to know about Ray Charles‚ and his career. Ray came from a small town in Florida‚he was born into poverty and had 1 little brother‚ and only lived with his mom he never knew his dad. Ray Charles helped create the R&B music genre. Ray won 13 grammy awards‚ and he was also introduced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ray was one of the best R&B players in the 20th century. Ray Charles’s childhood lead him into the world in a weird way. Rays little brother drowned as a child
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November 7‚ 2011 Johnny and Ray One wouldn’t think that the lives of Johnny Cash and Ray Charles have anything in common. However‚ after viewing the movies Walk the Line‚ starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter‚ and Ray‚ starring Jamie Foxx portraying Ray Charles‚ their similarities are as striking as their differences. Both of these films are biopics chronicling the rags to riches lives of two of the most influential musicians whose careers began in the
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Norhan Mansour Music 121 Extra Credit Ray Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on 30 years of the life of rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. By the early 1960’s Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He’d come of age musically. He’d made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records "Georgia‚" "Born to Lose" successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He’d made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which‚ except for 1965‚ he’s repeated at least once a year ever
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Research has shown that Manta Rays and Devil Rays are cousins but are different types of marine life. Although they are cousins‚ they are different. They have different body types‚ different habitats and different intelligence levels. If you ever see a manta ray or a devil ray‚ they look very similar. It may not look like they have different bodies but they do. A manta ray can grow to a size of 7m (23ft) and weigh up to 3‚600 pounds. It has 18 rows of teeth on their lower jaw. Their eyes are on
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Charles Charles Eastman was a young Dokota physician who went to Dartmouth College and Boston University. In 1890 he moved his practice as a physician to the Pine Ridge reservation in western South Dakota. His was part of Wahpenton and Mdewakanton Dakota tribe rather than Oglala Lakota and took pride in being Native. Upon his arrival‚ he experienced a disastourous dust storm and later would come across the aftermath of a massacre. The massacre was due to altercations of warfare on the northern
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What are X-rays? X-rays are a form of radiation that can pass through solid and semi-solid substances. In carefully controlled doses‚ they can be used to capture images of the body’s internal structures. How X-rays work X-rays are a type of radiation. Light and X-rays are similar sources of energy. However‚ light has a much lower frequency than X-rays and is absorbed by your skin. X-rays have a higher frequency and pass through the human body. As X-rays pass through the body‚ energy particles
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A Legend in the Making: Inside the Mind of Ray Lewis Glen Davis Dr. Martin Lewis Morgan State University A Legend in the Making: Inside the Mind of Ray Lewis Every couple of years‚ there are only a handful of special players who are come along in the NFL. These players have the ability to change the game or help it evolve. About 12 years ago‚ the Baltimore Ravens were fortunate enough to add one of these special players to their team. Ray Lewis was drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the
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established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called "Blu-ray Disc". The Blu-ray Disc enables the recording‚ rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue-violet laser. By employing a short wavelength blue violet laser‚ the Blu-ray Disc successfully minimizes its beam spot size by making the numerical aperture (NA) on a field lens that converges the
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Ray Kroc PROBLEM STATEMENT : In order for McDonald’s to reach its goal of "par excellence"‚ it must use the full meaning and definition of marketing. Marketing is giving the target market what they want‚ when and where they want it‚ at a price they are willing to pay for it. REFLECTION / OPINION For McDonald’s to achieve its "par excellence"‚ they must focus on the fact that there is an ever changing market and that the wants and needs of consumers are constantly changing. Since McDonald’s
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Satyajit Ray [2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker‚ regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist‚ Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica’s Italian neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films‚ including feature
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