plays and all my peers are dancing and singing along in the stands. I’ll never forget how much fun me and my friends had putting together the freshmen class float and decorating the pod for home coming or all those basketball games‚ soccer games‚ choir performances‚ and drama productions where the whole school comes together. I am not afraid to say Yorktown is the best school in the county. I Meredith St.John would love nothing more to be your sophomore class president. My Tennis coach‚ Coach Darby
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Throughout America’s communities today‚ the quality of schooling varies from school to school. In the book Our Kids the author‚ Robert Putnam‚ believes that the increased gap between the wealthy and poor is what causes the differences in school quality and opportunities for the students (Putnam‚ 2015). Recently‚ I had the pleasure of interviewing two of today’s youth‚ Josh and Erin. Their names have been changed for the sake of anonymity. Josh is a 17-year-old student at Shawnee Mission East High
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Written for the 2004 indie film Garden State‚ New Slang by The Shins is a piece that can be related to by the masses. It’s not a coincidence that New Slang is the most popular Shins song as it gives a somber effect that could make anyone feel there’s a world out there for them that they’ve never seen. The Shins‚ despite having a soothing effect on listeners‚ often strike a chord in an existential sense. Their music often creates a stream of consciousness that not only brings you to question the world
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educational expenses. Education has always been an important aspect of my life. While in high school I took challenging courses‚ such as advanced placement English and calculus‚ physics‚ and chemistry. I enjoyed the arts and was involved in art‚ band‚ and choir. Despite the time consuming practices for concerts‚ parades‚ musicals and exhibits‚ I was able to maintain an excellent GPA‚ allowing me to graduate with honors. I decided to stay near home and come to the University of Michigan- Flint because of the
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Notre Dame de Paris‚ Ile de la Cite (1163-1345) The building that has taken my interest is Notre Dame de Paris‚ which literally means “Our Lady of Paris” in French. When one thinks of Gothic architecture‚ majority will think of Notre Dame as it is one the most significant French catholic cathedral that is distinctively Gothic. Because Notre Dame has seen many reconstruction in its days‚ its early construction in the period 1160s is characterized as Early Gothic and adopt similar pointed arch
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St. Paul’s Cathedral in London is the seat of the Bishop of London and a major London landmark. It is located on Ludgate Hill in the financial district known as the City of London. The present St. Paul’s Cathedral‚ which was built between 1675 and 1710‚ is the fourth cathedral to occupy the site‚ which was sacred even before Christianity arrived. The cathedral’s immediate predecessor was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. The cathedral enjoyed by visitors today was designed by
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At the first meeting‚ the boys collectively acknowledged a need for shelters and a signal fire‚ yet these tasks fell to only a few of them‚ while the others went swimming or hunting. Specifically‚ at that first meeting‚ Jack volunteered the choir‚ himself a member‚ to keep a lookout and a signal fire going on top of the mountain‚ yet the job soon fell to Samneric. Likewise‚ Piggy constantly made suggestions as to what needed to be fixed‚ yet never acted on any of it. He espoused his opinions
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and "sweet kernel" along with "fume of poppies" suggest the sights and smells of the harvest of fall. In the third stanza as autumn nears its end‚ the "barred clouds bloom" and "touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue" while gnats mourn "in a wailful choir." Other sound imagery is found in the bleating of the lambs‚ the singing of the crickes‚ the whistling of the "red-breast‚" and the twittering of the swallows. As the stanzas are arranged in the order of the progression of the season of autumn.
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artists sending messages out about injustice to a Classical orchestra portraying emotion. It allows people‚ some of which can be from all different cultures or backgrounds‚ to feel a similar emotion in those brief moments. For example‚ Classical choirs tend to sing in many different languages‚ Latin being one of the many which is seen in Vivaldi’s Gloria in D major. A line from the composition seen in movement nine is "Qui tollis peccata mundi‚ suscipe deprecationem
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rest of the characters. Throughout the story Ralph was found trying to appease Jack‚ in one situation Jack had struck Piggy to vent his anger and Ralph replied “That was dirty trick”(72) but did not punish Jack . Ralph allowed Jack to hunt with the choir‚ his appointed hunters. Jack failed his task of keeping the fire going and Ralph further appeased
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