Neil Armstrong

A life engulfed with fear, drudgery, and forced obedience, has compelled the people in this dystopian society to accept a miserable way of life and give in to the dictatorial, collectivist regime, yet all it took was one twinkling star amongst a dark, desolate midnight sky, Equality 7-2521, to escape the clutching grasps of this regime and finally discover the long-lost yet such a priceless word to humanity, I. Ayn Rand, the prolific writer of Anthem, portrays her repudiation for the ideals of…

Anthem provides the readers with a look into a Dystopian future. The reades examine the government Equality 7-2521 lives in and how it limits his individuality. The reader watch how Prometheus takes up a mold and how he understands himself. Lastly, prometheus discovers why his intelligence is reprimanded by his government. Anthem reminds the readers of their individuality, and to always be thankful for it. Throughout Ayn Rand’s Anthem, readers watch the main character, Equality 7-2521, develop.…

Religion has always been a controversial topic. The trouble is when the government becomes the religion, it can be simple mind control. The citizens may live in ignorance and fear, and sins may become laws. This is what occurs to Equality 7-2521 in Ayn Rand’s Anthem. Equality has to undergo his own quest to discover what is true and untrue and to help others after he has discovered the truth. Ayn Rand in her novella, Anthem, incorporates the Hero’s Journey to prove that one needs to become…

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.…

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…

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,…

Johnny Mercer's song "Tangerine" captures this romanticism, as it tells the story of a glamour girl from Argentina, "the beauty of her race," who turns out to be empty and shallow, and her dark eyed beauty merely due to artful makeup. So while people in the U.S. romanticized Latin Americans, they also, using varying levels of subtlety, disparaged the very cultures they looked to for inspiration in songs, films, dances, and other entertainments. The American public was not alone in looking to…

Music today is all because of changes then. The musicians today were influenced by those before them. Joe King Oliver influenced Louis Armstrong by training him and because of Oliver moving to Chicago, Armstrong got his start in Kid Ory’s band. Jelly Roll Morton, Joe King Oliver, Sidney Bichet, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington all changed things for musicians today. Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans and started playing piano at the age of 10. In 1904 he began traveling, playing the…