ensembles‚ leadership roles‚ and community events‚ I have aspired to spread my love of music to those currently surrounding me and to those who will surround me as my musical career continues. Throughout my four years of high school‚ I have always enjoyed being involved in as many music ensembles as possible. Each group helped me grow as a musical leader
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A Visit to Zhengjue Temple Zhengjue Temple is located on Wentworth Avenue in the center of China Town in Chicago. It is a small-scale Mahayana Buddhism temple founded in 2003 by a Malaysian nun. It currently consists of two nuns --- the Abbot and founder of the temple and Rev Chi-Miu Sik. The decoration of the temple looks very similar to temples I used to visit in China‚ except for the fact that Zhengjue Temple is smaller in size. It has one big hall mainly used to place the statues of Buddhas
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Chicago Organized Crime and Political Figures Organized crime in Chicago has existed for over a century‚ with its magnitude being extremely pronounced before the year of prohibition i.e. 1919. The gangsters took advantage of lucrative markets for illegal activities such as gambling‚ prostitution‚ robbery‚ hijacking and contract killing to extort. The popularity of the gang activities such as gambling was amplified by the hardships caused by depression; the poor citizens had high hopes of being released
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I like to do musical theater this involves sing dancing and acting all at the same time. In one song alone you have to stay on your note during the harmonies and remember the lyrics. When you look at it from the dancing aspect you have to keep on beat‚ make sure to stay in unison with the other performers and remember all the dance movie and the order they come in. The last aspect of musical theater is the acting you have emotion not only on you face but in your voice as well as your dancing. These
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Musical Hallucination Tinnitus is a case in which the affected person hears some sounds that is not really exist like buzzing or hissing. While musical hallucinations is the case in which the affected person hears a phantom music in his head and he realize that this song is not played in reality. The difference between them is the phantom sounds they receive; tinnitus receives phantom sounds rather than music due to abnormality in the ear and hearing. Musical hallucinations receive phantom music
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States‚ one state and city that is always mentioned is Illinois‚ Chicago. It is usually used as a tool for politicians and media outlets to combat racial inequalities‚ and police brutality against blacks and minority group by presenting skewed statistics about black on black crime‚ or poor living conditions in predominately black neighborhoods. But if were where to looks at UCR data and compare the crime trends in the city of Chicago over the period 2012-2014 with the national average for the same
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Historical and Cultural context of the Musical Hairspray The Buddy Dean Show which was a teen dance show in Baltimore is memorialized in the musical and film by John Waters‚ Hairspray. The plot of this story revolves around an attempt in which teens from both backgrounds in Baltimore integrate successfully in a teen dance show called The Corny Collins show. There was a massive cultural revolution in musical taste in the ‘50s and ‘60s that was signalled by teens from the big band sound of rock and
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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS CLASSIFICATION All musical instruments can be divided into four major classes: aerophones‚ chordophones‚ electrophones and percussion. The biggest and the most versatile class is aerophones which can be further subdivided into free aerophones and pipe aerophones. On the next level free aerophones fall into those with free reed and with beating reed. Beating reed aerophones are represented by single reed (organ pipes) and double reed (human voice) instruments. Free reed instruments
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4/26/2010 Creative Presentation – Les Miserables as a Musical Les Miserables (Les Mis for short) is a musical that was composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg with the libretto‚ or text‚ by Alain Boublill and lyrics by Herbert. It is one of the most performed and well-known musicals in the world. On October 8‚ 2006 Les Miserables celebrated 21 years on London’s West End and became the longest running West End musical in history‚ reaching 9‚500 performances. The show continues
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“Chicago”‚ written by Carl Sandburg is a strong meaningful poem illustrating the pride and confidence that pours out of the city of Chicago. Throughout the poem he points out the shortcomings of the city‚ but at the same time challenges the reader to find another city as majestic despite its flaws. He admits that first impressions of the city are negative‚ but there is more than meets the eye. Behind all its smoke and arrogance is a city built upon a foundation of confidence‚ pride‚ and creativity
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