Fiddle

1. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a short story that starts in media res (in the middle of things) with the narrator, who is a high school algebra teacher in Harlem, New York, reading from a newspaper article that his seven years younger brother, Sonny, is arrested for using heroin. After some time, the narrator writes to Sonny after his two-year-old daughter, Grace, dies from polio. The narrator has a flashback to a time his mother was alive to tell him that he had an uncle, but the uncle…

about the death penalty for doing so. He becomes “fortune’s fool” (III, i, 141) after this event. Fortune, which has been really good to him so far, causes him to kill a member of the Capulet family, conforming his downfall. Fate plays him like a fiddle, giving him a joyous time in his life and then bringing all his hopes and dreams crashing down, hence deeming him its…

I’ve been on this ship with the Hesperis crew for two months now. We are somewhere in the middle of space between Earth and Venus. Travelling to Venus takes about 5 months, which means I still have three months of living (a very generous term for this situation in my opinion) in a 300 ft3 room with three other people [1, 2]. Trust me it’s not fun. It is difficult enough to live in a cramped living area by myself. The most common topic when discussing human space travel is the effects radiation…

then modern society would have to grapple with the fact that though slavery was inherently wrong, there were “nice” masters. The movie does give some insight into Ford’s humanity. Ford tries to buy Eliza’s children with her; Ford gives Solomon the fiddle and eventually tries to protect Solomon from Tibeats. Throughout his story, Solomon insists on the treatment of kindness expressed to him and the other slaves on the plantation by William Ford and his wife. Though the movie shows Solomon…

piano, a guitar and only in the beginning, he starts the song off with a banjo. This song doesn’t have many instruments within the song but has a strong use of the guitar. Many country artists use multiple forms of instruments such as drums, bass, fiddle, guitar, piano and many more in their songs. But regardless, Luke Bryan’s song is kept simple with a start of the banjo in the beginning and a foot stomping beat throughout the…

Without African music we would not have some of the most popular genres of music that we have today. African music influence helped create genres like jazz, gospel, blues, soul and even hip hop and reggae. The traditional song and dance created by native Africans spread all over the world as its fusion with other type of song helped create the music we all know and love today. The spread of the African music can be traced to the slave trade that shipped Africans all over the world. The one thing…

From the very first time that Northup is enslaved in Washington, he notices all of the women surrounding him. In his book, he gives the reader a detailed account their marital statuses, children, skills, personalities and physical attributes. Essentially, male and female slaves are treated differently. Throughout his book, Northup portrays differences in labor, demands and expectations of masters from female slaves. When Northup first meets Eliza in Burch’s slave pen, they are transported to a…

Committees are messy. Few, if any, routinely reach mainstream media attention (see Section V). Less generate political traction. And when committees become important, they not so infrequently become televised, more politicized, and then largely ignored by stakeholders. Consequently, when deciding on a normative lens, the study of House of Commons committees should rely on Deborah Stone’s polis model specifically because of its focus on realpolitik instead of the idealism rejected in the…

Anthropology of Sport is the culturally diverse and natural comprehension of game in ancient times, history, and the contemporary world (Blanchard 1995). It examines the financial, political and social measurements of game and how wear impacts the lives of people and groups far and wide. Sports has as of late pulled in close ethnographic enthusiasm as a protest of teach, a domain of pop culture through spectatorship, and through the contemporary rage for wellbeing and wellness. Sports has been…

Presently, many schools across the United States have a delayed starting time, but this would probably not have been a possibility in the 1930s. Education during the Great Depression was less than mediocre, with property taxes that supported schools falling whenever the value of farm land decreased. Unfortunately, the value of farm land was on a down-hill slope (Davis). Consequently, many schools were forced to close due to lack of money, and the schools that stayed open struggled to pay their…