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Illinois. Their daughter, Jean was born almost four years later in 1922. I believe I recall my mother saying that her mother had a difficult time carrying a child and miscarried two or three babies prior to Jean being born but, I don’t remember any specific details. After Jean there was no more children born to Jack and Ella. Jean Timmons was the only child of Jack and Ella. Born and raised Catholic in Chicago, Illinois on 9 June 1922. Apparently, following her birth, Jean’s mother had…

The Lincoln Memorial was built and dedicated to the 16th president of the USA, and is now one of the busies and most commonly visited sites in the National Mall. Opened to the public in 1922, it has stood at the west end of the National Mall for 94 years. With its 44 ft. columns and 19 ft. tall statue of Abraham Lincoln, it is not a site to miss! This essay will be introducing information about the historical background, the physical description, and the significance of the Lincoln Memorial…

to any association that individuals set up voluntarily with an aim to control an organization to achieve certain policies. It can exist in any form of an organization if its members are freely recruited, “from a sports club up to the state.” (Weber 1922:284) (3) The three dimensions of stratification represent individuals’ wealth, prestige, and power, from which inequality in economy, culture, and politics - the three main fields of society - can be seen. Although they are conceptually separate,…

for Ethel Waters during one of her national tours.[6] Prior to mid-1923, Henderson's group was not technically a jazz band yet (more like a dance band), though its music was inflected with the ragtime rhythms that had been popular for some time. In 1922 he formed his own band, which was resident first at Club Alabam, then at the Roseland Ballroom, and quickly became known as the best African-American band in New York. In the 1920s, he did not do very many band arrangements. By late 1923 and into…

Do you love jazz music? Louis Armstrong became an amazing coronet player. He had a rough start in life, but overcame challenges. At first he wasn’t really out there for playing the cornet, but overtime jazz music became very popular and he became famous. Louis Armstrong was born August 4th, 1901. His dad, William Armstrong, was a mentor who also played the cornet and he was still only a little kid when his dad has left the house. Even then his mom left him, shrieking her parental…

One of California’s most recognizable animals is the California grizzly bear, but this animal has been extinct since 1922. This animal has been associated with California since people began moving to the west coast of the United States. As people began to move to California hoping to strike it rich during the gold rush, the bears stood their ground and lived around the advancing civilizations. The bears wreaked havoc for the new settlers, eating their livestock and stopping human expansion.…

English ASL 26 April 2017 Dissatisfaction in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1925, about James Gatz, a poor farmer boy who manages to disguise himself as the fabulously rich Jay Gatsby. In the summer of 1922 he attempts to win over his old love Daisy Buchanan, where in the process he gets unexpectedly killed. Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, both from old money causing them to look down Gatsby, who is from the newly rich crowd. All of the main…

To a modern reader, it might seem amazing that the MLB was able to get exemption from anti-trust laws that nearly every other firm in the United States is subject to. To understand how this can be possible, it is important to understand the original court case that allowed Baseball to be exempt from the Sherman Act, as well as the three major court cases that have upheld its ruling over time. In 1913, when the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs came into existence, it challenged the preexisting…

born between 1955 and 1965. The next classification is the Boomers 1, or the Baby Boomers, who were born between 1946 and 1954. The individuals that were born between the years of 1922 and 1927 fall into the classification of the Post-War Cohort. Then there is the World War 2 Classification, they were born between 1922 and 1927. The last classification has very few individuals still…

Greek folk music is a certain style of popular music played by ‘'ethnic Greeks’’ in countries like Australia, the United States and Greece. However, mainly originating from Greece, with songs written around the time of ancient Greek poetry and music. Greek folk music can by categorised in two mainly genres: Akrtic and Klephtic. Akrtic being “between the ninth and tenth centuries A.D. and expressed the life and struggles of the Akrites (frontier guards) of the Byzantine Empire.” Klephtic…