Lance Armstrong's Journey Before Overcoming Cancer

While in New York, Armstrong made dozens of records as a sideman, creating inspirational jazz and backup singing for many blues singers. Moreover, he had records as a soloist including "Cornet Chop Suey" and "Potato Head Blues." These solos changed jazz history, by incorporating daring rhythm choices, swing and high notes on cornet(Source B). Furthermore, in 1926, Armstrong finally switched from the cornet to the trumpet. After 1926, Louis became more and more famous and broke more and more barriers through his music.

Johnny died at the young age of seventeen after a constant struggle to fight his brain tumor. When Johnny was first diagnosed with a brain tumor and Dr. Penfield confirmed it, John narrates that, “with everybody listening Penfield cut through all the euphemisms and said directly, 'Your child has a malignant glioma, and it will kill him.” (Gunther, 55). At this moment is when it is known that the cancer is real and he has a limited time to live. John Gunther said that “Cancer is a rebellion- a gangster outbreak of misplaced cells”(Gunther, 78). Even after all the surgeries Johnny underwent and as much he suffered, “Johnny did not lose function.

When Louis discovered that he was naturally gifted in music, he established himself as a respected player of jazz music over a period of years. When Louis was a young boy, he had some issue problems with his family, and had to go through this difficult times; his family was very poor and his father abandoned them which everything fall on his mother 's shoulder. She often had to resort to prostitution to provide for the family and she took all the responsibilities as the head leader of the family. Louis couldn 't keep up with his school because there is so much going on at the moment of his life so he decided to dropped out of school in order to work and augment his mother’s meager income. Singing became his part of his life and it 's what he decided to do for his his living, so he started to sing in the streets

This crazy man dropped off a hundred US Dollars at a veterinary clinic in Raymond, Washington during the chase just out of his love and concern for animals. II. He is currently in the Washington State Prison and is expected to be released in December 2016 at the age of 25, after which he believes he will live an amazing life. III. "If I have learnt any truth, it 's that absolutely anything is possible", quoting the Barefoot Bandit, who single-handedly outran all the US forces for over two years before he was finally arrested in the Bahamas in July 2010.

Even though Armstrong did not learn to read music until he was over twenty, he was a musical genius and his talents were groundbreaking. Thanks to the support of his teacher Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong played in some of his bands in New Orleans, and when Joe Oliver left town in 1919, Armstrong took the place of his mentor in the band

After experiencing confinement some inmates suffer from negative mental health effects that can possibly lead to suicide. Solitary confinement should be abolished all across the United States because of the severe negative effects it has on prisoners. A negative effect of solitary confinement that can occur is that a prisoner can become depressed and suicidal. In a popular case in New York, a sixteen year old boy named Kalief Browder, spent over three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. After he was arrested in 2010, he spent more than 1,000 days in Rikers waiting for a trial that was never given to him.

He got shot in the back. His family was looking out the window, hoping it was going to be a normal day, but it turned out to be a stunning shift in the progress. In Evers race to stay alive, his wife Myrlie, took him to a white hospital. They didn’t want to let him in because of his race, a very fatal accident. Myrlie told them who he was.

I rested for about a week before I participated in any physical activity. After about a week 's time I was feeling back to normal as far as I could tell. I started football three weeks after this first concussion. I did not need any medication or treatment for

Another artist who had a large influence in the black freedom movement and the third world struggles during the 1960’s and 70’s is Sun Ra. Sun Ra is a revolutionary jazz musician who began performing professionally as a kid. Once Sun Ra moved to Chicago in 1945, he immersed himself in jazz. Throughout his life, Sun Ra was influenced by space, religion and radical social movements and he expresses his beliefs and ideals through his music. Sun Ra’s love of astronomy and spiritual awakening opened doors for his music because he started fighting the constraints in jazz.

Their cutthroat mentality and desire to be the best escalated them to becoming two of the greatest players ever. What’s outstanding is how they both played in different generations and played almost exactly the same and both of them were not able to be stopped,