Joplin, Missouri

Joplin was born somewhere between Texas and Arkansas in the late 1860’s (A&E Television Networks 2015). His mother sang and played the banjo and his father was a violinist (A&E Television Networks 2015). Joplin learned how to play the piano from teacher, Julius Weiss (A&E Television Networks 2015). He settled in Missouri and got a band together (A&E Television Networks 2015). They played Please Say You Will and…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was a famous poet in America who was also known to be a, novelist, social activist, columnist from Joplin, Missouri and playwright artist. James was one of the earliest innovators of Jazz poetry which during his time was known as then-new literary form. Hughes is particularly known for his colorful, insightful portrayals of black life in America from the 1920’s through to the 1960’s. He wrote short stories, plays, novels and as well as poetry. James graduated from…

On May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri was hit by an EF5 tornado. A News-Leader article written by Thomas Gounley, “Five years after the devastating Joplin tornado, here's what the city looks like,” written five years after the disaster, explains the lasting effects of the tornado on the city. The article explains where the tornado touched down, how much damage it did, and what the lasting effects are on the community. The focus of the article is to give readers an inside-view of how specific…

more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical family and learned to play the piano at a young age. When Joplin moved to Sedalia MO in 1894 he made a living as a piano teacher and he taught future Ragtime artist like Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. Joplin started to write his own music in 1895 and…

Though I’ve been a life-long Chick-fil-a customer, I first started considering the opportunity to become an operator when I was an Assistant Manager at the Great American Cookie Company in the Joplin, Missouri mall, working a few storefronts down from Rick Starkweather. I had attended the local Christian college for my undergraduate degree and had many college friends who worked at the mall location. The primary thing I noticed, and continue to be impressed by, was the alignment the…

music that is being played. (The Entertainer) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSpoVH0c-Dw I will expect the students to respond with yes that’s the ice cream truck song. I would go on to explain that this song is one of many songs written by Scott Joplin and is part of a music style known as ragtime. II. Central Part of Lesson (sequential instructional procedures) Ragtime (Class discussion) Ragtime is primarily a solo piano style and was the immediate precursor to jazz. 1. It originated in…

Hughes. His fierce ethnic pride would influence numerous foreign black writers like Jacques Roumain, Nicolás Guillén, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire. Hughes was an African American novelist, social activist, playwright, and poet. Joplin, Missouri was the birthplace of James Mercer Langston Hughes. Due to his parents being separated at a young age,…

If I was only allowed to walk away from this experience with one thing, I would want it to be Greatest Commitment/Contribution My greatest commitment by far has been to myself. Prior to attending Neosho High School’s alternative school, I was at Joplin High School. I faced a lot of discrimination, not only from my peers but from the staff and administration as well. Being segregated and discriminated against impacted my mental health in a very negative way. I stopped attending school…

The Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement because during the Harlem Renaissance era its arts— “in poetry, fiction, drama, music, painting, and sculpture”—proved the new ear of achievements for African Americans that were “hardly more than a half-century removed from slavery and enmeshed in the chains of a dehumanizing segregation.” Hence, the Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement as this marked the birth of African American artists— “the foundations for…

Mr. James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His parent’s names were James Hughes and Carrie Langston would soon separated after his birth. Primarily his grandmother Mary raised Langston until her death when Langston was sent to live with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio. During this time was when Hughes took his first hand in writing poetry. Hughes was a major contributor to his high school’s literary magazine. Langston graduated high school and moved to…