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Jazz as Modernism

Jazz breaks free of restrictions of form and structure, melody and harmony. Jazz allows composers to take "freer liberties with a ...

Herbie Hancock

years playing with the Miles Davis quintet and Davis was a tremendous influence for him (Murph 54). Herbie once observed that Dav...

Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

musicians fellow players gave quiet murmurs of approval or even whooped their appreciation at especially brilliant improvisation (...

Criss Cross Album of Jazz Legend Thelonious Monk

for Columbia in the 1960s have generally been considered to be somewhat of a disappointment when compared to his early work for Bl...

Overview of the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago

company (which took on the name Gus Giordano Dance Company) was televised live frequently on WTTW-TV, which was Chicagos public te...

Female Trendsetters During the Heyday of Jazz and Big Band

This paper addresses issues of racism and sexism faced by female musicians during the nineteen-thirties and nineteen-forties. Thi...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

Renaissance Art

during this period that Europe began to recover from the repercussions of the Black Death, as well as rampant political disorder a...

Ageism In America

Age discrimination has become more than a minor inconvenience throughout the twentieth century (Rupp et al, 2006); indeed, the iss...

In What Ways Is Reading Literary Works of Another Age Of Value To Understanding History And To Understanding One's Place In History?

age help to dispel myths and mistruths about the past that have erroneously been passed on as fact. Sometimes history is portraye...

The Impact Of Culture On The Experience Of Aging

of the elderly - especially when culturally and institutionally coerced - is not necessarily accompanied by affection...In the pas...

Human Mate Selection

often precluding what others believe to be more valuable and essential characteristics. The American culture panders to popular c...

Growth In Later Adulthood

the meaning of life" (Your text, p. 515). The very old knows about the uncertainties in life and they have lived through many of l...

Aging Nursing Population/Healthcare

the question of what effect an aging nursing work force has on American healthcare in general. First and foremost, the aging of ...

The World is Getting Fatter

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

Impact of Persistent Diseases

As we live longer, we are subject to acquiring one or more chronic illnesses, some of which come with advancing age. Older age ran...

USPS Analysis

This report discusses a number of issues about the post office. It begins by identifying the two Congressional Acts that establish...

Old Age Conceptual Understanding

In eight pages this paper attempts to understand the concept of 'old age' and the current lack of respect being accorded senior ci...

Public Documents in the Digital Age

In eight pages this paper examines digitalizing public documents to preserve them for future generations. Seven sources are cited...

Argument in Favor of Lowering the Legal Drinking Age to Eighteen

such. One problem is that the state has arbitrarily set the legal age, creating problems on college campuses. Some students grad...

Changes in Lean Body Mass as a Result of Aging

Service. This inactivity is a major contributor to an increasing incidence of obesity, heart disease, hypertension and a host of o...

Aircraft and Aging Wiring Problems

to increase. One of the failures that has gained attention in the recent years has been that of the problem of ageing wirin...

A Reivew of Chapter 5 Age of Conflict by Leslie Derfler

sheer determination and power that these people possessed in their attempts to essentially control anything and everything they co...

The Necessity of Firewalls in the Information Age

any given companys entire computer system with the intent to destroy data is more than enough reason to augment security measures....

Victorian Age and Changing Women's Roles

The underclass practically disappeared (1995). While this is the case, one has to understand how gender played a part in comprehe...

'Indian Camp' by Ernest Hemingway and the Theme of Coming of Age

may have relevance to the overall plot. What seem to exude from this short story are the elements of pain and fear....

Book Review of Stephen Humphries' Between Memory and Desire The Middle East in a Troubled Age

A review of this text on the Middle East is presented in five pages. There are no other sources cited....

Atlantic Revolutions and the Age of Discovery

and social mores, each influencing the other (Rosa, 1998). Looking at the factors that were involved with the Age of Discovery/Ex...

Cochran and Miller's 1941 Text The Age of Enterprise

In five pages this paper discusses the still accurate premise for American business articulated by a text originally published bac...

Kindergarten Starting Age

students. However, even though a child has reached the magic age of five, that does not automatically imply that there is a corre...