...Buddy Holly Buddy Holly: An American music icon that died too soon. Buddy Holly was killed in a plane crash in the Midwest when he was just 22 and left behind a wife he loved, and an incredible career that lasted only eighteen months. Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas. He was the youngest of four siblings and his mother gave him the nickname “Buddy”. The spelling of “Holly” was the result of a misspelling in his first recording contract. He learned to play piano and fiddle at a very early age and his older brothers taught him to play the guitar. His parents were very supportive of his music and even gave him song ideas. His mother once wrote the local newspaper defending rock ‘n’ roll music listened by teenagers. Buddy was a rebellious teenager who loved rock ‘n’ roll. His minister once asked him, “What would you do if you had $10?” The young rocker muttered, “If I had $10, I wouldn’t be here.” (Biography) After high school, he formed a band and started playing country music. He crossed over into rock ‘n’ roll after meeting Elvis Presley; he was his opening act in 1955. That relationship grew and he was very fond of Elvis and was influenced by him greatly. After switching to rock ‘n’ roll, a record company noticed him performing at a local skating rink and signed him. He began recording demos in Nashville. His band was originally called “Buddy Holly and the Three Tunes”, but was switched to “The Crickets” because naming...
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...Buddy Holly, Chronological Have you heard the songs "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be The Day"? Well if you haven't, scoot on over and give a listen. Your life will probably be changed. My music has the groove that people swing for, and the beat that keeps 'em dancing. And by MY music I mean ME, Buddy Holly, the darndest rock artist of the 1900s. So stay right there and listen to my story. I was born in Lubbock, Texas, 1936. I was the youngest of my family and was also the last child. I had two brothers named Travis and Larry. My birth name was Charles Hardin Holley, but my momma thought Charles Hardin was too long for her baby boy, so naturally she called me Buddy. My brothers taught me the basics of guitar at a young age while I also learned to...
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...When Rock arrived on the music charts in the 1950's, a merging of African-American and White music, it made a huge impact on society. As a general rule I am not heavily into music, but I was drawn to Rock for some inexplicable reason. It is just the music I like. This genre will be difficult to write about because the origin of Rock is unclear; there are traces of Rock's style back into the 19th Century. It is also a very broad subject and I will have to compress a lot of information into as few pages as possible. Be that as it may, Rock is, in my opinion the best music genre on the charts. There is so much information on Rock that I will have to have questions I want to find the answers to about the music. My first question will be, "What instruments are commonly used in a rock band?" This will not be hard to answer as it is a very easy question that has a definite answer. The next question will be, "Who were the first artists to produce Rock music?" This is also an easy question were I will discuss the first Rockers. Continuing on, my next question will ask, "How was the term Rock and Roll' created, and by who?" This may turn out to be a hard question to answer because I am sure there a multiple answers. "Has Rock become more or less popular since its inception?" will be my next question. For this question I will have to look for a survey or poll of some type and present its data. My final question will be, "How has the Music been changed over the years and who changed...
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...Eagles’ rock epic “Hotel California” is written in a verse/chorus format. It contains four verses, two iterations of the chorus, a coda, and a lengthy guitar solo to end the song. The standard Eagles’ instrumental setup for the song includes drummer Don Henley singing, as well as playing the drums. Joe Walsh, Don Felder, and Glen Frey play guitars, and bassist Randy Meisner plays the bass. All four offer backup vocals during the chorus. It is safe to say that both songs are considered “legendary” rock songs, as they are still very popular today. “American Pie” tells the story of the U.S. in the 1960s, starting on the “day the music died”, referring to the 1959 plane crash that killed musical icons Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens and Buddy Holly. McLean then tells the story of the 60s in the United States via...
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...his paper focuses on Buddy Holly, an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for mid-1950s rock and roll and is considered as one of the well-renowned figures of this genre and era. This paper details a brief overview on his life, death and most popular works. Buddy Holly, as people know him, was born Charles Hardin Holley on September 7, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas. His talent may be considered natural since he came from a musical family. At a young age, Buddy learned to play the guitar and he sang at home with his siblings. His earlier style showed strong influences from country music and rhythm and blues. By the time he reached high school years, Buddy was already performing with friends in Lubbock. Buddy made his local television...
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...CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN GUIDELINES Revised 11-8-11 1 CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE TABLE OF CONTENTS DESCRIPTION PAGE NO. INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................................3 NEW, ADDITION, AND/OR REMODELING CONSTRUCTION GUIDELINES ...............5 OUTDOOR STRUCTURE GUIDELINES...............................................................................7 REAR YARD FENCE GUIDELINES ......................................................................................9 PLAY EQUIPMENT GUIDELINES ......................................................................................11 SATELLITE RECEIVER (DISH) GUIDELINES ..................................................................13 GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS, LANDSCAPE & MAINTENANCE GUIDELINES..........14 LIST OF RECOMMENDED PLANT SPECIES ....................................................................19 EXHIBIT A REQUEST FORM 2 CHRISTENBURY MASTER ASSOCIATION, INC. ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION The Architectural Control Committee (ACC) is providing the attached Architectural Design Guidelines (“Guidelines”) in accordance with that Declaration of Covenants, Easements, Conditions and Restrictions (“Declaration”), for purposes of establishing and maintaining exterior...
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...They Came from Docu-Max Case 10: He’s Just Not the Same Case 11: Special Checking Is Handed a Loss Case 12: Beverly Comes Full Circle Case 13: It Was Really So Simple Case 14: Pain in Claims Case 15: Don’t Let Her Get Behind You Case 16: Kathy’s Temper Case 17: Forgetting Claims Case 17: Adjustment Determination Form 1293 Case 18: Answering the Phone Case 19: Good News, Bad News, Part 1 Case 20: Good News, Bad News, Part 2 Case 21: Good News, Bad New, Part 3 Case 22: Conflict in Customer Service Case 23: Don’t Let an Old Flame Die Case 24: The Contradiction of Business Case 25: Problems Behind the Counter Case 26: Wanted: Good Secretary Case 27: Another Staff Meeting Case 28: The Case-in-Case Analysis Case 29: A “No” in the Field Case 30: Buddy Jefferson Case 31: A Wet Pain in the Neck Case 32: “Well, Excuuse Me!” Case 33: The “B” Is Back...
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...yourself what world this is in. Blurring the line between the two makes a movie harder to follow unless it’s consistent so it actually can make sense as long as your watching the movie. The Conan Brothers did an excellent job in doing so in Raising Arizona, the blurred line between reality and fantasy makes the movie more enjoyable. There are some scenes where they are so ridiculous you can’t help but laugh, without the use of this style it could have made the movie more serious and may have not been as comical. The Main character Herbert McDunnough (“Hi”) is played by Nicolas Cage who also narrates the entire film. Herbert is a criminal who sticks up grocery stores, he is married to a policewomen named Edwina McDunnough (“Ed”) played by Holly Hunter. The two quickly fall in love after she was taking mugshots of Herbert, the couple get married after Hi proposes to her after his most recent release from prison, the two move into a arizonan mobile home in the desert. They find out Ed is infertile and because of Hi’s criminal record they are unable to adopt. They resort to stealing a child from a locally famous furniture salesman who happens to have quints. Herbert believes anyone with five children wouldn't miss one. Nathan Arizona is the famous furniture salesman and father who puts up a hefty reward for the child's safe return, which draws in the biker from hell (Leonard smalls) this is the only way i can describe the...
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...Piano Teacher Most parent believe that participation in extracurricular activities affect a child in a lot of good ways. My parent were no exception. When I was a kid, after school I was always being driven from piano to volleyball to self-defense classes and so on. At the time, I thought I was the world’s busiest teenager. However, after all these years, I can easily see that I have gained some important benefits from those activities. Playing the piano is probably the greatest benefit. In the meantime, it would be a big lie for me to say that my appreciation for playing the piano came immediately. Since the time I was ten years old until I was twelve or thirteen, I absolutely detested Sunday afternoons. Of course by then, it was not called Sunday for me but the torturous “piano day”. I had to practice all the morning before the lesson in the afternoon, and became totally exhausted in the evening. When it was finally over, I had relief as of am incredible amount of weight had been pulled from my shoulders. In those days, I never got to see the importance of having those lessons, practicing for hours, and even playing those tunes. As much as I tried, I could never find a way to enjoy it; it was no more than some never-ending horrible homework for me. But today, I want to thank my teacher for forcing me to appreciate the art of music. Now, I can easily list playing the piano as one of the most refreshing aspects of my life. Whenever I feel sadness, I always have the chance...
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...What exactly can encapsulate how a year in Cambridge has been like? What choice of words, what photos, what specific memories would suffice to capture the whirlwind of emotions, the myriad of new experiences? Nothing really seems to come close, but here’s a shot at it. Cook-outs – One of the first few things that you’ll start missing when overseas would definitely be the food; your humble hokkein mee, chye tao kueh, rojak, laksa… you name it, we’ll crave it. The fact that the only photos that Singaporeans seem capable of posting on Facebook are that of food certainly doesn’t make things easier. So what does one do then? LEARN HOW TO COOK. This was no mean feat for me especially, as someone who didn’t know how to cook an omelette without charring. The learning curve may be steep but you’ll be surprised at how fast you’ll learn and also how high your tolerance for substandard food becomes when you’ve misjudged the time to let your noodles boil and the amount of salt to add for the 912695th time. Not to worry also, CUMSA is overrun by excellent individuals who are so well-rounded that they can not only finish all their supervision work, attend formals every night and generally save the world, but they can cook. So when you’re tired of eating over-salted soggy noodles, all you need to do is wrangle an invitation to dinner. Oh the delicacies that they can whip up, but more importantly the glorious company and bonds forged over dinner. Food really is one of the ties that bind Singaporeans...
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...hiring and retention of associates. A planned orientation for new associates is detailed, time consuming, and costly. During this training period the new associates are usually over burdened with filling in for an absent associate. In most cases the orientation is interrupted resulting inadequate training and education. Essential skills such as learning to deal with and handle difficult customers are not relayed. Proposed Solution: To improve the hiring and retention at these locations, the district managers held several meetings with their fellow associates. During the open forum, associates proposed ways to improve their workplace to make it more favorable. Most of the ideas proposed ranged from having uninterrupted work breaks, having a buddy system, an incentive pay, and educational seminars. An exit tool was reassessed and made friendlier to enable associates to be eligible for rehire. In conclusion, everyone was in mutual agreement that money saved by reducing the turnover rate could be applied to increased wages, provide better health coverage, and tuition reimbursements....
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...Talent is often linked to success, and for some that is everything, especially when you grow up a part of getting it is by hard work. The other half is by talents, but how can you obtain success without talents? That is the question that is asked in “Every Good Boy” by David Nicholls. Here we follow a boy with absolutely no abilities at all, trying to find what he is particular good at. So when he gets the opportunity to get a free piano he will do anything to show his talents. The whole story is buildup of the narrator Michael’s flashbacks about his experiences with developing his talents. He constantly compares himself to his siblings which are incredible talented. His only accomplishment was to be “remarkable for being entirely without abilities" he can’t even obtain the nerdy/geeky role, because he is "graceless, charmless, physically and social inept". To make his parent proud, and get on the level of his siblings Michael decides to learn to play the piano. His mother despites this even though mothers are most known for being incredible supportive to their children, but it seems as he is that ungifted that not even she believes in his talents. Michael starts to get some professional instructions by Mrs. Chin, she takes the lack of Michaels progress and abilities as a personally defeat. “Mrs. Chin no longer bothered to correct my errors, sitting there instead with her eyes closed tight, taking the wrong notes as a boxer takes punches” And after playing an extremely horrible...
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...------------------------------------------------- Edwin w. edwards Louisiana Political Fraud August 25, 2013 Professor Cynthia waddell By: Christina Black August 25, 2013 Professor Cynthia waddell By: Christina Black Politics in Louisiana has and still remains to be today a controversial and interesting issue. Since statehood in 1812, Louisiana has been traditionally conservative and today remains to be marginally democratic. It has long been known for its toleration of corruption in government. In his manuscript, “Peapatch Politics: The Earl long Era in Louisiana Politics”, former Lieutenant Governor Bill Dodd describes corruption as "a way of life, inherited, and made quasi-respectable and legal by the French freebooters who founded, operated, and left us as the governmental blueprint that is still Louisiana's constitutional and civil law." Among the 50 United States, Louisiana ranks as number 15 with an overall grade of a C minus on the Corruption Risk Report Card. (Louisiana - Legislative Accountability, 2013) Serving as Louisiana’s fiftieth governor for four terms in 1972 to 1980 and 1984 to 1988, Edwin Washington Edwards, who is remembered by many as a colorful, powerful, and legendary figure in Louisiana politics, ended his sixteen years in office short of colorful and powerful. The former Governor of Louisiana, Edwards was subject to a near two dozen state and federal investigations beginning in 1960 when he held a Congress position. Edward’s fraud behaviors...
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...required of me to exceed on what is being expected of me when I had my feedback from my supervisor. The schedule that we work is great, but the fact the matter is, we will be working four days 12 hour shift and two days off. It will not be a normal schedule like we used to, because we would have weekends off every other cycle, because of this, we have minimum manning. However, I feel as though the old buddy system is being carried on by the higher ranking individuals and even if I tried to put in for an award for the cop of the month, or a quarterly award, it is more than likely that someone else is getting it. But what makes it worse is that the individuals who end up getting an award are the same people that received disciplinary actions through paperwork for their wrongdoing from our leadership. Funny how things go around in my unit, when really there are good hardworking individuals that are out there, which I believe deserve a chance to be recognize. If I were a leader, I would first and foremost change how things work in our unit, such as getting rid of the old buddy system, the favoritism needs to go away, anyone that display such...
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...00:37:10 to 00:39:30 Charles Foster Kane just start his new job : he is now controlling a newspaper in New York, the Inquirer. He’s with Jedediah Leland and Mr.Bernstein, they are just discussing about the future of the Inquirer but then Mr.Kane has an idea : he’s going to write a declaration of principles. This is the beginning of the desillusion for the spectator who believes in a good Charles. However, the scene is quite intersting in the way it has been filmed, especially in the second part of the extract. When he’s writing his declaration, Mr.Kane is in the shadow when the others are under the light to show that his ideas will never appear in reality. This is also like a funeral for his principles since he’ll never apply them. They are stillborn but the most impressive play with the camera is the one of Leland who is purposely looking at the lens to expliain his feeling to the spectator. In fact, he wants to keep the paper with the declaration on it since he thinks that it could become a treasure. The character is announcing the defeat of kindness at the beginning of the movie so the spectator can enjoy the fall of Charles Foster Kane. There is a sort of intimity between Leland and the ones in front of the screen. Thus, this is one of the most important scenes of the movie because it summarize well the all concept of Mr.Kane : a kind man who wants to help people but who is too obsessed by his own succes and power....
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