Trumpet Coursework

5. Musical Instruments and their instrument families: A viola, violin, cello, and bass are classified as string instruments. The flute, piccolo, clarinet, bass clarinet, oboe, bassoon, English oboe, and contrabassoon are classified as woodwind instruments. The trumpet, tuba, French horn, and trombone are classified as brass instruments. Percussion instruments include timpani, xylophone, chimes, triangle, cymbals, and the bass drum. Keyboard instruments include

According Hodes in “White Women, Black Men, and Adultery in the Antebellum South,” the relationship between white women and black men becomes a source of gossip. Dorothea has a mixed race child with her cheat lovers called Edmond. Her husband, Lewis, responsible for any financial needed for that child, and try to get divorce from her. However, the court decide that Lewis at the fault. Dorothea lives also miserable as the society does not accept her child, husband, and even herself. She becomes the source of gossip and she also get abuse by Lewis and Edmond. This miserable does not just end in her married life, but this also will haunted her after she divorce and leave the black man.

Mrs.Turner is first presented on this page and she is the first of her character to emerge in this book. Mrs. Turner is proud of all her “white features”, her nose is "slightly pointed," her lips are thin, her buttocks brought her “bas relief” and “she was proud”. When Janie and Mrs. Turner being their conversation Mrs.Turner immediately makes her opinion out loud and explains to Janie why she doesn’t understand why Janie associates with black people considering her “coffee and cream complexion” or why she decided to married a man as dark as Tea Cake. Mrs. Turner goes on to explain that she feels that women like herself and Janie, that mixed-race and have “white

Her strong belief that the lighter you are, the more respect you deserve is fallacious; the Harlem Renaissance brought those of all colors together through music, art, and literature, making this ideal a departure from that epoch. In the novel Mrs.Turner states, “You’se different from me. Ah can’t stand black niggers. Ah don’t blame de white folks from hatin’ ‘em ‘cause Ah can’t stand ‘em mahself. ‘Nother thing, Ah hates tuh see folks lak me and you mixed up wid ‘em. Us oughta class off”. Mrs.Turner’s thoughts and beliefs are included to show how superiority and prejudice are not only discriminatory but also pernicious to those of color, in particular African Americans. This mindset is inimical to equality and is used to help the reader visualize how the drive to be preeminent and obtain the highest social class is

So he grew up with highly educated parents and this showed throughout his school life and musical career. Now unlike many he hadn’t been introduced into music off the start essentially, but at the age of 13 his father introduced him to an instrument he would learn to love and cherish throughout his musical career. Upon being introduced to the trumpet his father asked for some help from a dear friend of his Elwood Buchanan A well-known director of a musical arts school.

Their relationship emphasized that sometimes when you love someone you have to be able to sacrifice what is important to you, for them. In addition, this book has also showed that you can love someone no matter what others think. This can refer to Mae Mobley and Aibileen because their race was not a factor in their relationship even though during the time this took place, most African Americans could not have a relationship like that with a white person. Another character to show this is Johnny Foote. His wife, Celia is a very important character in the book because her and her maid Minny form a strong bond over the course of the novel.

Throughout her struggle to find a balance between school and work, Moody begins to take note of the racial inequalities in her society. The black and white dichotomy was not the only form of racial distinction she internalized. The poor treatment of “high yellows”

     Tillie, the housekeeper, had a surprising reaction to the situation at hand. When she hears the news of the marriage she pulls John aside and makes several disturbing comments. The first was about, “a member of my own race getting above hisself,” and “civil rights is one thing, this something else.” Her behavior depicts that she could of been brought up to believe that the white race was above the black race. Her response was different from that of the two sets of parents, whom only seemed concerned due to the external problems the union would induce.

During this time while slavery was abolished a woman was very much expected to serve her husband fully, who was not always chosen out of love. Growing up Janie's guardian and major influence was her nanny, a woman that grew up during slavery and in turn hoped for janie to have a better life, she says, “You know , honey, us colored folks is branches without roots and that makes things come round in queer ways. You in particular. Ah was born back due in slavery so it wasn't for me to fulfill my dreams of what a woman oughta be and to do” (Hurston 16) Her view was imposed on janie to the extent where she grew up believing that a woman's dreams were predetermined and don't go far beyond being a wife, unlike men who are seen to have the world

The story “Sonny’s Blues” By James Baldwin is about a jazz musician and his brother in 1950’s Harlem. The story centers on Sonny who uses jazz music as an escape from his depression. James Baldwin captures the art of jazz during this time period. The themes in this short story are perhaps varied, but all of them revolve around some form of suffering. One theme shows how music can promote change and understanding within relationships. A second theme reveals suffering caused by guilt. Yet another theme references the results of suffering brought about by searching for ones’ identity and how that leads to misunderstanding. There are also subthemes concerning racism and poverty.

Social Realism Social realism was a movement following the civil war where artists and writers would focus and point out the conditions of the middle to lower working class. Unlike Regional realism, social realism draws attention to the social structures and conditions that the majority of the population was currently experiencing. Edith Wharton and Booker T Washington where two important writers who wrote about their own experiences and of others to demonstrate the new social structure changes at this time. The short story “The Other Two” by Edith Wharton is an excellent representation of gender relation transformations and the nature of marriage at the turn of the century.

It was late into the evening when I returned to my high school’s football field to recollect the jacket I had left back. It had finally come, it was the night of my last marching band rehearsal. In that moment, I was alone, but as the neighboring building lights dimly poured into the field, I could imagine the arena glow with life as I thought of my four seasons of marching band. It was at this location, out of many, that provided me the opportunity to share unique memories with my peers and develop my greatest talent: playing the clarinet. I initially chose my instrument without understanding as an elementary school student what band was, but through my first set of rehearsals, I quickly realized that playing an instrument was harder than I had anticipated. That, however, did not discourage me. I grew fond of playing and was determined to practice daily technics that would strengthen my musicianship. As I played into middle school and high school, my lung capacity, along with the ability to keep tempo, improved, but I believed by then that my performances should exemplify more than my skills. Through my participation in marching band and Wind Ensemble, I’ve aspired to take not only the audience, but myself included, into a world beyond music’s notes and phrases. I find comfort to know that I can create something out of pure air and have others find happiness within it. This is what kept me playing for nine years. I have incorporated music deeply into my life, but I believe it does not define me. Instead, I have learned valuable lessons that have benefited me off the stage such on time management and discipline and have grown alongside my talent.

Whilst McEwan demonstrates how women are victims of society in that they are unable to achieve a high social position and class without the aid of men, Bronte focuses on how women reach a position of power through their own source of status and wealth. Emily, Cecilia and Briony all represent a society dependent on men to achieve wealth and status, as they all become members of the upper class through the wealth and inheritance of Jack Tallis. Emily’s ineffectiveness and lack of status and authority is emphasised by the contrast between her and her husband, as despite her husband’s absence from the family, he still has more control over the children than she does. With Jack’s presence, the household is described as ‘settled around a fixed point’, however without him it is ‘a drama

I was drawn to “Trumpet Player” by Langston Hughes because my grandpa and I enjoy listening to jazz music played by some of the best jazz player such as Count Basie, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. Trumpet Player consists of six stanzas, the first four consist of eight lines, and the last two have four lines and one coda. This poem tells the story of an African American trumpet player and his experiences in the United States and shows how he use the trumpet as an escape from his struggles.

A main theme in this novel is the influence of family relationships in the quest for individual identity. Our family or lack thereof, as children, ultimately influences the way we feel as adults, about ourselves and