The first known African American to arrive in Texas was named Estevanico. In 1528‚ he was brought to Texas as a slave. It took the efforts of many people of many different races to make Texas what it is today and to help the state slowly move forward from the dark days of slavery‚ racism‚ segregations‚ and oppression. Along the way‚ African American Texans have contributed to the culture of the state‚ and many black Texans made historical contributions as well. All of African American Texan’s history
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When J.S Bach came to the minds of his contempories‚ he was known as the “…genius of that wonderful family of Thuringian musicians.” Furthermore‚ Bach was acknowledged as a gifted organist and performer during his life. Consequently when he passed away‚ so did his compositions into ‘obscurity’. Today however‚ in gratitude to the Romantic revival of Bach’s brilliance‚ we view a prolific composer who “…in the multiplicity of his song… delighted‚ taught and moved young people‚ women‚ men‚ princes‚
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Harriet set out for the free state of Philadelphia alone and by foot‚ later making use of the underground railroad‚ traveling almost 90 miles to reach freedom. “When I found I had crossed that line‚ I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything; the sun came like gold through the trees‚ and over the fields‚ and I felt like I was in Heaven” (Bradford). Rather than stay in the safety of the north‚ Harriet returned to the south‚ first for her niece and
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America. Logic is just one of many stories of child abuse. Second‚ Logic had to do a lot to get to where he is today(famous). He talks about some of his struggles in his song “Take It Back” where he says “...That at 17 years old This child‚ okay‚ leaves home and gets two jobs to support himself Two jobs that he works in the morning and the evenings And then he would then come home to about 8 or 9 hours of sleep But spend 4‚ 5‚ 6 hours of that working on music‚ persevering…” (Logic) The reason he
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Fieldwork write-up Introduction: The overall aim and purpose of the day was to consider the question; is there variation within in the CBD? The hypothesis that we had tested was: There is a distinct core and frame within Nottingham’s CBD. For this hypothesis we had split Nottingham’s CBD into 4 transects; North‚ East‚ South and West. Then we had split one of these sections into 5 subdivisions (e.g. the South transect would be split into; S1‚ S2‚ S3‚ S4 and S5). In these subdivisions we had to measure
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Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People’s Republic of China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the ’Great Leap Forward’ and the ’Cultural Revolution’. Mao was born on 26 December 1893 into a peasant family in Shaoshan‚ in Hunan province‚ central China. After training as a teacher‚ he travelled to Beijing where he worked in the University Library. It was during this time that he began to read Marxist literature. In 1921‚ he became a founder member of the Chinese
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One of Goodell’s major motivations during his work as a missionary in the Turkish empire were his endeavours in translating the Bible into Armeno-Turkish. The Bible had already been translated into Turkish previously. A Turkish translation existed by 1657‚ however‚ it was incomplete. A more complete translation was made in 1665 by Wojciech Bobowski. Moreover‚ a Turkish Bible was printed for the first time in Paris in 1827‚ and this was the basis for further translation of the Bible by minority groups
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Gandhi lead one of the greatest mass movements in the World’s history. As a leader‚ Gandhi utilised religious principles in order to inspire people to fight colonial oppression in India. Mohandas demanded to study law in Great Britain; however‚ his caste (social rank) did not allow him to travel abroad‚ so when he refused to comply he was expelled from the caste of merchants. Despite the fact that Gandhi was expelled from the caste‚ he still kept continuing with his first step to becoming a lawyer
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Galileo was contributed a lot to us today because he had major discoveries in math‚ astronomy‚ physics and engineering. Even though he had an unideal childhood‚ Galileo went to college at the University of Pisa. He also began teaching at the age of 17. In 1568 he invented the hydrostatic balance. this is used to measure the “specific gravity” of a gemstone. This is something that people use today in gemology. He also gave private math lessons to children in florence and his college. In 1593‚ Galileo
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Variations for Clarinet and Piano‚ By Carl Maria Von Weber (In the point of view of Max) Maria Carl Von Weber was a famous composer during the early 1800s. He composed many well known pieces like the variations for clarinet and piano. Even though this is not his most famous accomplishment‚ this is still a very challenging piece to play with simplifications in most of the variations. Although it took around 3 months to learn the piece‚ I now have confidence while playing. I also have won an honorable
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