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    Social Ballroom Dance

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    SOCIAL BALLROOM DANCE ORIGINS Emmylou Cortez Nicolas BS Biology 1A Prof. Felipa Oliquino PE 2 SWING DANCING HISTORY The swing dance is not a single form/kind of dance but a group of various dances which developed in the earlier half of the twentieth century. These dance forms flourished with jazz or swing style of music. The origin of these swing dances can be traced back to the vernacular African-American dance forms. Today‚ the most popular form of swing dancing is Lindy Hop. In

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    Rain Water Harvesting

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    RAIN WATER HARVESTING Introduction: Till about thirty years back‚ the areas around our homes and offices used to be unpaved and the rain falling on these areas would percolate into the soil and remain there for being drawn through shallow open wells. With the proliferation of flat complexes‚ not only have these areas been paved and percolation of rainwater into the soil almost totally stopped‚ the quantity of water drawn from the soil below has increased manyfold. Consequently open wells and not

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    Snake Dance

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    often people don’t get upset about these lies. Sometimes‚people are in situations where they have to lie.However to a degree the lies a not hurtfull for people. They are told to avoid hurting other people feelings.For instance in the story “Snake Dance” Jerry lies to his mother about his life.He tells her mother that he has a scholarship for his football and he doesn’t need money.Nonetheless he works in a milkshake store and sells milkshakes.He lies to his mother because he knows that his mother

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    Dance Application Essay

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    my resume. What you can not see on my resume is the profound impact dance has had on not only me as a leader but my life as a whole. I started dancing when I was 3 years old and 14 years later I’m still dancing. Spending 12 of those years at the same dance studio‚ Dancentre South‚ has allowed me to not only influence my dance studio but the community it creates and is surrounded by. I started assisting and demonstrating for dance classes when I was 12‚ this class started my career of not only helping

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    Belly Dance History

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    Eastern (Belly) Dance (The super condensed mini version) Middle Eastern Dance is an umbrella term which refers to all dances of the Middle East and it’s surrounding areas from both the past and present.  However its also a term commonly used to refer to Raqs Sharqi or "belly dance" and its various styles‚ offshoots‚ and  predecessors.   Many scholars believe that Raqs Sharqi stems from older dances.  It has been called the world’s "oldest dance‚" with theories linking it to ancient dances in Mesopotamia

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    African Instruments

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    history of African musical instruments is rich and diverse as the people that populate the African continent. Because music is so deeply rooted in African culture‚ knowing about African instruments helps you understand the continent as well as the people. Apart from Africans themselves‚ this knowledge is usually restricted to ethnomusicologists and historians. The roots of African-American instruments are buried deep within the music of the African continent. The history and evolution of African-Americans’

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    Wedding Dance

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    Name: Ellaine G. De Jesus Section: IV-Sun Elements of Drama Most successful playwrights follow the theories of playwriting and drama that were established over two thousand years ago by a man named Aristotle.  In his works the Poetics Aristotle outlined the six elements of drama in his critical analysis of the classical Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex written by the Greek playwright‚ Sophocles‚ in the fifth century B.C.  The six elements as they are outlined

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    The Spouted Ritual Wine Vessel The era of the Shang(ca. 1600-1050 B.C) and the Zhou (ca. 1046-256 B.C.) dynasties is generally known as the Bronze Age of China. During this period of time‚ bronze vessels were the most highly esteemed objects. In addition to their functional and symbolic role‚ these bronzes also exemplified the latest technical and artistic developments of their historic stage. Early bronze vessel‚ including the jue‚ gu‚ and ding‚ were mostly based on Neolithic pottery styles

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    From Ritual to Reality

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    Academy of Management Journal 2010‚ Vol. 53‚ No. 6‚ 1474–1498. FROM RITUAL TO REALITY: DEMOGRAPHY‚ IDEOLOGY‚ AND DECOUPLING IN A POST-COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT AGENCY ´ ANDRAS TILCSIK Harvard University Decoupling—the creation of gaps between formal policies and actual practices—is ubiquitous in organizations. Yet little research has examined how decoupling unfolds over time. This qualitative case study of a post-Communist government agency develops process models of what precedes and what follows

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    South Africa‚ South Brazil‚ South and Central China‚ South Japan‚ and New Zealand’s North Island). Nearly half of these forests are in the Central and South America‚ mainly the lower Amazonia and along the coasts of Columbia and Ecuador. Tropical rain forests are the most complex and diverse ecosystems‚ and sustain the greatest concentration of biological diversity (half of all species of animals and plants) on the Earth. The tropical rainforest ecosystem can be found in places near the

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