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Carrie Underwood, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on March 10, 1983 and raised in Checotah, Oklahoma, grew up on her family’s small farm with two older sisters. Her mother, Carole, worked as a school teacher while her father, Stephen, was a paper mill operator. During her childhood years, Carrie participated in talent shows and town events….

Antonio Salieri, born on August 18, 1750, in Legnano, Italy, near the Austrian dukedom of Mantua, was a renowned composer and conductor of his time. He gained significant public recognition for his talent. Salieri’s musical education involved studying violin and harpsichord under his brother Francesco, who learned from Giuseppe Tartini. Following the death of his…

Sarafina is the narrative of a group of black-South African adolescents populating through the apartheid in a hapless country of the state called Soweto. This group of immature pupils is led by one of their equals named Sarafina. a politically witting immature adult female with a passion for music and a dream of going a…

Dave Matthews was born outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, on January 9, 1967. As a child he moved around a lot with his family to various parts of the world. And of an early age his mother taught him the evils of racism. When he was ten years old his father died of lung cancer,…

Despite working in different eras, Mozart and the Beatles were both musical pioneers. They can be compared and contrasted in terms of their creative abilities. Both artists defied conventions in the industry and gained popularity. The Beatles had a rebellious and unique musical style that appealed to audiences of all ages during their time, whereas…

Dads Boot, a War Movie to End Wars In Wolfgang Petersen film “Dads Boot”, takes the viewer on a trip about the horrors of what life was like inside a German U-boat during WI. Petersen sends an anti-war message throughout the film by having a Nazi crew that’s realistic and one that the audience isn’t…

The film Rain Man is an intelligent, character-driven film about a man and his autistic brother with truly fascinating depiction of autism. Tom Cruise plays Charlie Babbitt, a self-absorbed automobile importer who, upon learning of his father’s death, returns home to Cincinnati to collect his $3 million estate and instead inherits Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an…

Johannes Brahms was born in Hamburg to a Lutheran family, and spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is grouped with J. S Bach and Beethoven to be one of the ‘three Bs’. Brahms was a virtuoso pianist, and premiered many of his own works – many of the pieces that he composed…

The film Gladiator is famous for Russell Crowe’s Academy award-winning performance as well as its camerawork and cinematography. Director Ridley Scott employs significant formalism in the movie to convey Maximus’ message. Camera angles, such as low-angle or high-angle shots, are frequently used to depict power in various scenes. These types of angles are noticeable throughout…

Culture, being a way of life, also involves among many other things, how a society appropriates for itself certain conceptions regarding the distinctions of class, ethnicity, or race. This characterization of culture makes it difficult for a society to immediately integrate ‘changes’ which would involve changing previously established social conceptions. Racism is one such social…