Swinging

Four months ago as the summer was coming to an end, and the upcoming school year was lurking in the air like an unwanted smell, I had a fleeting, very unwelcome feeling of freshman year. No longer would I be a high school student living in my parent’s house in the small town of Parker, Colorado. I instead, would be traveling 1,145 miles to Oxford, Mississippi, and attending school with 23,000 other students. I clung to my mom at orientation like a child hiding behind their mother’s skirt because…

In three years they recorded over 60 records, which now are considered the most influential recordings in jazz history. Changing jazz into what was once known as a ensemble music to soloist art. With his daring rhythmic choice, swinging vocabulary, and incredibly high notes; changing jazz history once again. Armstrong began to sing on the records, creating a new form of singing, scat singing. Armstrong was a busy man, he always had more than one thing going on, if he wasn’t recording…

just see the black reapers but also hear the actions of their work. “I see them place the hones in their hip-pockets as a thing that’s done, and start their silent swinging” (line 2-4) . When you see the reapers place the hones in their pockets you know they are done sharpening their scythes and something is about to begin. ‘Silent swinging” goes back to the extra layer of sound adding to the imagery, and plunges the reader deeper into Toomer’s dark ominous setting. The next image “black horses”…

superb improvisation and unique tone, only suited to her. There would be a solid foundation of Charles Mingus, who would also add flair to the walking bass line without missing a beat, and Max Roach who, on occasion, would drop serious bombs. The swinging and high range of Cannonball Adderley and his fast notes create a heart-pumping aspect of the saxophone. While Lester Young adds a light individuality to the saxophone sound, which creates a layer of airiness…

The realization of what is reality and what isn’t can easily become blurred in literature specifically in the story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce, in which a gentleman named Peyton Farquhar is to be hung for a crime against the Confederacy of which he was tricked into committing. The audience is led to believe he escaped the hanging until the final paragraph where that image is smashed to pieces, it is explained to be a figment of his imagination. Ambrose Bierce…

Cody was swinging in a baby swing on the playground. He was holding on with both hands in a firm closed grip on the chains. His mother was pushing him and the swing. When the swing was pushed, his feet was bent under the seat. When the adults where talking, Cody would look to the adult that was speaking at that time. Cody mother asked him to go play with the other children. He yelled out “NO”, while shaking his head no. Then he told his mother “push”. Then mom stated pushing him again on…

reason why Aaron is determined is because it took him a long time to get into baseball and continues to play no matter what people do to him or what they tell him. “My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to…

as much as they did. One day a life changing event took place. I was in the dugout looking at the red softball dirt spread in the field; imagining how the game will go and how I couldn’t wait for college. Soon the game started and the bats started swinging, and I ended up on the bases. While on first and I look over at my coach, and he gives me the signal to steal second base; when telling me that I sensed a sickening feeling that came over me. I then shook off the anxiety while moving forward.…

the Romantic Era that involved the piano and soloist singer. Gretchen Am Spinnrade translates to Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel. According to NPR.org, “Schubert read a story about Goethe’s Faust about a guy who sells his soul to the devil for a “swinging” lifestyle, which includes a woman Gretchen. In the story it talks about Gretchen being upset over something and she uses the spinning wheel to spin yarn.” The music translates from German and the words to the music are very deep and…

In the test “Juggler” by Richard Wilbur, he describes this individual as a god of the juggling trade. He makes the performance into a process where he carefully grooms the details and puts them on paper in a way that seems more ambiguous than it actually is. This technique implies that the author has great and perpetual admiration for The Juggler and his profession. Throughout the poem, Wilbur portrays the juggler and his ability as godlike rather than average. The lifeless and very foggy tone…