Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 Bessie joined a traveling show as a dancer and singer. The show featured Pa and Ma Rainey‚ and Smith developed a friendship with Ma. Ma Rainey was Bessie’s mentor and she stayed with her show until 1915. Bessie then joined the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit and gradually built up her own following in the south and along the
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Melanie Camero Professor Singer Philosophy 5 6 June 2011 In this essay I will explain Al-Ghazali’s skeptical epistemological project described in his autobiography‚ Deliverance from Error. By doing so‚ I will explain his investigation on the certainty and reliability of knowledge attained through sense-perception and intellectual truths (reason). I will also explain why he doubts knowledge attained through the senses and how he uses dreams to doubt intellectual truths. I will continue by summarizing
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Du’aa al-Qunoot Supplicating to Allaah (swt) and seeking his forgiveness and mercy is a duty upon every Muslim‚ and is described in numerous ahaadeeth (sayings of the Prophet [saw]) to be the weapon of the believer and ’The Worship’‚ as it is a ritual act in Islaam which if offered to anything other than Allaah will take one outside the fold of Islaam. The messenger Muhammad (saw) used to recite Du’aa al-Qunoot during Salaat ul-Fajr‚ Witr and sometimes during other prayers throughout
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‘ulama in the Middle East do not agree with concept of the Islamic Accepted Bills or Islamic bonds as applied in Malaysia because it involves transactions such as bay’ al-inah.Most ulama’ in their opinions stated that Bay’ al-inah is not valid (haram) because it is a device to legitimize riba’. However‚ Hanafi of the opinion that Bay’ al-inah is only permissible if such transaction involving third party. Validates the contract of inah refusing to give credence to motive and intention of the parties
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Al Gore Speaks on Global Warming and the Environment Beacon Theater‚ New York January 15‚ 2004‚ Noon Thank you‚ Carol‚ Joan and Peter. And thanks to all of you for coming here today. lt was an honor to work with Carol Browner on environmental policies in the last administration and I am grateful for her leadership of Environment 2004. I want to thank Peter for his leadership as Executive Director of MoveOn.org Civic Action and I appreciate all of those who have worked in the trenches with
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UPLB Samasining stages Jose Rizal’s Junto al Pasig In celebration of Jose Rizal’s 150th birth anniversary‚ University of the Philippines Los Baños Samasining‚ together with the Theatre Communication class of this semester‚ will stage Eljay Deldoc’s Filipino adaptation of Jose Rizal’s "Junto al Pasig": "Sa Tabi ng Pasig." Synopsis Jose Rizal’s Junto al Pasig is a one-act play which shows a sensitive issue in religion and spirituality - Catholicism versus Paganism. It offers questions pertaining
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ALS/CTE Essay Many people in our generation play sports and yeah it may be fun but they might not know the consequences. For example‚ there may be students in high school who believe the worst thing that can happen is a broken bone‚ but no‚ there is many other different injuries that may happen. These injuries can completely affect your daily life and will possibly turn your whole life around. In recent studies it is shown that concussions are very common now especially in athletes‚ no matter what
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Al Nakba is a term often denoted to the 1948 incident where the Palestinians were casted out from their homeland as the consequence in establishing the “new state of Israel” (Oxford Dictionaries‚ 2015). The term Nakba is also referred to as “catastrophe”. The documentary “Al Nakba”‚ and its series of episodes‚ tells and elaborates the events that transpired in 1948 where thousands of Palestinians were ejected from their native land and it tends to evaluate the events that had happened during
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Have you ever wondered how a story would be like if the characters changed? “The Dinner Party” shows that each and every character part can take an effect the story. This expresses the story’s own message carried by the characters. In the story‚ women indeed have surpassed the days in which they screamed at the sign of grave and immediate danger. One example of the author using the characters to show a message is she used a young girl and a colonel who were guests to signal the conversation. The
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Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary is currently the richest bumiputra corporate figure with many interest in diversified business areas which include transportation and logistics‚ plantations‚ property development‚ defense and armory as well as engineering and power generation. He is also a symbolic figure that holds philosophy that ’education does not guarantee success in life‚ but hard work does’‚ and he’s a walking proof of that. Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhari was born into a mid-low class family
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