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The Man and The President Abraham Lincoln

In this paper the writer observes that 'Abraham Lincoln was able to shape the history of the African American. He is the very embl...

Life and Music of Jazz Artist Sonny Rollins

In five pages Sonny Rollins' life and jazz music are examined in this overview. Seven sources are cited in the bibliography....

Twentieth Century Jazz Musician Cy Coleman

The life and music of this legendary jazz artist are considered in five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Jazz Musician Dizzy Gillespie

Twentieth century jazz musician the life and career of the legendary 'Dizzy' Gillespie is discussed in a paper that is nearly five...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

Yavapai College, A Jazz Performance

This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...

Hypothetical Review of a Jazz Concert

This essay provides a hypothetical example of how a student might report on a jazz concert. The works summarized and analyzed incl...

Music at a Southern California Jazz Cafe, Steamers

a well. The reason that Steamers usually has no cover charge or just a minimal fee is because it habitually gives local students a...

Urban Artistry of Jazz Musician Miles Davis

his first name (Long ppg). Perhaps because in his music, the listener is the musicians accomplice, and from bebop to rap, Miles ...

Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday and the Jazz Age

In two pages this paper examines how the 1920s' Jazz Age was portrayed in this 1931 text. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

The Alex Blake Quartet in Concert

the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...

Shanghai and the Jazz Age

p. 6). This community was comprised of "a number of musicians, singers, stage and taxi dancers, and cabaret and dance hall proprie...

Confrontation in 2 Twentieth Century Novels

In twelve pages this paper examines confrontation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and in Toni Morrison's Jazz. One othe...

Beneath the Underdog by Charles Mingus

result blurs the lines of what is real or not but the book makes it clear that for Mingus, at the moment of his telling it, it was...

Comparing 'Boplicity' by Miles Davis with 'Lady Be Good' by Charlie Parker

In five pages these revolutionary jazz musicians are compared in terms of these two definitive works. There is no bibliography in...

Nat King Cole's 'Unforgettable' Life and Legacy

the life of little Nat, whom the world later came to know and love as Nat "King" Cole. II. A Musical Background Once situated in...

Jazz as Modernism

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

Jackie Kay's 'Trumpet'

The world as a whole, in fact, was not privy to that information. It would only be when Joss died and his body was processed thro...

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and America's Jazz Age

the major theme is far from romantic in nature. This story is all about the disintegration of the once proud American Dream. And, ...

Australia and Great Britain and Critical Events

be a most applicable means by which to render attack on the enemy; however, what ensued was not so much of a protecting agent as o...

Cuba and Premier Fidel Castro

in the first place (1996). When happened was that Fulgencio Batista, the leader of the "sergeants revolt" of 1933, had ruled Cuba...

Analysis of Joseph Heller's Catch 22

Yossarian watches as many slowly lose their grip on reality as they fly mission after mission. The Catch 22, then is that which wo...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Distribution of Wealth and Democracy

1929. While profits soar, wages have steadily decreased and workers systematically laid off. The United States is predicated u...

1845 to 1865 History of U.S. Railroads

state. While Stevens failed to raise enough money to build his proposed railroad, he still desired to apply steam locomotion to ra...

London's Early History

for his death (Wells, 1931, 469). In effect, Caesar was consumed with one goal: to satisfy the desires and urges of Caesar. Well...

Overview of the Women Against Pornography Organization

international nongovernmental organization with consultative status to the United Nations. She has represented hundreds of victims...

Business Profile of Taiwan

The natural hazards in the area are typhoons and earthquakes (CIA, 2003). The history of Taiwan as it is known today starts in 18...

Consumer Culture and British Fashion Magazine Influence

the expectations of society but the unreal and artificial world of the media. A recent study of focus groups opinions of images fo...

Traditions and Language

that angle. Heaths study followed the students into the schools during the first few years of desegregation and this is where sh...