MISSOURI CAREER CENTER JOPLIN

career center

The Career Center is a high school located in Winston-Salem, NC. It offers an extension to the regular high school program.
The UI’s job placement center.

missouri

A major river in North America, one of the main tributaries of the Mississippi River. It rises in the Rocky Mountains in Montana and flows 2,315 miles (3,736 km) to meet the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis
A state in the central part of the US, bounded on the east by the Mississippi River; pop. 5,595,211; capital, Jefferson City; statehood, Aug. 10, 1821 (24). It was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and admitted as a state as part of the Missouri Compromise
a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis; “The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world”
a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri

joplin

An industrial and commercial city in southwestern Missouri; pop. 45,504
United States composer who was the first creator of ragtime to write down his compositions (1868-1917)
United States singer who died of a drug overdose at the height of her popularity (1943-1970)
(in  Scott Joplin (American composer and musician))

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Joplin 5:41 – When a Monster Storm Shattered a Missouri Town but Didn't Break Its Spirit

Kansas City Star Books presents the incredible story of tragedy and courage in the face of one of nature’s mightiest storms in its new book, Joplin 5:41 – When a Monster Storm Shattered a Missouri Town but Didn’t Break Its Spirit. This hard-cover book collects the detailed coverage by The Kansas City Star of the storm, its cruel effect, the city’s courageous response and the recovery that now goes on. Featuring extraordinary images, compelling graphics and the detailed work of The Star’s reporting staff, the book seeks not just to chronicle the destruction but to celebrate the heroic efforts of Joplin’s citizenry and the thousands of volunteers who rushed in to begin the healing. All royalties from the book go to the Joplin Recovery Fund managed by the Community Fund of the Ozarks and the Community Fund of Southwest Missouri.

Langston Hughes

Former home of poet Langston Hughes 1749 S St. NW

Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, and newspaper columnist.

Hughes was born James Mercer Langston Hughes in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Carrie Langston Hughes, a teacher, and her husband, James Hughes. After a divorce, James Hughes left the United States for Mexico due to enduring racism.

In Langston Hughes: An Introduction to the Poetry by Onwuchekwa Jemie, Hughes is quoted as saying his father, a black man, "despised Negroes." This distant relationship with his father heavily influenced his work. After the separation of his parents, young Langston was raised mainly by his grandmother Mary Langston, a longtime activist. He spent most of childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, and he began to write poetry when he was 13. His childhood was not a happy one, but it was one that heavily influenced the poet he would become. He lived with his by-then-remarried mother as an adolescent in Lincoln, Illinois; it was there that he discovered his love of books. Upon graduating from high school in 1919, Hughes spent a year in Mexico with his father, but he was unhappy there and often contemplated suicide. Hughes soon spent a year attending Columbia University, where he studied engineering. He then left school and joined the Navy as a ship’s steward, traveling to West and Central Africa and Europe. In New York City on May 22, 1967, Hughes died from complications after abdominal surgery related to prostate cancer at the age of 65.

On the issue of the sexual orientation of Hughes, academics and biographers generally agree that Hughes was gay and included gay codes into many of his poems similar in manner to Walt Whitman and most patently in his short story, Blessed Assurance. The main biographer of Hughes determined that Hughes exhibited a preference for other African American men in his work and life.

As Hughes got better at poetry, his father got more and more disappointed. His father didn’t think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son’s tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry.

Like many writers of the post-WWI era, such as Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein, Hughes spent time in Paris during the early 1920s, and became part of the community in Paris known as the "Lost Generation." For most of 1924 he lived at 15 Rue de Nollet. In November 1924 Hughes moved to Washington D.C. His first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published in 1926. In 1929 he graduated from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, a historically Black institution. In 1930, his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes was influenced by other American poets, namely Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. From the 1920s to the 1960s, Hughes wrote works that showed an insightful view into the lives of blacks in America.

Hughes received a B.A. degree from Lincoln University in 1929, and was awarded a Lit.D. in 1943. He taught at a number of colleges. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, poetry, operas, essays, works for children, and two autobiographies, as well as translating several works of literature into English. Much of his writing was inspired by the blues and jazz of that era; an example is "Harlem" (sometimes called "Dream Deferred") from Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951), from which a line was taken for the title of the play Raisin in the Sun.

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

Hughes’ life and work were enormously influential for the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. His poetry and fiction centered on the lives of blacks in America, lives he portrayed as full of struggle, joy, laughter, and music. Much of Hughes’ poetry tries to capture the rhythms of blues music, the music he believed to be the true expression of the black spirit. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1935. In 1960, the NAACP awarded Hughes the Spingarn Medal for distinguished achievements by an African American. Hughes was inducted into the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1961. In 1973, the first Langston Hughes Medal was awarded by the City College of New York.

Hughes, like many black writers and artists of his time, was drawn to the promise of Communism as an alternative to a segregated America. Many of his lesser-known political writings have recently been collected in two volumes published by the University of Missouri Press. Hughes traveled extensively to the Soviet Union, including parts usually closed to Westerner

Missouri

The last Federal Barge Line color Scheme and this representation of the Missouri was taken from a photo that was made for a sale brouchure.
Built by St Louisbuilding in 1956 for Federal Barge Lines.
Repowered 1973 5600 hp EMD 12-645E3 diesels
162 x 45 x 10 feet
Kort Nozzles.

missouri career center joplin

A collection of never-before-heard studio outtakes, live recordings, and other rarities, The Pearl Sessions documents the legacy of Janis Joplin’s masterpiece album. In 1971, the posthumous release of Pearl topped the charts, yielding the hit single “Me and Bobby McGee” and going on to sell nearly 8 million copies.

For the first time in one package, the original mono versions of the album’s 45s can be heard alongside the original LP tracks, as well as intriguing newlydiscovered alternate versions, outtakes and vocal takes of Pearl classics. With this exciting discovery of previously uncatalogued tapes, listeners can hear Janis in the studio, joking with producer Paul Rothchild (the Doors) and Full Tilt Boogie band mates, and working through what would become some of her best known songs.

Joplin’s way-too-short life is memorialized perfectly with this upbeat expression of joy she found in the studio: her singular, impassioned vocals,boundless energy, and the greatest music of her career.