Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867-December 27, 1944) She was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Early Years She was born in Henniker, New Hampshire. A child prodigy, she began formal piano lessons with her mother at the age of six, and a year later started giving public recitals. In 1875, her family moved to Boston, where they were advised to enter her into a European conservatory.
Sadly for the world, Ofra died on Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at the age of 42. Ofra Haza was born in Israel into a Jewish-Yemenite family. She was the youngest of eight other brothers and sisters. Her family was financially poor, but musically rich in traditional culture and history. Her mother would sing with Ofra when she was little, which later, Ofra attributed to her own talent and success.
Mozart’s father, “a violinist at the court of the prince of Salzburg,” taught him how to play the clavier and encouraged him in his art (“Wolfgang” World History). His parents had seven children, although only two of them, Mozart and his sister Maria Anna Mozart, survived to adulthood. Mozart first showed off his innate abilities in music at age four, when “he began playing his pieces from his elder sister’s clavier lessons” and astonished his entire family (“Wolfgang” World History). After his father heard him play such arduous pieces, he started giving him lessons. Mozart’s sister was also a talented musician.
Florence Nightingale, a strong and determined woman ahead of her time, was greatly influential in her life-long efforts toward making significant improvements in the medical field. To better understand how Florence Nightingale became instrumental in improving health standards and hospital conditions, it is important to understand her upbringing and where her interests began. She was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820 while her parents, who were from England, were vacationing (Gorrell 4-5). Since Nightingale’s father was well-educated and wanted the same for his daughter, she was homeschooled by private tutors and studied history, math, and several languages (Gill 93-97). Little did her father know that one day Nightingale would find a career as a nurse helping to save the lives of soldiers during the dangerous Crimean War in 1853 (Gorrell 14-17).
|Educ G 203 | |Influential Teacher Paper | |[Michelle May | |17 September 2012] | | | The Teachers that have Impacted My Life As I have gone through the school system, I have met a few teachers who have made an impact on my life. Thanks to their dedication, I have now been inspired to further my education and become a teacher myself. I obviously grew up being in the classroom taught by teachers but since my mom is a speech language pathologist I have also seen school from the teacher’s perspective. For as long as I can remember, I have loved helping her in her classroom. From coloring to lesson plans, I enjoy it all.
All the four women joined together to form The Joy Luck Club. They all met at the First Chinese Baptist Church during bible study class as a way to improve their English. The joy luck club sole purpose is to instill wisdom into their daughters so they can be independent and have their own perspective on life as an American. The story starts with Jing-mei “June” Woo, is asked to replace her mother at the joy luck club. I choose Jing-mei to be my character to write on even though she did not develop much personally, but the effect that the Joy Luck Club had on her were significant and it also has to do with her attitude throughout the story.
When Julie was very young her parents separated, and her mother remarried a man named Ted Andrews who she had performed in a musical act with for couple of years. Ted would sing and Barbara would play the piano. Ted was actually the first one to teach Julie how to sing. In the spring of 1943, when she was only seven years old, Julie began taking singing lessons with Ted and enrolled in a conservatory for the performing arts in London where her aunt was a dance instructor. She had a very rigorous schedule for her age.
To my surprise, I was pleasantly greeted by you, Mr. Nelms. You all were reading aloud the shapes in the music. I had never actually read music before and it took me a while to get the hang of it. Your wife kindly pointed out that the music notes that were circles were always, “sol,” triangles were always, “fa,” squares were always, “la,” and the diamonds were always, “mi.” This helped me tremendously! We sang songs in the music shape note form to aid in memorizing the notes, which is called sight-reading.
As a teenager she developed a love for art, which made her win a scholarship to study dance and drama At Francisco’s Labor School. Before she was a writer, she worked as a waitress and cook, however her passion for music, dance, performance, and poetry would soon take center stage. With the help of her friend, the novelist James Baldwin, she began work on the book that was named as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”. Published in 1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was published to international acclaim and enormous popular success. The list of her published verse, non-fiction, and fiction now includes more than 30 bestselling titles.
Most kids, rather play a sport or go outside and hang out with their friends but in this case they were had to practice the piano/violin so they could become the best of the best. As they got older the amount of pressure they received from their mom only