Don't you think that Billie Jo and her family had a rough time? Because i think they did they lost so much and it was just terrible for all of them her friend left, the plants died, and her mother died with her little brother, so now that you know what they've been through you surely should feel sorry for them all just listen to how bad this paragraph about the whole life of Billie Jo and i bet you”ll think that it sad for all the people that had to go through with all this. First, Billie Jo’s friend Livvie moved away with all her family to California to get away from the dust and it really have must have been hard for them if they moved they might have not had a lot of food or they just couldn't stand it anymore so if you lived there how would …show more content…
They could die without food maybe if they didn't have water though but without food it could be really hard to live with other people because what if you would have started to go crazy and almost hurt someone. Finally, Whenever pa wasn't near i guess he left a bucket of karesen on the oven and well ma got a little fire on her and went outside then Billie Jo thought “well i should get rid of this karesen” so she threw it outside and her mom was there and she didn’t know so her mom was on fire so Billie Jo tried to pat her down which burnt her hands, her mom survived for a few days then she gave birth to her baby then died and before anyone could take the baby he died and then Billie Jo and her Dad began to go into a big depression for a while In conclusion, could you see how rough it was for them all to lose all those things? It would just be sad to have a friend that's been through that. To be honest, I’d cry hearing the story from them. Just losing you friends,food resource, and your mom is hard to get through. And the dust might have been just even worse for them, luckily it got better in the end for them both with a new lady and
In “Jackie’s Debut: A Unique Day,” is written by Mike Royko, and appeared in the Chicago Daily News on Wednesday, October 15, 1972, the day after Jackie passed away. This article is about one of the most famous and cultural African Americans to ever play the game of baseball. In the beginning of the story, there were wise men sitting in the tavern that had something to say about Jackie. They weren’t the kindest words and said that he would ruin the game of baseball. Jackie was going to be at Wrigley Field and the kid had to see him perform. Him and his friend always walked to the baseball games to avoid streetcar fare. On that day, Wrigley Field was packed. He had never seen anything like it, there were about 47,000 people there and at the
While obtaining food seemed to be the entire purpose of life for the people imprisoned in the camps, it often killed more people than it saved. Though focusing on food seemed like a logical thing to do when you are being starved, it was not always very effective in helping people survive. There are many situations in the book illustrating how living for the sole purpose of acquiring food—under any condition—could turn out to be lethal.
Josephine Baker was an exceptional woman who never depended on a man. She never hesitated to leave a man when she felt good and ready. In her lifetime she accomplished many great things. She adopted 12 children, served France during World War II, and was an honorable correspondent for the French Resistance. She fought against fascism in Europe during World War II and racism in the United States. She grew up poor and left home at an early age and worked her way onto the stage. Baker was more popular in France than in the states. Audiences in America were racist towards Baker and that’s when she vowed she wouldn’t perform in a place that wasn’t integrated.
The times were hard in Los Angeles, as more and more poor people migrated into
It seems that the winter of 1609 was so bad that the many of the colonists died of starvation. They were made to eat their own excrement and flesh. They ate Indians and animals from the colony, including horses, dogs and rats, or anything they could find. But this was hard to believe, as the island was full of food. Maybe the cause of death was drought. Scientists have discovered that the worst drought in many years was between 1604 and 1609. They can tell this because of the tree samples that have been taken. No water meant that crops wouldn't grow, and animals would die, as well as humans. The problem with this theory is that down river, there was excess food. The men could have been too weak to gather food. Why?
Flash forward to 1961 the youngest of 19 children, Fannie Lou Hamer was intelligent, happy, and loved to read however being dark-skinned, uneducated, and a female, life was not the easiest for her. Fannie went to the hospital to have a tumor removed from her stomach she later found out that the surgeon not only removed the tumor he removed all of her internal reproductive organs, sterilizing her. Unfortunately, there was no way to file a lawsuit again because of her sex and decent no one would help her. (Washington 189-191) Horrible occurrences like this happened all the time, a racist doctor who wanted to help curve the African population in the world would take advantage of his patients and do what he felt needed to be done. Not only did “accidental” sterilizations occur often but also other organs or tissue and medical procedures would be performed on innocent Africans who went seeking help from the medical profession and were horribly treated and misused in the name of science.
The environment they lived in was a big part of the number of deaths in Early Jamestown. “Disease in the early years to Jamestown’s position at the salt-fresh water transition, where filth introduced into the river tended to fester rather than flush away” (Blanton). This evidence came from the Archaeological Research Center in Virginia.This Center is specialized in accurate information to educate people without giving opinion. Human waste would get dumped into the river, mix with flood water and spread around. Their drinking water would then be filthy and lead to disease. “1600-1620 longest unbroken Jamestown drought” (Science Magazine). This evidence shows the unbroken drought period for Jamestown so there was no water for their crops so they couldn’t grow any food which lead to the starving time in the winter of 1609-1610. This links to another problem they had which was limited skills in things they needed to know to survive.
Spiritually, Billie was always curious and eager to talk about God to anyone and everyone that would listen and occasionally those that wouldn’t. There was one person in particular that she took special interest in. Her father was what she called her
Famine was not uncommon in this New Land. Being that there were no grocery stores to go to, colonists had to hunt for their own food. If there was no food, the colonists did not eat. To add on, seasons also played a major role in the disappearance of the Lost Colony. Seasons determine when to hunt, when to fish, when to plant, when to plow, and when to harvest. If there happens to be a dry season, resources are expended rapidly. A dry season means that planting and harvesting crops were not an option. This also means that whatever there is to salvage gets used very quickly because there is such a high demand for it. In addition, the foods or items that are not widely consumed become consumed at a higher rate. Because people are eating items that probably should not be consumed, the death rate expands and people become upset. Because people that are hungry tend to be angry, there is a frantic search for land that will be more
Starvation was caused from food going bad, being over supplied where they had to leave most of it behind, or under supplied where they didn’t have enough to eat (Over the Trails to California 7). Another major problem faced by the pioneers was the Sierra Desert. The Sierra Desert was about a quarter of the journey and it lead into mountains which is where most of people discarded their unneeded items. When someone had too many supplies they would have to discard them in order to make it up the mountains but if they were too low on supplies they could die of starvation or other causes. Most people died from the diseases that spread all around the pioneers (Over the Trails to California 7). When travelling by land to California, forty-niners bought many supplies to help with them getting their fortune, however, these supplies became too heavy to take therefore
Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday were both prominent jazz singer-songwriters during the same time and masters in their own right, but their worlds could not have been further apart. In 1939, while they were both in the midst of experiencing mainstream success, Ella was touring with Ella and her Famous Orchestra and showcasing her perfect pitch and tone to the world while singing songs that would soon become standards to fellow singers and musicians. Billie was singing solo, comfortable with her limited range, and gaining the adoration of audiences nationwide who loved her soulful voice. Both of these historic singers made contributions to the art of jazz, with vocalists and instrumentalists still using elements of their style today. Ella
They arrived in beat-up, run down vehicles; after traveling thousands of miles into California, often losing children and older family members along the way (pg 22), they arrived with dreams of a brighter future, one with the hope of land for their own and jobs to support their loved ones. The scene they came up...
The movie Lady Day: The Many Faces Of Billie Holiday paints an interesting, and thought provoking portrait of one of jazz and blues most charismatic, and influential artists. The incomparable talent of Billie Holiday, both truth and legend are immortalized in this one-hour documentary film. The film follows Holiday, also referred to as “Lady Day” or “Lady”, through the many triumphs and trials of her career, and does it’s very best to separate the facts from fiction. Her autobiography Lady Sings The Blues is used as a rough guide of how she desired her life story to be viewed by her public. Those who knew her, worked with her, and loved her paint a different picture than this popular, and mostly fictional autobiography.
Billie was born to the name, Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell's Point section of Baltimore. Her mother, was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father, was 15. Holidays' teenage parents, Sadie Harris (aka Fagan) and probable father, Clarence Holiday, never married, and they did not live together for a long time. Clarence, a banjo and guitar player worked with Fletcher Henderson's band in the early 30s. He remains a shady figure who left his family. Clarence would often be away from home, and during the stay with Henderson, which lasted until 1932, the guitarist severed connections with the Fagans. Billie was an angry chile who lived a hard life. She was raped at the age of 10 soon she dropped out of school at an early age and began working as a prostitute with her mother. She was sent to a home for wayward girls, and soon was arrested and served four months in prison for prostitution. “Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s than enough”(billie holiday)
Frank O’Hara’s The Day Lady Died is an unorthodox elegy to the great Billie Holiday, one that explores a more distant but no less human form of mourning a notable figure from afar when one feels personally invested in them. The Day Lady Died makes good use of a captivatingly talkative first person narrator with a penchant for mentioning seemingly insignificant details that end up being paramount to the poem’s narrative. Its run-on form lends to the nature of the poem being an internal stream of consciousness that aids in capturing those small details and utilizing them to paint a bigger picture of day that will live on both in poetry and in history as The Day Lady Died.