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dominant sources of leadership and influence. Nina Simone led an influential and successful life as a musical artist, especially during the civil rights movement. Her music fused genres of classical, soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz to create a completely unique, uncategorizable style of music. Her contralto voice and distinguished musical style made her easily recognizable and popular to a diverse, global audience during the 60s and 70s. Although Simone is often omitted from historical recounts of the

Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, February 21, 1933 in North Carolina. The sixth of eight children, she began playing the piano at the age of three and showed extreme talent for classical music. Due to the poverty of her family, her mother worked as a maid. Nina showed her talent to her mother’s employer, who recognized her great ability and started a fund to pay for Nina’s piano lessons and early education. When she was twelve she performed a classical piano recital. Her parents had

find employment as an lounge entertainer. Knowing that her mother would not approve of this notion, she decided to take a stage name. She chose Nina – an affectionate term that an ex-boyfriend used to call her meaning girl in Spanish – and Simone – after Simone Signoret a French actor, because she though it sounded sophisticated. With her new stage name, she got a job in a small bar and grill off the boardwalk. At first she just played the piano, but her boss told her that she had to sing or she

"I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps, I am the first Simone biles" Simone Arianne Biles. Because Simone Biles is confident, she became more determined to met her goals. In this essay you will learn about the life of Simone Arianne Bile and how she became the world's greatest gymnast. Abandoned Yet Found Simone was born in Ohio in 1997. Sadly at a young age she and her older sister Adira were place in foster care due to her mother's substance abuse. Luckily their grandparents Ron

The Philosophy of Simone Weil In the final entry to her London notebooks, Simone Weil writes "Philosophy is exclusively an affair of action and practice. That is why it is so difficult to write about. Difficult in the same way as a treatise on tennis or running, but much more so." (Allen, p. 157) In these next few pages I will try to relay the basic ideas contained in Simone Weil's works. Because of the extensiveness and complexity of her work, I will be using her words exactly, as often as

Nina Simone was born on February 21,1933, in Tryon, North Carolina. Her birth name was Eunice Kathleen Waymon, but later in her life Nina decided to change it to make a living. This was done to disguise herself from her family members as she had chosen to sing the style of jazz which was known as “the devil’s music”. Nina began her musical carrier at the age of 3 by learning to play the piano. Early on in her life Nina’s musical training emphasized classical songs like Beethoven and Brahmas. After

singing. From there she never stopped singing. As her fame grew in pop music she became more depressed. Later in her life she discovered she was riddled with mental illness. Manic depression being one of these illness. Nina Simone was a troubled woman but she was a gifted one. Simone was often looked at as difficult while others would say she was just extremely honest. She was a very controversial character in history along being a strong political figure. She was one of the well known civil rights activist

The concept of force is discussed extensively in philosopher Simone Weil’s piece The Iliad or the Poem of Force. In the piece, Weil’s defines force as “that x that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him” (6). Weil’s wrote this essay in response to the epic poem the Iliad by Homer, which she believes perpetuates the notion of force. Weil’s contends in her respective piece that force

of a full realization of Black freedom a century after the Thirteenth Amendment. [1. Sound of the Break: Jazz and the Failures of Emancipation Bridget R. Cooks American Quarterly (June 2016) no. 2 330http://muse.jhu.edu/article/622084] It took Nina Simone an hour to write “Mississippi Goddam”, which is a song based on the place names of oppression. It was written immediately in the wake of the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, where four African American girls, none older than fourteen, were

In her works, Simone de Beauvoir attacks the patriarchy of her era with a blistering report on what she believes causes sexual tension in society. She does so by defining the characteristics and basics of the conflict, by exploring the perceived differences in man and woman. De Beauvoir explains in The Second Sex what has defined woman as the “other” of society, while discussing how existential bad faith and anxiety have a role in the objectification process. By dissecting the differences in the