be made all that the world implies. It should be a little heaven upon the earth, a place where the affections are cultivated instead of being studiously repressed. Our happiness depends upon this cultivation of love, sympathy, and true courtesy to one another. To a large extend parents create the atmosphere of the home circle, and when there is disagreement between father and mother, the children partake of the same spirit. Make your home atmosphere...
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...I wonder how it feels to be helpless, to have no control of what happens in your own life. To be petrified whenever someone walks by, cowering into the small jail cell you are forced to call home. To watch other living things get slaughtered right in front of you by creatures ruthless enough to just toss the corpse away and take another animal, all without the least bit of pity. To be living in hell, and to know your death is soon to come. Poor animals in animal testing laboratories feel like this everyday - powerless, blockaded from all the goodness in life. It’s sickening that the human race has stooped as low as to deprive one's innocent life for the sake of a better perfume, and that atrocious acts like this still happen today. Although...
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...That Changed My Life We have to admit that some great books have the power to heal our souls and make us better people. Around The World in Eighty Days is just such a book to me. This book is a fiction story written by a French writer, Jules Verne. In this story, an Englishman, Phileas Fogg and his new French valet Passepartout attempt to travel around the world within eighty days just because he had a huge wager with his friends at the club. Mr Fogg wants to prove his contention that one can travel around the world in only eighty days. During their journey around the world, they met many friends and faced tons of challenges and difficulties. Besides the interesting and vivid plot of the story, this inspiring book has taught me three things when facing difficulties in life: never give up, caring others, and do something meaningful in life. First of all, of the many things that I learned from this book, one of them is overcoming difficulties. Traveling around the world in eighty days is a daydream for many persons but Mr Fogg made it successfully because he insisted and did not give up. Even though this book is a fiction, from the author’s perspective, the tools that we need for success is perseverance. Throughout the whole book, I learned that there are many difficult problems we need to be confronted with in our real life. But if you try hard to conquer it and you may find a way to be success. Therefore by the end of the book I decided to study a very tough course that I never...
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...Prominent personalities open up about failure and learning from it Failure that dreaded word. The fear of failure curtails growth and inhibits people from taking risks. Getting people to talk about failure, especially their own, is the singularly most difficult thing to do. In Why I Failed, Shweta Punj does just that by getting leaders to share experiences of when they did not succeed and how they turned it around to their advantage to emerge indomitable and stronger than before. This book shows that it is okay to fail as long as you treat failure as a stepping stone for greater things. Review: We've all read various success stories. If not read, heard. Derived inspiration for them. Thought about them much later. Wondered how the achiever did it. Told ourselves, if they can, so can we. I know I have, I am sure most of you have too. But, rarely comes a book where achievers talk about the times when they failed. And, miserably. Abhinav Bindra, Anu Aga, Madhur Bhandarkar, Narayanan Vaghul, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Captain Gopinath, Sabysachi Mukherjee, Narayana Murthy, Dr Prathap C Reddy, Sunil Alagh, Subhash Ghai, Ajit Gulabchand, Sminu Jindal, William Bissekk, Sanjeev Goenka and Shankar Sharma - each an example in him(her)self in being an achiever on the global scene, yet they have failed miserably in what they do, at some point of their lives. Why did they fail? What happened? There is always a reason, and in Why I Failed: Lessons from Leaders, these people talk about...
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...Speech There comes a time in everyone’s life when they meet their one true love: their soul mate. The person that’s going to know and love them for the rest of their life. No has the luxury to chose that moment, if fact love tends to sneak up on you and catch you when you are most off guard.That moment came for jim less than a year ago, when he met Alice. I guess I should introduce myself to those of you who don’t know me. My name is JD, I’m Jim’s younger brother. To be Jim’s best man is an honor for me, but it’s also very honorable of him, because he’s finally admitting to each and every one of you that I truly am the best. I would also like to say how beautiful all of you look tonight. While Speaking of beautiful, our bride, Alice, looks absolutely stunning. I think Jim is so captivated by her beauty tonight its even making him look a little bit more handsome. Now, for those of you who don’t know and are amongst those who do, growing up, Jim and I were polar opposites. He was academic and driven, and I was sporty and a goofball. It is, and was, because of our different but distinct personalities that we did fight... a lot. In fact, Jim was always so much stronger than me that my parents forbid him from hitting me when we got into fights. I used to take advantage of that, and I would try to torture him all the time.. I apologize for that after all these years...But we did have our good times. Playing football in the yard. Playing in the backyard on the trampoline It’s...
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...stranger to the sacred, but actually overflowing with sacred objects and ideas. One form of the “sacred” that certainly must not be overlooked or overheard is the music of the south, especially in the Magnolia State. The birthplace of America’s music, the South has produced multiple musical legends that shaped music as a large part of the world hears it today. The intriguing part of southern music’s sacredness is its relationship with the secular or “anti-sacred”. The turn of the 20th century was an important time in the history of southern music. Indigenous African music had mixed with Christian hymns and traditions to create spirituals, which would transform into gospel music. Around the same time, the legendary Robert Johnson is selling his soul to the devil for a guitar and a dirty new sound- the blues. While gospel songs exclaiming the glory of the return of Jesus were being sung in the churches, underneath tents, and by the river at baptisms; bluesmen were on street corners and in juke joints belting out tales of murder, adultery, and temptation in between pulls of rye whiskey. As these two early genres collided, their sounds morphed into country music and rock n’ roll. Although the sound of the music transformed, the connection to both the sacred and the profane remained. It only seems right that the next person to come along and revolutionize American music would be from a small town not too far from the same crossroads where...
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...My Plans for the Last Seven Days of My Life I would be devastated to know I only have one week to live on this Earth. I have a lot of goals set up; they have not been accomplished yet. I would feel like I failed in life, and this would depress me. On the other hand, I would not let the fear of dying in a week’s time deter me from accomplishing one of my dreams, and getting some plans in motion. If I only have had one week to live, the initial thing I would do after the shock of the news wears off is to contact a lawyer and have him prepare a will for me. A will is a legal document that would set forth how my assets would be distributed, and how my children would be taken care of. This would give me a peace of mind knowing that my family would not be fighting over my assets in my absence. It would also ensure that my children would be cared for. Their future is very important to me, so I would make sure they have enough money for their education. I believe education is the key to “success,” for without it one cannot advance in life. After I get the will drawn, I would spend time to write letters to people that I have offended to apologize and ask for their forgiveness. Forgiveness heals the soul, and it makes one feel better knowing someone does not bear a grudge against them. I would make amends for any wrong deed or disagreement that had happened between us. I would go out and visit relatives who I have not seen for a while and have a family reunion. I would hug and kiss...
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