jazz trumpeter Miles Davis laid down the foundation for a whole new style of jazz music. Through his "Kind of Blue"� modal jazz was born. This record became a classic‚ at times showing its complexity through the soloing‚ but also allowing the educated listener to revel in the simplicity of the modes. Davis planted the seeds for this new style in his album "Milestones"� but "Kind of Blue"� showed that the style had matured and was more developed. From the introductory piano/bass duet to the final
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Gertrude “Ma” Rainey‚ when described in Blue Legacies and Black Feminism‚ was seen by Angela Davis as one of the greatest feminist blues musicians of her time. One view that Ma Rainey presented in her songs was her ideas on marriage. Specifically‚ Rainey feels that getting married shouldn’t be valued over “non or extramarital relationships (pg 16- 20). She feels that‚ while marriage isn’t a bad thing‚ overvaluing it to the point of presenting it as a need for women to have is a bad thing (pg 16-
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Rhythm and Blues What is Rhythm and Blues? Rhythm and Blues‚ or R and B‚ can be used to describe the stylish urban music that grew out of the urbanization of the blues. It is a form of popular music based on a mixture of blues and black folk music. Its melody is simple‚ but has strong repetitious rhythms. It has been influenced by jazz‚ jump music‚ as well as by black gospel music. R and B got its roots from the blues‚ and took upon some of the blues principles such as‚ the
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Comparative Essay – “How does the writer present fear in Out of the Blue and Belfast Confetti”? In both Out of the Blue by Simon Armitage and Belfast Confetti by Ciaran Carson‚ the poets both present fear through a number of techniques. Both describe a city and its civilians under attack‚ exposing the impacts of terrorism on its victims. They are similarly written in a free-verse structure‚ which clearly illustrates the exposed and fearful state in which the ‘narrators’ are left in. In Belfast
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Gracie Ferraco English 114- section 03 Schwartz March 14‚ 2013 Prompt # 2‚ Essay # 3 In Sonny’s Blues the theme‚ symbols‚ characters‚ and motifs all combine together to create a literary masterpiece that describes the importance of unity amongst family and the turbulent life of African-Americans living in Harlem‚ New York in the 1950’s. This story is written in a chronological thought process of experiences the narrator has seen while growing up and the memories of his family
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Creates EA and SOA Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield Creates Enterprise Architecture and SOA Solution to Consolidate Disparate IT Systems Executive Overview When several Blue Cross Blue Shield programs in upstate New York merged‚ each organization brought its own business processes and IT systems to the new entity. Because they were so different‚ yet had to be consolidated‚ the new entity‚ Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield‚ wanted to first implement a strong business analysis process to clearly identify
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Managerial Marketing Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim The second part describes the four principles of blue ocean strategy formulation: how to create uncontested market space by reconstructing market boundaries‚ focusing on the big picture‚ reaching beyond existing demand and getting the strategic sequence right. These four formulation principles address how an organization can create blue oceans by looking across the six conventional boundaries of competition (Six Paths Framework)
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Blue‚ the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania [PA] reversed the decision of the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas that had entered an order requiring a father to contribute $4‚600 a year towards his son’s college expenses. In addition to the award of support‚ the trial court had mandated that the son apply for financial aid to compensate for the difference in the tuition costs. The Court recognized in Blue that even though it was not a typical issue of
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Owen’s distinctive idea and focuses on the impact that the war had on the individual soldiers and their lives. Two of Wilfred Owen’s poems that explore the horrific experiences and the physical and mental impacts of the war are “Mental Cases” and “Disabled”. “Mental Cases” is a series of graphic descriptions of young men who are being treated in hospital for shell shock and war-related mental illnesses. The soldiers who Owen describes are returned home to face a lifetime of nightmares‚ unable to
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Conventional competitive strategy suggests that the company has to strive to outpace the rivals by offering a better solution to the existing problem. Blue Ocean strategy aims at redefining the problem itself. Whereas‚ Blue Ocean strategy encourages the companies to fetch away the red ocean competition via creation of an unoccupied niche where there is no threat to be defeated by competitors. It offers a company to reject the satisfaction
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