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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dancing en pointe‚ a ballet tradition dating back to the 19th. This subject holds particular significance to me. I have danced for most my life‚ and as a young girl I desperately wanted to dance in pointe shoes. Pointe work seemed like the pinnacle of achievement for a dancer‚ and I waited anxiously for my instructor to allow it. When I eventually began to dance on pointe I realized two things. One: pointe work requires a level of pain tolerance that I do not have. Two: most of the other girls taking
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My favorite extracurricular activity is the debate team‚ which I first joined as a high school freshman. I moved to a new school that year and was a shy‚ withdrawn young girl who wasn’t quite sure where I would fit in. My guidance counselor‚ Ms. Evans‚ suggested that the debate team might bring me out of my shell and help me to make friends. She had no idea what a monster she was creating. My first few days on the debate team didn’t look promising. I was still painfully shy‚ and was constantly told
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Thinking As A Hobby "How does one think ?"‚ is a question pondered by many. William Golding has basically broken down thinking into three basic grades of thinking. I believe that Golding ’s purpose of this story is to make the reader secretly put their self into one of the styles of thinking. Golding elaborates on each individual grade of thinking to help the reader class them self into a particular grade. A grade-three thinker is the most common of the grades‚ "Man is a gregarious animal‚ and enjoys
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Hobby is defined as an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure. [1] It may be an outdoor or an indoor activity. The benefits of having hobbies and the reasons for having reading as my hobby will be discussed. Hobbies help us to refocus on work. Taking some time to pursue hobbies helps us refocus on work with more energy and enthusiasm. Problems that seem unsolvable and situations that seem hopeless at work suddenly seem manageable after we have stepped away from the situation
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Thank you for the recent promotion to the managerial position within this company. My job now is to oversee 50 factory workers. After the first day on the job I discovered that the workers were working past their 8-hour shift. I would like to have a meeting with you regarding this current situation. I recently spoke with the factory supervisor to express my concern‚ because I know this company does not have the funds to pay every worker for overtime. He explained to me that we are “inviting” workers
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Dance is such a beautiful art because it is not only something that we‚ in America‚ share with each other‚ it is practiced world-wide. In Baghdad‚ there is one dance in school in particular that focuses on using dance to bring people together. The Baghdad School of Music and Ballet has given decade’s worth of children the opportunity to purse their dreams in the arts. The country of Iraq‚ which Bagdad is the capital of‚ has been at war for years which causes a lot of fear in the children who are
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Case Study On Debby This case study is on a young girl named Debby. She was observed in a at her parent’s home over the last weekend. She is 3 years of age. She is the only child‚ and lives with both parents. She has her own bedroom. She loves anything Disney princesses‚ she also does not like dark colors‚ bright colors are her favorite and she likes the color pink. She like playing with dolls‚ playing kitchen‚ and she told me that her favorite thing was to ride in mummy’s car. Debby dislikes playing
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Tap dancing is a dance form where one would wear a shoe with hard metal soles and strike the floor to create a rhythm. However‚ there is more to tap dancing than just striking the floor‚ because anyone can strike their foot on a hard surface to create a noise‚ but it takes someone who is truly passionate and dedicated to learning and performing Tap dancing to be considered a member of the tap dance community. Also‚ in the tap community there are specific rules that one would need to follow‚ to understand
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This is sad story of a man‚ Awiyao‚ who in spite of being in love with his wife‚ Lumnay‚ feels the need to marryanother in order to have a son. According to the story if a man does not have a son he is considered to be inferior to others intheir community. It is not a case of not loving Lumnay‚ which he does‚ but of his perceived necessity of a son to beconsidered a man. He is however‚ insensitive believing the answer to Lumnay’s sorrow would be to join the other women at the wedding dance.Little
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