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    Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken , New Jersey . He began singing in amateur shows in 1933 and formed a musical group called the Hoboken Four . Bandleader Harry James discovered Sinatra's act at the Rustic Cabin in New Jersey in 1939 . Their best recording together , "All or Nothing at All ", did not become a hit until after the singer's solo career took off four years later . Then during the early 40's Frank Sinatra was getting involved

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    defined as eternal life. Frank Sinatra is one who will live forever. His music, his movies, his attitude, his eyes, whatever it is you remember him for, all the same, he IS greatness. Few people come along in the course of life that can be labeled great, Frankie is the symbol of greatness. Tens of millions of recordings, nine Grammys and two Academy Awards, over 60 films, worldwide tours, television specials, hundreds of millions of dollars raised for charities. Sinatra passed the tests of time with

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    My mother had such a strong effect on her children that it’s easy to see the obvious. She taught us to be non-conformist, to follow our talents and dreams, to “just give it a try.” She taught us to play Scrabble to learn the importance of words, and to play cards to learn our numbers. Monopoly was for counting money as well as for basic economics: how much does this house cost? what’s the rent? is it worth it? But each of her children took away much more than the basic life skills embodied by my

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    Then run my finger across a slit running across my neck from the right side of my carbon fiber helmet to my left shoulder. I imagine a better place. Maybe dinner tonight with my pretty lady and some deep dish sausage and onion pizza. I see Frank Sinatra with pulled back brown hair, a top hat and a black suit with a red bow tie standing on a stage. He starts singing, "Come Fly with Me". My first love story may not be like the typical Romeo and Juliet, but hey to say the least it is a love story

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    Careers of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley Although Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra were both making music around the same time period, they had very different styles. The genres Frank Sinatra is most notable for are: Jazz, Swing, Traditional Pop, Big Band Swing, Vocal, Vocal Jazz, and Easy listening. On the other hand, Elvis was known as “the King of Rock and Roll” and most of his music fell under rock and roll, rockability, pop, country, blues, gospel, and rhythm and blues. Sinatra and Elvis were

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    The Music Of The 1940 ' S

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    Ellington and Benny Goodman. Popular singers were the Andrews Sisters, Kay Kaiser and many other famous ones. There were crooner style singers, including Bing Crosby, whose smooth voice made him one of the most popular singers. There was Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Tony Bennett, Pat Boone, Nat King Cole, Kate Smith and Perry Como. All of these very popular singers led the hit parade. They sang the songs that went with the mood of the country in the early 50s. Many of these crooners became the

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    Throughout the updated version of the play, John Godber (original writer and director) highlighted his intentions through Lucky Eric’s daunting monologues; we still drink too much as a society today. Nonetheless, the dated stereotypes and the use of Frank Sinatra and ‘Thriller’ did make the play feel slightly dated. The play list seemed to be the most updated part of Bouncers; the current music, including artists like LMFAO, Nicki Minaj, Stooshe and Rihanna, was very popular with the predominately young

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    would and uses nonsense syllables) was taken up by many male and female jazz vocalists. Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday and the modern day Joss Stone all show signs of Ella's influence. Ella is also credited with inspiring the great Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet and Mel Torme to some extent. Although Ella's influence through style is great, perhaps her greatest achievement can be noticed in her career as a whole. Ella Fitzgerald was an influential woman with many followers around

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    Observational Learning Theory By studying Frank Sinatra through the lenses of the Observational Learning Theory much can be understood. Albert Bandura’s Theory states that individuals learn by observing. His experiment included a Bobo doll an adult actor and a child observer. Bandura picked an object, a Bobo doll, that the children had never been exposed to and their fore did not know how to react to it. He then had the children observe the adults hitting and kicking the doll. Then when the children

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    recognizing the characterization of Frank Sinatra. Kelly Simon applies a variety of devices and applies parallelism to convey her purpose for writing within the narrative. In the opening of the narrative, she parallels her dad and Frank Sinatra. She describes them as, “I liked that he was Sicilian as many of my father’s friends and clients were” (Simon 1). Simon’s description of her father and his actions parallel Frank Sinatra in certain ways. Sinatra portrays all of the same qualities as her

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