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    Randolph Vs Farmer

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    “ Gentle in nature, a board in vision, Philosophical in thinking, devoted to his family…...the Reverend James William Randolph….represented that sturdy, stable, old sterling Fighting stock of the race in America..” - A. Philip Randolph. The people can be jail, beat, kept separated, but in the end were they same. The African American people were mistreated for years and two people start the train of new. A Randolph and James Farmer did more than just make great advances during the World War 2 for

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    Just so you know, this is the Big Apple and I rule this town. New York City is filled with tall buildings, great culture, and historical sites. No other city has so much beauty that it takes your breath away; yet, there is a real danger that lurks on the streets. I should know because I am Detective Michael Morgan a United States Super Spy in charge of capturing dastardly villains who are set on destroying our world. Armed with mind-altering powers, Alex Higgins is on the top of the FBI’s list of

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    Black Soul “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes illustrates someone singing blues on “Lenox Avenue” in the streets of Harlem, the tone of the poem and the location can imply that both the speaker and the singer are African American. Hughes uses the genre of blues to portray the significance to African American culture. He also utilizes melancholy tone and word choice to strengthen the connection to Blues style music. In addition, he writes the poem in free verse to mimic the pattern of speech and

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    Love is a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person (Dictionary 1). Love is what is known as the “universal language”. There are so many ways love can be interpreted. The central message that the comfort humans receive, and the shyness they feel for an individual are compartments of love that may not always be touched on in poetry. Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes are both African American poets that have made tremendously positive names for themselves in the literature department. Their

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    Place of Worship St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church in New York City, also known as Eglise St-Jean-Baptiste. This church is a parish of catholic Archdiocese built in 1882 at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 7thstreet in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. The purpose of establishing this parish is to serve the communities of Immigrant from French Canadian population. Until 1957, it remained the French-Canadian National Parish. In 1900, it was staffed

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    Langston Hughes' The Weary Blues      Jazz music is often associated with long, lazy melodies and ornate rhythmical patterns. The Blues, a type of jazz, also follows this similar style. Langston Hughes' poem, "The Weary Blues," is no exception. The sound qualities that make up Hughes' work are intricate, yet quite apparent. Hughes' use of consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia, and rhyme in "The Weary Blues" gives the poem a deep feeling of sorrow while, at the same time, allows the reader to feel

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    pursue clinical research as my career. I received my first residency training in medicine in China, where I obtained my medical degree. After immigrated to the U.S with my parents, I completed my USMLE exams while working as a medical extern in Lenox Hill Hospital with Dr. Kirk Garratt in cardiology research and Dr. Yiming Yang, an interventional cardiologist, and later as an intern in cardiac nuclear stress lab in the Heart & Vascular Hospital at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Huston. Witnessing

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    The Detective Mystery: Who murdered Frimbo? Rudolph Fisher’s, The Conjure Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem is a complex detective mystery story published in 1932 by an African American. The story intertwines Western ideology with African myth, and religious traditions that exploits the lifestyle of blacks living in dark Harlem. Fisher very cleverly disguises the culture of dark Harlem through colorful characters, murder, mystery, supernatural events, and detective work that revolves around

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    traditional orchestral melodies. He also included his interest in African music as well as his concerns about African Americans in the U.S. In the 1930’s, he created a ballet with an African backdrop called Sahdji. He created another ballet called Lenox Avenue that took place in Harlem. William Grant Still relocated to Los Angeles in 1939, but his success still continued. In 1949, he created an opera named Trouble Island which was the 1971 Haitian slave uprising. This became the first full-length work

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    Eugenia Collier “SWEET POTATO PIE” Sukhanova E. LP31/2 Eugenia W. Collier (born 1928) is an African-American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds". She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Collier 's collection, Breeder and Other Stories, was released in 1993. She has also published a play, Ricky, based on her short story of the same name. Other texts that Collier has written or contributed to include are Impressions

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