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lincolncollection · 6 years

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For the Next Generation: Children’s Books about Lincoln, 1867-1906

In the decades following Lincoln’s assassination, a large number of books about the 16th president were published that were intended for young readers. It was important, the books’ authors believed, that the knowledge of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln be passed on to the next generation.

One of the first children’s biographies was Zachariah Mudge’s 1867 The Forest Boy: A Sketch of the Life of Abraham Lincoln for Young People, published by the Sunday-School Department of Nelson & Phillips publishers. The book, which was reissued into the 1880s, sought to “bring out, for an example and inspiration to the young, that moral integrity and true goodness which were so prominent in Mr. Lincoln’s character.”

Horatio Alger, inventor of the poor-boy-to-self-made-man novel for boys, published The Backwoods Boy; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln as part of the Bound-to-Win Library in 1883. Alger wrote, “I venture to say that among our public men there is not one whose life can be studied with more interest and profit by American youth than that of Abraham Lincoln.” The book appeared under other publishers with variant titles between 1883 and 1909.

In 1892, Hezekiah Butterworth published In the Boyhood of Lincoln: A Tale of the Tunker Schoolmaster and the Times of Black Hawk, which he characterized as “a true picture in a framework of fiction” through which the “faith that right makes might” would be impressed on his young readers in the character of Abraham Lincoln. Readers must have found the book appealing because it went through nine editions and remained in print until 1908.

The Notable History of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, by Thomas Meek, was published in 1896 by Donohue, Henneberry & Co. as part of the Boys National Series. The 18-page pamphlet included 11 illustrations, many in color, which undoubtedly increased the enjoyment of its young readers.

Frances Craven’s The Story of Lincoln for Children was published in 1898 by the Public-School Publishing Co. of Bloomington, Illinois. It included illustrations and was likely intended for classroom use. The book ended with a poem by William Cullen Bryant that placed the martyred president “Among the noble host of those / Who perished in the cause of right.”

Biographies intended to inform and inspire young Americans continued to be published with the arrival of the 20th century. In 1900 Eleanor Gridley wrote The Story of Abraham Lincoln; or, the Journey from the Log Cabin to the White House. Gridley sought to present Lincoln’s “boyish hopes and hardships, his youthful aspirations and privations, his home life, and his public services” to chart his journey from his frontier upbringing to the presidency and thereby “inspire other boys to noble endeavor.”

Harriet Reiter’s 1906 30-page pamphlet, The Story of Lincoln, was item No. 5 in the School Classic Series, which advertised its publications as “the best and cheapest supplementary reading” for classroom use. Reiter presented a straightforward and laudatory biography, ending with Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!” The pamphlet went through several editions and publishers.

Two individuals with close personal connections to Lincoln also published children’s biographies of the president. William O. Stoddard, one of Lincoln’s personal secretaries during his presidency, published The Boy Lincoln in 1905. Stoddard hoped his young readers would learn from Lincoln’s boyhood experience “a lesson of possible development, advancement, uplifting” that would inspire them to “read on through the grand history of his life” to understand Lincoln’s greatness. He presented this copy of the book to his son Ralph.

And Helen Nicolay, daughter of John Nicolay, another of Lincoln’s personal secretaries and co-author of the 10-volume Abraham Lincoln: A History, published her The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln in 1906. Helen Nicolay had never met Lincoln, but she knew her father’s experience and had transcribed much of his biography of the president. The last sentence of her book expressed both her hope for her readers and her own experience: “We who have never seen him yet feel daily the influence of his kindly life, and cherish among our most precious possessions the heritage of his example.”

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loveofyhwh · 6 years

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October 9: Isaiah 34–36; James 1:1–18; Psalm 92; Proverbs 25:15

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October 9: Isaiah 34–36; James 1:1–18; Psalm 92; Proverbs 25:15

Old Testament:

Isaiah 34–36

Isaiah 34–36 (Listen)

Judgment on the Nations

34 Draw near, O nations, to hear, and give attention, O peoples! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes from it. 2 For the LORD is enraged against all the nations, and furious against all their host; he has devoted them to destruction,That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5‘>1 has given them over for slaughter. 3 Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood. 4 All the host of heaven shall rot away, and the skies roll up like a scroll. All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree. 5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have devoted to destruction. 6 The LORD has a sword; it is sated with blood; it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the LORD has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom. 7 Wild oxen shall fall with them, and young steers with the mighty bulls. Their land shall drink its fill of blood, and their soil shall be gorged with fat. 8 For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion. 9 And the streams of EdomHebrew her streams‘>2 shall be turned into pitch, and her soil into sulfur; her land shall become burning pitch. 10 Night and day it shall not be quenched; its smoke shall go up forever. From generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. 11 But the hawk and the porcupineThe identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain‘>3 shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusionHebrew formlessness‘>4 over it, and the plumb line of emptiness. 12 Its nobles—there is no one there to call it a kingdom, and all its princes shall be nothing. 13 Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses. It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.Or owls‘>5 14 And wild animals shall meet with hyenas; the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; indeed, there the night birdIdentity uncertain‘>6 settles and finds for herself a resting place. 15 There the owl nests and lays and hatches and gathers her young in her shadow; indeed, there the hawks are gathered, each one with her mate. 16 Seek and read from the book of the LORD: Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the LORD has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them. 17 He has cast the lot for them; his hand has portioned it out to them with the line; they shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.

The Ransomed Shall Return

35 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus; 2 it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the LORD, the majesty of our God. 3 Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. 4 Say to those who have an anxious heart, “Be strong; fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.” 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 6 then shall the lame man leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute sing for joy. For waters break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; 7 the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water; in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down, the grass shall become reeds and rushes. 8 And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.Or if they are fools, they shall not wander in it‘>7 9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it; they shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there. 10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Sennacherib Invades Judah

36 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent the RabshakehRabshakeh is the title of a high-ranking Assyrian military officer‘>8 from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 3 And there came out to him Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.

4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 5 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, “We trust in the LORD our God,” is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”? 8 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 9 How then can you repulse a single captain among the least of my master’s servants, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 Moreover, is it without the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 12 But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 Thus says the king: ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD by saying, “The LORD will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with meHebrew Make a blessing with me‘>9 and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, 17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, “The LORD will deliver us.” Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

21 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king’s command was, “Do not answer him.” 22 Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Footnotes

[1] 34:2 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); also verse 5 [2] 34:9 Hebrew her streams [3] 34:11 The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain [4] 34:11 Hebrew formlessness [5] 34:13 Or owls [6] 34:14 Identity uncertain [7] 35:8 Or if they are fools, they shall not wander in it [8] 36:2 Rabshakeh is the title of a high-ranking Assyrian military officer [9] 36:16 Hebrew Make a blessing with me

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New Testament:

James 1:1–18

James 1:1–18 (Listen)

Greeting

1 James, a servantFor the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface‘>1 of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion:

Greetings.

Testing of Your Faith

2 Count it all joy, my brothers,Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 16, 19‘>2 when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

9 Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, 10 and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grassOr a wild flower‘>3 he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

12 Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

16 Do not be deceived, my beloved brothers. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.Some manuscripts variation due to a shadow of turning‘>4 18 Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Footnotes

[1] 1:1 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface [2] 1:2 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters; also verses 16, 19 [3] 1:10 Or a wild flower [4] 1:17 Some manuscripts variation due to a shadow of turning

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Psalm:

Psalm 92

Psalm 92 (Listen)

How Great Are Your Works

A Psalm. A Song for the Sabbath.

92 It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praises to your name, O Most High; 2 to declare your steadfast love in the morning, and your faithfulness by night, 3 to the music of the lute and the harp, to the melody of the lyre. 4 For you, O LORD, have made me glad by your work; at the works of your hands I sing for joy. 5 How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep! 6 The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this: 7 that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever; 8 but you, O LORD, are on high forever. 9 For behold, your enemies, O LORD, for behold, your enemies shall perish; all evildoers shall be scattered. 10 But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox; you have poured over meCompare Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain‘>1 fresh oil. 11 My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies; my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants. 12 The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, 15 to declare that the LORD is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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[1] 92:10 Compare Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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Proverb:

Proverbs 25:15

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15 With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

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paraclete0407 · 3 years

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['And I Will Give You Rest]

- ‘People determined to keep their inner lives’

- 'All Milwaukee started to hunker down for or toward Delta'

- 'The magic of Half Price Books was gone but so were the racists'

- 'The visions of turkeys - "appreciate me," their insouciant defiance"

- '"Hyper moron" meaning sth approximating to "going too far"'

- 'That the few things which had caught his eye in past were still the things which counted in his heart, ghosts or otherwise. The strange sermon from Christ Church about ghosts not being alive but a love nevertheless but what was that supposed to mean? Magdalen took the Risen Lord for a ghost in the garden but was that just my self-aggrandizing-Christ-Complex-ing retort to a pinpoint criticism of my trivial existence? Moreover were my demons gone or were they battling each other more than ever ‘Parliament of Devils / Fallens Angels’-style out of Paradise Lost or one vice / sin trying to compensate or counter-balance for another and if so & there again was Putin going to nuke Milwaukee just to put an end to the push-me-pull-you I-know-ha-ha know-you-are-but-what-am-I I-have-heart-failure-meaning-you-have-heart-failure Shadowplay Mirror Stage monstrosity and abandonment?

- 'They were trying to get life right for the first time for the first time in a long time, and for a time he ventured in to or in any event towards a space "beyond irony" in which he had a positive or living wish and could perhaps meet someone new. He wasn't keeping secrets or rather was not centrally defined by these secrets, by his past. JEP had quoted inadvertently or otherwise from 'The Great Gatsby' as did General Mattis although it was hard to tell if either of them understood the part about young men's personal testimonies being marred by redactions or self-censorship. His mother had quoted from Got saying that winter was coming; Shanghai-1 had quoted from Confucius saying, 'I hope that my future child will not hesitate to abandon [sex]'s faults.' I was working on 'My First Major Mistake' and postponing or 'bracketing' my 'little stories' about amatory failure. At the height of the self or self-system a 'Sospira' happened - a flight up of sighing or prayer in which borrowed or received - rather inherited or patrimonial words came to override accustomed 'messaging.' Future King Edgar said, 'Speak what we feel / not what we ought to say,' but I'd been trying for basically a decade to say what was right to say, spurred or overdetermined by Colossians 4:6. I was disappointed by the 'genocide-monkeys' on Amazon.com who hawked General Mattis memorabilia as though the conscientious leader of men (boys / lads) and female youths as well had been an exponent of massacre for massacre's sake like the Call of Duty game in which they mowed down airport-travelers in order to ingratiate themselves with Russian terrorists. But I didn't think the children of tomorrow wanted spies or infiltrations and my 'John le Carre / J. Alfred Prufrock Jr.' hyper-fanfictions were only theoretical invetsment-options; what they wanted were literal "Spaceships to Venus" whilst I had long since contented myself with IZ*ONE's "Spaceship" and pictures of tender shadows covering journeyers in airports. "Our Souls at Night" was fundamentally about failures, vanities, cruel reversals, 'Harvests of Sorrow,' lingering bemusements of schooling as well - the man perhaps feeling at life's end pace Augustine 'one's body is one's wife,' that he had no other flesh.. Why had I told myself that love-stories like "A Walk To Remember" were less toxic than my premarital-but-expecting-practically-predestined-to-get-married military counter-terrorism fictions in which people acted ethically almost 100% of the time instead of comporting themselves as 'principle monkeys,' who'd said in their hearts, 'I have to do this; I do this - therefore, I rain chaos and "War without Mercy" on everything and everyone else & why would I follow one rule unless to blow apart another.' My ex-boss had said, 'What do couples talk about?' IT's your kids stupid! Except Jewish couples talked about non-Jews - everyone were tribal hacks going Gr. "hyper moron." But, with him and her, I had had an atheist's heart and an 'expressive-individualist-Milleniial-complaint-self-consciousness-JZM-O-Sole-Mio-CCP-revenge-Faustian-Pact-monkey''s tongue.' Atheism, Satanism, demon-summons + infections, metatstatic death-cult Scientism, blasphemy of Spirit, sons and daughter of destruction. B. and I had kept quoting Moshe Rabbenu, 'Heaven and Earth as witnesses AGAINST you - that ye shall surely die!' And they totally massively desperately loved Mao; adored 'Parasite,' - an ecstatic orgasmic rapturous 'yes' to WW3

'A Final Love'

'That do'st prefer the upright heart and pure... sing Heav’nly Muse' - and I remembered Penn Station New York in view of CS Lewis on 'Home' - the angel said, 'Divide, divide, divide' - I wanted to abandon PhiEd and attempts to change some minds forever; my own heart was here with a dream of there. [German submachinegun] made me feel secure but in this apostolic-revelatory new century the naked or dove-silvered dreamers hesitate through fraught cold forests searching for an Eastern Empire & I remembered 'Crowns of Glory,' wanting to be the First Gentleman of the United States by 2056. Tender shadows + the pleasure of helping people like the pleasure of thinking that you know the truth. We consecrate sometimes and sometimes merely symbolize or indicate or theorize; 'maybe mine.'

I am crossing the bridge - the mountain-divide - Chinese rocket with the guy-wire 'That's not even it' - the Gothic spire went straight up; was I tempting God like 'Paradise Regained?' - the little children had moved me to simplify my language then I happened across 'may reticulate "nay come on take the chance of anger..'" I discussed the anguish of King Hezekiah and forgot again; I canceled my parents, fathered my brother. Isaiah 38:15. Shadows in Madison WI and a dream of 2 angels over mountain; Uchida Mitsuko's D-960, sobbing, ‘why already do I have to die; have I taken the Westward path; why did I ot get married; why did I not move out; why am I still writing music instead of living a life of love in material and physical and marital and domestic and all other respects?’ His anguish in a distant way I see now is like that of Cui Jian in ‘Yi wuo suo yo’ - ‘I have nothing.’ At the moment of peak creativity or ‘spiritual productive power’ he confronted the end of his life on this Earth, rather than the lodestone or seed of a future which would allow him to ‘make it big.’

I had left behind sacred professions esp. jurisprudence; possibly because my underlying vocation had been for the priesthood or at least my most basic identity was Christian and I had attempted to bypass this, preoccupied with ‘getting established,’ as if one had to be a man in full before making the simplest purest decision.

I imagined eating bread with honey and an egg for breakfast at Memorial Union and then studying all day but I could not determine my mind to be filled with the details of the legal code instead of bringing forth something out of myself or in the end succeeding as a writer. My experiences at law school orientations had been discouraging; I had no idea what my prospective future classmates really stood for or meant by their words or ‘speech-acts’ except that they were utterly intent on making much of themselves and their lives or their time on this Earth; they seemed to be ‘capering; jet-set kiddies.’ A Dept. of State spouse seemed to brag or revel in her international experience / exposure. I met a Korean who was married to a Japanese and who had experienced a stroke at a comparatively young age (due, I can only infer in retrospect and after 11 years, to extreme militation of one soul or spirit against another); I perceived that his habit of telling the same story to everyone he met might have been unconscious, as if he kept forgetting that he already said or had lost track of the fact that he was being artificial. After receiving the first and the second Pfizer jabs I started to perceive the blood in my own brain and several times became severely concerned of an impending stroke or other failure of the circulatory system. I worried too that fasting had thinned my skull and rendered my brain over-sensitive to external electric fields.

We talked for a little while and walked out in the night together; it was a sacred experience; however, I had no expectation we would really become friends or meet again.

I had read 'The Executioner's Song' and seen 'Michael Clayton' about getting out of Milwaukee and pure blonde Charity-receptive girls of 2007 seemed to be gone though I could've made some listen in '16...

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camilopetrucci · 6 years

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Inspiraciones baterísticas: Aaron Spears. Capítulo 1.

Domingo de inspiraciones baterísticas: El primero de una serie de bateristas que compartiré y el más importante para mí es Aaron Spears. Inició ya desde los 3 años con ese talento musical y lo fue puliendo en una iglesia Pentecostal en USA mientras que su madre siempre le cultivó ese talento. El ambiente familiar siempre se vio envuelto en el género Gospel y por eso Aaron creció escuchando bandas como: The Winans, Commission, The Hawkings y Hezekiah Walker. Tomó clases de batería en la niñez y fue hasta la secundaria que se sumergió de lleno a este instrumento. Empezó a inspirarse con bateros como Dave Weckl, Stewart Copeland, Vinnie Colaiuta y Dennis Chambers y durante ese periodo de vida su experiencia floreció dentro de la banda de la iglesia donde se congregaba. Fueron gracias a las presentaciones en vivo que lograron que formara parte de una agrupación llamada Gideon Band. Finalizados sus estudios en el Harper College de Los Angeles, volvió a su ciudad de origen, Washington, para volver a tocar con la banda de la iglesia y casualmente un personaje llamado Cornelius Berkeley lo escuchó tocar en una de las presentaciones en vivo, lo buscó y le ofreció unirse de tiempo completo a su agrupación. A la Gideon Band. Fue durante mediados de 2003 que mientras trabajaba como empleado de oficina para una firma de tecnología, tuvo su primera gran oportunidad musical. Resulta que un amigo de él estaba escuchando la música de la banda de Spears (Gideon) y lo hizo mientras Brantley Valdez, director musical de Usher, estaba a su lado. Le interesó tanto a Valdez el talento de lo que escuchaba que decidió darle una oportunidad para audicionar y ser parte de una gira junto a Usher. Aaron envió un demo en video tocando algunas canciones de Usher, y de los cientos de bateristas que también audicionaron él fue el elegido. Spears pidió una licencia de trabajo para salir con la banda de Usher y después de culminada la gira, Spears regreso a su puesto de trabajo original. Poco después de este suceso lo volvieron a llamar para invitarlo a realizar una segunda gira y fue cuando decidió escuchar esa voz artística que brotaba por sus venas y así dedicarse de lleno a la música. Renunció a su trabajo y se comprometió definitivamente con la banda de Usher. Ha participado en programas televisivos como el Saturday Night Live (SNL) y ha sido músico de casa en el programa American Idol. Llegó incluso a ser nominado en los Grammy como productor musical, gracias al trabajo realizado en las canciones “Superstar” y “Confessions” del disco que sacó Usher en 2004: “Confessions”. En 2006 participó dentro de uno de los eventos más importantes, baterísticamente hablando, el Modern Drummer. Allí ganó el premio Modern Drummer Reader’s Poll. Después de eso logró tocar para músicos como: David Cook, Lil Wayne, Carrie Underwood, Adam Lambert, Israel Houton e incluso con Alicia Keys. Sus sponsors principales se basan en cuatro: los platillos Zildjian, de los cuales se ha mantenido fiel respecto a su sonido además de crear una línea de platos llamada “Inspiration Pack” dedicadas a los sonidos Gospel; Usa baterías DW, que representan una de las gamas más altas; utiliza los parches Remo; y finalmente las baquetas Vic Firth que de hecho tiene su propia insignia, es decir, tiene sus baquetas personalizadas y listas para ser compradas en cualquier tienda musical que comercialice las Vic Firth. Si usted desea aprender un poco más del feeling y de los movimientos de Spears, puede ver la clínica musical que publicó en 2009 llamada: “Aaron Spears - Beyond The Chops: Groove, Musicality and Technique”.

#usher #aaron spears #vic firth #drummer

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vvakarians · 7 years

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6 and 2 for any of your DA kids (I love them all)

I’ll do it for all my mains, just for you :))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

What is their preferred weapon?

Original Canon kids:

Warden-Commander Tauriel Mahariel (Hero of Ferelden and Queen Consort): Big Mama Bear has a Giant Fucking Sword, which is really just a big Greatsword named Arlathvhen.

Senior Warden Cassiopeia Cousland (Queen of Ferelden): Local Blind Bard prefers her daggers most of the time over her bow, their names are Diplomacy and Mercy.

Ophelia Hawke (Champion of Kirkwall): Lovable Asshole has an actual Halberd as a staff, and it’s name is Justice (they wanted to name it Little Shit but Fenris forbade them from doing so).

Halcyon Hawke (Former Knight-Captain, Princess of Starkhaven): Eldest Hawke Sib uses a sword and shield. The shield is the Amell crest one given to her by Leandra, and her sword is some Kirkwall noble sword she looted when they came to the City of Chains, aptly named after her late mother.

Hero Hawke (Former Tranquil, Pirate): Twin to Ophelia uses a dagger and her fists almost 1000% of the time, her staff is usually just for show. Her daggers name is Bloodletter because it’s a terrible pun since she’s a blood mage.

Calliope Lavellan (Herald, Inquisitor, and Reincarnation of Falon’Din): White Haired Death God has a few preferred weapons depending on the time of the story. During Inquisition and Trespasser it’s a Sulevin Blade named Enasalin that has a Master Dragon Slayers rune embedded into it. In between DAI and whatever the next game will be, they train with a halberd to which they name it Felassan.

Second Canon kids:

Warden-Commander Aviel Tabris (Hero of Ferelden, Lover of Divine Victoria): Small Nb Bard Boy prefers his bow given to him by Leliana before he left to find a Cure for the Blight, it’s name is Heartstring.

Warden-Constable Heracles Cousland (Right Hand to the Commander): this Big Man loves his sword looted off of Howes body, it belonged to his father and he calls it Second Chance.

Valentyne Hawke (Champion of Kirkwall): Fast Rogue Boy loves his Daggers that his father left him in Lothering, they are named Silvertongue and Toothpick, can you tell he has a bad sense of humor.

Sybyll Hawke (Viscount of Kirkwall): Gentle Blood Mage actually doesn’t use much of their staff, which is pretty menacing even when strapped to their back; unless it’s an emergency they have a set of sewing needles that are really sharp along with a razor blade that they pilfered from Varric’s shaving set that they use their blood magic with.

Hezekiah Hawke (Hunter of Slave Masters): Lean Beef NB uses a Valo-Kas Iss that they won in a game of knivesies in the Hanged Man, they didn’t name it yet and are always open to suggestions, as long as they aren’t...vulgar (looking at Valentyne)

Honi “Honey” Adaar (Herald, Lady Inquisitor): Everyone’s Favorite Qunari Babe uses a Archon Staff that she hasn’t really come up with a name for, but her spirit sword that she uses she has come to call Andraste’s Fire.

Ayashe Lavellan (First of Clan Lavellan, Inquisition Spy): Inquisitors Best Friend uses the Accusers Staff that you can get in the Jaws of Hakkon DLC, and has named it Harellan.

What kind of fighter are they: defense focused, offense focused, balanced, or flexible?

Offense focused: Calliope Lavellan, Honi Adaar, Heracles Cousland Valentyne Hawke, Halcyon Hawke, Tauriel Mahariel, and Ophelia Hawke.

Defense focused: Sybyll Hawke, Aviel Tabris

Balanced: Ayashe Lavellan, Hezekiah Hawke, Hero Hawke, and Cassiopia Cousland

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