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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson, is a play about ‘displaced Southern black people struggling to survive in a hostile Northern urban environment’ (Adell, 1993, 54), which emphasises the harsh realities of 1920s America for African-Americans. Ma Rainey and her band are indeed familiar with these harsh realities, and it is the white studio owner Sturdyvant, along with Ma Rainey’s white manager Irvin, who contribute to this harsh reality facing African-Americans. I will examine throughout…

Not All Early Visitors to Blackstone Where Fishermen or Hunters It would seem that the earliest visitor with international recognition to the lake was the British short story and novelist Algernon Blackwood. Starting on May24, 1892, this specialist in horror fiction spent nearly 5 months in the three big Muskoka lakes. Before “the Canadians came up to their summer camps” in June, he “explored every bay and inlet of the lakes”. Included in the explorations with his friend, Kay, were “longer…

The Compromise of 1950 was made to avert a possible Civil War. The Compromise stated when a state was admitted, it was either a slave or free state and another would be free if the first one was a slave state, and vice versa. National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court. After being brought to free territory by his owner, Scott sued for his freedom. The court ruled that he has never free, denied that he was a citizen, and denied him…

Ready For the Next Level Before this semester started, as well as throughout this semester, I had one big goal in mind for this course. That goal was to improve my writing skills to a college level. Now that the end of the semester is within sight, I can see that I have achieved this goal. I am ready to move on from this course to the next one in order to continue to increase my writing abilities. I know this because, overall, I have honed my writing skills and have been able to earn a passing…

Effects of Trauma Caused By a School Shooting On a Student’s Social Development The thought of spilled blood, the sound of gunshots, the screaming, the panic, the racing hearts, and unsettling images all replayed in the minds of young, traumatized students; all due to the fact that one person decided to let their pain turn into everyone else’s. PTSD, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a mental health condition that's caused by witnessing or experiencing a horrifying event (Mayo Clinic). According…

Throughout the Second World War, Spain was a non-aggressive state that was not engaged in any type of warfare. When WWII was about to begin and countries were starting to pick alliances, Spain was just recovering from a three yearlong civil war. By that time Spain was inflicted with poverty, the people were starving, and the Spaniards had their share of war. Keeping in mind all the pressure that was put on Spain to join the war, Franco was smart enough to play the system and benefit from…

Please share a meaningful experience you have had working or volunteering in the health professional field or a time in your past in which you were responsible for the care and well-being of someone else. What did you learn from this as it relates to becoming a physician? (Limit: 350 words) (Reusing AT Still) Down the emergency room hallway, a man was weeping in his bed. Nurses, emergency medicine technicians, and even physicians, strolled past this man without the slightest regard for his…

slings, arrows, spears and clubs would be no match for the Spanish advanced armor and weaponry. One by one the cities of the of the “Land of Four Quarters” as well as their rulers would fall until, finally “in 1572 CE, a Spanish force led by Viceroy Toledo captured the Inca king, Thupa Amaru, took him back to Cuzco and executed him. The last Inca ruler was gone and with him any hope of restoring their once great empire” (Cartwright, 2011). The Inca way of life ceased with no documentation…

interest groups that influence the politics of education. These groups are often interested because of their own platforms (Cooper, B.S., Cibulka & Lance D. Fusarelli (2015, p. 5). Curriculum Base Project According to Dr. Brown, Foley, Green, and Toledo in collaboration about research needs in educational technology there were several questions asked about technology. These questions will help educational researchers to consider technology as an effective learning…

While writing Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, she was living in Los Angeles and was married. Mildred knew her book was going to be a breakthrough book when she wrote it. In 1961, she graduated from Scott High School. She graduated from the University of Toledo in 1965. After graduating Taylor moved to Los Angeles and joined the Peace Corps. She served in Ethiopia while in the Peace corps (Mildred, 1). After returning home from the Peace Corps she spent the next year traveling. She was traveling to…