apartment, we now have an alarm system. We start our car up from the house and move quickly to the car and vice-versa. We never walk anywhere in our neighborhood, and our four year old daughter never plays outside with the other children. During the holiday season starting around Black Friday and until after Christmas, our neighborhood has high volume of home burglaries. As a result, my family never shops during the daytime hours; we shop only during evenings or nights. If we shop for appliances or anything
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ACE Challenge 2015 Amazon Confidential Preliminary Round: ACE Case Breakers Case Study: Operations Introduction It is a bright autumn morning in 2205 and Gaurav Maurya, SVP – Amazon Enceladus1, is gazing outside the window and reminiscing about how Blue Origin2 had transformed Enceladus into a bustling human colony in a short span of 50 years, much like some of the developing countries back on Earth. Also, continuing Amazon’s legacy, Amazon.en has become Enceladus’s most customer-centric
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You can shop in your pajamas if you prefer. 2. You can shop when it is convenient for you. B. You do not have to fight crowds in the mall or store. 1. There is no traffic to worry about getting to the stores. 2. During the holiday season, you do not have to worry about many people crowding you. II. You can see what you are buying. A. Depending on what you buy, you can feel the item and actually see the item. 1. You can feel the texture or weight
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What I Hear When I Listen to Billie Holiday’s “Billie’s Blues” Tyler Brady Intro to Music: Term Paper Dr. Burns In the 19th century, a very prominent genre and musical form emerged from the Deep South of America; often defined as a repetitive and poetic music structure derived from jazz, blues music became an influential role in the astounding American identity. On the basis of originality and artistry, Billie Holiday is noted as one of the most influential jazz and blues singers.
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The definition of Renaissance is the activity, 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
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Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald were friends and influential singers of the Swing Era. Each singer possessed a unique musical style that continues to be emulated by today’s jazz singers. Listen to Billie Holiday’s Back in Your Own Back Yard and Ella Fitzgerald’s Flying Home. [Back In Your Own Back Yard (Gridley, Chapter 5, Page 83: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 11; Flying Home: Chapter 5, Page 86: Jazz Classics for Concise Guide to Jazz CD 1 track 12]. Respond to each prompt
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family due to being pregnant with Billie at the tender age of eighteen. Her father was, Clarence Holiday, also a jazz guitarist in Fletcher Henderson’s band. Both of her parents were young when they had her. It wasn’t long before Clarence left them to travel with his band rather than take care of Billie and her mom. In 1920 Billie’s mother, Sadie married Philip Gough, which allowed Billie to have a stable home awhile. A few years later the marriage ended, and Billie was sent to the House of Good Shepard’s
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helped lay the foundation for the post-World War II protest movement of the Civil Rights Movement. During this period, Harlem was a cultural center, drawing black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars. Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Bessie Smith were a few of the new, up and coming, artists during the Renaissance period. Louis Armstrong, nicknamed "Pops" emerged in the 1920s and became an
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most prolific writer of the Harlem Renaissance. He casted off the influences of white poets and wrote with the rhythmic meter of blues and jazz), Claude McKay (urged African Americans to stand up for their rights in his powerful verses),Billie Holiday (Billie Holiday was one of the most influential jazz singers of all time. She had a thriving career for many years before she lost her battle with addiction), and Jean Toomer wrote plays and short stories, as well as poems, to capture the spirit of his
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well. The arousal of the tragedies caught much attention and action. Abel Meeropol, a song-writer and poet, wrote a protestant poem named “Strange Fruit”. The poem “Strange Fruit” was later sung and recorded by famous African American singer Billie Holiday. The song/poem refers to lynching when it states “black bodies swingin’ in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees…”. The black bodies represent African American victims being lynched. The poet refers to “southern breeze”
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