Poem 5

For horace silver

You can feel the jazz stream just from the poem, it's soothing and relaxing. Though there is a sense of power in it because when you mention the gosple, it shows that he wasnt just a musician he had some insperation under everything. It took a lot out of him to get out of his element, but still he wasn't faced with fear. He was faced with courage to show the world what he had.

Poem 4

For herman poole blount aka sun ra

I believe that this guy was a soul seeker, meaning that anyone who talks to him enjoyed his company, he gave off a good presence. He could turn almost anything into the most soothing music you will hear, but it was more than music he was talking about. Every musician has a code that you must untangle, and his was just the beginning.

Poem 3

For bill evans

In the beginning of the poem, it seemed like the man had fallen in love with music, he caught his eye, and most importantly it caught his heart. He was addicted always wanting more, and never could have enough. Everyone admired him and was amazed by his talents, he could do wonders with a strike of a cord, and the music was like heaven to everyone sitting in the room. Not a grey day passed while the music was playing, unfortunately what he was playing wasnt music, he didn't have songs, the strokes and riples was his life passing him by everyday. He my friend was addicted to cocaine

Poem 2

Dave brubeck

I like the quote that you used here, it's insperational and powerful, because it sets peoples belifes for something higher than they originally planned. Usually we set a goal, and the goal is only half of what we can really achieve, instead of reaching high and far, we usualy stay close to home.

"and there is a time where you can be beyond yourself.
you can be better than your technique. you can be
better than most of your usual ideas."
dave brubeck

Poem

For Charlie haden

I believe this poem express a man becomeing one with what he loves to do. He doesnt fear what other people tell him, everyone has their doubts and belifes about where they are headed and what they will do in life. But instead of worrying all the time, the begin to live life. Which is what the speaker is talking about, as he becomes one with his instrument the rest of his worries don't seem to matter anymore, and he continues doing what he loves.

evaluation

This has been an interesting class; I understand the structure of how you designed the class from the beginning now that I’m at the end. I understand why we had to learn about the paradigm shift before you could introduce us to different cultures, and ways of living. I really enjoyed the lesson on paradigm shift a lot because it’s a way to expand and grow, not only through education, but also by expanding and growing through yourself. I’ve learned that you might think what you are doing is the best thing, because that’s all you’ve learned how to do. As a person we learn to protect ourselves and ourselves alone, but through different cultures we learn things different ways. And not everyone is always out to protect themselves; others are willing to help people because it was something they were raised to do. Along with different cultures, I’ve also learned that people have to agree to disagree; this is referring to a lot of the cases, on which people believe happened, and in the way it happened. When I learned that not everyone believe that the holocaust exist I was terrified, it actually scared me to believe that there were people who didn’t believe that such a drastic event like that could happen. I then looked at it from a different perspective; I had to see it from another angle which was from the KKK. A lot of people believe that the KKK had died a long time ago, that is doesn’t still exist today. Well those people are wrong, as much as people don’t want to believe that things had happened, and that there are things that still do happen they should face reality, but they won’t. People are a lot happier believing what they believe goes on outside, and what they feel that they should seclude from themselves as well as others, just to live a normal, decent life style. Professor Mcnair, is a great professor. I’ve had him for two semesters now, and I wouldn’t change him in the upcoming semester. Coming into the school, I random picked a professor, who was Mcnair. That semester everyone told me how hard his class was, how everyone was dropping out to another lady. I just looked at them and thought to myself, if they think he is hard, imagine going to a University. Mcnair, might be a little rough on the edges but he does it because he cares, and because he knows there is more potential in you then you lead to believe, so he tries to pull it out as much as possible. Over all Professor Mcnair is a wonderful professor and I’m glad to have a Professor with such talent and charisma as he does.

Reflection 21

I’ve never opposed to anyone having feeling about another person, same sex or not. I don’t see why it should be anyone else’s business to prop around in people’s lives and declare who they can and can not have a relationship with, unless its your parents, and even to that extent they really don’t have any control over it. I’m not an atheist, I do believe that there is a higher spirit that has control over what happens to us when we die, and the only thing we can about it now, is to live our life and make mistakes. Though I do believe that religion pushes people so far out of the edge, that they are not themselves anymore, they are what they want people to perceive them as, which is anything that is holy and innocent. But why is same sex or even heterosexual love looked down upon? If G-d doesn’t discriminate against races becoming intimate with one another, then why would it matter if the same sex, or heterosexual as people develop a relationship within an intimate level with each other. I don’t think G-d has anything to do with who hooks up with whom, and who someone falls in love with. I believe that society doesn’t believe that same sex as well as heterosexual love should be accepted because it isn’t a social norm, there for it isn’t right, and what their doing is a sin. I think people have such nerve’s to go in and talk about same sex as well as heterosexual’s love out in the open, because it’s basically talking about another person’s business and putting it out so the whole world can talk about it. Plus, why not allow someone the experience of a life time. Love isn’t only for a certain race, or class. Love happens all over, and it shows your responsibility and helps you grow as a person. Why wouldn’t you allow someone the opportunity to find love, base on whom they love? At the end of the day, I don’t believe race, or gender can tell you who you can or can not fall in love with. Everyone believes that the same sex as well as heterosexual will go after people who are not attracted to their same sex, yet society believe that they will force people to believe what they believe, and do what they do. Which is not true, they just want to be like any other person with the freedom, and future of having a life with the person they fall in love with and choose to marry.