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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…

Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that is inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture and attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues rock bands in the United States and United Kingdom. It often used new recording techniques and effects that drew on non-Western sources such the ragas and drones of Indian music. Psychedelic rock bridged the transition from early blues and folk-based rock…

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…

The movie “The Sting” is a well liked movie that was produced in 1973 by the director George Roy Hill. It’s set up in the view of 1936 Chicago which was a rough place in the Depression-era. “The Sting” stars Robert Redford, Robert Earl Jones, Robert Shaw, and Paul Newman. Newman plays a drunk by the name Henry Gondorff who has to come out of his recent habits to become the great con artists he used to be. While Redford is Johnny Hooker who is a young trickster who steals money from people…

The rock music that we listen to today is mostly because of what the musicians during the 60’s did with the music. This genre of music is mixed with a little bit of pop and good ol’ rock and roll. Over the years, this music has become harsher over the decades. The rock music we have now has a sound of its own and has a bunch of other sub-genres like acid-rock, metal, heavy metal but all of it is here because of rock during the 60’s. Even then the music focused on anti-establishment ideas,…

Tattoos... Always are going to be a thing to talk about. Some people hate them and the other one can become addicted to them. The art of tattooing began so long ago, hundreds of years, the Egyptian age. Discovered found some momies with drawing and words in their skin. However if we keep searching in the history of the world we can notice that in almost every century and country there were a different fashion of tattoos. For example in XIX you could go to the circus and found women covered in…

First Selection: -Symphony No. 1 (“ Classical”), first movement- Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) First Hearing: Happy, Calm Second Hearing: Prokofiev wanted to create a kind of the homage for the composers of the Classical era. I really like the sound of this song. It put me in a happy, calm mood. Third Hearing: The pitch starts off low. The melody is disjunct. The rhythm is duple meter. The tempo is a steadfast. The dynamic is widely varying levels at the beginning of the song. It increases…

Bonnie and Clyde were infamous legendary lovers who were American criminals that traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, robbing people and killing when they felt they were in danger. Bonnie and Clyde deserve the letter “L” due to the fact that their criminal actions were caused by their dangerous love connection. When Bonnie was 19 she had taken a temporary position doing housework for an injured neighbor-a girlfriend of Clyde. They would write letters to…

Langston 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,…

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…