...Freda Josephine McDonald , most commonly known as Josephine Baker, was born on June 3, 1906 in St Louis, Missouri. Josephine’s father, Eddie Carson, left her and her mother, Carrie McDonald, shortly after birth. Carrie soon remarried and had several other children. She grew up mostly in poverty. At 8 years old, Josephine began to help support her family by cleaning houses and babysitting for the wealthy. She returned to school, briefly, before she decided to run away from home at 13 years old. She found work as a waitress at a club , where she began a very short-lived marriage with a man named Willie Wells. At this time , Josephine became interested and took up dancing. She perfected her skills in clubs and street performances and soon after she was touring the country with famous entertainers. In 1921, Mrs.Baker married Willie Baker, whose name she kept even after their divorce. In 1925, She moved to France, where her career reached a major turning point. With the money she earned from her many professional performances, she bought an estate in the southwest of France. Soon after, she moved her family from St. Louis to France....
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...Josephine Baker: The Banana Lady Josephine Baker was an African American civil rights activist, dancer, singer, and French revolutionary. Originally born as Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3rd 1906 in St. Louis Missouri to a black laundress named Carrie McDonald and white vaudeville drummer named Eddie Carson. Josephine’s father left them shortly after because interracial relationships were frowned upon and he couldn’t handle the stigma. Josephine baker grew up in poverty her mother had other children by her step father who was an abusive alcoholic it’s said he was violent and aggressive because he couldn’t support his family financially they were extremely poor and moved from place to place constantly during her early childhood. around the time she was eight she began to clean houses for rich white families to help support her mom and siblings...
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...Josephine Baker Freda Josephine McDonald, more commanly known as Josephine Baker, was an African American dancer, comedian, entertainer, activist, World War II fighter, and fashion icon who ended up changing history by defying the social laws that prohibited blacks and women at the time. Josephine spent her early childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, born to a mother who was a washerwoman, and a father who abandoned her. Her family was so poor that she was forced to abandon school from ages 8-10, in order to help support them, and eventually had to live on the streets. She cleaned houses, babysat, and waitressed, all the while being exposed to the the strong ideas of racism within America, which would later change her from a hometown girl to...
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...Josephine Baker is a famous Talented and caring performer born in 1906 on June, 3 and she died on April, 12, 1975.this first black superstar.Even though she participated in boycott segregated classes she continued her passion and she danced in skirts made out of bananas and had a big performance in New York that helped her grasp more attention from others. Josephine Baker first took up dancing in clubs and in the streets then later on in 1919 she went on tours around the U.S this was the first time she got married to a man know as Willie Baker and she kept the name despite their divorce then later she landed a role in shuffle along.Furthermore Baker moved to New York to soon start performing in Chocolate dandies. In Josephine baker's fight against racism.She performed in Ziegfeld Follies helping to establish herself as a performer in her home country.However she was met with a racist reaction and returned to france.During the 1950s Baker frequently returned to the U.S to lead her Support to the Civil rights movement.Josephine participates in demonstrations and boycotting segregated clubs and concert venues....
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...Josephine Baker was a dancer and singer, she became very popular in France during the 1920s. Another thing that she did was devoted much of her life to fighting racism and equality. She was born on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri. Her name was Freda Josephine McDonald, later changer her name to just Josephine Baker. Her mother was Carrie McDonald, She was a washerwoman, but she had dreams of becoming a music-hall dancer. Her father was Eddie Carson. He was a vaudeville drummer. Shortly after Josephine was born her left her and Carrie. This did not stop Carrie from giving herself and daughter a better life. She remarried soon after and had many more children. From a young age Carrie knew she wanted Josephine to have dreams and achieve them. She gave up many things so her kids could achieve...
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...Dr. Sara Josephine Baker was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in the year 1873. The sudden death of her father when Sara was only sixteen years of age pushed her to enroll medical school for a career as a physician. In 1894, Baker joined the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. Upon her graduation from medical school, now know as Dr. Baker, began to understand the relationship between poverty and poor health. The doctor became assistant commissioner of health (of New York City) in 1907, where she worked on numerous health issues affecting the city, one of them being smallpox vaccinations. Dr. Baker played a big role in identifying "Typhoid Mary," a cook who had worked in numerous households around the city and had unintentionally...
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...Josephine Baker was an African American dancer, actress, pop music and jazz singer who was known for by multiple nicknames such as the “Bronze Venus”, “Black Pearl”, “Jazz Cleopatra”, and the “Creole Goddess”. Baker was a thrilling entertainer. More than that, she was the 20th Century’s first international black female sex symbol. The resume of Ms. Baker does not end after being known as an enticing erotic performer, she was also known for becoming an activist in the Civil Rights Movement. After reading this research paper, we will hold a better understanding of how Ms. Josephine Baker impacted American society against racism while being a sex symbol. Freda Josephine McDonald was born on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. Growing...
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...Final Research Paper The Civil Rights Era, which took place during the years of 1955 till 1968, was indeed the movement that gave African Americans the push to achieve their first major accomplishments of the decade. The Civil Rights Movements goals were to break down the walls of legal segregation in public places, achieve equality and justice for African Americans, and to help make African Americans become more self-conscious when standing for all their interest. This movement not only benefited men, but it also benefited women. African American women played a large role in the history of the civil rights era. According to Lee Sartain, “Female activists were integral to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and often in the front lines of the civil rights struggle. Commentators on the period, however, have generally ignored the role of these activists mainly, because women were not prominent in media reporting on the early struggles for civil rights (Sartain).”Even as of today most NAACP members and most local branch presidents are women. Vivian Malone Jones defied segregationist Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace to enroll in the University of Alabama in 1963 and later worked in the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department. The African American women of the Civil Rights Era were often overlooked, because of the race and their gender. Not only was racism an issue, but also sexism. No one took a woman serious during those times; they...
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..., Veerle A. I. Huvenne , Eduardo Isidro , Daniel O. B. Jones12, Galderic Lastras8, ´ ˆ Telmo Morato1,2, Jose Nuno Gomes-Pereira1,2, Autun Purser13, Heather Stewart14, Ines Tojeira15, 8 16 5 Xavier Tubau , David Van Rooij , Paul A. Tyler 1 Center of the Institute of Marine Research (IMAR) and Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores, Horta, Portugal, 2 Laboratory of Robotics `ncies del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain, 4 Norwegian Institute for Water Research and Systems in Engineering and Science (LARSyS), Lisbon, Portugal, 3 Institut de Cie (NIVA), Marine Biology section, Oslo, Norway, 5 Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, ¨ 6 Norwegian Institute for Water Research, Bergen, Norway, 7 Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany, 8 GRC `ncies Marines, Departament d9Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geocie `ncies Marines, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Campus de Pedralbes, Barcelona, Geocie Spain, 9 Marine Biology & Ecology Research Centre, Marine Institute, Plymouth University, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 10 Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, The Netherlands, 11 Institut Francais de Recherche pour l9Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Bastia, France, 12 National Oceanography Centre, University of ¸ Southampton Waterfront Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom, 13 OceanLab, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen...
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...Journal of American Studies, 45 (2011), 1, 113–129 f Cambridge University Press 2010 doi:10.1017/S0021875810001271 First published online 19 July 2010 Jazz as a Black American Art Form : Definitions of the Jazz Preservation Act JEFF FARLEY Jazz music and culture have experienced a surge in popularity after the passage of the Jazz Preservation Act (JPA) in 1987. This resolution defined jazz as a black American art form, thus using race, national identity, and cultural value as key aspects in making jazz one of the nation’s most subsidized arts. Led by new cultural institutions and educational programs, millions of Americans have engaged with the history and canon of jazz that represent the values endorsed by the JPA. Record companies, book publishers, archivists, academia, and private foundations have also contributed to the effort to preserve jazz music and history. Such preservation has not always been a simple process, especially in identifying jazz with black culture and with America as a whole. This has required a careful balancing of social and musical aspects of jazz. For instance, many consider two of the most important aspects of jazz to be the blues aesthetic, which inevitably expresses racist oppression in America, and the democratic ethic, wherein each musician’s individual expression equally contributes to the whole. Balanced explanations of race and nationality are useful not only for musicologists, but also for musicians and teachers wishing to use jazz as an example...
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...Better Regulation for Growth Regulatory Quality and Competition Policy Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group With funding from FIAS, the multi-donor investment climate advisory service in partnership with BETTER REGULATION FOR GROWTH GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS AND TOOLS FOR EFFECTIVE REGULATORY REFORM REGULATORY QUALITY AND COMPETITION POLICY INVESTMENT CLIMATE ADVISORY SERVICES WORLD BANK GROUP ©2010 The World Bank Group 1818 H Street NW Washington DC 20433 Telephone: 202-473-1000 Internet: www.worldbank.org All rights reserved Rights and Permissions The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions or all of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable law. The World Bank encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission to reproduce portions of the work promptly. For permission to photocopy or reprint any part of this work, please send a request with complete information to the Copyright Clearance Center Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; telephone: 978-750-8400; fax: 978-750-4470; Internet: www.copyright.com. All other queries on rights and licenses, including subsidiary rights, should be addressed to the Office of the Publisher, The World Bank Group, 1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433, USA; fax: 202-522-2422; e-mail: pubrights@worldbank.org. About the Investment Climate Advisory Services of the World Bank Group The Investment Climate...
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...sources are much environmentally friendly than others. The greenest energy sources are those which utilise the natural energy flows of the Earth and they are usually known as renewable energy sources as they will never run out. There are various studies were conducted to examined or analysed the green electricity. These kinds of studies, however, almost invariably focus on the conservative variables such as sources, cost and impact in analysing the green electricity while overlooking other variables which is the social perception on it. Different from the prior studies, this study specifies relatively complete on public acceptance or perceptions and focus on how they perceive the green electricity. Moreover, this study tries to fills the research gap through investigating the linkages between the public acceptance and...
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...2012 Doing business in a more transparent world C O M PA R I N G R E G U L AT I O N F O R D O M E S T I C F I R M S I N 1 8 3 E C O N O M I E S © 2012 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank 1818 H Street NW Washington, DC 20433 Telephone 202-473-1000 Internet www.worldbank.org All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 08 07 06 05 A copublication of The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. This volume is a product of the staff of the World Bank Group. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this volume do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work. Rights and Permissions The material in this publication is copyrighted. Copying and/or transmitting portions or all of this work without permission may be a violation of applicable law. The World Bank encourages dissemination of its work and will normally grant permission to reproduce portions of the work promptly. For permission to photocopy or reprint any part of this work, please send a request with complete information to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA; telephone: 978-750-8400; fax: 978-750-4470; Internet: www.copyright.com. All other queries on rights and licenses, including subsidiary rights, should be addressed to the Office of the Publisher, The World Bank, 1818...
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...RIGA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LAW THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STATE RESPONSIBILITY NATIONAL SPACE LEGISLATION IN THE EU (title) INTO MASTER’S THESIS AUTHOR: DMYTRO CHYBISOV LL.M 2007/2008 year student student number LLM00703 JANE SMITH________________ (name, surname) TUTOR: Professor____________________ (academic title) DECLARATION OF HONOUR: I declare that this thesis is my own work, and that all references to, or quotations from, the work of others are fully and correctly cited. (Signed) …………………………………. RIGA, 2008 2 SUMMARY In Part I the general provisions of space treaties and principles of public international law briefly summarized. An overview of “appropriate state”, “launching state” terms and international responsibility and liability issues also discussed there. Part I is supposed to introduce current international legal tools available for the regulation of space activities. It explains what is international space law, why it is important and how does it work. Moreover, certain aspects of legal treatment of governmental and non-governmental entities are comprehensively discussed. The analogy between international space law and maritime law was also reiterated. Part I particularly examines each of three main space treaties and the problematic points arising from their interpretation. The enforcement mechanism is also analyzed. It was the idea to pick up an issue and then to analyze it using the common sense and legal logic with the view...
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...Northern California Geolo Geology of Northern California Frank DeCourten Department of Earth Science Sierra College Standing more than 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above the surrounding terrain, Mt. Shasta is the largest volcano in northern California and symbolizes the dynamic geologic processes that have shaped a spectacular landscape. 63829_02_insidecover.qxd 11/25/08 12:53 AM Page ii ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS TO ASK Northern California.1 Introduction Ⅲ What are northern California’s physiographic provinces? Ⅲ What is the Farallon subduction zone? al Ⅲ What two types of plate boundaries exist in northern California today? th Ⅲ What are terranes, how do they originate, and why are they important in northern California? Northern California.2 The Sierra Nevada: California’s Geologic alifornia’s Ge Backbone Ⅲ What is the Sierra Nevada batholith? rra batholi Ⅲ What kinds of rocks surround the Sierra Nevada batholith? ra Ⅲ When and how was the modern Sierra Nevada uplifted? e Ⅲ What types of gold deposits occur in the Sierra Nevada? e? Ⅲ What is the Mother Lode? Northern California.3 The Klamath M Mountains t ath an Ne evada Ⅲ In what ways are the Klamath Mountains and the Sierra Nevada similar? ds ro o ath M Ⅲ What kinds of rocks comprise the ophiolites in the Klamath Mountains and what tectonic events do they signify? ineral occu th ntai Ⅲ What mineral resources occur in the Klamath Mountains? Northern California...
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