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    Jackson's Accomplishments

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    Jackson is known as a legend because of the accomplishments that he made throughout his life. To start off his solo career, he received his first grammy for the best R&B Vocal Performance in 1980. Jackson and his brothers were elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and in 2001, Jackson was elected into this as a solo performer (Achievements). In 1993, he was presented with the “Living Legend Award” at the Grammy Awards Ceremony and with the Humanitarian of the Year trophy at the Soul

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    Throughout taking a musical course this semester, I decided to take Ludwig van Beethoven and Miley Cyrus and compare them in multiple aspects. This includes their personalities, musical history, and their lives. Both artists are very influential with much success in their careers. They as well share similar rough patches through the public eye. Beethoven and Cyrus were brought into the musical business through family. Their journeys along the years are quite unique and unlike any others. Destiny

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    David Walter Foster is a Canadian musician, record producer, composer, songwriter, and arranger guaranteed by his 16 Grammy Awards from 47 nominations. He was starting with being musician in 70s and then turned to be the most commercially successful producers and composers in all of popular music since he has been a producer for notable musical artists. Foster is also the chairman of Verve Music Group. Foster was born on November 1, 1949 in Victoria, British,Columbia, Canada. He used to spend hour

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    Gary Indiana, Michael Jackson would grow up to be one of the most iconic pop stars in the 20th century. From the first moment on stage when he was five, Jackson had a long and amazing career in front of him. Earning the title as the King of Pop, Jackson went from being the most loved star of all time, to losing all his fans overnight. Nobody could believe that the police department opened an investigation on Jackson on August 17, 1993. The accusations against Michael Jackson, put everyone into a tail

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    Michael Jackson is known as the King of Pop and during his time he created multiple songs that hold deep meanings and positively promoted what individuals morality should be composed of. One of Jackson's world renowned pieces was a song called “The Man In The Mirror”, which represents change and making a difference. When you hear about an artist having a new music video out one would assume that they would be in the video, but in Jackson's video this is not the case. In “The Man In The Mirror” Jackson

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    Universal Studios presents the 1960 film “Psycho” by Alfred Hitchcock, adapted from the Robert Bloch novel by Joseph Stephano, and scored by Bernard Hermann. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Janet Leigh, and a very creepy house. This film falling under the horror genre was based loosely on the novel of the same name which drew inspiration from real life serial killer Ed Gein, who has been the motivation for two other popular movies, “The Silence of the Lambs” and “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”

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    Film Review : ' Psycho '

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    When looking at the first film chosen Psycho (1960) Hitchcock used detailed visual and aural compositions to express his characters feelings of paranoia and claustrophobia, along with his experienced editing skills to create suspense. With a fine-tuned sense of irony, Hitchcock examined the abnormal perversions and obsessive desires lurking beneath the surface of ordinary lives and societies, enabling him to become a smart observer of America in the 1950s, the decade during which he directed his

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    lunchtime affair relationship in her attractive white underpants in the first scene which shows the loss of innocence; likewise by capturing a toilet bowl and flush in a restroom (a first in an American film), and killing off its significant "star" Janet Leigh 33% of the path into the film (in a stunning, splendidly altered shower murder scene joined by

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    1973 to 1986. (Stevie Wonder) (He has won more Grammys since 1986.) Motown produced some of the most memorable groups and songs of a generation. These groups include the Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, the Jackson Five, the Marveletts, and so many

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    Boyce Avenue are the three-piece band of brothers taking the world by storm with their peppy pop-rock. The band has defied the bounds of internet fame with their highly successful YouTube channel, which currently has nearly eight million subscribers. While the band, brothers Alejandro (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano), Fabian (acoustic and electric guitar, back-up vocals, keyboards) and Daniel Manzano (percussion, bass, back-up vocals, violin), may be mostly known for their covers, Boyce Avenue have

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