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won the White House (War, prosperity and depression, 2005). The first two years of Hardings administration continued Wilsons econo...

In five pages this research paper presents an appreciation of jazz violin virtuoso Noel Pointer whose premature death at age 39 di...

This paper examines the career of Satchmo, Louis Armstrong. The author argues that Armstrong is one of the great American Jazz le...

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

This 5 page paper analyzes Toni Morrison's novel "Jazz," and argues that Toni Morrison uses jazz and sexual identity as ...

In ten pages this paper discusses the jazz pioneers including James P. Johnson, W.C. Handy, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington an...

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

no face, instead, the eyes are behind an enormous pair of glasses which are sitting on a non-existent nose (Fitzgerald). Nick, who...

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

ongoing, carried in the people, but the symbols and landmarks, of the music and the culture it has influenced. The loss of the bui...

no success at all; that belongs to the people who employ the hard workers. But the dream persists, and Gatsby seems to achieve it,...

description shows the factors that are common in crashes involving teens: a 16-year old boy was driving; he was in an SUV; there w...

intelligence and talent to work in ways that are less than reputable in order to pursue an illusion of beauty. Making his fortune ...

more jazz musicians will typically improvise simultaneously (Machlis 413). For all intents and purposes, Alex Blakes biography fo...

his personal life, and physically; hes a bigot, hes a racist, and he has a mistress who he makes little effort to hide from his wi...

In addition the school provides opportunities to engage in off-campus activities because the area of Southern Florida is such a ja...

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...

in the promised land did so through the exploitation of the land, its resources, and its natives" as is the case with Jay Gatsby (...

urban professionals because in Chicago, business reigns supreme. There are numerous transportation, commerce, and financial congl...

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...

This essay pertains to improvisation and composition in jazz and describes how both of these terms are utilized within jazz perfor...

same time he undercuts Gatsby by telling readers that he made his money illegally; he was a bootlegger (he sold illegal whiskey du...

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

shaped by trying to achieve the American dream, but by experiencing what occurs when others achieve and pass on the values of weal...

for that reason its possible that he colors the accounts he gives. However, he is the closest thing we have to a neutral observer,...

book, Benjamin Schreier claims that Gatsby, if not actually black-an unusual interpretation to be sure-is someone of color; he bas...

This essay offers a summary and discussion of themes and characters in "Winter Dreams," a short story by Fitzgerald. Three pages i...

consequently death was much more familiar, as it occurred regularly within the scope of daily life. Just a century ago, the averag...

This essay asserts that Nick Carraway's narration presents Jay Gatsby's story in terms of Freudian psychology and as paralleling ...