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irl?” Gaiman remarks. Born into a musical family in Cleveland, Ohio, music surrounded Diane Dixon from a young age. Whether she was listening to her mother sing in a jazz big band or her older brother practicing for his gigs opening for the Doors or the Who, no instrument or musical experience was off limits. She met Jim Morrison backstage at age eleven, but her life-changing moment happened when her brother took her to see the Beatles. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Dixon says. “It was…

A family of five decide to go on vacation to Florida, but the grandmother in the family wanted to visit Tennessee. The family eventually stopped at a diner called The Tower where they meet the owner, Red Sammy. He and the grandmother talk about how people are different how and “how a good man is hard to find.” When they get back on the road, the grandmother suggest they visit a plantation she once remembered. They follow a dirt road and the grandmother suddenly remembers that the plantation was…

The next couple of days were uneventful. No sexual fantasies, shadowy images, or music from another century echoing throughout the house. Casey’s anxiety lessened, and she began to relax into a routine. Still plagued with doubts about Sean’s death and who made it happen and why. Denise had called as promised to give her the number for the Past Life therapist. She scheduled the appointment for next Monday at the therapist’s office. She gave herself plenty of time to make the hour drive factoring…

Introduction Alleles are different forms of genes that governor a single genetic trait (Tortora & Derrickson, 2009, p. 1118). Genes, a section of a DNA molecule, are heritable traits that are produced by the DNA of an individual (Tortora & Derrickson, 2009, p. 53). Individuals in a population can be born with multiple different genes or characteristics (Freeman et al., 2014, p. 5). The characteristics that change throughout a population over time are known as evolution (Freeman et al., 2014, p.…

Born to Golf, Forced to Work “In Analysis: Steven J. Skalsky” “Born to Golf, Forced to Work,” is a sign that hung above Steven J. Skalsky’s cash register. Steve Skalsky was my Great-Grandpa Skalsky. He was born November 7, 1920 in Beulah, North Dakota. Almost 92 years later on October 7, 2012 he passed away in Stevensville, Montana of natural causes. Born and raised on a family farm that he hated in North Dakota. In 1945 he moved to Bitterroot Valley where he met Emma Koch. They married July 1,…

Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi on March 26, 1911 (Biography.com). He won a Pulitzer Prize for his works, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Tin Roof. A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, is the play that gave Williams his first Pulitzer Prize (Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she…

1.) Music is valued greatly in the elementary classroom because it helps students learn more efficiently. Incorporating music in the classroom can make it easier for students to understand and learn. Music can help students who need help in subject areas, such as speech or math, and can enhance their skills. It is important to keep music in schools because it can help children with language and grades, and can also help when a student is struggling in the subject. Singing can help children learn…

Baskin-Robbins has been the 31 flavors ice cream shop for nearly seventy years. With locations in more than fifty countries, the unique flavors are shared all around the world. Since 1995 Baskin-Robbins have introduced 1,000 new and interesting ice cream flavors pralines ‘n cream being in the top five. Still vanilla and chocolate, the original flavors make it into the top. Background- Part 1: The very start of Baskin-Robbins was in 1942 when Burt Baskin married Irvine Robbins sister making both…

Enter. look at mirror and touch your face and pull your skin. I have been looking at myself in this small silver mirror, so much that I think it is a part of me. I sit in front of it in the powder room every day, gazing into a blank expression. I stare and see this woman, this woman who once held beauty and eyes full of mystery and secrets. But every single day it is fading, the beauty is fading, the eyes, which were once so full of emotion, are fading. I am becoming dull and lifeless, day by…

Johann Strauss, Jr. and The Eagles are both iconic figures of music in their own rights. One a master of light, fun dance music, like polkas and waltzes, and the other a talented rock band that defined a Californian generation. On the surface, “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” and “Hotel California” couldn’t seem more different. Each song was researched, listened to multiple times, and broken down into segments to analyze and after some investigation, it’s obvious that there are some…