...Jackson played in bands with Carlos Santana and Jerry Garcia. In the early 1980s he played on three albums for Jean-Luc Ponty and with the rock band Taxxi. From 1986 to 1987 he was a session musician for the rock group Journey. Jackson played on Journey's 1986 album Raised on Radio. He moved to Italy in the late 1980s and played on a record by Italian pop star Zucchero. The record, Zucchero and the Randy Jackson Band, was produced by Corrado Rustici who played guitar with Jackson on many albums in the early 1980s. He also played with Billy Cobham. In 1985, Keith Richards was asked to provide music for the Whoopi Goldberg comedy vehicle Jumpin' Jack Flash. Richards assembled an all-star band which included Aretha Franklin on piano and lead vocals and Jackson on bass guitar. This song was the fourth track on Aretha's 1986 album titled Aretha. Jackson can be seen in the song's video. In the late 1980s, Jackson was still doing sessions. He was notably on the first solo album by famed session guitarist Steve Lukather. Jackson was a featured bass guitarist on five songs on Maze's 1989 "Silky Soul" album. He also performed on several of Kenny G's albums. Jackson was the bass guitarist on the 1991 self-titled Divinyls album (which features the song "I Touch Myself") as well as featured bassist on several tracks of Tracy Chapman's 1992 release, Matters of the Heart. He performed on the singles "Bang Bang Bang", "Open Arms", and "Dreaming on a World". That same year, Jackson also played...
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...The Emergence of a Champion By: Paul Heyman, Executive Vice President of Marketing To: Brock Lesnar, Client Subject: The Next Move to Make… To Emerge Date: August 18, 2012 Professor Allison Jones Table of Contents Page Seeking The Best Results by Lining Them Up ........……………………………………………………………………………... 1 The Resume 1 Finishing Strong 2 • Current Obligations 2 • Potential Returns 2 • Stability in Scheduling 2 New-Found Notoriety 3 • The Return of The Big Man 3 • Steady Earnings 3 • The Home Front 3 Crunch Time 4 • Priorities 4 References 5 Figures • Who You Are……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………... 1 • Brock’s Monumental Return to WWE 2 • UFC 146 Fight Card 3 • Company Logo 4 Seeking the Best Results Mr. Lesnar, you are in quite the interesting stage in your life! Your current 1-year contract with World Wrestling Entertainment is coming to an end in April, & your former employer, the Ultimate Fighting Championships, is in need of a new leader. However, as it stands you aren’t in good standing with your former employer. The easy road would be to re-sign the current contract you are in with World Wresting Entertainment; but you’ve never been one to take the easy road. In addition, according to your own words prior to your UFC title defense, “Brock Lesnar is not a professional wrestler, Brock Lesnar is not a football player, Brock Lesnar is not an entertainer, Brock Lesnar is the UFC World Heavyweight Champion...
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...Of Mice and Men Of Mice and Men Set in the 1930’s during the harsh Depression, John Steinbeck’s emotional novel ‘Of Mice and Men’ successfully explores the theme of friendship within a harsh environment. He portrays this through the characteristics and relationship between the protagonists, George and Lennie. The novel centers these characters who are two childhood friends who travel around together looking for work and face many struggles due to Lennie’s disabilities. Steinbeck initially presents the reader with a clear image of the central characters, who are complete opposites. George is told to be “small and quick” with a thin figure. He is seen as being short-tempered but a loving and devoted friend. He always makes Lennie’s protection his primary purpose despite sometimes coming off impatient towards Lennie. Lennie on the other hand, is very large with ‘sloping shoulders’ which leads the author to compare him to “the way a bear drags his paws”. Lennie is a very strong man with a child’s mind and this is the main problem that George and Lennie face in the novel. I think that Lennie is the least dynamic character as he is very flat and undergoes no significant changes in the novel and appears in the end exactly the same as when we first meet him. At the start of the novel we can clearly see that the author seems to have set Lennie up for disaster. These very different qualities of the characters George and Lennie show the peculiarity...
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...To the world we may just be one person; to one person we may mean the world. To the world, George is just one person but to Lennie, George is his world. George and Lennie have a tough life plus they work hard for very little money. George always has to look after Lennie and be his parent making sacrifices just to keep Lennie happy and safe. John Steinbeck in the novel Of Mice and Men uses foreshadowing and symbolism to prove without friendship they are forced to face many obstacles and soon be left with nothing but loneliness. Lennie is a child stuck in an adult’s body. He doesn’t listen and always does things he’s not supposed to do. “Lennie! Lennie for god sakes don’t drink so much… the small man leaned over and shook him by the shoulder. Lennie, you gonna be sick like you was last night” (Steinbeck 3). George is always looking out for what’s best in Lennie, because Lennie cannot fend for himself. It’s ironic because Lennie is bigger and stronger than George. At this time George is still trying to fulfill his dream by one day owning his own ranch, but realizes he cannot accomplish it with Lennie in his life. “ And George raised the gun and steadied it, he brought the muzzle of the gun close to the back of Lennie’s and pulled the trigger…”(Steinbeck 106). Steinbeck shows this is very ironic because George is the one always looking after Lennie, but is the one behind the trigger of the gun that kills him. John Steinbeck in the novel Of Mice and Men uses foreshadowing and...
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...Personal Responsibility: the key to academic success Individuals that are being personally responsible take ownership of their actions and hold themselves accountable for their performance and the decisions they make. There are many factors that contribute to scholastic achievement, but each student has the power and capability to choose his or her own path that will lead to success or failure. Those students that look within and admit they have control of their accomplishments have a greater chance of reaching their academic goals than an individual that chooses to blame others when they are unsuccessful. Many students coming out of high school not emotionally or morally mature enough to manage the changes in their lives, especially those that live on campus. In addition to the day-to-day tasks, such as getting enough sleep, eating properly and arriving on time for their classes there are relationship issues and other distractions that cause a student to deter from academic studies. Ceplak (2012) repeated a student’s comments stating that the student liked school because of his classmates, socializing and friendships even though he received poor grades. An Individual that copes with his or her new found freedoms and all the distractions of college life are better equipped to do well and earn their Bachelor’s degree. Holding yourself responsible for your conduct and changing your behavior so school work is the primary concern are positive steps toward the personal responsibility...
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...The Review on the Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch was the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles. Pausch died from pancreatic cancer at his family's home in Chesapeake, Virginia on July 25, 2008, at the age of 47. The last lecture by Randy Pausch to the 400 students in Carneige Mellon University mainly focuses on how to live the prosperous life. It specifically talks about the childhood dreams and how to achieve those dreams and become successful in life. Following are the things that I have learned from the lecture. To achieve success in life we need to have dreams; be it a childhood dream or the dreams that we dream when we grow up but we always need to have dreams. And then we should work towards achieving those dreams. And when we work towards achieving those dreams we can never say that those dreams can be achieved at one go. We are going to face lot of failure and obstacles blocking our way. And then when we experience failure and other problems, complaining and wining is never going to solve our problem. Instead we should never think that it's the end of our dream and we should consider those failure as the inspiration to work harder and the we should keep on trying because everything is possible in life. Now to have...
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...Jay Shuster grew up in Birmingham, Michigan. He started working at Pixar in 2002 as a character and environments designer for Cars and Wall-E. He won an Academy Award in 2009 for 'Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture' for Wall-E. He recently worked on Cars 2 as the character art designer. He also worked as a sketch artist in Toy Story Toons: Small Fry (short film), Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex (short film) and Toy Story 3 (2010), as a concept artist in Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace (1999) and in Star Wars: Episode II-The Attack of the Clones (2002) and as a production designer in The Blue Umbrella (short film). So Jay, did you always think you would be in the Art Department for Pixar? Jay: Well I am the son of a car designer, so no. But I guess as a child I grew up around a nest of blue prints, drawings, posters, machines and models of all things connected to mechanised transportation. Seeing lots of drawings kind of inspired me to draw, especially vehicles. What was your first designing job and what did it involve? Jay: My first job was for Lucasfilm (Star Wars), it was an opportunity to work in a creative environment. I designed a variety of vehicles and environments for the Star Wars prequel film trilogy. How did you gain your skills and have they always been helpful in your jobs? Jay: I went to school and studied industrial design that gave me the greatest skills for the work I do. My personal skill set didn't...
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...Loneliness in “Of Mice and Men” Friends are needed in a person’s life for emotional stability whom without would lead to a life of loneliness and solitude. In the novel, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the characters Crooks, Candy and Curly’s wife exhibit a form of loneliness. They are driven to George and Lennie’s friendship because they lack support and that emotional stability in their own lives."A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't matter no difference who the guy is, longs he with you. I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an he gets sick" (Steinbeck, 13). Throughout his novel, Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck shows that victims of isolation crave to fulfill a companionship to fill in that void of loneliness. Firstly, Crooks, a handicapped black man, experiences isolation because of his race and disability and seeks to be a part of someone’s life. Crooks is physically separated from the other men as he has his own room in the barn and has limited social contact because he tends the horses. Crooks’s loneliness forces him to translucently share his bottled thoughts to Lennie when he comes into his room, and asks to be a part of the dream George and Lennie share, "...If you...guys would want a hand to work for nothing--just his keep, why I'd come an' lend a hand..." (Steinbeck 88). This shows that Crooks wants to be engaged with other people in his life despite his inability to see beyond the prejudice and discrimination he has always experienced. Secondly, the character...
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... Suffering with an incurable disease is horrendous, with the only way out is euthanasia. In Of mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, Candy’s dog is getting older every day, without any treatment. This hurts not only the dog, but it Candy as well. This is an outcome to the dog being with Candy from day one. In addition, Lennie has an illness with no antidote, he’s intellectually disabled. With that in mind, George knows about this and is frightened about what Lennie does throughout the day, making sure he’s not causing any trouble, or who Lennie speaks to. Considering what Candy and George were going through, before they decided to mercy kill their best friends, it must have hurt them more than it hurt the dog and Lennie. In the book, Candy’s dog has suffered for many years going through a nightmare of a life. Pondering what Candy should do with the dog, Carlson made a statement, “Look, Candy. This ol’ dog jus’ suffers hisself all the time. If you was to take him out and shoot hum right in the back of the head-“he leaned over and pointed, “-right there, why he’d never know what hit him” (Steinbeck 45). This represents how other workers see the dog, and wonder why Candy puts him through all that difficulty. The next area when this occurs, is when Carlson advises, “He don’t have no fun,” Carlson insisted. “And he stinks to beat hell…” (Steinbeck 45). The first sign of the dog being old was his smell, and Carlson knew at that point, that the dog wouldn’t get very far in the future. Lastly...
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...The book Of Mice and Men was written in 1937 by John Steinbeck and takes place during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. The novel follows two migrant workers, Lennie and George, as they travel around California looking for work. When Lennie and George find jobs at a ranch in Salinas, California, they have to work extra hard just to be able to survive the harsh and cruel environment. Throughout the book, dreams of the characters are a reoccurring motif. Throughout the book, many of the characters share their past or present dreams with one another. The former dreams the characters hold onto, or the new goals they set for the future give them something pleasant to look forward to when the rest of their life is not as enjoyable. The strongest and most reoccurring dream is Lennie and George’s. Lennie and George rely on each other throughout the book and need each other to make it. They are polar opposites; George is a small, smart, pugnacious man, and Lennie is sweet, giant, and slow. The qualities that Lennie lacks, such as his intelligence, George helps him to make up, and Lennie brings out the little bits of kindness in George. They both have the same dream for their future, but each man prefers a different aspect of the dream. For George, he can not wait to own his own farm and be the man in charge. The freedom of owning a farm and being in command draws George towards this dream. “No, sir, we’d have our own place where we belonged and not sleep in no bunkhouse” (57). After...
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...Authors Paragraph Of Mice and Men was published in the year of 1937. At the time of this novel being published John Steinbeck was living in Pacific Grove, California with his newly wedded wife, Carol Henning. During this time Mr. Steinbeck was considered a freelance writer and also was a caretaker in Lake Tahoe. Steinbeck’s intentions for writing this novel was to describe and help us get a feeling of life during the Great Depression, along with the struggles they faced with decision making. Of Mice and Men was intended for simply Americans that were caught up in the Great Depression Era but as time went by, it transformed into a book for teens and adults. John Steinbeck is very familiar with the subject of the Great Depression because he was alive during it and was able to recapture the struggles during the Great Depression. Literary Perspective Of Mice and Men is a third person omniscient and objective perspective. This novel is 3rd person Omniscient because of how the narrator knows what’s going on with all the characters. Its also consider third person Omniscient because it gives a very detailed description of where George and Lennie are at all times. Of Mice and Men is considered a third person Objective perspective because, it doesn’t really travel into George and Lennie's’ minds it just shows how they feel from a distance. Historical Perspective Of Mice and Men illustrates how cruel, unrewarding, and challenging life had become as a migrant farmer. George and Lennie are...
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...Loneliness: The quality of being unfrequented and remote; isolation. Being lonely can change a lot about a person. In a way, loneliness can define who someone is. Even the strongest person can crumble under the wrath of loneliness. Many characters in the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck have experienced times of extreme loneliness. One of the characters, Lennie Small, often feels very lonely. Loneliness drives Lennie to believe that he isn’t wanted by George, his companion. “If you don’ want me I can go off in the hills an’ find a cave. I can go away any time.” (Steinbeck 12) This quote shows that Lennie often feels as if he is unwanted by George. Lennie offers to go away and live in the hills where he wouldn’t bother anyone, including...
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...In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, the main characters George and Lennie, are labor workers who have a dream of owning their own ranch farm and raising a lot of crops and animals that they can call their own. They want people to follow their orders at their ranch farm and not the other way around. They were treated in an ill-mannered way when they went in search of work. They found work on a farm but, they didn’t fit in well. The owner of the farm, Curley, has set a negative background for his workers and himself. He married a girl who is very extroverted and revealing. Throughout the book, Curley’s wife is shown to be a sympathetic character. The workers on Curley’s farm have been sympathizing with her because she was the owner’s wife. The workers looked down upon her because she was a woman. The workers even talked about her behind her back because they thought it made them more manly. The workers on Curley’s farm have been sympathizing with Curley’s wife because she was the owner’s wife. To begin with, when George and Lennie came to the farm and met Curley’s wife, Lennie instantly liked her and kept on saying “‘she’s purty’”(32). This shows that he had a soft side for her too as well as Curley himself. To add on, on page 77 it states, “if I catch any one man, and he’s alone, I get along fine with him. But just let two of the guys get together an’ you won’t talk. Jus’ nothing but mad.” This line shows how when people are with her by themselves, they treat her nicely...
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...Of Mice and Men Theme Essay For many it is hard to live life without a dream or goal to work towards. For George and Lennie, two characters in Of Mice and Men,by John Steinbeck, the friendship and dream shared between them is crucial to their survival. Without each other they would be lost in a cruel world. In Of Mice and Men, a historical fiction novel by John Steinbeck, the theme, everybody needs something to believe in, is supported by Steinbeck's use of writing structure. At the beginning of every chapter, Steinbeck describes the surroundings in immense detail. This structural aspect of the book remains constant throughout the novel. The description of the outside world helps readers understand why George and Lennie need something to hold onto, such as George and Lennie’s dream of surviving on their own and not having to depend on someone else to give them money. In the beginning of chapter one, the surroundings are described as “... beaten hard by tramps who come wearily down from the highway in the evening to jungle- up near water.”(pg 2) This quote shows that Lennie and George are walking down the same trodden path that many others have before and that they need a goal or fantasy to keep them from giving up on anything. Because Steinbeck puts a description like this at the beginning of every chapter, he reminds the reader of what the characters in Of Mice and Men have to go through and why it is important for everyone to have something to believe in. At the end of...
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...Helen Keller, a well known blind and deaf American Author, once said, “True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance, but never in heart.” The realism of this quote is shown throughout the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. John Steinbeck wrote this novella during The Great Depression, a time of great despair and economic decline, where citizens would migrate everywhere to get a job and that is exactly what the main characters, George and Lennie, do in Of Mice and Men. While George and Lennie were staying at the ranch, they met a series of new people, most of them coming in pairs. The character pairs in Of Mice and Men where the readers can see Helen Keller’s wise wisdom ring true is through George and Lennie, Candy and his dog, and Curley and his wife. According to Helen Keller’s quote, even though George and Lennie might always be apart from each other now that Lennie is dead, they are still true friends because neither of them is ever going to forget the other. In Of Mice and Men George talked about how much better life would be without Lennie in it, but he never really meant it. During the last moments of the book, George found himself shooting his best friend because if George wouldn’t have done it, then Curley would have and George would never be able to live with himself knowing that his best friend died in a miserable way. Right before George shot Lennie, the two men were talking about how different they were from the other guys on the ranch and in their...
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