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Sammy Davis Jr.
518 Words - 2 Pages.... got back together, and Sammy met Frank Sinatra for the first time.
Sammy wanted to be a big star and he realized this major difference between most black artists and the famous white artists. Most black artists came on stage played some songs, joked at or to each other, and left. The white artists talked with the audience. It was as if the black artists were not fit to talk to the audience. Sammy changed this at a nightclub in Hollywood. He "touched the audience". This got him a record deal with Decca.
When Sammy was a rising star, he was driving from Las Vegas to L.A. He had an accident that took away his left eye. This gave him publicity and boo ....
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Jomo Kenyatta
708 Words - 3 Pages.... as a government clerk in Nairobi. Where in 1922 he joined a
political protest movement. By 1928, as secretary of the Kikuyu Central
Association, he was chief advocate for Kikuyu land rights. From 1931 to 1946 he
worked and studied in Western Europe and Moscow. While in London, Kenyatta
studied under the British anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski and wrote his
influential book Facing Mount Kenya (1938).
On returning to Africa, Kenyatta was elected president of the new Kenya
African Union (later, Kenya African National Union, or KANU). In 1952 he was
charged with leading the Mau Mau Rebellion against the British, and, despite his
denials, he was sentenced to seven ye ....
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Langston Hughes
345 Words - 2 Pages.... primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing, as in "Montage of a Dream Deferred." His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. , for most of his adult life the unofficial Poet Laureate of the race, accepted as his vocation "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." His personal credo, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountai ....
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Charles W. Chesnutt
946 Words - 4 Pages.... an influence that I cannot resist calling me to
the task.”(1) At 15 Charles dropped out of school to support his family.
By the age of 16, he had come to Charlotte to teach the city's
black schoolchildren and also to support his family. He had an
intense thirst for knowledge. At a time when few educational opportunities
existed for black Americans, he studied math, music, literature and
languages. He left Charlotte to take a job as assistant principal of the State
Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. “There's time enough, but
none to spare.”(1)
Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City
to find work at Dow, Jo ....
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Alfred Hitchcock
2114 Words - 8 Pages.... for silent films meaning he wrote out the lines that are displayed after each shot in the film. From that job he worked his way up through the business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came just a year later with "The Lodger", a film that came to be an ideal example of a classic Hitchcock plot. The general idea of the plot is an innocent man is accused of a crime he did not commit and through a web of mystery, danger, action, and of course love he must find the true criminal. This plo ....
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Napoleon And Unrest In Europe
622 Words - 3 Pages.... for the victors. 2) Restoration of balance of power. 3) Legitimacy: restoring the monarchies of pre-napoleon Europe. Legitimacy threatened Liberals causing revolts. The response was The Troppau Protocol and Carlsbad decrees. These banned revolution and promised military intervention. The first failure of the Troppau protocol was Greek Independence from the Ottoman Empire. This sparked two series of revolts. In Eastern and Central Europe the focus was nationalism. In Western Europe the focus was growing industrialization calling for lower class political participation. These revolutions threatened European unity.
In Italy Nationalism grew. Many movements and secre ....
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The Mathematical Art Of M.C. Escher
997 Words - 4 Pages.... Jessurun de Mesquita. In 1924 Escher married Jetta Umiker, and they moved to Rome and had a family. After that they went to Italy until 1935, but political issues forced them to move first to Switzerland, then to Belgium. In 1941when World War II started and German troops occupying Brussels, Escher returned to Holland and settled in Baarn, where he lived and worked until shortly before his death.
His work mostly unnoticed until the 1950's. Among his first admirers were mathematicians, who saw that his work was the visualization of many mathematical principals and ideas. This was remarkable because he had never had any math courses after high school, where he had learned ....
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The Life Of Sally Ride
774 Words - 3 Pages.... where
she wanted it.” So she decided to go off to college. At the age of
twenty-seven she enrolled at Stanford University. There she worked hard to
obtain four degrees. In 1973, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English
and her Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 1975 she received her Masters
in Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978.
In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper
for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in
astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but
now NASA wanted to hire scientists and technicians who could monitor the
complex technology of the shuttle. Prior to her app ....
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