Prior to the tornado‚ my experience of Joplin was limited to a dozen family visits over two decades. My lasting impression from those years were of a city that felt more like a small town. However‚ Joplin is the fourteenth-largest city and the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Missouri‚ boasting 49‚000 residents and a daytime population of 270‚000 taken from the metropolitan population of 400‚000 citizens. Of the citizens who self-identified their ethnicity in the 2010 census‚ 85.6 percent were
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Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic/acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company‚ and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups‚ The Kozmic Blues Band and The Full Tilt Boogie Band. Her first ever large scale public performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival; this led her to becoming very popular and one of the major attractions at the Woodstock festival and the Festival Express train tour
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I like to do musical theater this involves sing dancing and acting all at the same time. In one song alone you have to stay on your note during the harmonies and remember the lyrics. When you look at it from the dancing aspect you have to keep on beat‚ make sure to stay in unison with the other performers and remember all the dance movie and the order they come in. The last aspect of musical theater is the acting you have emotion not only on you face but in your voice as well as your dancing. These
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Janice Joplin‚ a singer-songwriter and one of the biggest female rock stars of her time was born in Texas on January 19‚ 1943. Joplin was an American blues influenced rock singer and known for her powerful‚ blues-inspired distinctive vocals. She grew up in a small Texas town‚ Port Arthur and it was known for its connections to the oil industry. Joplin developed a love for music at a very young age and often sang in her local church choir. At a very young age‚ she showed promising signs of being
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people‚ alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities‚ though the consequences of its misuse are serious and life threatening. In Scott Sander’s “Under the Influence: Paying the Price of My Father’s Booze‚” Sanders pays and continues to pay for his father’s drinking problem by having feelings of guilt and anger for him after he dies. Throughout this essay‚ Sanders also shows alcoholism as a social problem rather than an individual problem. Sanders recalls that a main source of his father’s
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This F5 tornado destroyed everything in its path in the city of Joplin‚ the Joplin tornado.This was one of the worst tornadoes ever recorded in human history. In 2011‚ it was a normal day and what the people didn’t realize was that a huge‚ reckless tornado was going to hit. The effects on the people that survived the tornado was scarring. Their homes were completely destroyed and family members died. People that weren’t home had to go inside places like fast food places and those didn’t go so well
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High School Musical Critic Essay The movies are very good movies‚ though the movie‚ aiming towards children of age four to twelve‚ encouraging them into having love affair to early at their stage in life. I believe the movie should focus on the age bracket of fifteen (15) through age twenty-two (22). The establishing shot in this film is key as it gives the audience an indication of the setting. The various shots give the audience an insight to the characters’ surroundings which makes the film seem
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“ The Click” Musical Theater Research: Ancient History Musicals have had many different names throughout time: comic operas‚ operettas‚ opera bouffe‚ burlesque‚ burletta‚ extravaganza‚ musical comedy‚ etc. Musical Theater is a form of performance that combines songs‚ dancing and spoken word to tell a story. Musical theater has grown and developed from simple songs used for entertainment on the streets. However‚ the real purpose of a musicals is to aim or transport the audience into a different
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a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the ’90s. Roger‚ a struggling rock musician‚ and Mimi‚ a junkie who’s a dancer at an S/M club‚ are having a lovers’ quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. It’s the signal for an "AZT break‚" and suddenly they realize that they’re both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you don’t think this is romantic‚ consider that Jonathan Larson’s sensational musical is inspired by Puccini’s
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Opera and Musicals Opera and musicals are popular performing arts of the world. Since a majority of people think that musicals are a lighter and an easier genre of performing art than opera‚ musicals are more widely appreciated than opera in this century. Opera and musicals both consist of music‚ stage‚ story‚ performer and audience‚ however‚ there are numerous differences among these elements. Opera’s history begins in Italy in late 16th century with a group called Camerata. Camerata was
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