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    Art Tatum Research Paper

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    The Life of Art Tatum Author Taylor Jr. who goes by the name of Art Tatum is said to be the greatest jazz pianist of all time, known for his famous two-handed runs. Art was born in October 13, 1909 in Toledo, OH to pianist Mildred Hoskins and Guitarist Arthur Tatum Sr. Completely blind by cataracts in one eye and nearly blind in the other, Art played music by ear, mimicking the sounds he heard from other musicians such as Fats Waller. He played so well that by age three he was considered a…

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    christ.Reagan played football for Dixon high school school and also on the varsity swim team. On his free time for the summer he was a lifeguard to make a little extra money to save up for college.In 1932 he graduated from Eureka college. Reagan enlisted in army reserve. Then he was a radio announcer in 1932 and was making a name for himself and becoming a rising star.Then he became a movie actor and acted in 52 total movies two of the movies were called Kings Row and Desperate Journey.The…

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    Warren’s central theme in many poems is the south. Many of his poems depict the south and others draw inspiration from southern events. His novel, “All the King’s Men,” portrays events regarding politician Huey Long, the governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932. Warren faced little ramifications regarding his work, although his poems sometimes focused on issues of race at the time.…

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    Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular. During the first half of Mockingbird Harper Lee constructs a sweet and affectionate portrait of growing up in the vanished world of small town Alabama.. Lee,…

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    removing the individual household was renounced, but the latter idea stayed. Also, because Joseph Stalin’s five year plans quickly received labour shortages, woman were recruited in large numbers into the work force. Between the years of 1929 and 1932, over one million woman entered the industrial force and about two point five million gained…

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    until he met a couple professors which inspired him to change his major in economics. Friedman decided to continue his education in graduate school to continue studying economics at the University of Chicago where he became an economist by the year 1932. He later studied mathematics statistics in 1934 at Columbia University. Friedman became a very famous economist throughout his career. He…

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    Miss Evers’ Boys is a movie that exposes the ethical issues of the Tuskegee study over a forty-year period. The U.S. Public Health Service’s experiment took place in rural Alabama between the years 1932 to 1972. It was conducted among African American males left untreated with syphilis. The goal was to determine if untreated syphilis reacted the same way in black males as it did in white males. Originally, the men believe they are being treated for the disease. The government eventually…

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    War I ended in 1918, both veterans and the family of those who didn't survive the war were expecting a cash bonus from the American government as a compensation for the overseas service. The money, however, wouldn't have been paid out until 1945. In 1932, the Great Depression was in full swing, and the veterans and their families became part of the destitute masses who had no money, no food, no jobs, and, in some cases, no homes. Almost…

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    composition was unknown at that time (Denys and Van de Velde, 1895). In 1932, Panton and Valentine decided that leukocidin and alpha-hemolysin were unique substances through detailed phenotypic studies on some S. aureus strains, some strains had potent leukocytic activity with no hemolytic activity and vice versa, it was conclusively established that leukocytic and hemolytic activities were due to two unique substances (Panton and Valentine, 1932; Valentine, 1936). Later work validated Panton…

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    Mononucleosis is a very interesting infectious disease. It has been called many things, including the kissing disease and its nickname mono. With getting mono, the victim can’t do sports for a few weeks, which can be really inconvenient. The virus mono spreads and causes many other problems for people in both the past and the present because of the symptoms and how it has to be treated. Mononucleosis is a viral disease. A viral disease is when the disease invades people’s normal cells and…

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