Samuel C. Armstrong

Free is the sound we make and judge is what minds do. I have been learning how to improvise on my guitar for almost a year now through the methodologies of jazz music, in which improvisation plays an integral role. Being able to express our thoughts through music is wonderful, and though all musicians express them through the compositions they make and the music they play, there is a particular joy in being able to convey your thoughts into sound with immediacy that attracted me to this…

After hearing the music on the list, Charles Mingus’s “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is the one that I like the most. Even though this song is actually the hardest one for me to distinguish all those instruments with each other. “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is from the Album Ah Um released in May 1, 1959, and it’s clearly is a 12-bar blues. The instruments are including Trombone, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, and Percussion. Besides of Charles Mingus, the artists are including Booker Ervin, Horace Parlan, John…

The Space Race began with the launch of Sputnik, and from then on it did nothing but heat up. The launch of Sputnik did give the Soviets a lead, but The U.S. quickly answered back with the expedited launch of their satellite, the Explorer 1. Now that the U.S. had realized that they were behind, they began making major strides in the field of space exploration. The first change that thy made was creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and immediately after creating the…

Donald Slayton had developed a love for curiosity and exploring at a very young age. The National Aviation Hall of Fame states that when Donald was a young child, he would always explore the world around him; so much that his mother tied him to a clothesline to keep him from exploring too much. But his love for exploring never stopped there. When Donald was in high school, his love for flying sparked. And since then on, he was known for his love of flying. His motto, "Keep 'em flying" was even…

Two Sides of the Moon The book titled “Two Sides of the Moon: Our story of the Cold War in Space” is the result of a collaboration between an Astronaut and a Cosmonaut. It is a fascinating account of two men from two opposite sides of the space race. In this book, the American astronaut David Randalph Scott’s (Dave Scott) account of the space race is intertwined with the account of Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. The reader learns through the book that Alexei Leonov was actually the first…

In April of 1959 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. was selected to be one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury (NASA). According to the NASA website, the astronauts immediately began training for their mission at Langley (NASA). Their training “included a "little of everything" ranging from a graduate-level course in introductory space science to simulator training and scuba-diving” (NASA). While all the astronauts were given different jobs, Cooper’s was to deal with the Redstone rocket,…

The Taos Hum has been heard in many areas, like the United Kingdom, and the United States. As far back as the early 1990s is when the first “ Hum” was heard in west of Taos, New Mexico near Tres Orejas. What is this high frequency noise? What is the “Hum” caused by? I will try and answer those questions in my research paper. All people think differently about the Hum and what causes it, a lot of people think it is caused by Underground UFO (unidentified flying object) Bases. The reason why…

“And the Nobel Peace Prize of 2017 goes to… James Turtle for bringing back the for cancer and putting his very life on the line to save our existence, while furiously flirting with danger.” Respectfully staying humble James responded, “No thank you, I do not want the award, all I wanted to do was save humanity.” “Do you choose to accept this mission?” “Yes, yes sir I do.” “Here is your mission James Turtle: It seems scientists have found that the moon rocks have possessed a cure for cancer. You…

Many works of literature contain ideas that the authors insert into their texts in order to spread them and communicate their beliefs to the reader. These beliefs are so essential to writing and the meaning held within it that authors have found ways to utilize them in almost all forms of writing. In addition, due to their prevalence, a large collection of methods has been produced in order to merge themes with an author’s work. Two texts that exemplify this are the texts “Mission to Mars” and…

The songwriting team of songwriter Eubie Blake and Lyricist Noble Sissle were the ones who found success with shuffle along. Blake was born and raised in Baltimore. Blake had a religious mother but a drunken father. Blake began by performing hymns in church to later preforming at clubs and later Blake joined Sissle as a “Hell fighter member. Later the pair began performing in Vaudeville acts where they created the act Shuffle Along. Shuffle along was a huge success both colored and the white…