... has been debated, but it is commonly considered to have started in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970's. It then migrated to the west coast cities, such as Los Angeles, California. Rap music is influenced by many genres, including rock and roll, disco, jazz, and of course blues. ... jewelry, degrading women and explicit lyrics became more common. Braggadocio, or "bragging rap" becomes popular in this era by artists like Kanye West and Jay Z. Rap and Blues are considerable similar in style and form. They use similar elements of music such as call and response, repetition, ad ... mista...

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... Hispanics in the military got a hold of the mix-tapes and expanded them from just in N.Y.C. to all around the world. They spread the hip-hop sound and style to various new groups of people. Run DMC and Jam Master Jay, were brought up in Hollis, Queens in New York, a middle class ... Most of them were raised in poor slums, crime and drug ridden neighborhoods in the inner cities. The most famous example was when west coast star, Tupac Shakur and east coast star Notorious B.I.G. bumped heads. The two rappers had been feuding for some time, but it reached a boiling point when Tupac accused ...

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... tion of two railroads that together would provide the first railroad link between the Mis-sissippi Valley and the Pacific coast (Allen 57). One was the Union Pacific, to run west-ward from Council Bluffs, Iowa; the other was the Central Pacific, to run eastward from Sacramento, California. ... made of made of pure gold (Anderson 223). Unfortunately, workers lives and sound construction practices were carelessly thrown aside. This com-pleted the first of several transcontinental railroads built the late 19th century. The West developed simultaneously with the building of the Western railro...

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... would have to pass to become an American citizen is a simple health test. European immigrants flocked to New York, Chicago, and Boston, and Asian immigrants settled up and down the West Coast. The rapid growth of these cities caused major problems, such as lack of jobs for all people. Tenements were extremely small rooms that were rented out at about $12 per ... his interests in the Carnegie Steel Company, he controlled about 25 percent of the American iron and steel production. In 1901 he sold his company to the United States Steel Corp. for $250 million and retired. Andrew Carnegie wa...

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I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto The sound of a single gunshot echoes from a black BMW, followed by screams, skidding tires and sirens. Music is one thing, but this is business. Never has an industry been so clouded by ... from a very violent era. And yes; the era was violent, from the introduction of gangster rap through "Rakim Allah" in the late eighties, right through to the infamous East coast vs. West coast feud which ended in 1996, taking with it the lives of the Notorious BIG and Tupac Shakur, two of the most influential people in music. Hip Hop in-between these ... ") and philosophy (...

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... their experience, without interfering with it, and retaining a perspective on it), and of course the theme of hetero and homo-eroticism (sounds like an orgy one wouldn't care to see). "Drum Taps", another poem collection written from Whitman's reaction to the Civil War, speaks about the futility and ignorance of men pitting themselves against one another in the poem "Reconciliation" ("For ... my enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead"). The sequel to the "Drum Taps" collection ("Sequel to Drum Taps") contains the famous eulogy on the Civil War president Abraham Lincoln; "O Captai...

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... my team when I got to La Guardia. There were two teams when I arrived; a boys team and a girls team. Most of the boys were from the west coast except Jimmy. Most of the girls were from the east coast which I would soon find out cause me a lot of trouble. When we arrived in Paris we saw all the wonderful sights including the Eiffel Tower ... airport in New York at 6:00 pm. All of the boys except for Jimmy had left to catch their flights back to the west coast. 4 of the girls had gone with the other boys because they lived on the west coast as well. It was Jimmy and I; along with 7 other ...

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... to the slow pace and consumption of time. The farmers were not making profits which lead many to the idea of joining the east and the west, north and south to boost the economy. Roads, turnpikes, and railroads accomplished the goals of many to join America as one; with one ... . Thousands of pioneers struggled over a rough barrier: the thickly wooded Appalachian Mountains that extended down the continent. On the other side was the tantalizing west, stretching clear to the Mississippi River and beyond. Settlers" wagons jolted down roads that had once been Indian trails. When farmers and f...

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... off to various cities throughout the country seeking employment. He did odd jobs in numerous American cities such as St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., and then set back out west again. Samuel was back living on the Mississippi River again by 1857 as he worked as a steamboat sailor on the river traveling round trip from St. Louis to New Orleans ... . He knew the route like the back of his hand and the entire time he worked as a sailor he did not get into one accident nor did he coast the companies he worked for a single penny worth of damage. In 1861 however the Civil Wa...

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... to the slow pace and consumption of time. The farmers were not making profits which lead many to the idea of joining the east and the west, north and south to boost the economy. Roads, turnpikes, and railroads accomplished the goals of many to join America as one; with one ... . Thousands of pioneers struggled over a rough barrier: the thickly wooded Appalachian Mountains that extended down the continent. On the other side was the tantalizing west, stretching clear to the Mississippi River and beyond. Settlers" wagons jolted down roads that had once been Indian trails. When farmers and f...

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... Britain. While the vocalist also known as the rapper tells a story, the disc jockey provides the rhythm, operating the drum machine and scratching. Scratching is defined as "rapidly moving the record back and forth under the needle to create rap's famous swishing sound" (Small, 1992, 12). The beat can be traditional funk or heavy metal, anything goes. The most important part of ... faces the same charges. They write their songs, and they put a lot of though into them. But part of it is thoughtful work over many hours, getting the words to sound just right so that the ideas come across w...

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... in the South (Kellogg 134; Johnson 315). In the late spring of 1919, James wanted to expand the organization further so he decided to travel to the Midwest and the West coast and attempt to do the same thing he did in the South. He traveled from Seattle, Washington to San Diego, California with success, but not as much as there was ... healthy life but tragedy struck when he was killed in a car accident near Wiscasset, Maine. James Weldon Johnson did many things for the NAACP. He expanded the association from coast to coast and sat on many boards that helped pushed the passage of many a...

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... the middle of the original thirteen colonies and has played a large role in the development of the United States. It borders the states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio. A keystone is an architectural term for the wedge shaped piece in the center of an arch that holds the other pieces together (WES 2013). The state animal ... . They perished as a nation in 1675 due to war and European diseases. The Shawnee were also an Algonkian speaking tribe who came from the west in the 1690's and settled near the lower Susquehanna. They were also pushed west over t...

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... . Ernest was not lucky in love. He divorced Hadley in 1927 and married second wife, American heiress Pauline Pfeiffer. They traveled to Key West, Florida, and although they had no real plans to stay, eventually bought a home there. Key West was a laid-back place and Ernest spent a great deal of time deep-sea fishing with friends. Ernest spent part of each day ... writing, but also found time for drinking with his buddies and more fishing, sometimes off the coast of Cuba. He did some traveling to Spain, and Wyoming. Thanks ... a journalist. In a nutshell, she was blond, beautiful and you...

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... settled on a cotton plantation that John owned. In 1750 he had her jailed for refusing to live with him (Brookhiser 15). When she got out, she returned to the British West Indies, where she met James Hamilton (Brookhiser 15). Alexander admitted that his birth was "not free from blemish-(Brookhiser 15). His mother, Rachel, had two sons with James Hamilton, James ... had traveled the world and was exposed to the horrors of the slave trade- (Hecht 8). Advertisements in the Christiansted newspapers of 1771 and 1772 reveal that slaves from the Gold Coast were frequently offered for sale in C...

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New York. New York City is located on the Eastern Atlantic coast of the United States, at the mouth of the Hudson River. New York City is made of five boroughs separated by various waterways. Brooklyn and Queens occupy the western portion ... is considered to be the Downtown area of Manhattan • 1st to 14th Street contains the general "Village" area. The area west of Broadway is Greenwich Village, and to the east is East Village. • 14th to 34th Street west of Broadway is Chelsea, known for its large loft apartments and studios. • 34th to 59th Street is generally regarded as "Midtown ......

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... , Hemingway traveled back and forth from Paris and Toronto. Each year over the summer in July he would return to Pamplona for the festival. In 1928, he sailed to Key West, Florida then to Havana, Cuba. After Havana he left to go back to the Paris apartment with Pauline and son Patrick. In 1930 he returned to Key ... West and then had gone on a safari in Africa. In 1937, Hemingway went back to Spain due to the outbreak of civil war. In 1941, after the divorce with Pauline and ... on his African safari trip. Men Without Women and Winner Take Nothing were also finished during the 1930's w...

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... to truly recognize Gatsby's greatness. Jay Gatsby: He is the title character and the protagonist of the novel, Gatsby is an extremely wealthy young man living in a Gothic mansion in West Egg. He is well-known for the generous parties he throws every Saturday night, but none knows where he comes from, what he does, or how he made his fortune ... . Nick also learns a bit about Daisy and Tom's marriage: Jordan tells him that Tom has a lover, Myrtle Wilson, who lives in the valley of ashes, a gray industrial dumping ground between West Egg and New York City. Not long after this revelation, N...

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... deceased. I worked with two brothers, Bret and Tyler Cassidy, who grew up in Saint Louis. Their father owned two major cemeteries in the Mid-west. One day, Tyler, age sixteen and the younger of the two brothers, found an old tape recording of his grandparents who had passed away. Tyler ... Once recorded, they would take the raw footage and edit the material into a documentary-style movie. Their idea became a phenomenal success in the Mid-west. People from all over Saint Louis were buying property from the Cassidy Cemetery, excited about the idea of having their life stories recorded for ...

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... States population. It has been characterized as steady growth, and seen as dramatic change. Some immigrants entered the U.S. through the legendary, Ellis Island, and also through its counterpart on the west coast, Angel Island where they were documented and taken account of, whereas other immigrants found different methods of entering the country. By the 20th century and still to this day, great ... ...

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... astounding visual and tactile imagery that only someone with intimate knowledge of the land could write: Tanagers embarrassed by their flashiness and pelicans whose delight it is to clown; who coast for fun on the strong tidal currents in and out among the mangrove islands and stand on the sand-bars drying their damp gold wings on sun-lit evenings (Bishop ... another interesting facet to it as well. It was probably based on an actual event. Bishop grew up in the fishing community of Nova Scotia, and eventually moved to Key West, Florida. She often enjoyed fishing in the Florida Keys. Th...

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... is under way to create a major picture and television studio complex on 15 acres of the navy yard which will make it the premiere entertainment production center on the East Coast. Brooklyn is also home to the historic district Cobble Hill. Spurred by its closeness to the South Ferry, its initial development began during the mid 19th Century. It is particularly ... Park and the National Zoo in Washington D.C. Designed in 1866, the park is 526 acres with a 60 acre lake on its east side and a 90 acre Long Meadow on the west side. Throughout the park, the last of Brooklyn's woodland is fou...

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... Columbus and a fleet of men. Columbus had brought with him a fleet of fifteen vessels and fifteen hundred men was well as horses, cattle and vines to start colonizing in the West Indies. No one knows for sure where he landed in Puerto Rico and it is still up for debate, though there are two towns on the northwest ... coast Aguada and Aguadilla, who have the best claim on his landing, and still argue about it today. Columbus's officer Juan Ponce de Leon had the greattest influence in developing Puerto ... ...

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... in which we call barge golf. What this game entails is hitting a golf ball as far as you can in an attempt hit one of the barges. Although it may sound a bit juvenile the game can be quite fun once you actually come in contact with one of the barges. The park security doesn't seem to mind the game at all ... may be due to the fact that it is fall in New Orleans, or because of the affects that the levee and river have placed upon the shores of the coast. After taking another good look at them I noticed that the shrubbery that filled the open space between trees was littered with trash an...

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... ." Bettie's Story. November 23rd, 2003. http://members.tripod.com/~spaceagegirl/bet5.html ~ Foster, Richard. The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About The Queen Of Pinups. New York, NY. Kensington Publishing Corp. 1997 ~ Snead, Elizabeth. "Mysterious Pinup Page." USA Today. November 23rd, 2003. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/55247341.html?did=55247341&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&desc=Mysterious+pinup+Page ...

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