The hours neared towards my very special day. I was nestled deep in comfort and warmth as I awaited the ear drumming beeps of my alarm clock. I turned to look at the digital clock and its luminous numbers covered by a thin layer of glass; it was 11:00p.m. It had only been a few hours since the drowsiness had overwhelmed me‚ like being pulled into a deep well. Soon the heaviness of my head brought me back down to rest upon the soft‚ silky smooth pillow. I awoke to my alarm clock and swiftly moved
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How to Want What You Have “It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” - Sheryl Crow The 45-minute drive home last Wednesday night from Leavenworth to Overland Park‚ Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son‚ Andrew‚ for a five-day personal development seminar‚ and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew‚ I concluded‚ was fortunate. Attending as a 17-year-old would give him valuable resources he could use for his
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2013 Music Appreciation Writing Assignment #3 Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell offered us sadness with minor keys and happiness with major keys. I really do not have much experience nor really understand keys but‚ I think Purcell’s uses of the minor and major keys makes since because minor means low and unimportant and that is how you feel when ever you are sad. While‚ major stands for important and significant and when the feeling of happiness domains your spirit‚ you feel on
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TITLE: THREE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFTS FOR HIM 1. Christmas brings lots of joys and happiness for people all across the world. People revel in merry making and exchange gifts with their loved ones. Except from few commonalities‚ people celebrate Christmas in their own way. Presentation of gifts amongst family and friends not only strengthen the already existing bonds but also makes new relationships. When we present somebody with a gift‚ we reiterate our pledge that how much we value that person in
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My Daughter’s Birthday I was almost nine months pregnant at the beginning of September‚ the summer coming to an end‚ but nonetheless‚ the bun in the oven was cooking on very high temperatures making me feel hot and miserable. As I waited in the doctor’s office for my weekly routine visit‚ I thought to myself‚ “I have two more visits left before I meet my sweet baby girl.” My doctor told me that due to the presumed size of my baby if I did not go into labor by the next morning‚ she was going
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The focus of this article is how music/music therapy can lead to improved brain function in patients who are in a vegetative state or a minimally conscious state. According to the article‚ vegetative state is defined as “a state in which patients exhibit a lack of awareness of external stimuli‚ but with preservation of sleep–wake cycles and vital vegetative functions (such as cardiac action‚ respiration and maintenance of blood pressure) while remaining completely unaware of both self and environment”(Okumura
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Learning to perform music develops many skills in a student; music affects people intellectually‚ emotionally‚ physically‚ personally and socially. The theory of music is an intellectual skill‚ governed by physics yet guided by how humans perceive sound. Music theory is more often taught in a classroom setting similar to other school subjects‚ although its lessons permeate (and assist) musical performance as well. Emotionally‚ no subject matches music in its expressive breadth. The organization
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Punk music has gone through an evolution ever since the punk explosion in the late seventies. Although today’s punk music retains most of the ideology and sound that defines the punk genre‚ there are some distinct differences between Nineties and Seventies punk. Most of the punk bands to emerge and gain popularity in the nineties mostly hailed from California (Green Day‚ the Offspring‚ etc.). Punk vanguards from the seventies hailed from the East Coast and from Great Britain (the Ramones‚ the Clash
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Sometimes it can be easy to take the freedom we have today for granted. The freedom to retain your individuality‚ feel emotions‚ question wrong-doings‚ and even see color... these are all personal freedoms we have. Could you imagine a world without it? In Louis Lowry’s novel The Giver‚ society is set up to ignore and reject individuality. Each person is assigned a job and purpose‚ and they are taught not to question anything. In short‚ it’s the polar opposite of our world that encourages individuals
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