Samuel C. Armstrong

Jazz Dance: Know All About That You Can Jazz Dance is an American Art form with roots in West African traditional dance. It is an individual style dance performed with a rhythmic focus, in dialogues with gravity. The dance started with tap, then traveled the social circle with dances like the Charleston, big apple, and the jitterbug and then become a formalized technique through the innovators such as Jack Cole. With the demand of its circulation, studios started giving more of the classes…

Apollo Exploration of the Moon, Budgets, History, dangers, and safety Regulations. Neil Armstrong and his crew were American heroes, for he and his crew were the first to land and Step on the Moon. Accompanied by Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins they documented their findings and helped place the American Flag on the Moon. The Budget for the operation went around twenty six billion Dollars Mostly Funded by the United States government. The dangers of being an Astronaut were High when in space or…

Third, narrative pattern plays an important role in this novel. R.W Stallman wrote a research paper “Gatsby and the Hole Time”, in which the relation between disillusionment of American Dream and time sequence in The Great Gatsby was discussed. Wayne C. Booth coined the term, unreliable narrator, in his work The Rhetoric of Fiction, while Dr. T. J. Eckleburg affirmed the reliability on the narrator of this novel – Nick…

composed by Duke Ellington in 1940. This piece was originally called "Never No Lament" but after lyrics by Bob Russell, a new title were added in 1942. This is a joyful piece that consist of 3 sections: A, B and C with mostly repeat the phrase of the first 8 bars of the piece in section A and C. The repetition of the 8 bars phrase and also some kicks of chromatically chords make this piece special and interesting. Although this piece looks simple, it can be widely improvise by jazz musicians…

The Apollo Space Program was very important to many Americans and NASA because it dealt with sending astronauts into space and exploring the unknown solar system. That is why on April 11th, 1970, NASA launched three astronauts into space. This launch is known as Apollo 13, or the 13th launch out of Earth’s solar system. NASA sent three men, Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert, into space on the Apollo 13 mission. Initially, Lovell, the commander, and Haise, the lunar module pilot, were…

In a distant land, where sandstorms ravage the area, and there is nothing to eat but potatoes and caffeine pills, the Astronaut Mark Watney goes through many morechallanges than this, in this fantastic book, The Martian. Mark Watney was as a man of many talents. He was a good survivor, and can survive many would-be fatal disasters. This planet, Mars, uncolonized, and only partially discovered, makes Mark face many challenges. In the end, the reader will be surprised that Mark is still even alive…

The success of the Apollo 11 mission forever changed the idea of “the sky’s the limit.” On July 20, 1969 at 3:39 A.M. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first human beings to walk on the moon. Authors Ayn Rand, William Safire,and The Times all wrote about this world-changing event.These authors effectively communicated their purpose by using rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos. William Safire, President Nixon’s speechwriter, wrote the speech “In event of Moon…

Moon Landing Conspiracy On July 20, 1969, the United States supposedly landed on the moon. Millions of people believe this, but millions don’t. Millions of people believe that the Apollo 11 mission successfully landed on the moon, and that Neil Armstrong was the first human to step on the moon, followed by Buzz Aldrin. Millions of people believe that this is a hoax, to win the “space race” of the 1960’s. Me personally, I believe it was a hoax, to prevent embarrassment. in 1961, JFK said that…

As music became more popular in the United States, musicians began to fuse different styles of music to compose something unique. During the late 1800’s, musicians began to combine several styles together, this included Gospel music, March music, and African American dance styles like the Cakewalk and the two-step along with syncopation. This style was given a new genre called Ragtime. Ragtime music became widely popular in the United States around 1890’s through the 1900’s and was a precursor…

What was the Apollo 13? Apollo 13 was a successful failure because it was a mission to the moon with many challenges along the way as well as surviving the free fall to safely back to Earth. To begin with, the launch to the moon was just like any other take off. It stretched back the skin on their faces until it seemed their bones might shatter. The mission was to get samples of sandy dirt and grab 4 billion year old rocks from Earth. Suddenly a loud bang got their attention. The spacecraft…