Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong‚ arguably the greatest entertainer‚ and trumpet player during the renaissance era. Louis Armstrong was inspired by people such as Joe the king Oliver‚ Lil Hardin‚ and Peter Davis. Louis Armstrong was one of the most famous and influential performers in the entire history of jazz. Louis Armstrong began to be noticed by important people in the 1920’s and the early 1930’s. Louis Armstrong was born august 4th 1901 in the ghettos of New Orleans. He learned
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Is Hip-Hop Feminism Alive in 2011? Joan Morgan coined the phrase back in 1999‚ but what does hip-hop feminism look like today? Is it Queen Latifah? Nicki Minaj? Or the 10-year-old girl calling out Lil Wayne? • By: Akoto Ofori-Atta | Posted: March 21‚ 2011 at 12:52 AM [pic] Queen Latifah; Nicki Minaj In 1992 Dr. Dre released his single "Bitches Ain’t Sh--‚" complete with a chorus that emphatically reduces women to nothing but "hoes and tricks." In 1996 Akinyele famously sang "Put It In
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Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians. Armstrong defined what it was to play Jazz. His amazing technical abilities‚ the joy and spontaneity‚ and amazingly quick‚ inventive musical mind still dominate Jazz to this day. Only Charlie Parker comes close to having as much influence on the history of Jazz as Louis Armstrong did. Like almost all early Jazz musicians‚ Louis was from New Orleans. He was from a very poor family and was sent to reform school when he was twelve
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Women‚ namely African American‚ have played a crucial role in Hip Hop culture: from the beginning with Cindy Campbell the sister of Kool Herc — who demonstrated her entrepreneurship of promoting his block parties; the idea of entrepreneurship is still deeply seeded in Hip Hop today—to Debra Lee‚ the president and CEO of BET. However‚ accounts of hip hop often downplay‚ or completely leave out‚ the contributions of women to hip hop as artist‚ entrepreneurs‚ producers‚ writers‚ etc. Women have influenced
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Jessica Joy T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” Final Paper Eliot imparts to us the Grail quest’s influence on “The Waste Land” in the notes: “Not only the title‚ but the plan and a good deal of the incidental symbolism of the poem were suggested by Miss Jessie L. Weston’s book on the Grail legend: From Ritual to Romance (Macmillan). Indeed‚ so deeply am I indebted‚ Miss Weston’s book will elucidate the difficulties of the poem much better than my notes can do; and I recommend it (apart
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Exploratory Paper Mrs. Dickens RHT 160-052 15 February 2008 Is Hip Hop Dead??? I can still recall the first hip hop album I listened to. It was Reasonable Doubt by Jay Z. I remember how I instantly fell in love with the lyrics. I hadn’t heard anything like it before‚ primarily because I only listened to R&B and some watered down rap music. The lyrics were hard hitting. They meant something. I could his hunger through the speakers as he rapped his song entitled “Can I Live” which said “Well
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college. The value of education has been instilled in my family for generations. My great grandma Lil started it all: after growing up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan‚ she matriculated at the City University of New York with degrees in law‚ math‚ and education. Perhaps due to the Great Depression‚ she found work where it was available as a grade school teacher‚ and she never stopped learning. Grandma Lil was enrolled in classes until the day she died. Her passion was a
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recognize this through the shallowness of her antagonizing characters. Isabel shuns her younger sisters in order to keep the spotlight for herself‚ taking little joy in the doll’s house itself in comparison to how it earns her friends. Lena attacks Lil Kelvey with gossip‚ this petty insult providing her and her friends with more energy and adventure than anything else. Aunt Beryl‚ both to maintain her top-heavy status and to relieve her anxiety about the discovery of her scandal with Willie Brent
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Some scholars criticise Cidade de Deus / City of God (2002) on the grounds that the film represents violence and poverty as a ‘spectacle’ and fails to relate these issues to the wider socio-political context of contemporary Brazil. Is this criticism justified? ‘There are…two kinds of film makers: one invents an imaginary reality; the other confronts an existing reality and attempts to understand it‚ criticise it…and finally‚ translate it into film’ Fernando Biri‚ 1979[1] Fernando Meirelles’s
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Superwoman Gladys Knight Feat Patti LaBelle & Dionne Warwick Early in the morning I put breakfast at your table And I make sure that your coffee Has its sugar and cream Ooh‚ your eggs are over easy Your toast done lightly All that’s missing is your morning kiss That used to greet me Now‚ now you say the juice is sour Well‚ it used to be so sweet (Well) And I can’t help but to wonder If you’re talking about me (Oh‚ you’re talkin’) We don’t talk the way we used to And it’s hurting
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