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    Do you know what Scat is or how to scat sing? Just look up Louis Armstrong, he created this masterpiece. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901, he was born in the birthplace of jazz--New Orleans, Louisiana. He was in foster care throughout his teenage years. His father abandoned the family right after Louis was born, and his mother resulted to prostitution, so he was often left with his maternal grandmother. He began working in fifth grade where he developed a interest in music, this interest lead him to his jazz career. Louis Armstrong contributed a great deal to jazz, but just a few are his popular rhythm which created swing, Scat Singing, and also he made the role of a soloist more important than it was ever before. In the beginning of his teenage years he was on the street corners playing a toy horn. He was working and was trying to earn money for his family. Although miracles can happen anytime any where. Louis's miracle was being taken under the wing of Peter Davis who taught him music ("About"). Louis Armstrong was a great musician. He played in marching bands in his teens and was skillful enough to replace the musician in the Kid Ory band Oliver. His ensemble leads, his second cornet lines and his cornet duets with Oliver made him popular. By 1929 He was a famous musician. Louis Armstrong not only ensured the survival of jazz, but made it into a fine art ("Armstrong"). After his popularity expanded in the 1920's he was claimed one of the most sought-after…

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    It is amazing to think about when Louis Armstrong was born. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4, 1901 in New Orleans,Loiusiana in a section so poor that it was nicknamed the Battlefield. Louis Armstrong had a difficult childhood, his father was a factory worker and abandoned the family soon after Louis’s birth, his ,other often turned to prostitution, She left him with his grandmother.Amrstrong was obligated to leave school in the fifth grade to begin working. Contributions: So after all after…

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    There has never been anyone like Art Tatum, who is one of the greatest jazz musicians in history. Tatum was born on October 13, 1909, in Toledo, Ohio, and he was the child of amateur musicians. His father was a mechanic, and his mother was a housemaid who worked in white homes. Although he was not born into a wealthy family, his unique talents helped propel him into the spotlight. If anything, Tatum proved that it was not impossible to become a world-class extraordinaire despite growing up with…

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    The Lady Or The Tiger

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    In the short story, the question at the end of the story is the Lady or Tiger. I chose The Jealous Princess. And the King’s arena. They said chose one door from two of the doors to see what comes out the lady or the tiger. The semi baric king who was an exhausted, funk, and withal, of the authority so irresistible. When every member of his domestic and political systems moved smoothly in its appointed course, his nature was bland and genial, but when there was a little hitch. This was the…

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    start to understand that a mother has to work before the sun rises pending till night in order to help provide for her family. Sadly, inhumane work hours were not only restricted to adults, but also adolescents. Furthermore, In reference to the Report of Parliamentary Committee on the Bill to Regulate the Labour of Children in Mills and Factories (1832), Elizabeth Bentley testified that her labour hours at the factory were (…from 5 in the morning till 9 at night…) (Document 7). Again, we…

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    Lewis W Hine Child Labor

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    the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social reform. Hine, along with his camera, saved children all throughout America by enabling the public to see the immorality of child labor. Hine’s photographs were, therefore, essential in changing child labor laws in the United States (Michael Herring).…

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    The Museum of Modern Art was offered his pictures and did not accept them, but the George Eastman House did. The Library of Congress holds over 5,000 Hine photographs, including examples of his child labor and Red Cross photographs, his work portraits, and his WPA and TVA images. Other large institutional collections include nearly ten thousand of Hine's photographs and negatives held at the George Eastman House and almost five thousand NCLC photographs at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery of…

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    Child Labor History

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    them to be more convenient, cheaper, and less likely to strike. Therefore inciting the era of child labor in the United States. A man by the name of Lewis W. Hine began taking photographs of children in the workforce as a tool for social reform. Hine, along with his camera, saved children all throughout America by enabling the public to see the immorality of child labor. Hine’s photographs were, therefore, essential in the changing of child labor…

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    labor. The NCLC hired a photographer named Lewis Wickes Hine to take photographs of working children. Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874. He worked in a furniture factory until he obtained a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago. Hine became a teacher in New York City and did some work as an amateur photographer until being hired full time by the NCLC. For many of his photographs Hine would have the children “lined up outside mills as evidence of who was working, where, and…

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    “GoodBye Earl” by the Dixie Chick’s is a song that was produced by Blake Chancey. The song explains a violence situation that between a husband and wife. The main characters are Earl the husband, Wanda the wife, and Mary Anne Wanda’s best friend. In the beginning of the song, it explains that Mary Anne and Wanda were best friends, all through their high school days. But, one day Mary Anne decided she would like to start a new better world for herself, so she moves to Atlanta. Wanda was left…

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