in Sonny’s Blues Sonny’s blues by James Baldwin is a story about the power of music and its effect on people and their very states of mind. Sonny will grow up and mature as a normal kid‚ but will then come to depend on his family and friends for guidance on his journey to become a musician in his own inner struggle brought upon him by his drug use. On his path he will discover that what he really wants is to be a jazz musician with the approval of his older brother. In Sonny’s Blues‚ the narrator
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Assumptions (A) Assumptions (B) E( If we use Assumptions (B)‚ we need to use the law of iterated expectations in proving the BLUE. With Assumptions (B)‚ the BLUE is given conditionally on Let us use Assumptions (A). The Gauss-Markov Theorem is stated below Under Assumptions (A)‚ the OLS estimators‚ are the Best Linear Unbiased Estimator (BLUE)‚ that is 1. Unbias : 2. Best : Real data seldomly satisfy Assumptions (A) or Assumptions (B). Accordingly we should think that the
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Cicely Wood English 101 – 004 1 December 2012 Red or Blue? There are some questions people come across in life that could change his or hers life forever. For example‚ in The Matrix Neo must chose to take the blue pill and live in an ignorant bliss‚ or take the red and find out the truth about the world he is living in. Most people are raised to believe certain things‚ meaning they believe in what ever their parents believe in‚ and their parents believe in what their parents believed in as well
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Refugee Blues – W.H. Auden ------------------------------------------------- Poet - Wynstan Hugh Auden‚ born as a doctor’s son in February 1907 in York‚ United Kingdom‚ counts as one of the greatest English poets of the twentieth century. Theme - abuse of human rights experienced not only by German Jews but by other Jews and by refugees anywhere. Structure - 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
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many other people‚ they have found football to be a hobby‚ something to do in there past time. They have formed habits around watching the game. In the movie "Varsity Blues‚" football isn’t just a past time for the town‚ but it is a way of life‚ the whole town is involved in the high school football team. "Varsity Blues" takes place in a small town in Texas called West Canyon‚ in this town if you are a healthy boy‚ then you are a football player. Young males have tons of pressure from their
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In this poem‚ the writer uses regular verse and traditional pattern of rhythm and rhyme to give impact to his unexpected imagery of the end of a relationship when he cuts himself off from the rest of the his life because his grief is too much. To describe the incredible pain and isolation of when someone you love leaves you and the way time seems insignificant‚ the writer starts the poem by reiterating the title‚ creating emphasis by his use of assonance of the monosyllables: Stop all the clocks
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The Blue Bouquet Millions of people around the word have been in a situation that has transitioned them from innocence to experience. In this story a boy wakes up to go for a walk outside‚ after not listening to the boardinghouse owner‚ and ended up going through a horrible experience. He transitioned from feeling safe in his little town‚ to feeling a sense of horror. In “The Blue Bouquet” by Octavio Paz‚ readers must realize that people go through lots of experiences in their life time‚ good
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How does Baldwin’s real-life experience connect to his short story‚ "Sonny’s Blues"? The writer was a poor boy growing up. He was also a Negro‚ so things were bad for him and his family in white America. He probably felt sad every day of his childhood so he turned to books for entertainment and maybe escape. When he started reading‚ he found that he liked it and wanted to create stories for other people to enjoy‚ but he was a poor Negro boy who could not expect help from the whites‚ so he taught
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In Reservation Blues‚ Sherman Alexie extensively uses dreams to portray the relationship between white people and Native Americans. The dreams depict a constant struggle between the two societies‚ as well as a gradual extinction of the Indian culture. A complete picture of the Native American way of life could be seen from examining these dreamsand its not a pretty one. None of the dreams are positive or reveal anything good about the Indian way of life. If anything‚ Sherman Alexie tries to show
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off course. Most of these ships were recovered‚ but one such ship drifted so off course that it could not be recovered. The name of the ship was the Blue Raccoon. The number of passengers was twenty. It went off course while going on‚ what should have been‚ a routine trip to mars. On the way it when off course. Over the next Twenty million years the Blue Raccoon drifted through the cosmos‚ until it came upon a planet. This planet was green and had life‚ much like early earth. This planet long forgotten
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