This project explores how African Americans continued the quest for civil rights during WWII. In order to do so, however, one must acknowledge that black spokespersons responded to competing discourses--particularly, the discourses of U.S. officials such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In an ...
in letters, a mere province of Great Britain. We have already, even from the depths of slavery, furnished the only music this country has yet produced. We are also destined to write the poetry of the nation; for as real poetry gushes forth from minds embued [sic] with a lofty perceptio...
The beginnings of the plan were announced on June 5, 1947, during a speech by Marshall at Harvard University, but it wasn’t until April 3, 1948, that it was signed into law. The Marshall Plan provided an estimated $13 billion in aid to 17 countries over a four-year period. Ultimately...
Firstly, let’s talk about the beginnings of the game and why it released so soon after Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. This is technically Call of Duty 5, but games in the series would no longer go by numbers. That’s largely in part because of the new approach to making Call of...
While direct evidence is thin, the legend of Betsy Ross is firmly rooted in American history, and I, for one, am pretty happy with a woman having such a place in the pantheon of historical figures associated with our democratic beginnings. It isn’t a big museum and the tour guides ...
The Beginnings of Creating Shared Value The primary rationale of CSV as a new revenue model is that businesses can contribute to the sustainable development of society. Further, the legitimacy of a business and the health of society are mutually dependent. Most of all, Porter and Kramer [5] ...
beginnings as an Austrian Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 filmEcstasyto her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions to her latter years when she became a recluse, impoverished and almost forgotten—BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY...
3. Call of Duty: World at War (2008) A few years after Call of Duty 3, the team at Treyarch came back and delivered their last entry based on the conflict the series has been breathing off since its beginnings. This time, however, the campaign was only divided into North American and...
Unlike in the case of Elvira Bauer whose later years remain a mystery, Hie- mer was detained in Stalag XIII-D after the end of WWII. He was never allowed to teach in a school again for the rest of his life and died in Altötting, Bavaria in 1974. The illustration found in The ...
demise of comparative ethnomusicology in the West after WWII for political reasons, and a pronounced Eurocentric bias among many Western cognitive scientists and developmental psychologists who hold Western classical music as the universal or ultimate model of tonal organization. ...