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Shirley Chisholm An Analysis of the Life and Work of Shirley Chisholm In light of the fact that black feminism has gained more of a voice in the last few decades it is important to remember the people who first brought the plight of the black woman, specifically, to the forefront of national public and political discourse. One of these women was Shirley Chisholm. She was the first black member of the

Marxist Eye on the Contemporary, Commercialized Corporate 'I'" Karl Marx, although famously, personally ignorant of his own wife's domestic suffering while he labored in the British Library, still provides an ideologically coherent model to examine how materialism, commercialism, and the oppression of women and other ideologically (though not always economically) marginalized groups invisibly occurs within our class-bound society. One of Marx's most basic claims, and one particularly dear to post-modernists, was

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Development of Music Education in AmericaIntroductionMichael L. Mark�s �A Concise History of American Music Education� is a detailed and insightful look at the development of music education in the United States. Mark traces the origins of music education back to the early days of the republic, when musical training was seen as an essential part of a well-rounded education. He goes on to discuss the rise of professional music educators