October 6‚ 2012 The Message of African Drums In the African culture‚ music is a part of daily life. It is used to convey news‚ to teach‚ to tell stories‚ and for religious purposes. The variety of musical instruments is as diverse as their culture‚ but the most important musical instrument to the African people is the drum. The djembe is the most famous African drum. It is made from goatskin and shaped like a large goblet. The djembe is made to be played with bare hands. Use of the djembe dates
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Haley Strader Honors Literature November 17‚ 2012 My Drum Major Instinct Stalking is a very serious matter‚ despite society’s tendency to trivialize the experiences of many female victims. There have been numerous overlooked cases in which female victims have been stalked for various amounts of times and taken action to have the stalker removed‚ just to have him/her eventually come back up in some sort of manner. Many top box office hits have the cliché plot of the stalker who murders the girl
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Turner January 19‚ 2013 HUM 121S Dr. M. Lynn Barnes Abstract ideas and concrete images sometimes merge in “Piano and Drums” by I think piano being Africa and the drums being other nations. I understood the concrete images as the riverside and the abstract ideas being that the riverside is calm‚ peaceful‚ serine‚ and just how Africa has been for decades. The jungle drums are abstract and the other nations coming with their mystic rhythms‚ their more advanced than Africa that is what makes
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I am applying for both section leader and drum major because I have a lot to offer in both positions in the band. I am a great leader‚ with a lot of maturity and know when it’s time to be serious‚ and when it’s time to joke around. Every day‚ I grow more and more with this band and leading this band as drum major‚ or leading the saxophones as section leader‚ would be an amazing accomplishment for me and I know I can do the job well. First of all‚ I will be putting all of my heart into this job
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The Loss of Innocence Alice Walker (1944)‚ an African/American woman was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia. She won the American Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her best-known novel‚ The Color Purple (1982). Her short story‚ The Flowers‚ is from 1973‚ a time where the Civil Rights Movement was trying to create an equal society‚ where blacks and whites could live peacefully together. It was also a time‚ where many African-American people lived in fear of the racism of the white (reportingcivilrights)
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become more familiar with the African cultures. When I compare the music that we are currently learning during the class with the Korean cultures‚ we also have traditional music combined with only the drum and singing called “Pansori.” Similar to the African music‚ the musicians play the drum and sing the song based on the fairytales or the legend. After becoming familiar with the African music‚ I was able to understand the difference in cultures and enjoy the African music. In addition‚ I got an opportunity
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Flowers play important roles in our everyday lives. They are beneficial to all of us. When someone is in the hospital‚ we bring flowers to cheer them up. Flowers are a great "pick-me-up." You send flowers to your loved ones on special occasions like Mother’s Day or on birthdays to show how much you care. You might even get cuttings out of your garden to brighten up a room or for the fragrance. Flowers also have healing properties. Not only do flowers help relieve stress‚ they are used in medicine
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Compare and Contrast two key themes in Alice Walker’s ‘The Flower’ ‘The Flower’‚ written by Alice Walker is a short story about a young 10 years old girl called Myop who has loses her innocence because of what she had found in the forest. This short story was written during the first half of the 1900’s where there were civil rights in America. Alice Walker‚ who is an American-African writer‚ wrote this story to let the reader be aware of what is happening and how the African-American people are
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Flower arrangement is the combination of several elements to produce a visually pleasing display of fresh‚ silk or dried flowers. Flowers are arranged in several basic designs‚ including vertical‚ horizontal‚ triangular‚ crescent‚ and oval arrangements. Other options include a minimal arrangement‚ such as the lazy “S” or “Hogarth’s Curve‚” and free-standing arrangements. Hogarth’s curve is named for English painter William Hogarth who introduced designs shaped like the curves of the letter “s” into
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Beauty of a Flower “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns‚ or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln” Most important living organism other than human beings are animals and plants. Flowers and weeds have a huge role in life that they tend to play. Flowers and weeds are completely different in which they grow to reproduce or grow to destroy. Knowingly that weeds also reproduce. Flowers are known to be a brightly colored and conspicuous example of such a part of
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