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challenging. He cheated on his girlfriend, but loved her because he thought of proposing to her. He really loved his daughter and wanted the best for her. His daughter also loved him a lot and always asked about him like when he was in prison and in the end of the movie. It’s a sad movie that reveals many things to the viewer that minorities face like in the case of Oscar Grant. Officer Caruso crosses the racial…

Was Durkheim right in his analysis of suicide? Intro/ Definitions of suicide / Brief on Emile Durkheim/ Brief on his study in context, considering time period. Emile Durkheim was a French sociologists whom studied the rate of suicide. Durkheim selected three countries in particular, these countries were England; France and Denmark. In his studies he states that “suicide was a solidary act, the causes had significant links to various social factors.” Durkheim’s aim was to find similar social…

Emile Durkheim was an influential figure in the French school of Sociology. In his piece “The Elementary Forms of Religious life” (1912), Durkheim examines religion not exclusively as pertaining to church, but instead as an important societal function (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). “He sought to explain why the moral realm focused so much on religion” (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). In his book, Emile Durkheim uses concepts such as social facts, the moral code, symbols, and the distinction between…

OT2100-Week Three-Laws in Leviticus Paper According to Victor P. Hamilton (2015), “In Chs. 17-27 the primary focus is not so much on how God’s people are to worship as on how they are to live; those who worship a holy God will aspire to live holy lives and appropriate the resources that a holy God makes available to them to so order their lives” (p. 282). In Leviticus Chapter 19:19, recorded are laws against mixtures. It is not clear as to why this group of laws would appear here especially…

Article Summary Criminological research has a heavy presence of studies testing social bond theory. One such study, done by Michael Cretacci, tested religion as a social control. Throughout the article Cretacci claimed that Hirschi originally had data on adding religion as a social control, but for some unknown reason excluded it from the theory (Cretacci, 2003). Cretacci used that missing piece of history to see the effect that religion has on violence across developmental stages. In order to…

Parker's Ri Bop Boys which was recorded in November 26, 1945 at WOR studios in New York City. Charlie Parker's Ri Bop Boys consisted of Curly Russell on bass and Max Roach on drums. Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie played piano on most pieces while 19-year-old Miles Davis played trumpet. This song was in the Bebop genre which is part of jazz. The song I will be comparing it with, is “Take 5” composed by Paul Desmond and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was recorded on July 1 1959, at Columbia…

Chick Corea is an American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Chick Corea received the privilege to be part of the electric jazz fusion movement back in the 1960’s along side Miles Davis. From 1941 until today Chick has recorded a total of eighty-eight albums alongside some of the greatest musicians of his time. Chick Corea has become a master of his craft being nominated sixty-three Grammy Awards, and out of which he has won twenty-two. Out of his eighty-eight albums he’s…

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie was born in South Carolina in 1917 and died in 1993. He was a jazz trumpet player, bandleader and composer. He received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. He was one of the pioneers in bebop and had performed in Minton’s Playhouse and Monroe’s Uptown House. He worked with Charlie Parker in 1945, and performed in New York and Los Angeles. After the Los Angeles performance in December 1945, Gillespie returned to New York and Parker…

This made the structural format of theme-solo-theme. "This is a progression from the melody, to routine-ing the melody, to routine-ing the routine; the jazz lingo". Bing Crosby said this "American music begins and ends with Louis Armstrong". Also Dizzy Gillespie said at Louis' death that, "never before in the history of black music had one individual so completely dominated an art form as the Master, Daniel Louis Armstrong" ("Daniel"). Louis Armstrong created scat…

Sarah Cabral’s work “is as authentic and inviting, as it is sophisticated” -- QUOTE. Born in southern Brazil, Sarah Cabral grew up in a time of great influence from North American pop music and music contained within telenovelas. Despite this, and having moved to the United Stated in the early 2000’s, Cabral never lost touch with the deep roots that exist in Brazilian music. This deep connection permeates throughout her debut, self-titled album, which Cabral also produced. In it she draws on…