Being a veteran in marching band means that you have to step up and be an example. It doesn’t matter if you are a part of the bands leadership or not because first year marchers are looking up to you for guidance. My goal every year after my was to make myself available to help the younger students in every way that I could. Looking back on my first year and how unapproachable the section leaders seemed to me‚ I knew that they would need someone outside of the leadership team to help them. At first
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As I slide my hands into my marching band gloves‚ I notice details that I ignored during the 4 years I was in Eastern Regional High School. The gloves are white and made of cotton. First‚ I focus on my wrist. A Velcro strap‚ surrounding my wrist‚ fastens the opening. As I stroke the palms of my gloves‚ I notice the fabric has tiny bumps to create friction and allow for a secure grip. The fabric covering the back of my hands has a soft‚ smooth texture. Next‚ my eyes move up to my fingers. I recall
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The March on Washington was a political rally in which people all over America who shared beliefs‚ gathered to protest against the injustice imposed upon African Americans. For hundreds and hundreds of years‚ blacks and whites were accepted differently. Blacks were believed to be inferior and lesser than whites. They were held as slaves‚ treated as objects‚ and sold like property. When slavery was abolished‚ segregation and oppression continued. Blacks and whites could not eat together‚ use the same
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the novel being very engaging. The Downfall of a Man: One cannot live without love. Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano is an impressive novel in every sense of the term. Be it by its unique writing style or by the towering amount of cultural references included in every line of text‚ this book demands the full attention of its reader. Throughout this complex piece of literature‚ Lowry has been able to depict a simple event: the downfall of a man into the depths of hell. In contrast to the past two
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final march to Montgomery‚ noted that Johnson and King talked by telephone on January 15 to plan a strategy for drawing attention to the injustice of using literacy tests and other barriers to stop black Southerners from voting and that King had later informed the President on February 9 of his decision to use Selma to achieve this objective. On February 26‚ 1965‚ activist and Deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson died after being mortally shot several days earlier by a state trooper during a peaceful march in
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A young man steps out from the library. He carries a long‚ neatly-written sheet of names. As he walks up the steps to the main gym where at least two hundred teens are gathered‚ one yells out‚ “He’s coming!” and the room goes silent. A wall will soon be filled with names of students that will rejoice and cry tears of joy; others who may not appear will cry tears of sadness. This is‚ commonly called by All-State auditioners‚ the Wailing Wall. Twenty-four vocal and four band students from West Delaware
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2014 C-6L SURVIVAL FOR LOVE AND LIFE: Overview of the documentary "March of the Penguins" by Luc Jacquet A Penguin’s life has never been easy‚ the documentary done by the direction of Luc Jacquet was all about the survival and love engulfing the life of penguins. Their expedition of survival and love starts with a trip to their breeding ground that takes up to 70 miles from their resting place. At start‚ there will only be one penguin that will be walking‚ this would be the Emperor Penguin. Then
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In high school‚ the only sport-like activity I participated in was color guard in the marching band‚ mostly because it consumed all of my time. We have tryouts and we start preparing in March and throughout the summer for competitions starting in September. It’s an immense commitment and I believe that you really have to love it‚ and I did. I first started doing color guard my freshman year and I was awful. At the time my cousin‚ who was a senior was the captain of our team. She was amazing
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“The Speckled Band”: A Damsel in Distress Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story “The Speckled Band‚” within the book Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays‚ is an attention – grabbing locked – room mystery that has elements of chivalry and of great danger‚ as well as complication and the classic reasonable deductions that all come into play during this enthralling narrative. These are combined with an abundance of unusual circumstances‚ characters‚ and clues that eventually
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In the story‚ The Adventure of the Speckled Band‚ Sherlock Holmes is not responsible for the death of Dr. Grimsby Roylott. Dr. Roylott allowed greed to overtake him; he attempted to kill both of his step-daughters before they got married‚ and succeeded in one attempt. His motive was to keep his wealth and not lose £250 for each marriage. He received his justified punishment when he was killed by the snake after murdering Julia and attempting to kill Helen. Greed made Dr. Roylott think of only himself
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