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'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

Elements of Poems by Neal Bowers, Linda Pastan, and W.H. Auden

gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Lazard and the Investment Banking Industry

several management models to look at the industry. Following this an investment bank can be used as a caser study agisnt this envi...

Life and Writings of Sherman Alexie

of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...

Tourism and Turkey

the south and the Black Sea is to the north (CIA, 2005). The majority of the country is geographically in Asia, where, to the east...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

Presidential Elections from a Sociological Perspective

problem is that during the 2000 campaign, some stations projected the winner before polls closed in California. This means that so...

A Profile of Blue Diamond Growers

for almonds as well -- certainly almonds are found in candies and as snack foods. But theyre also used in ice cream (as pistachios...

Blues Music History

The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

This is a very unique place in our society and people who grew up in Harlem often have experiences and stories that most people co...

Segregation in the South According to Charlayne Hunter Gault and Bebe Moore Campbell

sorry for colored people was just an excuse to talk about his personal blues" (Campbell 27-28). In this the narrator is illustrati...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...

Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon

towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...

A Look at Blue Bloods

A recent episode of Blue Bloods is examined in light of actual police work. Is it realistic? There are three sources cited in the ...

Jazz and Blues

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

Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Cassatt

This essay pertains to Little Girl in a Blue Armchair by Mary Cassatt. This work, along with Cassatt's biography, is described. Th...

Young Women, Heartbreak and the Blues

This essay offers analysis on Liz Phair's "F*ck and Run," Janis Ian's "At Seventeen," Joan Baez's "Diamonds and Rust" and Ruth Br...

Culture and Personality, African Americans

a significant subculture in American society as a whole, as it accounts for 41.1 million American or roughly 13.5 percent of the p...

Blue and Red Oceans

The writer outlines the concept of blue oceans and red oceans. The model proposed by Kim and Mauborgne is then critiqued to deter...

Blue Collar Work and Assumptions of Intelligence

This 3 page paper gives an explanation of the essay by Mike Rose about blue-collar workers and intelligence. This paper includes e...

Bettany Hughes in the PBS Special The Spartans

the culture, which included infanticide and euthanasia, practices which most balk at in the modern era. Slave labor is utilized an...

Comparison of Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been,' Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'

In five pages sex and conflict in terms of character development are contrasted and compared in these three stories. There are no...

'NYPD Blue' and 'NY Undercover'

This is a paper consisting of a 10 page analysis of these TV shows, discussing several episodes in order to determine why they are...

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell

In a paper consisting of five pages the racially imprinted code of the rural South is examined within the context of Campbell's no...

Character Analysis of Siblings in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

In five pages this research paper presents a character analysis of the brothers featured in this short story by James Baldwin. Fi...

Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations by Brian Ward

post-World War II African-American music was growing up and into the mainstream, the white mainstream, of American consciousness. ...

Music and Brotherly Love in Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

to try heroin in the first place. To him it must equate with a death wish. The irrationality of Sonnys habit is quite evident at t...