"Historians agree that World War II changed life for American women in the 20th century. The Civil War had just as great an impact on the lives of American women in the 19th century." (http://www.defenselink.mil) Staying at home‚ women could help the war effort by running businesses‚ making clothes‚ and taking care of their farms‚ but some women wanted to do more. Some women went to become nurses and helped wounded soldiers‚ some became spies‚ and still others posed as men and enlisted in armies
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In small bedroom in the city of chicago was a girl‚ dark skinned‚ skinny‚ and small. This girls name was Raya and she was against society . She only left her apartment to go to school or to get a new book. Raya lost her father a year ago and has been against the world since. Everyone she knew hated her‚ because she was weird. Raya’s mother worried because she wasn’t social and her only friend was her mom and little sister Liv. One day Raya was forced to get out to do something‚ so of course she
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History of Ballet Ballet is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries. It quickly spread to the French court of Catherine de ’ Medici where it was developed even further. In the 17th century at the time of Louis XIV‚ ballet was codified. The predominance of French in the vocabulary of ballet reflects this history. It also became a form closely associated with the opera. Ballet then spread from the heart of Europe to other nations
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Documentary films and their representations of the Holocaust have served not only to speak their truth’ of the atrocities but also to document changing paradigms of social thought concerning Holocaust truth’. Holocaust History and its documentation: Theodor Adorno’s famous 1949 injunction that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ is indicative of the initial approaches of documentary to the subject matter. The first documentary footage of the Holocaust was shot as Allied troops
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Kirsten C. O’Quinn Great Books Seminar Dr. Joel Worden April 14‚ 2015 A Place of Our Own “Children‚ who control little else in their lives‚ have always been drawn to the concept of a place of their own where they can be lords and ladies of their own kingdom” (Misheff 131). While growing up in Delaware in the late 1970s and early 80s‚ my friends and I had a special place that we escaped to whenever we had a chance. Down the hill behind our house was a row of forsythia bushes. They were mature
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women seem to have been transformed into “flappers‚” supposedly the incarnation of independence following World War I. After all‚ Daisy Fay‚ obviously modeled on Fitzgerald’s free-spirited wife‚ Zelda Sayre‚ is hardly portrayed as the proper southern belle. Her friend‚ Jordan Baker‚ seems openly sarcastic when speaking of their “white girlhood”—referring to their youth spent in Louisville‚ Kentucky. As Fitzgerald conveys through a series of flashbacks‚ Daisy has been flirtatious‚ even at one point discovered
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because of the general idea of how jazz music can give off a “bluesy” rhythm. Little did I know how diverse jazz music can be. “Creole Belles”‚ “Creep”‚ and the medley that compromised of “When you’re smiling”‚ “Swing that music”‚ and “Shiek of Araby” are the pieces that allowed the audience‚ including myself‚ to experience the diversity of jazz music. “Creole Belles”‚ was originally written by J.B. Lampe and arranged by Jared Blum along with the Jazz Combo‚ featuring Megan Spurlock on the clarinet
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Robertson" (Chambers Biographical Dictionary). In 1751‚ Smith became a professor of Logic at Glasgow‚ and the next year‚ he transferred to the Chair of Moral Philosophy. In 1758‚ Smith published his first major work‚ titled Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. In 1764‚ Smith was hired to tutor the young Duke of Buccleuch. Though Smith published his next major work‚ Theory of Moral Sentiments‚ two years later‚ which he was still revising it until his death in 1790. Smith retired to Edinburgh
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A Streetcar Named Desire – Our First Impressions In the opening two scenes of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams‚ the audience has its first and generally most important impressions formulated on characters‚ the plot and the mood and tone of the play overall. The first scene opens overlooking the setting of the play‚ post WW2 New Orleans. New Orleans as a city was the biggest city in ‘the South’ at the time‚ a place where the industry of the Second World War had boomed‚ creating
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Danny Kajura’s Simple Minds. Where are our Lee Harpers or J.D Salingers? A fortnight ago I was honored to attend the Pantomime of the Kampala Amateur Dramatics society’s Treasure Island at the National Theatre. To purport that Robert Louis Stevenson would ever envision his riveting classic mould into an impeccable spectacle of the proverbial British humor in Uganda’s National theatre would be unfathomable ; more so with Writer Chris Carruthers seamless inclusion of new
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