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Mother Or Father Men And Women
1,235 words"It is not a surprise to see that prisoners all have a low education level. I guess a more educated person has enough sense not to be involved with crime... the relationship between crime and education is easy to see when viewing these facts" (Cordes 1). This is the view of most people when asked why people are in prison. People simply say that criminals were ill educated. As hard as we may try, we cannot do a lot about what happens before they enter prison, but there are many programs inside pr...
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Sing Sing Ive Heard
1,048 wordsb. March 15, 1916, Albany, Georgia, USA. d. July 5, 1983, Las Vegas. Harry James father Everette James, was a trumpeter and led a circus band with the Mighty Haag Circus. His mother Maybelle, was a trapeze artist with the circus. Harry began playing the drums when he was four and began playing trumpet when he was eight. He joined the circus band the next year and was leading it by the time he was twelve. Then their family moved to Beaumont Texas, and at 15 Harry James began playing in local danc...
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Chain Gang Sean Penn
3,465 wordsThe first prison films in American cinema were short documentaries and melodramas which all shared a strong social consciousness. For The Commonwealth (1912) showed the benefits of convicts performing useful labor; The Convict&# 39; s Parole (1912) and The Convict King (1915) denounced the exploitation of prisoners as cheap workers. Convict Life In The Ohio Penitentiary (1912) and The Modern Prison (1914) depicted the beneficial effects of the humane treatment of convicts; Life In A Western Peni...
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William Randolph Hearst Heart And Soul
3,882 wordsCitizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal Of William Citizen Kane: An Accurate Portrayal Of William Randolph Hearst? Many have called Citizen Kane the greatest cinematic achievement of all time. It is indeed a true masterpiece of acting, screen writing, and directing. Orson Welles, its young genius director, lead actor, and a co-writer, used the best talents and techniques of the day (Bordwell 103) to tell the story of a newspaper giant, Charles Kane, through the eyes of the people who loved and hated...
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Swing Era Sing Sing
1,270 wordsSING SING SING I used to always go over to my grandparents house and watch my grandfather go crazy over this Jazz music. He explained to me that it wasnt Jazz unless it swung like the greats. I listened to a song Sing Sing Sing the other day from one of my Jazz collections that my grandpa gave to me and realized that their was so much energy and pizzazz in this music. He explained to me that it was all put together by a guy named Benny, and I understood why. Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David in...
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20 Th Century Duke Ellington
3,213 wordsIn this research paper I will explore the origins and attempt to construct a loose temporal graph of the musical phenomenon known commonly as swing jazz. From its roots and derivative styles, I hope to prove that the assimilation of the black or Afro-American jazz music into the mainstream white culture of the early 20 th century was the cause of the sharp rise in the popularity of swing jazz. This boom of good will towards what could have only been known as black or Negro music was in itself a ...
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