Ross Lodge Wheeler English 1302.004 3 October 2014 Varsity Blues In the movie “Varsity Blues‚” not everyone can appreciate what a small town Friday night feels like. Living life underneath a microscope. The whole town in the stands. You can practically fell them breathing down your neck criticizing every move‚ every play the team makes. That’s what it felt like for the boys from West Canan. No matter how tough things get you can always stand up for yourself‚ friends‚ and family. Growing
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“Refugee Blues” by WH Auden‚ is a ballad and‚ as such‚ has a sense of musicality that is created by both its structure and the repetition of certain phrases. The poem contains twelve stanzas of three lines each. The first and second line of each stanza rhyme. The two rhyming lines of each stanza tell the story‚ while the third line contains a repeated phrase (like a chorus) that develops the theme of the poem. For example‚ the first stanza ends: “yet there’s no place for us‚ my dear‚ yet there’s
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3 July 2013 A New Jazz “Post-war America‚ Jazz and Heroin” by Zenga Longmore and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” Life after the Second World War changed for many‚ including the previously jolly jazzmen in Harlem. Whether through conspiracy‚ a search to remedy the anxieties of a ‘struggling for image’ musician‚ or just something that was pressed as a requirement to belong‚ heroin certainly made its bleak presence known. Trumpeter Red Rodney once said‚ “Heroin became the thing that made
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pick my sorry self off the ground and hobble back to my nest‚ and from that day forward I swore to myself that I would find these men and take my revenge. The months and years passed without a single hint of who the man was. Then one day out of the blue I saw the man’s face. Oh how I remember that wretched face‚ the missing ear‚ the hole in his check and the mis-colored eyes. He had a face that only a mother could love. I then followed him back to where he stayed hoping he was still with the old man
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Sita Sings the Blues: Four Connecting Movies in One Sita Sings the Blues is an animated version of the epic Indian tale “Ramayana”. The movie was released on February 11‚ 2008 and directed‚ produced‚ and written by Nina Paley. Sita Sings the Blues uses images and art covering two thousand years of history and culture. The movie is not just an average movie with one plot‚ but‚ instead‚ it is four stories each connecting and showing how ideals about gender roles have changed over time. Paley uses
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The Great Gatsby The Jazz Age In 1920‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald said that "An author ought to write for the youth of his generation‚ the critics of the next‚ and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards." Fitzgerald wrote about what he saw during the 1920 ’s‚ which he dubbed "The Jazz Age‚" and The Great Gatsby is considered a correct depiction of that era. After World War I‚ many Americans felt a distrust toward foreigners and radicals because they held them responsible for the war. These beliefs
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Benny Goodman really drew my attention after watching the film about him in Jazz class a few weeks ago. I was very surprised to see that his instrument of choice was the clarinet. I didn’t think the clarinet t was that influential in the musical world until I learned more about Benny. From the film I learned about how his father wanted his children to pick up music because he wanted them to make a career out of something they loved. Benny’s father was a tailor and according to the film he wasn’t
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don’t know how to say this because I have zero experience in this kind of thing whatsoever‚ but I have had the biggest crush on you since like a week into me working here. Right away I thought you were super handsome and sort of funny and your laugh is like the best thing ever‚ but I was fine until you started teasing me about tripping on the mats. Since then as I’ve gotten to know you I’ve tried to think up flaws and reason why no; I don’t have a huge crush on him he drives me nuts. As I’ve gotten
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The music of the early 20th century was heavily jazz and blues. The bases of jazz music were influenced by the field hollers‚ hymns‚ and work songs from African Americans in the 1800s. Until 1901‚ improvisation‚ the style of Dixieland‚ created the genre of jazz‚ where every performer is playing different rhythms and tunes at the same time. Cornet player‚ Louis Armstrong‚ changed the Dixieland style and gave the idea for players to perform separate solos at different times. In the 1930s‚ Swing was
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THE NATIONAL JAZZ HALL OF FAME Pan-Europa‚ the company discussed in this case‚ is a multinational company producing ice cream‚ yogurt‚ bottled water‚ and fruit juices. The company’s sales have been static for the past two years which‚ the management attributes to low population growth is their target market area‚ as well as market saturation is certain regions while the outside observers attribute it to their lack of introducing new product. The company has relied heavily on debt financing so far
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