John Pierpont Morgan: The turn of the century in American‚ when E.L. Doctorow’s novel Ragtime is set‚ was a time marked by rapid technological developments and industrialization. These years also brought a heavy flood of immigrants as well as an increasingly urban American landscape. Technological advancements enabled increased efficiency and mass production. However‚ Doctorow clearly brings into question the consequences of this new technology for the average American worker. J.P. Morgan’s discussion
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Money Does Not Buy Happiness In Ragtime‚ a famous piece of American literature written by E.L. Doctorow‚ Father suffers the fate of being unsuccessful. It seems that Father’s character is depicted by Doctorow as an extremely ordinary upper-class American of the 1920’s. He’s conservative‚ fairly wealthy‚ sexist‚ and racist. He’s an explorer‚ an entrepreneur‚ and a patriot. Doctorow uses Father to show us that success certainly cannot be found through money‚ and for that matter‚ fitting in with
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Ara Cho Ethno 50A 803-672-412 October 14‚ 2011 Seeing Ragtime and Blues as Parents of Jazz Jazz is a music genre that has complex characteristics and history of development and thus many musicians and scholars face troubles in defining what jazz is. In general‚ jazz is believed to have born in New Orleans. Jazz developed for the pleasure of the social dancers. According to the “Understanding Jazz: What Is Jazz?” of John F. Kennedy center for the Performing Arts‚ Jazz was created mainly
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notoriety as a pianist. His style at the time was a new music form-Ragtime; Joplin was known as the “King of Ragtime” as his playing was the best liked. Even though Joplin was a master musician‚ he was
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Haley Plemons RA-2 1. Easily defined ragtime is known as an early mixture of African‚ African-American‚ and Eurpoean musical elements. Ragtime has an unending set of variations with added embellishments. Known as the hottest musical rage of late 1890’s to early 1900’s‚ ragtime brought together established techniques and incorporated them with European march format. This fused syncopation influences from Africans with harmonic ways of African Americans and Europeans. Rhythmic syncopation was
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As Americans were seeking to develop a culture strictly of their own‚ away from the British influence‚ ragtime style music entered the scene. Ragtime was a uniquely American style of music to reflect the growing patriotism of the culture. In 1897 ragtime was popularized by composers such as Scott Joplin‚ James Scott‚ and Joseph Lamb‚ bringing about a marked end to music influenced by the British. It was around this time when American
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determine a person is evident in the characters. Ragtime follows three different socials groups in the 1900s. They are all different from their race and their socioeconomic status but the audience must be able to differentiate them from each other. Fylnn did not wanted the costumes to be strictly based on time. He wanted the art director to add a modern theme to the 1900s attire. This decision was made because Fylnn wanted to create a compelling view of Ragtime and allows viewers to see that the characters
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TASK 1 (A). SOLE TRADER : Is a business which is owned and manages by one individual‚ who is self-employed and in some case employ other people on either a full time or part time basis. EDEXCEL HNC/HND BUSINESS (2009). A sole trader normally use his own personal funds/capital to start the business and he decided on types of goods or services to produce‚ the location‚ what capital or funds is required etc examples of sole traders are self employed plumbers‚ news agents‚ local
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ALICE WALKER Alice Walker was an activist and feminist because she protested for the right of blacks to vote in Georgia and Mississippi. She was against racism and also sexism. On March 8th 2003‚ 5‚000 protestors and Alice Walker marched from Malcolm X Park to the White House for women to have the same human rights as men. She also made an activist group with 60 other female activists in order to persuade Israel and Egypt to open their borders in Gaza. She wrote and supported various civil rights
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drinks market (the journal). Walkers crisps have been selling since 1948 when English man Henry Walker started selling crisps from his butcher shop because of the WW2 meat pro war rationing left his employees with nothing to do and his business starting to become bankrupt. In 1970 the walker’s family business was bought by Nabisco. At this time it was the secondary brand leader to Golden Wonder but a fire in Golden Wonder’s factory closed down the business and Walkers was now the brand leader. It
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