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    born on April 25th 1917 in Newport News Virginia Ella Jane Fitzgerald also known as first lady of song lady Ella and queen of jazz was brought into the world . elevator market and US history as being the top female jazz singer for more than 50 years and in 1958 the first African American woman to win a Grammy. she went on to winning 13 Grammys and sell more than 40 million albums. Ella Fitzgerald was brought into the world by William Fitzgerald and Tim Prince William Fitzgerald also known as Tempe

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    Slums of Two Different sides of the World There are many similarities between Meirelles’s City of God‚ released in 2003 in Brazil and Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire‚ released in 2008 in the United Kingdom‚ at the most the two films being comparable of main characters. These similarities are two different by two different sides of the world and how the main characters get out of the slums. These both films have a positive outcomes but have had rough upcoming to get out of the ghetto. The first

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    LGBT History February 13‚ 2013 Emic Idenitity V. Etic identity Emic - How you perceive yourself. Etic - Is the external pressures‚ how does others see us. We as humans sort of live between the two. The British Colonials The first BC that are coming here are the Roanoke. They quickly disappeared. Probably killed by Indians. More well know BC was Jamestown VA 1607 (Pocahontas and John Smith) Plymouth Rock‚ MA 1620 (Naragnaset) Non Calvinist colonies - Follow the

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    Whaley) had a very strong love and passion for swing music and broke the laws to listen to it. Not only was swing music banned because of it not being pure German‚ but many swing musicians were African American such as Duke Ellington‚ and Jewish such as Benny Goodman. People of these ethnic and religious backgrounds were considered inferior in Miller2 Germany at the time. During the movie‚ as the Nazi’s grip on prohibited items grows tighter‚ Thomas joins the

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    "Adam Smith Free Trade International Trade Theory." Economic. Web. 27 Mar. 2011. . Buchanan‚ James M. "Globalization as Framed by the Two Logics of Trade." Independent Review V. 6.Iss. 3 (Winter 2002): 399-405. EconLit. Web. 27 Mar. 2011. Chang‚ Ha-Joon. Bad Samaritans: the Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. New York‚ NY: Bloomsbury‚ 2008. Print. Feenstra‚ Robert C. "Quality Change under Trade Restraints in Japanese Autos." Quarterly Journal of Economicsv. 103‚ Iss. 1‚ Pp. 131-46

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    as a result‚ the film fails to generate much sympathy for its victims. Leading on further from this is the idea that we as an audience may well romanticise and thus memorialise the gangsters; for example‚ we do feel a strong sense of loss when Benny is killed despite the pain we know he has inflicted on others. In quasi-documentary style‚ flashbacks are used‚ together with frenetically edited jump cuts. Slow-motion shots and whirling camera work‚ as well as rapid colour transitions and jittery

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    The Great Depression The stock market crash of October 29‚ 1929 provided a dramatic end to an era of lopsided prosperity. This disaster had been going on for years. Different historians and economists offer different explanations for the crisis. Some blame the increasingly uneven distribution of wealth and purchasing power in the 1920s‚ while others blame the decade’s agricultural slump or the international instability caused by World War I. In any case‚ the nation was unprepared for the crash

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    Peter Johnson‚ and Albert Ammons. TRUE Coleman Hawkins played what instrument? Saxophone When 2 or more musicians play the same notes together it is called a “unison” TRUE Some of the best known Kansas City musicians played in what early KC group? Benny Moton Notes which‚ when played together‚ cause tension‚ sometimes because they sound like they are different keys at the same time are known as Dissonant. TRUE Lester Young gave Billy Holiday the nickname Lady Day What year did drummer Jo Jones

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    living and to make use of the local labour forces. Thanks to this project‚ almost 20 million peasants became industrial workers. However‚ one aspect that certainly did improve in rural areas was the availability of health care. According to Byong-joon Ahn

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    Sweat pours down your back. Your neck aches from craning to see the stage better. The seven- hour wait for tickets was grueling‚ but here you are; watching. Waiting. As you hold up your light stick‚ you wait with the rest of the stadium in tense anticipation. You have screencaps of their faces from your favorite MVs. Photo cards of their best selcas in your wallet. And their newest album in your bag‚ ready for signing during the fan meet. Every peso is worth it‚ just to breathe the same air they

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