The Green Mile

Miles played with top jazz artist early in his career such as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Miles knowing of his talent quickly left his mentors and worked closely with Gil Evans to create a new sound for Jazz. After five long years of experimenting with technique, timing, and breath control he released “The Complete Birth of the Cool” and sound became known as cool jazz. Cool jazz had a huge effect on musicians on the west coast. Miles Davis not only influenced the…

Charlie Parker Jr. better known as the Bird was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He is accredited for being an influential part in the development of bebop. This style of jazz had a much faster tempo, specialized technique, and advancement in the harmony that is used. His playing style made way for faster chords, variants to altered chords, and substitution that are made to it. Although he had a difficult upbringing and maybe obstacles were placed in front of him, he still succeeded…

While the game is presented through protagonist Desmond Miles, the bulk of the game is played as Desmond experiences the memories of his ancestors through an advanced device called the Animus. This provides a means of a diegetic interface, showing Desmond's ancestor's health, equipment, goals, and other features as part of the Animus interface. The Animus is based on the player controlling the assassin to maintain the synchronization between Desmond and his ancestor's memories. Performing…

Dylan Scallo Mrs. Glaser English 3 Honors 29 May 2015 Jazz comes in a variety of genres: dixieland, bebop, blues. Each genre contains its own unique quality that distinguishes itself from the rest, whether the difference is the steady beat of a drum, the focus on a pianist’s melody, or the fast tempo kept throughout a piece of music. The influx of jazz styles was welcomed by the people in the late twentieth century who appreciated a variety of music to choose from. The music reflects what was…

John Green has been put on a pedestal in the literary world, after so much praise from critics for ‘The ‘fault in our stars’,so I felt compelled to delve into his debut novel, ‘Looking for Alaska’. Our high school years has to be the time were we all focus on our beliefs, self-image, and anything other that our grades. Green accurately captures the essence of high school. Through the perspective of the protagonist, Miles Halter, the audience is guided through his journey of self-discovery and…

I have read the realistic fiction book, Looking for Alaska by John Green. The book starts with a boy named Miles “Pudge” Halter, who has a hard time with finding friends, likes biographies, and is fascinated by last words. Miles goes to attend a boarding school because he seeks “a great perhaps.” He soon meets his roommate Chip “The Colonel” Martin and his friend Alaska Young. Miles goes through the year with The Colonel and Alaska as his best friends and they go through amazing experiences with…

In the novel Looking for Alaska written by John Green, Miles “Pudge” Halter is looking for his “Great Perhaps” to happen, and later finds himself living it after moving to a boarding school in Alabama called Culvert Creek. The fictional book focuses on Pudge the adventures he has with Alaska, the crazy, wild, clever girl that he meets at the school, along with a few other friends he meets on the way. Miles talks to Alaska often realizes that there is some mystery to Alaska that he can not quite…

The memory of 126 Riverside Drive will always stay with me. The concrete in front of the apartment overlooking the park is separated into squares and covered in old gum and the occasional chalk doodle. You go up and stand on the single black concrete step and look up at the black marble and the silver 126. You walk in the clear glass door and walk onto the faded tile floor that goes from the bottom of the few lonely stairs through the next door and to the elevator. You feel the cold from the…

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“Looking for Alaska” written by John Green is about Miles Halter, who moves to Birmingham Alabama. Miles joins a boarding school when he gets caught up in the intriguing, sexy, intelligent, and confusing world of Alaska Young. When Miles meets Alaska his whole world was turned upside down. Alaska makes him question everything, from birth, to death. The main question in Miles’ head at the end is “how will I ever escape this labyrinth?” Labyrinth is a complicated irregular network of passages or…