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Hialeah High School Choir Character Analysis
Kahlil Gibran once said, “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” Ever since I’ve stumbled across this quote, after mindlessly scrolling through Tumblr during the twelfth grade, it has held a sort of significance to my life. Kahlil Gibran’s quote resonated throughout my mind and body considering that the Hialeah High School Choir had, subsequently, changed how I viewed the world and how I valued myself as a person. This was a gigantic change from the timid, self-conscious, person I was with my peers in school, my relatives, and my parents. More importantly, it was a self-evolution that involved less stumbling over my words as I tried to speak and, although it is shameful to admit, dashing away from men that I would fancy.
Before I had joined the Hialeah High School Choir, known as TBS, I was an extremely timid and self-conscious person to the point that I would keep creating
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Chorus is interpreted as a crowd of introverts that rather sing and dance than participate in athletics, when in reality it is a mix of personalities that bond together to create a complex choreography that matches with our melodies. I can recall the first moment I had socialized with my surrounding choir peers and how awestruck I was when I would hear them discussing a rock song or gushing over the newest anime (anime is a Japanese cartoon) instead of hearing the drooling conversations of Drake and Kanye West that I had become accustomed to. They also would encourage me to wear whatever I was comfortable with instead of forcing me to wear tight clothing that would just institute my self-consciousness. In fact, they would beam and overpraise if I had decided to wear a band T-shirt that day with ripped jeans and combat boots, considering that to them I had majestic fashion

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