15 minutes of fame

Lucille Ball was an actress, a TV legacy, and a Broadway star. She challenged the norms and delighted people with her humorous acting. This didn’t all start off so easy for her. In reality she went through so many hardships, but persevered through so that she could achieve her dream of becoming a famous actress. The entertainment industry was greatly impacted by the pioneer Lucille Ball through her achievements with her career, her famous show I Love Lucy, and her billion dollar Empire. It was…

bands and their choruses. This event was publicized in the Daily Appeal on October 30th, 1859, announcing that this anniversary was being watched by “every important city throughout the United States.” This sounds like a jump start to our five minutes of fame here in Memphis. By the end of the 1850’s our population increased a good amount and as did our wealth. As our population grew so did our need for materials, so our trade and commerce began to expand. With new materials our chances to…

Prior to contrary belief, Apple Inc. was not founded by one person, it was actually founded by two. Steve Jobs, one of the most iconic faces of Apple was the man who took all the “claim to fame” but he was only one piece to the puzzle. Before the name “Apple” was a thought, Jobs knew that he needed a right hand man, one who knew and understood computer better than anyone. That man was best friend, Steve Wozniak. Jobs met Woz at a technology convention in California’s Melono Park, known as the…

made his NBA debut against the Sacramento Kings only six months after graduating high school (Wells 43, 44). Although many people had doubted him because of his youth, he still shocked critics and thrilled fans, scoring nine points in the first ten minutes, and ending the night with twenty-five points (Wells 43, 44, 45). Despite his efforts, the Cavaliers lost the game, and Lebron was sad, feeling like he could have done more (Wells 45). The team would go on to lose the next five games until…

Chapter 2 A Brief Background of Dvo??k Anton?n Dvo??k (1841?1904) was one of the most versatile and prolific composers of the nineteenth century, reaching into almost all genres of music from piano miniatures to comprehensively conceived vocal-orchestra compositions. His output encompasses nine symphonies and fifty-five other orchestral pieces, eleven opera, eleven works for chorus and orchestra, nine small choral works, thirty-five sets of songs and duets, fifty-five chamber works for various…

For example, in Helpless from “Hamilton”, Alexander Hamilton claims that he “don’t have a dollar to my name An acre of land, a troop to command, a dollop of fame” (Helpless). This however, was a gross exaggeration. At the time of meeting Elizabeth Schuyler, Hamilton was a close aide of George Washington. He had served as a captain and led men during the Revolutionary War. Admittedly, he was not serving in combat…

Endah Siti Nurohmah Investigation of gay language This section contains quantitative analysis of language features of homosexual characters in Glee season 3. This analysis is based on Fiscus’s method, which is to count some features of language that stereotypically belongs to women language and men language. The features include hedges, intensifiers, oh my god/like, taboo words, gonna, and guys/man. Lexical hedges and intensifiers are suggested by Lakoff as women linguistic features (Holmes,…

Death with Dignity When a patient seeks a doctor’s attention, it is usually to ask for help with their medical issue. Whether it is prescribing medicine, performing a procedure, or just giving a yearly check-up, we usually trust doctors to do what is best for us. It is okay for someone to ask for pills to alleviate pain, but when pain is chronic and excruciating, sometimes the pills and shots don’t help. Millions of patients are declared terminally ill every year. Without a miracle, these…

Hello. This is the life of Frederic Chopin. Fryderyk Chopin, the polish variation of his name, was born in Zelazowa Wola, 46 kilometers west of Warsaw. The baptismal record gives his birthday as February 22, 1810, and cites his given names in the latin form, Fridericus Franciscus. However, the composer and his family used the birthdate March 1st. Nicolas Chopin, Frederic’s father, was a Frenchman from Lorraine who had emigrated to Poland in 1787. Nicolas tutored children in the Polish…

Lauren McDonnell Ms. Joseph AP Comp/Hour 7 31 May 2016 Subculture essay We all think they’re pyscho. They run for fun. That was only the second sentence of my essay and I already violated a common rule by using the opposites run and fun in the same sentence. And this isn’t even your everyday running to the fridge for a snack within the 20-second time span between Netflix episodes. We’re talking a whopping 26.2 miles. So surely everyone who runs this distance without pleading for death must…