Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee in April 15‚ 1894. She was the most popular female blues singer known as “The Empress of the Blues”. She started her career by singing in tent shows in 1912‚ alongside another blues specialist Ma Rainey. Bessie influenced other singers including Aretha Franklin‚ Nina Simone‚ Frank Sinatra‚ Billie Holiday‚ Dinah Washington and Janis Joplin. Bessie Smith was married to Jack Gee on June 7‚ 1923. She made her first record with Columbia records “Downhearted
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Black on black violence is an enormous problem in the African-American community. Living in a neighborhood that is mostly minority‚ many may have witnessed a lot of black on black violence. The black on black violence has continued to arise in many communities and continues to be a problem around the world. Black on black violence is ignorant‚ and many black Americans should be coming together instead of killing one another. African-Americans people should be helping each other achieve in the world
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2013 “The Little BOY Lost” vs. “The Little Girl Lost” A belief of envisioning a future to seek your creator is a task many people‚ young or old‚ continue to accomplish today. William Blake’s two poems from Songs of Experience: “The Little BOY Lost” and “The Little Girl Lost” recognizes two children of different genders living through a time of need. The narrator in these two poems lecture through an era of mixed emotions and opinions the little boy and girl witnessed. The setting of “The Little
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how we can protect our children. There has been an alarming rate of deaths amongst teenage black boys. For the past decade Britain has had the largest rate of teenage deaths amongst teenagers both black and white‚ however this number has been much higher of amongst teens of Black decent‚ may have questioned the reason for this with statements like’ I blame the parents’‚ ‘I blame the education system’. But what are the main causes for these senseless acts of violence that are taking the lives of the
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Contributions to Indian Sociology http://cis.sagepub.com/ Introduction: Honouring Patricia Uberoi Satish Deshpande‚ Nandini Sundar and Amita Baviskar Contributions to Indian Sociology 2010 44: 1 DOI: 10.1177/006996671004400201 The online version of this article can be found at: http://cis.sagepub.com/content/44/1-2/1 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Contributions to Indian Sociology can be found at: Email Alerts: http://cis.sagepub
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Our Casuarina Tree | | Toru Dutt (1856–77) | | | LIKE a huge Python‚ winding round and round | | The rugged trunk‚ indented deep with scars‚ | | Up to its very summit near the stars‚ | | A creeper climbs‚ in whose embraces bound | | No other tree could live. But gallantly | 5 | The giant wears the scarf‚ and flowers are hung | | In crimson clusters all the boughs among‚ | | Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee; | | And oft at nights the
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of horror‚ the final girl‚ Clover argues‚ must be accessible as a point of identification to male viewers. For this reason the final girl ’s gender is ambiguous. The final girl is boyish says Clover and she adds‚ what filmmakers seem to know better than film critics is that gender is less a wall than a permeable membrane. Using appropriate references to films covered in the course debate whether there is evidence to support this position. You will first need to define what is meant by spectatorial
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The name of the poem that I chose is called Macavity: The Mystery Cat. I chose this poem because it has a mystery rhyme to it and I love mystery stories so I thought that this would be a very interesting poem to read. Hidden paw is a secretive mystery cat. His power of levitation would make taker stare this is marvelous actually describing what cats are all about as they rise up vertical walls or balance on a fence. And when you think he’s half asleep ‘he’s always wide awake another little sketch
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Dorothy Edith Smith “Feminist Standpoint Theory and Institutional Ethnography” 1926- Dorothy E. Smith was born in North England in 1926. Dorothy E. Smith has lived a long life and commonly refers to it as “a long time ago and another world”. According to Smith‚ she has grown from the young woman to now due to several experiences. Smith has been employed in many different capacities such as a secretary and a clerk. In her Mid-twenties‚ she worked at a book publishing company. Smith attempted
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“The Black Finger” Angelina Grimke’s poem‚ “The Black Finger” is one of the shortest poems that we have read this year. As far as I’m concerned‚ it is also one of the most intriguing poems that we have read this year. I have read the poem at least thirty or forty times trying to pick up on new things that I may have missed before. In all of my readings I haven’t necessarily picked up on any new words or phrases that lead me to believe new things. I have‚ however‚ formed new visions of
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