Louis, Missouri, along with his two students, Arthur Marshall and Scott Hayden, as well as his publisher John Stark (Trout). While in St. Louis, Joplin composes several musical pieces, such as “Cleopha” in 1902, which is a march and two step, Ragtime musical piece “Elite Syncopations” in 1902, and the well-known piece called…
followers unto victory without rejection or violence”. (Haley.1992) This order would ultimately lead to an expectancy theory – in which an individual will act in a certain way based on the expectation that the act will be followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome to the individual. Reframing Theory Structural Malcolm X really did his homework prior to joining the Nation of Islam. When he was in prison, he was asked to convert or to consider his options of becoming…
become its country now. The concept of war are viewed to be a peace mechanism to those historically. During the North West Rebellion, the Metis and other Frist Nations feared their land and culture would be control or taken away by the white settlers. Louis Riel, leader of the Rebellions fought against the federal government to protect those rights for the First Nations. This act of violence impacted Canada through ethnic divisions by creating a province called Manitoba for the Metis with a…
film. Furthermore, the Great Depression is illustrated realistically in the movie. The audience can feel the desperation in the Braddock family when they cannot pay their bills or feed their children. The scenes depicting James waiting outside the gates of the shipyards and praying for a job show real struggles the men living in the Great Depression dealt with everyday. Moreover, Braddock’s story becomes the symbol of the attainable nature of the American Dream to many American families. It gave…
Free is the sound we make and judge is what minds do. I have been learning how to improvise on my guitar for almost a year now through the methodologies of jazz music, in which improvisation plays an integral role. Being able to express our thoughts through music is wonderful, and though all musicians express them through the compositions they make and the music they play, there is a particular joy in being able to convey your thoughts into sound with immediacy that attracted me to this…
After hearing the music on the list, Charles Mingus’s “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is the one that I like the most. Even though this song is actually the hardest one for me to distinguish all those instruments with each other. “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is from the Album Ah Um released in May 1, 1959, and it’s clearly is a 12-bar blues. The instruments are including Trombone, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, and Percussion. Besides of Charles Mingus, the artists are including Booker Ervin, Horace Parlan, John…
Born on August 15 of 1769, in the small capital of Ajaccio, Corsica, Napoleon Bonaparte. A great fact is that he was named after a well-known Egyptian religious symbol (Thutmose III). Maria Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Bonaparte had eight living kids and Napoleon was the second son of the eight. Napoleon was a small and furious young boy and would often fight his older brother (Joseph Bonaparte) and even win those childish and foolish fights. The Bonaparte family was known for being generous and…
The songwriting team of songwriter Eubie Blake and Lyricist Noble Sissle were the ones who found success with shuffle along. Blake was born and raised in Baltimore. Blake had a religious mother but a drunken father. Blake began by performing hymns in church to later preforming at clubs and later Blake joined Sissle as a “Hell fighter member. Later the pair began performing in Vaudeville acts where they created the act Shuffle Along. Shuffle along was a huge success both colored and the white…
“The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.” ("Women Who Changed") Dian Fossey found out more than the gorillas' habits. In the 1980's Dian Fossey went to Rwanda to study gorillas with the help of Dr. Louis Leakey. When she was studying them she found that the gorillas were being decimated by poachers. Born on January 16, 1932 in San Francisco, California, Dian Fossey loved animals from the beginning. (“Dian Fossey”) When she was in high school…
and experimentation” which “ultimately conducted one of the world’s first clinical trials” (p. 612). Jenner’s discovery of the vaccine concept relied on his knowledge of local farming communities and outbreaks of smallpox that affected the area. Louis Pasteur, a scientist, discovered his first vaccine in 1879, with a disease called chicken cholera. He accidentally exposed chickens to a form of a culture and he observed and demonstrated that they became resistant to the actual virus.…