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    Pandanggo sa Ilaw Luzon Folk Dance (Candle Dance) Pandanggo sa Ilaw - This popular dance of grace and balance comes from Lubang Island‚ Mindoro in the Visayas region. The term pandanggo comes from the Spanish word fandango‚ which is a dance characterized by lively steps and clapping that varies in rhythm in 3/4 time. This particular pandanggo involves the presence of three tinggoy or oil lamps‚ balanced on the head and the back of each hand. . It is said to have originated from Mindoro‚ the seventh-largest

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    CRITIQUE ON TEACHING PHILIPPINE FOLK DANCES Dance education involves teaching of the tradition‚ techniques‚ style and the methodologies of teaching the dance itself. Tradition is taught in and out of the school‚ making dance both as an academic discipline and a social practice or custom. The school teaches formally with syllabi and systems whereas the society teaches in communal activities from rites to games‚ from work to celebrations. Both serve to perpetuate tradition‚ by both hows‚ and whys

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    things that were happenings in those times. “There are almost as many ways of categorizing American folk music as there have been people collecting it; there are books on folk songs organized by geographical area: Appalachian‚ Ozarks‚ New England‚ and Texas; by song subject: work songs‚ spirituals‚ songs of courtship and marriage‚ children’s songs‚…;

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    African Americans: Historical Journey from 1865 to the Present HIS: 204: American History Since 1865 Professor Lisa Burgin July 14‚ 2014 Introduction The African American journey has been one of trials and tribulations which they suffered greatly to achieve freedom and success. The battle has led the citizens of this nation to have witnessed the first African American President of the United States. The journey that has brought African Americans to the present situation has

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    The Pardoner’s Tale and The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ both are interesting story by Geoffrey Chaucer. Both tales utilizes irony to showcase problems present within the Medieval era and relate to today‚ such as rape and thievery to the lifelong lessons such as‚ Greed is the root of all evils and content featuring woman’s dominance‚ rights‚ and morality in general. In the Pardoner’s Tale‚ Chaucer writes about a man who preaches to his audience for money. The pardoner speaks of three men that lost their

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    a Hungarian nationalist and studied Hungarian folk music. While he composed in all genres‚ he is most known for his interest in folk music. He incorporated it into many of his pieces. Bartók collected‚ transcribed and anthologized Hungarian folk songs with his friend‚ Zoltan Kodaly. Bartók did not believe in the flashy popular art music that had been composed during his time period. He was referring to Liszt’s gypsy music. He believed that "true folk music was the product of the peasant uncorrupted

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    Is the Tell-Tale Heart a Tall Tale? How can we always trust a narrator to be credible in stories we read? Are we to assume that the words we read are always truth? If characters are able to lie to one another‚ the narrator could also have the ability to fib to the reader‚ or at the very least give a sense of false hyperbole to a situation. In the case of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell Tale Heart”‚ is our narrator capable of telling the story of his late night plight with complete objectivity? The

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    old. And think twice before you send them to the old folk’s home.  Maybe one day‚ your kids will treat you the same way like how you treat your parents. Some people who become rich when they grow up will sometimes send their parents to the old folks home because they think that their parents are useless and will embarrass them. No‚ this is not how it should be. A good parents

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    10/2/12 The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffry Chaucer‚ is known as a Frame tale. A Frame tale is a story that leads up to another story. The Canterbury Tales‚ to me‚ was a very interesting story. A couple of the characters‚ the Knight and the Plowman‚ greatly caught my eye. The Canterbury Tales is about a pilgrimage made to a holy place during the 1300’s for religious reasons. Twenty-nine pilgrims travel to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. As

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    ST. LUCIAS FOLK CULTURE AND THE STRUGGLES FOR EMANCIPATION By Travis Weekes My main motivation for researching the contents of this paper stems from my curiosity about the origin and development of some of St. Lucias most vibrant and persistent cultural forms. Forms which I believe have been and are still very instrumental in the shaping of the St. Lucian person forms such as the bele‚ the konte‚ the abwe‚ the flower festivals of La Rose and La Maguerite and of course the language Kweyol‚ which

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