1. Who sang at the Grammy’s in Spanish in the late 1990s? What was the reaction? Ricky Martin sang at the 40th Grammy Awards… People were shocked but then were awestruck at his music and were hype. 2. When did Latin music burst back on the scene? What song brought it back to the mainstream? What effect did it have? Latin came back in 1984. “Conga” by Gloria Estefan & the Miami Sound Machine. Latin music is the Latin rhythm mixed with English words. 3. How did the sounds of salsa change? The
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The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s new economic plan‚ which took place in China in 1958. The idea of the Great Leap Forward was the rapid growth of agricultural and industrial production. It focused on improving the productivity of all Chinese workers by investing in human development and labour-intensive technology. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials believed it would bring about economic and technical development in great leaps rather than at a gradual pace. By using China’s advantage of manpower
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Christmas 2010. I sit in my room‚ listening to Taylor Swift’s Speak Now album as I wait for our guests to arrive for my family’s holiday get together. I hear my brother call for me from down the hall. I oblige and head to the living room to find that my grandparents had arrived‚ and they were each carrying something. One carried in a TV for my brother and the other carried in my present‚ an acoustic guitar. My dad had tricked us into believing we weren’t getting anything this year and had hidden
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Why is the study of prehistoric and ancient music important? What can we learn from it? The study of prehistoric/ancient music is important because you can see how music started and how it advanced. We can learn how they lived back then from it. Why did early humans develop music? What are some of the ways that they were thought to create music? Early Humans developed music because they wanted to express themselves. One way they were thought to create music was by listening
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worth when he wrote‚ “Art has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival.” I believe that is the real point behind art; to bring a kind of contentment that is logistically unnecessary‚ yet remarkably important. My favorite piece of art is The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. Millions have witnessed this masterpiece and have marveled at its simple beauty. This work of art was painted from memory in the daytime by the Dutch painter‚ Vincent Van Gogh‚ who admitted
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Laura Tong 8A Poem Appreciation Essay‚ Growing Up by Michelle Williams Growing up by Michelle Williams is a poem about the hard years of teenage life. Her poems covers the types of both physical and emotional pain teenagers have to go through. I personally enjoyed this poem because it describes many problems that I am going through as a teenager and that makes me feel like the poet understands me well. Pain is a constant theme in the poem. Williams used effective
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Understanding Vis Art Assignment 5 1. What is one of the chief purposes of the act of drawing? One chief purpose is preliminary study. The artist experiments with different approaches to their work. 2. What is a cartoon? Give an example of a cartoon from the text. It is a drawing done to scale for painting or fresca. An example is Madonna with Child with St Ann and Infant John the Baptist‚ by Leonardo. 3. Drawing materials are usually divided into what two categories? They are
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The appreciation of the RMB issue has attracted attention of various circles at home and abroad. By analyzing the current RMB exchange rate appreciation on China’s economic impact at all levels‚ I will mainly from the industrial structure‚ export structure‚ and enterprises to change their operational mechanism‚ to ease trade tensions and the effectiveness of monetary policy five-pronged approach to analysis; and my final conclusion: RMB exchange-rate appreciation generated by the final result is
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Running Head: Baroque Works of Art IP 5 Running Head: Baroque Works of Art 1 Baroque Works of Art The Baroque period of art was from the 1600’s to the 1700’s. This period in art history began with the Catholic Church launching an internal reformation to establish clear definitions of the church’s theologies‚ as well as their doctrines. A sector of the church’s reform was to educate the members
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PROFESSOR: JAMES RANDY DancePlus I attended DancePlus show On Friday December 2‚ 2011 at 7:30pm at night. It was performed in the Victoria K. Mastrobounno Theater in New Brunswick‚ New Jersey. There were four different parts that I saw that day. All of the dances were very interesting and very different from each other. All of the dances had its own unique key factor that separated it from each other. I enjoyed the entire show very well. Out of all the dances I had strong reaction
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