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Isabella Bonilla April 8,2015 Period 4 Project Johannes Kelper Johannes Kelper was from Swabia in Southwest Germany. He is famous for discovering the three mathematical laws of planetary motion. Kelper was famous for this because his discovery played a role in the scientific revolution. He also , in his college years, found time to create horoscopes for the students. Kelper's from Swabia, Germany. He was born on December 27,1571. He grew up in a town called Weil der Stadt in Germany. His childhood was silky and poor, his father died due to being killed in Holland fighting as a mercenary. He was very sick in a time of his childhood life, but then got better in the end but still severed a couple outcomes in his adult hood due to his sickness when he was a child. Kelper was very religious in one of his discoveries. He had took the hands to god in finding the results. Some things that occurred in his childhood is that he took twice as longer to learn Latin than other kids, contracted smallpox and had a difficult life. Kelper even though poor was very smart, he went to the university of Tubingen. There's many people that influenced his work. A teacher was hard on him for his math class because he knew he can do better than how he was doing now. Kelper was actually one of the pupils the teacher chose to teach more advanced astronomy. Kelper discovered the plotemic system. He considered the actual paths of planets is not the circle used to construct…

Patti Jefferson, A Children’s Picture and Nonfiction Marketing Workbook Author Patti Jefferson is on both sides of the creative tracks. “I use variations of my real name. My children’s books are written under my whole name so that my initials of PBJ can be used and my current marketing book was written under Patti Jefferson as a slight distinction.” So who is Patti Brassard Jefferson, alias PBJ, aka Patti Jefferson? “I was born in upstate New York in the early 60s. My father was in the US Navy,…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on the 1st of February, 1902 in Missouri. His parents got a divorce when he was young, and he was raised by his grandmother till the age of thirteen. He worked odd jobs such as assistant cook, launderer, and busboy. In 1930, he won the Harmon gold medal for literature. He wrote several novels, short stories, plays and poems, and he was well known for his interest in Jazz and how it influenced his writing. His life and works helped start the Harlem…

The Harlem Renaissance was a time of empowerment and cultural growth for African Americans and this is reflected in the literature form that era. In the empowering poem, “Hey Black Child” by Useni Perkins the speaker explores the idea of self-empowerment in order to promote the idea of cultural advancement. Perkins uses repetition to convey the message that if young black children remain hopeful and remember that they matter and they can acquire achievement through dedication and education they…

Sharon Zukin’s “Why Harlem is Not a Ghetto” explores upon the reinvention and Manhattanization of Harlem. Zukin goes in depth about how Harlem went “from a dark ghetto into a middle-class, racially integrated, cosmopolitan community” (93). She examines the factors that pushed for gentrification, the influence it had on the neighborhood’s metamorphosis, and the effects of the displacement of traditional residents and businesses through new commercial activity. Through her detailed analysis of the…

This essay will examine the use of poetry in expressing a poet’s ideology, how this is demonstrated in their work and the poet’s methods of communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of…

The era of hard-hitting rhythm gyrating through the soul, above the chatter and hard atonal forays of artistic expressions. Tapping feet and lively hands flourishing underneath the heritage of the sun. The lively streets of Harlem become rich with culture, shackled Blues, and drunken prosperities unsealed by the shifting of times. With each bebop tune art and literature represent the “good times” conjured up a fervent desire, to produce meaning and give birth to communal and racial pride. This…

Each century includes forms of injustice. Each century consist of societal transitions and world changers. Unfortunately as a human race, we have yet to master avoiding repeating the mishaps in our nations past. The train of thought directly following an aspiration or dream includes the reality that it’s more likely to not occur than to occur. Communities in Harlem in the early 1900’s were focused on the prosperity of their people, whom less than forty years before held the potential to be…

While blowing through the trumpet, he stands on a mountain with his left foot and in the middle of the sea with his right foot. In his left hand, Gabriel holds the key to the gates of heaven. The left side of the painting shows the ones that are being punished, who are struck by lightning which is in a zigzagged form. On the right side, Gabriel is giving rewards to those who have been faithful to God by putting a yellow light over their heads. The faithful ones are raising their hands in the air…

Analysis about Theme for English B “Theme for English B” is an interesting, famous, and impressive poem that Hughes wrote in his early age. When readers first read this poem, most of them would impress by the author’s courage and short by the concept of it. Langston Hughes writes this poem to tell his instructor don’t doubt his ability through his race color. He uses this poem to share the peaceful American soul with all audiences. At that time, racial discrimination was a major social issue…