I was just thinking the other day: Everyone I know in the country is weird. At least for my town‚ which has no stoplights and one main intersection‚ we are a little strange‚ I think. We don’t get out much. We think running across the freeway is a thrill. I grew up playing in mud with frogs and snakes. Is that weird? I feel like my friends and I have had a somewhat difficult time in mixing with others. I almost feel like if I had lived in the city‚ I might understand more about other types of people
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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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Music has been around as long as civilized humans have been. Artifacts show people dancing around fires to drumbeats. Since music was there from the start of civilization‚ it will be there until the end too. Music tells a story with the notes and rhythms. If the people are in distress‚ the music will be sad and sorrowful‚ but if the people just won a big war‚ it will be joyous and happy. An example of music reflecting a culture is the Native Americans. Music was a major factor in the Native American
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and the emergence of the flower children. (Britannica) The sixties were about assassination‚ unforgettable fashion‚ new styles of music‚ civil rights‚ gay and women’s liberation‚ Vietnam‚ Neil Armstrong landing on the moon‚ peace marches‚ sexual freedom‚ drug experimentation‚ and Woodstock. All of these components caused a revolutionary change in the world of popular Music. <br> <br>The beginning of Rock and roll started with The Twist. by Chubby Checker This song changed our dancing moves. Other dance
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Music As is known to us all‚music is such a broad topic to interpret that I can not introduce it to you in detail‚ so today I just talk about music in my eyes. Here comes the first question:Do you like music? Many people like music.There are many different types of music all over the world: Classical music‚Folk music‚Soft music‚Light music‚Blues‚ Country music‚ Children’ s songs‚Jazz‚ Pop music‚Rock & Roll and so on. So what is your favourite kind of music? Soft music is graceful；rock
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Moving To A New Country; What Makes People Do So The love I feel for my country‚ the land I was born in‚ is something inexplicable. The feeling I get when my country’s name is pronounced is almost like the same feelings of butterflies in the stomach people feel when they are in love. So‚ why is it that I decided to desert my land and move to a new country? As in many other countries‚ the financial situation in my country was not very suitable my family and I to live in‚ and as many other people
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some of the influence of Latin music in the US in the early part of the twentieth century. a) El Manicero became popular‚ then came the Rumba dance craze. 2) What was the significance of "Machito and His Afro-Cubans"? a) Machito and His Afro Cubans mixed big band with cuban music. It was the first time that people had seen acknowledgement of being African derived. 3) How did Dizzy Gillespie incorporate Latin music into his music? a) Dizzy Gillespie mixed Latin music into his by collaborating his
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The time period of the publication of Cry‚ the Beloved Country by Alan Paton coincides with the transitional era prior to the official beginning of the apartheid that lasted a few decades in the South African history. This period in the South Africa was important for the history of the country because it determined the future of the direction chosen by the nation. Those were the years when despite the fact that things were bad‚ there still was hope about the future of Africa and its people. This
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Criterion SM Online Essay Evaluation: An Application for Automated Evaluation of Student Essays Jill Burstein Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road‚ 18E Princeton‚ NJ 08541 jburstein@ets.org Martin Chodorow Department of Psychology Hunter College 695 Park Avenue New York‚ NY 10021 martin.chodorow@hunter.cuny.edu Claudia Leacock Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road‚ 18E Princeton‚ NJ 08541 cleacock@ets.org Abstract This paper describes a deployed educational technology application:
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Romantic Music: The Ideals of Instrumental Music At one point in the study of the Romantic period of music‚ we come upon the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts to grasp the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19th century. This opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental music is the perfect Romantic art‚ why is it acknowledged that the great masters of the symphony‚ the highest form of instrumental music‚ were
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