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Place To Live Mardi Gras
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Mixed Race French Speaking
1,354 wordsWhat is a Creole? The word Creole means many things to many people. It derives from the Latin word Creare, meaning to beget or create. The Webster dictionary says a Creole is a white person descended from the French or Spanish settlers of Louisiana and the Gulf States and preserving their characteristic speech and culture. Creoles, a term first used in the 16 th century in Latin America to distinguish the offspring of European settlers from Native Americans, blacks, and later immigrant groups. I...
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Hundred Years War Joan Of Arc
1,650 wordsHow My Outside Reading Supplemented Chapter 12 In the textbook A History of Western Civilization by McKay, Hill, and Buckner there is little about Joan of Arc. The textbook just briefly describes the hundred-year war and Joan's role in it. The textbook also states a small amount of information about her trial for hierarchy. This wonderful story of a strong lady leading a whole army to victory, her tragic trial and her death needs to be discussed more in this textbook. My outside reading helped m...
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Miles An Hour Mississippi River
1,033 wordsRobert Fulton started the very first commercially successful steamboat service in America. His steam-powered paddle boat, the Clermont, sailed up the Hudson River from New York City to Albany in August of 1807. This trip lasted 32 hours The first steamboats were demonstrated in 1787. They were used on the river ways to bring cargo, cotton, sugar, and people to their destinations. The steamboat played a major part in the population growth. The steamboats were usually made of wood and were all kin...
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Rocky Mountains Mississippi River
881 wordsThe Louisiana Purchase was a vast region in North America, that the United States purchased from France by a treaty signed on Apr. 30, 1803. The Louisiana Territory contained more than 2 million sq km (800, 000 sq mi) of land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. The territory comprised present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, nearly all of Kansas, the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Co...
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1,510 wordsAbsolute Blue. George Rodrigue is a very successful artist and one of the most vivid characters of the modern American Art. His works are famous all around the world, they are present in the private Art collections of politicians (Clinton, Bush, Reagan), artists, actors (Paul Newman, Whoopi Goldberg) and other celebrities, his prints and poster are the worlds most popular and collected and his images are the symbols of such companies, as Xerox and Young & Rubicam. George Rodrigue George Rodrigue...
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Helped To Shape Form Of Music
1,930 wordsThroughout history, music has made dramatic impacts on the way civilizations and communities function and behave. Likewise, the behavior and attitudes of people in a community add to the flavor and attitude of the music made within the culture. Examples of this sort of connection include the Baroque era in Europe, where the character of the common citizen and the music were very refined and structured, or in England during the 70? s, where the citizens and the music displayed anger and revolt ag...
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Edna Pontellier Grand Isle
452 wordsThe Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, is a unique and exclusive novel that shows us a woman, who through her stirring, or sparking comes to her senses and grasps reality. Throughout the whole story the main character (Edna Pontellier) fluctuates between two different places or settings. Her home in New Orleans and her summer home in Grand Isle. By using these contrasting settings Chopin represents opposed forces or ideas that are central to the meaning of her work. The novel starts of in Grand ...
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British Army Wasn T
2,696 wordsIn him inexplicably mind appear Much to be love and hated, sought and fear. Opinion varying oer his hidden lot, In praise or railing neer his name forgot; His silence for a theme for others prate; They guessdthey gazdthey fain would know his fate. What had he been? what was he, thus unknown, Who walk their world, his lineage only known? A hater of his kind? yet some would say, With them he could seem gay amidst the gay; But on that smile, if oft observed and near, Wand in its mirth and withered ...
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James K Polk United States Of America
1,723 wordsJefferson versus Polk: Expansionism Exemplified and Failed the span of some fifty years, the United States of America almost tripled the area of its territory. In two separate acquisitions, one by Thomas Jefferson in 1803, and the other by James K. Polk in 1848, not only did the size of the U. S. increase, but also the administrative nightmares associated with territorial expansion. Still just a maturing nation, Jefferson faced a host of difficulties in governing such a vast expanse of land, but...
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3,607 wordsEvents in the life of Joan of Arc (Jehanne Darc) Events in Jehanne's life Parallel events of the Hundred Years Wa 1412 (? ), Jan 6 Born at Domremy to Jacques Darc and Isabelle Rom? e 1413 Death of Henry IV, accession of Henry V; Armagnacs gain control of Paris 1415? ? Birth of her childhood friend, Hauviette 1415 Henry V invades France 1415, Sept 23 English forces capture Harfleur 1415, Oct 25 The French army is crushed at the battle of Agin? our 1417 Henry V begins the conquest of Normandy; Jea...
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Hundred Years War Joan Of Arc
1,928 wordsJOAN OF ARC A French saint and a heroine in the Hundred Years war was Joan of Arc. This farm girl helped save the French from English command and was often called the Maid Orleans and the Maid of France. Her inspiration led the French to many victories. Joan Of Arc (In French Jeanne d Arc) was born around 1412, in the village of Domremy, France. She was a peasant girl who, like many girls of that time, could not read or write. Her father, Jacques, was a wealthy tenant farmer and her mother, Isab...
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Mademoiselle Reisz Alcee Arobin
10,368 wordsThe novel opens on the Grand Isle, a summer retreat for the wealthy French Creoles of New Orleans. Leonce Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans business man of forty years of age, reads his newspaper. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lebrun's parrot repeats phrases in English and French and her mockingbird sings in fluty notes. Leonce retreats to his own cottage to escape the birds noisy chatter. The cottages are a scene of bustling Sunday activity. A lady in black walks back and forth in front of the cottages with ...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Louis Armstrong
1,094 wordsTitle: The origin and growth of Jazz music The Jazz music of the twenties, comparable to the rock of the sixties and the disco of the seventies, was the sound of a new revolution. It was something that America had never heard before. The time came to be known the Jazz Age. F. Scott Fitzgerald named the era, Louis Armstrong dominated it, and the 1929 crash of the stock market ended it. This new music created a style filled with strong rhythms and syncopation, a sound that was a memory of the slav...
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People Of Color Mardi Gras
2,720 wordsPre-Civil War New Orleans New Orleans is a city in southern Louisiana, located on the Mississippi River. Most of the city is situated on the east bank, between the river and Lake Pontchartrain to the north. Because it was built on a great turn of the river, it is known as the Crescent City. New Orleans, with a population of 496, 938 (1990 census), is the largest city in Louisiana and one of the principal cities of the South. It was established on the high ground nearest the mouth of the Mississi...
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