There were so many amazing performances. ... It truly takes lot of talent to be able to dance around in spike heels, jump on tables, and still sing a song, which is exactly what this amazing man did. ... there were many different technical aspects of RENT. ... They were used for stages, beds and regular tables. ... It is that there is no time like the present, and to seize the day, and that there is "no day but today". ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Beginning there, those sitting in restaurants, coming out of theatres, standing in doorways and looking out of windows are practically all Blacks; and then he emerges where the population suddenly becomes white again. ... They dealt with Black life from a Black perspective. ... Blacks developed a new consciousness. The deterioration of the social position of blacks in American Society caused blacks to turn to each other and develop the ideas of self-help and black pride. ... Phillips Episcopal Church, all of which have been integral parts of the City's Black community, at least since...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the white, middle class America has passed its beliefs onto me of the security of living in a nice house and there was always food on the table for every meal. Even though most of the times it was not what I wanted to eat, it still kept me away from the hunger of less fortunate people. ... When my grandparents would take my sister and I to New York City to see a show we would have to drive through the primarily black and Puerto Rican communities of the Bronx. ... Now that I am older and I think a little wiser, I feel more able to communicate with all people although that tendency to pre-...

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• Grade Level: High School

He never thought that whites would be allowed to "flood the little cabarets and bars where formerly only colored people laughed and sang, and where now the strangers were given the best ringside tables to sit and stare at the Negro customers-like amusing animals in a zoo."" (100) Hughes was able to see Blacks rise and allow the whites to infiltrate their establishments until they caused them to fall again, like they always managed to do in the past. ... And the smaller clubs had no big floor shows or a name band like the Cotton Club, so without black patronage, they were not amusing at all.""...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Dutch West India Company provided many incentives for people to come to their colony, but the colony still grew too slowly. ... In spite of many unfavorable factors, many were still lured by the booming and widely available economic opportunities that the new colony offered. ... There have been a number of changes in NYC during the 1700s. ... Street lighting was also installed and paid by the people who lived there. ... On November 1, 1765, there was a riot in the streets. ...

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There was not much to do in Mexico and he began to hate it. ... So he quit and got a job as a busboy wiping tables and washing dishes at a hotel. He there met Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Who is considered a founder of modern singing poetry. ... Lindsay published his discovery of this new black poet. ... He became and is still recognized as a famous American Poet. ...

• Word Count: 1086
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• Grade Level: High School