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Symphony Orchestra Performing Arts
1,650 words... phonies of Gyrowetz and Haydn, and to study such other scores as were available I name incipiently cultured Boston that day. Soon thereafter every other city also sprouted its musical organization. Philadelphia, Cincinatti, St. Louis, San Francisco, and other communities as they attained a modicum of wealth and leisure attracted German and French immigrants to perform in the orchestras. Further development of the American orchestra should be attributed to visiting tours of European great orc...
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Should Ebonics Be Taught In High School
506 wordsShould Ebonics Be Taught In High Schools? I feel that if Ebonics were to be taught in high schools today, it would lower the already low standards on public education today. In most California schools, the competency level among its students in the reading and math department is already at an all time low, and by allowing Ebonics into the school system, it advocates less school work as well as laziness among its students. To say that Ebonics is a foreign language is wrong. It is the culminations...
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Eudora Welty And Jack London
1,766 wordsThere is a silent shadow which seems to mirror a gaunt, dark, figure who prowls the busy airports, silent streets, and even the cozy homes. There is no escaping this man, the destroyer. No walls are thick enough to shut him out, no mountain high enough to evade his wrath. He is death... he is predetermined... he is unpredictable... to some he is simply fascinating. The wish to live, the inability to believe in ones own menacing death, the universal human faith in ones own immunity to death- all ...
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O J Simpson English Class
870 wordsOn December 23, 1972, one of the most memorable games in the history of the National Football League took place at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Steelers were playing the Oakland Raiders in the AFC Championship Game. The score was 7 - 6 in favor of the Raiders; then something extraordinary happened. Steeler quarterback Terry Bradshaw dropped back to pass with thirteen seconds remaining in the fourth quarter. The intended receiver was Frenchy Fequa. Fequa collid...
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Black English Grammatical Rules
1,237 wordsEbonics, or Black English, was recently a controversial topic in the United States, when the Oakland School District school board attempted to classify ebonics as a completely different language from Standard American English (SAE). There was further controversy when the school board stated that ebonics was genetic. This report will explain Ebonics and its origin, as well as the Oakland school board case. There are over 20 million blacks in the United States today. It is hard to tell exactly how...
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White Sox Red Sox
462 wordsThe dog days of summer are behind us, and now come the chilly nights in New York, Seattle, St. Louis, and the other side of New York. The playoffs are among us and already are living up to the excitement of October baseball. After starting off with eight teams, scattered through out the country, we have The teams that reach the playoffs all have fresh starts. This has been the case this October. The Chicago White Sox had the best record in the American League, and opened up against the American ...
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Los Angeles City Officials
1,034 wordsProfessional sports, like most of our popular culture, can be understood only partly by through its exiting plays and tremendous athletes. Baseball and football most of all are not only games anymore but also hardcore businesses. As businesses, sports leagues can be as conniving, deceitful, and manipulative as any other businesses in the world. No matter what the circumstances are, it seems that Politicians are always some how right around the corner from the world of sports. These Politicians l...
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Loaded Weapons Black Panthers People
423 wordsIt began on February 1, 1960, in Greensboro, North Carolina when four black students seated themselves at the whites only lunch counter and refused to leave until they were served. After the first sit-in, it began happening all over the country and by the end of the year, 70, 000 blacks staged sit-ins. Throughout this, over 3, 600 people were arrested. This movement was successful, but it demonstrated non-violent protests. After this movement began, several organizations developed. Such programs...
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Juvenile Crime Street Gangs
245 wordsJuvenile Delinquency 5. 14 Mr. Raymond Kendall Secretary General INTERPOL Quai Charles de Gaulle 69006 Lyon, France Dear Mr. Kendall, There is growing concerns of juvenile crime problems in the United States. Gang membership as well as gang-related crime is mostly a juvenile problem. According to the experts predictions, due to the rise in juvenile crime the crime problem will get worse in the next few years. Therefore, it is very important to adopt an effective approach to combat crime level in...
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Civil Rights Movement Religious Institutions
1,615 wordsThe civil rights movement started to the full in the mid- 1950 s and it was mostly a grassroots, bottom-up phenomenon, which was based in religious congregations rather than a movement initiated and supported primarily by outsiders - particularly white, Northern liberals. The various books written by political sociologists and social movement theorists expand our perception of how religious institutions contribute to expanding democracy. This work examines religious institutions as generators of...
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Museum Of Modern Art Abstract Expressionism
1,759 wordsThinking outside the Box Clay, in its wet, malleable state, is fast moving, responding instantly to the touch. It demands spontaneity, speed and the instinct for improvisation. Cheap and abundant, it leaves the artist free to take risks, to waste his material, even to destroy his work with the exhilaration of a kid popping balloons. Over the years, Peter Voulkos has taken this humble material long associated with utility and craft and created a new kind of art. Harnessing destruction as a creati...
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Days A Week Mass Transit
1,040 wordsA Contemporary Performance Issue Commuting is a perfect example of a contemporary performance issue, traffic congestion can steal valuable time from employees personal lives (Wells par. 1). The typical employee is concerned with the time lost in commuting to work and not spent at home with their family. The family could be spouse, children, pets, parents, siblings etc. If your everyday lifestyle started with the concern and time wasted just for commuting to and from work, you already started the...
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University Of Michigan Assisted Suicide
1,076 wordsJack Kervorkian was born May 28, 1928 in a small suburb of Detroit Michigan. As he was growing up Kervorkian dreamed of training under Jack Grand to be a radio baseball broadcaster. His parents wanted him to pursue a more promising career. Kervorkian was an average kid and he played normal kiddy games. Kervorkian was bored with school but he read vigorously. His childhood friend, Richard Dakesian once said that Kervorkian should have graduated high school at the age of 13 or 14. Kervorkian gradu...
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Charmian Kittredge San Francisco First
568 wordsJack Griffith London was born in San Francisco in 1876 his mother was of a wealthy background, her name was Flora Wellman. His father may have been William Chaney, a journalist, lawyer, and major figure in the development of American astrology. Because Flora was ill, an ex-slave, Virginia Prentiss, who was a major mother like figure while he grew up, raised Jack through infancy. Late in 1876, Flora married John London, a partially disabled Civil War veteran. The family moved around the Bay area ...
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633 wordsJack London was a prolific writer, one of the most widely read American writers of the early 20 th century. During his short life, he wrote fifty books, plus many articles and short stories. Besides being one of the most widely read authors, he was also the highest-paid. However, Jack London did not spend all of his time writing. Besides being an author, he also was a gold prospector, a homeless, a pirate, a sailor, and a factory worker. London was determined to live an adventurous life: I would...
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Call Of The Wild Jack London
715 wordsJack London (1876 - 1916) was easily the most successful and best-known writer in America in the first decade of the 20 th century. He is best known for his books, The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea-Wolf, and a few short stories, such as " To Build a Fire" and " The White Silence. " He was a productive writer whose fiction traveled through three lands and their cultures such as the Yukon, California, and the South Pacific. His most famous writings included war, box...
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San Francisco Chronicle Terminally Ill
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Point Of View Catholic Worker
1,459 wordsOn Writing " A Canticle To The Waterbirds" by On Writing " A Canticle To The Waterbirds" by William Everson In the spring of 1950 my Guggenheim Fellowship ran out, and I found myself on Skid Row. I had two choices open to me: I could enter a religious order or go back to my job. I approached the Benedictines and then the Franciscans, but nothing jelled with either of them. From their point of view, I was too new a Catholic before undertaking religious life the Church prefers ...
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Black Panther Party Group Of People
876 wordsToday Id like to tell you about a group of people who over the years have gained a bad reputation in the world for simply telling the truth and trying to fit into a society which rejects them and rejects the truth itself. The group that I am referring to is the Black Panthers. Most people perceive the Black Panthers as being a type of white hate group that despise white people and doesnt want anything to do with them. This perception is due mostly to the government and what they tell you to beli...
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Avant Gar Dists Expressionist Painters Franz Kline Voulkos
3,066 wordsThe exhibition of recent stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos at Frank Lloyd Gallery featured the sort of work on which the artist established reputation in the 1950 s. The work was greeted with stunned amazement. However now it is too, but its amazement of a different order the kind that comes from being in the presence of effortless artistic mastery. These astonishing vessels are truly amazing. Every ceramic artist knows that what goes into a kiln looks very different from what comes out, and al...
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