twelve people. I ran it with 6 people including me. The distance you would run all together would be two hundred miles. How we did this was each person ran 6 legs and we would rotate. How we did this was we rented a big van that we had a driver for. So the person driving didn’t have to run but drove all through the night. We left the 24th of September and stayed in a hotel a few miles from the start of this ragnar. The Ragnar started in Saratoga Springs NY and ended at Lake Placid NY. So how the
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Rockstar Mile: Improve Your 1600m Performance When people are gauging how fast someone is‚ you always hear “so what’s your mile time?” I get it all the time and you probably hear it as well. It’s the barometer that most non runners use put into context how fit you are because that’s the only run that gets timed in PE class. The distance known as the mile draws all types of runners to its doorstep. It sits at the convergence of speed and endurance. Runners who compete in 5Ks and 10Ks and beyond
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Bebop music was the next evolutionary change of Jazz music that succeeded swing music. This paper’s aim is look at musicians who impacted this era‚ exploring more in depth Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. In the early 1940’s‚ the swing bands began to all sound the same as well as work along predictable chord changes.1 The music was now not used for dancing. Some people believed that this would let the music go away from the elite social groups‚ and now be for everybody. Also just because
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the most significant person in a boy’s childhood. In the essay “Check. Mate?” this is no different. Writer Miles Pequeno takes on an exciting journey of a son searching for his father’s approval. Which in fact did an excellent job in showing the silent trials a dad puts his young son through. The scene is set as the two go after each other during heated matches of evening chest matches. Miles Pequeno‚ a thirteen year old school boy who’s complicated relationship with his dad had finally found a medium
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(title) In 1978‚ Professor Lyn Miles at the University of Tennessee wanted to contribute to science by teaching an orangutan how to communicate through sign language. A biomedical and behavioral research institute‚ Yerkes Regional Primate Centre‚ agreed to loan Professor Miles a 9 month old orangutan‚ Chantek. Miles took Chantek to a trailer where he would be raised and where she could carefully replicate the behavior of Chantek’s mother. She went out of her way to make Chantek feel comfortable around
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musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years‚ there is almost always a single person who can be credited with the evolution of that sound. From Thelonius Monk‚ and his bebop‚ to Miles Davis’ cool jazz‚ from Dizzy Gillespie’s big band to John Coltrane’s free jazz; America’s music has been developed‚ and refined countless times through individual experimentation and innovation. One of the most influential musicians in the development
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unique style and ability to play numerous notes at one time (“John William”). Coltrane was enveloped with music his entire life as he performed in nightclubs and band halls with various well-known musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie‚ Duke Ellington‚ and Miles Davis. Although his experience in Jazz eventually led Coltrane to create his own band‚ his drug addiction held him back during various moments of his career. Becoming one of the most inspirational musicians‚ John Coltrane’s music and his popularity
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History of American Jazz Appendix A: Understanding Jazz -Americas art form -European- African musical traditions -Hard to define Defining Jazz Improvisation- spontaneous and simultaneous composing and performing Rhythm- a unique interaction with time involving: -syncopation‚ -jazz swing rhythm Dissonance- extending common rules of music; “pushing the envelope” Jazz interpretation- a unique way of producing sound and phrasing melodies Interaction- listening to and reacting to musical
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film and why.) The Green Mile is a drama about capital punishment that’ll have you laughing at times‚ and crying and times. The all-star cast including Michael Duncan and Tom Hanks make this a film worth watching. Paragraph #2 INTRODUCTION to the film: Include details of the film including title‚ director and cast (identify any of their previous films or awards)‚ year of production‚ brief overview of plot‚ and clearly identify the key social issues. The Green Mile is a 1999 American drama
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Bebop Jazz and The Beat Poets A throbbing pulsation of a drum with rapid‚ short strokes‚ a plucking sound form a string instrument‚ and a couple of lively voices come together to create rhythm and harmony‚ all while building a statement. An enormous crowd of dark bodies move to the beat of the harmonious sounds‚ some tenderly swaying‚ others aggressively thumping their feet. This scene is familiar to the nineteenth-century in New Orleans. Notorious architect‚ Benjamin Latrobe‚ had witnessed
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