Born in Washington D.C. on April 29‚ 1899‚ Duke Ellington was an American composer‚ pianist‚ and bandleader who gained fame by performing with his orchestra both in the Cotton Club in Harlem and in Europe. Regarded as a major figure in the development of jazz‚ Ellington identified his music as American music and adopted the phrase of his colleague Billy Strayhorn “beyond category” as a principle. Ellington started taking piano lessons locally at the age of seven and his mother insisted that he be
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I am writing to request that you chose Paul Rowe as a recipient of an “Unsung Hero Award”. As a student of Mr. Rowe I look to him for inspiration and as someone I can trust. As a Music Education teacher‚ professional trumpet player‚ and conductor‚ Mr. Rowe shows leadership as well as an inspiration to others. No matter what the circumstance is‚ he always finds a way to push forward. Mr. Rowe is a symbol of an ideal hero. To start off with‚ Mr. Rowe struggled at a young age. With the mom working
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The documentary‚ Waiting for Superman‚ is a look at the problems with America’s public school system. After watching to film I was shocked and frustrated. It is difficult for me to imagine that people who have chosen to become teachers would ever refuse to reform a system that is not functioning in the best interest of the children for whom the system was developed to serve. I am a very direct thinking person‚ when a problem is explained to me I immediately think about solutions. This film
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Charlie Parker‚ an American musician‚ once said‚ “Don’t play the saxophone. Let it play you.” Saxophone is an instrument that was very recently created by Adolphe Sax in 1840. It has a lot of influence on the music we listen to today‚ with its smooth‚ buttery‚ voice-like sound. Many genres of music utilize the velvety tone of all different kinds of saxophones. Saxophone is an instrument that has had a major influence on both music from 200 years ago to modern music now. The creation of the saxophone
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Bud Powell falls into the category of the jazz style of bebop. This style began in the 1940s and was something totally unexpected. It had really fast tempos‚ which were unusual for jazz at the time.”This was not dance music‚ and it was never really intended to be popular. It was jazz for the artists themselves and for the true jazz lovers.”(Hopkins Lesson 7). But become popular it did. Not only that but it “established the primacy of virtuosic solo improvisation” (Hopkins Lesson 7). In this sense
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equality for all‚ I would want to travel to this period in history to be able to meet Angela Davis and Gloria Steinem. These two women were huge advocates for Women’s Liberation and I would like to talk to them in order to truly get a sense of what it was like to be a part of the movement that redefined the concept of being a woman in the United States.
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This documentary‚ directed by teen filmmaker Kiri Davis explores the many stereotypes associated with African American women and children. Per society‚ African American women‚ are not smart‚ must have a big butt‚ and if you are not lite-skin you are not pretty. Davis‚ asks her peers to discuss what the standards are for “a girl like me”. Most of the girls believe if they have blonde permed hair their better‚ never want to marry a darker male‚ or that having natural hair makes them African
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Stephen Gill ’s Immigrant : A Study In Diasporic Consciousness Nilofar Akhtar The phenomena of Diaspora and expatriation are by all means an old one. However‚ its impact in the present times is larger and deeper. It has become a contemporary social trait and also‚ a literary genre. The growing incidence of the Diaspora has given place to dislocation‚ disintegration‚ dispossession and disbelongingness. The experience of expatriation not only gradually disconnects the individual from his
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The following report presents the detailed statistical analysis of the data collected from a sample of credit customers in the department chain store AJ DAVIS. The 1st individual variable considered is Location. It is a qualitative variable. The three subcategories are Urban‚ Suburban and Rural. Since this is a qualitative variable‚ the measures of central tendency and descriptive statistics has not been computed for this variable. The frequency distribution and pie chart are given as follows:
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Alicia Rush Don Godfrey ENGL 1510 “A Dark Brown Dog” Analysis In Stephen Crane’s short story of “A Dark Brown Dog”‚ he writes about a young boy who finds‚ neglects‚ and befriends a ragged puppy‚ with a rope dragging the ground‚ when they meet. The boy takes fun in abusing the puppy‚ but when he tires of this he makes his way home. The puppy‚ even though the boy was not nice‚ starts to follows the boy home. When arriving home the boy defends the puppy to claiming him as his own. The boy’s father
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