Letter to the brazilian government regarding the amazonian rainforest

I am keeping in touch with you to communicate my perspectives and assessments about the Amazonian rainforest and the manner in which it's being abused. I am completely mindful that you, as a legislature, are being taken steps to lessen the measure of trees you chop down from different nations; this letter may at first give off an impression of resembling those others, yet I comprehend the two sides of the contention, despite the fact that I do firmly trust it is best that we secure the rainforest than pulverize it. I do understand that you are frantically attempting to form into one of the world's most monetarily created nations. While crushing the rainforest would initially create a colossal pay, I comprehend, the benefits would not be as extraordinary if the characteristic assets were to be overseen in a feasible methodology later on. Amazonia will in the long run be denied of its assets at this going rate †the impacts this will cause will be hard to determine. Right off the bat, Amazonia is a lifestyle to the indigenous individuals; they have lived in this rainforest for a large number of years. If you somehow managed to demolish Amazonia, these individuals would be driven away from their homes as their country/natural surroundings would obstruct lumberjacks, and lawful enactments would not allow local people to wait, as they don't have ‘ownership deeds', as you know about. This may cause more deforestation, as the clans would need to discover new zones in the rainforest to live †others may relocate (now and then illicitly) to different nations in South America or even the world over; so they will turn out to be all the more thickly populated with for the most part uneducated Brazilians, as, the vast majority of the indigenous individuals have never gone to class. At present, South America has an expanding populace of approximately 371 million individuals. Quite, the most thickly populated nations in South America are Brazil (186,112,794) trailed by Colombia (42,954,279), Venezuela (25,375,231) and afterward Ecuador (13,363,593). Every one of these nations are incompletely secured by the Amazonian Rainforest †if it somehow managed to be obliterated, a greater part of these individuals would probably relocate to another nation situated in South America, likely a MEDC contrasted with the others, as it would be less expensive and simple to reach. By devastating the rainforest you would place your neighborhood progress in peril, just to bring in cash, in which I would concur, this would improve the nations economy in the far off future †yet it doesn't really make this right. Not exclusively would decimating the Amazonian rainforest effectsly affect local people, the results of annihilating it would have a worldwide effect. Appropriately, the vegetation of the rainforest represents 20% of the world's flexibly of oxygen †which could be a reason for worry to the local vertebrates on our planet. On the off chance that the trees and plants were to be wrecked the CO2 would likewise cause an incredible hazard; being discharged into the environment, as an ozone harming substance, will contribute enormously to a dangerous atmospheric devation. Our relatives will experience the ill effects of these impacts; be seeing flooding and atmosphere changes around the world, if you somehow managed to act flippantly and pulverize Amazonia. Would you be able to envision your youngsters being influenced by this worldwide effect? It unquestionably should overcome the ethics of crushing the Amazonian Rainforest in any case. As you should know about, the rainforest's common decent variety is tremendous. It's home to more than 1000 diverse tree species; 40,000 plants, 2. 5 million bugs, 3000 fish, 1,300 feathered creatures, 440 warm blooded animals, 430 creatures of land and water and 380 reptiles. Devastating the natural surroundings of the wide assortment of these species will make a dominant part of them become wiped out, as most can't be found anyplace else on the planet. It is a result of the tropical atmosphere in your district of the world that these species exist, and the climate is ideal for them to endure and flourish. The plants, as you will know, restrict the potential in containing unfamiliar drugs which can fix deadly sicknesses; which could profit the human development until the end of time. This might give you an option for making gigantic totals of cash †separating drugs that can fix overall spread maladies that will consistently be sought after. Yet, then again, crushing the rainforest will give the world numerous significant assets like hardwoods and building materials; which are basic in worldwide turn of events. Your nation would get a generous measure of cash as these materials can be utilized for a great deal of commonsense uses aswell †featuring there overall advantages. At last, annihilating Amazonia would give key callings, for example, lumberjacks, cows farmers and diggers to the nearby individuals who look for business which requires close to nothing/no training. This is significant for them as they will have the option to manage the cost of a superior standard of life, where their family will profit by. In any case, these individuals are just, be that as it may, intrigued by their own riches admission †not the earth around them. They basically couldn't care less about the a great many creatures that will experience the ill effects of their activities †yet it is you that can forestall this, or even simply change these events. Be that as it may, this is justifiable for their sake; they need cash to endure, however the purposes behind deforestation are effectively outshone by the way that the rainforest should be safeguarded. What's more, those nearby individuals can proficiently make a moderately huge measure of cash if they somehow happened to function as a demonstration of supportable turn of events. Straightforward cultivating strategies could be instructed to the nearby individuals, which are proficient in developing sensible measures of produce, on numerous occasions; these portions would be put in chosen zones of the rainforest †in this manner this permits various segments of Amazonia to be secured and neighborhood individuals can be without given information and training, to profit the nature of their produce and its productivity of being all the more naturally perfect and compelling. Mining organizations could be controlled into just having the option to mine lone certain sums/kinds of the minerals underneath the rainforest flooring, at various stretches during a year/month. Expenses can be introduced on every metal the remote organizations remove, so the nation itself would get additional measures of cash from work they don't take an interest in, as their own assets are being arranged. When theories mines have been depleted †denied of all their characteristic assets †the organizations must reforest the region, to help fix the harm to the earth. This conceivable enactment can likewise be applied to the logging ventures. The trees chop down ought to be supplanted promptly by the seeds of that species †afforestation. This would in any event empower the endurance of the vegetation in Amazonia later on. Additionally indeed, it could be adequate to put a duty on the more costly tree species which are chopped down, which would diminish the organizations benefits which may keep them from chopping down such huge numbers of them; and the neighborhood governments would get this cash which might expand their yearly income drastically . Ecotourism will give work to the neighborhood individuals, yet more significantly support the economy, much the same as the entirety of the other practical exercises, however the distinction would be; the valuable improvement to the notoriety and notoriety of the rainforest. Amazonia's common excellence will be acknowledged as it merits, with an insignificant measure of deforestation, and a worldwide interest to observe its greatness, which will consistently be steady †bringing significant expenses from every traveler. The utilization of ecotourism could be reached out to the manifestations of national holds and stops, in and outside of Amazonia; which would give a wide scope of work and the possibility to be the most ‘exotic' of the world's national parks, which would make a visit there profoundly costly and along these lines beneficial for the nations. By following these arrangements, terrible outcomes are being forestalled and bargains have been instituted to guarantee that the two gatherings of individuals, needing to secure the rainforest and demolish the rainforest are content with the understanding. On the off chance that any of these enactments were to be broken, at that point fines could be utilized to make negative exposure for the organizations; which could diminish their fame harshly and harm the conservative structure. Taking everything into account I unequivocally accept that you should attempt your up-generally hardest to secure the Amazonian Rainforest. While you have a lot of reasonable approaches to give your nation assets expected to grow productively, your nearby individuals can likewise profit by the new enactments I emphatically suggest you actualize. If you somehow happened to choose to obliterate the whole rainforest, an Earth-wide temperature boost would imperil the world, and for that sole explanation different nations would endeavor to stop you, making wars, so as to definitely spare the plant. Your solitary satisfactory explanation behind chopping down the rainforest is to bring in cash from the a lot of regular assets you produce. However, when the rainforest would be totally wrecked, you will have nothing that is important remaining. Besides, the benefit you would make from the different methods of supportable turn of events, in a generally brief timeframe period, at around a matter of 10 years, would be more noteworthy than if you somehow managed to pulverize the rainforest totally. So you could get a superior ‘turn-over' from sparing the planet, in the long run. It isn't basic that you completely chop down the rainforest. Annihilating it will cause definitely a greater number of contentions and overall ghastliness than leaving Amazonia to give us the assets required.

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The regular abstract gadgets and subjects that John Milton utilizes in Paradi se Lost, â€Å"How Soon Hath Time,† and â€Å"When I Consider How My Light is Spent† pass on a more grounded portrayal of Miltons confidence, and how through the extreme life that Milton lived he stayed a strict man. One of the notable sonnets that Milton composed is Paradise Lost. In this epic sonnet, Milton utilizes numerous abstract gadgets to represent his confidence in God. In Paradise Lost, Milton utilizes symbolism, word usage, and strict subjects to show the solid conviction Milton held for a mind-blowing duration. All through Paradise Lost, Miltons utilization of symbolism, word usage, and the subject of the epic sonnet speaks to Miltons solid confidence. Heaven Lost additionally represents reclamation. This was on the grounds that Miltons confidence reflected recovery, particularly with his perspectives on separate. Milton accepted that separation was alright sure applications. In the start of Book I, the sonnet gets in an account where Satan had recently tumbled from Heaven alongside the band of blessed messengers. In Book 1, Satan expresses that â€Å"Me liking, His most extreme force with unfriendly force contradicted/In questionable fight on the fields of Heavn/And shook his throne† (Milton, Paradise Lost 949). With this couple of lines Satan is educating his supporters that Satan himself once conflicted against God. With this conflict against God, Satan once got an opportunity of overcome God. Milton utilizes symbolism in lines 102-105 of Paradise Lost to carry pictures of this strong fight to the perusers mind (Milton, Paradise Lost 949). Milton is attempting to get individuals to comprehend fights that he once looked in his own life. Satan states in lines 258-262 of Paradise Lost that â€Å"Here in any event/we will be free; th Almighty hath not worked/Here for his jealousy, won't drive us subsequently:/Here we may rule secure, and in my deci sion/To reign is worth desire however in Hell† (Milton, 953). Milton utilizes phrasing here to communicate Satans thought that control in Hell is much better than venerate in Heaven, yet this is each of the a falsehood that Satan tells his devotees. Milton utilizes symbolism and phrasing in these lines to pass on the detestable that Satan observes. Book I at long last presents Satan as the defeater of his supporters. In Book IX Milton has decreased Satan from a legend. At the point when Satan understands the excellence that Earth observes, Satan grieves in light of the fact that he has destroyed his odds of living on Earth as Adam and Eve once did. At whatever point Satan saw Eve, Satan gets confounded by Eves magnificence. At whatever point Satan begins to understand that excellence of the Earth, this is by all accounts a suggestion to Milton that despite the fact that he had lost numerous things throughout everyday life, that Milton ought to be appreciative for what he despite everything had. Milton appears to utilize his phrasing to pass on that he ought to be content with what he has, and not to lose confidence or to do whatever he would lament later on in Miltons like. While Milton kept on composing reliable verse for an incredible duration, Milton appeared to have never lost confidence, and to submit something that may had lamented later in his life. Later on in Paradise Lost, Milton commun icates that Satan was powerful, and by the adoration for God, Satan was in any event ready to see the magnificence in Adam and Eve. Milton utilizes symbolism to delineate Satan as the authority of his evil spirits, and afterward Satan proposes to construct a royal residence called Pandemonium. In line 754 of Paradise Lost Milton utilizes the pictures of the â€Å"trumpets sound† that fill the air, which goes about as a pomp for Satan (Milton, 1014). These pictures make an image of how incredible Satan was, and that regardless of how enormous a malicious Satan was, it despite everything doesn't make you strong to God. All through Paradise Lost, there are instances of how Milton utilizes his lingual authority, symbolism, and his strict subjects that epitomize the confidence that Milton needed to endure his difficult situations. Another sonnet by Milton is â€Å"How Soon Hath Time,† which utilizes artistic gadgets to pass on Miltons solid confidence in God. Similarly as with above all else of Miltons verse, there are references to God, Heaven, and spirits. This poem is about when Milton was in his twenties and how he imagined that he was not as favored as others his age were. In the initial eight lines of the work, Milton gives the reasons that he needs to accuse God and lose confidence, yet the piece is settled in the last four lines. The word usage and symbolism that Milton utilizes in â€Å"How Soon Hath Time,† shows that however Milton is discouraged about how life has ended up being at this youthful age, Milton despite everything doesn't accuse God. Indeed, even toward the finish of the sonnet in lines 9-14 of â€Å"How Soon Hath Time† Milton utilizes a turn and his word usage to show, that even at long last Milton is the equivalent (Milton, â€Å"How Soon Hath Time† 942). Th usly of the piece, Milton understands that while he doesn't have the existence that he may need, at long last he will be on a similar level as individuals less and luckier than him. This is the thing that keeps Miltons confidence; he understands that his short genuine life does not merit stressing over, on the grounds that as long as he keeps confidence in God, the prize of paradise is for him as long as he keeps confidence in God. Milton additionally utilizes symbolism in â€Å"How Soon Hath Time† to pass on Miltons solid feeling of confidence. Lines 1-3 of â€Å"How Soon Hath Time† â€Å"How soon hath time the unobtrusive criminal of youth,/Stoln on his wing my three and twentieth year!/My flurrying days fly on with full career,† delineates how Milton is giving human qualities to his time (Milton, 942). Milton is utilizing symbolism to communicate that somebody took his childhood and that his 23rd year is taken on a wing, and that his days are passing by at a quick pace. As indicated by David Miller, Milton utilizes representation to pass on the symbolism that is made in the lines 1-3 of â€Å"How Soon Hath Time† (Miller, 3). At whatever point the peruser peruses lines 1-3 of â€Å"How Soon Hath Time,† there is the picture of a flying creature that has taken Miltons youth, lastly the winged animal takes off with the remainder of Miltons days (Milton, 942). This taking of Mil tons time additionally speaks to the individuals that Milton had lost for an incredible duration. Milton lost two spouses, three youngsters, which implies that he felt that time he had with his lost ones passed by so brisk, for example, if a winged creature had came and cleared them away. Notwithstanding, toward the finish of the piece, Milton utilizes a turn that shows despite the fact that that the feathered creature has taken his time; he despite everything keeps his confidence in God, realizing that everything is great and equivalent at long last in the Gods eye. Miltons utilization of scholarly gadgets in â€Å"How Soon Hath Time† delineates that even through tribulations; Milton despite everything is a dedicated man in God. Milton utilizes his lingual authority to help make symbolism that animates all the faculties that pass on to the peruser on how Milton feels about his confidence and his convictions in God. Milton additionally composed another sonnet that utilizes abstract gadgets to show his solid confidence called â€Å"When I Consider How My Light is Spent.† Milton composed this poem after he had gotten totally visually impaired. The fundamental plot behind this piece is that even through the hindrances that Milton experienced, Milton despite everything recaptured quality in his confidence. Milton utilized phrasing and symbolism among other scholarly gadgets to pass on that he had a solid confidence that was whole by issues that he experienced. As indicated by Russell Hillier, Milton utilizes a moral story with the good book to make symbolism in â€Å"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent† (Hillier, 7). In line 11, the sonnet matches the good book with Matthew 11:30 with â€Å"My burden is simple, and my weight is light† (Milton, â€Å"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent† 944). This corresponding with book of scriptures makes symbolism by making a feeling of sight for Milton, as he is a visually impaired man. It additionally permits the peruser to acquire comprehension of how the Milton feels about his self. Milton doesn't take a gander at his visual impairment as a discipline from God, however only a simple weight. At the point when the peruser peruses line 11 of the sonnet, a thought of how Milton feels about his visual deficiency is picked up. The peruser increases a picture of how and what Milton feels like, since getting visually impaired. Milton was not brought into the world visually impaired, hence he had a sharp information on what the world resembled and had the option to utilize objects that he had seen and perused before to make a sonnet that contains symbolism to pass on his concept of confidence and being visually impaired. In line 3, Milton alludes to gifts (Milton, â€Å"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent† 944). An ability in the book of Mathew is a money related unit. Nonetheless, in the sonnet, Milton utilizes a play on words in his lingual authority to make symbolism to help pass on the solid confidence that Milton has. Miltons vision is consider an ability that he once had, yet does not do anymore, and Milton passes on the possibility that his visual perception is inestimable. Additionally in line 10, Milton draws a reference from Job 22:2. With this reference to Job 22:2, Milton is expressing that anybody can profit by God, rather they are well off or poor or either visually impaired or not visually impaired. The lingual authority that Milton utilizes in â€Å"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent† passes on the solid feeling of confidence that Milton has, despite the fact that God blinded him. The

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The asss were a turning point in the history of music, which coincides with a turning point In the mindset of African Americans, especially in large clues Like New York. The black entertainment Industry, up until now, had always been a white mans exhalation of the Negro for white audiences (Cooper). The Harlem renaissance and the idea of the New Negro was a precursor for a wave of African American musicians and songwriters who would not be restricted to the same conventions which their predecessors were. Coleman Hawkins learned to play the piano at the age of 5, and woo years later he moved on to the cello.At 9 he learned the saxophone and by the time he was twelve he was playing In the Kansas City Theatre Pit Band. Coleman Hawkins first Inserted himself Into the Jazz scene In 1 921 , at the very beginning of the Jazz age and the roaring asss. He played alongside the travelling blues and vaudeville star, Mamie Smith. After playing this background role for 2 years, he joined Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra. This would reinvent Coleman Hawkins as a lead soloist and a big star of American jazz, a title that he retained for more than 40 years (Yanow). Hawkins should be included in this course because he was a major part of the swing jazz and big band movement, both in America and Europe, while reinventing the tenor saxophone as a Jazz instrument and an art form. His single, ‘Body and Soul’, was not only outrageously popular, but did so while defying many of the swing conventions of jazz music at the time. He was also one of the pioneers of early bebop and was a huge influence on later musicians such as John Coltrane and sonny Rollins. Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra was one of the most popular and influential ‘Hot Jazz’ bands of the 20’s, and Coleman Hawkins was a full time member for 11 years and was considered the centerpiece of the band (Oxford). Their home was the Roseland Ballroom. This dance club would later be known as the best dance club in New York. (Oxford). They also frequented the Savoy Ballroom, the most popular Black and Tan dance club in New York. This club was influential because it was a mixed race club where both blacks and whites came to dance, and racial differences were largely left at the door. â€Å"The Savoy was a building, a geographic place, a ballroom, and the soul of a neighborhood. It personified a community and an era, and became a monument to the music and dance of ‘swing’† (Engelbrecht 3). Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra were likely the most influential swing group of the 1920’s. One measurement of this is how often Henderson and his band were recorded and broadcasted. Henderson was the most frequently recorded black musician in the first decade of Jazz’s recorded history† (Magee 8). Jeffrey Magee also notes that his highest frequency of recordings took place between 1923-1927. During this time period Coleman Hawkins was a permanent member of Henderson’s Orchestra. â€Å"The Bands instrumental star was definitely Hawkins† (Chilton 26). In the years bef ore and after Louis Armstrong was part of Henderson’s Orchestra, Hawkins was the main soloist. â€Å"Louis influenced the band greatly by making the men swing-conscious with that New Orleans style of his. That same effect that Hawkins had on reeds, that right down-to-earth swing, with punch and bounce† (Fletcher Henderson). Coleman Hawkins had a unique style of improvisation on the tenor saxophone, which was copied by almost all tenors after Hawkins got big in the New York jazz scene. Coleman Hawkins way of playing the Tenor saxophone was his own, and was almost entirely different from anything previously heard on the tenor sax, which, in the early 20’s was still primarily a marching band instrument. Hawkins arrived at his own [Musical] style without apparently being heavily influenced by anyone in particular†(Chilton 18). Hawkins, who is widely known as a modest and unassuming man (Chilton 27), made a statement saying that, â€Å"I guess its true that I introduced a new style, a new way of playing tenor. I had a much heavier tongue, for one thing, than most of the others, and their tone was kind of thin†(Chilton 27). However, Hawkins improvisational style was not a fixed entity. He strived to move away from the bad habit of ‘slap tonging’, and began to experiment with less conventional soloing techniques. Hawkins was beginning to experiment successfully with the use of 9th chords and augmented runs as part of his improvisations, often showing his confidence by including ‘surprising notes’. †(Chilton 34). Hawkins began to put a European emphasis on his improvisations in his emphasis of the weak and strong beats (Williams 8). During the 20’s Hawkins was the top tenor saxophonist in New York, and many young sax players copied his smooth and often atonic style. â€Å"Bud Freeman was about the only tenor who didn’t sound like a replica of the hard-toned Hawkins†(Yanow). Although Coleman’s style became outdated by the 50’s with the entrance of revolutionary tenor saxophonist Lester Young (Yanow), his style was still a huge stepping stone in the history of improvisational Jazz. â€Å"Jazz improvisation has travelled a long road of development†¦This evolution [was] instigated by the titans of jazz history of the last 40 odd years: Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young†¦etc†. Hawkins added much of his own creative musical input to his music and to the 1920’s Jazz scene in New York. Adolphe Sax invented the Tenor sax for the purpose of being a military band instrument. As the tenor sax migrated to middle class America it was adopted as a marching band instrument. Coleman Hawkins was the first musician to play jazz on the Tenor sax, and he was certainly not the last (Yanow). â€Å"The prelude to jazz tenor saxophone originates from the Wilbur Sweatman Orchestra. The sound quality is quite primitive†¦there seem to be no tenor sax solos† (Evensmo 11). Sweatman’s orchestra played prearranged music, leaving no room for improvisation, which means that their music cannot be called jazz, and falls into the category of ragtime, which is largely prearranged. Therefore, when Coleman Hawkins joined Fletcher Henderson’s orchestra, the jazz tenor saxophone was created (Evensmo 11). Since that point, there has been a plethora of tenor saxophonist’s in jazz. Many, like Coltrane and Sonny Rollins would become extremely influential jazz musicians of the bebop era. Body and Soul was Coleman Hawkins’ most influential song, and also marked a turning point in Jazz (Moore). The song was a commercial success and was enormously popular among jazz audiences(Moore), however, critics also recognize the song as a musical and improvisational masterpiece. Right away, the Hawkins version of Body and Soul became one of the essential documents of jazz. It was not only a hit on jukeboxes until the 1950s, but also a textbook lesson in ballad playing. †(Moore). The song ‘Body and Soul’ was originally a Tin Pan Alley hit, and was covered by various artists before Coleman Hawkins. The rhythm section in the song is very underst ated, and the songs chorus is played twice through while Hawkins improvises (oxford). The nature of Hawks solo is what makes this song a masterpiece. In Body and Soul, Hawkins did not use standard blues riffing, hich collects each part of the solo into even, neat sections. Instead Hawkins toyed with â€Å"Sharp cornered phrases and endless lines that were the jazz equivalent of run on sentences†. Apart from the first 4 bars, Hawkins only rarely alludes to the melody of the original song. Instead he essentially left his solo entirely free form, which was relatively uncommon at the time in swing music1. â€Å"He danced at the upper extremes of chords, foreshadowing the altered harmonies that later were so important to bebop. But he was hardly academic. His spry, seductive tone gave every phrase an unmistakable passion. 1. Body and Soul was not only a masterpiece, it also hinted at the beginning of a new era in jazz. â€Å"When the record first came out, well, everybody said I was playing the wrong notes. It was funny to me†1. This recording was a step for jazz towards a more free form, atonic, and creative art form ca lled bop. The remarkable thing is that Hawkins made this step while retaining mass appeal. In the 40’s and 50’s bop began to replace swing as the main popular form of jazz, although it took on a distinctively different role as a counterculture art form. Most swing musicians resented this new, edgy jazz, but Hawkins encouraged it to such a large extent that he made an effort to systematically employ and collaborate with all of the up and coming jazz artists. â€Å"Unlike others of his generation, whose attitude towards bop ranged from resentment to hostility to bemused indifference, Hawkins championed the music, earning him a degree of loyalty† 2. Hawkins was a role model to young bebop prodigies such as Kenny Clarke, Oscar Pettiford, Fats Navarro, Max Roach and especially Thelonious Monk, who remained a lifelong friend of Hawkins till his death2. It was not that these new up and coming jazz artists were looking to model their musical style after Hawkins’. Rather, they looked at Hawkins commitment to improvisation and craftsmanship and the extraordinary achievements that he’d made, being a wealthy, self made black musician in mid-century America. A 1946 recording session called ‘Bean and the Boys’; which included Fats Navarro, Milt Jackson and Max Roach; paid tribute to Hawkins relationship with his young proteges2. In 1944 Hawkins was involved with what is known as the first bop recording session with Dizzy Gillespie and Don Byas3. Although this classification may be somewhat arbitrary, there is no doubt that Hawkins was hugely important to early bop. His 1948 recording ‘Picasso’, a 3 minute tenor sax solo with no supporting instruments, was a creative step for jazz as the first unaccompanied sax solo recorded3. In this recording Hawkins expanded on many of musical ideas, which he pioneered in ‘Body and Soul’, and by taking out the rhythm section Hawkins is able to play an even more ‘free form’ solo which is not locked into a time signature or rhythmic scheme4. Although Hawkins was not himself part of the bop generation, he certainly was an instigator and a catalyst of the bebop revolution. â€Å"The Peculiar combination of personal traits and musical abilities that marked Hawkins – steely ambition, a strong intellect, and virtuosity – characterized the bebop revolution†1. At the start of the 1950’s, Lester Young had become a much bigger influence on young tenor saxophone players than Coleman Hawkins was. However, Hawkins stuck to his melodic, edgy style of improvising and continued to play with various bands including a quintet with Roy Elridge. Around this time Hawkins image and influence went through a resurgence period, when Sonny Rollins, the up and coming bebop tenor saxophonist, claimed that Hawkins was his main musical influence1. In an interview Rollins said, â€Å"Coleman Hawkins had a more intellectual approach maybe to music. He played a lot of very difficult things. So he became my idol†2. Like Hawkins, Rollins went on to have a long, successful career, which was characterized by many of the same qualities that Hawkins possessed. Listening to Rollins and Hawkins recordings side by side displays the distinct influence that Hawk had on Rollins. Sonny has a distinctive style of swing that takes elements from the 1930’s Harlem sound that Hawkins was a part of and Rollins grew up with3. However, similar to Hawkins, Rollins style did evolve greatly over his career. â€Å"Rollins has a seemingly bottomless reservoir of musical knowledge (ranging from jazz standards and pop, to folk songs and classical music)†3. The most important trait, which was passed on from one tenor sax great to another, was the truly progressive nature of jazz. â€Å"Coleman Hawkins†, Sonny Rollins said recently, â€Å"was of [jazz’s] most prominent ‘Role Models’: The prototypical progressive jazz musician. Coleman Hawkins was the foremost tenor sax player of the 20’s and 30’s, and played with some of the most influential bands and musicians of the swing era1. Fletcher Henderson’s band was likely the most influential group of musicians to affect the 1920’s swing dance craze, and Hawkins played a prominent role in the orchestra2. In1934 he left America for Europe as the one of the most prominent swing musicians in New York3. He came back 5 years later to find that nothing had changed in the New York jazz scene. He went on to cut his most beautiful and influential record, Body and Soul3. In his later years, when jazz began to change around him he did not resist. He encouraged the change and allowed his own musical style to develop as well4. The one thing that remained true for Coleman Hawkins throughout his career was his commitment to jazz as a malleable and ever-changing entity.