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Mahalia Jackson – The Power and the Glory: The Life and Music of the World’s Greatest Gospel Singer
Mahalia Jackson – The Power and the Glory: The Life and Music of the World’s Greatest Gospel Singer Review
I have read everything in print, I believe, about Mahalia Jackson. I have researched her life diligently for more than 35 years. This film does a good job of recreating from archival footage the basic substance of her life and work. While some things are not fully accurate, the film does depict the chronological events in her life quite well. For example, the Carnegie 1950 performance was not actually filmed or shown here. The later 1961 image from CBS was used to approximate the actual event. I do not fault any of this, as the film does justice to Mahalia’s fabulous career in many ways, thus providing at least some form of historical narrative for future generations. I sincerely hope that an intensive and thorough work is currently in the making. Mahalia made TV appearances as late as 1971 (Flip Wilson). She sang at M.L. King’s funeral, yet in this documentary that actual performance was not used. I personally watched her April 1968 televised performance of “Precious Lord” at his funeral. All major networks televised the event, so this performance should have been used. Mahalia was on TV in the 50’s and 60’s frequently. I believe that in essence this particular film does capture the life and work of Miss Jackson fairly accurately and well. I am grateful to its producers for the effort and research and the images of the great Mahalia. I did enjoy this film and in the end I felt that long familiar pang. . .I surely do miss her.
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Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete of all time – read the many reasons why
Last week, the world has seen something special. What we have seen can not swim to overcome just sports, but to come into the world of athletics as well. Michael Phelps in Beijing with an impossible goal: to win every race he swam. Should have run several times a day on a calendar that break every human being on the planet in two halves. He not only went on to win every race, he broke 7 world records in the process. Phelps in the Olympics are not just oneunprecedented amount of pressure of an individual athlete in history. When Mark Spitz won 7 gold medals, the world was not watching his every move to see if the company was possible. All great athletes have had to deal with pressure and overcome obstacles in their path to greatness. Last week, Michael Phelps size increased to another level, last week we saw that looks perfect.
In recent days I have had several elements from different sources to find and share viewson what he achieved. Several journalists confused excuses (most of them have never played a high-level athletes), talk about what they can not understand what you just have never experienced and find excuses to put the main result of a man in history sport.
Some of the excuses I've heard and read:
1. Swimming is a sport simple: I urge everyone to swim, again a 10 × 200 meter butterfly stroke and taken without breaking anymore than 30 seconds of rest. When you are done, then write again to talk about how easy it is swimming. Against this talk about the things that you know and avoid sounds so stupid.
2. Not many people swim competitively so easily, the best thing: more people competing in swimming in the world compared to other sports that are very popular in America. Swimming in the world is bigger than football, baseball and hockey, by far. With these rules, the majority (who participate in this sport), thenTiger Woods not being in the top 500 athletes and players, the top 50 will be reserved seating.
3. Distance is not a multi-sport athletes like Jim Thorpe, Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan: swimming movements are very different from each other and different people require training in various energy systems. If you're a baseball player, you can cross train in football or basketball. You can also create a sprinter, and on almost every translation teamSport in the country. Swimming is done in a different environment and while swimming are things that translates done outside of the pool in order to have better performance, nothing. Are a great driver's basketball, baseball, soccer or football player and drowning in the pool. Michael Phelps's unprecedented multi-talented and aquatic sports. By the way, as you have Jordan on his MLB career?
Michael Phelps could not have been a popular sport, but has learned one of the most difficultSports Training in a time when sport is at its peak. Swimmers to try to prevent Phelps from around the world to rise to perfection, and not. Now, try to confuse journalists, to minimize its completion, but are not, because the parameters are simple: Michal Phelps has dominated the sport, competitors from around the world at a time when sport is at peak and training methods are well developed. Phelps 'feat' is not removed Maradona, Jordan, Pele,Mohammed Ali, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Bo Jackson, Carl Lewis and Mark Spitz, but he put in a category of its own: The size phelpsian.
Finally, even if you think Michael Phelps is not the greatest ever, it is best in our best interest to sit down and learn. Phelps has had success in the following principles:
1. Develop your strengths and use them to their advantage: the underwater kick to the corners.
2. Develop your weakness, until itare: the breast bone in the race IM.
3. Develop yourself as a man who even in his interviews that he initially kept his teammates and was describing to a loss of words for its special services. Have you seen Terrell Owens?
4. Turn has said every event motivational opportunity: Ian Thorpe of 8 gold medals, have not been able to occupy the French rejection of the first relay and Cavic said that Phelps was the place to perfection, like a ruin where trowing gasolinealready well fire.
5. Winning at any cost, without cheating: Major League Baseball and the Tour de France should take a page of this book.
6. Stay true to yourself, the mother of Phelps' was the camera almost as much as him. Phelps not only the greatest athletes ever to live, is also a great person and a breath of fresh air.
If you do not follow week Phelsian, try to check it out on re-runs or YouTube. I'm sure it will be a DVD saliva as well. Last weekPeople who reach perfection athletic life they had seen.
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