...In 1926, Louis' family joined the African-American migration from the rural South to the urban North. They settled in Detroit and that was where he grew up. As a teenager he worked odd jobs and began boxing with neighborhood kids. Louis used the 50 cents a week his mother gave him for violin lessons to rent a locker at the Brewster Recreation Center, where he began a successful amateur boxing career. John Roxborough, the illegal numbers betting king in Detroit's black ghetto, decided to sponsor Louis's professional career. He enlisted the help of Julian Black, a Chicago speakeasy owner and numbers operator, and they moved Louis to Chicago to train with Jack Blackburn, a former lightweight boxer and skilled trainer who had already taken two white fighters to world championships in lower weight divisions. Blackburn patiently taught Louis a fundamental style of boxing that emphasized balanced but unspectacular footwork, a strong left jab, counterpunching, and throwing combination punches in rapid sequence. Until his death in 1942, Blackburn ensured that Louis ran six miles a day, sparred with discipline, and maintained his physical superiority and confidence against all challengers. By March 1935, Louis had won 18 professional fights and was bumping up against the barrier of segregation. Denied economic opportunity and political power, African Americans were invisible in America's emerging media age. With the exception of occasional tokens in track and field and college football...
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...Louis Vuitton Malletier , or the history that we are also a favorite as ' Louis Vuitton ' , but there are many girls who like to short the LV (LV) bags , Louis . Vuitton is a brand that was established at the year of 1854 when France by Louis Vuitton malware Lake Fortier present bags brand Louis Vuitton is a brand that can be considered a giant . most people around the world know . LV logo is just tremendous value it. This product brands that are available . Packaging bag , clothing , handbags , clothes , shoes, watches and jewelry. By all bags of Louis . Vuitton has potential inspiration that "Art of Travel" , which is the core of the design and concept of the design handbags , Louis Vuitton , all leaves and designers , the current of Louis . Vuitton 's Marc Jacobs , which is the design of his people , it is the favorite of the celebrities . Around the world. Bag Louis . Thailand women 's values , rather than just a bag . Believe that in a number of various bags brand bags Louis is one of the most popular women purse Thailand . Most women want to have the most possession . But with the price of the bag has a very high price to make a purchase using the card , it will not be easy , but if I do not pay for quality and a long history of the brand. Thailand had to accept that women are not less patience to collect money in order to have a pocket or purse LV logo Louis Vuitton...
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...1. What has made Louis Vuitton’s business model successful in the Japanese luxury market? ლუის ვიტონის არჩეული ბიზნეს მოდელი მართლაც წარმატებული აღმოჩნდა იაპონურ ლაქშერი ბაზარზე, რომელზეც 2004 წლის მონაცემებით მთელი ფუფუნების საგნების 55% მოდიოდა. ეს ბრენდი გამოირჩეოდა იმითაც რომ მისი მოგების მარჟა შეადგენდა 45% - ს, როდესაც ანალოგიურ ბაზარზე 25% იყო ნორმა. რით იყო ეს გამოწვეული? თავდაპირველად დავიწყოთ ამ ბრენდის პროდუქტის განხილვით. Louis Vuitton- ის ჩანთები იკერებოდა საფრანგეთში, სადაც წარმოება გაცილებით ძვირი ჯდებოდა, მაგრამ სამაგიეროდ ბაზარზე მისი პოზიციონირება ხდებოდა როგორც ნამდვილი ფრანგული საქონლის. რაც შეეხება მის ხარისხს, აქცენტი უფრო დეტალებზე კეთდებოდა, მის მოსახერხებლობზე. შეუძლებელია იმის თქმა, რომ მისი მაღალი ფასი კონკურენტებთან შედარებით უშუალოდ შესამჩნევი ხარისხით იყო გამოწვეული. შედეგად ლუის ვიტონის ჩანთები იყო ძვირი, თუმცა ეს ფასი იყო სრულიად გამართლებული და მომგებიანი. ამ ჩანთებში გადახდილი ფული მომხმარებლისთვის იყო გამართლებული. ის ხდებოდა ახალი სოციალური ფენის ნაწილი და იღებდა საზოგადოებაში სტატუსს. ასევე მან წარმატებით მოახერხა დაპირისპირებოდა მის გაყალბებულ ვერსიებს. შემდეგ, გაამართლა შეზღუდულმა გამოცემებმა. ბრენდი ყურადღებას უთმობდა ადგილობრივ მომხმარებელს და ადგილობრივ ბაზარს, რაც საკმაოდ დადებითი იყო აზიური კულტურისთვის. კომპანია შეიტანა სიახლე იაპონიის ლაქშერი ბაზარზე, როდესაც „shop-in shop“ დანერგა. მართალია მისი მაღაზიები ყოველთვის წარმატებული იყო და გაყიდვების აღმატებოდა დაგეგმილს...
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...Louis Riel Lana Forsberg 11172571 Native Studies 107 Swapna Padmana November 19, 2014 Louis Riel is one of the most influential citizens in not only Metis history but also in Canadian history. Riel’s story shows society that life is a battle of controversy when trying to gain the rights and freedom that you are deserved. Although Louis has inspired a lot of people, he has also caused a lot of hatred and pain because of his actions. Many people consider him to be a hero but on the other hand others see him to be a killer and a mad man. A person’s actions can affect the way people view them for the rest of their lives and in Riel’s case he is a prime subject to this. Riel led the Metis through a historical rebellion and throughout this rebellion made it sane for scholars and historians to view him as a hero but also a victim in Canadian history. In 1844, Louis Riel was born into the Red River Settlement, which now is considered Manitoba. Louis Riel grew up around the time when the west was opening up and a lot of different ethnicities were migrating into Manitoba. This caused issues for the Metis because the Metis people were offered little education and food sources started going scarce. The Metis were considered to be half-breeds and eventually there was an account of starvation and mass hunger throughout the area. Even though this was all happening during Riels pre-adulenscent years, he was one of the few people that were able to get education and started...
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...Louis D. Brandeis was a United State Supreme Court Justice that fought against monopolies and big business and was a tireless advocate for free speech. Brandeis was best known for publishing his famous article in the Harvard Law Journal, for publishing his book about the banking industry, for upholding laws that protect the publics’ privacy and the freedom of expression and as the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice. Louis Brandeis was born in Kentucky on November 13, 1856 to Adolph Brandeis and Frederika Dembitz. His parents were Bohemian Jews that had a strong belief in culture and encouraged Brandeis’ education. Consequently, Brandeis graduated high school at the young age of 14. He first attended college in Kentucky but later transferred to Germany when his father had to relocate. He went on to study at Harvard Law School and graduated in 1875 as valedictorian at the age of 20. Brandeis started practicing law in St. Louis, Missouri and after a short time, he moved back to Boston to start a law firm with former Harvard classmate, Samuel Warren. The firm of “Warren and Brandeis” spent much of their time arguing against monopolies and large corporations and advocating for free speech. Together Brandeis and Warren published a famous article in The Harvard Law Review, “The Right to Privacy.” This article argued that private citizens should have the right to be left alone and the press should not be permitted to publish their photos or the details of their lives without...
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...Louis Armstrong American Jazz Icon Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) one of the renown fathers of American jazz music. One cannot think of American jazz and not think of the huge smile and the puffy cheeks of the one affectionately called “Satchmo”. Few can hear the songs “Hello Dolly!” (Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart – 20th Century fox 1964) and “What a Wonderful World” (Geroge Weiss & Bob Theile 1968) not hear the deep raspy voice of this beloved icon. With his incredible energy and joy for life, few would believe his humble and heartbreaking beginnings. What made him famous was his inner strength, drive, openness and the ability to learn from others. Humble and Tumultuous Beginnings Louis Daniel Armstrong was born August 4, 1901 in New Orleans to William Armstrong and Mary Est Albert. His father William Armstrong was a boiler stoker in a turpentine plant and left him shortly after he was born. His mother was a laundress and part-time prostitute who drifted in and out of his life (Tirro, 2000). The first five years of his life he lived with his grandmother Josephine and was later returned to his mothers care. Back in his mother’s care Armstrong lived in a cabaret district where he was exposed to the up and coming jazz music. In 1913 Armstrong was arrested for shooting a gun off during a New Years Eve celebration and sent to the New Orleans Colored Waifs’ Home for boys. Her in a disciplined environment he was given formal music instruction. In the waif home...
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...Joe Louis was a man of great stature, a role model, and, for his time, he was what the black community needed him to be. It is nearly impossible to take the character of today’s athletes, like Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant, and compare them to the reflection of boxer Joe Louis. Joe Louis began his credible journey on June 19, 1936 during the times when America was struggling with racial equality he won his first of 27 fights. However, having a black heavyweight champion meant the black community would move upward and be successful and just as productive as white America. Although Joe Louis was not the first black heavyweight champ, he was still highly favored amongst his people and intended to execute the necessary duties to deliver a message demanding equal opportunity to whites from the black community. Louis did not doubt that he could win. To be a contender for a heavyweight title Louis had to first defeat Max Schmeling. People paraded and praised Louis months before the actual fight. They truly believed in this man of color and when in the boxing ring Joe Louis would always represent the African American fighting the whites for equality. The pressure was thick but maybe the community and Louis were over-confident. No one assumed he would have difficulty in the bout but with his lack of training Joe Louis experienced the greatest upset after being defeated in 12 rounds. Joe Louis’ defeat represented African American defeat entirely. When he went down “all of the hopes...
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...Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong, ‘Satchmo’ being his nickname, is a name that is known worldwide. He made a name for himself, not only with his music, but his personality and aura in a holistic sense. Through display of his uniqueness and unapologetic independence, Armstrong’s success and influence in the music world helped develop the genre of jazz and changed its traditional norm forever. Louis Armstrong came into the world August 4, 1901 in the Story Ville district of Louisiana. He grew up in an unstable home with an absent father and mother struggling to support him through means of prostitution. Armstrong had to look to contribute to the family income only in the fifth grade. He was recruited by a Jewish family to take care of some tasks for a small pay. In December of 1912, he was arrested after shooting a gun at a New Year’s Eve celebration and was placed in the Colored Waifs Home for Boys. (louisarmstrongfoundation.org) It was there that Armstrong picked up the love for music. He embarked on investing in his newfound talent after taking on cornet lessons during his stay at the boys’ home. (biography.com) He left the home in 1914 with a passionate and determined heart for music. As Armstrong began to perform with numerous musical groups in the 1920s, he began to experiment with the extended solo in his music. This would transform the jazz world forever. Before Armstrong introduced this new concept, “jazz music was played either in highly orchestrated arrangements...
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...Battlefield When most of us hear the word leader, during the Civil Rights Movement, we think of great men like, Martin Luther King or A. Philip Randolph. However, Louis Armstrong must be considered as one of our countries leaders. Being an innovative musician he not only pioneered jazz but overcame barriers set by racism. He saw the musician, not the color of the musician. Louis patented his own style of music which became known and loved the world over. David Stricklin’s book Louis Armstrong gave us a detailed description of Armstrong’s life. By cracking open the pages of history we gain a greater understanding of his life and how he interacted with his environment. Armstrong was born August 4, 1901, in the Third Ward just west of downtown New Orleans. Stricklin quoted Gary Giddins, “Louis was raised in a house of cards in the middle of a gale,” which describes his life. His family moved later to a red light district known as, The Battlefield. Just the name, The Battlefield, makes one think of a harsh environment where you could lose your life at any moment. According to Stricklin he was primarily raised by his grandmother, and had to endure seeing his mother struggle economically, even subjecting herself to prostitution to provide for her family. His father had limited contact, which must have been difficult for Louis to understand, since he had another family. During Armstrong’s early adolescence the United States was in an era of reform, the Progressive Era, asking for far...
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...JOE LOUIS JONATHAN RIVERA PROFESSOR MICHEAL GOOCH JOE LOUIS This report is about a man that changed American history Joseph Louis Barrow was a world heavy weight champion from 1937 to 1949. He was born on May 13, 1914 Lafayette, Alabama, his father was Monroe Barrow and mother was Lilly Reese. Joe spent 12 years growing up in Alabama, then later moved to Detroit Michigan because of the Klux Klux Klan harassment. Later in his life he went to work part time for Ford Motor company. Louis also attended vocational school to learn how to make cabinets. When the great depression hit Joe began to spend time in a local south recreation center in Detroit, Michigan. This is where he picked up the sport of boxing. He made his armature debut around 1932, he was 17 years old. Louis had numerous victories during his armature career, he earned a club championship of his brewester street recreational center. In 1933 Louis won the Detroit Golden glove novice championship for the light heavy weight classification. The next year he trained and prepared to compete in the Golden glove tournament of championship where he won the light heavy weight classification. Later that year, he also added a national AAU Tourney in Missouri. This caught the eyes of many boxing promoters, they wanted Joe to turn professional. Joe Louis' amateur record was an amazing 50 wins with 4 loses, 43 knock outs. Joe Louis turned pro July 4 1934 he had many heavyweight fight his most notable was his fights with...
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...Louis Armstrong In the early twentieth century, a new style of music was being created in New Orleans. This style of music, known as Jazz, was performed with the audience in mind. It was heavily influenced by ragtime and washboard bands. Jazz is also highly competitive since the musicians wanted to stand out from the rest of the crowd. Their differences were accomplished through the use of timbres, improvisation, and many other characteristic of Jazz. Louis Armstrong’s version of “(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue” illustrates the characteristics of Jazz, is completely unique to his style of preference, and advocates against racial discrimination. Improvisation was the most unique and challenging style utilized in the Jazz era. Musicians used this skill set to differentiate themselves from other artists within their original musical scores along with remakes of other artist’s songs, as no two performances of a song were the same. This is because the musicians literally made up or created the notes they played for their solos during the performance. The top skilled performers of Jazz were defined by their unique ability to create interesting solos with both their vocals and instruments. Louis Armstrong had the ability to use phrasing as a singer to capture syncopations that were prominent in early jazz. Jazz in the 1920’s was a combination of blues, ragtime, swing notes, and other European influences. Armstrong was able to capture the blue note,...
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...Louis Sachar is an author of books for elementary school students. As he writes, he tries to recall what it felt like for him to be that age. He thinks that children in elementary school are pretty much the same as when he was in school. He remembers a time when he had to stay away from the woods across the street. There were some tough older boys about eleven or twelve who played there and he did not want any trouble. Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954. When he was nine years old, he moved to Tustin, California. Tustin was full of orange groves at that time and unlike his time in East Meadow, New York; he would go through the groves and have orange fights on the way home. Sachar currently lives in Austin, Texas. Sachar enjoyed school and was a good student, but it was not until high school that he really became an avid reader. He graduated from high school in 1976. After high school, Sachar attended Antioch College in Ohio. During his first semester at Antioch, Sachar’s father died. Due to his father’s death, Sachar moved back to California to be with this mother. During that time, he got a job as a Fuller Brush. A Fuller Brush is a person who goes door-to-door selling cleaning products. He went back to college, attending the University of California at Berkeley where he majored in economics. While in college, he took a big interest in Russian literature, but after one year of classes, it was still all Greek to him. He dropped out of the class and tried...
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...Ever heard of Pasteurization? It was a method created by Louis Pasteur to stop milk and wine from carrying disease. Louis Pasteur is a French chemist and microbiologist from the 19th century. He had many influences in both the causing and prevention of many diseases. Now let’s take a look in detail at the many accomplishments of this biologist. Louis Pasteur was born in Dole, on December 27th 1822. Louis Pasteur comes from a poor family of tanners, not a likely place for such a person to sprout from. He was an average student early on in his life and was also very good at painting and drawing. In 1840 the young Louis acquired his Bachelor of Arts degree and two years later in 1842, his bachelor’s in science, at the École Normale Supérieure. In 1848 he shortly worked as a professor of physics, and a year later became a professor of chemistry at the University of Strasbourg. At this university he met and later married Marie Laurent, whom he had 5 children with. Sadly of his five children only two of them lived all the way to adulthood, the others killed by a disease called typhoid. This is actually the reason that Pasteur decided to try to find cures for the multiple diseases that had killed his children. Pasteur has had many impacts on biology, such as pasteurization and certain cures for diseases and vaccines. Focusing on pasteurization, he was faced with a problem nobody could seem to answer. Why did some wine go bad and why didn’t...
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...Louis Pastuer was the father of the rabies vaccination. This vaccination was not the only one of his great accomplishments. He worked on crystallography that led to the notion of molecules being three-dimensional object. He discovered the world of microbe, and he was the first one to demonstrate their ubiquity and their role in many natural processes. Examples are fermentation and putrefaction. He also proved the role of microbes and infectious diseases; this led to the rationalization of hygiene and the prevention of infectious diseases. Louis Pasture was the beginning of time for the world of medicine. He was able to find things that led us to where we are today. What motivated Louis was the prevention of infectious diseases....
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...The book ‘Holes’ by Louis Sachar is about a group of “bad boys” who were sent to Camp Green Lake for committing crimes such as stealing and vandalism. At Camp Green Lake they have to dig holes every day in the middle of the heat to “build character”. Little did they know they were actually digging to find treasure that was buried many years ago. The main characters that are followed in the book are Stanley and Zero. Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing a pair of famous baseballer’s shoes, which he didn’t actually steal. Zero was also sent to camp for stealing and abandoned as a child. He was always called stupid by the other boys and counsellors because he did not know how to read or write. There were many unfair acts evident throughout the novel such as: unsanitary living conditions, racist themes, and the bullying of Zero....
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