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Strauss, Richard: Til Eulenspiegel Born on June 11, 1864, Richard Strauss was the first born child to the musician Franz Joseph Strauss. Richard was born in Munich, the capital of a German state called Bavaria. Due to Richard being raised on Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, by the age of six he had started composing his own pieces. These pieces included “Schneider-polka” and “Weihnachtslied”. While he could only write musical notes to these, his mother wrote the lyrics because of his young age. Once he hit the age of 18, he had managed to produce about 140 pieces. These pieces were composed of multiple types. Sixty of them were Lieder, which is Romantic German poems set to music, and about forty of them were classical piano works. In 1881, Strauss’…

Located in northeast Oregon is the Wallowa Mountains, which contain a rich and understudied glacial history. In order to quantify the number of glaciation stages that have occurred in this locality I will examine twelve lateral moraines that border Wallowa Lake. This beautiful lake stretches 3 and a half miles north to south with a large, bordering moraine on each side and a terminal moraine at the north end. On the west side of the lake there are four moraines and on the east there are eight.…

Analysis of A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, a Mississippi Mother Burns Bacon. A very long title for a very controversial poem about the tragic death of Emmett Till. Gwendolyn Brooks tackles the Emmett Till case in a way that has never been done before. Brooks gives an artistic narrative that shows what happened in the Bryant’s household after the trial. She also challenges the reader to adopt a whole new perspective when it…

have one thing in common: race. People have inexplicably not been able to see past their physical differences. They associate others’ race with their attributes, traits, and characteristics. This common denominator is still prevalent and is the source of many conflicts today. The novel To Kill A Mockingbird showcases these racial conflicts through the trial of Tom Robinson. During the 1930s, The Scottsboro Trials occurred and they portrayed the same theme. Even when all of the evidence…

Emmett Louis Till, an African American teenager born in Chicago, was brutally murdered in the early hours of August 28, 1955 in Mississippi when he was only 14 years old. His case has served as a reference for the Civil Rights Movement. Emmett was born in Chicago on July 25, 1941, the city where he lived with his mother Mamie Carthan (1921-2003). In the summer of 1955, they received the visit of their uncle Moses Wright, who told him stories about life in the Mississippi delta that aroused…

Europe in the 1500s. Racism still exists in modern America as of 2016, 500 years later. In the 1930s, there were a series of trials known as the Scottsboro Trials where 9 young black men were convicted of raping two women. Author Harper Lee wrote about a trial known as the Tom Robinson case in her book To Kill a Mockingbird; Tom Robinson was a black man who was charged with the rape and assault of a young woman. In the 1940s, there was a case involving Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu, a Japanese man…

To Kill a Mockingbird A century is a long time, a whole human lifetime, so much can happen in a hundred years. In one hundred years about ninety-nine percent of the people on earth will be dead because less than one percent of people live to be one hundred. In a century there will be a whole new set of people on the planet from right now. From the 20th to 21st century think about how much has changed. How much is different? Think of how many people lived and died through that time, and the…

were released, and one in 1951. The remaining three were not pardoned until 2013. These men were accused of something so vile and they did not do it, but because of their skin color, they were still a victim. They were held in prison from 1931 up to 2013, for a crime they did not commit. They were forced to lie, say they did the crime, and when one of the ones who accused them confessed that all of this was a made up story, they were still not let go. Their skin color brought them this long…

believed African Americans should have the same rights as them began to voice their opinions more publically. In this time period, those who opposed the Civil Rights Movement would often result to violence such as murder, lynching, and public humiliation. One of the more recognized cases is the Emmett Till case. In 1955, Emmett Till was sent to visit his uncle for two weeks with some of his friends.On August 24th, Till and some of his friends and cousins visited a small store called Bryant’s…

The Emmett Till Murder Trial How would you react to the unjustified murder of a 14 year old child? The 1955 trail of Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam for the murder of Emmett Till, a 14 year old African American boy, was one that helped spark the widespread movement for civil rights. Emmett Till was brutally murdered and thrown into the Tallahatchie River after he had apparently flirted with a white woman. Despite clear and adequate evidence against the defendants, an all-white jury had found…