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The House On Mango Street Seeking Independence
1,001 words
In the book The House on Mango Street, author
Sandra Cisneros presents a series of vignettes
that involve a young girl, named Esperanza,
growing up in the Latino section of Chicago.
Esperanza Cordero is searching for a release from
the low expectations and restrictions that Latino
society often imposes on its young women. Cisneros
draws on her own background to supply the reader
with accurate views of Latino society today. In
particular, Cisneros provides the chapters Boys
and Girls and Beautifu...
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Freedom Of Speech Social And Economic
1,381 words
... f-evident, which is that of each individual to
equal freedom, and that any other right must be a
derivation or specialization of this right, as are
the freedoms of religion, assembly, and speech.
Otherwise what is alleged to be a natural or human
right is only a human want or need, and other
justification must be found to satisfy it. Human
rights may also be justified by a social contract.
That is, these are the rights that in the state of
nature all people, contracting to form a common
gove...
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Boston Red Sox Civil Rights Movement
1,838 words
The Roaring Twenties of this country was a time
when the entire sports world blew up into the
major worldwide business that it is now. Baseball
was one sport that really profited from the
countrys sporting obsession, and baseball became
one of the most popular sporting events to attend.
Not only was it a game played by adults but it was
also a family event that entire families could go
to. By the beginning of the decade baseball had
its first $ 100, 000 deal when George Herman Ruth
was traded fr...
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Years In Prison Plead Guilty
636 words
Al Capone is one of the most historically known
mobsters in the Untied States. He was born in 1899
at Brooklyn, New York. His family had migrated
from the Old Country to have a fresh start with
more money and more power in the United States.
They were hoping for a better life. Capone quit
school in the sixth grade. Although he did not get
much schooling, he was very smart. He was friends
with a well known gang in the area, of which
Johnny Torrio was the leader. Torrio had invited
Capone to join ...
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Dollars A Year Run On The Bank Jurgis
778 words
The book begins with two people getting married,
Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Radius Two Lithuanian
immigrants who have recently arrived in Chicago.
They have the wedding in the traditional
Lithuanian style. Following the wedding there is a
large celebration held near the Chicago
stockyards. Food, beer, and music fill the hall.
Following Lithuanian tradition, hungry people
lingering in the doorway are invited inside to eat
their fill. The musicians play badly but, do to
the general festivity, no on...
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Federal Troops Labor Force
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Everything seemed so perfect. Pullman, Illinois
was a company town on the outskirts of Chicago,
founded in 1880 by George Pullman, president of
the railroad sleeping car company. Pullman
advertised his town as a model community that
included everything from parks to libraries and
was filled with satisfied, well paid workers. Each
resident worked for the Pullman company, which
manufactured railroad cars, and by 1894 it
operated "first class" sleeping cars on almost
every one of the nation's major...
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Warner Brothers Stock Market
547 words
The Twenties wan a decade which contained many
well know events and famous people. These people
and events made the twenties an important part of
our history today. Such as Al Capone the well
known mafia leader from Chicago, Charlie Chaplain
of the silent movies, the annual Montreal Carnival
in Canada, and the 60 th anniversary of Canada in
1927. But these events and people are only a
quarter of the history help in the 1920 's.
Entertainment in the Twenties consisted of many
famous people, it wa...
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Number Of People Ellis Island
1,080 words
New Immigration began in the 1880 s and lasted
until the early 1900 s. The reasons for the
migratory movements were the close of the frontier
and the forcible restriction of Americas native
population to reservations. The main reason was
due to the industrial growth experienced by the
United States from the end of the Civil War. The
majority of the immigrants were Roman Catholics,
Eastern Orthodox or Jewish. Italians came in the
greatest numbers, with Jews second. Violence
against Jews in Russia...
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Soap Opera Main Character
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Even thought I have not seen many Broadway-class
plays in my life, I was amazed by grandiose
production of Proof and its varied actors
performances. Proof tells the captivating story of
a woman and her eccentric family. Drama quickly
begins as the characters advance in their quest
for an enigmatic proof. While a few critics argued
that Proof is merely a family soap opera with
mathematical references to give the play scope, I
thought Proof was triumphant. I went to see the
Broadway play last Dece...
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F Scott Fitzgeralds Tom And Daisy
1,859 words
Magicians are known for the tricks that they play
on the eyes. What often seems like magic, turns
out to be just a careful flick of the wrist. In
the book The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott
Fitzgeralds, the magician is compared to the
character of Jay Gatsby. The magician motif is
used among other tools to prove that appearance is
not always reality. The higher class throws
sophisticated and glamorous parties that include
many interesting people. They have fun and show
off their fortunes with the gra...
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Music Ethnography Of Jazz Culture In Charlottesville Virginia
1,319 words
... has always represented a social party, and it
still is today, although it has become slightly
more of an elite club. But, between the atmosphere
around the musicians and the audience, they all
understand themselves, the music and the community
(David Ake). Furthermore the listeners understand
whats going on in their communities and they each
fit in. As the band starts to play Jeff Decker the
saxophone player leads the group of with the main
melody and they begin to jam. Most of the forms of
...
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The Rise And Fall Of Ars Subtilior
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The Rise and Fall of Ars Subtilior Ars Subtilior
(or more subtle art) is the term traditionally
used to describe the musical style of the late
fourteenth century. This musical style is
characterized by its notational and rhythmic
complexity. It was widespread in the Avignon and
Paris areas in Southern France and in some areas
of the northern Spain and Cyprus. Ars Subtilior
virtually divided the music of the Middle Ages and
the epoque of Renaissance. Ars Subtilior is often
discussed in connection...
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Adequately Critique Strauss Strauss Tand Point Kojeve
661 words
Kojeve's Criticism On Tyranny edited by Victor
Gourevitch and Michael S. Roth is Leo Strauss
critical study of Hiero written by Xenophon. This
discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of
exercising tyranny pits Alexandre Kojeve against
Leo Strauss in the battle of the Moderns against
the Ancients. The present study is aimed to prove
that Alexandre Kojeve, a Marxist and Hegelian
political philosopher, who had great influence on
the 20 th century French philosophy critiques
Strauss's argumen...
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People Per Square People Of China
1,218 words
Chinas Population Problem The Chinese government
has taken the enforcement of family planning and
birthrate laws to an extreme by violating the
civil rights of its citizens, which has had bad
effects on the morale of its people (Whyte 161).
Chinas population has grown to such an enormous
size that it has become a problem to both the
people and government. China, the most populous
country in the world, has an estimated population
of about one thousand-one hundred-thirty three
point six million (H...
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Chinese Culture Chinese Civilization
563 words
The Chinese Culture Chinese Culture The Chinese
Lake Murders were written by author, Robert Van
Gulik and can be used to learn about pre-modern
Chinese civilization. The book was set during the
Ming Dynasty in the town of Han-yuan, which is
about 60 miles north west of the imperial capital.
The novel tells the tale of how Judge Dee, the
magistrate (an official responsible for catching
criminals as well as sentencing them) of Han-yuan
solves crime cases while indulging himself in
beautiful women,...
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Early Tuesday Great Fire Olearys
250 words
In 1871 a great fire killed 250 people, left 90,
000 homeless, and destroyed about 10 sq km (about
4 sq mi) of central Chicago. On a Sunday night,
October 8, 1871 at 137 De Korea Street, in the
Olearys barn The Great Fire would burn from Sunday
to early Tuesday. The fire was fed by lusty
prairie winds, cinders from a Saturday night
blaze, and structures, even streets and sidewalks,
built almost entirely of wood. The fire had
consumed block after block of homes, businesses,
and bodies, eventually...
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Bigger Thomas Native Son
529 words
Native Son The novel Native Son, written by
Richard Wright, is a book that deals with a poor,
black man named Bigger Thomas growing up in a
rat-infested one-bedroom apartment on the South
Side in Chicago during the Depression. It deals
with the racism between blacks and whites, the
poor and the rich. This man Bigger Thomas feels
like that he is trapped and doomed to a destiny of
constantly being on the bottom of the social
ladder because of the whites. He does not like the
whites because he thin...
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Langston Hughes Vachel Lindsay
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A gentle and mild-mannered soul who spent much of
his life at the center of controversy, a
gregarious spirit who was also zealously private,
a writer of social conscience and solidarity who
was fundamentally alone, Langston Hughes devoted
his art to the true expression of the lives,
hopes, fears, and angers of ordinary black people,
without self-consciousness or sugar-coating. And
this devotion has been repaid with an
extraordinary and continuing popularity, as well
as with a still-increasing cr...
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Blacks And Whites Music And Poetry
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Langston Hughes was one of the first black men to
express the spirit of blues and jazz into words.
An African American Hughes became a well known
poet, novelist, journalist, and playwright.
Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his
mother was often away, Hughes was brought up in
Lawrence, Kansas, by his grandmother Mary
Langston. Her second husband (Hughes grandfather)
was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to
see the cause of social justice. As a lonely child
Hughes turned to reading...
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Safe Schools Fire Department
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Safety in our Schools Safety in the schools can
mean life and death in many situations. One way is
fires. With such things as thin walls, flammable
interior, or exterior, schools could turn into a
flaming inferno. All schools should be routinely
checked for things such as escape routes from the
building and the ease of opening and closing these
routes. They also should be clear from any
interfering things nearby. Schools should have
such things as walls inside and outside that do
not have flamma...
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