Charlie Korsmo

Miles Davis also known to some as Prince of Darkness was said to be the top musician during his time with a plan set out to change the concept of jazz and how the world see it. Davis was born 1926 in Alton, Illinois. He was a leader of a band named Miles Davis Quintet as well as a well-known jazz trumpet player. This paper will be going into details of the jazz artist Miles Davis from the beginning of his music career to the end. In 1926 a well-known jazz artist by the name of Miles Davis…

Lights!” What a classical film, complete with many different visual interests and original styles. With the un-denying romance and comical atmosphere, “City Lights” is sure to keep you entertained until the very end. “City Lights” was directed by Charlie Chaplin and was released in 1931 and is said to be one of the, if not the greatest, romances of all time. Thought at its release to be “dead” because of talking movies starting up, Chaplin proved critics wrong, and made a never-ending name for…

Night’s (American) Dream Through semiotics and representation, Ellen Lauren relates the illusion of the American Dream to the conflict between reality and dreams in her 1930s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through the image of Puck as Charlie Chaplin. In Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, by Stuart Hall, Hall explains that when a person sees an object, they can connect meaning to that object. They see the object, connect it to a concept in their…

Charlie Chaplin is the most well-known name in the history of silent film. He gave much comic relief to audiences during the Great Depression. His movies made people laugh like they could not in their stressful, everyday lives. The humor that Chaplin used to make people enjoy life came from the painful experiences he had growing up. His childhood had a large impact on how he saw the world and resulted in how he showed the world that view. Chaplin’s childhood came with much heartbreak, but out of…

Swing music originated by musicians modifying forms of “jazz", so that by the 1930’s a new form of music emerged called “swing”. Swing is characterized by very large bands, fixed, usually written arrangements, and solos by individual musicians in turn. Swing bands typically used an upright or double bass instead of a tuba and played repeated riffs to give the music a propulsive rhythmic force. Swing combined harmonic sophistication with danceable rhythms and compelling individual…

work in order to make a living. Even with such jobs, women are degraded, “Andy Cohen, a senior executive at Bravo, referred to Sheen’s current companions, Natalie Kenly and Bree Olsen, as ‘whores’ or MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe,’ on Tuesday,” (Holmes 3). Charlie Sheen is the culprit in abusing these two women but because they work as escorts they are seen as the lesser individuals, who have deemed the reputation to be publically shamed on national television. The thought of tarnishing the status of…

In 1935, Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher as well as cultural critic, argued that art, in an age of excessive mechanical production and reproduction would be based and revolve around politics and current events. Benjamin analyzed through his essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” the shifting focus of films and art from the classical traditional world, to the modern, industrial age. Benjamin believed that the world was transitioning from a time where “unique” was…

Charlie Munger Biography Charles T Munger was born on January 1st 1924 in Omaha Nebraska. Charlie first gained a degree in Mathematics from the University of Michigan before going to Harvard and gaining a Law degree in 1948. In 1965 Charlie decided that he would leave the law profession to pursue a career in managing investments. Charlie’s investment partnership was very successful achieving a compounding rate of return of 19.8% from 1962-1975, in other words $1000 invested in 1962 would be…

Curtis “Stickman” Brummitt Looking at the history of humanity, one can see that we are a people whom claim to have strong ties to morality, with the ability to actively determine right and wrong, yet every day we stray further and further from the rightness we so often claim to possess. Poets and writers, already known for criticizing humanity for its every flaw, have unsurprisingly leapt at the opportunity to again berate humans for their disregard for doing the right thing. “We must cultivate…

In Whiplash, at 1:17:25, Nieman is at a jazz club where his former teacher, Terrence Fletcher is playing. The scene opens with Fletcher playing a beautiful song while Nieman simply watches. However, when the song ends, Fletcher nods and gazes into the crowd, until he spots Nieman which causes him to immediately stop. This cause Nieman to turn around and leave the club when suddenly Fletcher calls out his name. Nieman pauses and then lets out an awkward, “Hey.” A hard transition takes place and…