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“I Grew Up Here” Boley is a town in Okfuskee County. Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,184 at the 2010 census, a gain of 5.2 percent from 1,126 in 2000. Boley was established in 1903 as a predominantly Black pioneer town with Native American ancestry among its citizens. The Boley Public School District is one of the smallest public school districts in the state of Oklahoma. For the most recent data available, it tied with Sweetwater for the smallest high school with 15 students.…

Music has the power to change lives. It allows people the freedom to express themselves in ways that is normally not possible and thus making people more themselves which in turn changes a culture. There comes a time in every generation where a pop star icon emergis. A true pop icon will be someone who is very influential to the music industry and to the culture. This individual will also be someone who has the potential to go down in history as one of the greatest. Among the list of influential…

“MTV on the RCA no AC in the vent… put me on the cover of the Rolling Stone, UPTOWN, down home American kids” sings Kenny Chesney; a text book picture of a child of Generation X. There is no doubt that this thing called the Internet and World Wide Web was perplexing and intimidating, but Generation X, those latch key kids, baby busters and boomerang kids embraced it. Up until this time according to West 's Encyclopedia of American Law, most computer users prior to gaining access to the web…

The US Theatrical Version (1982, 116 minutes), known as the first form or Domestic Cut. This form was discharged on Betamax and VHS in 1983. This adaptation stayed unreleased on DVD for a long time. This adaptation (with the global cut) was re-discharged as a feature of the 5-plate Ultimate Edition in 2007, exhibited in same video and sound exchange as the 2006 remastered Director 's Cut. The 1982 American dramatic adaptation discharged by the studio incorporated the "upbeat closure" however…

Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class, talks about how the current population is becoming more and more set into their routines, lifestyle, and day to day activities than previous generations. Cowen discusses how now more than ever there has been a stagnation to new development in almost every industry. He goes to further explain that Americans are now invested in not making these changes we have seen in the past to move towards progress and advancements, and they have become more…

The three key things that seem to effect the way that students map and interact with campus are on or off campus residence, transportation method, and major; it should be noted that I believe gender and race have a fairly significant impact on how interviewee’s gave meaning to and experienced campus, and while past conversations with students of various gender identities and with students of color indicate that this is true, I do not have any data to support this hypothesis due to my sample…

During the Jazz Age, jazz music, primarily dominated by African Americans before 1920, began to gain popularity among whites and transformed into an important aspect of American culture. The increased popularity of jazz music among black and white audiences allowed for the breaking of social barriers between blacks and whites, more opportunities for African American musicians, and a more accepting attitude towards African American musicians. Music has always played an essential part in African…

Edward describes that “in the 1830s uptown areas, such as Washington Square and Fifth Avenue in New York, were developed as centers for the wealthy when the expensive private horse-drawn omnibuses were introduced first to the city”. He wants to seek to evoke emotion in order to gain approval…

became a commonality for Afro Americans to be successful. Harlem, as the New Negro Capital, became a mecca for Afro-American jazz, literature, and the fine arts. Many black musicians, artists, writers, and entertainers were drawn to the vibrant black uptown neighborhood. This time period of black nationalism was called the Harlem Renaissance.The Harlem Renaissance had a profound…

town. “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara is about a group of children probably from Harlem on a field trip with an older college educated woman named Miss Moore. Miss Moore exposes the children to FAO Schwarz a toy store in a wealthy neighborhood uptown. By exposing the children to the expensive toys she is bracing them for the reality of inequality. One of the children speaks and says “That is not much of a democracy if you ask me, equal chance to pursue happiness means an equal crack at the…