Thelonious Monk

Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is an exemplary novel which reveals the racism, sexism, and overall discrimination that unfolded in the south. The Secret Life of Bees transports the reader to the year of 1964 in South Carolina, where racial tensions were almost as high as the temperature and people were surrounded by oppression. During this humid summer a girl named Lily Owens runs away from her abusive father T. Ray, in search of her mother's past and the truth behind her death. After a…

For the Love of Bees Introduction Paragraph: Lily Owens thought love would never find her after she accidently killed her mother, Deborah. After Deborah died, her father, T-Ray, looked to Lily to express his anger and hatred on the situation. Throughout the abuse, Lily looked to her housemaid, Rosaleen, for a mother-figure she knew didn't have. As Lily grew, she found an interest in discovering her mother’s past and why her mother was absent before she died. Lily left her hometown and…

Throughout history, women have been the target of unrightful mistreatment and general injustice. This was especially true during the 1960s, particularly in the southern United States. In The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, a young white girl named Lily, is motherless and lives without a strong feminine role in her life. She is taken under the wing of the Boatwright sisters, three charismatic African-American women. With them, Lily learns strength and confidence, allowing her to grow into…

Description and evolution of Clover: Clover is a motherly mare approaching middle life. She is loyal and maternal with every single animals living on the farm. She takes care of them. For example, at the beginning of the book, at Old Major’s speech, (p.1 and p.2) she made a wall around the ducklings that had lost their mother with her foreleg to keep them warm and they feel asleep. Unfortunately, she is not good with words and reading is a real problem for her out throughout the book. At…

skills for bebop. There were however, a few influential musicians who were able to produce recordings and albums during this AFM band. The most influential people of bebop would include Billy Eckstine, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell. Who's influences came from Coleman Hawkins's harmonic exactness, Art Tatum's harmonic imagination and reharmonization, and Roy Eldridge and Lester Young's melodic and rhythmic…

Louis Armstrong is one of my favoirites jazz musicians of all times; whereas, Dizzy Gillespie 's “Salt Peanuts” is one of mine favourite bebop tunes. In my opinion, both Armstrong 's “Heebie Jeebies” and Gillespie 's “Salt Peanuts” tunes are increadible, but each of them in their own way. First of they are from different jazz sub-genres. Louis Armstrong is mainly New Orleans Jazz; in contrast, Dizzy Gillespie is a bebop musician. It is kinf of obvious that they have different forms, “Salt…

microwave oven was introduced to America. There was another great change taking place, but in the world of jazz music -- a new sound was developing that would alter the genre forever, pioneered by such people as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk. As 1940 was coming to a close, a recently opened club called Minton’s Playhouse on 118th street in Harlem was becoming home to a group of bold new jazz musicians. What separated Minton’s from all the other clubs was that it wasn’t about…

encounters the central character in the beginning when he introduces himself as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison. “I have dark brown skin, curly hair, a broad nose, some of my ancestors were slaves and I have been detained by pasty white policemen in New Hampshire, Arizona and Georgia and so the society in which I live tells me I am black; that is my race” (pg. 1) This paragraph is suppose to give the reader a sense of who Monk is, but is very interesting that he decided to add additional information…

African music allowed the style of dance evolve from the instruments used (Thelonious Monk, Institute of Jazz). Jazz dance grew more in the 1950s, but the jazz style only consisted of tap dance. (Basch Solutions, LLC, 2016). Jazz began to develop when other jazz dance styles were announced such as the Cake Walk, Black Bottom, Charleston…

association of race and class can create mindset that someone is less authentic to their race when they are not behaving in the perceived way. Instead, they are just behaving in the manner of the personality they were born with. In the begin of the book Monk explains I have dark brown skin, curly hair, a broad nose, some of my ancestors were slaves and I have been detained by a pasty white policemen In New Hampshire, Arizona, and Georgia and so the society in which I live tells me I am black;…