In early 1959‚ jazz trumpeter Miles Davis laid down the foundation for a whole new style of jazz music. Through his "Kind of Blue"� modal jazz was born. This record became a classic‚ at times showing its complexity through the soloing‚ but also allowing the educated listener to revel in the simplicity of the modes. Davis planted the seeds for this new style in his album "Milestones"� but "Kind of Blue"� showed that the style had matured and was more developed. From the introductory piano/bass duet
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titled ““Building a mystery”: Alternative research writing and the Academic Act of Seeking” by Robert Davis and Mark Shadle‚ research writing is explained how it is important and why it can be disrespected. Davis and Shadle use ways of reaching out to the reader and also use different points of view. To explain each point of view they include passages from different researchers and writers. Davis and Shadle state‚ “In this essay‚ we will present a series of alternatives to the modernist research
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heard of the Tuskegee Airmen you would know who Benjamin O. Davis JR is. If not‚ then you have missed out on learning who a man who can face discrimination and segregation almost all his life and still become the leader of an aviation unit. He truly was an illustrious leader of the Tuskegee airmen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. was the best leader of the Tuskegee airmen because of his childhood‚ military career‚ and leaderships skills. Benjamin O. Davis JR experience with planes as a kid is what started his
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The book Where things come back by John Corey Whaley is a book about how everything seems to go down at some point‚ but all ended up coming into the right place at the end. The story starts off in a small town called Lily—a small town in Arkansan. Cullen Witter’s cousin Oslo died; his aunt went crazy while Cullen finished his last year of high school. After school‚ he went on a date with a girl his best friend Lucas Cader had to introduce him to—Alma‚ who had a failed marriage and came back to her
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2.2.1 TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL (TAM) In 1986‚ Davis Jr (1986) established a model called TAM that explains users’ acceptance and use technology. Since then it became a one of the most established models for technology acceptance. It specifies main factors of technology acceptance. This makes useful in explaining or predicting a person behavior across a various collection of end-user computing technologies and user groups. TAM advocates that when a new technology is presented to users‚ numerous
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In Kentucky‚ county clerk Kim Davis would not give same-sex couples marriage licenses on the basis of the fact that it was against her religious beliefs. This story has caught headlines all over and drawn attention from celebrities‚ politicians‚ among others‚ in particular‚ Time Magazine posted an article on September 7th‚ 2015. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar‚ in his article “Kim Davis Is Not a Patriot‚” uses pathos and logos to successfully convince his audience that Kim Davis should not be heralded as a patriot
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First stanza takes on more of a somber mood. Death equals loss. Catherine Davis villanelle piece reflect upon how we all generally deal or except death when it comes. She sets off her tone/response with the first two lines in the first stanza with an absolute statement that‚ “After a time‚ all losses are the same”‚ which she implies that no matter the type of loss‚ time is the ultimate healer. Although through the next line Davis takes on more of a pessimistic‚ but realistic view on when we lose something
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composer is Miles Davis and it was composed in 1959. the style of the piece is Jazz and another example of Jazz is Louis Armstrong (trumpet/cornet/voice) Terrible Blues with his band the Red Onion Jazz Babies. Background Miles Davis was born in Illinois in May 1926. He knew from a very young early age that he wanted to be a musician. He started learning the trumpet at a young age‚ looking up to his heroes Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Charlie Parker‚ eventually took Davis on as his ‘sideman’
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Davis V. the Board of County Commissioners of Doña Ana County In this paper I will discuss the case of Davis v. the Board of County Commissioners of Doña Ana County. In this case Joseph Herrera an employee at the detention center was accused of sexually harassing the female inmates. Herrera’s supervisor at MVH where he was employed‚ advise Herrera that they will taking actions to discipline him due to the complaints and Herrera resigns. Herrera asks his employers to give him a letter of recommendation
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“Break it Down” In the short story “Break it Down”‚ by Lydia Davis the narrator is obsessively trying to calculate eight days of love‚ in which he spent approximately $800. In the process of evaluating the cost‚ he breaks down the love affair‚ but soon it is clear that he is trying to specify a love affair‚ to make sense of something that is gone. The narrator takes on the subject of failed love and lovers’ pain‚ showing the ways in which the mourning-self wrestles with the instincts to express
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