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Coming to America from countries in the old world was usually a tedious and long procedure that lasted for weeks. However, there was an extraordinary moment during this journey – reaching New York harbor and receiving a warm welcome from the impressive Statue of Liberty, symbolizing the hope for a fresh start in the land…

Scott Joplin, known as the “King of Ragtime” music, was born on November 24, 1868, in Bowie County, Texas near Linden. He came from a large musical family – his father, Giles Joplin, played dance music as a slave and his mother, Florence Givens Joplin, sang and played the banjo. Four of his siblings also…

All living things are made of the same basic building blocks, cells. A human ismade of 65 trillion cells. Cells are everywhere, on you skin, in your blood, andeven on your tongue. In fact, your blood is clear but red blood cells are whatmake your blood red. Most living things are made up of many…

Jazz began in the late 1800s and was recognized to be exceptional because compared to most musical standard; it offers round beat tempo and lively musical rhythm. What makes it obviously different is that its origin emanates not from the people who made it but from the influence of their ancestry in their kinds of…

Of all the types of music that I enjoy, two of my favorites are gospel and Rhythm and Blues (R&B); however, gospel is my favorite. It is my favorite because it is uplifting and encouraging. On the other hand, I also like listening to R&B. For example, when it’s time to clean up and I’m…

Movie: Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe movie takes place in Vienna, Austria in the 1700’s. The film beginswith the attempted suicide of Antonio Salieri, a court composer of the AustrianEmperor. He is placed in a mental asylum where a priest visits and asks for hisconfession. Salieri claims to have caused the death of Mozart. The rest of…

areas. One of the most obvious areas to see is in the Renaissance art. Renaissance art was something new to everyone at the time and varied from previous art in many ways. Renaissance art and Medieval art for example had many differences. In order to see a difference between these two different styles of art,…

Where is Warhol himself in his apparently affectless, neutral pictures and films?             Figurative art regarded the body as commercialised – something chopped up and sold for parts.  Abstraction claimed to reflect the artist’s inner state, but it has been much criticised for lacking an essential human quality: the reality of human relations, which are…

The Brooklyn Bridge The Brooklyn Bridge, also known as the East River Bridge, is a famous bridge in New York City. It crosses the East River and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. It is the only link between Brooklyn and Manhattan and was once considered the longest suspension bridge…

For many years now, people have been fool by appearances. Someone maylook at the exterior of an object and expect one thing when actually the exactopposite is waiting inside for them. For example, an unexpecting person picksoff a grape from the bunch and bites into the fruit while dreaming of a mouthfulof juicy, sweet grape…