Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee on April 15‚ 1894. Bessie was one of seven children. Her parents were William and Laura Smith. William was a Baptist minister and died soon after Bessie was born. Furthermore‚ in 1906 her mom died along with two of her brothers. After this happened‚ she was raised by her aunt. Bessie’s childhood transformed her into the person she became. Bessie’s family was poor‚ so Bessie and her brother‚ Andrew‚ performed on the streets of Chattanooga. They performed
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Dear Aunt Bessie‚ November 25‚ 2013 Knock knock. Who’s there? I don’t know just read this letter Aunt Bessie. So as you know progressivism is a series of reforms needed in order to repair the underside of America. You also are aware that you have asked me to give away your million dollars to three reform movements in the levels of $600‚000‚ $300‚000‚ and $100‚000. The three problems I came up with are women’s suffrage‚ food safety‚ and child labor. I have decided that Woman’s suffrage will
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Dear Aunt Bessie‚ Hello Aunt Bessie‚ I am sorry I have not been writing to you lately. I am having trouble running the mills by myself since my family has died of malaria. Which is why I now know where I will put your million dollars that I have received from you. Progressivism is a tough moment in our history. We are battling progressivism‚ which is a movement reformed to change America. This is why I have chosen to take your blessed million dollars‚ and put it towards these reforms; 600‚000
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By most accounts‚ Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also one of the greatest Blues singers of the 1920s. The road that took her to the title “Empress of the Blues” was not an easy one. It was certainly not one of the romantic "rags to riches" tales that Horatio Alger made popular during her time. For a young black woman from the South the journey was anything but easy‚ and it would require a special kind of person‚ and Bessie Smith was definitely that. She was a woman who fought
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success‚ selling more than 10 million copies turning Bessie Smith into the most successful blues singer of the era. She performed and sang her way out of poverty at a young age. In today’s world her career may seem short at just a decade‚ but the influence she had on music and the blues will last forever. Her music was about mistreatment from lovers‚ straight talk about drinking‚ mischief‚ sex and dealt with the black experience in America. Bessie Smith was an exceptional unforgettable blues singer
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6b Amelia Earhart Bessie Coleman Compare/Contrast Essay Two of the world’s most famous women pilots are Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart. Both of them really loved flying but Amelia Earhart had money to fly around the world while Bessie Coleman had to work hard at getting lessons and a plane. Although they both got their pilot license and both were women how they got them is a totally different situation. Amelia Earhart and Bessie Coleman share many similarities.
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Dwayne D. Moore Jr. Women In Visual Culture AD307I Angela Reinoehl Visual/Formal Analysis The Liberation of Aunt Jemima by Betye Saar When we look at this piece‚ we tend to see the differences in ways a subject can be organized and displayed. This assemblage by Betye Saar shows us how using different pieces of medium can bring about the wholeness of the point of view in which the artist is trying to portray. So in part‚ this piece speaks about stereotyping and how it is seen through the
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Kill A Mockingbird – Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack Alexandra “Aunt Alexandra” Hancock is Atticus’ and Jack’s sister‚ married to James “Uncle Jimmy” Hancock. She has a son named Henry and a very spoiled grandson named Francis. She moves in with the Finch family for an indefinite stay and has a very strong personality. (River boat boarding school manor”) Aunt Alexandra is Scout’s only white‚ finch-family feminine influence. John Hale “Uncle Jack” Finch is Atticus’ and Aunt Alexandra’s younger brother
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The Liberation of Aunt Jemima Rosalind Horton ART110 Introduction to Art 10 February 2017 Betye Saar is an artist and educator born July 30‚ 1926 in Los Angeles‚ California. She grew up during the depression and learned as a child to recycle and reuse items. As a child‚ she and her siblings would go on “treasure hunts” in her grandmother’s backyard finding items that they thought were beautiful or interesting. With these items‚ Saar would make her own toys and gifts for her family. This
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the young lambs to the fold." My aunt spoke of it for days ahead. That night I was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners’ bench with all the other young sinners‚ who had not yet been brought to Jesus. My aunt told me that when you were saved you saw a light‚ and something happened to you
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