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The Revival Of Jazz In South Africa
1560 Words - 6 Pages.... and sold moonshine to keep their families alive.(BEBEY-23)
Todd Matshikiza, legendary composer and music critic f described these events: "The hostess hunched next to a four-gallon tin of beer in the corner. She sold jam tins at sixpence a gulp. Gashe was bent over his organ in one
corner, thumping the rhythm from the pedal with his feet, which were also feeding the organ with air, choking the organ with persistent chords in the right hand and improvising an effective melody with the left. He would call for the aid of a matchstick to hold down a harmonic note. You get a delirious effect of perpetual motion -- perpetual motion in a musty hole where men made friends withou ....
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Women Rights
669 Words - 3 Pages.... public speaking, and nonviolent resistance to make our world the way it is now.
The Women's Rights Movement begins its task on July 13th, 1848, where a lady named Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided enough was enough, and she started the fight for her rights as well asall women's rights. Within the next week of her decision she held a convention in Seneca Falls called, "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Stanton created a list to present called "Declaration of Sentiments" which stated areas in life where women were treated unjustly. (*1) After the second day of the convention, every resolution on her declaration was p ....
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Immigrants And The United
720 Words - 3 Pages.... from recent studies.
In the introductory of his article Kennedy writes about a new source of immigrants that comes to the America in the nineteenth century. Those immigrants come from the nine none European countries called “the third world or less developed countries.” He then compares the America’s population growth with the Latin America’s population growth, and he says that our population growth still 4 times less than the Latin America’s population growth. He also says that the America now still has a very small number of immigrant, he says: “I mentioned their relatively small numbers in the American population,” and “we still have a lot of absorptive c ....
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Education Of The Middle Ages
1550 Words - 6 Pages.... the primary job was training the clergy in their professional duties as priests of the Christian people. The bishop was the head of the complex and he had a staff of priest to help him with the several of the diocese. These skills that were taught here were reading, singing of hymns, church law, writing of documents and the performing of Church duties and sacraments. An example of educating for a specific role in life were the Knights who had learn how to fight with various weapons so that they could fight for their king. The common people, however, had no way of being educated other than going a monastic school. However, if they did this, they had to donate their ....
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The Spanish Debate On The Amer
965 Words - 4 Pages.... Book
of Proverbs that "'He who is stupid will serve the wise man.'"
In propositions one and two, Bartolomé de las Casas stated that
he believed that Jesus Christ had the authority and the power of
God himself over all men in the world, especially those who had
never heard the tidings of Christ nor of His faith. Las Casas
also stated in his second proposition that St. Peter and his
successors(that being missionaries located in the New World) had
the duty by the injunctions of God to teach the gospel and faith
of Jesus Christ to all men throughout the world. What is
interesting is that Las Casas thought that it was "unlikely that
anyone [would] resist the preaching of the ....
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Underground Railroad
1491 Words - 6 Pages.... to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple routines to harvest them, the low price at which slaves could be bought, and earning profits as a bonus for not having to pay hired work.
Slaves turned to freedom for more than one reason. Some were obsessed with being free and living a life where they were not told how to live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves even back as far back as when the first colonies began, slaves wante ....
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The Spanish American War And Its Causes
466 Words - 2 Pages.... sent from a Spain man in
America his friend in Cuba to reassure him that there would be no war. He
said that McKinley was a coward. American's were outraged at this. But that
was not it. When the U.S.S. Maine was blown up; killing more than 260
soldiers, Americans, if they hadn't before, they were now demanding war
more than ever. They blamed the explosion on Spain and told McKinley to go
to war.
McKinley had decided to go to war even though Spain had given in to
America's demands. He didn't want to look like a coward to the American
people. He was also afraid that resisting war would cost Republicans
control of Congress in the fall elections.
The battle for the Philipp ....
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Earthquake San Francisco- 1906
400 Words - 2 Pages.... earthquakes and easily crumbled and fell crushed
people. Some sailers on the coast tried to leave but the waves flew the boats
around like toys. The buildings were made out of unreined forced brick or wood
which couldn't withstand a earthquake of that magnitude.
After the earthquake, they noticed that the San Andreas Fault shifted a
250-mile long section witch tore roads and fences. Rivers, roads and power
lines were severed and not aligned with its surroundings. A road across the
fault ended up 21 feet north of the road to the east same with the rivers and
creeks.
The earthquake's most damage were in Los Bonas 30km east of the fault
yet there was little damage ....
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