Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer‚ best known as one of the most popular salsa performers of all time‚ which is how she got her nickname. Salsa music is a popular dance music that initially arose in New York City during the 1960s. Salsa is the product of various musical genres including the Cuban son montuno‚ guaracha‚ cha cha chá‚ mambo‚ and to a certain extent bolero‚ and the Puerto Rican bomba and plena. Celia Cruz was a Cuban-American singer‚ best known as one of the most popular salsa performers
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Biographical Sketch To most‚ Ellen DeGeneres is widely known as a comedian and daytime talk show host. Not only is she that‚ she is also a humanitarian‚ and an influence to many. Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born on January 26‚ 1958; she is one of two children born to Elizabeth and Elliott DeGeneres. DeGeneres spent most of her childhood in her hometown‚ Metairie‚ Louisiana‚ but while in high school relocated to Atlanta‚ Texas after her parents divorced. Ms. DeGeneres attended the University of
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Gender in As You Like It One of the most intriguing aspects of the treatment of love in As You Like It concerns the issue of gender. And this issue‚ for obvious reasons‚ has generated a special interest in recent times. The principal reason for such a thematic concern in the play is the cross dressing and role playing. The central love interest between Rosalind and Orlando calls into question the conventional wisdom about men’s and women’s gender roles and challenges our preconceptions about these
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Elizabeth’s Character – Good or Bad? Just like many puritan women‚ Elizabeth Proctor is reserved‚ slow to complain‚ and dutiful. Elizabeth’s moral character proves to be an important factor all through the book. She gives people in the play and people today the example on how to treat others when she said‚ "I have sins of my own to count" (Miller 137). People can’t go around judging others and not check themselves and be rightly so to judge. Before she knew of this she said‚ "I have read my heart"
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In Peace Like a River motherly figures play an important role for Reuben‚ especially during troubling or stressful times. This is shown in the book after Jeremiah’s wife‚ who left after she found that he was no longer going to be a doctor‚ is explained. This is first shown with Bethany Orchard on page 30‚ next with Mrs. DeCeuellar on page 81‚ and finally many times with Roxanne throughout the book. Bethany Orchard is the first of the motherly figures in the book. She is shown as being
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Have you ever met someone who would do whatever they can to save a tree? the character Juli from Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen shows courage and bold actions. Two traits that would describe Juli clearly would be thoughtful and ambitious. For example‚ Juli loved a sycamore tree so much that when it was going to get cut down‚ she protested by climbing up the tree and not coming down until someone what to bring her down. Juli is thoughtful Juli is very thoughtful because she is always trying to make
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Curiosity Changing When you imagine a great journalist you think of someone who gives great details when writing a story in a newspaper or magazine. However‚ in the novel Black Like Me John Howard Griffin gives us his actual journal of what he really went through. Griffin is a white journalist who decided to travel the deep south as a black man. Griffin was curious‚ depressed‚ and eventually hopeful. Griffin wanted to know how it felt to be black in the segregated deep south. “If a white man became
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someone’s ability to belong. The visual narrative is shown from the perspective of Walt. At the beginning of the film he is shown as viewing the Hwong people from high angles as he feels they are inferior to him. As the film proceeds and Walt builds connections with them‚ he is portrayed as viewing them from a neutral angle as he considers them equals. We understand the growing sense of belonging primarily through Walt’s character and dialogue. His strained interpersonal interactions reveal
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What might it feel like to be abducted from your front yard at the age of seven? Ethan De Wilde‚ the protagonist in Lisa McMann’s Dead to You‚ knows just how this feels. Ethan was abducted at the age of seven by a woman who then raised him. But years down the road she abandoned him. At sixteen years old Ethan finds himself on a missing child page and is soon reunited with his parents and younger siblings Blake and Gracie who were born after Ethan was kidnapped. The book shows the family’s struggle
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The novel Black Like Me‚ by John Howard Griffin‚ tells the story of a sensitive white man from the south. He embarked on a personal mission to experience the hatred and bigotry towards the blacks that was rampant in the south during that time period. Putting his family and safety on the back burner‚ he proceeded to alter his skin to a black pigment and set off into the muggy south. No longer seen as a human by other whites‚ he discovered how the blacks were oppressed to the point of no hope. He walked
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