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Jazz Essays and Term Papers
Gatsby 2A great lecturer once said, ³Man is so caught up in his own recklessness that he does not notice the values of life.² The theme proclaimed in the quote reflects literature in the abundance that it is used in throughout the history of writing. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald, spokesman of the Jazz Age, ...
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Building A Radio Empire-chancellor Media"Media do not simply present cultural products for consumption; they provide much of the stuff of every day life through which we construct meaning and organize our existence."--Michael R. Real, Super Media
DEFINING MOMENTS IN MASS MEDIA
Newspapers. Media began with the written word . . . To ...
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B. F. SkinnerBurris Frederic Skinner was born on March 20th, 1904 in Susquehanna,
Pennsylvania. His mother, Grace M. Burrhus, was a stenographer and a secretary,
in a law office and later in a railroad chief executive's office. His father,
William A. Skinner, was an attorney, who studied law with another local ...
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History Of Arabic MusicArabic music is my favorite musical styling. Although I have come to enjoy classical and contemporary styling as well, Arabic music has almost an innate quality of enjoyment for me. Its songs speak of the life and culture of Arabic countries and its melody is not commonly heard on American radio ...
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Louis Armstrong(1900-1971), known as "Satchmo," was born in New Orleans. He occupied himself as a street-singer for much of his childhood, until he was arrested for firing a bullet into the air on New Year's Eve. He was then placed in a home where he was taught to play cornet by one of the directors of the home. ...
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Michael JordanFor some individuals, hearing the Pope speak would be the greatest thing to ever happen to them. For opera fans, seeing the Three Tenors in concert would set them for a lifetime. For racing fans, driving the pace car in the Indy 500 would make them forget all that has ever gone wrong in their ...
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Neal Cassady: The Man Who Set The World Free
grew up as a quasi-homeless wayfaring boy with his alcoholic, unemployed father in the projects of Denver. His unconventional upbringing led to adolescence rife with theft, drug use, and extreme sexual awakening at a young age. Cassady grew up quite quickly and ...
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Louise Brooks“There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only !”
The flapper’s icon, was a talented silent film star of the Jazz Age. Her rise as a personality and as a film star was in keeping with the central phenomenon of the flapper era. Her trademark haircut, the “black helmet” was worn by ...
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MarijuanaOne of the best-known hallucinogens is . “Most people have hallucinations at one time or another, although they do not know when to expect them. Some people, however, have them on purpose. They do so by taking certain drugs called hallucinogens (Mann 48).
No one knows exactly when the use of ...
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Poul Voulkos CeramistThe exhibition of recent stoneware vessels by Peter Voulkos at Frank Lloyd Gallery featured the sort of work on which the artist established reputation in the 1950s. The work was greeted with stunned amazement. However now it is too, but it's amazement of a different order -- the kind that comes ...
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William Christopher HandyHandy was an American black composer and compiler of "BLUES" music. He
was born in Florence, Alabama. He was educated at the Negro Agricultural and
Mechanical College near Huntsville, Alabama. He was the son of former slaves.
He was educated in the public schools and by his father and paternal ...
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History Of Rock And RollIn the early 50's, at the end of the big band swing era, came a
form of music that, like others, parents would reject and their children
would love. This type of music is known as Rock and Roll.
Rock and Roll is defined as a popular type of music played on
electric instruments and characterized ...
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Frank SinatraMany people in show business are viewed as role models in our society. Many of these people are just regular men and women that are placed high on a pedestal simply because they can sing or act, hence, becoming all the more famous. Although he was famous and popular in the entertainment world ...
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1920s And 1930s With ReferenceThe 1920's exemplified the changing attitudes of American's toward foreign relations, society, and leisure activities. The twenty years that fell between 1920 and 1940 were a time period that has shaped America not only because it is the darkest period in the countries’ history, but also because ...
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Bluegrass MusicBluegrass is a style of country and western music that developed
during the 1940s, based on traditional ballads, fiddle tunes, and gospel
hymnody of the southern Appalachian Mountains in the United States. It
evolved from the backwooks, blue-collar music of the South, particularly
Appalachia. ...
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Hippie CultureThe Life in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became ...
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Jack KerouacBuddhism and the Poetry of
where we came from,
God’s Lit Brain,
his Transcendent Eye
of Wisdom
And there’s your bloody circle
called Samsara
by the ignorant
Buddhists, who will
still be funny Masters
up there, bless em.
Jack Kerouac ...
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The Great Gatsby: RealismF. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has been labelled a masterpiece, and
perhaps even one of the greatest novels of all time. In order to be revered as a
classic, a novel must have one or more qualities that place it above the rest.
One of The Great Gatsby's best qualities is Fitzgerald's ...
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Dimitri ShostakovichDmitri Shostakovich, born on September 25, 1905, started taking piano lessons from his mother at the age of nine after he showed interest in a string quartet that practiced next door. He entered the Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg, later Leningrad) Conservatory in 1919, where he studied the ...
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