The Giver is a highly influential book written bu Lois Lowry. It is science fiction‚ with a theme of the past and connection. In a world where there are no feelings‚ no choice and no pain‚ the main character Jonas who is twelve struggles to find his place in the small community. He was "assigned" the job as Receiver of Memory. (yes‚ jobs were chosen) Unaware of what dark secrets lie beneath his perfect utopia of a world‚ he is suddenly plunged into the past‚ exposed to all the memories‚ back and
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The blues were consequentially “about heartbreak‚ loneliness‚ sadness‚ and the trials and troubles of daily life” (“History and Influence”). The genre of blues was essential in helping African Americans cope with their disadvantaged lives. Wining Boy illustrates the significance of the blues coping mechanism with the loss of his most cherished woman‚ Cleotha. A major aspect of the play involves strife
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The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes is an influential protest poem that depicts a man in a blues bar‚ who is playing away at the piano‚ singing the blues. The poem was obviously developed at the time of the Harlem Renaissance and was published in 1923. The weary blues won multiple awards due to its influential style of writing. The Weary Blues was publish in a place called Harlem‚ which was filled with musical and artistic potential. At the time of the Harlem Renaissance‚ the musical genre known
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the devil in disguise. FEELING THE BLUES If the skies are shining a dark shade of blue‚ perhaps I’m feeling the blues. I’m drowning in my own mischief. I lay in the midst of a shadowy field‚ filled with bugs that light and dance. I stare at the sky‚ a mirror‚ looking into the unknown. My heart feels the blues. Blues of a star-lit night sky. The blue shines above me‚ I’ll count each star. I’m a man of the blues. I’m the mad man who talks to the moon
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“Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville and “Hum” by Naomi Shihab Nye both illustrate the uselessness of judging a book by its cover. In the short story “Am I Blue?” by Bruce Coville‚ Vince‚ the main character‚ discovers that people are not always what them seem. In this story Vince‚ who is questioning his sexuality‚ is the main target for harassment because his classmates think he is gay. When Vince receives his very own fairy godfather‚ he makes a wish that turns everyone who is gay the color blue. Vince
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LADY SINGS THE BLUES What is a song but a poem set to music? Take away the music from a good song and the rhythm of the words will create its own musical sound. "Songs For a Colored Singer"‚ a poem written by Elizabeth Bishop‚ is a song without the music. Bishop’s use of repetitive rhymes creates the lyrical‚ song like‚ structure to her poem. The voice of the song belongs to a black woman who encounters adversity throughout the poem. The sum of the elements‚ a black woman singing about hard times
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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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Blues is the root of modern pop music. Blues is after the civil war‚ by American black Africans in poor underlying life creates music. In the process of development‚ as the change of black life circumstances and the thought emotion‚ it has experienced the change of different style. Its on the development of contemporary pop music in the world is produced an indelible effect. In this paper‚ the development course of Blues‚ to explore the impact of its pop music to the world. Blues music is
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The Gospel of the Blues By: Nikita Gabrielle Taggart Nikita Taggart MUS 426 Dr. Lewis 5/1/14 Have you ever gone out on a Saturday night to hear someone sing the blues? In the same respect‚ gone to a church the next morning and heard a gospel soloist? If not‚ one might think that these two musical expressions have nothing in common with one another. However‚ by listening to the motivic development‚ form‚ and studying their histories‚ one will come to learn how similar
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The Mississippi Delta stretches from Memphis‚ Tennessee to Vicksburg‚ Mississippi and from Helena‚ Arkansas to the Yazoo River. The Blues is a crucial part of the history in music. The “Blues is both music and the culture that produced it” * * * Listening to Mrs. Robbins and viewing Jacob Lawrence’s paintings gave me a better understanding of Jacob Lawrence as a painter. Mrs. Robbins explained how his parents moved and divorced in his childhood‚ and how he fell in love with color through the paintings
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