Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz’s ethnography Labor and Legality uses a mixture of narrative, interviews, and observation to educate the reader about the lives of undocumented workers in the United States. Gomberg-Muñoz focuses specifically on a group in Chicago called the Lions and describes how this small group has managed to create their own culture made up of language, social structure, kinship, gender roles, and authority. Often the Lions have to navigate between three different cultures: the one they were raised in, in Léon; the American culture; and the one they created as undocumented workers. The Lions are from Léon, Guanajuato, Mexico so Spanish is their first language.…
The album was a narrative of the singer’s childhood in Mississippi. The second album had more range than the first one with songs flowing into the other. It had a combination of bright country soul, bluesy ballads, and mournful folk songs. Her song in the album, “Okolona River Bottom Band,” placed in the Billboard top-sixty hit. Her following album was “Local Gentry”, which had similar styles to “The Delta Sweete.”…
Irene Sans Meteorologist Irene Sans was always focused in mathematics and science from a very early age. She attended Florida State University, where she graduated with a bachelor in Meteorology, minor in mathematics and concentration in Hispanic Marketing Communications. While in FSU, she was the first bilingual deputy State Meteorologist on board at the Division of Florida Emergency Management – Emergency Operations Center where she would brief state officials about the weather conditions threatening the state.…
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! She’d scour the pots and scrape the pans, Candy the yams and spice the hams, 5 And though her daddy would scream and shout, She simply would not take the garbage out. And so it piled up to the ceiling: Coffee grounds, potato peelings, Brown bananas, rotten peas, 10 Chunks of sour cottage cheese. It filled the can, it covered the floor, It cracked the window and blocked the door With bacon rinds and chicken bones, Drippy ends of ice cream cones, 15 Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel, Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal, Pizza crusts and withered greens, Soggy beans and tangerines, Crusts of black burned buttered toast, 20 Gristly bits of beefy roasts……
Mae Carol Jemison is an African-American physician and NASA astronaut. On June 4, 1987, she became the first African American woman to be admitted into the astronaut-training program. On September 12, 1992, Jemison flew into space with 6 other astronauts aboard the Endeavour on mission STS47. On that day, she became the first African-American woman in space.…
This court should find that Kathleen Bosko presented nondiscriminatory reasons that were pretext for intentional discrimination. Pretext can be proven by showing that the reasons proffered by the defendant did not actually motivate the defendant’s challenged conduct. Latowski v. Northwoods Nursing Ctr., 549 Fed. Appx. 478, 486 (6th Cir. 2013)(unpublished)…
Ernie Barnes painting the “Sugar Shack” is the subject of African Americans enjoying an evening of live music and people dancing. In the painting, the observer will be introduced to a place displaying vibrant colors, banners hanging from the ceiling, people sitting down, people dancing on the second level of the shack and a spotlight beaming in on all that it is surrounding the painting. Mr. Barnes uses the term “physical tension” to describe the meaning behind the painting and also tells that the painting is a representation of his childhood in the early 1970’s.…
Hank’s kid’s are following right in his footsteps! His son, Sam Williams, also has began singing, so has his daughter, Holly Williams. They both have came out with their own songs and even covers of Hank’s songs. Both of his kids can sing very well and have been known for being musicians also. One day they may become as well known for their singing careers just like their father.…
Constance Baker Motley was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut. She was the ninth child in a family of 12 children. Her parents were emigrants from the island of Nevis in the West Indies. Motley attended New Haven’s integrated public schools and soon became a keen reader. She was inspired by books concerning civil rights heroes and at the age of 15 she decided to become a lawyer.…
In the case of Andrea Yates, she is a Christian, home-schooling teacher who committed filicide on June 20, 2001. She took the kids in, one by one, into the bathroom of her home and drowned them. After killing the five children, she confessed her crimes to 911 dispatchers. When news of the story came to the public, it came as a surprise to those who only thought of her as one who could do no evil. In the perspective of others, this sin created a basis for judgment and questioning everything she has ever done and how her past actions foreshadowed to the future.…
Sarah Vaughan was surrounded by music at birth. She was born in Newark, New Jersey to a father who played guitar and a mother who played organ for her church. Her interest in music began at an early age. Sarah started talking piano and organ lessons when she was seven years old; she also sang in her church’s choir. At age 12 she began subbing in to play organ for the church when her mother couldn’t.…
When people hear stories, most of the time they can tell if they are real, but sometimes it can be hard to tell. Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried shows his and the experiences of many other soldiers in the Vietnam War. He describes all the horrible things they see, what they feel, and the impact of the war on them. Along with the memories of war, he also includes the art of writing and the importance of stories. In some of the chapters, O’Brien even writes about events that never actually happened.…
Bentley put in the following couple of years inundating himself in the blue grass music capital's music scene. Bentley strived to take in the ropes, however his ride to the top was not exceptionally quick. He acquired a fake ID and started hanging out at Nashville's really popular Station Motel country bar. Bentley sat there, after a long time, engrossing the music and the performers who sifted through the entryways. At the point when Bentley was not watching, he was playing.…
Alternative music is an umbrella term that is used to describe music that is not played on mainstream radio, or consumed by mainstream audience. It does not fall into any other musical genre. There are dozens of different subgenres that branched off from alternative music. Alternative pop/rock is a catch-all term for post-punk bands from the mid-1980’s and mid-1990’s. Since there are a variety of musical styles within alternative rock, all of them tie together and exist outside of the mainstream.…
Most people will tell you that that R&B stands for ‘rhythm and blues,’ but some will still argue that it stands for Ruth Brown. A talented R&B singer throughout the 1950s and later in life a successful theater actress, Ruth Brown reshaped the music industry with her bluesy, storytelling ballads and her signature squeaks. Nicknamed “Miss Rhythm” by “Mr. Rhythm” Frankie Laine and called the original diva, Ruth Brown was influential in bridging the gap between the blues and R&B. Ruth Brown faced segregation and racism issues throughout her career, but continued to be a successful and influential artist. Ruth Brown was also a champion for artists’ rights, helping to reform the royalty system.…