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    great examples of hard bop. Clifford Brown is superb on trumpet‚ building clear‚ precise melody lines with such authority and control for a mere 24 year old. As many have observed‚ to get from Louis Armstrong to modern trumpeters‚ in addition to Miles Davis‚ Fats Navarro and Lee Morgan‚ you have to give very serious consideration to Clifford Brown. His solos‚ for example on Duke Jordan’s "Jordu" or on the three Clifford Brown originals‚ "Daahoud"‚ "The Blues Walk" and "Joy Spring"‚ now jazz standards

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    Battle of Fort Sumter Many threats were made after Lincoln’s election in November 1860 to Federal troops that guarded forts in the south. Confederate States have been seizing U.S arsenals‚ forts‚ and navy yards within their borders and as a precaution‚ General Robert Anderson asked for reinforcements to the War Department and and made a plan for some of his men to move to a more secure location close to Fort Moultrie; in this case‚ the unfinished Fort Sumter. Anderson put his plan into effect on

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    Frustration: Davis Contractors

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    CHAPTER 15 FRUSTRATION CONTENTS Introduction Frustrating events Limitations on the doctrine Effects of frustration: common law Effects of frustration: Law Reform (Frustrated Contracts) Act 1943 15.6 Relief in cases of hardship under the international contract law instruments 15.7 Additional reading 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 905 914 927 937 941 961 964 15.1 INTRODUCTION In this chapter we will be considering the doctrine of frustration. This concerns the situation where‚ following formation of a

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    Jazz is one of the most dynamic forms of music‚ having started in New Orleans with blues and ragtime around the 1900. Jazz was not heard at concerts around the nation. Jazz was heard in the small bars and “honky tonks” of the poor New Orleans neighborhoods. Now the idea of jazz being a secluded and limited from the rest of the nation and world is preposterous to musicians today because of the way Jazz has permeated our entire society. Jazz has changed so much since its inception and that is evident

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    Jazz Notes Exam #3 Chapter 9- The Bebop Revolution • Big Band music was on the decline at the end of WWII. • It was difficult to staff a 17 member big band • Due to the war and the economy Dance Halls began to close • A growing artistic unrest developed among some artists rejecting the commercial and repetitive big band arrangements • Bebop developed as a reaction to the swing era Bepop • Bebop‚ or bop is a style of jazz characterized by fast tempo‚ instrumental virtuosity and improvisation

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    unfair for the opposing team. They claimed the other team was able to hit the ball in a certain way for it to hit the wall and come back to them. Henry VIII of England was a big fan of this game‚ which historians now refer to as real tennis.[1] The Davis Cup‚ an annual competition between men’s national teams‚ dates to 1900.[2] The analogous competition for women’s national teams‚ the Fed Cup‚ was founded as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the ITF also

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    since no ship could be boarded in that manner according to the peculiar maritime rules" (Pg 9). Higham also lays down a background of future players that will be involved in the Lincoln assassination. Officials such as Confederate President Jefferson Davis‚ his Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin‚ and the Secretary of the Treasury Chris Memminger were planning to send a Confederate mission to British North America. The objective of the mission was to disrupt the loyal American states and enlist support

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    poem‚ “Fences‚” Troy is someone who doesn’t care what anyone says about him. He’s his own person and he likes to be open about his problems. I think that Troy is someone who is polite‚ nice‚ and somewhat thinks he knows it all. Troy doesn’t care if his wife‚ Rose‚ doesn’t want to hear about death. When Troy talked about death‚ he was telling his friend‚ Bono‚ and his wife‚ Rose‚ that everyone dies at some point in life. When Troy’s son‚ Lyons‚ comes over‚ he asks for money but Troy doesn’t want to

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    play has had many positive responses to blacks and whites in this society. It is about protagonist Troy Maxson as well as his african american family that is filled with drama and excitement. In Wilson’s Fences by Joseph Wessling he expresses‚ “Fences is about the always imperfect quest for true manhood. Troy’s father was less of a “true” man than Troy‚ but he was a hard worker and a provider. Troy‚ even as a runaway‚ carried with him his father’s virtues along with a considerable lessening of the

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    married her boyfriend at the young age of 18‚ or even the past buried rape of Louise in Texas. This film is about the long-term effects that violence can take and the way that it can overtake somebody’s life. As this film begins‚ Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) are preparing to leave on a weekend long trip. But they don’t realize that this trip will lead them onto a journey of self-discovery. They plan on just having a vacation together and getting away from their normal lives

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