Louis Armstrong What A Wonderful World

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss (...) These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen” (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross). Compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern make mankind beautiful, but it also makes it defenseless . When one has concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others, he takes sacrifices, risks, and lives with uncertainty. When man is compassionate, he lives a vulnerable life. Love and compassion bring out the beauty in mankind, but they can also bring out its weaknesses. Because of man’s compassion, he

Holocaust Survivor, Elie Wiesel, in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” (1999), advises that having an apathetic attitude to a situation is dangerous a society in need of help. He supports his claim by gaining credibility from his audience and uses imagery to help, then addresses briefly about his past life and an example of when indifference occurred, and finally, throws everything that transpired in the past and hints what we can do differently in the future. Wiesel’s purpose is to urge the audience to not be indifferent to what is happening around the world, but to see how society could all help. Throughout the speech, there are a few different tones such as gratuitous, passive, and grateful for his audience to make a change.

La Vie En Rose was originally written and recorded in France, because of this the song is filled with romantic styles. When Louis Armstrong recorded the song, many aspects were left the same but more trumpets were added to increase the Armstrong’s influence. The song starts with the piano and through the song trombones, saxophone, guitars, bass, and drums are added to create a homophonic texture. As Louis Armstrong is known for his trumpet playing skills, the trumpet plays a key role in this song. As these instruments blend together, a 4/4 rhythm, with accents placed on 1 and 3 is created, this rhythm along with a lento tempo creates a calming, romantic sound. The melody follows this style to become light and simple. The harmony in

Holocaust survivor and writer, Elie Wiesel in his influential speech “The Perils of Indifference,” claims that indifference is the root of all evil and inhumanity---all pain and all tragedy has resulted because of indifference. He supports his claim by highlighting the reason for “World Wars,” “Civil Wars,” “Assassinations,” “Bloodbaths,” and “Tragedy---” indifference (Wiesel par. 5) . Specifically, Wiesel uses imagery to paint an image of what the innocent victims of indifference experience. The poor “children [that] perish” because of the indifference in a man’s soul; until they see the children’s “pain” and “agony” and “hear their pleas,” until “one of them dies” because of the “violence,” “disease” and “famine,” then one will notice the dangers of indifference (Wiesel par. 23) . Further, the author flashbacks to past events that have left humans without a soul. He mentions how one day he “woke up in a place of eternal infamy, Buchenwald.” Remembering the day he is captured and the day he is “free[ed]” (Wiesel par. 1) . The problem now is that “there [i]s no joy in his heart;” he becomes a victim of indifference---the metal torture (Wiesel par. 1) . Wiesel’s purpose is to inform humanity of the dangers indifference holds in order to encourage humans to continue to hope for a world without indifference---no pain, no horror. He establishes a critical tone for readers by using stylistic devices such as imagery, flashbacks and rhetorical questions in order to achieve his purpose that indifference is monstrous and dangerous. Wiesel’s message about the inhumanity of indifference and the importance of resistance is still relevant today.

The general argument made by Elie Wiesel in his speech “The Perils of Indifference,” is that we need to open our eyes and realize that not everything can be sunshine and flowers all the time. More specifically, Wiesel emphasizes that the world needs to be aware and to empathize towards the victims of those of us that have

From its inception, Jazz has applied both innovative approaches in different degrees and boundless configuration. And has continually amplified, progress, and modify music through various distinctive episodes of growth. So, an all-encompassing denotation of jazz is likely vain. Additionally, jazz as a music whose prime attribute was “improvisation,” for example, revealed to be too regulated and chiefly false. Meanwhile composition, adaptation, and ensembles have also been imperative constituent of Jazz (for most of its backstory). Furthermore, “syncopation” and “swing,” often viewed as important and distinctive to jazz, are certainly lacking the genuineness of it, whether of the 1920s (or of later decades). However, the prolonged perception that swing could not transpire without syncopation was utterly refuted when trumpeter Louis Armstrong often produced vast swing while playing repeated, and unsyncopated quarter notes (Armstrong, L., Fitzgerald, E., & Middleton, V. (1988). Satchmo. Gong.)

As we all know that over the years the music genre Jazz has changed dramatically. With all the changes that has happened some aspects of the genre remained or endured little change. One trait in jazz that remained throughout all the success of the genre is certain composers. The instruments had a slight change through the years but it still continue to be tight throughout.

“ Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned that the world can be a very

People all over the world are suffering or in danger and no one is helping. In the memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel describes what it felt like to be a part of the suffering and devastation of the Holocaust. Similar to Wiesel’s memoir, Martin Niemoller’s poem, “First They Came For The Communists”, expresses the feelings the author possessed in the time of the Nazi invasions. Lastly, Elie Wiesel’s speech, “The Perils of Indifference,” discusses how indifference can be adverse. All of these texts represent how speaking up for one another can be helpful and ignoring what is going on in the world can be detrimental. All people should be obligated to aid and assist others when they are in dangerous situations because bystanding only causes more

At the mention jazz music, that person will first think of is likely to be a great figure with a clown image, nicknamed Satchmo. The man was Louis Armstrong. He is a husky singer, often with a trumpet in his hand. He played dramatic works of simple structure in Orleans jazz style and with the accompaniment of Dick jazz music. Each of the books on jazz music will mention his name. Louis Armstrong was to jazz music what Bach is to classical music, Presley is to rock music (Berrett 230). This essay will have an introduction of the king of jazz music -- Louis Armstrong and his great influence on jazz history.

Louis Armstrong also nicknamed Satchmo, a man who had minimal formal education, who was born in on a dirt street in the poorest section of New Orleans. After reading Satchmo: “My life in New Orleans (excerpts) (1954)” this had changed a little more of my out look on Louis Armstrong, for example before this reading, I only knew very little about Armstrong. How he was a very humble man, an excellent trumpet player and musician (one of the major influences in Jazz music) and his vocals were very grunty (definitely one of a kind). I have very little knowledge about his background until I had done this reading.

“How is there so many bad things happening in the world and the world staying absolutely quiet?” This is a common question that many people often ask and never truly know the full answer. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel speaks of a similar situation, however he asks his question indirectly to the whole world, as a sort of question that is not really being stated obviously but reading between the lines. Wiesel realizes that the world does not see the pain of others because the world is selfish, however some people do see the pain and try to help.

Our existence can be illustrated by envisioning a painter who is fabricating a painting. As the painter begins to use the soft brush, its thistles with each movement construct systems and subsystems that are elaborately woven together to display biased perception of ourselves. Consequently, a misguided stroke may alter an exceptional piece of art turning it into a catastrophe. Regrettably, this metaphor unveils the misfortune that can occur in the lives of numerous individuals. Comparatively, like the painter who can be consumed by adversity, a victim of domestic violence with one misstep can eradicate his/her own life.

At some point in all of our lives, our “peaceful” game of life is thrown off balanced when adversity comes to knock us off the path to our goals. Sometimes it throws us completely off balanced, while other times is just another hurdle to jump over. It tests us, tries to make us lose hope and cave in on ourselves. As humans, adversity is inevitable, and no matter how hard we try to avoid it, we find ourselves facing yet another challenge. Occasionally, the beliefs we were built on allow us to easily break through, but other times were are left confused. This is true for me because I remember fondly of the time I had to face an obstacle; the time when I was first introduced to the sport tennis.

In the story about how cruel the earth is it says “sometimes, the earth is cruel, and you have no choice but to accept that as part of the bargain called life. And when it is your turn to deal with it, you do.” This quote is a real eye opener about what is going on in the earth and it makes some people realize what has gone wrong with the earth. This quote is also very particular about how Mr. Pitt explained the cruelty of how the earth actually can be very devastating. This has made me feel like maybe just maybe I can do something to make people smile once again. If the earth is so cruel then how do people deal with the pain of losing everything and everyone, the article talks about how people have lost family, friends, and personal objectives. At the end of this little paragraph there is one question, But what if it’s always your turn?