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    Do you like music? How about country music? Patsy Cline was a country singer whom loved the stage and loved to perform. Patsy Cline was a talented and gifted singer who had a bad start, but went into a good career to a tragic death, but she still has music that people listen to and enjoy. Patsy Cline became a very known country singer, but was always not so lucky at the start of her life. Cline was born September 8, 1932 in Winchester, Virginia (Source one). Her mother was sixteen when she married and Cline’s father was twenty-five years older than her mother. At age eight Cline taught herself how to play the piano and at sixteen Cline dropped out of school to work so she could help her family with money (source 1). She had worked in a number of places, including a poultry plant and a soda shop. In her free time she started singing and performing. Eventually with her blooming talent she started performing on local radio stations and entered numerous singing contest (source 1). Patsy Cline had a rough start to life but came to an amazing beginning . While though Cline had a small start she soon had reached the top of the charts. When she first started small never missed an opportunity to get on stage and perform. At sixteen when Cline dropped out of high school, she performed at least seven nights a week at various bars, and clubs (source 2). In 1953 Patsy got a record deal at Four Star Record Company. Through her deal at Four Star she could only record songs written…

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    more dangerous because she would be flying over open stretches of water for extended periods of time. According to Scott Wilson’s biography (n.p) of Joan Merriam Smith, Smith was the first person to achieve the first flight around the equator in 1964. Joan was only trying to reenact Earhart’s flight. She did not plan on breaking any records. Jacqueline Cochran became the woman to accomplish many records that potentially could have belonged to Earhart. In 1939, Cochran was the first woman pilot…

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    The main actors in the movie are Tom Hanks portraying Forrest Gump, Robin Wright portraying Jenny Curran, and Sally Field as Ms. Gump. The actors did a good job of acting like southerners in the movie, and they didn’t play out of character; However, there are a few goofs in the movie. As Forrest in the scene where he takes apart his gun and reassembles it, Hanks forgets to use his accent for a few seconds. There are also more mistakes in the movie that no one has seemed to notice. If someone was…

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    The film portrays Forrest Gump as a sweet, mentally challenged man who brightens up the people around him, and the world itself, through his numerous encounters with celebrities, his brushes with key historical events, and more importantly through his down to earth attitude. The tone of the book is actually much darker than the light-hearted family movie. In the book, Forrest does drugs at Harvard, uses profanity, explores a career as a professional wrestler, and actually gambles, which doesn't…

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    And here’s a shocking fact: An audience member had to be carted away via ambulance due to a hernia induced by laughing too hard at Robin during his performance! I think this is why everybody admires him so much, because there is nobody who could do this. Robin Williams toured a lot and really expensive with his stand-up routine. He was also the first artist who ever performed a solo comedy concert at The Metropolitan Opera House. Beyond delivering side-splitting stand-up, Williams brought many…

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    “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get”, one of the most famous lines of the American classic film, Forrest Gump. The tragicomedy centers around the story of the fictional character Forrest Gump, who witnesses and influences important moments in contemporary American history. The film follows this simple-minded man, who represents the ultimate American dream in a land of opportunity. Zemeckis begins his movie with a tracking shot of a white feather. This feather…

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    Achievements of Disabled People Forrest Gump is a biographical film which was made in 1994. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis. Tom Hanks plays the role of Forrest Gump who is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He born in Greenbow, Alabama. In the movie Zemeckis shows that Forrest has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother. Sally Field plays the role of Forrest 's mother who raises him after his father abandons them. Zemeckis show that she…

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    The representation of war in: Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line War films at times fail to capture the true essence of war, capturing the torment that war inflicts on individuals and groups is difficult to capture. The Thin Red Line presents itself as close to the reality of war that it can. It has no plot or pain characters instead men in a constant state of dread not knowing what will happen next. Saving Private Ryan however, is very different, there is fear and anger throughout…

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    the home run king should not be in the Hall of Fame? Voters believe the MLB takes it light and easy on players that take steroids, by making more benefits than consequences for players that have not used PEDs. Some players that have used PEDs have broken records held by legends of the game that were pure to it. “Steroids are ruining the origins of the game by having steroids take over the modern era, making no clear comparison from past to present” (Pollack 1). Brian Pollack argues that the Hall…

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    EXPLANATION For the second honors component, I chose option two, which is a biography on a famous Parisian. Choosing Hank Williams Jr. seemed to be a reasonable decision, considering the fact that I was neighbors with Hank for about ten years, but never knew much about him. I would like to become more familiar with his occupation, life story, and how he personally contributed to Paris. CHILDHOOD On May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana, Hank Williams Jr. came into the world. 1 Parents, Audrey…

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