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    Seven Devils Aerial Silks – Choreography Notes * Start in full plie on demi pointe‚ on forced arch‚ looking to the right (side) * When music starts‚ look to the front‚ come out of plie with isolating chest rotations‚ (use your eyes)‚ (connect to the audience). * Emphasise all of your movements and make all of your movements as intricate and precise as possible as the audience may be looking at a very small object (the aerial artist: you) * When turning with the tissue‚ use as much

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    The Trans Amazonian Highway ‘Nothing in my whole life has shocked and upset me so deeply.’ 1970: The military ruler of Brazil‚ General Emilio Garrastazu Medici traveled to the impoverished north-east where the periodic droughts had driven peasants off their small plots of land (minifundio) into the overcrowded cities. Suffering was rampant. Medici thought he must do something‚ but what? He told reporters in Rio that “Nothing in my life‚has ever shocked and upset me so deeply.

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    Part 1: The Devil in the White City Reflection The Devil in the White City‚ by Erik Larson‚ is a book focused largely on Chicago in the late 1880s’‚ during the industrial revolution. The book really seems to focus on the darker parts of the revolution. This differs from many other tellings of the time period‚ as the majority of articles and books seem to focus on the growth made by America in the time and how much our country benefited from the industrialization of the world. While the book does

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    protect instead of working on land reform. This shows that Madero made no effort for political or social reform‚ he only wanted to stay in power. He didn’t want to create huge change as a revolutionary would. Some may argue that Madero’s Plan de San Luis Potosi called

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    The religious concept of the Devil has faced numerous changes by society through different interpretations and representation to create new modernized ideas of what the Devil really is. This Devil originating from biblical teachings still holds value in society today‚ but it has also been changed to fit our own personal satisfying definitions that change from person to person‚ with many of these definitions sharing the same basic core beliefs. These different beliefs range from religious values‚

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    The book The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: witchcraft in Colonial New England‚ takes the reader on a journey looking deeper in to the female being viewed or seen as a witch in the Colonial New England times. Strong themes within this book discuss the role of women in the puritan society and the impact of that on gender relations. The underline concept in which the author is trying to portray is one of the women not necessarily being anything other than socially vulnerable at the time. When looking

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    In his letter to Luis de Santangel‚ Christopher Columbus states that he is extremely pleased with the outcome of his first voyage. He describes his praise and gratitude towards Ferdinand and Isabella in the following quote. “I passed from the Canary Islands to the Indies with the fleet which the most illustrious king and queen our sovereigns gave to me.” Columbus describes the king and queen as illustrious because he believes that the support of Ferdinand and Isabella towards his voyage was a notably

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    October 2013 The Devil and Tom Walker: A Love Story “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a short story that revolves around supernatural events‚ nature‚ and challenges its own characters to change their pasts. For instance‚ the Devil in “The Devil and Tom Walker” is a supernatural entity who promises fortune if Tom sells his soul. The supernatural events displayed here display the emotional wishes of both Tom and his wife. He is miserable living with his wife and cannot stand her. The Devil ends up taking

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    A summary of Devil at My Heels. It’s a memoirist about Louis Zamperini who was a heroic Olympian. It’s also a story of survival as a Japanese POW in World War II. Louis Zamperini was born in Olean‚ New York‚ on January 26‚1917. He is an Italian. But his family moved to California. Because he couldn’t speak English well so no friends talked to him and always laughed at him. And he became a tough kid. Then his brother‚ Pete encouraged him to run. So he made his first wise and important decision

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    Mariela Rivera Luis Garavito “La Bestia” The World’s Worst Serial Killer Luis Garavito‚ who I will describe as a human animal on my research is the worst serial killer in the world. His full name is Luis Alfredo Garavito‚ born on January 25‚ 1957 Colombia‚ this animal serial killer was convicted of the horrible killing 189 boys in the 1990s. He is also known as “la bestia” the beast‚ this animal mainly focused on very poor neighborhoods and looks for kids at the age of six to

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