In James Baldwin's short story, "Sonny's Blues," the narrator's brother, Sonny, has a heroin addiction and gets arrested for using and selling drugs. ... James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" presents a family theme through the use of symbolism, tone, and first person narration. Jazz music is a very big symbol in "Sonny's Blues." ... He lets Sonny know his disapproval towards drugs and Sonny's choice in music, as well as clearly laying out the rules for him staying at his house. ... The theme of "Sonny's Blues" is family. ...

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A Life Lesson in "Sonny's Blues" ""You know people can't always do exactly what they want to do -"" (91). This is the attitude of the narrator towards his brother Sonny in the beginning of "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin. ... Although they had grown up in the same house under the same conditions, they have both taken away two completely different views on life. ...

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A family and house was very important to the Victorians, they took much pride in both their family and their house. ... Popular colors were peacock greens and blues, magentas, violets, raw pinks, and olive greens and Grey's and dull blues were accepted as evidence of artistic rectitude. ... Every house had a parlor as well. ... The bedroom was obviously in every house. ... Each house also had a kitchen. ...

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Issues which are reflected in his novel Reservation Blues. ... It must be weird"" (Reservation Blues, 82). ... ~ In Reservation Blues, hunger is illustrated many times in the lives of the main characters: Thomas, Junior, Victor, Chess and Checkers... " those who dreamed in childhood of fishing for salmon...woke up as adults in line for U.S.D.A. commodity food opened up cans of commodities and wept over the rancid meat, forced to eat what stray dogs ignored." (14). " Thomas dreamed about television and hunger he sat, all hungry and lonely White people owned everything: food, houses, clo...

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When the Mississippi river flood of 1927 happened many lost whatever they had such as their houses or belongings it was time where people needed a boost and help. Many blues songs were made specifically about the Mississippi river flood of 1927. According to "soundcheck.why.ord/story/songs-great-flood" artist such as Barbeque Bob wrote "miss heavy water blues" in New York during the horrific disaster was happening, people heard this in a sense gave them little hope to keep battling their struggles .Another big name that wrote a song about the flood was Lonnie Johnson calle...

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Roots Concert Review Last month I attended a live performance by the Roots. The show took place at the House of Blues in Anaheim, California. Once inside the venue I was surprised to see how small the club actually was. I have seen The Roots three times prior to the 15th at venues where it was i...

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talking blues, popularized by Woodie Guthrie, featuring rhyming talking with ironic asides to the audience. ... Individual performances that prefigured rap While rap as a musical genre started in the 80s, there have been many black and white performers who succeeded with rap-style performances in early jazz, blues, pop, and country performances. ... Fish, it's my favorite dish" Champion Jack Dupree's "Big Leg Emma's" (1956), rhyming tale of a barrelhouse raid over slow blues piano: "I went down to Big Leg Emma's house, to get myself a drink of gin, but before I got i...

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The short story Sonny's Blues, by James Baldwin, is a story about responsibility , imprisonment, and salvation. ... He got Sonny a place to live (his wife's parents house) so that he could finish high school. ... The short story Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin had three main messages to take away. ...

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It is a boy named Greg showing up at an old abandoned house to escape the rain. ... Lemon Brown protected Greg when some people can into the abandoned house. Lemon Brown also was protective when Greg entered the house because he was still unsure about him. ... He wants to become a blues singer again so he was headed to St. ... But he still fells that becoming a blues singer was his fate of life. ...

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Characterization "Sonny's Blues", written by acclaimed writer James Baldwin is a story of two brothers who struggle with their differences and end up going two different ways at the fork of life; molding them into their personalities which we see develop throughout the story. ... From the beginning of the story Sonny starts off in jail after his arrest, he then goes to stay at his brother's house with his wife, Isabel, and her parents. He hones in on his love for music and at Isabel's house with their family piano. ...

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Tourists can visit the Cabildo, where the signing of the Louisiana Purchase took place or visit the house of former Confederate General P.T. ... Jazz and Blues can be heard from many places in the French Quarter. ... Tourists can visit the House of Blues for musical entertainment. ...

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Immediately after I was focused on the buildings in the background, mainly the large house in the distance. ... The contrast of the grasses emphasize the incline of the hill and the distance between the woman and the house on the horizon. ... The same colors also make the painting seem very humid and stifling, but the cool blues and greys along with the wind gives the feeling of a cool breeze, counter reacting the heat. ... The colors red, orange, and yellow on the hill are complementary to the blues, grays, and greens seen in the sky and buildings, giving a feel of distance and gives dimensio...

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My Special House Out of all the houses I have ever lived in there is only, truly one that is engraved in my memories. ... The flowers were so colourful reds, blues, yellows, purples, oranges all buzzing with insect life drawn there by the sweet, fresh smell. ... Nearly all of my memories are good from that house. ... I don't want to bring any particular item from that house to my future house but what I do want to bring is that feeling I always got when I was in the house. ... A house where they are truly happy....

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You can make an assumption that the white's house hold is very laid back and happy. ... But as for the Blues they want be able be to participate in none of that if their parent's income doesn't improve....

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SUBJECT: Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso's Blue Period 1901, before moving to Madrid Pablo Picasso was staying in Málaga with his friend Casagemas at his family's house. ... He depicts himself as unhappy, there isn't a smile on his face, and the colors surrounding him are full of all blues and greens smeared together. On his pale white face, around his dark eyes and his cheekbones, there are different shades of blues and greens that define his face giving him a serious character. ... He sometimes mixed these blues with yellows and greens to depict different feel...

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Bird's statement concerning Alexie's embellishment of Native American despair due to alcoholism is an accurate interpretation of Reservation Blues. In Reservation Blues, almost every Native American is an alcoholic. ... In Reservation Blues, not much information is given about Victor's parents; there are only references to the death of Victor's father in Arizona and the simple fact that his mother is dead. ... One night he got drunk and accidentally set the house on fire and not everyone could be saved. ... The question really came down to does alcohol still control the...

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When I first encountered this painting I was taken back by Vincent Van Goghs usage of yellows and blues. ... I think the homes are also colored with purples, blues, and reds to keep the onlookers attention as they look from the two major points in the paintings. If the houses where not so elaborately decorated or placed I for one would be more focused on the sky or the tree in the foreground. ...

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It combined elements of Ragtime, marching band music, and Blues. ... There is no doubt that Morton had music not covered by the blues or ragtime and that he applied a swinging to a variety of music. ... Some of the early sounds of jazz where associated with whore houses and "ladies of ill repute." ...

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While on the farm there was a black migrant farmer by the name of Uncle John that taught him how to play rhythm and blues (Busnar 67). ... Carl made the band special though, because he was knowledgeable of the African American rhythm and blues techniques. ... According to The Encyclopedia of Popular Music the highest he would get on the charts would be seventy with "Boppin" The Blues" and sixty-seven with "Your True Love" Throughout his career Perkins would constantly be switching record labels. ... London: Iron Bridge House. ...

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Jimi Hendrix: The Man, The Myth, & The Music Jimi Hendrix was an American musician whose innovative electric guitar playing had a profound role on influencing rock music and its culture. Jimi was born in Seattle, Washington on November 27, ...

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It was on this adventure I "bought" a door for the Ramada Inn - Hollywood, and later in the week earned the distinctive recognition of being honored as one of the "Bano Brothers", an achievement almost as prestigious as being John Belushi and Dan Ackroyd in the Blues Brothers. ... My friend Brett and I were always very passionate about building forts and things in the woods behind my house and so we were very excited when he gave us the opportunity to build the bathroom by ourselves. ...

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During this manhunt, a sign went up in windows of houses and businesses all across the United States. The sign read, "Angela, sister, you are welcome in this house." ... Her articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and she is the author of several books, including Angela Davis: An Autobiography; Women, Race & Class; and the recently published Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday, the Angela Y. ...

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During one week, I looked for information in the library and at my house, and from the information I gathered and my one knowledge about the topic, I'm going to lead the reader to a better understanding of Rock n' Roll. ... It emerged from rhythm and blues, a music similar to jazz played by blacks. ... At the same time, there of nostalgia to return to the older pre rock music, like rhythm and blues, which was suggested by played by Elvis Costello. ...

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Then came blues music, which was different from jazz music because they were stories told through song about life's sadness and misery. Chicago blues music has pianos, bases, electric guitars and harmonicas for a different type of sound. ... Together, Addams and her friend leased a house, built by Charles Hull, which was meant to supply a place of social life, work on educational projects and most importantly, to improve the conditions of Chicago. ...

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It has a mixture of blues and jazz music. ... We had only one radio and as a child in my parent's house you didn't get many choices. ... Zydeco music was played everyday in my house, at noon on Sundays following the gospel music and all of our family gatherings. ...

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