John Phillips

John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. on Nov.6, 1854. His father John Antonio Sousa was born in Spain, Portuguese and his mother Marie Elizabeth Trinkaus was born in Bavarian. His fame wasn’t an accident. His father was a trombonist with the United States Marine Band. By the time he was six, his musical talent had become apparent and he was enrolled for a year of solfeggio with a local Italian teacher. He was found to have absolute pitch, and so considered sufficiently gifted to begin basic training in harmony and the study of the violin. By the time he was eleven he led his own ‘quadrille orchestra’. The rest of his orchestra consisted of seven men and quickly became a popular dance orchestra in Washington. The following year,…

Jesua Calderon John Phillip Sousa was not just a musician he was a great one. He thought all about the kinds of bands he wanted to do and were popular during that time. He also turned into a band conductor. One more thing that happened was that he became a well known musician. Never underestimate your dreams no matter what the cost. Sousa decided to look over the type of bands he wanted to do. Once he decided that, he named his band the “Sousa Band”. He also made it sound like a…

The first selection of the evening was Band of Brothers by Micheal Kamen. This song has an intense melody with rhythmic harmony throughout the performance. The song has a very uplifting tempo that drove it along. Near the end of the song, the tempo slows down and then picks back up to create a grand finale. The triumphant sound created by the percussions was very influential to me, and made me think of unity. As the different instruments meshed together to create a beautiful sound this caused me…

The film The Quiet American, based off the classic novel by Graham Greene and directed by Phillip Noyce. Based in Saigon, 1952, in the middle of the Vietnam war between the communist and the French. The film follows a long-time war journalist from London named Thomas Fowler and his complicated love life between a catholic woman who does not believe in divorce and the Vietnamese women named Phuong whom he has fallen in love with. Fowler meets an unlikely friend, Alden Pyle, an aid worker for the…

Gilletts put a lot into staff training this includes, challenge 25, sparkling service and an extensive training folder for new starters going through work safety, customer service, theft, security and produce procedures Staff must be trained in all aspects of the job to fullfill their role properly and to get it “right first time”. Phillip Crosby was credited with the “right first time” approach. Right first time should mean zero defects. His approach came up with 4 absolutes of quality…

Highlighting an interesting topic in the economic sector, Mr. Rick Newman develops a valuable analysis based on the data extracted from the Housing Market Recovery Index (Housing MRI) research project. Using two different charts that belong to the same general data (the market’s leading housing recovery cities and the market lagging housing recovery cities), this economist creates a close relationship between Unemployment Rate and the Average home price change since the housing market bottomed…

Philip Musica who used the name F. Donald Coster bought the McKesson & Robbins in 1926 (Foster, p. 5). The owners of McKesson & Robbins sold the company which F. Donald Coster bought. Philip Musica had been involved in several fraud cases before he bought the pharmaceutical company Mckesson & Robbins. The Musica family had been involved in a scandal in which the family bribed custom officials. “The Musicas had been paying fine Italian cheeses recorded at a fraction of their actual weight…

Los Santos: a sprawling sun-soaked metropolis full of self-help gurus, starlets and fading celebrities, once the envy of the western world, now struggling to stay afloat in an era of economic uncertainty and cheap reality TV. On a normal day Michael would wake up or come home to the normal sounds of bickering and yelling but to him it was all the same, he had seen worse, been in worse situations. Despite the brokenness of his family which was lost in money, and things like yoga and drinking kale…

Janice Schakowsky was born Janice Danoff on May 26th, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois. The second child of Jewish immigrants, Irwin and Tillie Danoff, Jan graduated from the University of Illinois in 1965 with a Bachelor of Science in elementary education. One day while food shopping in Evanston, Schakowsky noticed the absence of a “freshness date” on cottage cheese containers. She took steps to rectify the situation and with friends organized a nationwide campaign, this campaign led to food…

Did you know the first sport played in the Americas was lacrosse? The game of lacrosse can be considered as the oldest sport in the Americas. The sport of lacrosse has been around since the Native Americans freely roamed the Americas. The sport was not always just for fun, it also had spiritual and traditional aspects to it. The Indians believed that lacrosse was the “Creator’s Game”. The game was often played to resolve conflicts, heal the sick, and develop stronger men for battle. The…