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Thomas Jefferson best represents America because he is one of the main authors of our Declaration of Independence, as well as a Founding Father of America. In the Declaration of Independence, he preached the ideas of unalienable rights, such as freedom and the right to pursue life in a way which brings an individual happiness. I selected Thomas Jefferson because these ideas are significant to America because these are the values that make up the foundation of our lives in present day America. In…

Throughout musical history, there have been numerous artists who have shaped the sound, direction and aesthetic of their respective genre and pushed it to uncharted territory. These artists are hailed as icons and their impact casts a vast shadow on both future newcomers and the artists that are currently known to hold the crown. Kanye West is an artist whose name deserves to be held to this standard, as an innovator, tastemaker and arguably the most influential artist of his generation. While…

money making Late Registration. If College Dropout was his coming out party, than Late Registration was the reason that we still speak of Kanye. Kanye spent more than a million dollars of his own money to sign orchestras and book studio times most record labels do this themselves, but since he is a perfectionist, he spent way too much time and money in the studio, and the orchestras. When the album was finished, he had created a masterpiece. The commercial success the album received was in most…