http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/3/sawyer-a-theriault Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 19 May 2026 08:39:45 -0400 Tue, 19 May 2026 08:39:45 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/547/duke-ellingtons-jazz-narrative-of-the-african-american-black-brown-and-beige By Sawyer A. Theriault - Contrasting with the vague note-bending of the trumpet solo, the trombone plays a series of decisive notes, suggestive of a more strongly defined identity. The ostinato (repeated) solo-phrase of the trombone, for example, continually rises in pitch (between 5:16 and 5:25), creating a countermelody to the rest of the ensemble (Priestley and Cohen, 194). This antiphonal deviation between the trombone melody and the ensemble places the two sections in aural opposition. That opposition, or defiance, of the trombone’s voice contradicts the subdued voice of the trumpet, and provides an authoritative... Wed, 29 Jun 2011 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/547/duke-ellingtons-jazz-narrative-of-the-african-american-black-brown-and-beige http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/542/jazz-writing-identity-and-multiculturalism-in-jazz-literature By Sawyer A. Theriault - By analyzing the thematic characteristics in The Amen Corner, the audience begins to understand the importance of self-identity in the play. In order to fully appreciate the relevance of Baldwin’s drama, the reader must first approach the important biographical aspects of the author’s life, which reveal themselves in his fiction. Perhaps one of the most important of these aspects was the absence of a supportive father figure in Baldwin’s life. His father, David “showed his wife and children little affection,” and as a result “Baldwin was timid and shy, and fearful... Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:09 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/542/jazz-writing-identity-and-multiculturalism-in-jazz-literature http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/326/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-the-fate-of-the-de-leon-family By Sawyer A. Theriault - In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the de Léon family is in a perpetual hell, moving from struggle to struggle and never able to catch a break. Lola is constantly at odds with her mother, fighting with Beli throughout her cancer, shrieking “This time I hope you die from it”(Diaz 63). Eventually Lola runs away, “bound for the shore” to live with her boyfriend Aldo, attempting to leave her internal conflict behind (Diaz 64). Oscar is stuck in a world of role-playing games and comic books, never able to experience the philandering or excitement... Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:47 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/326/the-brief-wondrous-life-of-oscar-wao-the-fate-of-the-de-leon-family http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/101/the-development-of-theatre-peter-brook-and-the-human-connection By Sawyer A. Theriault - Brook defines the human connection through many different mediums, one of which is directing. He claim's “the supreme jujitsu” style of directing “would be for the director to stimulate such an outpouring of the actor's inner richness that it completely transforms the subjective nature of his original impulse”(Brook, 61). What he is describing is non-directional directing. In order for the actor to authentically feel what his character is intended to feel, he must discover those emotions on his own, without the director telling him what they are. The director's job is then... Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:41 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/101/the-development-of-theatre-peter-brook-and-the-human-connection http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/70/anton-chekhov-and-the-development-of-the-modern-character By Sawyer A. Theriault - One of the most prominent literary elements in Chekhov’s work is that of character; he was a writer who had “great feeling for the inner emotions of his characters” (Freedman 1). This becomes evident through Ochumelov, a police inspector, in the story “Chameleon”. Ochumelov is walking through a marketplace when “all of a sudden the sound of a voice came to [his] ears”(Chekhov 1). After following the voice he discovers that it is Khryukin, who has come by the lumberyard to pick up wood. Khryukin claims to have been bitten by a stray dog and demands compensation... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:55 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/70/anton-chekhov-and-the-development-of-the-modern-character http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/6/john-locke-and-the-second-treatise-on-government By Sawyer A. Theriault - The best way to figure this out, Locke reasoned, was to imagine a state in which no government existed. Then by seeing that state, determine where necessary laws and governing bodies are needed. Locke described the role of civil government like this: “Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties, for the regulating and preserving of property, and of employing the force of the community, in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the common-wealth from foreign injury; and all this only for the public good... Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:24 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/6/john-locke-and-the-second-treatise-on-government