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- 931: Lynchings In America
- ... of these wandering black males ended up. The Gulf plain and cotton uplands had by far the highest rate of lynchings, and these areas combined extremely low rural population densities with by far the highest rates of black transiency in the South." W.E.B. Du Bois is even quoted as having written about the emergence of "a class of black criminals who are a menace to both black and white ... do not shed any light on the true reason for such heinous acts. After all, as Mr. Schwarz also mentions, during the 1880's and 90's, the South was a violent place where murder rates among both whites and blacks were the highest in the country. Why then weren't just as many Caucasians victims of lynchings as were African Americans? In addition, though 20% of Southern lynching victims were ...
- 932: Depression 5
- ... t only affect your mood; it affects your thoughts, body, and behavior as well. Someone who is depressed may feel, melancholy, sad, and miserable most of the time, along with the loss of pleasure and interest in life. This can result in decreased energy, fatigue, fits of weeping or constantly feeling like crying, and an unusually high degree of irritability. Depressed individuals may experience particularly negative thoughts, hopeless thoughts about the ... still feels exhausted when they wake up. The Depressed person may experience a loss of appetite, which may cause them to lose weight. Sudden overeating is also common. The victim may undergo a loss of interest in sex, suffer from headaches or stomachaches, and may even suffer from vague, unexplained physical pain that travels throughout the body. A victim of depression will feel lethargic, and have difficulty getting work done. Difficulty ...
- 933: Welcome To The Monkey House
- ... delinquent from the streets of Chicago, has been vandalizing Lincoln High School. Filled with compassion and desperation Helmholtz offers him his most prized possession, John Philip Sousa'a trumpet. When the boy initially shows no interest, Helmholtz hammers the instrument against a coat tree and mutter that "Life is no damn good" ; and only then does Donnini show any interest in Helmholtz. With the start of a new school semester, Jim Donnini takes the last seat of the worst trumpet section of the "C" band. As Helmholtz tells him and the rest of the band ...
- 934: JFK Assasination
- ... and one year after a failed attempt to join, Lee Harvey was enlisted in the Marines at age 17. He spent time in Japan before leaving the Marines in 1959. He had shown a great interest in Russia and in particular, Marxism. He immediately defected to Russia after leaving the Marines. His high hopes and great interest for and in Russia were extinguished approximately three years after arriving there. He returned to Texas where he lived until his death at the hands of Jack Ruby in 1963. It didn’t take two ...
- 935: The Chysanthemums - Feminism
- ... like that for you to do" (paragraph 46). The drifter mentions Elisa’s chrysanthemums and she immediately loosens up as "the irritation and resistance melt(ed) from her face" (paragraph 51). The drifter feigns great interest in Elisa’s chrysanthemums and asks her many questions about them. He tells her he knows a lady who said to him "if you ever come across some nice chrysanthemums I wish you’d try to get me a few seeds" (paragraph 56). Elisa is overjoyed by any interest in her flowers and gives the man chrysanthemum sprouts to bring to his friend. Her bubbly enthusiasm for her flowers is blatantly feminine in characteristic. When the drifter leaves Elisa seems like a transformed woman ...
- 936: The Chrysanthemums
- ... you to do'" (399). In this role as businessman, Elisa has succeeded, but only for the moment. Elisa's source of power is also her point of weakness. After failing for a fourth times to interest Elisa, in fact, only succeeding in irritating her, he asks about her flowers. This piques Elisa's interest to the highest peak; suddenly her face undergoes a noticeable change: "the irritation and resistance melted from Elisa's face" (399). She is able to talk to a man about something, inform him of something ...
- 937: Motown’s Evolution and with Emphasis on Its Women
- ... does not agree with insisting performance standards that Berry Gordy required of his artists. I think maybe that Mable John is from a different era, and maybe Motown was a little more pure in its interest in its artists early on. However, most of the original artists do not still currently have contracts with Motown, but they have been known to work anyway because of the way they started out with ... become a star was just what Berry wanted. He could and did mold them in the assembly line of his hit factory. They all eventually grew up though, and that is when their conflicts of interest started. But that was o.k. with Berry because by then he had gotten what he wanted and there were plenty of other starry-eyed teenagers to pick from. Oddly enough, few of the star ...
- 938: Hawaiian Music
- Hawaiian Music Ideas and interest in the music and dance of Hawaii, on my part, extend largely from the fact that my mother has always loved it and her reasons for it was the fact that she grew up around ... her father, used to give lessons on playing the Hawaiian guitar. Over the years, it has almost become an obsession of sorts for her to find out everything she could about Hawaii and from her interest, my own grew as well. The music and dance of Hawaii has, for the most part, always been closely tied to their beliefs in their gods and goddesses such as Pele, goddess of fire, who ...
- 939: Hip Hop Music
- Hip Hop Music My main interest in music has always been hip hop music. When I go to record stores, I have a hard time finding hip hop music. Unlike other music categories, hip-hop does not have its own category ... was Afrika Bambaataa who was the leader of the ‘Hip-Hop’ culture. This man organized Zulu Nation which was an organization of break dancers. Run DMC were the first Black rap artists that gained the interest of all races of people. The hip-hop culture is still thriving in the nineties and is better than ever. Now, I would like to break away from the history of hip-hop and talk ...
- 940: Biography Of Tiger Woods
- ... the war, back in the United States, Earl met a Thai woman named Kultida and he married her and had a son. They named the baby Eldrick, but Earl called him Tiger . Tiger Woods took interest in golf at a young age. He would watch from his crib as his father would practice his swing. He began playing golf since before he could walk. When he got a few years older ... got his name. It was interesting to read about how Earl Woods vowed to call his next son Tiger to repay his friend Nguyen Phong for saving his life. I am not one to take interest in golf but this book was exciting. I liked reading about how Tiger started at a really young age and practiced everyday to perfect his game. Tiger is a good example of that if you ...
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