Modern Jazz Dance” (Valis Hill 2001). Jack Cole’s unique blend of modern styling with ethnic roots was directly influenced by his professional dance training. He first studied modern dance at the Denishawn School in New York
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Hands on Nashville (HNO) is a nonprofit organization that works to address critical affairs facing the Middle Tennessee community trough volunteer-centric programming. Every year, HON connects thousands of volunteers to services to help the community with programs of urban agriculture, home energy savings, youth leadership development and support of public education. If we enter in their official website we can see hundreds of opportunities to collaborate as volunteer of different kinds of things
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Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Very soon after his birth, Louis’ father left him, his mother, and his sister. So Louis and his sister were forced to move to his grandmother. Louis and his sister moved back with his mother when Louis was five. Soon after, he was enrolled in the Fisk School of Boys and helped his mom by delivering newspapers and hauling coal. When Louis was eleven, he dropped out of school, joined a quartet of boys that sang on the streets, just
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Hurricane Katrina was by far the costliest natural disaster in United States history. It was also the deadliest hurricane to hit the united states in almost eight decades and the third deadliest hurricane overall to hit the United States. Estimates of the total death toll following Hurricane Katrina vary by hundreds in or even thousands in some instances. According to the Louisiana Department of Health and Human services 1155 deaths occurred is Louisiana alone. Of those deaths, 386 deaths were attributed
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Homestead, FL in the year of 1992 consisted of a growing community in South Florida that had no knowledge of what was heading their way. What was barreling towards them on August 24, 1992 with great velocity due to its small size was a hurricane with wind speeds of approximately 160 miles per hour (Allen 1). In fact, the storm ended up breaking the gauges that was collecting the data from the hurricane (Allen 1). Destruction from the winds and ocean surge seem unimaginable for many but quickly became
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Page 1 of 2 Darius ColeProfessor Anthony Prato URST 241 –1001 March 11, 2018Hurricane KatrinaThere’s no secret that Hurricane Katrina caused a lot of controversy between intergovernmental relations. In a time of tragedy and despair, residents of New Orleanspaid the price for poor planning and communication between government leaders, agencies andofficials. From watching the PBS Frontline program, The Storm; it seems to be a continuing series of the “blame game” with no one taking responsibility
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Blues music originated in the south in the 19th century and generally evolved from workers out in the fields and from African songs. “Sonny’s Blues” was written in 1957 but still, to this day, sends out a message for everyone today. James Baldwin, in “Sonny’s Blues”, writes about two brothers who have trouble trying to understand each other. Suzy Goldman, in “Sonny’s Blues: A Message in Music”, writes about how music affects life of others and that is only takes someone who understands music to see
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When AC/DC was still playing in clubs and bars, they brought a new style of performance that wasn’t around back then. Angus Young always dressed up as s school kid and was usually the center of attention. Angus could never stand still while he was playing guitar and would always have to be moving. At one point, he
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I agree with the author Gracy Olmstead when she said that liberatian zoning does not have anything to do with the destruction of Houston due to Hurricane Harvey. Based on what I know a hurricane is an natural disaster. There is not really anything we can do to stop a hurricane from coming into the states. Only thing Houston can do is prepare to either evaluate or prepare a safety emergency plan. I was very shocked to hear that there were twenty-one trillion gallons of water which had fallen on Texas
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The period of 1926 through 1927, was the time of the Great Mississippi Valley Flood. Eleven states along the Mississippi River were involved. There were a total of 63,509 buildings and homes that were destroyed in the flood. Also, there were 62,089 buildings that were damaged by the flood. It took people by surprise when the levee started to give way. The Mississippi rose up to a depth of 30 feet. In total, of 30,000 square miles were involved. There was a great loss of 500 people. There was also
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