Room 203: Here It Matters In Long Beach‚ California‚ a war is raging. You can’t always see it‚ but its soldiers know it’s there. You need to go and watch “Freedom Writers” right this instant. In this heartwarming movie‚ Hillary Swank plays quirky school teacher Erin Gruwell who‚ alongside her unsupportive husband (played by Patrick Dempsey) attempts to make history with her class of integration students‚ played by April Lee Hernández‚ Jaclyn Ngan‚ Armand Jones and many more. The movie plays for
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Running Head: SPIRITUALS AFRICANIZED AMERICA Spirituals Africanized America Claudia Mondragon Vega Barstow Community College Spirituals Africanized America When people talk about music‚ do they ever wonder where all these great expressions come from? Music is general is such a broad subject‚ but in the case of American music‚ there is one important root: The African American Spirituals. These Negro Spiritual songs like‚ "Swing Low‚ Sweet Chariot‚” "The Wings of Atalanta‚" "Been a -listening
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CONTEXT Childhood: Irene McCormack grew up as a fairly typical West Australian girl. She was raised on a farm in Trayning‚ near New Norcia. At this time most of Australia was absorbed in the goings on of World War II. However‚ life went on in spite of the senseless‚ tragic conflict that consumed the lives of so many loved ones‚ destroyed homes and livelihoods‚ and scattered families around the globe. Family living in the first half of the decade saw many people face incredible difficulties
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and harms everyone including them. So‚ the Crips and bloods calla truce between them while these riots were going and that not the only thing. Also‚ this was a big moment in time where police brutality was talked about in hip hop by artist such as Tupac‚ N.W.A‚ and KRS1 who involved their music highly with police brutality and has dealt with run ins with the cops during their life. The L.A riots change the city forever but it showed that if something wrong is done repeatedly eventually it will end
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“The name comes from Tupac Amaru‚ the 18th century Inca cacique who led an unsuccessful rebellion against Spain” (Gerassi). The group was founded in 1962 by Raul Sendic‚ a Law student in Montevideo who had organized the sugar beet workers and then the sugar cane workers in northern
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Ana Belen Montes was born in 1957 on a United States military base in West Germany. Her parents both had strong Puerto Rican roots‚ however‚ English was their first language at home. After leaving the military base‚ Montes along with her three siblings and parents‚ settled for a short time in Topeka‚ Kansas before moving to Towson‚ Maryland where Ana Belen Montes received a supreme public education. Ana’s family became wealthy after her father took a job in a private psychoanalyst practice. Even
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Causes of the Second World War I believe Hitler’s actions and the appeasement that followed it are the key reasons for the outbreak of World War 2.Hitler’s foreign policy was firstly German need more Lebensraum and secondly to unite all German speaking people under one Reich in a Pan-German Empire. He did this in 2 phases: Phase 1 - 1933-1937 – Cautious Expansion Phase 2 - 1937-1939 – Aggressive Expansion Phase 1: In 1933 Hitler
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Peru “Transculturation is a complicated term with a rich history” (“The Art of Illumination” 1) “It is a concept that embraces time‚ space‚ place‚ culture‚ nation‚ and globalization”(“The Art of Illumination” 2)‚ where “new enigmas and heterogeneities arise” (“The Art of Illumination” 2). As defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary‚ “transculturation is a process of cultural transformation marked by the influx of new culture elements and the loss or alteration of existing ones”. The concept of transculturation
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Cobain has been remembered as one of the most iconic rock musicians in the history of alternative music. In 2003‚ David Fricke of Rolling Stone ranked him the 12th greatest guitarist of all time.[51] He was later ranked the 73rd greatest guitarist and 45th greatest singer of all time by the same magazine‚[52][53] and by MTV as seventh in the "22 Greatest Voices in Music".[54] In 2006‚ he was placed at number twenty by Hit Parader on their list of the "100 Greatest Metal Singers of All Time".[55]
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Evolution of Hip-hop Hip-hop has many credited fathers; all who have enhanced hip-hop-adding their own style and feel to the new more relatable sound. Hip-hop began as a solution for young people who could not relate to other genres of music such as‚ funk‚ soul‚ and disco. As more faces joined the evolution‚ hip-hop changed and transformed into something much larger than anyone could have ever imagined Despite what the media or rumors state‚ hip-hop originated in the poverty-ridden streets of Bronx
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