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The Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969 marked an entire generation of manmade success. The following texts focus on the Apollo 11 moon landing and contain different perspectives on the matter. The Times article is very analytical, the speech by Safire focuses mostly on the emotional half of the moon landing, Rand’s article portrays the launch as very positive and figurative, Hemlocks cartoon criticizes the negative attention the space launch gets. Each of the passages uses important rhetorical…

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a primarily self-trained Brazilian nationalist musician. From his teaching, composing, and performing, he gained much popularity during the twentieth century in Brazil and eventually the United States, but Many musicians in Europe did not like the music of Villa-Lobos. Many of these European critics believed Villa-Lobos’ music was futuristic, and did not represent the music of Brazil well. Until about the 1940s, Brazilian music was heavily influenced by European elements.…

From gargantuan clams, to gatherings of giant squids, to attacks by savages, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea is packed with adventure and peril. The excitement starts in the first few chapters, and continues through the entirety of the book. As the characters of Professor Aronnax, his servant by the name of Conseil, Ned Land the harpooner, and Captain Nemo traverse the seas, the book may appear childish, not something with deeper meaning or of literary merit. The fact is, the author, Jules Verne…

The NASA Space program and the whole science division must stay afloat, and continue their exploration of space. The space program has been going on since 1959, and after only ten years of creation, for they had landed on Earth’s rotating moon. The Nasa Space program must continue and receive even more funding, and the opportunities created by the use and research of NASA resources, and the opposing point against NASA spending. The Nasa Space program has been a success for a long time, but…

On Friday, July 10th, the local instrumental jazz group Yuma Jazz Company played at Lutes Casino for a couple of hours. The instrumentation was fairly standard for a jazz group, with trumpet, saxophone, guitar, double bass, and drums (I believe those were electric). The guitar and bass, along with the drums, served as a sort of basso continuo, generally backing the horns, but occasionally taking up the melody for themselves, resulting in a texture that was thinly polyphonic. Also noticeable was…

“The ancient astronaut theory all started in 1968, when Swiss researcher and author Erich Von Daniken published a book known as Chariots of the Gods, which became an immediate bestseller.” Within the book he put his hypothesis that, “‘the technology and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by ancient astronauts who were welcomed as gods” (Ancient Astronaut Theory). In the book he gives evidence and reasons as to why he believes in this theory, but one thing is wrong with…

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. He was born in Wapakoneta, Ohio on August 5, 1930 (Nasa Administrator). In 1947 Armstrong received the USA scholarship navy and he entered the Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering study. After a year, the U.S. Navy called him to active duty and he became a Navy pilot (Neil Armstrong Biography). In 1950 he was sent to the Korean War. (Neil Armstrong Biography). Neil was the youngest pilot aboard the USS Essex. Neil…

Louis Blues, Overall Armstrong wrote and performed some of the most popular and well known jazz songs of all time. Larkin states, "It is impossible to overstate Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong's importance in jazz." He adds, "He was also more than a jazz musician he was an enormously popular entertainer"(pp. 232) Armstrong unlike other black jazz men and women, was one of the first to be welcomed in the upper echelons of white society. In addition Armstrong was also an influential singer,…

In a music hall of Vienna, the pianist Friedrich Gulda performed Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with his superb skills and receive lasting applause. After the concert, Gulda rushed to a nightclub and start to play the jazz, behaved like another person. Surprisingly, he played Beethoven’s masterpieces and intoxicated jazz music equally well. It made people wonder, how would that be by mixing jazz and classical music? In the article “Jazz, America’s Classical Music”, Dr. Billy Taylor introduces…

by the time he was just 17 years old. In high school he joined the school band and was mentored by his earliest music idol, Clark Terry. He developed his own unique style without using vibrato on the trumpet, unlike other trumpet successor Louis Armstrong. While finishing up high school, Davis was noticed by Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Gillespie and Parker were so impressed by Davis, that they wanted him to take the place of a sick bandmate. He was also accepted into the prestigious,…