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- 651: Jazz Age
- Jazz Age Jazz is a type of music developed by black Americans about 1900 and possessing an identifiable history and describable stylistic evolution. It is rooted in the mingled musical traditions of American blacks. More black musicians saw jazz for the first time a profession. Since its beginnings, jazz has branched out into so many styles that no single description fits all of them with total accuracy. Performers ... simply to embellish or paraphrase a tune, Armstrong himself was a master at both. Armstrong’s command of the trumpet was arguable greater than that of any preceding jazz trumpeter who recorded. In actuality, the revolution initiated by Armstrong took place in fits and starts, and with little fanfare at the time. After Armstrong’s departure from the King Oliver Creole Band, over a year would transpire before he would record ... their role as entertainers and pursuing experimentation with an ardent zeal. This created a paradoxical foundation for jazz, one that remains to this day. This progressive attitude of early jazz players came from members of American’s most disempowered underclass (Gioia 200). Jazz had by 1932 evolved aesthetic, stylistic, technical criteria which were to govern its future for some years without major changes or radical breakthrough. The thirties were for ...
- 652: Sports and Nationalism
- ... that are presently taking place in Yugoslavia. It is interesting to note however, that most of the examples that are mentioned when talking about the subject of nationalism often follow the path of conflict or revolution. In this context, it may be difficult for one to believe that nationalist sentiment can be portrayed without eventually leading to some type of political or armed conflict. However, an alternative vehicle for nationalist sentiment ... of the press before they were distributed. The Germans naturally dominated the podium, but it was interesting to point out the symbolic gesture that occurred when a non-German won four gold-medals. An African-American runner by the name of Jesse Owens dominated the 100 and 200 meter races, long jump and carried the U.S. 4x100m relay team to victory. Hitler vacated his special box seat when Owens took ... Argentina's finest players to Italy, where they were credited as the most important element for Italy's World Cup victory in 1934 . During the 1940's to the 1960's, Argentina dominated the South American football league with convincing victories over Brazil and Mexico. In addition to their dominance in South America, Argentina captured two World Cup titles in 1962 and 1964. The Argentineans started to believe that they ...
- 653: John D. Rockefeller
- ... contributions to the Baptist church, and by the time he was 21, he was giving not only to his own but to other denominations, as well as to a foreign Sunday school and an African-American church. Support of religious institutions and African-American education remained among his foremost philanthropic interests throughout his life. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO As his wealth grew in the 1870s and 1880s, Rockefeller came to favor a cooperative and conditional system of giving in ... for a particular project if the others interested in it also would provide substantial financial support. It was on such a conditional basis that Rockefeller participated in the founding of the University of Chicago. The American Baptist Education Society had resolved in 1889 to establish a "well-equipped college" in Chicago. At the urging of the society’s director, the Rev. Frederick T. Gates, Rockefeller offered to give $600,000 ...
- 654: Fordism And Scientific Managem
- ... vendor. Nevertheless throughout the 1930s Ford began losing business to his competitors, mainly because they were slow introducing new models of automobiles every year. (Encarta, 1998) Scientific Management and Fordism created a new type of ‘revolution’. The promise of massive increases in productivity led to the following of Fords and Taylor’s models of management all over the world. Britain never had a scientific management movement like that in America, and ... inhuman and not "sportsmanlike." The Engineer criticised the separation of workers thinking in their jobs from doing their jobs and described Taylorism as "scientific management gone mad. “ (Whitson, 1997) Another organisation that followed both the American models of Taylor and Ford, was The Reichskuratorium fur Wirtschaftkichkeit (RKW) founded in 1921. This huge Berlin-based electro-technical and machine-constructing conglomerate strove to implement measures of industrial and organisational efficiency in Germany ... 1970s when they began to compete using “fundamentally improved manufacturing processes that consistently produced vehicles of higher quality far faster than Detroit” (Oakes p.569). Japan car manufacturers successfully decreased labour and production costs giving American Manufacturers a run for their money, Japans Toyota is an example that used Fordism as a base of new managerial processes. Another modern day example, which drew on these two management methods, was in ...
- 655: Sedition Act Of 1798
- ... and led to Jay’s Treaty of 1794. Jay’s Treaty was advantageous to America and helped to head off a war with Britain, but it also alienated the French. The French reacted by seizing American ships causing the threat of war to loom large in American minds. President Adams sent three commissioners to France to work out a solution and to modify the Franco-American alliance of 1778, but the Paris government asked for bribes and a loan from the United States before negotiations could even begin. The American commissioners refused to pay the bribes and they were denied ...
- 656: Illumaniti
- ... a Catholic priest. Then, at the request of the Financiers, he defected from the Catholic Church, and organized the Illuminati which was financed by the International Bankers. Every war since then, beginning with the French Revolution, has been promoted by the Illuminati operating under various names and guises. I say under various names and guises because, after the Illuminati was exposed and became too notorious, Weishaupt and his co-conspirators began ... the late years of the 18th Century, Weishaupt ordered the Illuminati to foment the colonial wars, including the Revolutionary War in America, to weaken the British Empire. They were also ordered to organize the French Revolution in order to destroy the French Empire. Weishaupt scheduled the French Revolution to start in 1789. However, in 1784, a true act of God placed the Bavarian Government in possession of evidence which proved the existence of the Illuminati. And that evidence could have saved France ...
- 657: Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis
- Herman Melville: A Biography And Analysis Throughout American history, very few authors have earned the right to be called “great.” Herman Melville is one of these few. His novels and poems have been enjoyed world wide for over a century, and he has earned his reputation as one of the finest American writers of all time. A man of towering talent, with intellectual and artistic brilliance, and a mind of deep insight into human motives and behavior, it is certainly a disgrace that his true greatness was ... then living in comfortable economic circumstances, and of Maria Gansevoort Melvill, only daughter of “the richest man in Albany,” the respected and wealthy General Peter Gansevoort, hero of the defense of Fort Stanwix during the American Revolution. In total, Allan and Maria had eight children. On his father' s side, his ancestry, though not so prosperous as on his mother's, was equally distinguished. Major Thomas Melvill, his grandfather, was ...
- 658: Biography: Jefferson, Thomas
- ... rights of man as he expressed them in the Declaration of Independence and his faith in the people's ability to govern themselves. He left an impact on his times equaled by few others in American history. Introduced to the ideas of the Enlightenment as a student at the College of William and Mary, Jefferson displayed throughout his life an optimistic faith in the power of reason to regulate human affairs. As a young member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, Jefferson questioned British colonial policies and was an early advocate of American rights. His forceful pamphlet A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774) gained him the reputation that placed him on the committee of the Continental Congress charged with drafting the Declaration of Independence ... death, declared Jefferson to be "the greatest democrat whom the democracy of America has as yet produced." On the eve of his inauguration as vice president in 1797, Jefferson had been elected president of the American Philosophical Society, a post he retained until 1815. In many ways he found more pleasure in holding that office than in being president of the United States. A boundless intellectual curiosity fueled his interests ...
- 659: Life On The Farm
- What if the animals ran the world? George Orwell tried to answer this question on a smaller scale in his 1945 novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a satire on Stalinism and the Russian revolution. Orwell wrote this novel at a time when communism was on the rise and Joseph Stalin ruled with an iron fist. The ideas in Animal Farm parallel in many ways the communist ideology. Orwell illustrates ... third person tells the story. The action of this novel starts when the oldest pig on the farm, Old Major, calls all animals to a secret meeting. He tells them about his dream of a revolution against the cruel Mr. Jones. Three days later, Major dies, but the speech gives the more intelligent animals a new outlook on life. The pigs, which are considered the most intelligent animals, instruct the others ... for they are managing the whole farm. Some time later the pigs explain to the other animals that they have to trade with the neighbor farms. The common animals are very upset, because after the revolution, there has been a resolution that no animal shall make trade with a human. But the pigs ensured that there never has been such a resolution, and that this was an evil lie of ...
- 660: Benedict Arnold
- ... can see the man Benedict Arnold truly was, and read of the reasons that he lost his love for the Colonial army, and its government. The Battle of Saratoga was a major battle in the American Revolution; it helped persuade the French into signing a Treaty with the United States that helped turn the tides on the British. Major General Horatio Gates was the commander of the Army of the North. His English counterpart was General John Burgoyne. The open-field battle style considerable favored the British troops of Burgoyne. The American s had their backs against the wall; they were almost out of options, until their savior literally rode in on horseback. This man was General Benedict Arnold. He rode in from Freeman s Farm ...
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