All posts tagged American
Breakthroughs in American JazzThe backdrop was New Orleans in the late 19th century, a growing port city with a diverse population of African Americans, whites, displaced French settlers, and immigrants from the West Indies and South America. This hodgepodge of cultures mixed European influenced popular music, such as ragtime, with . . . Read more
Imagine living in a world where crime ruled. A world where gangsters were more powerful than politicians, owned the police, and ran the city in whatever way they felt. They robbed whom they wanted and killed when they didn’t get their way. Now stop imagining and realize that this happened . . . Read more
of the Middle AgesEducation is known as the key to success, and this has become evident the older I get. I never realized however how evident this is to young children as young as ages 7 – 11 as well. After watching Chillot, Guggenheim, and Kimballs documentary film, Waiting for . . . Read more
e inside but also the socialists view on things. Upton sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was born into a family which held to it’s Southern aristocracy in every thing that was done. When Sinclair was ten years old, the family packed up and moved to New York City . . . Read more
ators of North Carolina: Outraged Opressors The history of colonial North Carolina is bombarded with frequent strife and turmoil. The people of North Carolina, because of a lack in supervision from the British monarchy, learned to possess an independent spirit. The colony remained isolated from the rest of the country . . . Read more
ON“Then wear the gold hat…bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you”(1). This epitaph by Thomas D’Invilliers, found at the beginning of The Great Gatsby, depicts the dream that Jay Gatsby tries to make a reality. While it embodies characteristics of the American . . . Read more
By:Eng. 102Section 5541CrapsiCombination OutlineIntroductionRevue of SourcesBody:Thesis:Ronald “Dutch” Reagan is an elite kind of person that believed in perseverance and hard work and doing what had to be done, even if it meant a low approval rating. I.From Dutch to RonaldII.Hollywood to GovernorIII.ReaganomicsResponseConclusionWorks CitedIntroductionSomewhere at sometime a philosopher once said, “The . . . Read more
The first act of America’s anti-drug laws was in 1875. It outlawed the smoking of opium in opium dens. This was a San Francisco ordinance. The basis on passing this law was that Chinese men had a way of luring white women to their dens and causing their “ruin”, which . . . Read more
American History X is a very controversial movie. It is a movie about aVenice Beach skin head gang called the D.O.C. The gang is run by the master mind ofCameron Alexander who likes to poison children’s minds with racism and other negativethings like stealing and vandalizing. The story is based . . . Read more
ates from 1861 to 1865. The result of a long-standing controversy over slavery, war broke out in April 1861, when Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina, shortly after President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated. The nationalists of the Union proclaimed loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. They faced secessionists of the . . . Read more