Desmond Miles

Miss Ella Baker founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 at Shaw University (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010, p.95). She believed that the students would be instrumental in this movement as combined they would form a powerful strength to be reckoned with during the Jim Crow era (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). The SNCC was comprised of students who possessed strong mental capacities and willing to endure heavy scrutiny for their participation…

band. Dave Brubeck went against this commonality, and created music that he enjoyed playing, rather than composing songs that fit into the standardized “jazz mold.” This decade introduced some immensely talented jazz musicians with the innovative Miles Davis, jazz orchestra bandleader Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker with his improvisational skills, and the “Maharaja of the keyboard,” Oscar Peterson. Although Brubeck’s musicianship may not have been as good as these jazz legends, he used their…

This game contains massive violence and harsh language. Make sure to have parent permission before buying this game. Assassin’s Creed starts off with a man named Desmond Miles. Desmond is an ordinary man until he is kidnapped to work on a science experiment that Abstergo, a famous company, has been working on specifically for him. Desmond gets into this device called the “Animus.” This device makes him transport back into a specific time period where his ancestors had been from. The first…

Marley, better known as Bob Marley, was born February 6, 1945. He is the son of Cedella and Norval. Cedella was young only eighteen when she gave birth to Bob. At a young age, Bob grew up in the rural community of Nine Miles which is a village in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica. Nine Miles had many African customs they took from their ancestors. The main one was storytelling. They used it to tell about the past and their traditions, many of these were overlooked in history. These stories and the rural…

Exercise #6: Segregation in Chicago The neighborhood I am focusing on for this assignment is Belmont Cragin, which is community number 19 and is 8 miles NW of the loop. Belmont Cragin in the 1922 became an industrialized area, where many plants started to open, which created many jobs. In the 1910 Belmont Cragin race composition was made up of white people. It wasn’t until the 1970s when you first started to see the hispanic community move in along with asians, and black people. By the 1990s…

GOD IS PRESENT 2 God Is Present The Book of Esther in the Holy Bible never mentions God, nor does it acknowledge His existence or actions. Despite His name never being mentioned, there are specific circumstances where it is evident that God is present. Selected text from the Book of Esther, Chapters 4:10 through 5:3 describes one such situation. I will prove that it was…

Dave Brubeck also had a song called, “In Your Own Sweet Way.” Brubeck described this tune as, “the first original tune that he has written in years” (Jazz Standards). Another reason he wrote it was because one of his friends and group mates, Paul Desmond, said, “We really need new, original material. We are just playing all the standards” (Jazz Standards). Brubeck said that he wrote this song and…

raged singers are Desmond Dekkar, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, and Burning Spears. Jamaica has lots of interesting and unique geography. Jamaica was formed when North american and caribbean tectonic plates collided around twenty five million years ago. Jamaica is an island in the West Indies, ninety miles south of the island of Cuba (Jamaica). Jamaica is located in the Caribbean Sea (Perkin). Jamaica’s geographic coordinates are (18 15N, 77 30W) (World Factbook). Jamaica is about 600 miles south of…

Number 15 Unfinished Sentences 1. I usually worry about not getting at least one win in Fortnite each day of the weekend. 2. I feel angry when I get a bad grade on a test. 3. I'm moody when my mom says it is time to do a hour of choirs. 4. I'm happiest when I take a me day and don't go to school 5. I feel confident when I just bought a new pair of shoes. 6. I feel frustrated when people make up lame excuses. 7. I feel depressed when I'm on vacation and all it does is rain. 8. I am comfortable…

The United States of America has become a place where millions can come together under one government, under one common ideology of democracy, justice, liberty, fairness, material prosperity, and equality. Its a place where the freedom that Americans cherish is not an absolute, unhindered freedom that an anarchist would wish for, rather it 's a freedom protected within the boundaries of law. America is the leading destinations for immigrants with approximately one million immigrants each year. A…