1920s-1940s music compared to Today

Today, music can really only be compared and contrasted to the music made during the 1920s through the 1940s. Back in the 20s-40s, race problems existed even more often than today. People, especially African Americans had to deal with hate and segregation. They knew white people only considered them to be separate and not equal. During the 20s to the 40s, jazz and blues were very popular. African Americans expressed their feelings towards their life and the lives of others. Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, an African American jazz trumpeter and singer, made the song "Black and Blue." The song was about white people calling him different, as if he was not like them, because of the color of his skin. His lyric, for example, says "My only sin, is in my skin."
Music from the present can still express feelings about life, but not as much about racial issues. The music i listen to, can usually either be about succeeding when people said they would not, or even about how their life was in the past.

Acts of Imperialism Today

   Imperialism today can be different and as similar as it was in the past. Imperialism can also be either legal or illegal in present times. Ways that imperialism can be legal is if businesses can find a way to make way more money than other companies if they succeed which shows that they overpower others and can make the companies go out of business. Ways that it could be illegal is by bullying other kids smaller than you with force, or being racist towards others which brings them down.
   Imperialism can be different from the past. In the past, there was not as destructive weapons to show strength over a country. Today, if a country were to threaten another country, using imperialism, the two countries could easily go to war and cause mass destruction because of all the advanced weaponry such as bombs.
   Ultimately, imperialism, today, is different and similar to the past by ways of expanding and over powering others.