characteristic of the Harlem Renaissance? B a. It included literature‚ music‚ dance‚ theater‚ and visual arts. b. It spanned the era from the middle of World War II to the 1970s. c. The Lindy-Hop was a major dance. d. Duke Ellington was a major jazz musician. 2. Theater in the Harlem Renaissance included vaudeville shows‚ dramas‚ and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans. 3. Jazz was the predominant music of the Harlem Renaissance. Which of
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internship‚ I was assigned to serve the Harlem community which has high proportions of Black and Hispanic residents who have low socioeconomic status. Many of the Harlem residents live below the Federal Poverty Level and spend more than 30% of their monthly gross income on rent. Harlem has higher unemployment rates than New York City in general. In addition‚ Harlem has a high percentage of people without a high school diploma. As a result‚ many of the Harlem residents have no credential to get high-paying
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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE: IT’S HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE ON BLACK CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN AMERICA Written by * Dr. William Mulligan History 522
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watched about cultural appropriation. A student described the unique sights‚ sounds‚ and smells of Harlem. This student’s perspective was contradictory to another’s‚ who only knew of the neighborhood what he heard by word of mouth. This flawed view consisted of solely danger and poverty. When the student with the flawed view heard a real description of Harlem‚ he was awed into remarking‚ “Show me THAT Harlem”. This remark partly encapsulates how I’ve prayed for the world. One of the biggest battles we
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The Interaction of Art and Society through the Artworks of Christo and Jeanne-Claude Our natural curiosity as human beings is what drives us further into the artwork of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The large scale of the project works as a catalyst to the art‚ as it is what draws our attention. We start by noticing this disturbance in our regular lives‚ and we continue by looking and observing even more. Eventually this leads to a deeper understanding‚ as the viewers try to remember what the object
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Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon was born on April 30‚1916 in Petoskey‚ to Claude Elwood and Mabel Wolf Shannon‚ His parents move to Gaylord‚ Michigan and spent the rest of his life there. His father Claude Elwood was a judge at Gaylord‚ Michigan. His mother was a high school principle. Even though his father interest wasn’t for science‚ his grandfather was the one that was really into science. Shannon’s grandpa was an innovator and agriculturist. On 27‚ 1949 March Shannon married Mary Elizabeth
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Harlem is known internationally as the Black Mecca of the world. It is knowns as home to many races and ethnic groups. Those including the Dutch‚ Irish‚ German‚ Italian and Jewish. Harlem was originally settled by the Dutch in 1658‚ but was largely farmland and undeveloped territory for approximately 200 years. As New York’s population grew‚ residential and commercial expansion moved northward‚ and development of Harlem territory was evitable. In the 1880’s the elevated of the rail lines in Harlem
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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) 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 Avenue. But I was never there‚ because the Cotton Club was a Jim Crow club for gangsters and monied whites. They were not
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Invaders? Gentrification is affecting the African American community in Harlem negatively because it is slowly wiping out black owned businesses. A lot believe it negatively changes the culture of neighborhoods. People might argue that it creates more jobs and brings in a more educated and wealthier population to the area being gentrified‚ which can improve the community in the long run. Gentrification is the enemy of the poor‚ and does little to aid those who are forced to move out. Those
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Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 on the 5th floor of 45 rue Laffitte‚ in the 9th arrondissement of Paris.[3] He was the second son of Claude Adolphe Monet and Louise Justine Aubrée Monet‚ both of them second-generation Parisians. On 20 May 1841‚ he was baptized in the local parish church‚ Notre-Dame-de-Lorette‚ as Oscar-Claude‚ but his parents called him simply Oscar.[3][4] (He signed his juvenilia "O. Monet".) Despite being baptized Catholic‚ Monet later on became an atheist.[5][6] In
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