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    Sonny's Blues

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    happened‚ and why characters acted the way they do. The exposition of the "Sonny’s Blues" starts when the narrator introduces characters‚ scene‚ and situation of the story. The narrator learns from a newspaper that his younger brother‚ Sonny‚ has been arrested "for peddling and using heroin." (Baldwin 83) The narrator is a high school teacher‚ and his wife is Isabel. Leaving the school‚ the narrator comes across an old friend of Sonny’s in the schoolyard. They talk about Sonny’s arrest and

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    Reservation Blues

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    Reservation Blues‚ a novel by Sherman Alexie‚ depicts the story of an unlikely group of Indians coming together to chase their dreams with the help of a magic guitar‚ Big Mom‚ and their Indian blood as they struggle with the realities of being Indian in a white world. The protagonist Thomas is the lead singer for their band‚ Coyote Springs‚ and a reservation outsider. Victor‚ Junior‚ Chess and Checkers are the other band members‚ each of them as unlikely to be in a band as Thomas. Reservation Blues sheds

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    the blue head

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    The Blue Bead N O R A H B U R K E From deep water came the crocodile. Out of black water‚ curved with whirlpools‚ and into the frill of gold shallows by the stepping-stones. He was twice the length of a tall man; and inside him‚ among the stones which he had swallowed to aid digestion‚ rolled a silver bracelet. Timber was being floated down this great Indian river from forests further up‚ and there were sleepers lying stuck around the stones until someone came to dislodge them and send

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    The History of Blues

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    The History of The Blues by Adam Keane While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity‚ the music itself goes far beyond self-pity. The blues is also about overcoming hard luck‚ saying what you feel‚ ridding yourself of frustration‚ letting your hair down‚ and simply having fun. The best blues is visceral‚ cathartic‚ and starkly emotional. From unbridled joy to deep sadness‚ no form of music communicates more genuine emotion. The blues has deep roots in American history‚ particularly

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    In Josef von Sternberg’s film Blue Angel‚ female sexuality is defined through the character Lola Lola. The lead female character is captured using select subject-camera distances that seem to make her appear powerful and in control. The medium shots of Professor Rath and the full shots of Lola Lola during the first “falling in love again” performance are used to compare the emotional male character to the empowered female character‚ and therefore illustrate the evolving sexual identity of women.

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    Jazz and Blues

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    Thesis Statement: Blues and Jazz are different in several major ways. I. Blues and Jazz are different in terms of feeling. A. By performing or listening to the Blues‚ one is able to overcome sadness. 1. Blues is based on the music of African-American playing to express longing for better life and lost loves‚ jobs‚ and money. 2. Because African-American‚ in the past‚ did not know about music theory‚ they played out of major scale notes‚ and therefore‚ makes the feeling of sadness

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    Sonny's Blues

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    February 16‚ 2013 English 120 SCNW Writing Assignment 1 “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin was about the arrest of the unnamed narrator brother Sonny for using and selling heroin. By that happening this causes the narrator to think back to their childhood‚ when Sonny was wild but he wasn’t crazy. Sonny’s brother (the narrator) who is a high school math teacher is sort of shell-shocked the whole day while he tries to teach his students. After Sonny’s brother is leaving work he runs into one

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    Blues and Music

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    music and dancing that inspired unrestrained dances. Again these dances and music now are ever so accepted within the American culture. Jazz was only a segment of it as later‚ other genre came into light such as rock-n-roll. A combination of blues music‚ and traditional pop (both vocal and instrumental) combined to bring us a new sound entitled Rock and Roll. The combination of the two was

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    The Blue Jar

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    The Blue Jar The Blue Jar contains a variety of important elements in terms of prose fiction. With a unique plot structure‚ manner of symbolism‚ theme‚ and depiction of characters‚ Dinesen develops an interesting work of fiction that seeks to instill certain ideals in the reader. The point of view is that of an omniscient narrator. The Blue Jar’s plot follows the track of exposition‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action in a unique manner with a “double plot” mechanism. Also‚ it isn’t solely

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    In “The Northwest London Blues‚” Zadie Smith conveys a strong stance against the closing of libraries. She believes libraries are more important than just the books read and implores the reader to defend their libraries. To bolster her argument‚ Smith deftly employs acknowledgement of counterarguments‚ word choice‚ and rhetorical questions to sway her readers. Smith effectively uses counterarguments to persuade her audience that libraries really do have a purpose. She concedes that she “would even

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