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Duke Ellington
572 Words - 3 Pages.... incorporated in his music the jungle effect. This effect was made by placing a plunger at the opening of a brass instrument, therefore, muffling or muting the notes played out. The result sounded like a person wailing, giving the piece a voice-like quality. In "Concerto for Cootie," Cootie Williams does a solo using the jungle effect, making it sound like a voice is singing along. His opening solo is repetitive, going over the same set of notes over and over again. The overall feeling is as if the music is wooing the listener.
Ellington's other innovations include the use of the human voice as an instrument, such as in "Creole Love Call" (1927). He als ....
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Biography Of Genghis Khan
1029 Words - 4 Pages.... some leadership qualities in Genghis that others didn¹t. When Genghis
Khan was little, his chieftain father poisoned. With no leader left, the
tribe abandoned Genghis and his mother. They were left alone for many
years to care for themselves. Throughout these years, his family met many
hardships such as shortage of food and shortage of money. Though unable to
read, Genghis was a very wise man. His mother told him at a very early age
the importance of trust and independence. "Remember, you have no
companions but your shadow" Grolier Encyclopedia. (1995) CD ROM
This quote was to mean to Genghis, don¹t put to much trust in anyone,
trust no one but yourself an ....
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Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
725 Words - 3 Pages.... with a theory that is the basis for detecting submarines through sonar. In 1948, after the United States had dropped an atomic bomb, he was assigned to work on a team to develop the hydrogen bomb. It was with this group that he devised a design called “sakharization” whereby fusion released neutrons that enabled the fission of uranium. In 1950, Sakharov was assigned to work in a secret city with other scientists to further develop the bomb. It was there that he designed a plasma that would help produce energy from sustained fusion. In 1953, Russia tested its hydrogen bomb and it proved to be successful. At the age of 32 he was elected to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. S ....
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Peter Tchaikovsky
2527 Words - 10 Pages.... criticism with perfect sweetness and affectionate docility, "I covered France with my hand." The child is father of the man; here we have already Tchaikovsky's strange two-sidedness: on one hand his intense emotionality in all personal matters, his headstrong impetuosity, leaping first and looking afterwards; on the other his candor and modesty, his intelligent acceptance of criticism, even his carefulness and good workmanship-he had covered France with his hand"! If he had only been able to reconcile that lifelong feud between his over-personal heart and his magnanimous mind, he would have been saved endless suffering. But he was not: in his music his self-criticism, as ....
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Profiles Of Courage
581 Words - 3 Pages.... the beliefs of the Federalist party. That didn't stop Adams from pushing to pass the purchase. The Embargo Bill was created to stop the British from taking Americans sailor without proof of citizenship (and even some with proof). Adams constituents thought the Embargo Bill would instigate another war. Support of such subject caused his party-mates and constituents to re-think their view of the Massachusetts Senator. Daniel Webster, House of Representatives member, was a Federalist and was most famous for is "Seventh of March" speech. While slavery seemed to be the main issue of the time, the speech spoke mainly of preserving the Union. Although he was opposed to slavery, he ....
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Rosalind Franklin
509 Words - 2 Pages.... Franklin had given up her fellowship to become a physical chemist at the British Coal Utilization Research Association at age 22. She was indeed an efficient and driven researcher. Franklin utilized the X-ray diffraction techniques (that she has become most famous for) while working in a Paris laboratory between 1947 and 1950, with crystallographer Jacques Mering.
X-ray crystallography helped determined the three dimensional structure of DNA when Franklin returned to England. She became the first person to find the molecule¡¯s sugar-phosphate backbone while working with a team of scientists at King¡¯s College in London. Unfortunately, leadership misunderstan ....
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Christopher Columbus
1227 Words - 5 Pages.... "presence" of the North American Continent had been known to the persons living there for centuries before arrival. But Columbus, and those who followed him, recognized the significance of the New World; in this sense they certainly deserve credit for having "discovered" America.
Over five hundred years ago he landed in the Americas and now we are starting to question weather or not he should be given credit for discovering America. This doesn’t seem fare. After so many years without controversy it’s just been recently that we have started to question the lagitamitity of his discovery. What brought on this sudden chan ....
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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint
536 Words - 2 Pages.... Teresa became a citizen of India.
At the age of eighteen, she started her religious order at Our Lady of
Loreto in Ireland. She then received her spiritual training. In 1931,
Mother Teresa took her name of Teresa from Therese Martin, a French nun.
Six years later she took her vows. Mother Teresa then decided to begin her
teaching. She taught for twenty years in Saint Mary's High School in
Calcutta, India.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share ....
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