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Gulf Of Mexico Rocky Mountains
519 wordsWhen Thomas Jefferson became president of the United States in 1801, he dreamed of sending an expedition to explore the little-known territory west of the Mississippi river. Between 1783 and 1792 Jefferson has encouraged plans for three expeditions. All three expeditions failed. In January, 1803, he asked Congress for $ 2, 500 to pay for an expedition that might journey as far as the Pacific Ocean. The request was approval and kept secret because most of the region to be explored still belonged ...
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Black Music In America
1,065 wordsBlack Music in America: A History Through Its People Tahirah Carter by James Haskins Intro to Music I have definitely learned allot about the Evolution of American Music in this class. I found it to be very intriguing. So when I was faced with the chore of deciding which book I would do my report on, I chose Black Music in America by James Haskins. This book gave a detailed account of not only the music genres but its performers. We already know that American music is made up of music from many ...
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Good Old Boys Wyatt And Billy Commune
1,144 wordsThe movie Easy Rider revolves around two bikers making a trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans, to attend Mardi Gras. The first scene in the film involves the two main characters selling a good amount of cocaine to a man in Rolls Royce. After the drug deal the bikers begin their journey to Mardi Gras, but not before one of them removes his watch and throws it on the ground. I found this indicative of his pursuit of freedom, because time serves only to constrain us. Once on the road you learn that...
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Submarines In The Revolutionary And Civil Wars
995 wordsThe Trident Submarine houses twenty-four nuclear warheads with each having a range of 4, 600 miles over land. If a nuclear war were to break out between the Soviet Union and the United States, virtually every major city could be destroyed in a matter of hours. The origin of these major players in modern day warfare lies in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. A Dutchman named Cornelius Van Drebbel, made the very first submarine in 1652, to fight the mighty Spanish ship called the Rotterdam Boat. It...
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Jazz Musicians Louis Armstrong
1,110 words... f music including popular music and the blues. It was has changed over the years and has many different sub-styles, such as Dixieland, swing, bebop, Afro- Cuban, cool, free, jazz, and fusion. In jazz the performers often improvises to create new or different sounds that add to the emotional expression of the song. Jazz musicians create their own version of the melody while they all know, and then they turn improvising around that tune. Sometimes jazz performers make up a complete new melody ...
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Walt Whitman And The Romanticism Movement
1,532 wordsRomanticism, is a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, United States and Latin America. It lasted from about 1750 to 1870. This epoch is characterized by the reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression and idealization of nature. This movement was developed everywhere, imagination was praised over the reason, emotions were over the logic and intuition over science. The literature will emphasized a new flexibility of form...
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Cajun Food And Culture
922 words"Cajun" and "Creole" cuisine is native to the "Bayou" country in the State of Louisiana. Creole cuisine was the creation of the French and Spanish settlers and their Black servants, and it is perhaps the best characterized by the sauces. Creole sauces are creamy and full-flavored with the rich use of herbs and spices. Cajun cooking is, generally speaking, a countrified version of Creole cuisine. It tends to be more robust and hot-pepper than its casino. It took several generations for the emergi...
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1920 And 1930 Harlem Renaissance
1,324 wordsDuke Ellington and the Harlem Renaissance: The term Harlem Renaissance refers to an artistic, cultural, and social time of writing about race and the African Americans place in American life during the early 1920 s and 1930 s. It is hard to put a specific time and date in terms of social criticism, protest and political advancements, because of the fact that it took a long time for it all to develop. Overall, the Harlem Renaissance was a time of African Americans expressing talent and ideas, and...
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1,358 wordsThe major characters in The Optimists Daughter are Judge Mckelva, Becky Mckelva, Laurel Mckelva, Wanda Fay, Dr. Courtland, Miss Adele Courtland, Tish Bullock, Major Bullock, Miss Tennyson, and Miss Missouri. Becky Mckelva was Judge Mckelva's wife before she died and had Laurel Mckelva with him. Wanda Fay remarried Judge Mckelva after his wifes death. Dr. Courtland did surgery on Becky Mckelva and the final operation on Judge Mckelva. Miss Adele Courtland is the sister of Dr. Courtland and is a b...
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Dinosaur Safaris Dinosaur Bones Simon
1,480 wordsTheres a geologist, a metal worker, a veterinarian and a computer technician who lives in a trailer almost as snug as his old cubicle. They come from New Orleans, California even Germany and just down the road. Their enthusiasm is boundless, though their experience and qualifications are limited. In short, they enjoy getting down on all fours toothbrush and dental pick in hand and digging in dirt for hours on end. Bone fragments make them giddy; words ending in said evoke downright delirium. The...
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Stock Market Crash One Of The Most Important
1,314 wordsThe 1920 s was a huge decade for the phenomena known as " Jazz" . Due to the closing of the seaport in New Orleans, musicians were forced to travel up the Mississippi to find work. Two of the cities most affected by this move were Chicago and New York. Chicago was home primarily for New Orleans traditional music during the 1920 s. From this New Orleans style came four major types of jazz: Boogie-Woogie, Chicago Jazz, Urban Blues, and Society Dance Bands. Because of the ever-growing pop...
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Roman Catholic Church King Charles Vii
701 wordsJoan of Arc is a French national heroine and Frances patron saint. She was born on June 6, 1412. Her nickname was The Maid of Orleans in honor of her victory against the British. She was the daughter of prosperous peasants Jacques Date and Isabelle de Vouthon, who were farmers, from the village of Doremy in Lorraine, close to the border of the kingdom of France. During her childhood she tended her fathers herds in the fields and was taught religion and housekeeping skills from her mother. Joan w...
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Joan Of Arc Charles Vii
678 wordsJoan of Arc When Joan of Arc was born the Hundred Years War was over half way over. She was considered a French saint, a national heroine, and was called the Maid of Orleans. She was born to peasant parents in Domremy-la-Pucelle in France in 1412. Joan attended mass daily and visited the church on a regular basis. France was struggling because they were in need of a king who could get the country back together and keep it together. It was under these conditions that Joan of Arc grew up (web). At...
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Joan Of Arc University Of Paris
3,258 wordsOn May 16, 1920, Pope Benedict XV conducted a ceremony at St. Peters Basilica in Rome to canonize Joan of Arc, often referred to as the Maid of Orleans. This ceremony was the final step in a process that was begun in 1849 by the Bishop of Orleans, Felix Dupanloup, over 400 years after St. Joan's was tried, convicted and executed in the name of the Church. A study of her heroic deeds and an intensive review of her life, virtues and the trial transcripts that condemned her to be burned at the stak...
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Rhythm And Blues Rock And Roll
2,300 wordsPaul Whiteman (1890 - 1967) = a classically trained violinist and violist who adored jazz but lacked the gift to emulate the uninhibited improvisations of the jazz musicians he admired, formed a dance band in the early twenties that played jazzy arrangements of popular and even classical melodies. Blues = a black vocal folk music, began as vocal (largely instrumental). Classical blues = based on 3 lines of text. Wild wame don? t do the blues. Urban Blues = blues pieces written for publication an...
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Louis Armstrong Big Band
381 wordsLouis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential artists of the century. Armstrong influenced trumpeters as well as all jazz music, and a wide range of popular music. He is best known for helping to pioneer a style known as swing, after which sprouted rhythm-and-blues (R&# 038; B) music. He established the expressive possibilities of the young art form of jazz and set fundamental standards for future artists. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Armstrong grew up in poverty and did not...
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621 wordsLouis Luis Armstrong Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was the most influential person in jazz's history. He contributed greatly to the growth of jazz and was able to play in a variety of ways. His amazing and interesting life came from his straight talent for the music. He deserved every bit of fame he got simply because he was an incredible musician. Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 and raised by a poor New Orleans family. At twelve he was sent to reform school for firing a gun in the air on New...
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Mardi Gras First Time
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Make You Feel Flight Attendant
1,822 wordsMILE HIGH CLUB Trent Boyd hefted his small attache? case into the over head compartment and sat down in the aisle seat and waited for the 737 to take off. Leaving the bone chilling cold of Detroit to spend a long weekend in New Orleans was enough to bring a smile to the face of any seasoned traveler! One stop over in Memphis, and it would be good by Woodward Ave. and hello Bourbon Street! This would be Trent? s sixth visit to the Crescent City, and it was definitely his favorite destination, wit...
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Civil Rights Act Separate But Equal Doctrine
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