Joplin

The main idea of the articles is that the Joplin tornado was very traumatizing and scary for the people who survived it. A storm chaser named Jeff Piotrowski videoed the Joplin tornado and had to help lots of people out of the rubble, dead and alive. He said that it was like that house after house for three hours straight. He also said it was very traumatizing and you can’t just understand or make up how traumatizing it was. The effects disasters have on people who survive them can include the…

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…

away from their souls. May 22, 2011 will forever have a hold of the hearts of many Missourians in Joplin. The 2011 Joplin tornado was a catastrophic EF5 multiple-vortex tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri in the late afternoon of Sunday, May 22, 2011. “The Enhanced F-scale, or EF scale, is a set of wind estimates (not measurements) based on damage” (Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scale). The Joplin tornado reached wind speeds of at least 200 mph, putting the tornado at the highest part of the…

Janis Joplin, who was born on January 19, 1943, grew up in a typical tiny town in Texas during the 1940s and often felt like an outcast. Her craving for the heartfelt blues was a response to her isolation. She relocated to San Francisco, a city known as a sanctuary for uniqueness, in the mid-1960s. At this venue, she honed her mesmerizing vocals and stage presence to the point where she became a member of the rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. But she still had her insecurities, and…

consider a mood enhancer. Joplin first set motion preforming in scenery's including bars and dance halls that practiced ragtime rituals. Residing in a outskirt town of Missouri, Scott then became the lead of a proposed band. Managing to show his presence with a preformance in Chicago, during the World Fair. In the 1890's Joplin then studied and tutored at George R. Smith "College for the negros." While taking advantage of studying not only did…

Scott Joplin exact date of birth and location is unknown, but was he supposedly born in 1868 somewhere between Texas and Arkansas. He was born into a musical family, his mother a singer and banjo player, and father a violinist. Growing up in Texarkana as a child Joplin took up piano, then gradually learning to play the violin and soon started travelling as a musician as a teen. Julius Weiss was a German music teacher who gave Joplin instruction, not long after he began to sing and play the…

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 “The Entertainer,” a Ragtime and two step form, which he composed in 1902. Through these compositions, Joplin gains popularity, praise and respect, however he was not fully recognized by the white society. His…

Scot Joplin was an African-American pianist and a composer who was born in between 1867/68 and died on the 1st of April 1917. Scot Joplin was born into a musical family of railway laborers in Texas. He was greatly helped by his teachers to develop and understand his knowledge of music in his early years. In his young age, the composer grew up in Texarkana where he was involved in the formation of a vocal quartet and also taught guitar and mandolin (Berlin, 1996). In the late 1880’s, Joplin…

king of Ragtime, as it was the main genre this african american pianist was known for. Scott Joplin was one of the most famous composers of the early twentieth century. Most known for his pieces such as “The Maple Leaf Rag”,“The Entertainer”, and “Solace” he immersed himself in music at a very young age, learning to play the piano as a child and becoming a travelling musician as a teenager. Scott Joplin truly is an important individual to not only the african american history but history in…

Woodstock Festival The Woodstock Festival begun as a small local fun time event that exploded into a 3 day rock and roll phenomenon. For some this event was a decent way to get out of the house, but for most this was a way for them to forget about the Vietnam war. The Woodstock Festival a time for America to let loose and forget about every care in the world. A weekend full of 32 rock bands, 400,000 people, drugs, and a bunch of alcohol, the world actually forgot about their pitiful little…