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    Samantha Camacho October 7‚ 2008 Major Spanish Project: Column B Ms. Sanchez I have broken up the 10 personalities in 2 groups with 2 posters. One group on one poster is “Musica y Los Bailes.” In that group‚ I put 5 of the 10 personalities I have to choose for my project. The 5 personalities I chose for this group are Reggaeton‚ Bachata‚ Aventura‚ Celia Cruz‚ and Fulanito. I love music so that’s why I wanted to make a separate poster for it. The other group on the other

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    BTEC EXTENDED DIPLOMA SPORT UNIT 16: EXERCISE FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS Launch date: 25.09.13 Deadline date: 08.10.13 Scenario 1 You have completed your fitness instructing unit successfully and as a result your line manager would like you to develop further by opening out your knowledge and skills to specific groups Before doing this you need to research what provision there is for specific groups currently Youth centre Age range 9-13 or 25 plus for less-able Specific classes for specific

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    The extract under the discussion is written by Stephen King – American novelist and short-story writer‚ whose enormously popular books revived the interest in horror fiction from the 1970s. King’s place in the modern horror fiction can be compared to that of J.R.R. Tolkien’s who created the modern genre of fantasy. Like Anthony Trollope‚ Charles Dickens or Balzac in his La Comedie humaine‚ King has expressed the fundamental concerns of his era‚ and used the horror genre as his own branch of artistic

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    Dance for styles Project: Indian Dance styles 28 November 2012 India’s languages‚ religions‚ dance‚ music‚ food‚ and customs differ from place to place within the country. In general‚ Indian dances have facial expression of emotions and seeks to communicate ideas. Under performing art in India there’s classical dance forms and formal arts of dance. Thus‚ we were assigned to perform Kathak style which is a classical mythological dance style. As for the other style we selected a dance that have

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    Jamaica Language is a reflection of the diversity of the people of Jamaica. The wonderful blend of various races and cultures has affected the languages spoken in Jamaica. The immigrants from outside Jamaica have brought with them their language as well and languages like Spanish‚ Irish‚ and Scottish. The other two significant languages of Jamaica are Taino and Arawak‚ specific to particular regions. Jamaican Patois‚ known locally as Patois (Patwa or Patwah) and called Jamaican Creole by linguists

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    grown up to be recognized as the creators of a new form of music. Grime‚ as it has been called‚ acts as an aural expression for the distinct set of socio-economic conditions they face. The genre combines elements of hip-hop from the United States‚ dancehall from Jamaica‚ as well as punk‚ rave‚ drum and bass‚ and garage from England. As much as one can try to describe the genre in words or compare it to other styles of already existing music‚ it is next to impossible to define. Matthew McKinnon for the

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    In the late early day’s young people lack of dancehalls around their communities‚ so instead they come together to show off their moves in the streets: hence the name street dancing. This style of dancing is not like ballroom dancing or the cha-cha slides; it’s different from all the other dancing. Street

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    homophobic‚ so they care little for the welfare of the homosexual population and often run very anti-gay political campaigns. In Jamaica‚ music is very much a part of the national identity. Unfortunately the popular music in Jamaica‚ specifically dancehall music‚ is very homophobic. One of the biggest hits in Jamaica is Boom Bye-Bye by Buju Banton; the song contains lyrics advocating the shooting and burning of “batty boys” which is slang for gay men. The almost universal homophobia in Jamaica forces

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    synonymous with popular music in the country of its origin. During the years of‚ and immediately prior to World War II‚ a subgenre of jazz commonly referred to as swing was playing on all American radio stations and attracting throngs of young people to dancehalls for live shows. But it wasn’t only popular amongst Americans; historian Michael H. Kater‚ in his book Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany‚ has turned his eye away from the United States in order to examine the effects jazz had

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    On average only 32% of students at the major tertiary education institutions in Jamaica‚ the University of the West Indies and the University of Technology are male according to the Labour Market Information System of Jamaica. These statistics also show that females now dominate areas that were once seen to be male dominated as the male enrolment rate continues to plummet. Even though males are seen in the Jamaican society occupying the vast majority of leadership positions‚ they are greatly out

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