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The Harlem Renaissance by Kendall Lee and Kira Bantowsky Overview ? Took place during the 1920s in Harlem, New York ? First called the "New Negro Movement" ? Eruption of culture and art ? Made Harlem a destination city for black culture ? Changed the way African Americans were viewed Poetry ? Langston Hughes ? Wanted a separate "Negro" art for black poets ? Interpreted the black experience to the rest of the world ? Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow…

The reasons humans rebel against governments are usually caused by a disagreement between the government and the people’s desires. Often, rebellions occur in a disorganized matter, where one thinks of just weapons and signs that try or attempt to send a message to the government’s actions. In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, she discusses how rebellions can come in any type of shape or form, such as the “Quiet Rebellion” that is not like any other type of rebellion. Marj lives with her parents in…

I had never ventured outside of my birth state before 2005. But that summer, my mother had finally decided to overcome her fear of travelling to take my sister and I to England. I still remember running through the airport at 6 in the morning, clutching onto my teddy bear, and hoping desperately to catch the flight. Fortunately or unfortunately, we did. On the morning of the 7th, we took a westbound Circle Line train, heading to Paddington to play giant chess and take canal boat rides. We went…

seemed to develop from cultures combining and dances, traveling from shore to shore. “People saw the new dances in Hollywood movies and practiced them to music from phonograph records or to radio broadcasts before going out on the dance floors of nightclubs or school gymnasiums.” (1920’s, 2017). Dances born from this craze were the Charleston, Waltz, Tango, Shimmy, Fox Trot, and the Texas Tommy. The Charleston was a dance that was created with outward heel…

Jazz Music What is Jazz Music and A Brief History About It “Jazz is considered an American art form and an international phenomenon! Jazz music is considered a rich artistic heritage, a result of cultural collaboration and a universal language of tolerance and freedom.” Jazz is called "America's Classical Music" and is considered America's only true art form, jazz materialized in the United States in the early 1900s in New Orleans specially. The city's diversified population included people of…

History of Belly Dancing Belly dancing or “raks sharki” which celebrates the woman form is the one of the most natural dance given the dance is naturally built to flow with the natural movements of a woman. Scholars are not sure of its origin but given the proof one can vaguely pin point the origin to the Middle East and North Africa. The dance was practiced for based in religion, celebration but has expanded to an increasingly popular dance form practiced in every country. Belly dancing can…

Market Place” tells the passionate story of the International Market Place in Waikiki, Hawaii. He reveals its beginning, decline, and current new life. In its beginning in 1957, the International Market Place consisted of open-air souvenir stands, nightclubs, and Polynesian grandiosity. Its designers, Pete Wimberly and Donn Beach, arranged the market in a village like manor with crisscross passages. Visitors experienced the captivating and lavish attraction in its entirety. Thompson describes…

in Irene to be more connected to her African-American culture. Clare’s black eyes are the link to that heritage. Essentially, it is the physical features that tell you about a person: their history and heritage. Onlookers thoughts of Beli at the nightclub include: “La negra está encendida...Everybody mistook her for a bailarina cubana from one of the shows and couldn’t believe that she was dominicana like them. It can’t be, no lo pareces, etc., etc” (Diaz…

There has been a significant increase in mass shootings and terrorism. In particular, on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, Omar Mateen, a security guard shot and killed 49 people and wounded at least 53 in the gay nightclub ‘Pulse’. Mateen took over 30 hostages and not a single one had a weapon. Clearly, more vigilance is needed for people to defend themselves and family against murderers and even their own government. To illustrate, what “If the five branches of the…

Many people want more gun laws to prevent mass shooting and killings of the people of the United States, but will that really help? In a gun free zone in Florida, at a nightclub a mass shooting occurred and 49 people died and 53 were wounded (Crime Prevention Research Center). According to CNN.com, this has been the deadliest terror attack since 9/11. More gun control laws are not the solution because the laws that are in place now are not enforced, if the states enforce the laws than more gun…