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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Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is a well-written book. It is well-written because it uses precise vocabulary. The book includes sentence structure that varies. Also‚ word order helps make the story flow. There is music in language which creates emphasis on the subject matter. It has compelling details. Also‚ it avoids condescension and didacticism. Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is a well-illustrated book. It is done in cartoon art style. The illustrations help in establish the setting of the story.
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Character Analysis “Sonny’s Blues” In “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin‚ the Narrator shows his biases and opinions about “Sonny” his brother‚ his career choices and how his views change towards him and his music. The Narrator‚ and his brother “Sonny” was born and raised in Harlem in the 1950’s. During those times drugs and crime were all the streets can offer. Their parents died and their mom left the Narrator to raise his brother to look after him she said “You got to hold on to your brother
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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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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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In James Baldwin’s "Sonny’s Blues" the symbolic motif of light and darkness illustrates the painful nature of reality the two characters face as well as the power gained through it. The darkness represents the actuality of life on the streets of the community of Harlem‚ where there is little escape from the reality of drugs and crime. The persistent nature of the streets lures adolescents to use drugs as a means of escaping the darkness of their lives. The main character‚ Sonny‚ a struggling jazz
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anyone can do to get you over this silent pain you are going through. Counseling could be one way of coping with this loss and trying to fill this void in ones life. Anti-depressants is another alternative. The best way I have found to beat the blues in combination of the above‚if that is needed‚ is to bring yourself back to something you love to do. Be it listening to music‚ writing memoirs‚ singing‚ going out to a comedy. Just get yourself involved and loose yourself in your favorite past time
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BLUE BRAIN Paper Presentation ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATION Advantages: 1. We can remember things without any effort. 2. Decision can be made without the presence of a person. 3. Even after the death of a man his intelligence can be used. 4. The activity of different animals can be understood. That means by interpretation of the electric impulses from the brain of the animals‚ their thinking can be understood easily. 5. It would allow the deaf to hear via direct nerve stimulation
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Alli Dippel 1-23-13 English 10 3rd hour A Patch Of Blue By: Elizabeth Kata 142 pages The story takes place in the 1960’s in Los Angeles. It is urban taking place in a city. The story takes place about two weeks. The point of view is told in a third person. The story begins with telling about the main character‚ Selina‚ she is a 18 year old blind. She is blind because when she was about five her father came home from the army unexpectedly‚ he caught Selina mom Rose- Ann with another
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exciting. But believe it or not‚ without the simple twelve-bar forms and walking bass lines of blues music there would be no Jimi Hendrix or Led Zeppelin. Rock was born from blues‚ and the key components of the blues can still be found in rock‚ like the instrumentation‚ musical form‚ and purpose. Blues music really gained popularity in the 1930s and 40s‚ but it’s a combination of things much older than this. Blues emerged in the late 1800s as a distinct African American art form. The genre was impacted
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