RGC Marching Band “Paradise Lost” It took us hard work over the summer with struggles of band members’ instrument being out of pitch or off timing etc. Although‚ it was all worth it until we heard the words from the announcer at the area competition that we can move forward state. I can remember people next me cheering and crying. In fact‚ this band of ours has not been in this type of event in over 33 years and it is not just significant to me but also to the band and people part of it at that time
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freshman drumline banging out a rough cadence three months and counting after marching season and I stepped in a puddle of spit. And my new black converses just made contact with the remnants of the trombones’ spit valves. The brown tiled floor of the band room was disgusting‚ especially near the low brass section where the instrumentalists felt the need to pour their spit out everywhere. I lucked out with having my instrument stored in the cages behind the low brass section’s saliva ocean. Today‚
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The Holmes-Rahe Stress Life Inventory checklist is a list of events that have a big impacted that are related to my life. While doing the research of stress‚ I found interesting about this is that the mean value points worth a lot. According to my result from the checklist‚ I have a lot of personal events has happened over the past year. My life is really stressful and this shows that I do not know how to manage my stress that well. I found surprising that vacation would be part of stress; instead
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the marching band. The Turpin Marching Band is one of‚ if not the biggest team in the school‚ with 150 members. These people train just as hard as the football team. I can tell you with experience‚ with how many times I’ve pushed a heavy synth cart through the mud‚ or up the hill to the stadium like King Sisyphus’ boulder in the underworld. I’ve marched so hard I
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Nowadays‚ animal testing is a subject that often occurs. Some people think it is needed in research‚ meanwhile others think it is not allowed to sacrifice animals for sciences because they are treated badly during their lifetime. Although some opponents do not consider the fact that animals are also used in food industry. Basically‚ laboratory animals are breed for sciences and will guarantee improvements in this field‚ so everyone would benefit from it. In particular‚ pharmaceutical‚ medical and
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that they played in the beginning. The band in the beginning was made up of Robby Takac‚ John Rzeznik‚ and George Tutaska. Then seventeen years ago Mike Malinin replaced George. After recording their fourth album‚ the band split up due to John’s belief that George as not committed enough and the band’s money issues‚ Robby convinced John to reform the band without George (Heath). The Goo Goo Dolls started out as a punk band‚ but now they are a pop/ rock band. During their punk years Robby sang most
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Movie Reaction Paper: And the Band Played On "This is not a political issue. This is a health issue. This is not a gay issue. This is a human issue. And I do not intend to be defeated by it. I came here today in the hope that my epitaph would not read that I died of red tape." This striking line said by a character in the movie "And the Band Played On"‚ which I later found out to be the actual words of Roger Gail Lyon in Congress1‚ depicts how a society so caught up with discrimination and stereotypes
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New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag "They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into a crowded dive at 1:00 AM‚ where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite‚ and the sweat flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. There’s a word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot‚ you
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Very few fictional characters created long ago have remained popular to this very day. However‚ one specific literary character has remained to be‚ if not increasingly so‚ popular in the modern time. Sherlock Holmes created by Arthur Conan Doyle nearly 160 years ago is unique‚ widely appealing‚ intriguing and slightly strange‚ unlike many other characters that have appeared in books in the nineteenth century and later. As well as his charisma‚ Sherlock’s intelligence‚ almost inhumanly so‚ is what
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Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote “Old Ironsides” in 1830‚ shortly after hearing the news that they were demolishing the Constitution. It was an emotional time for him‚ so he proceeded to write this poem as a protest. This poem consists of twenty-four lines with three stanzas. It’s an iambic pentameter and the rhyme scheme is ABCBDEFD; ABABCDED; then ABCBDEFE. The theme is centered on the idea that pride and glory are associated with death. This poem is telling a touching story of the decision to dismantle
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