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    Counterpoint in Gerry Mulligan’s Compositions and Arrangements In 1952 Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan (1927-1996) started playing at a jazz club in Los Angeles called The Haig. During that time he met a lot of the best jazz musicians on the West Coast, including Kenneth Norville “Red Norvo”, Erroll Garner, Chesney “Chet” Baker, Milton “Shorty” Rogers, Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton, Clifford “Bud” Shank, Keith “Red” Mitchell, Robert Whitlock, and also some rising talent of the area. At The Haig, Mulligan created

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    tuba, cello, and vibraphones. Cool jazz introduced all of these unusual jazz instruments. There are many famous Cool Jazz players that are highly known by many jazz fans. Some of the highly known people are Lennie Tristano, Dave Pell, and Gerry Mulligan. The other famous cool jazz players are Dave Brubeck and Shorty Rogers. But, the most important person is(as said earlier) Miles Davis. Cool Jazz has a slow tempo. Since it is a softer type of music it 's tone is soft and melodic. The beats

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    James Joyce’s “Eveline” is a short story about a nineteen-year-old Eveline, who contemplates abandoning a life she is accustomed to and moving to a distant land with a man she hardly knows. In one hand she holds the weight of uncertain happiness, in the other, inevitable misery. Eveline needs to make a choice between two contrasting lives; one in which she is a servant to her father, in other, a respected wife. Following her mother’s death, Eveline assumes the role of a parent and inherits all the

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    Stress can be paralyzing. The condition of emotional strain resulting from detrimental circumstances is sometimes so consuming that its victims are no longer capable of moving. This is mental paralysis. People that experience mental paralysis are so damaged by their life experiences that they cannot hardly act or make decisions on their own. In James Joyce’s “Eveline,” Eveline’s sad life constantly reminds her of deaths, troubles her with difficulties, and begs her to leave, and she is presented

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    Gerrymandering is the process of altering electoral districts to favor a political party over the other by receiving more votes in that districts based on the population demographics and party affiliation. Gerrymandering was founded when Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts had enacted a bill that would allow the state to the redistricted in a way that would favor the party he represented, which was the Democratic-Republican Party, over the Federalists. When the redistricting plan was brought to the press

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    MARKETING PROPOSAL 1. Introduction. Computers and Electronics is a booming industry with technology enhancing rapidly and products available not only in the marketplace but also in market space i.e. E-Commerce. Online market is growing day by day with many taking advantage to compare the best process available for products. Harvey Norman will need to embrace and collaborate E-Commerce as competition is Fierce and Harvey Norman is stepping late into this booming online industry. 2. Brief background

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    the team went on to become undefeated as well as win the state championship. The main characters in Remember The Titans were Coach Boone, Coach Yoast, Gerry Bertier, and Julius Campbell. Coach Boone was the head coach for the Titans, Coach Yoast was the ex head coach and was the defensive coordinator for the Titans, Gerry Bertier was the All-American on the team and was the main white football player throughout the movie, and Julius Campbell was the main black football player on the

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    In the short story Araby, James Joyce provides the audience with a glimpse if 19th century Ireland seen through the eyes of an adolescent young man. It is this adolescence and the navies of the world that is under attack. Joyce masterfully reveals an innocence held by Araby by contrasting it with a setting filled with symbology that eludes to the hopeless reality in which he lives. Joyce injects a sense of unrealized bleakness for the protagonist by the imagery that he puts forth. “North Richmond

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    Gerry Conway was the classic American entrepreneur - visionary, charismatic, driven, impatient, and impending. Born in Cleveland in 1931, Conway was the ninth of 13 children. His love of the retail environment, his strong interdependence, and his deep appreciation of people appreciation of people stemmed from his childhood experience: claiming that he has been in retail for over 60 years, working at some of his fathers 200 food stores. After college, Conway and his wife, Marty, returned to

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    Just a few weeks ago, if you were to turn on the TV, you 'd be bombarded with political advertising campaigns. During the height of a midterm election season, campaign ads are just one demonstration of candidates pouring funds into their race with the hopes of creating name recognition and getting our votes. Not all tactics of gaining votes are as transparent as witnessing a negative ad campaign; some unethical ways of gaining votes are rather questionable, such as Gerrymandering. I wanted explore

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