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    Miles Dewey Davis III

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    introduced the trumpet to him. Elwood Buchanan wanted to help develop Davis’s style, he was a friend of Davis’s father. Davis played professionally during high school. Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker liked Davis’s work and invited him onstage to perform when a band member was is and wasn’t able to play. Davis attended Juilliard School (Institute of Musical Art) in 1944, soon after the performance. While attending college, Davis played in nightclubs. Many musicians played alongside him. In…

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    Tal is a very short human-being, ironic right. One day, Tal aspires to attend Juilliard. Standing 4”11”, her dreams over tower her, including about 2,407 other kids in the U.S who also wish to get in. Mr.Korra her music teacher sees something in her that Tal doesn't see in herself. Although as soon as Tal’s fingers meet the 4 stringed instrument, that all changes. She lives through the music. Coming from a long line of athletes, Tal is shunned for her plans for the future. Her mom doesn’t see…

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    Summer Reading Reflection

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    not serious and so if I hang out with them I will not pay attention in school. So, then my grades will go down and I won’t go to college and then I won’t get a good job and then I won’t have a successful life. So they are not very fond of me and the thought of boys together. They have told me many times to stay away from boys and focus on school and study well. Another thing that my parents and hers agree on is to go to school lay low and stay quiet. Yoon also states, “How to Make Your Korean…

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    had already met the requirements to graduate St. Mary’s. Rice planned to continue high school, but taking Advancement Placement courses and take a little extra time on the piano. Rice was determined then to go further study in Europe. Her parent sat down with her to tell her than she could skip her senior year and just jump right into college. However, her father knew she wanted to go to music school like Juilliard to pursue her piano dreams. Condoleezza came back with this proposal the next…

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    College Overhaul

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    From as early as middle school the educational system begins to ingrain how important going to college is for each individual, whether they attend a trade school, community college, or university. Students take tests that suggest where they are more knowledgeable, what they are more interested in, what field they are more likely to succeed in. This sets up each individual to discover their interests and hone the necessary skills to ultimately get accepted into the college of their choice. For…

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    About his scientific journey Raymond Damadian was born in New York City in 1936 (Treacy, 2014). He started his life by studying the violin at the Juilliard School. At 15 years old, he had won in a competition between approximately 100,000 applicants and got a ford foundation scholarship, which permit him to study the mathematics at the Wisconsin University. Then he got the medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Finally, he became a professor at the State University of New…

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    Where She Went Analysis

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    after Mia’s incident, with Adam and Mia’s new lives. Where She Went is in Adam’s point of view, whereas If I Stay is in Mia’s point of view. This book begins after Mia’s surgery, and at this point, she started to disconnect with Adam, she went to Juilliard, as planned, and started avoiding Adam, eventually, Mia decided it would be best if they kept their distance. Adam was hit hard by the break-up and dropped out of college and quit the band. Luckily, he wrote songs about Mia and the break-up…

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    into Science Olympiad, getting A’s in all of my classes, and getting a good chair in my orchestras outside of school. I hope that I can stay motivated in order to achieve these things. One of my goals is to get onto the Science Olympiad team. Last year, I was on the middle school team, and on the day of one of the competitions, I missed the bus. This meant that I had to go to the high school and take the bus with them. When I was there, I could tell that everyone was friends with each other,…

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    I grew up in a small church, where my mom was a Sunday school teacher and my dad was the Assistant Pastor. They also were involved in the youth a lot. Growing up, I can remember driving down the road on our way to church and seeing kids that knew or my mom knew and we would ask them if they wanted to go to church with us. Next thing you knew, we have like 5-6 local kids going to church with us. I can remember when we use to ask them where they lived so we could make sure that it was alright with…

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    One of the most prevalent differences between cultures seems to be how the youth are educated. Concerning the kinds of material taught, the methods used to produce learning, and the relationship between students and teachers, education varies extensively from culture to culture. After reading Abubakari Lunna’s life story regarding his drumming education, it is evident that the way people present themselves has a lot to do with how we develop relationships with others. While I have heard of…

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