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The paper provides a book review of "Jazz Anecdotes", by Bill Crow, which brings back the old days of the 1930s and 40s., for the most part, featuring some of the jazz musicians and bands now largely forgotten by today's generation. The paper explains that the review basically states that the sort of respect and warmth, even during competition for gigs is something that today's rap artists simply lack. The paper concludes that sadly, the era and the music and the musicians are largely gone now, remembered only in books like this.

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"Our current generation is not nearly as interested in jazz as Americans were in the Twentieth Century. Despite the fact that jazz is a truly original American contribution to the world of music, there are fewer "jazz giants" and audiences than this book covers. Frankly, the best way to read and discuss this book is to find someone your grandfather's age- someone who still treasures 78 rpm and LP records that featured some of the people mentioned in this book- people now long forgotten. As the author explains at the outset, "If you want to play jazz for a living you either learn to laugh or you cry a lot" (Crow v). In these..."

Tags:jazz, big band, louis armstrong

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The paper relates that Bill Crow, the author of "Jazz Anecdotes", is a musician who plays the bass in jazz bands and has written many articles for jazz magazines over the years. The paper posits that this would seem to make him particularly qualified to compile this large book of entertaining and often very humorous stories told by dozens of well-known and not so well-known jazz musicians over a period of decades.

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"Bill Crow, the author of "Jazz Anecdotes", is a musician who plays the bass in jazz bands and has written many articles for jazz magazines over the years, which would seem to make him particularly qualified to compile this large book of entertaining and often very humorous stories told by dozens of well-known and not so well-known jazz musicians over a period of decades. Crow notes in his preface that although most of the stories are humorous, they are not the type of humor sometimes made at the expense of musicians by outsiders, which he says are not much appreciated by the musicians themselves. Instead, these stories involve what is often a..."

Tags:jazz, history, music

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This paper analyzes the issue of marijuana decriminalization for medical purposes. Starting with a discussion of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling, the author provides an analysis of the case for decriminalization, including a recent book full of anecdotal evidence. The author then discusses how the federal government has taken a hard line against marijuana users and even doctors who prescribe the drug. This no-compromises attitude led to a lawsuit in 1997, in which several prominent doctors and patients sued the Drug Czar and Barry McCaffrey for violating their rights when, under Proposition 215, marijuana could be used in California and Arizona for medical reasons. The doctors claimed that they had been threatened by the DEA for prescribing the drug, while patients had been arrested and faced stiff penalties. The case has gone back and forth several times, while Proposition 215 has been suspended. The outcome is unclear, and the author finished the essay by describing how decriminalization necessitates removing marijuana from "Schedule I" status, which is reserved for dangerous drugs which have no medicinal value.

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The paper looks at how Bill Crow traces jazz from what is considered to be its African roots to the speak-easies in Harlem to the recording studios of Motown. The paper explains that the origin of the word jazz is traced back to the names of musicians who were finding and playing their own sound in an era where erotica in music was found in cities like New Orleans and San Francisco. The paper describes how the term jazz became the label for a genre in music that has influenced all music that has come after it (Crow 19-22).

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"Bill Crow traces jazz from what is considered to be its African roots to the speak-easies in Harlem to the recording studios of Motown. The origin of the word jazz is traced back to the names of musicians who were finding and playing their own sound in an era where erotica in music was found in cities like New Orleans and San Francisco. In 1916 the phrase "Jass it up, boys!" changed the face of music forever. The term "Jass" came from the Chicago underworld and was thought to be an obscene word or as we would call it today a four-letter word. It wasn't long before the term jazz became the label for a genre in music that has influenced all music that..."

Tags:improv, ability, skill

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"Hypothesis
"Do blondes have more fun?" This pop culture question verging on the cliche of mantra by Madison Avenue advertising agencies actually does imply a questioning of cultural values within the American society that deserves to be addressed by serious research. Accordingly, working from the above proposition, it will be the hypothesis of this paper that, yes, blondes do have more fun.


DEFINITIONS
Key to understanding the cultural implications of the defining question of this study is the more specific delineation of the word "fun." Again, the pop cultural roots of the issue are evident in the choice of the word itself:
fun, n., 1. lively, gay play or playfulness;..."

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"This study will provide a summary of two books on Japanese culture, Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Robert C. Christopher's The Japanese Mind. Benedict's work is the more anthropological work, focusing on the development of Japanese culture from the seventh century to the end of World war II. Christopher has written the more anecdotal work, focusing on Japanese culture after World War II, primarily on the decades of the 1970s and 1980s.
Christopher writes to educate Americans about Japanese culture in the late 20th century and to improve relations between the two countries, presenting "a psychic and institutional guidebook to today's Japan" (Christopher 7). Aiming at the lay reader, Christopher's book is deliberately non-scholarly, but his intentions are serious. The urgency of his book is rooted in his.."

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"Reincarnation refers to the rebirth of the soul so that a person who has died at some point in the past lives again in a new form. As Ward states, "The most fundamental aspect of reincarnation is the belief that a single soul will be incarnated in more than one body," and he further notes that the term can be defined as "the doctrine of the soul incarnating or reappearing after death in another and different bodily form" (Ward 9). This has long been a religious doctrine and is now examined as a possible physical reality by people who believe that hey have lived before and that they can recall earlier lives, often under hypnosis or some other external stimulus. Many people have reported that they have recalled previous lives, often in great detail and sometimes in ways that can be checked. Some of these stories have indeed suggested that either the individual in the.."

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This author wrote from the "I" perspective and told of a case he had in the ER of a boy who had a high fever. The author describes the parents and not much about the son, except that he was burning up with fever. He had been to the doctor and the ER, was given antibiotics from both places, but it wasn't working. The author desribes how he was able to figure out what was wrong and why the medicine didn't seem to be working.

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"My first day in the ER I got urinated on, spit on and I got pat on the back for surviving the day. I chose the ER for its fast pace and immediacy in working with patients. Also working in the ER gives me the opportunity to work with a variety of illnesses and injuries. Children are a part of the ER environment. I have had children bite me as I try and take their temperature and scream as loud as they can just because I offered them a sticker. Then there are other children who smile at you and want to play with your stethoscope and even give you a hug and kiss as they leave. One night I had a young boy come into the ER--I was..."

Tags:education, triage, information

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The goal of the assignment was to compare/contrast the styles of Gloria Naylor and Amy Tan based on a pair of articles in which each describes anecdotes that illustrate differences between standards English and that which was practiced within their families.

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- Comparative Analysis: The Rhetorical Styles and Use of Language By Amy Tan and Gloria Naylor Both Amy Tan and Gloria Naylor described ways in which the language of their culture are sources of strength and understanding even while being subject to derision and contempt by the dominant White culture. Both saw language as sources of strength, pride and distinction for people of their respective cultures. Both Tan and Naylor are authors who, despite tremendous odds, wrote best selling novels while very young. In both cases the books were somewhat autobiographical, drawing heavily on their

Tags:racism, language, mother

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This paper explains that Frances Henry and Effie Ginzberg's research revealed the apparent bias of the authors as well as their willingness to predicate their research based on their questionable methodology that was only "quasi-experimental" in nature. The author points out his or her critical concern about Henry and Ginzberg's definition of discrimination and whether or not they are being unjustly harsh in their assessment of many common employment practices. The paper relates that, nonetheless, there are strengths in the article such as having black testers and white testers apply for the same position and go to the same place to be interviewed, which makes possible a very good comparative analysis. The authors stresses that these in-person interviews rely upon anecdotal evidence collected at the site by the tester and not upon any independent statistical analysis.

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"The problem with having professional actors is that they are obviously not playing themselves; suffice it to say, a case can be made that the in-person testing process was not as authentic as it should have been because thespians were trying to be someone else - as opposed to having ordinary people play themselves in the job interview process without affectation. The biggest problem I see in the decision of Henry and Ginzberg to use professional performers is that professional actors in such a circumstance could "ape" certain mannerisms or employ stereotypical behavior that might in some way distort the outcome of the interview."

Tags:language, comparative, bias, anecdotal, actors