Adam Clayton

Foreigner is a popular band founded in 1976 by Mick Jonas. Along with him on guitar, you have Kelly Hansen as lead vocalist, Tom Gimbel who could play guitar, keyboards, sax and flute, Jeff Pilson playing bass, Michael Bluestein playing the keyboard, Bruce Watson playing guitar, and Chris Frazier on drums. Still around today, it has made a huge impact. This essay will be able to tell you a bit about the band, and how their music affected their time. It will also convey information such as their most popular hits, what their music has been featured in, and any awards the band may have received. The band is one of the most popular rock bands of all time. They started out with a couple of great hits such as Feels Like the First Time, Cold as Ice, and Long, Long Way From Home. These songs helped its next album land a very high spot on the Billboard chart. It’s fifth album gave the band its first #1 global hit, I Want to Know What Love Is. Moreover, that was about the time Foreigner really became popular. In 2002, Kelly Hansen joined the band on vocals, and their new music spoke to not only old foreigner fans but also the new generation. With her help, they hit the Billboard charts again in 2005 via their live greatest hits’ album, Extended Versions. A couple more great hits followed, then their release of a 3-disk set called Feels Like the First Time. It was when several of their hits were featured on the Rock of Ages soundtrack (hits like “I Want to Know What Love Is”,…

Traditionally, black Americans were mistreated and oppressed due to their lack of legal standing and political power. In the later half of the 20th century the Civil Rights movement worked to change all that. However, prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, some black people were able to get elected to Congress and be an effective voice. Perhaps the strongest of these early voices was Adam Clayton Powell. By investigating his political life and work, a better…

During the time after the Reconstruction era, an era that mended the country from the destructive Civil War, large corporations, wealthy business tycoons and even the federal government took advantage of the weak economy to establish a strong and secure basis in the rejoined nation. While new inventions and innovations aided the creation of new businesses in a variety of fields, including manufactured ice for long distance food transportation, large corporations began to stabilize monopolies on…

specifically because of the illegal actions of Standard Oil. The United States government realized that they needed to regulate what Standard was doing. The ability of Congress to regulate interstate commerce was what the Sherman Antitrust Act was founded on (“The Sherman Antitrust Act”). Many other pieces of legislation were created after the Sherman Act to further strengthen trust busting. The Clayton Antitrust Act was created to strengthen the Sherman Antitrust Act because the Sherman Act was…

One key lesson I learned from this course is that companies focusing on both sustaining and disruptive innovations can become successful industry leaders. In Chapter 7 of The Innovator 's Dilemma, Harvard professor Clayton Christensen expounds upon the power of disruptive innovation, which arises in what industry incumbents have overlooked as “unattractive or inconsequential markets” (Christensen). These types of innovations can, over time, expand and capture more market share, displacing titans…

to corporate running only affected so-called “bad” trusts, but did not completely outlaw monopolies. Furthermore, these changes only became inflicted upon certain sectors of business, namely railroads and prominent big business. Additionally, vague language, unsympathetic courts, and the control of business in legislation rendered many of these “reforms” ineffective as they would never go through (especially the Sherman Antitrust Act). Furthermore, once Woodrow Wilson entered office, he had to…

When it comes to Sports Law there are several issues at all levels of competition; College, Professional, and even International sports have begun to see an influx of legal issues as the popularity of sports continues to grow. Issues like player health and safety, player labor and union issues, and gambling limitations in sport are generating a lot of conversation. However, the fight between college athletes and the National Collegiate Athletic Association over developing free market and unions…

as a discriminatory,sexist, and biased usage of the government’s laws nowadays. Although many women remained working as educators and factory laborers the men in government still believed that females were inferior. The theory of “Cult of domesticity” still lingered because men were condescending. Women were also lead pioneers in the Temperance Movement since their husbands were mainly the ones that were coming home drunk (no offense). An alcohol-free nation would be closer would take a little…

Advocates for social justice can attest to the fact that numerous reforms has been in place to aid people of the lower class. For example, Woodrow Wilson strengthen the antitrust act by replacing Sherman Act with Clayton Antitrust Act. Which aimed to get rid of monopolies and open up more capitalism. Also, Wilson established the Underwood-Simmons Act of 1913 which help Americans with lower tariff causing items to be more affordable. Wilson was also a supporter of aiding farmers, worker’s…

What is the major issue with collegiate sports? Most Americans would condemn college athletes for the negative connotations that people associate with college sports. However, the real issue is the NCAA circumventing any charges for the illegal trusts they have developed. The NCAA’s no-pay rule creates both an unlawful form of wage fixing and a felonious group boycott and therefore should be revoked. College athletes bring billions of dollars to the NCAA each year, making the NCAA one of the…