Louis Farrakhan

Create∽ Louis Daguerre created the first practical photographic process. He worked with a man named Joseph Niépce who revealed a pewter plate covered in asphalt to light for eight hours in a camera obscura. This seized a blurry picture of the view outside his window. Daguerre believed this was to long for just a blurry picture. Daguerre suggested that they replace the asphalt with silver iodine and use a sharper lens. This would reduce the time exposed and make a clearer image. Innovate∽ Louis…

Anna Sokolow was born February 9, 1910 in Hartford Connecticut. Sadly she passed away not too long ago on March 29, 2000. In New York City. Anyways, Anna was an American choreographer and professional dancer. Ever since Anna was a young girl she's always desired dancing. When she saw like a dance magazine or someone else dancing, it made her happy and inspired her to become a dancer. She wasn't expecting to become famous out of it. Anna found her majority of inspiration to dance in Jewish…

Louis Riel was an important leadership figure of the nineteenth century. At this time in history, the fundaments of Canada were being set in motion. Riel, born of a religious nature, attended a priest school in St. Boniface until his father’s death in 1864. He then returned to Red River, his childhood home to support his family, and widowed mother. Two years later, in 1866, Hudson's Bay Company was under pressure to sell Rupert’s land to the government of Canada. This vast area included the red…

Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armstrong's childhood was extremely hard. His father was a factory worker and abandoned the family after his birth. His mother left him with his maternal grandmother. Armstrong was forced to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working to help provide for his family. He was then sent to the Colored Waif's Home for Boys after an accident occurred on New Year's Eve. He got music lessons on the corners of New Orleans and…

March 20, 1922 was the day that Henri Piéron changed the view of the French psychology. Henri Piéron was a physiological psychologist that joined the interest in the discovery of ectoplasm. He began an experiment in the laboratories of Sorbonne, accompanied by 3 other psychologists. This experiment lasted fifteenth sessions from March to June. The experiment basically involved a young women named Eva Carrière. The requirements that she needed during this experiment was to be wear dark clothes…

Scat singing is a technique used by singers in vocal jazz music. Scat is a form of vocal improvisation that consists of nonsense syllables or no words at all. It requires the singer to improvise melodies and syllables from the top of their head, this is a very difficult technique to master as it uses the voice as an instrument rather than using it to speak. Though scat singing is improvised, the melodies are usually based around common musical themes, such as scales, arpeggios, or the chorus…

The 1936 Olympic Games was a monumental event. The XI Olympiad was at its peak for competing nations. These games were the last major international sporting competition before the deadliest war of the twentieth century. As a battleground to test Aryan Supremacy, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler built the most state of-the-art facilities ever seen at the time. Thousands of people gathered to see some of the best athletes from all around the world compete in Berlin, and taking center stage was the…

Louis Armstrong was an influential African American jazz trumpeter, composer and singer. He is known for songs like, Star Dust, La Via En Rose and What a Wonderful World. He is also known for his influence over jazz culture and music. He had many nicknames such as, Satchmo, Pops and, Ambassador Satch. He was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans Louisiana. He was born into a very poor neighbourhood known as “The Battlefield” and his life was very difficult growing up. Soon after his birth his…

The Amazing Jazz Age Di’Join M. McCoy Central High School Abstract This paper is about the jazz age. This was around the years of the 1920s. A time of joy and a time of enjoyment. A time when the youth was free and did as they pleased honestly. The times where were very exciting for families and especially the youth /teens at the time. From the various music , to the various type of fashions the kid wore , all the was to the curled and greasy hair styles worn by the boys and girls. I you…

or wrong. Everyone, at some point or another, thinks “why am I doing this?” or “is this the correct decision?” Because we ask these questions of ourselves, this does not mean we necessarily have full control as interpreted by the French philosopher Louis Althusser. Ideological State Apparatuses such as law, religion, and politics are rife in "Shooting an Elephant" and George Orwell realizes that he has little control over the choices he elects to make. Orwell thinks he has a conscious free will,…