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    American. He highlighted the highs and lows of the Negro in America, shining light on racial stereotypes and prejudicial conditions that permeated the lives of the Black community. In his poem “The Weary Blues”, Hughes refers to the Black pianist on Lenox Avenue repeatedly as a Negro. He is a Negro and a pianist. Hughes also rouses dualism by referring to the pianist’s ebony hands and the piano’s ivory keys. The piece is melancholy in tone and expresses a theme of one’s troubles and worries being calmed

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    Polidor, a Quartier Latin institution, the traditional restaurant where, for more than 200 years, artists and writers — from Verlaine to René Clair, including... James Joyce — fed their body and spirit — 41, rue Monsieur Le Prince. Station 4: Hotel Lenox, where Joyce was living with his family when he concluded Ulysses. It was also in this hotel that he wrote much of Finnegan’s Wake, but the current manager has no idea of who James Joyce was, believe it or not. The narrow spiral staircase that Joyce

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    colloquial language as well as the structures and rhythms of blues and jazz music.” ( Hughes 1993).Hughes expressed that his verse was worried with the commonfolk, the general population who possessed Chicago 's South State Street or Harlem 's Lenox Avenue, "individuals who have their hip of gin on Saturday evenings and are not very imperative to themselves or the group, or too all around sustained, or excessively learned, making it impossible to watch the sluggish world go round." Hughes related

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    Travel back to New York city during the 1920s, a melting pot of culture, a place where new ideas, technology and business mix and mingle into a metropolitan jungle, where dreams are made and stars are born. During this era, in a small neighborhood on the island of Manhattan, an explosion occurs that would forever change the course of history. The explosion would liberate an entire race that had been ignored for centuries into a new era! The explosion was known as the Harlem Renaissance. It was during

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    Police Discretion

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    possibly result into potential needless death and/or injury. A police officers choice may be influenced by personal factors that may determine an irrational decision. For example; In the 2005 shooting, that occurred on 126th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues, the suspect, Richard Gooding, ignored officers’ orders to drop his gun and began shooting. Five officers returned fire, fatally injuring Mr. Gooding and wounding Ms. Johnson in the right elbow. Garnold M. King was shot in the lower back; he has

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    “The Weary Blues” Poem Explication Langston Hughes, a black poet, proved one of the most influential poets of the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of African American literature, art, and culture during the 1920s and 1930s. In particular, writers of the Renaissance focused heavily on issues of black identity and struggles faced by African Americans, both economically and socially, as they struggled with the legacy of the Civil War and omnipresent discrimination. Hughes was no exception, and his body

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    Bishop Charles Mason

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    four hundred white Pentecostal preachers.   By 1917 Church Of God In Christ congregations were organized in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn. Evangelists were also at work in Harlem. In 1935 a storefront church was opened at 137th and Lenox Avenue, placing Bishop Mason’s message before the largest urban black population in America. Despite this new racial separation, Mason maintained a warm fellowship with the white Pentecostals. He preached in their conventions and maintained a strong

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    REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) WIRELESS COMP COMPANY REAPER MACHINES 2335 LENOX ST. CHARLOTTE, NC, 28056 8/11/2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND 2 2. PROPOSAL GUIDELINES 2 3. PROJECT PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION 3 4. PROJECT SCOPE 3 5. PROPOSAL AND PROJECT TIMELINE 4 6. BUDGET 5 7. PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA 6 1. SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND Death Comm is currently accepting proposals to develop, design, launch, and host a new Wireless Network within their building. The

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    Tito Puente, the Jazz musician, composer, arranger and cultural icon, is known, variously as “king of timbales and mambo”, “sultan of salsa”, and most famously as El Ray - the King - of Latin Music. His Latin identity is often emphasized in a way that is somewhat unusual for Jazz musicians. Indeed, Ella Fitzgerald, or more recently, Diana Krall, do not have their cultural backgrounds so heavily stressed. Perhaps the emphasis on culture stems from the fact that Puente is Latin Music’s most prominent

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    Romana Kryzanowska was born on June 30, 1923, in Farmington Michigan. Her parents were both artists and she became a dancer. At 17 she moved to New York with her mother where she studied at George Balanchine's Ballet school. In 1941 she got injured and was taken to see Joseph Pilates for the first time. Soon after she was to become a lifelong student of his and eventually became his little helper. In 1945 she met the love of her life Pablo, got married and moved to Peru. There she had 2 children

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