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Rachel - Chapter 3
1. Identify and briefly define important words, terms, concepts, or characters.
Call- girl- Prostitute., In this chapter Holidays decides that she is done being a prostitute. This begins to put her on the road to becoming a “lady.”
Money- throughout the book Holiday has an obsession with money. Her ways of securing it have evolved. She gets it through her father by embarrassing him. She gets it from the audience by making them cry with her singing. Holiday acquires money generally to take care of her mother who might otherwise be tossed out onto the street. While at first like the rest of the performers she would take money off tables, afterwards she would only accept what people actually gave her. People started to refer to her as a “lady” (in a derogatory way) because of this.
Mother- Her mother appears to be the most important character in her life. She was the motivation that sent Holiday on the path which led to her first singing job. Portrayed as well-meaning, but misunderstanding she once gave Holiday her own money back in tips which she then had to split with the piano player.
Father- Holiday’s father on the other hand is portrayed as not caring about anyone. The only reason he gives the family the money they need to survive is to avoid humiliation. The father serves as a foil for the mother.
2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.
“bitch, That aint your mother.”
After all her work for Mother, it is insulting to have her mother’s identity doubted. The entire chapter basically details the various ways that Holiday protects and provides for her Mother. Perhaps this is not evident on the surface but the lengths that Holiday will go to protect her Mother shows this.
3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.
Holiday was forced to think outside the box when searching for a job and took to basically begging for a job from anyone. She tried to be a dancer but failed miserabley. Luckily however, the pianist asked her to sing and she was hired at livable wages, thus starting her career as a singer.
Her mother was about to be thrown out on the street when this happened.
How has Holidays protection of her Mother led her to current singing career? Was this because of specific actions of her mother or a result of Karma, “what goes around comes around?”
Call- girl- Prostitute., In this chapter Holidays decides that she is done being a prostitute. This begins to put her on the road to becoming a “lady.”
Money- throughout the book Holiday has an obsession with money. Her ways of securing it have evolved. She gets it through her father by embarrassing him. She gets it from the audience by making them cry with her singing. Holiday acquires money generally to take care of her mother who might otherwise be tossed out onto the street. While at first like the rest of the performers she would take money off tables, afterwards she would only accept what people actually gave her. People started to refer to her as a “lady” (in a derogatory way) because of this.
Mother- Her mother appears to be the most important character in her life. She was the motivation that sent Holiday on the path which led to her first singing job. Portrayed as well-meaning, but misunderstanding she once gave Holiday her own money back in tips which she then had to split with the piano player.
Father- Holiday’s father on the other hand is portrayed as not caring about anyone. The only reason he gives the family the money they need to survive is to avoid humiliation. The father serves as a foil for the mother.
2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.
“bitch, That aint your mother.”
After all her work for Mother, it is insulting to have her mother’s identity doubted. The entire chapter basically details the various ways that Holiday protects and provides for her Mother. Perhaps this is not evident on the surface but the lengths that Holiday will go to protect her Mother shows this.
3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.
Holiday was forced to think outside the box when searching for a job and took to basically begging for a job from anyone. She tried to be a dancer but failed miserabley. Luckily however, the pianist asked her to sing and she was hired at livable wages, thus starting her career as a singer.
Her mother was about to be thrown out on the street when this happened.
How has Holidays protection of her Mother led her to current singing career? Was this because of specific actions of her mother or a result of Karma, “what goes around comes around?”
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Yuliya - Chapter 14
1. Identify and briefly define important words, terms, concepts, or characters.
Gardenias- any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers
52nd street between 5th and 7th avenue is mostly known for jazz clubs and lively street life
Sanatorium is a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
Narcotics Bureau was established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of June 14, 1930 consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board and the Narcotic Division.
Squawked- to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened
2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.
Billie Holiday mentions Tony Golucci who was one of her good friends. He had respect for her, not like her other so called friends. He said that he would always help/ support her financially. Holiday goes around looking for a sanatorium and finds one in Manhattan. It would cost them two thousand dollars for three weeks stay and everything there was promised to be confidential. As she finishes her three week course, she sees a man that she believes is a cop and is tailing her. Holiday thinks that someone in the hospital told the police and betrayed her. She goes on to talk about how there was a scandal in New York in the 1920’s dealing with the Federal Narcotics Bureau.
What really got to her was that when she was a nobody, no one cared about her, and no one bothered her. She’ll never forgive the people that changed her life.
3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.
After going through the sanatorium and finding out that someone told the law about her problems, how does that affect her trust in others?
Gardenias- any evergreen tree or shrub belonging to the genus Gardenia, of the madder family, native to the warmer parts of the Eastern Hemisphere, cultivated for its usually large, fragrant white flowers
52nd street between 5th and 7th avenue is mostly known for jazz clubs and lively street life
Sanatorium is a hospital for the treatment of chronic diseases, as tuberculosis or various nervous or mental disorders.
Narcotics Bureau was established in the Department of the Treasury by an act of June 14, 1930 consolidating the functions of the Federal Narcotics Control Board and the Narcotic Division.
Squawked- to utter a loud, harsh cry, as a duck or other fowl when frightened
2. Summarize the main idea, theme, action, or event of the reading. Be sure to include quotation that best captures the overall feeling or mood of the reading.
Billie Holiday mentions Tony Golucci who was one of her good friends. He had respect for her, not like her other so called friends. He said that he would always help/ support her financially. Holiday goes around looking for a sanatorium and finds one in Manhattan. It would cost them two thousand dollars for three weeks stay and everything there was promised to be confidential. As she finishes her three week course, she sees a man that she believes is a cop and is tailing her. Holiday thinks that someone in the hospital told the police and betrayed her. She goes on to talk about how there was a scandal in New York in the 1920’s dealing with the Federal Narcotics Bureau.
What really got to her was that when she was a nobody, no one cared about her, and no one bothered her. She’ll never forgive the people that changed her life.
3. Formulate a question for discussion. The question should be relatively substantial, based upon a specified passage or scene from the text, and capable of sustaining a thoughtful discussion.
After going through the sanatorium and finding out that someone told the law about her problems, how does that affect her trust in others?
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Igor - Chapter 21
Identification and definition of the important words, term concepts or characters
“If you’re doing something wrong, you know it and you’ve got at least one eye peeled
looking for trouble” (par1). Billie Holiday says that some body who do something wrong in purpose is aware of the consequence of his act and is prepared to face or avoid them.
“You’re just a pigeon” (par1). “A person who is easily flooded or cheated; dupe”
(htt//dictionary.infoplease.com).
I met a cat in a 52nd street club where I was working” (par2 ). She says that she met a man.
“He was over the hill form some camp down south” (par2). He has left his military camp for a long time without leave.
“To knock some sense into his head” (par2). To make him to behave in a more sensible
way”(wordReference.com).
“The number of his outfit”(par3). The number of “his military company”
(http//ardictionary.com).
“Tough looking white characters” (par4). She means two aggressive white persons
“ hiding a G.I who was AWOL”(par4). A AWOL is a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty whiteout leave (htt//dictionary.infoplease.com).
"Somebody had set me up" (par5). That means Somebody fooled me.
“I was not using anything and I wasn’t thinking about using anything”(par6). She says that she was not in drug and did not want to take some.
“I’ve got one strike against me I can’t beat it, so let me take the rap”(par12). She says she is in a bad position. And that she will take the blame for the bad thing that happened. (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com).
It was Joe Tenner, boss of the club, who went to bat and called Jack Ehrich, a famous San Francisco criminal lawyer(par19). She says that Joe “supported or helped her” (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com).
"Picturesque criminal cases" (par 19). It her criminal case was striking or interesting in an unusual way. (http://www.answer.com).
The clincher that I had a record (par21). “clincher is a point, fact, or remark that settle something conclusively; a decisive factor (http://www.answer.com).
“I guess Mr. Ehrlich figured this would bring me to my sense about John Levy, and it did”(par30). He convince her that John Levy was not a good man.
The summary of the man idea, them, action or event
The thesis of Billie Holiday is to be naïve can be very dangerous, “you can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law… if you are doing something wrong… your in position to protect yourself. The other way, you’re just a pigeon”(par 1). And she illustrate that by two examples coming form her own life. The first one take place during the world war II when she met a musician soldier. Who was a deserter. She locked him in her room and told him that she will helped him “ I told him I’d call his sergeant on the phone and see if I couldn’t fix it up for him to get back without getting in trouble”(par2). when she came back two white person said to her that they knew she was hiding a soldier and that they will denounce. So she bribe them “ I tried offering them money…if they let me alone and let that poor little soldier head back to the camp. They were very big about that”(par5).
Then she realized she get tricked “when I saw them running across the rooftops with my money, I knew I’d been had”(par5).
The in the second story she get caught by the police in possession of the opium her manager told her to throw in the toilet….. She got “Arrested on Narcotics Charges” (par16) later she her lawyer made her realized that her manager Mr. Levy was an informatory of the “the man in charge of the raid the famous Colonel George H. White”(par28) was in fact the a trick made by John levy. “john Levy was an informer on other people and bragged about it. What was there to stop him from informing on me?”(par30).
The question
Billie Holiday was an artist who did not have a good education. She learned by experience that to be innocent can be dangerous. But if she had been to college would she been fool the same way? What is the contribution of the theoretical knowledge to the building of the mid of an individual ? Is it more important than the experience?
“If you’re doing something wrong, you know it and you’ve got at least one eye peeled
looking for trouble” (par1). Billie Holiday says that some body who do something wrong in purpose is aware of the consequence of his act and is prepared to face or avoid them.
“You’re just a pigeon” (par1). “A person who is easily flooded or cheated; dupe”
(htt//dictionary.infoplease.com).
I met a cat in a 52nd street club where I was working” (par2 ). She says that she met a man.
“He was over the hill form some camp down south” (par2). He has left his military camp for a long time without leave.
“To knock some sense into his head” (par2). To make him to behave in a more sensible
way”(wordReference.com).
“The number of his outfit”(par3). The number of “his military company”
(http//ardictionary.com).
“Tough looking white characters” (par4). She means two aggressive white persons
“ hiding a G.I who was AWOL”(par4). A AWOL is a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty whiteout leave (htt//dictionary.infoplease.com).
"Somebody had set me up" (par5). That means Somebody fooled me.
“I was not using anything and I wasn’t thinking about using anything”(par6). She says that she was not in drug and did not want to take some.
“I’ve got one strike against me I can’t beat it, so let me take the rap”(par12). She says she is in a bad position. And that she will take the blame for the bad thing that happened. (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com).
It was Joe Tenner, boss of the club, who went to bat and called Jack Ehrich, a famous San Francisco criminal lawyer(par19). She says that Joe “supported or helped her” (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com).
"Picturesque criminal cases" (par 19). It her criminal case was striking or interesting in an unusual way. (http://www.answer.com).
The clincher that I had a record (par21). “clincher is a point, fact, or remark that settle something conclusively; a decisive factor (http://www.answer.com).
“I guess Mr. Ehrlich figured this would bring me to my sense about John Levy, and it did”(par30). He convince her that John Levy was not a good man.
The summary of the man idea, them, action or event
The thesis of Billie Holiday is to be naïve can be very dangerous, “you can get in just as much trouble by being dumb and innocent as you can by breaking the law… if you are doing something wrong… your in position to protect yourself. The other way, you’re just a pigeon”(par 1). And she illustrate that by two examples coming form her own life. The first one take place during the world war II when she met a musician soldier. Who was a deserter. She locked him in her room and told him that she will helped him “ I told him I’d call his sergeant on the phone and see if I couldn’t fix it up for him to get back without getting in trouble”(par2). when she came back two white person said to her that they knew she was hiding a soldier and that they will denounce. So she bribe them “ I tried offering them money…if they let me alone and let that poor little soldier head back to the camp. They were very big about that”(par5).
Then she realized she get tricked “when I saw them running across the rooftops with my money, I knew I’d been had”(par5).
The in the second story she get caught by the police in possession of the opium her manager told her to throw in the toilet….. She got “Arrested on Narcotics Charges” (par16) later she her lawyer made her realized that her manager Mr. Levy was an informatory of the “the man in charge of the raid the famous Colonel George H. White”(par28) was in fact the a trick made by John levy. “john Levy was an informer on other people and bragged about it. What was there to stop him from informing on me?”(par30).
The question
Billie Holiday was an artist who did not have a good education. She learned by experience that to be innocent can be dangerous. But if she had been to college would she been fool the same way? What is the contribution of the theoretical knowledge to the building of the mid of an individual ? Is it more important than the experience?
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