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Louis Armstrong, he was a very important artist during his time. He is is now like a symbol of the music. He start to play when he was very young. As in Source 6 says “at the age of eleven, Armstrong began to develop interest in music,.. Joe “King” Oliver, invite him and moved to Chicago”(Source 6-1) he starts to show interest for music in an early age and when Oliver invited him to go and play with him he accepted and there is where his career started. Armstrong technically changed the way…

Wind whipping and rain falling, the Galveston Hurricane demolished almost the entire population of Galveston. Galveston is a long sandy island right off the coast of Texas that is 30 miles long and several miles wide(Lerner). During the year 1900, the city of Galveston was a wealthy and fast emerging city in the U.S. Having many beaches and commercial shipping ports, Galveston’s population surged with tourists and businessmen(Lerner). Before I researched the Galveston Hurricane I knew miniscule…

The streets were very unsafe and although unsuccessful, it did cause a lot of turmoil. A small time prior to these events my friend, Kendal, and her family had moved to Venezuela. Her father works for the United States government and had just taken a new job there. It was the first time Kendal and her family had moved out of the States, so this natural disaster and governmental instability came as quite a culture shock within their first few months out of the States. Kendal and her family were…

Holly Pond is a small rural farming community located in Cullman County in the heart of North Alabama. According to the U.S. Census Bureau the town of Holly Pond was incorporated in 1906 and has a population of 800. The only major industry in the township is Jet Pep Petroleum Inc. In 2014, the median household income of Holly Pond residents was $30,125. Holly Pond households made slightly more than ($30,087). However, 25.3% of Holly Pond residents live in poverty. The average age of a Holly…

Hurricane Katrina was a catastrophic event that affected many people located in New Orleans, LA and the surrounding states in 2005. Merely hours before the evacuation was announced and enforced, many people, specifically the African American community could not leave and decided to stay. Throughout all the research from the study there are a number of recurring ideas that led the population to stay that included: financial factors, social factors and racial pre-existing conditions within this…

New Orleans, known for their wild Mardi Gras celebration, experienced a tragedy as multiple shootings left three people dead and several other people injured. Police are investigating at least three separate shootings. Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday, is one of the most popular times to visit New Orleans. This is often a recipe for disaster as many parties and celebrations become out of control. On the night of Tuesday, February 13, 2018, three separate shootings took place in New Orleans.…

occur. The wind speed was 280 km/h, which very fast compared to other hurricanes. Hurricane Katrina was a category five hurricane. Category five means that the hurricane is very deadly. Hurricane Katrina hit North America, Georgia, Mississippi New Orleans, Ohio and many other places. Hurricane Katrina destroyed many homes. Around 800,000 homes were destroyed and many people were…

Homer Plessy was a 30 years old mixed race ( 1/8 black and 7/8 white) man. He was born on March 17, 1862, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His imployment was a shoe maker. If you where to look at plessy you would be supprised that he was mixed raced. He was very light and to regular people he seemed white. He had typiocal hair every white male had and color and skin tone. This all started back when plessy bought a first-class railroad car seat. When he was about to broad…

never really fit into pop music culture, because of this, jazz musicians often felt isolated and unappreciated. According to Adam’s article, some jazz musicians used drugs to get over the loneliness, others used it to stimulate creativity to create new music, even using drugs to get your mind off the dullness of the jazz club was not uncommon. Due to this, heroine and cannabis became common drugs in the jazz community. Furthermore, although jazz musicians were talented, many struggled with…

for the discrepancy between those who would give up a great deal of individuality and personal gratification to stay safe versus those who would risk everything to express themselves and to claim their rights about something. Jazz can represents a new version of the expressing of the old blues. The narrator, who is unnamed,…