traditionally participated in a cycle of ritualized events and festivals. Historically‚ European life consisted of festivals like Carnival and Mardi Gras‚ along with common‚ daily rituals like charivari‚ or riding the stang. Some festivals kept people happy and allowed them to unwind while others provided order and punishment. Different religious beliefs resulted in different opinions on certain festivals and rituals. Additionally‚ rituals and festivals helped people to temporarily escape social identities
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holidays or festivals. Credibility Statement: I feel confident in discussing one of the many festivals celebrated by my relatives. I have researched many articles and read biographies on the founders of this unique festival of flowers. Purpose Statement/Position Statement/Preview of Main Points: My purpose here today is to inform you of a Dutch festival held throughout the United States and other countries but most specifically of the one closest to my heart…the Tulip Time Festival held annually
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Music has been around for hundreds of years‚ and along with it have always come music lovers. Throughout the years the world has seen music evolve from a form of religious celebration and having a ceremonial role‚ to becoming a form of entertainment and art to what it is today: a backbone of popular culture and even lifestyle. Since the first piece of music was ever played‚ people have responded in a variety of different ways‚ and generally speaking music fans can fall into one of four categories
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UK country music as its way to express the feelings of its people Music makes a lot of things to every human’s life. It is one of the aspects of their life that able to communicate and relate themselves to the world. It is one of the best careers under entertainment and they made a compassionate world out of it. Music opens the door to lots of opportunity especially to those who have the passion to make it. An expression of yourself and how you feel as you write your song‚ it is a concrete evidence
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create something together.” This perfectly describes Native American music‚ for the drums are the sole basis of the beat and keep the rhythm going. Once the beat gets going‚ everyone can jump in‚ dance‚ chant‚ and create more sound to make one piece of music together as one. The drums carry out the beat throughout the entire chant and keep everyone in time. Victoria Lindsay Levine wrote in her article titled‚ “Native American Music” and says how “sacred narratives describe the origins of specific musical
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Burning Man: A Ticket to Free Expression August 27‚ 2012‚ you and your friends pile into the care and you drive until you finally reach nowhere‚ also known as Black Rock Desert. Burning Man‚ a week long experience of art‚ exploration‚ freedom‚ and expression. When attending Burning Man there are not many rules‚ only a select few that are enforced. One of the enforced rules of Burning Man is that you leave the land the way you found it. If you bring it you take it. Volunteers stay weeks after Burning
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Pop music is supposed to inspire and create an experience that no other type of music can accomplish; something Blackout not only did for pop music fans‚ but it inspired a whole generation of new artists. Obviously the electronic‚ synth‚ urban and dance genres have been around for quite some time now‚ but has any of it been fused together so perfectly for a mainstream audience? The answer is no. So much of the pop music today is urban‚ synth‚ and experimental with the mainstream club beats to accompany
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hesis Popular music was recorded and marketed as a Counterculture which opposed the normal‚ functional‚ and unexciting Culture that was dominant in society; by being outside of that which was in power‚ Counterculturalists argued‚ they were able to see what was "real" and to implement a "progressive" worldview in which moral correctness brought us gradually closer to a utopian state. This marketing mirrored the process of adolescents‚ the main audience for popular music‚ who first reject the
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My Favorite Chinese Festival The Mid-autumn is my favorite Chinese festival. It always falls on the 15th day of August‚ but this year is on 29th September. “This wonderful tale is a depiction of a Chinese family coming together and preparing to celebrate the moon with a nighttime picnic that embraces their Chinese customs with glowing lanterns and includes traditional dishes‚ such as the moon cakes‚ pomelos‚ and tea.”(LIN 94) A few days before the festival‚ everyone in the family will help to
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Music Supported Therapy (MST) is a recently researched intervention in which participants played through a series of increasingly complex musical exercises using electronic drum pads and keyboard. Results from these studies have consistently shown statistically significant improvements for participants’ upper limb function‚ also evidencing neural reorganization using EEG and fMRI. Therapeutic Instrumental Music Performance (TIMP) is a Neurologic Music Therapy intervention (NMT) used in neurorehabilitation
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