“Afro-American Music‚ without Apology”: The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture Chapter 4 in the book Dancing in the Street: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit by Suzanne E. Smith focuses primarily on Motown’s popularity and “the question of the relationship of the negro artist and his or her art to black struggle”(Smith‚ 139). Langston Hughes believed that “all forms of black culture‚ including popular music‚ confronted these issues (black struggle) in some way during the
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The Tragedy of The Girl On the basic level The Girl can simply be summarized as follows: The Girl is a simple country girl who travels to St. Paul to find work at the German Village‚ a bootleg joint run by Belle‚ Hoinck‚ and Ack. She falls in love with Butch‚ an unemployed former baseball player who occasionally works as a scab during strikes. She quickly becomes pregnant by Butch and resists the attempts of Butch and others to provide an abortion. Gantz‚ a gangster to whom Belle‚ Hoinck‚ and
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Angels of Death The Female Nurses The time was 1914‚ there were no men around due to the war and it all started in a farming village called Nagyrev located along the Tisza River in Hungry; only about 60 miles from Budapest. There was a community of killers in these two places known as the “Wise Women”. These women were really just midwives with a killer’s tenancy. Well it all started during WW1 when they didn’t have hospitals and were in desperate need of midwives. People had there
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Dabawalas Dabawalas‚ the story of Mumbai’s homemade food delivery service gives an insight of a 115-year old enterprise and what makes it a successful enterprise. Through the series of conversation amongst four characters- Anita Dalal‚ Srinivas Pandit‚ Raghunath Megde (Raghu) and Gangram Talekar (Ganga) a different perspective of organisation and its working model is known. At the end of every chapter are the takeaways which tell the reader how Dabawalas differ from their competitors in their working
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The Goal The Goal‚ by Eliyahu Goldratt is a novel focused on the challenges and improvement of operational efficiency. The book is about Alex Rogo‚ a thirty something year old‚ probably has an undergraduate degree in engineering and an MBA. He is married with 2 children‚ working as an executive for UniCo for the past 15 years. He began his career as project engineer‚ now works as a plant manager of manufacturing factory in Bearington‚ his home town. His boss is Bill Peach‚ division manager at the
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The book that has had the most influence on me is called‚ A Quaker Book of Wisdom‚ by Robert Lawrence Smith. In my freshman year I was enrolled in a class called the History of Peace. The book was an optional part of the reading list. I will admit I didn’t read it that year‚ but when I cleaned out my locker‚ it was sitting there in a stack of books and I felt compelled to read it. Robert Lawrence Smith was a former headmaster of Sidwell Friends School in Washington‚ D.C. What I enjoyed about
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"Beware of the Fish" by Gordan Korman: A Review ’Beware The Fish’ is one of the funniest books I have ever read in my life. It is about two boys named Bruno and Boots who go to a boarding school called ’Macdonald Hall’. Their headmaster is a grim man named Mr. Sturgeon(a.k.a ’The Fish’. A sturgeon is a kind of fish.) It all started when Elmer Drimsdale‚ school genius invented somethingthat is sort of like a television broadcaster. He didn’t know it really worked!!!! When Bruno and Boots found
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SHANGHAI GIRLS‚ BY LISA SEE BOOK REVIEW I. INTRODUCTION A. Review Lisa See is an American writer and novelist born in 1955 in Paris‚ and grew up in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles. Her great-grandfather left his village in China to immigrate in Los Angeles at the beginning of the last century. Although she is only 1/8 Chinese‚ she spent he childhood in the Chinatown of Los Angeles‚ and her familial background has given her roots in Chinese culture and has had a great impact on her
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Verbal visual essay The front page is a VVE on the novel "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D.Salinger. In the middle of the picture you can see a blindfolded scarecrow wearing an red hunting hat and am red scarf‚ this is the protagonist of the novel‚ Holden Caulfield. Holden is placed in the middle because the novel is surrounding him‚ the red hunting hat his wearing represent his uniqueness and protecting him from others. The blindfold has the same meanign‚ he doesn’t want to see the reality of the
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Angel Investing: Frequently Asked Questions What is an Angel Investor? An angel investor is a high net worth individual who invests his or her own money directly into an early stage company‚ in return for equity (ownership) in the company. In addition to providing financial capital‚ angel investors mentor and coach their portfolio companies‚ and help fill in functional or skill gaps in the company. They introduce the companies to other investors‚ and to colleagues who may be able to increase
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