3. Jazz was influenced by other music.

What evidence from the text supports this statement?
A "Music served as a psychological shield against the floods, fires, epidemics, and
riots that marked New Orleans history, for it provided an excuse to forget, or a
spur to overcome, the problems brought on by both nature and society."
B "No musical genre was more popular than opera, and the arias that could be
heard throughout the city day in and day out had a profound impact on the
melodic styles of the musicians who created the jazz idiom..."
C "One way to listen to classic New Orleans jazz at its best is to imagine the
complexity of the melodies as representation of its polyglot communities."
D "Jazz continued to survive in varying degrees in New Orleans as the music
spread around the world, and by the 1940s the Crescent City became a Mecca
for jazz lovers."

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion

Write an email to your favourite author/poet inviting him/her to attend a literature festival organised in your school

Read the excerpt below from the poem "exile" by julia alvarez and answer the question that follows. i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, floating out past the driveway, past the gates, in the black ford, papi grim at the wheel, winding through the back roads, stroke by difficult stroke, out on the highway, heading toward the coast. which literary device is used in the comparison between the speaker's experience of fleeing the country and floating in the ocean? i let myself lie back in deep waters, my arms out like jesus' on his cross, and instead of sinking down like i'd always done, magically, that night, i could stay up, extended metaphor symbolism simile theme