Hardened or Hopeful: Immigrants in the Early 20th Century Stephen Crane’s novel exemplifies the lives of poor immigrants in the major cities of turn of the century America. While a few immigrants were able to rise above their struggles and succeed‚ most were held below the poverty line and many of their descendants still are due to the circumstances they were faced with. New immigrant groups are going through modern versions of those struggles in today’s world. As immigrants filled the cities
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California ("Swing Jazz - America’s Music"). The people that wrote Swing music are important. Americans dance to swing bands ("Swing Jazz - America’s Music"). The great first artists of Swing were African American. Fletcher Henderson‚ Duke Ellington‚ and Jimmie Lunceford began to blend the “hot” rhythms ("Swing Jazz - America’s
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instrumentation in rock Study all the songs covered in this chapter and know the musical elements related to them Chapter 1: The World Before Rock n’ Roll People/musicians/labels/terms: Tin Pan Alley‚ big band jazz‚ doo-wop‚ Frank Sinatra‚ Ralph Peer‚ Jimmie Rodgers‚ Acuff-Rose‚ Louis Jordan‚ Chess Records‚ Mercury‚ Records‚ King Records‚ Atlantic Records‚ Robert Johnson‚ Muddy Waters‚ Bo Diddley‚ Howlin’ Wolf‚ Big Joe Turner‚ Hank Williams‚ Les Paul‚ stagger lee‚ call & response‚ hokum blues. Chapter
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Chato came home. Ayah is the main character and narrator. In the present tense of the story‚ Ayah is an old woman reflecting on her personal history: memories of her grandmother weaving outside‚ the birth of her first child‚ the death of her child Jimmie in war‚ and the loss of her two young children‚ who were taken away by white doctors. She looks for Chato at the bar‚ where he can usually be found on the days he receives and cashes their small assistance check‚ but he is not there. Leaving the bar
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The Blacksmith What is a blacksmith‚ you ask? Well‚ let’s start with the word origins. The word Blacksmith has two word parts. Black comes from the color of metal that they shape. After the iron ore is smelted into iron‚ the iron is black. Smith comes from the word smite. Smite means to strike hard with a hand or a weapon. Blacksmiths use hammer to “smite” the metal. Blacksmiths had a very important job‚ as they had to create different tools for other people. Tools How did the Blacksmith make
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novel changes drastically from innocent to a sense of desertion. The way Florence shows her love for the blacksmith illustrates to the reader her inexperience with the emotion. Love was a pretty difficult topic to write on because of the fact that the novel was narrated by so many different characters from beginning to end. The irony on the basis of love is was basically the fact that the blacksmith doesn’t feel the same way for Florence as she feels for him. Later on in the novel I noticed and finally
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streets….” This shows the lack of safety present in the children’s lives. They spent their early childhood dodging bullets and joining gangs to‚ ironically enough‚ protect them. They looked up to an infamous head drug dealer named Jimmie Lee. Jimmie Lee’s “very presence and activities ruled their lives.” At the
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Forge The title of the poem means a blacksmith.The line presents a contrast between the dark‚ the older time period of his profession‚ and the outside‚ modern world‚ in which his profession is less visible and honored.The poem uses the image of a blacksmith and the nature of the profession. “Old axles and iron hoops” show that he has been doing this for years.The previous line describes how the older tools are outside‚ outdated and now unusable they are. In this line however it talks about how although
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While the octave‚ apart from its initial reference to the narrator‚ focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge‚ the sestet describes the blacksmith himself‚ and what he does. Heaney begins with the line All I know is a door into the dark. This can be interpreted as the blacksmith stepping out of reality; into the ignorance of darkness. As he steps through the door it brings him back in time via his memories‚ as can be seen in the next line as he goes on to
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social standing. It also gives the reader the impression that there is a sacred aspect in doing this sort of work‚ and we know at this time everyone believed in God and all that. In “The Forge” Seamus Heaney has written about the profession of a blacksmith‚ which in the time of
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