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    January 9‚ 13- Lecture 2 • Blackface Minstrelsy • Betrays simultaneous fascinations and repulsion for African American culture (don’t imitate unless admire) • Appeared in the 1830’s and onward • As much a matter of class as a matter of race • Live entertainment in which white performers darkened their skin to imitate what they thought African American music sounded like (didn’t know much about African American culture or the south in general) • Ridiculed blacks and made profit • Northern

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    Sarah Anne Stevenson Dave Stockum English Language and Comprehension 20 November 1999 Blues Music and its influence on integration From years 1505 to 1870‚ the world underwent the largest forced migration in history: West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe‚ bound for America‚ appeared on the horizon‚ and their captains and sailors-carrying muskets‚ swords‚ and shackles-landed on the coast‚ walked

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    Unit 3 Apush Study Guide

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    AP US Study guide for Unit 3 1.  Settlers in the eighteenth century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances.  Analyze the causes and significance of TWO of the following: March of the Paxton Boys‚ Regulator Movement‚ Shay’s Rebellion‚ Whiskey Rebellion 2.  Evaluate the relative importance of domestic and foreign affairs in shaping American politics in the 1790s. 3.  Analyze the contributions of the following in helping establish a stable government

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    American Dance Study Guide

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    Lesson 1 Study Guide 1.1 Dancing: Chapter 1: The Power of Dance: This chapter takes a broad look at the relationship between human movement‚ framed as dance‚ and important identities such as religion‚ ethnicity‚ gender‚ and social status. While not specifically focused on issues of identity in America‚ this chapter will provide an important foundation in understanding the broader scope of how dance can be seen as a representation of cultural values‚ which will underlie the remainder of our coursework

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    Jim Crow Laws

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    Introduction Jim Crow laws are about power. Power of one race over another. These laws really highlight the flaws and weakness of human nature. One group of people asserting power over another for the pride and vanity of a system of politics that had been defeated at the cost of thousands of American lives during the civil war. The term "Jim Crow" has its origins of interest also. The interpretation was intended to ridicule the African American by white American’s in the position of

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    The history of motion pictures The purpose of this lecture: 1. to provide a brief overview of the development of motion pictures 2. with an emphasis on the economic culture that developed historically. 3. This has meant an emphasis on profits and 4. an avoidance of controversy.     I. Early moving pictures Note the term used in the early days of the industry: Moving pictures. Pictures that movied. From the 1850s on‚ there had been experimentation by photographers and others in reproducing human

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    Human Cloning

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    ETHICAL ISSUES UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL‚ SCIENTIFIC AND CHUMAN CLONING ULTURAL ORGANIZATION HUMAN CLONING ETHICAL ISSUES UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL‚ SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION Graphic design (brochure): Jérôme Lo Monaco Graphic design (cover): Marion Lo Monaco Photo credits: Page 8 Image of Nuclear Transfer‚ Roslin Institute Page 9 Cloned Sheep “Dolly” and its Surrogate Mother‚ Roslin Institute Page 10 Cloned Cat “CC”‚ Texas A&M University‚ College

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    Narrative

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    Chapter 1 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE A statement of purpose‚ or personal statement‚ is a brief and focused essay about one’s career or reasearch goals. It is a concese treatise about one’s profession target‚ identified means to achive them and accomplishments so far towards those goals. The following statements are the trainee’s objectives for his practicum training: * To enhance and apply learning’s from the previous academic years to operating environment and improve those in order to get better

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    African American Culture - 2

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    African American culture African American culture in the United States includes the various cultural traditions of African ethnic groups. It is both part of and distinct from American culture. The U.S. Census Bureau defines African Americans as "people having origins in any of the Black race groups of Africa."[1] African American culture is indigenous to the descendants in the U.S. of survivors of the Middle Passage. It is rooted in Africa and is an amalgam of chiefly sub-Saharan African and

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    Hard Times

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    Synopsis The novel follows a classical tripartite structure‚ and the titles of each book are related to Galatians 6:7‚ "For whatsoever a man soweth‚ that shall he also reap." Book I is entitled "Sowing"‚ Book II is entitled "Reaping"‚ and the third is "Garnering." [edit]Book I: Sowing Mr. Gradgrind‚ whose voice is "dictatorial"‚ opens the novel by stating "Now‚ what I want is facts" at his school in Coketown. He is a man of "facts and calculations." He interrogates one of his pupils‚ Sissy‚ whose

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