...their life through music they listen to or like and that is how they live it. This is the case for the novel Sonny Blues written by James Baldwin. The story is about two brothers who come to understand each other, more specifically, through its two main characters, two sides of the African-American experience. Sounds of Music Some people say that certain music to people make them do extraordinary things. People hear their life through music they listen to or like and that is how they live it. This is the case for the novel Sonny Blues written by James Baldwin. The story is about two brothers who come to understand each other, more specifically, through its two main characters, two sides of the African-American experience. Sounds of Music Some people say that certain music to people make them do extraordinary things. People hear their life through music they listen to or like and that is how they live it. This is the case for the novel Sonny Blues written by James Baldwin. The story is about two brothers who come to understand each other, more specifically, through its two main characters, two sides of the African-American experience. Sounds of Music Some people say that certain music to people make them do extraordinary things. People hear their life through music they listen to or like and that is how they live it. This is the case for the novel Sonny Blues written by James Baldwin. The story is about two brothers who come to understand each other, more specifically...
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...environment Harlem, New York. The narrator used his point of view and personal perspective to reveal both Sonny and Harlem and how the environment they were both brought up in has shaped them into the young men they were in the past and who they are now. This story begins when the brother finds out Sonny was in jail, when the narrator went to pick him up they begin having flashbacks from when their parents were alive and were speaking about racial issues they had been facing. Sonny finds his passion in jazz music. When he finally encourages his brother to listen to his music he takes him to the night club. He has a great epiphany realizing that their hardships can be turned into something beautiful. Growing up in an environment such as Harlem has had immense impact on the people sonny and his brother have become. This tough environment in Harlem would easily shape any person living in it but in particular Sonny and his brother. Harlem influenced the courses of action the brothers individually chose to take. The narrator described the city as a place that seems to entrap the people living in it and suck them into a lifestyle that they cant avoid. The lifestyle of drugs and crime, even if an individual such as the narrator doesn’t choose to participate in these actions, they are still surrounded by them. Sonny went into the military to escape this environment of Harlem. When Sonny gets home from the military, he falls right back into this lifestlye and lands himself a spot in jail...
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...The life of two brothers misery, love and hatred Sympathizing with Sonny, the drug addict in the story, rather than with his brother, the narrator, "Sonny's Blues" presents a complex picture of drug use as a means of coping with sorrow and fear. The short story "Sonny's Blues,” by James Baldwin, (1957) tells the story of two brothers who come to un-derstand each other. More specifically, it shows, through its two main characters, Sonny and his older brother, the two sides of African-American's experience with much of racism. The narrator, Sonny's brother, has tried to assimilate to the white society, but still feel the pain and the limits on his opportuni-ty. On the other hand, Sonny has never tried to assimilate and has to find the way out for his pain through drugs. In "Sonny's Blues,” we can understand what happened, why it happened, and why char-acters acted the way they do. The story Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin (1957) explores the theme of suffering experienced by Black Americans as individuals fettered by discrimination, unemployment, housing problems, drug ad-diction, imprisonment and suicide. It features the struggle of two brothers separated and caught in the entangle-ments of time, space and ideals. Harlem, the setting of "Sonny's Blues," is packed with barely-contained anger. The community is forced to live in an oppressive and painful world; as a result, many are left deeply angry. The narrator describes the neighborhood as a "boiling sea" (112)...
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...surroundings, unlike the younger brother, Sonny, who gave into the temptations of the darkness around him. The focus of the story is on Sonny and the path he takes. Sonny’s older brother grew up, joined the army, and later became an algebra teacher in the heart of Harlem. He started a family and created a good life for himself, despite the hardships that he faced in his neighborhood. The story doesn’t tell us how, but he accomplished his goals, as he seemed satisfied with his life. The older brother rose above his circumstances. Sonny joined the service as well, but fell into the same sad, yet usual fate of an average boy growing up in Harlem. He started hanging out with the wrong crowd and fell into a life of drugs and addiction. Sonny confessed, “I guess I was afraid of something or I was trying to escape from something and you know I have never been strong in the head [smile]” (62). The brother and Sonny were not in contact due to the narrator’s frustration at the way his brother was leading his life. The older brother had suspicions (which he's been ignoring) that Sonny was doing drugs. They are confirmed when he read of Sonny’s arrest in the newspaper. He made no attempt to contact his brother, despite this information. The death of the narrator’s daughter was the catalyst that acted as the tool, that melts his heart. This led him to write to his brother in jail. This was the first step to restoring their broken relationship. Sonny, the protagonist of the story, had quite...
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...Sonny Faces Hard Times Sonny faced many battles throughout the years. Growing up in Harlem can be quite a challenge. Harlem is full of drugs and crimes. It can have an influence on a teenager’s life. He admires his older brother and is the “apple of his father’s eye” Baldwin (56). Sonny truly wanted to escape Harlem, but instead he faces troubles and ends up in jail. He becomes addicted to heroin at an early age. When he got out of prison, he tries to escape his past. He began to feel alone and disappointed in himself. He was never one to show his true feelings. Sonny used music to express the words he couldn’t say. Sonny has a passion for music. He always kept his emotions bottled up inside of him. Through music was able to express words and feelings that he is incapable of saying. In fact, music is his “calling”. He is a different person when he plays. The narrator sees a side to Sonny that he never saw before during his performance. Even though Sonny may feel that this music lifestyle may bring back his drug addictions, he refuses to give up his dreams. Sonny was never a man of words so uses his piano to tell stories. In a way, Sonny is “stalking” his calling by showing his blues to his friends, showing a side of him that no one knew. Many people are able to understand him through his music. He uses his imagination to create music, which comes from deep down in his heart. Just by hearing his songs, it truly shows how he isn’t afraid to explore new things and go beyond...
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...“Sonny Blue’s” I really liked the story “Sonny Blues,” because the story pulled you in and kept you wanting more. It did this by not giving you all the details so that you would have to continue. An example of this would be in the very being when the narrator found out his brother was arrested in a drug raid, while he was riding the subway to work. But the story does not tell you what is going to happen to Sonny, so the reader has to continue. The narrator continues the story by letting you know all the good he has tried to do for his brother, making you think that he is the good child. When all along, all it really seemed to be was the fact the narrator felt he let his mother down for not looking after his brother Sonny. After his mother passed away Sonny moved into his brother’s in-laws house so that he could finish up school. But this is not what Sonny wanted, he wanted to drop out of school and join the military. That Harlem was no good for him at this point in his life and he needed to get away. I think he was trying to tell his brother that he started doing drugs and that he needed to get away from Harlem. It seemed to me that the brothers did not understand each other and could not communicate well. The brother’s disapproval of Sonny's decision to become a musician comes from his idea of musicians in general. His experiences with musicians made him believe that they are unmotivated, drug users, seeking only escape from life. He does not really understand...
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...Chelsea Culberson Instructor Jacob Kruse Communications I 26 April 2014 “Sonny’s Blues” Sonny’s Blues is a story of disorientation at first. It tells a story of young man names Sonny and his brother who was the narrator. Sonny is young boy who in fact grew up the world of abandonment. He suffered from drug addiction, school dropout, and personal desertion issues. As the story unfolds from his older brother’s point of view, it explains how the older brother wished he had been there for his brother throughout his hard times of growing up. As the older brother puts forth the effort to lead Sonny into the right direction by welcoming him into his home, pushing him to finish school Sonny refuses to follow his brother’s guidance and turned his attention towards music. Music became his out for his internal misery he had endured. Along with dropping out of school, and the new love for music Sonny then left for good and went on to The military. Sonny’s age was never disclosed but he was under the age of 18, and all together disobeyed his brother’s wishes. The same wishes their own mother installed in the older brothers mind before her passing. All the time of Sonny being away in the military in wasn’t until he sent his brother a postcard of his whereabouts that they even knew he was alive. After the war both of the brothers returned home and joined forces again, just be apart for more time. It wasn’t until Sonny’s brothers finding in the newspaper that Sonny’s had been locked...
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...Biographical Sketch Michael Corleone, played by Al Pacino, is the main character in the Godfather movie trilogy. He is the youngest son of Vito Corleone, and brother of Sonny, Fredo, and Connie Corleone. In the first Godfather, Michael is introduced in his 20’s. He was enrolled in Dartmouth college, but to the chagrin of his family, he dropped out to join the Marines during WW II. He was awarded for his military service in the Pacific, and re-enlisted at Dartmouth. Michael did not want anything to do with his the Corleone family business. His father knew that he was destined for better things as well, and wanted him to go into politics. However, as his father got older and the mafia landscape evolved, Michael was forced to involve himself. After an attempted assassination on his father, Michael felt it was his duty to defend his father. In retaliation, Michael suggests that the people that tried to murder his father must be killed. He decides that he will be the one to avenge his father, and kills both men in a restaurant. Shortly after, Michael flees to Sicily for two years. While in Sicily, he got married to a woman named Appollonia. After he is married, he learns that his brother Sonny was killed back home. His wife was then killed by a car bomb which was intended for Michael. Since Sonny was murdered, Michael decides to return home to serve as the new heir apparent to the Corleone family. When Michael returns home Michael vowed to turn the family’s business...
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...Finding Light through the Darkness In James Baldwin’s short story, “Sonny’s Blues”, the narrator which is Sonny’s brother, James attempts to understand the life of his younger brother Sonny. Through trials and tribulations both brothers see the light through the darkness that surrounds both of their lives. From childhood to adulthood, both brothers go through experiences, which would have an everlasting effect on their lives. The story is set in Harlem, New York City approximately after the Korean War. The brothers' military service plays an important role in the socio-historical context of the story. The narrator refers to being "home on leave from the army" during the war; he remarks that his father "died suddenly, during a drunken weekend in the middle of the war, when Sonny was fifteen", and he informs the reader that both he and Sonny served in the military. It is important to notice and understand these references to the military service of the brothers. The characters in "Sonny's Blues" reflect this tendency: As a teenager, Sonny yearns to enlist in the army or navy because it would take him away from the "killing streets" of Harlem and give him the opportunity to get a college education on the GI Bill. The narrator, too, has struggled in spite of his military service to his country to attain success and safety at home. He fought the war, returned home to become an algebra teacher, and a productive member of the middle class, and yet because of segregation...
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...his office. With him are his oldest son, Sonny, and his adopted son and family lawyer, Tom Hagen. Several people come to Vito’s office to make requests, including Bonasera, an undertaker seeking revenge for a crime against his daughter, and Johnny Fontane, a Frank Sinatra-like singer and actor who wants Vito to help land him a part in a movie. As the wedding reception draws to a close, Vito dispatches Tom to Los Angeles to talk to Jack Woltz, the studio owner. Despite Tom’s prodding, Woltz refuses to give Fontane the part, so the Corleones make Woltz “an offer he can’t refuse.” The day after the meeting with Tom, Woltz wakes up in a blood-stained bed to discover the severed head of his prized horse under the covers at his feet. Back in New York, a gangster named Sollozzo wants to involve the Corleone family in his narcotics smuggling operation. Two other crime families, the Barzinis and Tattaglias, are already in on the scheme, but Sollozzo wants Vito’s protection and financing too. Vito arranges a meeting with Sollozzo. Sonny and Tom support the idea of expanding the family business, but Vito cannot overcome his initial skepticism about the scheme and his distaste for drug trafficking. Vito rejects the offer and orders his bodyguard, Luca Brasi, to investigate Sollozzo. Luca is murdered, and shortly afterward a hit man attempts to assassinate Vito while he shops at a fruit market. Vito survives the shooting but is badly hurt, and Sonny temporarily takes control of the family...
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...smilin’ and it’s something’ I like on your face, yeah it suits you Girl, we connect like we have bluetooth I don’t know why I’m drawn to you Could you be the other one so we’d equal two? And this is all based on a lucky chance that you would rather add then subtract You and I could be like Sonny and Cher honey and bears You and I could be like Aladdin and Jasmine lets make it happen La La’s Hey How’ve you been? I know that it’s been awhile. Are you tired ’cause you’ve been on my mind runnin’ thousand and thousands of miles Sorry, I know that line’s outta style but you you look so beautiful on that starry night loving the way the moonlight catches your eyes and your smile I’m captivated your beauty is timeless never outdated I don’t know why I’m drawn to you Could you be the other one so we’d equal two? and this is all based on a lucky chance that you would rather add then subtract You and I could be like Sonny and Cher Honey and bears you and i could be like Aladdin and Jasmine lets make it happen la la la Babe It’s been 5 years since that special day when I asked you on our first date I guess it’s safe to say You and I are better than Sonny and Cher Honey and bears You and I Are better than Aladdin and Jasmine We’ve made it happen lalalalalala Let me say You look so beautiful on our wedding...
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...“THE GODFATHER IS A STAGGERING TRIUMPH...THE DEFINITIVE NOVEL ABOUT A SINISTER FRATERNITY OF CRIME...” --Saturday Review “YOU CAN’T STOP READING IT, AND YOU’LL FIND IT HARD TO STOP DREAMING ABOUT IT!” --New York Magazine THE GODFATHER THE GODFATHER Mario Puzo Copyright © Mario Puzo 1969 All rights reserved For Anthony Cleri THE GODFATHER BOOK I Behind every great fortune there is a crime. --BALZAC Chapter 1 Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice; vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her. The judge, a formidably heavy-featured man, rolled up the sleeves of his black robe as if to physically chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold with majestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed but did not yet understand. “You acted like the worst kind of degenerates,” the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thought Amerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hair crew cut, scrubbed clean-cut faces composed into humble contrition, bowed their heads in submission. The judge went on. “You acted like wild beasts in a jungle and you are fortunate you did not sexually molest that poor girl or I’d put you behind bars for twenty years.” The judge paused, his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallow-faced Amerigo Bonasera, then lowered to a stack of probation reports...
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...Ethics and Values of the GA Department of Human Resources, Division of Developmental Disabilities Janice Johnson LDR 520 – Organizational Ethics Instructor: Dr. Bahaudin Mujtaba 4/28/04 University of Phoenix Ethics and Values 1 Ethics and Values of the GA Department of Human Resources, Division of Developmental Disabilities The Georgia Department of Human Resources serves people of varying ages, ranging from adolescents to the geriatric, and those individuals with the most severe problems. This department is the contact point for those individuals in need of treatment for mental illness, addictive diseases, or substance abuse. Georgia is the home of seven regional hospitals, twenty-five community service boards, and numerous private providers. Not only does the department treat these individuals, but also they are screened for admission to state hospitals, and are given follow-up care upon discharge (Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Addictive Diseases, 2004). Various different community-based services are available that promote the recovery for individuals afflicted with mental illness and addiction, and the development of independent living skills necessary for...
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...THE GODFATHER INDIVIDUAL & GROUP BEHAVIOUR IN ORGANIZATIONS PRANITA BUBNA (A013) VEER JHA (A027) SHIPRA JHA(A029) VIKRAM KAUSHAL (A034) MOHAK MITTAL (A040) RAGHVENDRA (A045) MOHIT SUD ( A059) RITU YADAV (A063) GROUP #7 Table of Contents: 1. Introduction and summary of the book …………………………………………..2 2. Statement of Objectives of the Study.....…………………………………………..2 3. Method of Study ..…………………………………………………………………..2 4. Chapter wise summary and critical analysis...……………………………………3 5. Theoretical framework & Relating to practical aspects..………………………..5 6. Learning and Conclusion ...............……………………….……………………….7 7. Group Working and Team Roles…………………………………………………..8 8. References...................................................................................................................12 Page 1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY The Godfather, written in 1969, by a renowned Italian-American author, Mario Puzo, is based on the organized crimes that New York witnessed post World War II. The book opens with the wedding of Connie Corleone, daughter of Don Vito 'The Godfather' Corleone, head of the most powerful of the five great Mafia clans or 'families' of New York. He is a paradigmatic mafia don. Don Corleone is shot at by a new contender for power in the city, Virgil 'the Turk' Sollozzo, who plans to obtain power by the lure of vast profits in the drug trafficking trade. In Don Vito’s absence, his elder son Santino Corleone assumes the responsibility of the don to...
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...Gail Horton AAS 131 Dr. E. Davis October 4, 2011 Student Sit-ins in Nashville, 1960 James Lawson, A theology student who decided that is was time to start a movement to stop segregation in Nashville. He and other student form a nonviolence workshop that consists of student’s witting in restaurants waiting to be service as customer. Nashville had some integrated areas school, council, board of education, police force and city buses, but hotel, libraries, theater and restaurants remained segregated. The nonviolence workshop was formed so everyone in Nashville could have a chance to enact with one another and to create a more just society. Black student was tired of segregated not been able to eat lunch and to do their homework. In November of 1959 the student planned a series of workshop to stop segregation four student went into Woolworth and sat at the lunch counter were black never sat before people look at them in disbelief and many of them were black worker. The media became of aware of what was happening day after day there were more and more students sitting in restaurants and at the lunch counter waiting to be serviced. Before long the student sit-in became cities wide at least 15-16 cities began to have though-out the South and most parts of the county. The student had some difficulty some of the student was beaten even jailed, but though it all Lawson and the students were determined to stop segregation. The purpose of the nonviolence workshop was to...
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