Basically, choose any of the topics in the list, it can any of them, it doesn't just have to be a biography of the listed people, it can be one of any of the 20 topics the teacher gives. Just make sure you use 5 sources for whichever topic your writer chooses.
Length: 6 typed double spaced pages, font 12.
Use 5 sources of your own to write this paper.
The teacher gave a number of topics, as choices to write about. Your writer can choose to write about what he feels comfortable with, and can write the best paper with. They only need to choose one of the topics.
Write a biography of one of the following figures, noting how the figure you chose influenced the growth and develenopmt of African American music
Use at least 5 sources (using less will automatically lower your grade
No Wikipedia
You may quote the textbook but don't count it as one of your 5 sources
There will be a list of suggested topics sent to you but you may ask about other topics.
Please keep in mind that if you chose a popular topic that you make it easy for me to compare papers with other papers on the same topic. This is often the case with papers about rappers. In the past one student was upset about the grade she received but after I had read 5 other papers on the same topic I just didn't think that her paper was as good as some of the others submitted by her classmates.
Write a biography of one of the following figures, noting how the figure you chose influenced the growth and development of African American music.
a. Richard Allen b. Harry T. Burleigh c. Charles A. Tindley d. Thomas A. Dorsey e. Ella Fitzgerald f.
Billie Holiday g. Bert Williams
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