• Big Bands (30’s-40s) o Benny Goodman- Chicago; “King of Jazz” • “Stompin’ at the Savoy”- 1934 • named after the Savoy Ballroom in New York • AABA form- American Form • Short solos • Smooth- no climax • Doesn't destroy the mood consistency of the piece • User friendly→ pop music • Well- strucutred • “Sing, Sing, Sing”- 1937 • most famous piece by benny goodmand and porbably the entire swing era • most recognizable part of the song is Gene Krupa’s drumming, which exists as a motif throughout
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Though it has changed over the years. It is no longer just whites being racist against blacks, it’s a mix of all races hating and discriminating against each other. Getting rid of the Confederate flag is not a remedy for the plague that is racism and violence that infects our nation (Hemingway 2015). It’s a shame when our law makers don’t listen to the majority and vote with the minority. As Rep James Mikell Burns stated, “I am sympathetic to the 61% of South Carolinians who do not want
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Popular Literature Paper SOC/105 Introduction to Pop Culture Instructor: Narketta Sparkman Popular Literature Paper The purpose of this paper is to analyze a piece of popular literature including a critique of the story and a commentary about the influence of the work in popular culture. The paper will identify the literary production of The Green Mile written in 1996 by Stephen King. The paper will provide a brief description of what the novel is about, Stephen King’s background, and
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To talk about the hardships that my heritage has gone through is a tedious work because I do not know of my heritage, and neither of my parents know much of the matter as well. Instead of talking of the problems or struggles my heritage have experienced I will talk about the hardships that the Japanese Americans had to experienced in World War Two. The hardship that the Japanese Americans went through started in December 7, 1941 when Japan sent an airstrikes alongside kamikaze soldiers to Pearl
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ripples that get smaller and smaller. I wonder if the 70-year-old case of the “Scottsboro Boys” still generates little waves in our national conscience. That case bounced through the state courts of Alabama and eventually the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1930s, touching raw nerves for years. The "Scottsboro Boys" were nine African American teens arrested for rape in 1931, on the words of two twenty-something women who were white. Lives were ruined, even though one girl recanted and no evidence ever supported
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Following the prosperity of the 1920’s, an economic crisis struck Canada and the entire world: the Great Depression. For nearly a decade, poverty, unemployment, and droughts plagued the country with the government taking little action. Work camps and government relief were unable to sustain families or individuals, leading to the rise of radical ideas and changes. New political parties supporting communism and socialism was the start of new changes later implemented in Canada. During this period
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During the 1930’s most of America’s attention was directed to a well-known case taking place in Scottsboro, Alabama. The Scottsboro trials was a set of trials concerning an alleged rape. The case began on March 25, 1931 when two white, working class women stumbled off of the train claiming they had been raped by nine black men. The case went to court four times, spanning for seven years, and eighty-two years until all nine boys were pardon for the charges of rape. “The case had never presented as
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2017 The Time Period of the Mocking Bird (from the book to kill a mocking bird): The Novel To Kill a Mocking Bird written by Harper Lee is a novel written in the 1980’s and is based off a little girl (herself) when she was younger during the time period of pre WWI and the early 1930’s. This books setting is in Alabama during the 1920’s and slavery is still a thing in America. Which this sets the setting for a little girl named “Scout” growing up in a time period of Great Depression and a family not
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know there has always been racism in America, there has been a sudden increase of exposure in the idea. In 2016 when Donald Trump won the presidential elections white supremacist groups waited no time to raise their flags in what they believe in. As posted in a CNN article “ Fears of heightened bigotry and hate crimes have turned into reality for some Americans after Donald Trump's presidential win. And the list of incidents keeps growing.” As said in the article the racism after Donald Trump's win
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remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them”. Of Mice and Men, a novella by John Steinbeck shows migrant workers hardships during the Great Depression in the United States. The book is set in the 1930’s in the city of Soledad. Curley's wife is the only female character and the faces many challenges throughout the text. Curley’s wife is the loneliest character in the novella because she does not have a name, faces physical separation, and discrimination
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