Lawrence Levine Lowbrow

Thesis: Although Jazz music was first introduced over 80 years ago, the genre still influences artists and the new music they make to this day.

The Jazz Age was a national undertaking that took place in America during the 1920’s, also known as “the Roaring Twenties” from which both jazz music and dance emerged. Despite the era ending with the beginning of The Great Depression in the 1930’s, jazz has lived on in American pop culture. The birth of jazz music is often credited to African-Americans, but it soon expanded to America’s white middle class. This resulted in jazz being combined by both African-American traditions and ideals with white middle class society.

He acknowledges his readers’ understanding and literacy of Jazz culture by passively referencing names of Jazz “titans”—specifically, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Duke Ellington. To further earn his audience’s trust, he uses relevant information and his position to gain credibility. As a writer and producer for CNN Enterprise, he has a credible position since it can be gathered that such a prestigious organization would not be hiring anyone who is less than qualified. He also implements multiple pertinent sources to further his credibility in this article (i.e. Nicholas Payton’s “Why Jazz Isn’t Cool Anymore” and Scott DeVeaux’s “Jazz”). He has authority as a writer and knowledge as he uses many credible sources from significant people to convey how and why Jazz lost significance as a musical genre.

By completing the readings assignments of Shakespeare assigned to me by this class, I have achieved broader positive assumptions about Shakespeare, as well of understanding how Shakespearean plays apply to modern day society. Although I have had moderate experience in the readings of Shakespeare in High school, such as the reading of Othello. By participating a completing readings about Shakespeare’s plays and attending lectures discussing sexuality regarding Shakespeare, I have gained a greater overall understanding of Shakespeare. Through Shakespeare’s plays, overall, I have gained a greater understanding of what Shakespeare attempts to convey in his plays.

Jazz is consider one of the most influential types of music an America History. Some of the greatest artist in the world have contribute to the success jazz have had not only on America History but throughout the world. This paper will explain the history of jazz, where it all came from and the effect it has had on the America Culture.

The jazz music of the 1920’s is one example of the scandalous lives of the elite and their elaborate parties that broke barriers for the innovation of American culture.

Shakespearean theater productions continue to express seemingly timeless ideas and concepts to his audiences— from complex, diverse women, to the various plots of each writing piece that has set an example for writers centuries later— readers are still able to infer the intricate themes and attitudes that entwine themselves in his scripts. Like in “The Comedy of Errors,” it presents the contemporary question, “how effectively can family control our actions?” Shakespeare answers this inquiry to an implied, open-ended extent, by revealing that the meaning of the work is, “family may influence our actions, but we, in the end, are the main manipulators of our own actions.” This supports Barthes’ observation, “literature is the question minus

The Norton Shakespeare / Stephen Greenblatt, general editor; Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine Eisaman Maus, [editors]; with an essay on the Shakespearean stage by Andrew Gurr (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997)

He provides background on how Shakespeare captivated the minds and beliefs of his audience. Taylor also establishes the importance of how Shakespeare is knowledgeable on English literature. Taylor then reiterates his point that Shakespeare’s plays mirrored contemporary radical issues, such as inequality. He then connects his main points that he argues and solidifies them with supporting evidence from other authors and historians. This article is effective in the way it presents the author’s main point and provides great evidence to support his

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between jazz music and American culture. In order to understand how it is related to American society, it’s important to understand the origins of Jazz. With its many different subgenres, it is difficult to define exactly what Jazz is. This paper will be exploring the origins of Jazz, its development over time, and its role in civil rights movement and black community.

Actors during the Elizabethan era faced many more struggles than today’s modern actors. They were not respected like today’s actors for their craft and were considered “vagrant, irresponsible people” (Levine). Theater in modern times is viewed as an art form, but during the Elizabethan era, it was pure entertainment. Shakespeare’s theater was a human experience. The actors spoke directly to the audience, creating a personal relationship between the two. The characters in a play argued for the support of the audience and would debate points of view with the audience directly. This type of interaction with the audience has been lost in modern theater. Entertaining all levels of society with one play has also been lost in the “art” of acting in

Shakespeare’s influence on the British culture in the 21st century remains unwavering. “Although William Shakespeare is viewed as the quintessential English writer, Shakespeare’s poems and plays have altered the course of European and World literature. The shadow that William Shakespeare has cast over the world has influenced artists, poets, philosophers and thinkers.’ (William Shakespeare- Biography, n.d.). Because of him, our society has a different view of the English culture.

Shakespeare wrote the romantic comedy play, Twelfth Night, in the year 1601. Despite being over 400 years old, people have been studying and performing the play continuously. Even though some may argue American audience now cannot understand the significance of social hierarchy in the play nor the lines written in Shakespearean English, Twelfth Night remains popular today as shown by New York Times’ publishing of seven reviews on different performances of Twelfth Night. At the same time, Shakespeare utilizes dramatic irony, created by Viola dressed as Cesario, and reversal of social hierarchy, created by the love struck Duke and Countess, the drunk knights Sir Andrew and Toby, and the brilliant maid Maria. This essay aims to analyze comedic elements in Twelfth Night, as well as explaining why it remains popular until this day. We will compare the original and several modern productions of the play that New York Times reviewers feature in the newspapers while integrating ideas from excerpts of William Zinsser’s book On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction and Henry Bergson’s Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic.

This vacillation between seeking out a scholar to explain or verify Shakespeare’s worth and undercutting or going beyond that scholarly authority is present in a recent spate of films using Shakespeare as a nexus of conflict in a student’s relationship to teachers and traditional school. In these films, sometimes for just a moment, sometimes as a

Through evolution and changing social times, modern society has begun to question the literary works of famous poets such as William Shakespeare, for his use of predominantly male representation, overused themes, and debased comedy style. Nevertheless, although social progress is underway to broaden the range of literary works studied, it is important to examine Shakespeare in order to recognize his exclusive influence on the English language, depiction of universal characters, and representation of transferable lessons. Although, the overall ideologies involved are not agreeable to civilizations today, it cannot be erased from history, thus is imperative to a student’s knowledge of literature