Alexie's first novel, Reservation Blues, was published in 1995 and is no exception to this. ... Although the title can refer to the Reservation Blues being the general sad and depressing atmosphere on the Reservation it can also refer to the type of music, the Blues, as being appropriated by Native Americans. ... Alexie retells this in another of Thomas' dreams where the television is on and showing that white people owned everything: food, houses, clothes, children (Thomas' desire for what he sees as a white man's privilege only serves to show how really deprived life is ...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Morrison then moved to Syracuse, New York and began to work as an editor for Random House, which gave her free time in the evenings to raise her two small children as well as write novels. She moved to New York City where she continued to work as an editor for Random House in 1968. ... Our cultural knowledge and values that are central to the blues form the thematic and rhetorical understanding of The Bluest Eye, as the narrative's structure appears to follow a pattern common to traditional blues lyrics. ... Moses allows us to understand his perception that Claudia's role as a storyt...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While it was open it housed several off-Broadway productions, including Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The Proposition", a satirical review. ... The name CBGB's stands for "Country Blue Grass and Blues,"" but it was punk rock that emanated from bands such as "Suicide," "The Ramones," "The Dictators," "The Patti Smith Group," "The Misfits," "The Dead Boys," "The Talking Heads," "Blondie," and countless others who were launched into stardom and immortality from the stage of the infamous club at 315 Bowery @ Bleecker Street, in lower Manhattan. ...

• Word Count: 3241
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

While it is easy for the average person to recognize why casino growth is so rapid ("the house always wins"), it isn't quite so apparent why prison growth is almost as tremendous. ... Clothing manufacturer CMT Blues runs its factory out of the maximum security Richard J. ...

• Word Count: 3333
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate