Abstract
This is an essay with two purposes. It is an exercise in using evidence to make a point. This is also a comparison of the leadership styles Abraham Lincoln, American president, and Jefferson Davis, Confederate president. Briefly, why was Lincoln more successful. This paper argues that he had superior political skills, based on his background in a tougher political environment.

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C20838 Compare and Contrast: Abraham Lincoln versus Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln was a superior politician to Jefferson Davis. The industrial and population disparity between both sides may have made it impossible for the South to win the American Civil War. However, Lincoln's superior political ability was a definite advantage to the North. The two men had surprisingly similar backgrounds, being born 100 miles apart in Kentucky, less than a year apart, both the sons of struggling farmers. Davis' family, however, moved to Mississippi. By the time he went

Tags:lincoln, davis, leadership

Abstract
In this article, the writer summarizes the autobiography of Miles Davis and also touches on two recordings and their importance.

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"Music as an art form holds one of the most complex relationships from artist to audience. When a painter completes a work it stands complete and unaltered for as long as it survives. The same is true of a sculpture. A piece of music however is subject to repeated interpretation and evaluation. Even when a musical piece is performed by the same person or group of people such as in a jazz group each live performance is different from any ..."

Tags:miles davis, music, quincy troupe

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The paper describes Jefferson Davis' background and his positions as U.S. senator, Congressman and President of the Confederacy. The paper looks at a work he authored and goes on to depict how Davis was captured and imprisoned after the surrender of General Lee. The paper discusses his last years and his funeral and provides a quote from a tribute by a Reverend Gallaher.

Outline:
Introduction
Davis: Senator, Congressman and Confederate President
Davis: The Author
Davis: The Surrender
Davis: The Last Years

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"Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Kentucky in Todd County, formerly Christian County, Kentucky. Davis was educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky and attended the U.S. Military Academy graduating in 1828. David fought in the Mexican War at Monterrey and Buena Visa and was wounded. David retired from the army in 1835 due to health problems. In the same year Jefferson Davis married Miss Sallie Taylor whose father was Zachary Taylor however, Sally died only three months following their wedding. (Alward, nd) After Sallie died, David purchased a cotton plantation complete with slaves working the field and was a successful plantation cotton farmer. In 1845, David married again, this time to Miss Varina Howell. (Alward, nd) Davis was both a devoted father and husband."

Tags:Confederacy, slavery, Mississippi

Abstract
Jazz is the dynamic tension between the expected and the improvised. Miles Davis was brought up torn between his well-to-do white-emulating upbringing and his black heritage. Davis not only bridged this gap but helped create entire new musical vocabularies throughout his long and varied career as a jazz trumpeter. This report shows his evolution and his continuing influence on other musicians, as described in his biography, "Miles Davis: A Biography," written by Ian Carr.

Paper Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
Childhood
Further Development
Evolution, Addiction, & Resurrection
His Influence on Music Today
Concluding Remarks
References

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"He worked with and was a catalyst for Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and countless others(p234). Many times in his career it had been declared that he already "peaked" and was a remnant of the 50's, of bebop, of cool jazz, of fusion jazz. But he never let himself grow complacent and become an icon of the past. By not producing unless he had something new to say, he was able to continually stay relevant, and re-invent himself every few years (p183). "

Tags:African, American, blues, musician, bebop

Abstract
This paper explains that Mike Davis' "Ecology of Fear" is a criticisms of the planning and development in Los Angeles Country, which has resulted in serious environmental and social costs. The author applies Davis' lessons from this book to Toronto. The paper demonstrates that Toronto's shortcoming in planning threaten the environment and have serious repercussions for poverty, related crime and widening class gaps in the future.

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"Mike Davis' "Ecology of Fear is a readable and interesting account of a laissez faire approach that has been taken, through the history of Los Angeles, and towards serious environmental hazards and disasters in the present. The last third, or so, of this volume is most interesting, as Davis turns to a discussion of Los Angeles' great gaps between the rich and poor, and an overall concern for security, that have been one important result. New planning may yet bring the destruction of the city, in Davis' view. "

Tags:toronto, losangeles, mikeellis

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This paper reviews and discusses the life of jazz musician, Miles Davis. According to the paper, the music and the artistic innovation of Miles Davis made him one of the most popular jazz musicians in musical history. The paper further discusses how his influence as a composer, bandleader, artist and innovator in the field of jazz is still evident today.

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"In 1948 Davis had organized a nine-piece band which included a very unusual horn section; an early indication of his propensity for innovation and experimentation. "In addition to himself, it featured an alto saxophone, a baritone saxophone, a trombone, a French horn, and a tuba. "(Miles Davis) The band received a contract in 1949 from Capital records and went on to produce a record which at first received little attention but which was to be released in 1957 as the famous "Birth of the Cool" album. In the interim the music that Davis and his band were producing was to have an enormous influence on and many other musicians. Among these musicians were figures such as; Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, J.J. Johnson, and Kenny Clarke. The music that Davis was creating at this time was to have "....a profound influence on the development of the cool jazz style on the West Coast. " (Miles Davis) "

Tags:Prestige, label, Tadd, Dameron, Cannonball, Adderley, Grammy

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Angela Y. Davis was one of the founding mothers of the radical black feminist and civil rights movement. Her participation in these movements was not simply vocal and intellectual, but profoundly political as well. In particular, it examines how a different, more artistic side of her political interests comes to light regarding Davis' works in "Blues, Legacy and Black Feminism", in which she shows an interest in black feminist works beyond that of the purely verbal and prosaic.

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"Perhaps inevitably, the second half of the work and its project falls a bit short. The main problem with the methodology of emphasizing lyrics is that it tends to bring "the word" or a literary rather than a musical perspective to the forefront in understanding these performance artists. This bias may be inevitable, given Professor Davis' own background. But these women were not of the academy "their music was performed as a living text. However, although the inclusions of the lyrics and the lyrical analysis is not as strong as the first more historically oriented part of the book that seems to be more in line with Davis' abilities as an historian, the analysis of the lyrics does reveal that these artists did discuss issues of domestic violence and transgressing lesbian love in a way that is seldom given credit."

Tags:blues, jazz, consciousness

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A review of "The Angela Y. David Reader", edited by Joy James. It explains how these writings cover Davis's academic and political life from the 1960s to the present and serve to show young black women one path to achieving more for their people and for themselves.

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"The introduction by Joy James tells much of Davis's story and relates it to the political currents of the 1960s and after, including the many efforts by different governmental leaders to put down various movements seeking greater freedom of speech and other rights as promised in the Constitution yet denied to many, including blacks. The efforts by the government included a number of questionable and outright illegal actions to gather and keep intelligence on American citizens who dissented from the accepted political order of the time. Davis clearly fell into this group and was investigated for practicing her rights of political association and speech."

Tags:civil, rights, action, social

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This paper compares the themes of realism and art in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" by arguing that Deb and Hugh are symbolic characters. The author believes that Davis's work breaks down the traditional boundaries between art and realism by suggesting that realism has supplanted the more traditional understanding of art as a way of seeing the world.

Abstract
This paper provides four brief film essays that discuss a variety of topics, including the future of big-budget vs. independent films, the advent of live motion capture technology, the availability of behind-the-scenes features on DVDs, and the issue of whether or not films with intense images of violence should be edited after their release for television audiences.

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"The prediction of George Lucas about the future of film production is overly optimistic with respect to a trend toward low-budget independent films. There have always been independent films produced in Hollywood but the major studios ..."

Tags:Hollywood, cinema, The Sixth Sense, Bette Davis, Alfred Hitchcock, Saving Private Ryan, magic, technology, movies