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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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY MASTERS OF FASHION MANAGEMENT (2013-15) Entrepreneurship Seven Domains Analysis Assignment Submitted By: Komal K Tapase Masters of Fashion Management – III 2013-2015 Submitted To: Associate Prof. Mr. Annaji Sarma FMS Department Masters of Fashion Management – III Fiama Di Wills Shower Gel Product range includes the exotic dream‚ the clear spring and mild dew. They all have the natural ingredients like Peach‚ Black Current‚ Bear
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Jonace Esquilona Period 4 10/27/14 Mr. MacDonald Beyoncé Knowles A fearless and a multitalented icon. Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter was a loving mother to her daughter Blue Ivy Carter and a wife to her husband American rapper‚ record producer‚ and entrepreneur Jay-Z. Earlier this morning‚ a 911 call was made in her home in Manhattan‚ NY at 10:43am claiming that she stopped breathing. She then was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital and put into a medically induced coma after reportedly suffering
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fact that these musicians are free by law‚ they are nevertheless oppressed by the white culture and society. In the play‚ the band is to meet with the studio‚ but Ma Rainey is running late. She is held up by policemen and she is to be considered a diva. They play beautiful music for just mere pocket change and the band is told what to play and how to play it. The person in the play though as not really expect is Levee. He feels the oppression and racism being held up hand. Levee is remembered of
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bond on the fifth day. Dhanteras usually falls eighteen days after Dussehra. On the same night that Hindus celebrate Diwali‚ Jains celebrate a festival of lights to mark the attainment of moksha by Mahavira‚[14][15] and Sikhs celebrate Bandi Chhor Divas.[16] Diwali is an official holiday in India‚[17] Nepal‚ Sri Lanka‚ Myanmar‚ Mauritius‚ Guyana‚ Trinidad and Tobago‚ Suriname‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore‚ Fiji and Pakistan. Contents
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Frida Kahlo de Rivera (July 6‚ 1907 – July 13‚ 1954; Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón) was a Mexican painter‚ born in Coyoacán. Perhaps best known for her self-portraits‚ Kahlo’s work is remembered for its "pain and passion"‚ and its intense‚ vibrant colors. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition‚ and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. Mexican culture and Amerindian cultural tradition figure
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and half another race. Even though people assume her as Asian‚ specifically Chinese‚ she does not speak a Chinese dialect. Kristen Lee questions why do people want her to pick a label when really she is just “a hip-hop-loving piano-playing dancing diva who grew up on a ranch in rural Michigan with some horses‚ dogs and every kind of hand-sized pet imaginable” (Multi-Culturalism 41). The point is that ethnicities or cultures does not always identify
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Bold plus Beautiful Scouted at the age of 19‚ Sabita Karki has now become an epitome that we have all come to love. Being the first Nepali to get titled as the First Runner Up in India’s Next Top Model season three‚ she is also regarded as one of the top new faces to look after in modeling industry of both Nepal and India. With gracing the ramp of various fashion shows and being featured in numerous photo shoots‚ she is also pursuing her education of Chartered Accountancy‚ lay claim to being a combination
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Children’s beauty pageants have been around for a long time. I admit that as someone raised in the North and on the West Coast‚ I never really encountered this phenomenon in my daily life. Recently‚ two different reality shows have popped up on TLC that exposes the viewer to the works of pageants. The shows are titled "Little Miss Perfect" and "Toddlers and Tiaras". As I’m the mother of a pre-teen daughter‚ I watched both of these shows with a horrified curiosity. I have certainly garnered some opinions
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Punch Drunk’s “The Drowned Man” The Drowned Man for me was a complete out of this world experience. It’s set on five floors in an abandoned postal office right next to Paddington train station. Within these five floors are two love stories with their themes of betrayal that portray a loosely based true story. We were all given masks when entering the space. All the same‚ blank faced mask. We then got placed into an elevator where we got instructions to remain silent‚ to try and explore alone and
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