Jazz is an example of what literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. has called âsignifyin(g)â; that is, the rhetoricalpractice in Black English vernacular of repeating with a âsignal difference,â ora comment on the initial version that calls attention to the change.
Art Inspired by The French Revolution. There are hundreds of paintings, sketches, and comics influenced by the French Revolution and especially Napoleon Bonaparte. Many of the paintings were painted by one artist, in particular. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) was a neoclassical artist who was born in Paris, France.
French women played an important social and possibly political role in Benjamin Franklin's life during the Revolutionary War. By creating this site, I wish to acknowledge and honor some of those women who rejoiced in the American cause, supporting Franklin in his endeavors to achieve political goals.