...secret clubs and bars in back alleys and under businesses; laundering came to be very popular among criminals. Laundering is the word to conceal the origins of (money obtained illegally) by transfers involving foreign banks or legitimate businesses. The gangster Al Capone basically invented the definition, for he brought out a ton of laundromats and would take the money he made and then go to the bank. If he would make $2,000, he would then say he made $12,000 and the banks would give it to him. Around this time music really took a turn for the best, jazz players, blues bands, and swing; the rocking beat that the flappers would dance and swing too. Times were different then, some say next to the 80s; the 20s was the best time for adolescents. Entertainment and pop...
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... spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning. The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American cultural movement that focused on literature, music, theater, art, and politics. The Harlem Renaissance is important because it’s something that brought African Americans together as a whole. It allowed them to get the opportunities that people tried to strip them of. This was being human and normal. After the war the African American people began to migrate to Harlem and that’s when it all started. Harlem was the place the largest group of African Americans moved to during the African American Great Migration. Most African Americans came for work and a hope for a new life. Places such as The Apollo Theater and The Cotton Club, and Musicians, Writers and Actors were a part of the Harlem Renaissance. That’s what made the Harlem Renaissance. It was time for a cultural celebration.” African Americans had endured centuries of slavery and the struggle for abolition. The end of bondage had not brought the Promised Land many had envisioned.” “The Harlem Renaissance” ushistory, Independence Hall Association, 22 May 2014, http://www.ushistory.org/us/46e.asp , 2008-2014 A music theater that has history, which means it wasn’t an ordinary place. An extraordinary place called the Apollo Theater. The Apollo Theater is located in Harlem, New York on 125th Avenue between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglas Boulevard. The Apollo Theater was designed by...
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...Now that the 21st century has begun, people often forget individuals and arts that helped shape what it is to be American art. One of these innovators was Duke Ellington, a composer, jazz pianist, and big band leader. No other artist single handedly has defined American Music as this jazz giant. He gave American music and jazzes an identity, the first true American art form. Edward Kennedy Ellington was born in Washington, DC on April 29, 1889 to James Edward Ellington and Daisy Ellington. At the age of seven, the young Ellington began taking piano lessons from Marietta Clinkscalps. Both of his parents were pianists. James Edward Ellington preferred operatic bits as Daisy played primarily parlor tunes. At this point in his life, Edward Ellington was more interested in playing baseball with his mates rather than playing the piano. During this time in his childhood, Ellington would acquire his famous pseudonym “Duke.” The title came from his schoolmates. Edward was reared by his mother and her dignified friends. Through this, he developed a Great Gatsby esque demeanor demonstrating a sense of grandeur and grace similar to a noble gentleman of that era and ones forgotten. Many of his peers noticed and deemed him “Duke” Ellington. Ellington’s interest in the piano would not reemerge until he began sneaking into local pool halls looking for the thrills of an older lifestyle. Furthermore, while in those pool halls, he began listening to eclectic styles of the pool hall...
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...Speakeasies were underground bars where people needed a password to enter, in these Speakeasies the owners sold small products in return the person purchasing would get a free beer with that product they are selling. Owners of these Speakeasies were allowed to sell because they were technically not selling alcohol they would sell other products. These underground bars would create a lot of problems one main problem was the increase in crime, with prohibition many people wanted to drink because it was illegal. Gangsters/Gangs raised to the top because of this new law, gangs were created to protect their territories and their speakeasies from other gangs. Al Capone and The Untouchables were the biggest gangs of speakeasies, these gangs would...
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...Florence Mills skyrocketed to fame in the second act. Trixie Smith sang "He May Be Your Man But He Comes to See Me Sometimes." And Caterina Jarboro, now a European prima donna, and the internationally celebrated Josephine Baker were merely in the chorus. Everybody was in the audience--including me. People came back to see it innumerable times. It was always packed. . . . When I saw it, I was thrilled and delighted. . . . It gave just the proper push--a pre-Charleston kick--to that Negro vogue of the 20's, that spread to books, African sculpture, music, and dancing. From The Big Sea by Langston Hughes (New York: Hill and Wang, 1940) [pic] [pic] Cotton Club Program (1920s). Langston Hughes on Whites in Harlem White people began to come to Harlem in droves. For several years they packed the expensive Cotton Club on Lenox...
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...The Harlem Renaissance – An Era of Great Change The music, clubs, sports, fashions, and people all together with change, composed together created a movement of power and control for blacks in the northern Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem. Life in Harlem wasn’t your average Southern hospitality. It was filled with excitement and fun. Any two A.M. morning was a simple 12 P.M. afternoon. The streets were blazing with jazz, dance, and people on their way to dance clubs, jobs, or simply roaming the streets to enjoy what Harlem had to offer. Clubs were the main attraction. That went for both blacks and whites. Young whites were entertained with the new style of music rather than the traditional music they listened to with parents who disapproved of “Harlem Music.” Two of the most famous black clubs in Harlem were the Cotton Club and Renaissance Casino and Ballroom. The Cotton Club was a place of great entertainment, featuring three stage shows nightly with anyone from Billie Holiday to Cab Calloway, all the way to Duke Ellington. The club was originally owned by a black icon, then sold to Jack Johnson, a famous black heavyweight champion. He later sold the club to Owney Madden- a mobster of Harlem. A major part of its’ popularity was because many white patrons wanted to see the infamous Owney Madden and Al Capone. Another reason for its’ popularity was when CBS began broadcasting in the Cotton Club in 1927(Npr). Although the Renaissance Casino is unknown to many blacks...
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...To be completely honest, I don't know what makes me love the scent of crisply ironed cotton or satin. But if I could guess, I would infer that it comes from the association to fabric stores and memories of walking into one. When I was younger, and still now, it was a mix of the vibrant colors, the possibilities behind each, and aroma given off. I can't honestly say that my love of sewing is a love that "has been there for as long as I can remember." In fact, I can date the start of my...
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...season. | D. Preview: I will explain three basic things which include how to go about finding the right materials, how to melt the wax, and how to make a molded ice-cube candle. | [Transition: Let’s start by doing the most important thing, which is to find all of the materials, and tools needed to make candles.] | II. Body | A. The first step is to gather the equipment you will need (The Basics and Cool Candlemaking Ideas, p. 1). | 1. You will need wax; you can either use old, worn out candles which are obviously free or you can purchase paraffin wax from a craft store. | 2. You will need wicks; you can make wicks from heavy, braided cotton string or can purchase wicks from a craft store. I read in Ray Shaw’s book entitled Candle Art that heavy braided cotton string works just as good (Shaw 25-26). I’ve never tried the cotton string...
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...Duke Ellington,a very prominent jazz composer and musician, performed in many nightclubs and was the leader of a 10 person ensemble called the Kentucky Club Orchestra, later known as the Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra in 1927. Louis Armstrong seen as a “founding father of jazz” performed over 300 concerts every year and was a great jazz musician and composer as well. He was born in a very impoverished area of New Orleans called “the battlefield”. He later joined King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band in Chicago and was able to receive a sufficient income in 1922. Throughout his career, he played with the best jazz musicians and was able to gain mainstream acceptance. The increased popularity of jazz led to the beginnings of mainstream acceptance of African American culture. It transformed African Americans into recognized members of society. African American morals expressed through jazz music began to be accepted...
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...Harlem Renaissance An African-American cultural movement of the 1920’s centered in Harlem, that celebrated black traditions, the black voice, and black ways of life. Jazz and music Jazz was a new style of music created by African American musicians, featuring syncopated rhythms and improvisational solos It was so interesting because the improv aspect meant that no two performances could ever be the same Duke Ellington turned commercial radio into a place for music by performing jazz music from the Cotton Club, broadcasted to thousands of Americans Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday coined blues and jazz vocal solos Chick Webb (King of Swing) saved money as a paperboy to buy his drum set, and started playing professionally in Harlem at 11 years old, then later became the best-regarded band leader Louis Armstrong played jazz music on Broadway, a Creole Jazz Band, and at the Cotton Club. He played in many films and toured internationally. He was the man that made the most Americans begin to accept jazz into their culture II. Poetry Langston Hughes One of the most well known names of the Harlem Renaissance His writing reflected that black culture should be celebrated because is it just as valuable as white culture "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...(these songs) had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going." said Langston One of Langston most famous work was his essay entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"...
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...Lena Horne was one of the first African American renaissance women. She was an accomplished actor as well a singer. In late 1933 Horne joined the Cotton Club, a famous night club found in Harlem, New York City. A few years later Horne joined Noble Sissle orchestra.With Sissle she recorded and released her first single. In 1942 Horne replaced Dinah Shore as the featured vocalist on the NBC show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. It wasn’t until 1943 that Horne, with two low budget films to her credit, was scouted and signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) becoming the first black person of any gender to sing with a major label. As a result of her race Lena was never cast into a leading role and most of her scenes were edited out when showed. Lena Horne became dissatisfied with the Hollywood life and became focused on her career in the nightlife. Over the years Horne established herself as one of the top night club performers. Headlining in prestigious clubs in America as well as Canada and Europe. Throughout the 1950’2 and 1960’s she had numerous appearances in various variety shows in America. During the seventies she co-starred in show with tony Bennett and toured through the U.S.in addition to touring with Bennett in the seventies Horne appeared as herself in famous show such asThe Muppet Show and Sesame Street and up into the eighties with a spot on The Cosby Show.Horne earned other awards for her works later on in the furture. When she died in ealry 2010 she...
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...International Labour Organization in 1973, have adopted minimum ages varying from 14 to 16. Child labor laws in the United States set the minimum age to work in an establishment without restrictions and without parents' consent at age 16. * | Historical During the Industrial Revolution, children as young as four were employed in production factories with dangerous, and often fatal, working conditions. Based on this understanding of the use of children as labourers, it is now considered by wealthy countries to be a human rights violation, and is outlawed, while some poorer countries may allow or tolerate child labour. Agile boys were employed by the chimney sweeps; small children were employed to scramble under machinery to retrieve cotton bobbins; and children were also employed to work in coal mines to crawl through tunnels too narrow and low for adults. Children also worked as errand boys, crossing sweepers, shoe blacks, or selling matches,...
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...Honeymoon Vacation I have listed the top honeymoon resorts for you 3 from both countries, Antigua & Belize. I made sure that these honeymoon packages met your needs with your maximum budget of $5k as well as ensuring opening dates between June – September 5th are available for 4 days to a week stay. I hope these beautiful resorts meet your needs! TOP RATED BELIZE RESORTS: Coco Plum Resort Accommodations: * Belize all-inclusive romance package includes: * accommodations in ocean-front A/C cabana with private bath with hot and cold running water * three Belizean meals daily, including packed lunches when on tours * transportation to and from Dangriga and Coco Plum Resort (arrival & departure) * air transportation to and from Philip Goldson International Airport (BZE) in Belize City and Dangriga * complimentary bottle of wine * unlimited free local beer, local soft drinks, and local mixed drinks (mixed drinks made with local gin, local coconut rum, local vodka, and local rum only) * one romantic candlelight dinner served on the beach or your veranda * nightly turn down service * free use of kayaks, snorkel gear, stand up paddle boards and Hobie Cat * a welcome drink on the day of your arrival * daily housekeeping services * unlimited time to relax on our beach or in our hammocks for two * all hotel and sales taxes and park entrance fees * 4-night package include two snorkeling trips along Belize's Barrier Reef ...
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...At the age of 17, Duke was awarded a scholarship to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Duke decided at the age of 17, to follow his passion for ragtime and play professionally. Duke was inspired to go professional by Fats Waller. At the age of nine-teen Duke married his high school sweetheart, Edna Thompson. Shortly after being married Duke and Edna had their only child Mercer Kennedy Ellington. Duke first played in New York City, he later moved there. Duke led a sextet that later grew into a 10-piece ensemble. The blues based melodies, and a great band started off a great career for Duke. More residencies at the Cotton Club in Harlem motivated Duke to expand his band to fourteen musicians. From 1927-1930 Duke’s band became the House Band at the Cotton Club. As a composer was accredited with many hit singles that brought him great success. Duke sought musicians with exquisite playing styles such as Bubber Miley, who used a plunger to make the “wa-wa” sound. Duke also collaborated with Joe Nanton, who showed the world his trombone “growl”. Many times his ensemble included collaborations with the trumpeter Cootie Williams. Duke made many recordings with his band, starred in films, and toured Europe twice in the...
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...there is evidence that suggests that CO2 can be absorbed by the roots of the plants (Makino and Tadahiko, 1999). Plants have an optimal range for the amount of CO2 they can absorb, and it increase the growth rate of the plant (Poorter, 1993). When a plant reaches its saturation point, consequently; the CO2 will have a negative effect on the plant and inhibit its growth (Poorter 1993). Growth is inhibited by accumulation of carbohydrates in leaves may lead to the repression of photosynthetic gene expression and excess starch seems to hinder CO2 diffusion (Makino and Tadahiko, 1999). The purpose of this experiment is to determine if the addition of CO2 will have an effect on the plant. Question: What effect does club soda have on plant growth and survival? H0: Club soda has no...
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