The Rag

Viewed as the king of Ragtime, as it was the main genre this african american pianist was known for. Scott Joplin was one of the most famous composers of the early twentieth century. Most known for his pieces such as “The Maple Leaf Rag”,“The Entertainer”, and “Solace” he immersed himself in music at a very young age, learning to play the piano as a child and becoming a travelling musician as a teenager. Scott Joplin truly is an important individual to not only the african american history but…

Everything is recycled from plastic bags to straws even paper and polystyrene. There are over 1 million rubbish bags collected a day across Mumbai and 35 thousand rag pikers. The rag pikers don’t wear gloves or shoes and they earn about 100 rupees a day every rag piker looks for one specific type of plastic and kids as young as 12 can become rag pikers. In compound 13 ( the recycling zone ) the plastic is made into new things and the workers sleep on the floor In conclusion the community in…

In Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger paints a picture of a young boy defying the odds. A young boy who sleeps on the street, that has good principals and a desire to succeed, becomes a respectable business man. The so-called capitalist boy hero Ragged Dick is meant to be an inspiration to children, with good morale’s and a desire to work hard you can turn yourself into anything you want to be. However, the story of Ragged Dick is a fantasy filled with coincidence and unreasonable expectations of others…

N is for Nail Glue One night I almost had to go to the emergency room for the second time. I was in my preteens and i had shorter nails so, I would put on fake nails. One time I was in my room, putting on some fake nails. To do this, there was glue that I put on my nail first then I would stick the nail on. I had some of the nails on and I went to put on another one. When I grabbed the small glue bottle it started to slip out of my hand and went everywhere. It got all over my dresser and the…

A modest number of rags are slow drags. • Coon song – a pre-ragtime vocal form popular until about 1901. A song with crude, racist lyrics often sung by white performers in blackface. Gradually died out in favor of the ragtime song. Strongly associated with ragtime in its…

Gender equality has been a long struggle in history and worldwide. From Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson, Janie is a woman who is trying to find true love and happiness in her life. She first marries a rich man named Logan Killicks that was arranged from her grandmother. When her marriage doesn’t go very well with Killicks she runs off with a man named Joe Starks who becomes the mayor of Eatonville. After many years being with Starks, she becomes a widow at an early age of late…

Maggie, A Girl of the Streets serves as a reminder that romanticizing such a flawed world does not always lead to happiness. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets does not provide the reader with much to be happy about. It begins with all the makings of a rags-to-riches tale: the inspiring vision of the American dream which says that anyone can rise to the top, regardless of opportunity. But that was not the story Crane wanted to tell. Similar to the photos published by Jacob Riis, Maggie, A Girl of the…

Take the cloth and dap the stain. Rinse out the cloth after it begins to pick up the dye. While blotting the area with the wet rag, be sure to also occasionally bot the area with a dry rag to reduce the moisture in your carpet; you don't want to soak your carpet, you just want to remove the hair dye. Deep Stain Removal Depending on the color of hair dye that you were using and the color of your carpet,…

telegraphic system (McGuire, “Andrew Carnegie” 1). In 1864, Carnegie is drafted into the Union Army, but pays a fee of $850 dollars in lieu of serving in the military (“Rags to Riches Timeline” 1-2). In 1865, Carnegie retires from the railroad and starts the Keystone Bridge Company. Their goal is to build bridges with iron instead of wood (“Rags to Riches Timeline” 2).…

country, it would also lessen the amount of garbage in the dump as well as all the chemicals that are produced from the decomposing garbage. However, the issues become between deciding what is more important, ‘rag pickers’ keeping their job or quickly disposing of toxic and dangerous waste. If ‘rag pickers’ are to keep their job, they should be given protective gear to keep them safe. “as sickening as the dumpsite work ism it has provided a squalid but basic income for thousands of children and…