musician was not an easy path for Akiyoshi. Seen as an accomplished jazz composer‚ starting with her Granz-recording‚ Toshiko began to realize that people saw her as an outsider to American jazz because she was both Japanese and a woman. These two categories were considered second class no matter what nationality or race. In 1959‚ after she left Berklee‚ she made her own way as a musician‚ composer‚ and arranger and thought that audiences were seeing her just like other musicians‚ no matter what her
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The Progressive Era is well known for reform‚ change and making America better. Order‚ structure‚ control‚ and the betterment of were some motives for progressive reform. While the population was calling for reform it was the responsibility of the government to reform society. Separate Car Acts‚ Plessey v. Ferguson and The Jim Crow laws are some of those reforms that government put in place to help make America more American and protect the people from the ‘outsiders’. These reforms can be considered
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In the late 1800’s corruption was alive and well in the United States. Political machines existed and bribed people for votes‚ businesses were big and controlling‚ and the government was not looking to help the “little” man. In the 1890’s farmers‚ and later laborers‚ got together to form a party to combat these issues‚ calling themselves the Populist Party. The Populist Platform was centered around removing political corruption and providing economic opportunities‚ joining industrial and agricultural
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Question: Absurdist drama is often said to be a critique of the human existence‚ that the situation is often meaningless and absurd. Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape is a typical absurdist drama. How does Beckett‚ through the use of language‚ setting and the character Krapp‚ highlight the futility of the human existence in this particular drama? Absurdist drama originated in the 1950s and follows Albert Camus’s philosophy that the human situation is meaningless and absurd (Culik). As such‚ absurdist
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Reaganomics was considered one out of the mostly serious attempt to change the course of U.S. economic policy of any administration since the New Deal. Only by reducing the growth of government claimed Reagan by that attempt they could increase the growth of the economy. Reagan’s required in 1981 a specific program for economic recovery that included four major policy objectives One‚ which would be reducing the growth of government spending‚ Second‚ reduce the marginal tax rates on income from
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the mission was to launch the second part of the TDRS-B to improve the older version. A TDRS-B is a satellite that transports data from space to Earth. It was also supposed to have the first non-astronaut in space for the Teacher in Space Program. But 73 seconds into the launch the Challenger exploded killing all seven crew members. It will still continue to be known as a great disaster in NASA that affected many of their ways of doing things. The purpose of the Challenger mission was to improve
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informed trader can outperform the market and / or the uninformed trader. This study examined the extent to which some "information factors" or market indices affect the stock price. A model defined by Al-Tamimi (2007) was used to regress the variables (stock prices‚ earnings per share‚ gross domestic product‚ lending interest rate and foreign exchange rate) after testing for multicollinarity among the independent variables. The multicollinarity test revealed very strong correlation between gross domestic
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formative assessment has more effect on learning than any other single factor (including prior learning). (Black & Wiliam (1998) “Assessment and Classroom Learning” in the journal Assessment in Education.) The following summarises the conclusions drawn from this research and is a good starting point for teachers in relation to assessment practice. One of the key points was the importance of assessment overall on learning. Effective formative assessment has more effect on learning that any other
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In July 1982 Jose Rizal was exiled as prisoner in Dapitan. When he arrived in Dapitan‚ he found it to be a sleepy little town. He thought of ways and means to make it clean‚ beautiful‚ and modern. With the help of his friend‚ father Sanchez‚ he made a map of Mindanao in front of the church. The map was made up of stones‚ earth‚ and grass and it serves as adornment that makes the town plaza beautiful. He and Father Sanchez‚ together with the citizens‚ had erected a lamp post in every corner of Dapitan
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The use of tape and visual materials in the classroom Language learning is a complex process: in this process‚ language teachers can’t be far away from the technology. It is a well-known fact that audio-visual materials are a great help in stimulating and facilitating the learning of a foreign language. They have positive contributions to language learning as long as they are used at the right time‚ in the right place. In language learning and teaching process‚ learner use his eyes as well as his
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