Motown music was created in the suburbs of Detroit‚ Michigan in the late 1950s. Motown was born when Berry Gordy founded his record company Tamla Records‚ a branch of which was called Motown. Gordy‚ an entrepreneur and visionary‚ helped write and produce many early songs of the type. The company became a big hit in the midwest and eventually all across America. Gordy‚ being an african-american man in the 1950s‚ was a huge believer in Civil Rights. He recorded and put out Martin Luther King‚ Jr’s
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The Motown Museum in Detroit is truly a motivational part of America’s history; it stood for another way for African American voices to be heard on a much greater scale both national and even world wide. Motown has become America’s pop soul music for anyone and everyone. The birth of Motown music came to be in a small recording studio aptly named Hitsville‚ U.S.A. Barry Gordy‚ who came from a large middle class family had borrowed money in order. The main stage of Motown music came from a small
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Apology”: The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture Chapter 4 in the book Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith focuses primarily on Motown’s popularity and “the question of the relationship of the negro artist and his or her art to black struggle”(Smith‚ 139). Langston Hughes believed that “all forms of black culture‚ including popular music‚ confronted these issues (black struggle) in some way during the civil rights years‚ and Motown music was
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La Bella Blue Cancer prevention: Blueberries Spinach Blueberries is one of the many cancer preventing foods. Blueberries are full of antioxidants and flavonoids that prevent cell damage from happening. Antioxidants is a substance‚ like Vitamin C or E that counteracts the damaging effects of oxidation in a living organism. A flavonoid is any group of organic compounds that occur as a pigments in fruits and flowers. One thing that antioxidants is neutralize free radicals‚ atoms that contain
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mistake the word genius to mean someone who is incapable of making mistakes. The truth is that most of the people who have been marked as geniuses have made a number of significant mistakes in their individual careers. Beethoven‚ Napoleon Bonaparte‚ Berry Gordy‚ and Steve Jobs are all brilliant minds that most people can agree are geniuses‚ but people do not recognize
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Actress and model. Halle Maria Berry was born August 14th‚ 1966‚ in Cleveland‚ Ohio. The youngest daughter of two girls and was born to Jerome Berry and Judith Hawkins-Berry‚ an interracial couple. Halle and her older sister Heidi spent the first few years of their childhood living in an inner-city neighborhood. Halle’s mother named her after a department store in Ohio she enjoyed shopping at. In the early 1970s‚ Jerome Berry abandoned his wife and children‚ after which Judith moved her
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Timeline of Wendell Berry 1934- Born on August 5 in Henry County‚ Kentucky. Wendell Berry was raised in Newcastle‚ Kentucky. As a boy he began working on his father’s farm and neighboring farms. As a farmer he learned the benefits of farming. 1956- Earned B.A. in English at the University of Kentucky and then his M.A. a year later. His schooling expanded his vocabulary and in turn‚ made him the writer he was known as. 1959- Taught in the English Department at Stanford University. 1962- Goes to
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and owned by growers of cranberries to process and markets their berries. The handling of process fruit RP1 was highly mechanized. The process could be classified into several operations; receiving and testing‚ dumping‚ temporary holding‚ destroying‚ dechaffing‚ drying separation and bulking and bagging. The objective of the total process was to gather bulk berries and prepare them for storage and processing into frozen fresh berries‚ sauce‚ and juice. In the case‚ there is a capacity for drying
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Period 4 Black Americans of Achievement: Halle Berry The book I was interested in reading was Black Americans of Achievement: Halle Berry. It was written by Rose Blue and Corinne Naden. Halle Berry was born on August 14th‚ 1968. She was named Halle Berry after a department store where her mother enjoyed shopping. She was born and raised in Cleveland‚ Ohio. She was also known as "The Girl with the
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energy sources such as coal. His purpose seems to be to become less hooked to the electric corporations. Berry was also trying to convince readers that writing better and more efficiently has no ties with computers. He relies on logic when speaking of the direct dependence on coal the electric corporation has. Emotion is relied on when speaking of his wife and their close relationship. Berry is writing for the people of today who are hooked on the electric corporations as he is. This essay is written
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