St. Louis City Museum I know it’s impossible to turn back time‚ but don’t you wish that you could relive your childhood? Last week‚ during my visit to the St. Louis City Museum‚ I got a chance to do just that. Today‚ in this speech‚ I’ll take you on a short tour of the City Museum. As I walk you through this tour of the museum‚ I’ll focus on three things: the building style‚ the different attractions‚ and my overall experience at the City Museum. Let’s start with the building style‚ or architecture
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issue. The contribution of black musician/artist in the 1930’s and the1940’s had made an affect on society by Louis Armstrong‚ Chuck Berry‚ and James Brown. Not only are these people impacts‚ but is the music genre; such as jazz‚ and blues. These topics had made an impact on American society at the time‚ and in some sense it still does to this day. In the late 1930’s and throughout 1940’s‚ Louis Armstrong was an American Jazz Trumpet player. Or may have been the most legendary‚ inspiring‚ exhilarating
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into close contact with Muslims. Through this‚ Europeans learn more than ever before about these Muslims they were in contact with: both positively and negatively. Through Joinville’s account of the sixth and seventh crusades in The Life of Saint Louis‚ we are informed about a few of the things that the crusaders learned from their direct contact with these Muslims‚ or ‘Saracens’ as Joinville calls them. In the beginning of Joinville’s account‚ it seems intriguing how he knows so much about the
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External Influences on Stevenson’s Writings “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson was a familiar title to me and prior to reading it I believed I was well versed about the story. I knew that Dr. Jekyll was an intelligent man who experimented with the idea of creating a more powerful version of him that would release his deepest inhibitions. In addition‚ I believed that the people of the town were not fully aware of Mr. Hyde‚ only that there was a monster
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Pope in 1801 and what did it say? 6. What was the Civil Code? 7. What did Napoleon do in 1802 to give himself more power? 8. What happened on December 2‚ 1804? Considering the French Revolution and what happened to Louis XVI‚ why is that ironic? 9. According to Bertaud (in red)‚ why was it important that the Pope came to Paris for the ceremony? Finally‚ a kingdom as tiny as his ambitions were great. http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/guide18/part01
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Saint Louis Union Station The Saint Louis Union Station (Figure 1)‚ located on Market Street between the 18th Street and the 20th Street in downtown Saint Louis‚ was built in 1894 to be used as a train shed and transportation for travelers. This enabled the travelers to get around whether it is around St. Louis‚ around the United States‚ and even into Canada. The architect of the St. Louis Union Station is a German-American man named Theodore C. Link after he had won the design competition for
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The Sun King King Louis XIV was the absolute ruler of France from 1638-1718. He came into thrown at the age of five and ruled until his death just before his 77th birthday. Louis was a strong‚ powerful and lavish ruler of France. He believed in the Divine Rights of the King and ruled with total authority. King Louis faced many problems‚ and attempted to solve them by issuing policies however they did not all have positive effects on France. King Louis worked to improve the economy and industry of
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In the expect of Joinville’s Life of St. Louis much information and detail is given about King Louis IX of France’s first crusade through the perspective of John‚ Lord of Joinville‚ nobleman and companion of Louis. In his chronicles‚ Lord John of Joinville gives insight of the crusade from its inception until till its bitter end. Joinville’s document gives a personal and historical perspective of the mentality of the crusaders and insight of their struggles‚ aspiration‚ and thoughts as they endured
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Throughout his life‚ Louis Pasteur became a world-famous scientist known for his astute role in the pasteurization process and its new discoveries. Not only excelling in fermentation and other bacteria‚ Pasteur helped contribute to saving France’s silk production when he discovered Flacherie‚ the disease plaguing the silkworms in the nation. Striving from his previous discoveries‚ Pasteur’s most successful proposition was when he introduced advancements to The Germ Theory‚ which gave an explanation
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THE STYLE AND TECHNIQUE OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG Louis Armstrong is widely known as a founding father of jazz. His abilities and inventive musical mind have given to music a style that still dominates jazz today. His innovations changed the face of jazz music and have influenced many‚ filtering down and contributing to rock and roll. In his instrumental music‚ Louis Armstrong revolutionized jazz. Prior to his arrival as a jazz performer‚ the emphasis was always with the band as a whole and not with
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