In the year 1959‚ Jazz innovator Miles Davis created a sound that would inspire generations of artists in Jazz‚ R&B‚ Rap‚ and Rock. Early that year‚ Davis had laid down the album Kind of Blue‚ a record that would be the foundation of modal jazz. As Davis’ best selling album‚ the record was a major hit with critics and listeners everywhere. Showcasing each songs complexity through soloing‚ Davis was able to entice educated listeners with the simplicity of the modes. The musicality behind Kind of
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The client was a resident of the Davis Child Shelter‚ her name was Resident S. The interview happened 8/7/15. Most of the residents went outside to play some basketball and football in the afternoon‚ and she was seeing at the steps alone‚ and looked distressed. I walked over to her‚ to see what was wrong. There was no previous interview‚ and before approaching Resident S‚ I was not sure about the readiness if she was willing to talk to me. I hoped that the last couple of weeks of building rapport
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years ago‚ Troy Davis‚ an African-American man from Georgia‚ was convicted of shooting and killing an off-duty police officer and sentenced to death. Several years later‚ seven out of nine eyewitnesses altered or completely recanted their stories (Troy). There was an obvious lack of evidence linking Davis to the crime. His legal team argued that he was just in the “wrong place at the wrong time” (Troy). The U.S. Supreme Court repeatedly ruled against Davis’ appeals for a new trial. Davis was ultimately
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Hi my names Mae and I am a black that wants freedom. It was back in the 19th century the Jim Crow Era the worst time ever for me at least. We the blacks had no rights well not a lot at least and I didn’t know why. When we walked the streets white people would give us looks. Like mean looks this didn’t bother me much not as much as the fact that they would beat us if we were bad or even if they didn’t like what we did. But sometimes they would hang our kind. Let me tell you something that was not
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Jim Morrison "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to letting a person be what he really is.... Most people love you for who you pretend to be.... To keep their love‚ you keep pretending performing. You get to love your pretense.... It’s true‚ we’re locked in an image‚ an act and the sad thing is
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The Serpent and the Rainbow. by Wade Davis( A Harvard scientist uncovers the startling truth about the secret world of Haitian voodoo and zombies.1985.) In The Serpent and the Rainbow: Author Wade Davis travels through Haiti in search of the way haitians are able to create zombies on there own‚ and a way to understand their culture as well. When Wade begins to receive more knowledge towards their culture and the term zombification‚ he also begins to see how deep the actual Haitian social justice
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs From the 1880s into the 1960s‚ a majority of American states enforced segregation through "Jim Crow" laws. From Delaware to California‚ and from North Dakota to Texas‚ many states could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated. The overall point of
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political gains for the “tough on crime” politicians. In a country with a population being 13% African American‚ an increasing rate of prisoners are African American women‚ which makes one half of the population in prison African American. Angela Davis argues in the book Are Prisons Obsolete? that African American incarceration rates can be linked to the “historical efforts to create a profitable punishment industry based on the new supply of ‘free’ black male laborers in the aftermath of the Civil
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Davis v. The Board of County Commissioners of Doña Ana County Case What was the legal issue in this case? The plaintiff‚ Davis is suing Dona Ana County. The plaintiff was a patient at Mesilla Valley Hospital (MVH) in their inpatient mental facility‚ while she was in their care one of the mental health technicians‚ Joseph Herrera sexually assaulted her. She is suing the County of Dona Ana‚ because Herrera used to be a detention sergeant for the county‚ while employed there he was found to have
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Dkendrick Black English 1302 Jane Nguyen 2/14/15 The Case For Legal Late Term Abortions The article‚ The Case For Late Term Abortions written by Jim Buie was appeared in Newsweek on June 17‚ 2009. In the article the author uses personal experiences‚ political and social/legal issues to support his stance on legal late term abortions. He begins his article by mentioning the murder of Dr. George Tiller a late term abortion doctor and his brother Jon who was mentally challenged. The author recounts
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