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Chocolate Chip Chocolate Milk Boys
962 wordsJack rolled down the window of the old 1987 Dodge Ram pickup truck and tossed the cigarette butt out. It was bleak November and the cold air rushed into his face. How we doin for time? He asked the dark-haired man driving the truck. You know how Mario gets when were late for a delivery. Gordy wrenched the steering wheel sharply to the right and turned down a dark street leading to abandoned warehouses. Dont sweat it, man. Well make it. They were a few blocks from the Pacific Ocean. Rundown build...
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Berry Gordy Father Of The Motown Sound
1,231 wordsBerry Gordy Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan on November 28, 1929. He was the seventh born out of eight siblings. His parents migrated to Detroit from Georgia during 1922. They were part of a mass exodus of African Americans who left the South in the 20 's and traveled to northern cities in search of better economic futures. During that time jobs were plentiful in the factories, mainly the big four automotive plants that like, Chrysler, Ford, Chevrolet, and General Motors. Berry and Bertha Gord...
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Berry Gordy Father Of The Motown Sound
1,152 words... to fade just as big band had. R&B was being promoted many famous bandleaders like Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton. The creation or rhythm and blues was what eventually brought about many small independent labels. Companies like Columbia, Decca, Peacock Records, and Vee Jay Records helped pioneer the R&B movement by supporting great up and coming artists. They seized the opportunity to make profits off of music that was then considered radical and unconventional. The main reason why the large...
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Didn T Dead Body
839 wordsThe story was written from the point of view of a grown up person that took a part in the story when he was a child. Gordy tell us about his adventure with his body? s on a search after a dad body. The mission is to find the body of a dead men that be run over by train. In my opinion every one went to this mission with his own personal mission Gordy wanted to see how a dad body looks like, because he didn? t accept his brothers death, after this event Gordy felt like no one loves him any more in...
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Church Of England Massachusetts Bay
1,133 wordsIn Colonial Jamestown Colonial Jamestown In 1606 King James I set two companies, the London and the Plymouth, out with three instructions: find gold, find a route to the South Seas, and find the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Five months later, and forty-five men less, the London Company landed on a semi-island along the banks of a river the Indians knew as? Powhatan? s River? . On May 13, 1607, the first permanent British colony had been established in the form of a triangular fort. The men named thei...
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W E B Quot And Quot
1,551 wordsNaomi Long Madgett Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D. C. , but moved to Detroit in 1920. His first published poem appeared in the Detroit Free Press when he was thirteen. His early reading included English poets from whom he learned form. He was later influenced by the work of Jean Booker and County Cullen. His employment in a foundry is recalled in " George" (Poem Counterpoem), written after encountering a...
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