Parker Lee

“Where are you ladies heading off too?” the police officer asked. I just sat there, frozen, staring at his long white hair and wrinkly skin. All while trying to come up with an answer and listening to Chrissy breathing so heavily. It was that scolding hot summer day that Chrissy and I decided to take my boyfriend’s car for spin. Being sixteen and just had obtained a license, what else would young ladies want to do? Someone may think at that age having a boyfriend six years older than you may be cool

William Somerset Maugham was considered to be the popular English fiction writer of the 20th century. He wrote many novels, plays and short stories, many of those were admired as master pieces. It drew attention of the critics and readers due to its multi-dimensional aspects, which offered entertainment including the serious issues of human life, for that matter it resulted in being popular fiction of the time. His popularity urged many critics to analyze his work from different dimensions. The critics

John Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Floral Park, New York.He is an american conductor, painter, and composer. He is the son of Esther and Johnny Williams. He moved to Los Angeles and graduated High School in 1950. He then graduated from the University of California. In 1952, Williams served in the air force . Afterwards, Williams moved to New York and attended The Juilliard School. He has two brothers who both work in Los Angeles. After studying at Juilliard, Williams returned to Los

In Bop by Langston Hughes, Hughes uses various literary devices and rhetorical strategies such as hyperboles, metaphors, and onomatopoeia. Hughes uses onomatopoeia in order to describe the many sounds of jazz, including “BE-BOP”, and “MOP!” In addition to this, BOP is explained as the sound that is “beaten right out of some Negro’s head” by the police. This can be seen as an hyperbole as Bop is not literally a sound “Beaten right out of some Negro’s head into them horns and saxophones and piano

South Park is a Television show that is featured on Comedy Central. This show follows four friends; Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, and Kenny McCormick as they grow and develop through adolescents in the small town of South Park, Colorado. Eric is an obese little bully, Kyle is a religious kid, Stan is an average kid, and Kenny is a poor kid. These children are faced with the common challenges that adolescences go through, of developing and growing up. The children come into many different

Bebop Jazz known as Jazz music today have shared its roots with the various tradition of music such as the American, European and the African. The unique mesh of Bebop jazz cultural influences has made it a true American style in music. The music influence by the Bebop jazz has flowed through many aspects of the modern cultures of people, and this is the cornerstone of the 20th-century music. The first and the most prominent jazz music was on the African heritage that was kept alive by the slaves

Singer Sewing Machine Company and his mother Louise sewed for a furrier. At age 15 Wayne Shorter had a life change which involved music. Wayne and a few friends snuck into a Lester Young concert they heard Jazz music from Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. At age 16 Wayne then wanted to play the clarinet he said he played the Clarinet because “it looked like a little spaceship”. Wayne saw great performances and heard great music from Count Basie and Duke Ellington.After two years of studying the saxophone

my first song is Lucky by Jason Mraz featuring Colbie Caillat. I chose this song to represent the theme of love. I chose it because this song is about two people singing about how they are in love with their best friend. Hazel and Augustus started out, in my opinion as friends, they hang out all the time. Whether it is at the support group, watching movies in his basement, or trusting your life into the terrible driving of his. They were just always talking even before they were dating. my second

Mile Davis said, "You can tell the history of jazz in four words: Louis Armstrong. Charlie Parker" (Griffin) Charlie Parker, one of the most imperative jazz soloists, composer and saxophonist, was born in Kansas city, Kansas. He was one of the representative figures of Bebop jazz style. Bebop style appeared as a crucial jazz style in the jazz history. Owning distinctive characteristic, Bebop style jazz left a tremendous impact on the following music pieces. Jazz songs in the Bebop style usually have

The people of today, raised by the sounds of The Beatles and Pearl Jam have forgotten all about the musicians that paved the way for these artists, and the musical styles that evolved into rock and roll, rhythm and blues and rap or hip hop. Unfortunately the music that once dominated the night clubs, restaurants, and radio stations is now heard only in elevators or when we go to a grandparents house to visit. What is left of jazz are small portions of the music that people take and sample with in