Music: Criterion A Investigate: Chicago Blues 2/24/2015 Aga Khan Academy Mombasa Anmol Rajpar Alberta Hunter, American Blues singer, once said “The blues means what milk does to a baby. It is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.” (1961) when asked what Blues music really means to her. Although Chicago isn’t the birthplace of the Blues; people still refer to it as the ‘Blues Capital’ of the world. Blues
Langston looked up to poets such as Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. Langston’s teachers praised him because of his dedication to school and because of the fascinating essays and poems he wrote. Langston Hughes admired Walt Whitman’s work and was inspired by him to write poetry. Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist, which was the belief that in order to become one with god you must become closer with nature. Transcendentalism
intellectual and eloquent speakers. This worked very much to their advantage. They were quick to think on their feet and were able to persuade and convince people very easily. In-text: (Study Mode, 2018) Your Bibliography: Study Mode. (2018). Malcolm Essay - 1852 Words. [Online]
White Water Below: Building Bridges of Opportunity toward a Better Life When my family and I travel to Minnesota, we have to cross a number of rivers. The highway crosses these bridges high above the rushing water. I like to try to look out over the edge and see the water far below. I’m afraid of heights, but I enjoy looking down at the danger we are flying over as our car races over the bridge. Just as bridges are used to span rough or dangerous terrain along a highway, so also are there many types
this time, Mr. Ellington paved the way for those after him. This was a great accomplishment for Mr. Duke Ellington. Duke Ellington's music embodied the sophisticated jazz that grew out of the funkier, down-home variety of New Orleans, Memphis and Chicago. Ellington’s style of jazz was known to be “cool jazz” while Armstrong's style was more of "hot jazz". Ellington's style of jazz was so popular, it even appealed to whites, and Ellington became enormously popular (Anderson 124). Born in Washington
to the port of New York City as exports of natural resources from the west passed to the east. Because New York City was closer to Europe than most other cities, it became a primary port for European immigrants who pursued travelling up the Hudson River and across the Erie Canal to settle in the Old Northwest. The increasing population attracted workers, businessmen and families, quadrupling the population from 125, 706 to 515, 547 in 1850. New York City became the Atlantic port of choice over other
English Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 5, No. 1; 2015 ISSN 1925-4768 E-ISSN 1925-4776 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 13 Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Critique of King Leopold II’s Colonial Rule Isam Shihada1 1 Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine Correspondence: Isam Shihada, Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine