Louis Armstrong or frequently called pops‚ satchmo‚ and dipper had a far from normal life. Louis was born August 4‚ 1901‚ in New Orleans Louisiana he was a son of Mary Albert and William Armstrong. Louis did not grow up wealthy‚ in fact the place where he lived was nicknamed the battlefield. His dad a factory worker and left soon after Louis was born. His mom who was regularly found on the corner as a prostitute usually left Louis with his grandmother. Louis only made it to the 5th grade before he
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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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Okay‚ here we go with our initial look at France (just a topline summary of major facts‚ drawn from Wikipedia‚ CIA World Factbook and Nationmaster). France is 5th worldwide in GDP‚ with almost $3 trillion‚ and 3rd (why?) in military expenditure with $61.6 billion‚ and 22nd in population‚ with 61 million. France is the best-positioned of all the countries we will look at here to deal with the economic crisis facing the world. Their ingrained habit of dirigisme will bail out their industry‚ their
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Situation: The complete and total decimation of New France is near if we cannot increase population imidiately. The immigration rate of people to new france is declining over time‚ and this is causing large amounts of unmarried men to continue wokring without finding women to produce a population for the new nation‚ thus resulting in the population declining over time and ultimatly causing an impending failure to create a nation. In order to attract more to immigrate to the new nation‚ and to encourage
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Trends and opportunities The market The cosmetics and toiletries industry in France is estimated at A$20.1 billion in sales and can be divided into the following categories: * Beauty products 37.1 per cent * Hair products 23.3 per cent * Perfumes 19.8 per cent * Toiletries 19.3 per cent * Other 0.5 per cent The French cosmetics and toiletries market is characterised by a list of long-established companies and brands. The L ’Oréal Groupe remains the undisputed
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of over 55 ½ million‚ global warming affects many of the French. Their primary religion is Roman Catholic and the entire country speaks only French. France has a republican government‚ which has been headed by the President Jacques Chirac since 1995. Their government is much like our own with a executive‚ legislative‚ and judicial branch. France is in the middle of shift‚ from an economy that featured widespread government ownership to one that relies more on a market system. The government still
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WHY WAS THERE A REVOLUTION IN FRANCE? By the 1780’s‚ France was in great trouble. The country was almost bankrupt‚ there was famine and the third estate were becoming frustrated and angry. This created the build up towards revolution. In this essay I will look at the political‚ social and economic situation of France to try and identify why the revolution happened. During this era‚ there were many new political ideas about equality and freedom. This was called ‘The Enlightenment’ and was written
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city of St. Louis highlighted its issues with the help of Harland Bartholomew and city plans; however‚ highlighting the issues was the easy part. Coinciding with the issues‚ the city of St. Louis had to find solutions to their numerous problems. The three main issues and solutions highlighted by the 1917 and 1947 plans were slum clearance‚ public housing and expressways. It is important not only to explain each of the main issues‚ but also explain how federalism played a role in St. Louis. Slum Clearance
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Who would have thought that someone’s life could change in just two weeks? Well‚ mine did during spring break of my junior year. I went on a two-week trip to France with my French class. We traveled all over France‚ from Paris to Mont Saint Michel‚ along the South of France‚ and even to Switzerland! I visited places I usually saw on the television screen. I even climbed 627 steps on the world famous Eiffel Tower. I truly enjoyed visiting the Louvre Museum. It is so big that people say it takes about
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange is usually considered to be a French mathematician‚ but the Italian Encyclopaedia [40] refers to him as an Italian mathematician. They certainly have some justification in this claim since Lagrange was born in Turin and baptised in the name of Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia. Lagrange’s father was Giuseppe Francesco Lodovico Lagrangia who was Treasurer of the Office of Public Works and Fortifications in Turin‚ while his mother Teresa Grosso was the only daughter of a medical doctor
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