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  • Josephine Baker
    3,147 words
    While Jim Crow laws were reeking havoc on the lives of African Americans in the South, a massed exodus of Southern musicians, particularly from New Orleans, spread the seeds of Jazz as far north as New York City. A new genre of music produced fissures in the walls of racial discrimination thought to be impenetrable. Musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, "King" Oliver and Fletcher Henderson performed to the first desegregated audiences. Duke Ellington starred in the first primetime r...
  • Two Of The Trust's Tobacco Warehouses
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    The story of the night riders began with James Buchanan. His family and he began W. Duke & Sons Company, a company that bought tobacco and sold it in commercial forms. However, it was under James direction that this company became the American Tobacco Company. He led this company into a world monopoly of tobacco products by 1900. Duke avoided political interference very easily at first, with Cunningham stating that, "Many times the company would own the interests and subsidiaries, yet allow them...
  • Stories In The Thousand And One Nights
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    The West's View Of The Oriental Woman (Based On The Frame Story Of The Thousand And One Nights) The Thousand and One Nights, a collection of about 200 stories, is probably the most famous piece of Arabic literature in the West. It includes the adventures of such well-known characters as Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad. The stories of the Arabian Nights are folk tales from Arabia, Egypt, India, Persia, and other countries. The work in its present form was written in Arabic about 1500. In the early ...
  • One Night
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    Creative Writing: A Night Fishing It must have been 4 feet long and must have weighed at least 30 lbs. It was one of the slimiest ones we ever caught. The tentacles were almost a foot long and the scales where the size of quarters. @ A Yeah right, we believe you, (Paste your name here). @ While my peers were playing video games or hide-and-go-seek, (a friends name) and I were out ether exploring the unknown, or sleeping from staying out all night. None of the students in my sixth grade class Ash...
  • Night With Their Buuck
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    Anyone Remember the F U Lizards by Ronnie Beaver, 1st of the 5th Air Cav 69-70 While I was in Nam we kept hearing a strange voice at night yelling f k you (I'm not trying to be rude it really was saying that) it was loud and would keep us awake at night. we would get tired of hearing it and yell back f u too. one night at dusk I went looking for what was making the noise as we thought it was a bird. it would also make a strange sound before saying the words. as I was walking by a tree I saw a sm...
  • Three Positive Images New Found Happiness
    750 words
    Faded Glory Hatred between two people who once thought they would spend their entire lives together, the separation of what once was thought of as the perfect family, a financial burden for a person who once considered themselves well off. Divorce is known for its power to rip apart even the most picture perfect family. The idea of living alone with no one to wake up to in the morning or no one to share your stories with after a hard days work. In short, divorce can seem like an eternal wreckage...
  • Prom Date
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    I never went to a single formal dance untill my senior year. On nights when there was a winter formal or a junior prom, my friends would get all dress up and ready to dance in their beautiful gowns. While they were dancing with their dates, I was at home watching T.V. Its not that I had trouble finding a date of my own but just the thought of getting dressed up and dancing in a dress didnt interest me. One day, a week before Mira Mesas senior prom I decided to go. It was after all my last year i...
  • Beth And Amy
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    Title: Little Women Number of Pages: 562 Original Copyright Date: 1868 Date Completed: February 23, 2000 Author: Louisa May Alcott Publisher: Scholastic Inc. Plot Summary: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are the March sisters. Their father is off to war and they rely on their mother, Marmee, to see them through the hard times of the Civil War. In the first part of this book the reader is introduced to the characters. Meg is the sensible one, Jo is the tomboy, Beth is the sweet one, and Amy is the artistic...
  • Every Night
    416 words
    Actually, all members of my family have the same important influence to my life. Each of them has a different way in making me be a grown-up girl like now. But since I was a little girl, the one who is close to me the most is my father. I am always proud of my father and our relationship. People often get jealous of our closeness, even my mother. I remember when I got the scholarship from one of the computer and internet courses in my city; it is an informal education institution, which obliged ...
  • Leonidas De Los Santos 2 One Night
    593 words
    Secrets (Free writing) There are a few things in the back of anybody's memory that have been repressed from childhood, and just emerge onto our consciousness once in the blue moon by accident or triggered by a random event. I have a very vivid memory of my childhood, associated with a particular smell, related to a family secret. I was about 8 years old, the youngest and only boy in a family of four siblings. Our house was always crowded with female cousins and aunts staying over, gossiping arou...
  • One Night
    700 words
    People commit suicide because they feel they have no other choice or way to handle their problem. They feel that this is the only way out. Everyone knows this but everyone doesn't know what goes through a persons mind during and after they decide to make the absolute decision. Last year on the night of the Halloween dance, a student from Washington High had a terrible fight with her boyfriend. She saw him kiss another girl at the dance and became enraged. The first thing she did was try to talk ...
  • One Night Atticus
    734 words
    Stand Your Ground If a person today is asked to do something that he or she may not like to do and they say no, they may be looked down upon. Not only does this happen today, but it also was true in the early 1900's. It is just not fair when people stand up for what their mind feels is right, such as Atticus does in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, that they are looked down upon and harassed. Atticus tries to teach his children to stand up for what is right throughout the novel. On...
  • Being Different From The Rest
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    The odd one is often confused as the strange one and never considered the right one. For this matter, I enjoyed reading the works of Ray Bradbury in "The Pedestrian". Leonard Mead, whom was the main character and protagonist in this story, was considered by many as being antisocial. Yet the ironic view of the story showed that he was the only social being in the world of Bradbury's literature. For many in the story, social was translated as being normal and indifferent. Depending on how you defi...
  • Scout And Jem
    500 words
    'A child learns more from personal experience than by simply being told something. ' Discuss this idea, with reference to 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Children learn more from personal experience than by simply being told something. Whether it be pulling out the neighbors prize pansies or holding Freddie the fish out of the water for three minutes and seeing if he will survive, regardless of what parents or teachers say, children will generally go ahead and ignore the warning. Not so surprisingly, t...
  • I Stay At My Friends House I
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    One night i stayed with my best friend and her mom. Well i was awakened by horrifying screams, it sounded like someone was being stabbed over and over again. My friend's mom was also awakened by these screams. When we got up to see what was happening we discovered that their neighbor was being chased by her boyfriend with a hammer. We called the police and they arrived shortly. He had been hitting her with the hammer and he was taking some kind of drug. She had to be hospitalized and he was arre...

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