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Billie Holiday’s ‘Strange Fruit’: Feeling the Haunting and Powerful Protest Song’s Emotional Impact in Jazz and Blues.

Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit": Feeling the Haunting and Powerful Protest Song's Emotional Impact in Jazz and Blues (Lecture Hall Illustration with a spotlight shining on a microphone) (Professor walks confidently…

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Javascript

Currying: Transforming a Function That Takes Multiple Arguments into a Sequence of Functions Each Taking a Single Argument.

Currying: The Art of Slicing and Dicing Functions (and Why You Should Care!) 🔪 (Lecture Hall Atmosphere - Imagine a slightly dishevelled but enthusiastic professor pacing the stage) Alright, settle…

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Music and Dance

John Coltrane’s ‘Giant Steps’: Navigating the Complex Chord Changes and Rapid Improvisation of This Jazz Classic.

John Coltrane's 'Giant Steps': Navigating the Complex Chord Changes and Rapid Improvisation of This Jazz Classic (Lecture Hall - a single spotlight illuminates a slightly dishevelled professor clutching a well-worn…

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Javascript

Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs): Creating Private Scope and Avoiding Global Namespace Pollution in JavaScript.

Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs): The Secret Agent of JavaScript - Creating Private Scope and Avoiding Global Namespace Pollution Alright, buckle up buttercups! Today, we're diving deep into the murky…

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Music and Dance

Miles Davis’s ‘So What’ from Kind of Blue: Immersing Yourself in the Cool and Modal Jazz Masterpiece.

Miles Davis's 'So What' from Kind of Blue: Immersing Yourself in the Cool and Modal Jazz Masterpiece (A Lecture in Cool) Alright, cats and kittens, settle in. Grab your shades…

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Javascript

Closures in Practice: Using Closures to Create Private Variables and Maintain State in JavaScript Functions.

Closures in Practice: Using Closures to Create Private Variables and Maintain State in JavaScript Functions (A Lecture for Slightly Sleepy but Determined Developers) Alright class, settle down, settle down! 😴…

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Music and Dance

Charlie Parker’s ‘Ko-Ko’: Experiencing the Dizzying Speed and Innovation of Bebop Jazz.

Charlie Parker's 'Ko-Ko': Experiencing the Dizzying Speed and Innovation of Bebop Jazz (A Lecture in Dizzying Proportions) (Professor Jazzhands, PhD, D.Mus, Keeper of the Bebop Flame, adjusted his bow tie,…

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Javascript

Higher-Order Functions: Functions That Take Other Functions as Arguments or Return Functions as Results in JavaScript.

Higher-Order Functions: JavaScript's Secret Sauce (and Why You Should Use It!) 🌶️ Alright, buckle up buttercups! We're diving headfirst into the wonderfully weird and wildly powerful world of Higher-Order Functions…

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Music and Dance

Duke Ellington’s ‘Take the ‘A’ Train’: Riding Along with the Famous Jazz Standard’s Swinging Rhythm.

Duke Ellington's 'Take the 'A' Train': Riding Along with the Famous Jazz Standard's Swinging Rhythm (A Lecture in Jazz Appreciation) (🎶 cue intro music - a short, swinging excerpt of…

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Music and Dance

The Smooth Sound of Louis Armstrong’s ‘What a Wonderful World’: Embracing the Optimistic and Enduring Jazz Ballad.

The Smooth Sound of Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World': Embracing the Optimistic and Enduring Jazz Ballad (A Lecture on Hope, Trumpets, and the Power of Simple Things) (Professor Satchmo,…

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