Irving Berlin

businesses to high tech industry; they are filling an inherent need in the labor-force. Imagine life without Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Intel, and bicycles. All came from immigrants even the song of “God Bless America” was written by an immigrant name Irving Berlin from…

attitudes. The changes in spending due to economic growth harbored an egotism that underscored much of what was seen on the Broadway stage in the 1920s. From 1920-1930, Broadway produced more musicals than any other ten-year period, with grossing figures for new musicals and revues reaching unprecedented heights. After the Armistice of 1918, the pleasure-seeking, prohibition-despising, boom-rich American public enabled the musical theatre to revel in a decade of luxury and wastefulness and…

this era had a very simple melody and some were very patriotic which reflects the political atmosphere at the time which was during WW1 and patriotic music gained a lot of popularity amongst people. An excellent example is “God Bless America” by Irving Berlin who was one of the most famous composers at the time and the patriotic music he created was very popular amongst people. In the 1930’s, the Great Depression heavily impacted the economy of America, including the Musicals. There were…

composition. There is even disagreement about the term "ragtime" itself; experts such as David Jasen and Trebor Tichenorchoose to exclude ragtime songs from the definition but include novelty piano and stride piano (a modern perspective), while Edward A. Berlin includes ragtime songs and excludes the later styles (which is closer to how ragtime was viewed originally). The terms below should not be considered exact, but merely an attempt to pin down the general meaning of the…

Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor, was the largest immigration station in America. It was created in response to the nation’s growing concerns of the unmanaged influx of immigrants and to handle the immorality and the nepotism that bogged down the entire system, as shown at the Castle Garden station. Ellis Island changed the lives of many Americans and immigrants alike and set a new course of American history. Ellis Island was owned by Samuel Ellis around the American Revolution, but…

Events in life can affect one’s perspective of life and it can make or break them. People’s perspective about life will change whether they want it or not. However Irving Berlin, a composer and lyricist, says, “Life is 10 percent and 90 percent how you take it.” Irving shows how someone’s perspective can change depending on the situation. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learned how events in her life changed who she was physically and mentally. Scout begins as an annoying brat to…

all of us. Russian immigration is one example of how America could acculturate and assimilate others from a distant and foreign land and benefit from these individuals’ distinct contributions to the nation. We can endlessly admire the genius of Irving Berlin, the composer of Belarussian ancestry, every time we are listening to the famous '' God Bless America,'' and can't even imagine our modern lives without Google, that seems to '' know everything '',…

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev What: Prokofiev, a Russian composer, was born in 1891, in Sontsovka, Ukraine. Growing up, Prokofiev played piano and was taught by some of the most profound musicians of the classical era such as: Lyadov, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Nicolai Myaskovsky. Once he graduated he began performing in Moscow, his Alma Mater, and then all over Western Europe. Throughout this time he progressed as an artist and continued to compose more and more music. Prokofiev started on the…

Growing up with foreign parents Irving Berlin once said, “Life is 10 percent of what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.” I believe many people help others in hopes they take that experience and use it to become greater. If you’re ever at a disadvantage in school, work, or at home don’t be afraid to ask for help because the worst they can say is, no. You never know what will happen until you step up and ask, many great, life changing experiences can happen. I happen to be one of those…

President Dwight D. Eisenhower succeeded in his presidential campaign by diving into the realm of television broadcasting. In the 1952 election, Eisenhower set a strong precedence for televised political advertisements. Before Eisenhower, Democrats had been in office for nearly two decades. American was in a troubled time filled with economic depression and war. As a Republican candidate, Eisenhower, a well-admired World War II hero and North Atlantic Treaty Organization commander, convinced…