Stevie Ray Vaughan

“Come on, talk to me.” I said this as I lovingly ran both of my hands over his arm. He reclined on our bed with a stoic gaze. “Maybe it wasn’t true. Maybe I was just imagining it all. Maybe everything was fine.” I thought. “One thing I know about both of us is that we’ve always been able to communicate.” I could feel each hair on his arm standing on end as my fingertips grazed his forearm and finally rested at his wrist. “It’s really not a big deal,” I said. But it was a huge deal. “You…

“Smokey” Robinson. After being turned away by Jackie Wilson’s manager, a dejected Smokey Robinson was heading back to his car and Berry Gordy stopped him and told him he liked the songs they were auditioning (Gordy 90-92, Posner23-25). After more conversation Berry discovered that Smokey had written over 100 songs and Berry ask to look and critique them, leading to a lifelong business and friendship between the two. This meeting would actually lead to the development of Motown Records, with…

Americans a positive feeling around the house. Motown was composed of many, if not hundred of artist, primarily made up of African Americans. This means Berry had produced millions of songs throughout his time in Motown Records. Many artists including Stevie Wonder reported that they feel as if they didn’t make as much money as they thought they should have been making, This means the money had to be going somewhere and that place just happened to be Berry. So let’s say is Wonder was to sell 100…

The book I am going to be doing my report on is an autobiography written by Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe. The book is called The Pursuit of Happyness. “ , in May 2006, and became a and #1 bestseller,” said the writers of ChrisGardnerMedia.com. There is also a film based off of the book, Chris Gardner also helped out with that. Born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Christopher Paul Gardner's youth was set apart by being poor, having abusive behavior at home, a liquor addiction,…

The Impact Of Motown Motown is one of the most influential music genre. Motown wasn’t just music that was fun to listen to. It helped with the civil rights movement, and It also had crossover success. Motown was founded in the 50s when there was a lot of racism. The creator of Motown Berry Gordy’s main ambition was to produce the sound of young America no matter what color. Berry Gordy, who is the father of Motown tried many occupations like a boxer, a record store owner, and even an auto…

Sometimes, Clover 's kind of a clairvoyant. Okay, not really, but she can just tell that it 'll be a shitty day. She has two tests (one is a presentation, though, but still), she doesn 't have a partner for an upcoming project, and she ate all bits of satisfactory food yesterday. She knows she 'll be a pain in the ass today. She rubs her eyes, rolls out of bed and lands on the floor in a heap of pillows and . . . herself. With a yawn, she stands up and stretches, letting another yawn fill the…

The play that I went and saw was Rent at the Hal Todd Theatre. The venue was a thrust theatre because it had seats facing on three sides for people to watch the play. The playwright of this play is Jonathan Larson and it was directed by Buddy Butler. This play was a musical, which was fun for me because I had never seen a musical before. This play had many aspects to it, including love and friendship. The main characters of this play would be Roger, who wants to be a musician, and Mimi,…

The Road by Cormac McCarthy In The Road by Cormac McCarthy is a third person narrative follows the story of a father and son that live in a post-apocalyptic world filled with danger and life threatening situations. McCarthy demonstrates the parental role between the man and the boy, where the boy influences the man by showing him that there is good left in the world. He uses the reality of their world, the contemplation of suicide, the times where they could have died and the boy as the last…

Abstract: The play “Red Oleanders” is first written in Bengali language under the title “RaktaKarabhi”. Tagore conveys the message that the Utilitarian approach and vast industrialization throughout the world would resulting in diminishing human compassion and cause Ecological Imbalance.So he used characters as a metaphor of human instincts such as greed, power, envy, love, trust, and sacrifice. The play Red oleanders is a One-act play which follows the Aristotle’s rules. He fallow’s three…

Breed in a desperate attempt to try and explain the unexplainable of the time period, superstition are ramped in the Middle Ages. With the Middle Ages being an age of uncertainty and an overall lack of knowledge in the very world that surrounded the people living in this time, superstitions became apart of everyday life and could even be considered routine. While today many of the fears of the people of the Middle Ages which were the root cause of superstition are considered non-realistic and…