Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 Bessie joined a traveling show as a dancer and singer. The show featured Pa and Ma Rainey‚ and Smith developed a friendship with Ma. Ma Rainey was Bessie’s mentor and she stayed with her show until 1915. Bessie then joined the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit and gradually built up her own following in the south and along the
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Proven by The Diary of a Young Girl‚ by Anne Frank‚ the play by Francis Goodrich and Albert Hackett The Diary of Anne Frank‚ does not have a justified use of dramatic license because the authors twist the characters to be very different than real life‚ the story is misleading to the readers about a historical time‚ and there was an absence of characters in the play. The falsification of Mr.Van Daan’s and Mr. Frank’s personalities allows the readers to believe that the characters
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“I don’t think of all the misery‚ but of the beauty that still remains”‚ written by Anne Frank. Anne Frank a young jewish girl born on June 12th ‚ 1929. She lived in Frankfurt am Main Germany‚ where many generations before her also lived. Her family consisted of her dad Otto Frank‚ sister Margot and mother Edith. Anne and her family lived a carefree until‚ Adolf’s sudden rise to power became more real and threatening. The family soon left Germany and moved to the Netherlands in Amsterdam. In Netherlands
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FRANK and LILLIAN GILBRETH 20th CENTURY GRU’S Frank and Lillian Gilbreth were 20th century motion study experts. Both Frank and Lillian explored and used scientific studies to make mundane jobs life easier and more efficient for the working person. In the following studies‚ we will look at the individual achievements of both Frank and Lillian and then their combined effort and work. We will start by examining Frank Gilbreth‚ as his was the shortest work‚ due to his untimely death in 1927. Frank
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The Frank–Starling law of the heart (also known as Starling’s law or the Frank–Starling mechanism or Maestrini heart’s law) states that the stroke volume of the heart increases in response to an increase in the volume of blood filling the heart (the end diastolic volume). The increased volume of blood stretches the ventricular wall‚ causing cardiac muscle to contract more forcefully (the so-called Frank-Starling mechanisms). The stroke volume may also increase as a result of greater contractility
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Barney Frank a former American politician and board member of New York‚ has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He previously announced he was gay. This shocked many‚ but had no effect on his career. He was re-elected in Massachusetts with 70% of the votes. This reached a point when being gay was more acceptable than a politician. It is not surprising to be a gay politician anymore‚ especially in San Francisco. He supports Supervisor Scott Wiener; unfortunately
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Frank Abagnale was one of the most notorious criminals of all time‚ not because of killing people or smuggling drugs‚ but because of the amount of money he stole at a young age and the people he pretended to be. In the movie‚ Catch me if you can‚ director Steven Spielberg changed and exaggerated some of the events in Frank Abagnale Jr’s life to add excitement to the movie‚ while keeping some things the same. In the movie‚ Catch Me If You Can‚ Frank Abagnale’s life is correctly depicted just like
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Otto Frank “ Good people and bad people have one thing in common. They both make mistakes”. What this quote is saying is that all people whether you are homeless‚ in jail‚ or even rich all people make mistakes. There is bad people that have made a lot of mistakes and they have never got caught. There is a lot of good people that have made a lot of mistakes and they have got caught and they even are taken to jail. This is why Otto Frank once said “ Good people and bad people have one thing in common
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The Impact of the Leo Frank Case The Impact of the Leo Frank Case The case of Leo Frank was one that had a huge impact on American society‚ and has lead to many changes in the United States legal system. The rape and murder of Mary Phagan‚ a thirteen-year-old girl who worked in the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ was an event that terrified and enraged the citizens of the state. Leo Frank‚ superintendent of the pencil factory‚ was the man who was convicted of the heinous crime
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her father‚ who later published her diary. The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank is historically accurate because of the anti-Semitic laws‚ the destruction of Jewish culture‚ and the Nazi presence. Indeed‚ there are many anti-Semitic laws. There are many examples of anti-Semitic laws. Anti-Jewish laws were used in the 1930s and 40s in Germany and other Nazi-controlled countries. "Jews must wear a yellow star..." (Frank 4). Wearing a yellow star was a tactic that the German government used to dehumanize
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