Miles Davis Kind Of Blue Analysis

Imagine living in a world where the weak are cast aside and you yourself are crippled, but your life is spared by love. Then your mother dies unexpectedly and there is no longer anyone protecting you. What will happen to you now? This is what Kira faced in the novel Gathering Blue written by Lois Lowry. Kira was born with a deformed leg and faces physical challenges because of it. At the beginning of the book, Kira’s mother dies from an unexpected illness and Kira is attacked by a group of women led by Vandara. Vandara claims that Kira should be taken to the field and left for the beasts, which the reader finds out later are not real. The Council of Guardian’s then spares Kira’s life and appoints her official threader of the Singer’s robe. She later meets Thomas, the Carver, and Jo, the

The vice-president at M&M and Mars who is in charge of the blue M&Ms claimed that eating blue M&Ms can improve memory. He has asked a group of researchers to test whether blue M&Ms can improve memory. The researchers have designed an experiment to test whether or not this theory is accurate. Researchers have come up with a memory test to test the memories of participants by using blue M&Ms. The test asks each participant to memorize a list of numbers. Then, the data will be analyzed to see whether or not blue M&Ms improved their memory. The hypothesis that the researchers came up with is as follows: If people consume blue M&Ms, the short-term memory of high school students will be improved according to a visual numbers test.

Among the first rock stars of the 50s was Chuck Berry. Chuck Berry gave the youth quick paced rhythms, exuberant and carefree audience execution, and verses that permitted the crowd to relate to the music. Chuck Berry availed all the components desired by the young society. In fact, in his music “Rock N Roll Music”, the youth could dance and embrace at the same time being unique from the music their parents had enjoyed. In 1950s, the civil rights movement had risen and sparkled much attention. The issue of race was consequently fixed to Chuck Berry and Rock and Roll. Therefore, supporters of the civil rights movement were significantly more eager to advance Rock and Roll, as a means for African American’s to communicate

1. Models are analogies that allow us to clarify hypotheses—proposed explanations of relationships between causes and effects. What roles do models play in testing hypotheses?

In Zadie Smith’s article, “The North West London Blues,” she repeatedly stresses on the vitality of public libraries, building an argument, through which, she attempts to induce her readers that public libraries are important and should remain accessible. In pursuance of her goal, Smith resorts to the use of ethos, the appeal to ethics, pathos, the appeal to emotion, and logos, the appeal to logic, in addition to her unique use of diction, rhetorical devices, and subtle word choice.

Recently the class and I read a short story called Blue Against White, which focuses on the importance of memories during childhood and how it affects one's life. Jeannette C. Armstrong the author, uses writing techniques like symbolism through common motifs to aid the reader to have a better understanding of the the hidden morals within the story.  Literary elements that were applied in the story includes plot and character which also had immense connections towards the author itself. This can be shown through the word choice and the placement of the setting, which displayed a large significance in assisting the reader through imagery. The fact that Jeannette C. Armstrong developed such a self-discovery story helps bring attention

In reading the story "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin, we learn of two brothers and their lives growing up in Harlem. The narrator, who is the older brother in the story, narrates the trials and tribulations he and his younger brother (Sonny) had to endure growing up in such a harsh environment of Harlem (due to the drugs, violence, and Black's being looked down upon in general in the mid-1950s). We start in the future (present), with the narrator having a somewhat successful future being a teacher and having a wife and two kids (with one of them passing away due to polio disease). We learned very early that Sonny was locked up due to possession of heroin. The narrator originally found out about the tragic news from a newspaper, then later,

California Blue is a novel about a seventeen-year-old boy named John Rodger. John is in his last year of high school in a small northern California town where the majority of the townspeople, including John's father, work in the lumber industry. As the youngest son of a father who was a champion athlete, John has always felt pressured to excel in his sport of choice, distance running. Because his father considers biologist's opposition to clear cutting of redwoods a threat to the timber industry and his livelihood, John's father also disapproves of John's interest in biology as a major area of study. John doesn't follow either of his father's wishes. In the middle of his senior year John learns that his father has leukemia and that

In the story “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin the narrator of the story is Sonny’s older brother. Throughout the story Sonny’s brother discovers that music is his brother’s way of coping with what life has handed him. In the story Sonny’s older brother feels charged with the responsibility of looking after his brother, and often feels that the people he hangs around with in the musician community are a bad influence. He wants to protect his brother from making the same mistakes twice and ending up in jail over drugs. Once the narrator takes time to actually talk to Sonny and learn about him he begins to see a new side of Sonny.

William blue was born in Jamaica on 1763. As he later claimed to have served with the British army in the American war of independence,he may have been a freed African-American slave from colonial New York. By 1796, however, he was living at Deptford, London, and working as a chocolate-maker and a lumper (worker) in ships in the River Thames. On 4 October that year at Young women/cleaning womentone, Kent, Blue Was convicted of stealing raw sugar--probably meant for confectionery making--and sentenced to seven years transportation. After over four years in convict (giant people or things/frames of ships, etc.), he was taken to (the study of plants) Bay in the Minorca. He was described in convict records as 'a Jamaican Negro sailor', (old/allowed to get old/got older) 29 in 1796.

There is a definite transformation in the narrator of "Cathedral" and “Sonny’s Blue.” In “Cathedral” the visit of Robert, the blind man, after the drawing of the cathedral and imagining it with his eyes shut, the narrator leaves his eyes closed and gains an insight of freedom and liberation: “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn't feel like I was inside anything (76).” The narrator’s experiencing life from the blind man’s point of view and meeting him changed the narrator’s deeply and his outlook on life itself. In "Sonny's Blues" when the narrator sees Sonny performing jazz, he sees how Sonny is able to gain his freedom from music, and instead of judging Sonny he becomes understanding: “Freedom lurked around

from an eager band. “A band began playing “That Bonny Blue Flag” in Lee’s honor.”

Have you heard of “Blue Babies”, Some babies are born with a bad heart. They start turning blue. Eileen Saxon was a one year old born with a bad heart condition her body was starved with oxygen. It wasn’t unique in 1940’s it was common the blue babies were to live just a few years. Back then the doctors couldn’t do nothing it was going to change. Viven Thomas was 11 years old he worked as a carpenter after school he went to work.

After watching Free Angela and all other Political Prisoners, I felt as if I had a new outlook on Angela Davis. The documentary really helped me understand more about Angela Davis’ background and how she became the highly controversial person that she is today. I think being able to see footage of Davis in multiple different occasions helped me really envision the struggle and fight this women has put up her whole life. I believe that the main focus of Free Angela and all other Political Prisoners was to show a different audience, one’s who might not fully understand Angela Davis and what she stands for, the controversy that surrounds her and has been with her throughout her whole life.

It was Errol Morris' dedication to the truth that enabled him to save a wrongly imprisoned man from a life time in jail and at the same time find the man who did it. I doubt if another documentary rings truer with regards to the voice of the documentary testifying to the character of the filmmaker, than 'The Thin Blue Line.'