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Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

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

Herbie Hancock

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

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

Reviewing Charles T. Davis's Black Is the Color of the Cosmos Essays on Afro-American Literature and Culture

In a five page review black literature during the 1960s and '70s is discussed and comparisons are made with slave narratives and t...

Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills'

This paper of 7 pages considers how the author considered issues of economic inequality, social separations, and class differences...

Slavery and Human Progress by David Brion Davis

Davis clearly outlines the many ways in which slavery was a truly ancient institution in which the "Arabs and their Muslim allies ...

Looking at Ecology of Fear by Davis

tract housing and suburbanization for example is a part of the dilemma. Yet, the author does provide the reader with some hard ...

African American General Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.

In ten pages the many achievements of this celebrated U.S. general are discussed with his black military contributions also examin...

California's Gubernatorial Campaign Between Dan Lungren and Gray Davis, the Issues, and the Media

In five pages this paper examines this gubernatorial contest in a consideration of the political campaign role of the media. Five...

Comparative Analysis of Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln

In five pages the leadership of the Confederate and the United States presidents are compared and contrasted with particular empha...

1931's Davis Bacon Act

has enacted a variety of statutes that extend Davis-Bacons prevailing wage provisions to construction projects for which the fede...

Analyzing 'Surrogates and Outcast Mothers' by Angela Y. Davis

In five pages a synopsis of this article is provided in order to analyze such topics as setting both chronological and geographica...

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...

Positive and Negative Aspects of E.J. Davis' stint as Governor of Texas

a state senator who happened to be the friend of Sam Houston ("Edmund Jackson Davis," 2007). Davis would remain a member of the Wh...

City of Quartz by Davis

had been full of light and life and rather innocent. They were optimistic. The debunkers had already seen the seedier side of life...

Death and Poetic Attitudes of Davis, Thomas, and Donne

people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...

Death Poetic Perspectives in the Works of Thomas, Donne, and Davis

shalt die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is mo...

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...

Jazz Age and Cultural Developments

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

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...