Lester Horton

Lester Bowles Pearson was a Canadian soldier, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968. During Pearson's time as Prime Minister, his Liberal minority governments introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the new Flag of Canada. Pearson also convened the Royal Commission…

“How would you feel?” “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything” is a quote by Mark Twain. As you know, everything started on the Southern Railroad freight train going to Chattanooga. On this freight train there were two white girls, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Then nine African American boys got on the train. Price and Bates accused the boys of raping them. Now they went to court to figure out the truth. The nine boys that have assault and rape charges are Olen…

1. the Plain View Doctrine (PVD) The police officers lawfully obtained evidence from Archer’s dining room under the PVD because the officer was in a place where he had a right to be and saw accessible property that was recognized as the candelabra. The Supreme Court has held that even if there is no warrant, obtaining evidence is always reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, if (1) the police entrance to the place to be searched is valid and (2) the PVD prong test is satisfied: if an officer is…

Oh, The Places He Went Theodor Geisel wrote 44 different books in his lifetime. Although, you won’t see his name on any of them. Rather, you’ll see his pen name, Dr. Seuss. Many people know who Dr. Seuss is but not Theodor Geisel. They don’t know what Theodor Geisel was like as a person or what made him one of the most interesting writers in American history. Geisel’s biographical information and life experiences alone, give a taste of how interesting he was. Biographical information and life…

to each individual depending on their educational and cultural expreinces. All three poems To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works, by Phillis Wheatley, Learning to Read, by Fances Ellen Watkins Harper, and George Moses Horton, Myself, by George Horton, express education heightening the human expreince. The authors are all grateful for their abilities, and appricate their gifs, but also lament the overwhelming struggles…

Did you know that the actor who played the Grinch, Jim Carrey, spent a total of 92 days in the Grinch Outfit? He also had to go through two and a half hours just to put it on and then an other hour just to take it off! How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a family favorite Christmas fantasy movie, directed by the talented Ron Howard. The movie has an amazing cast featuring Jim Carrey as the Grinch, Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who, Christine Baranski as Martha May Whovier, Molly Shannon as Bette…

formal dance lessons with Lester Horton as the door to his foreseen future in dance. He was hugely intrigued by a dance he saw at the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Dance Company perform and this inspired his dance debut. As a student of Lester Horton, after seeing Katherine Dunham’s Dance Company, an all-black dance troupe, Ailey then had a dream – to head his own dance troupe. Ailey trained at the Lester Horton Dance Theatre since 1950 after being personally recruited by Horton for being ‘the…

that you could read books about this topic such as To Be a Slave by Julius Lester. I have also read the book titled Slavery and The Making of America by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton. I discovered many similarities as well as differences in the book. The first similarity I found was that both books included information about former President of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson. In To Be a Slave, Lester provided information about that he believed the slaves or African…

Saki Hinaga Dance 100 Theory Outline Argumentative Research Statement: The purpose of this project is to show summary of how Alvin Ailey popularized modern dance around the world in 20th century. This project will focus on how his thought and works motivated African American people for their dreams and influenced people as not only a dancer but also a humanist. Theoretical Approach Argument: The theoretical approach in this research of this project is race and culture. In the Mid 20th…

The art of contemporary dance was born around the 1980’s and this art referred to the movement of new dancers who did not want to follow strict classical ballet and lyrical dance forms, but instead wanted to explore the concept of revolutionary unconventional movements that were gathered from all dance styles of the world. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements. Contemporary dances therefore do not use fixed or established movement patterns but…