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Chord Progression Dizzy Gillespie
2,031 wordsAbstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece New Rhumba, showed how Davis was using his technical ability to create an impressive solo, but was also leaning tow...
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The Rise Of Civilization And Writing
990 wordsThe phenomenon of writing has been invented independently five separate times in the history of man. While History textbooks almost exclusively talk about the writing of Mesopotamia and Egypt, writing has also been developed in the Indus Valley, China, and Mesoamerica. This strange phenomenon has led many historians and anthropologist to conclude that writing is necessary for a complex society to exist. Nevertheless, there was a society located in the Andean Mountain in present day Peru in which...
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The Importance Of Bias In History
848 wordsBias plays a weighty role in history and in historiography and without it the study of history would not be where it is today One- sidedness lies at the heart of history 1. In saying this however bias distorts the truth, creates a preset agenda, can create untrue facts and destroys the role of history in the development of political institutions and decisions. Bias does however play a small advantageous role in history, it allows for historians to study the perspectives of various individuals, t...
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William Henry British Broadcasting
1,131 wordsBetween 1844 - 6, William Henry Fox Talbot used the title The Pencil of Nature for his set of published prints which featured images of botanical specimens, photogram's, still life and landscapes. Photography was very young at the time of the Pencil of Nature; this set being the first published photographically illustrated book. Talbot first investigated the usage of the camera obscura and camera lucida to aid his sketches by tracing the image projected onto the paper through the prism; it was h...
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Piece Of Evidence Eye Witness
677 wordsKIDNAPPED, on March 1 st 1932, between 8 and 10 pm, from his home in Hopewell New Jersey. The Lindbergh baby, Charles, roughly 20 months old, was taken from his crib. The first suspects were speculated to be gangsters, on one else would commit such a crime. The perpetrator left a ransom note on the baby? s window sill demanding $ 50, 000 dollars for the return of their son. After the money was paid a note was given saying the child was on a boat off Massachusetts coast. No baby was found there, ...
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The Watergate Scandal And Its Judgment
842 wordsNever has a situation such as Watergate arisen in the United States before. It was an attempt of monarchy, but because of the American government's structured system, had failed miserably. Former president Richard Nixon had tried to secure himself a second term in office, and had gone to extreme, illegal measures in doing so. But no matter how ingenious the Watergate scandal had seemed, it proved that the constitution had the ultimate power above all. Watergate will be known in history not only ...
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Beowulf Questioning The Accuracy Of Oral Tradition
534 wordsThroughout history, storytellers, or bards, have used the oral method of passing legends from generation to generation. This procedure is called oral tradition and is a practice that is very subjective. Beowulf is a prime example of the conflict that occurs when stories are passed orally and the origin of this first piece of English literature is still being debated. The literature text refers to the Anglo-Saxons, as well as the Jutes, as being the first to tell the story of Beowulf, but there i...
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Black Hawk Down A Story Of Modern War
774 wordsMark Bowden began writing his book Black Hawk Down in 1996; three years after the Battle of the Black Sea took place in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. After finishing the book Bowden published it in 1999 and 2000, and it is still in print. It is 346 pages long, including the epilogue. Published by Penguin Books, Black Hawk Down costs fourteen dollars. There are no other books presently available today on this particular topic. Bowden mentions a few books that lightly touch on it, which he used...
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Table Above Shows Time For 40 Vibrations Pendulum
701 wordsA simple pendulum consists of a mass called the pendulum bob suspended from a support by a thread. A complete vibration of a pendulum consists of one swing over and one swing back. The time for a complete vibration is called the period (T) of a pendulum. This is usually measured in seconds. When a pendulum swings through a small arc, its bob is undergoing sample harmonic motion. The force causing the bob to swing along its arc is greatest when its speed is least. The force is least when the spee...
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Time And Space Motion Picture
1,020 wordsHistory of film has been dominated by the discovery and testing of the paradoxes inherent in the medium itself. Film uses machines to record images of life; it combines still photographs to give the illusion of continuous motion; it seems to present life itself, but it also offers impossible un realities approached only in dreams. The motion picture was developed in the 1890 s from the union of still PHOTOGRAPHY, which records physical reality, with the persistence-of-vision toy, which made draw...
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History Of The Sixteenth Century
1,438 wordsBeing a historian and researching popular culture in the sixteenth century is a task that is almost impossible to do with any measure of certainty. This is due to several reasons, mainly that two thirds of the peasant population was illiterate, which creates an enormous problem in terms of historical documentation of the time period. If there was any literature written on popular culture, it was done by people of a different social background, mainly the wealthy or dominant culture. Because of t...
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The Life And Music Of Tupac Shakur
1,006 wordsWhat does it take to be an icon of the 21 st century? An icon is a symbol representing what a person did to be admired by many people and achieved many things rarely an ordinary person can do. I would consider Tupac to be an icon of the 21 st century because he became a living symbol of his generations to many hip-hop and rap fans all over the world. He was the son of Agent Shakur and Billy Garland. At his teens, his family moved to Baltimore, MD. He attended The Baltimore School for the Perform...
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Teachings Of Jesus Saint Matthew Christians
841 wordsEarly Christianity was the main religion of Western civilization. The Bible is the primary source historians have available to follow the life of Jesus Christ, the leader of the Christians. He taught his followers, was crucified, and supposedly rose from the dead. Jesus' life is recorded in the last half of the Bible called the New Testament. Sections one and two of chapter six in the text discuss certain excerpts taken from the Gospels of Saint Mark, Saint Matthew, and Paul's letter to the Ephe...
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Civil Liberties Supreme Court
971 wordsUS HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT RESEARCH PAPER On may 21, 2001 - the supreme court ruled in a case involving the rights of journalists against the personal rights to privacy, that news organizations cannot be punished for broadcasting information that was passed to them unlawfully. The case began in in 1993, when a conversation between two teacher union officials-Gloria Barnicki and Anthony F. Kane Jr- was intercepted and recorded by an unknown source. One of the officials was using a car phone during...
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Nonverbal Cues Nonverbal Communication
1,164 wordsWe often Deception Experiment Abstract We often give nonverbal cues as to whether or not we are trying to deceive someone. These nonverbal actions are involuntary. Subjects were asked three questions provided with no reason to lie. They were then asked three questions they were asked to lie about. Nonverbal cues were measured both, during the truthful answers, and again during the deceptive answers. The intention of this experiment was to prove that the dependent variables in this experiment wou...
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Rock And Roll Jimi Hendrix
1,673 wordsJimi Hendrix and Why He Is Important Jimi Hendrix became popular for the person that he was rather than the songs that he wrote. Purple Haze was known as his signature song primarily because it was his first really big hit that was his own music. He crossed many boundaries and influenced many musicians to come. Hendrix excelled in unique guitar sounds, and Purple Haze is a fine showing of Hendrix s combination of sounds and innovative lyrics. He changed rock and roll by making his music show wha...
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Jimi Hendrix Guitar Style Rock
369 wordsHad rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix not died of complications from a drug overdose on Sept. 18, 1970, at the age of 27 theres no doubt he would have continued to contribute great works of art not only in the pop world but also in the jazz realm. At the time of his death, he was preparing to collaborate with Miles Davis, who was fascinated with his searing music. Hendrix was born in Seattle on Nov. 27, 1942. A fan of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B. B. King and Chuck Berry, Hendrix developed a guitar s...
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Rock And Roll Jimi Hendrix
986 wordsJimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix perhaps no other rock-and-roll trailblazer was as original or as influential in such a short span of time as Jimi Hendrix. Widely acknowledged as one of the most daring and inventive virtuosos in rock history, Hendrix pioneered the electric guitar (he played a right- handed Fender Stratocaster his Electric Ladyupside-down and left- handed) as an electronic sound source capable of feedback, distortion, and a host of other effects that could be crafted into an articulate ...
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San Francisco State Ravi Shankar Handy
545 wordsJohn Handy Have you ever heard of John Handy? Probably not around here, but he is a well known person in San Francisco. Handy has done such things as taught jazz, played straight-ahead bebop, and led bands. John Handy was born in 1933 in Dallas, Texas. Not much is known about his childhood, until he moved to Oakland, California in 1948. After that he enrolled in San Francisco State College in 1952. Soon after being in college, he had to serve in the army from 1953 to 1955. Following the army, Ha...
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Shakespeare Newspapers Plays
262 wordsOthello and King Lear: A comparison If Shakespeare was alive today it is certain that there would be a lot written about him. We would read reviews of his new plays in newspapers, articles about his poetry in the literary papers, and gossip about his love life and his taste in clothes splashed across the glossy magazines. His views about everything under the sun, from the government to kitchen furniture, would probably appear regularly in the colour supplements. His face would be familiar on tel...
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