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    Betty Marie Tallchief was a good dancer. She was Native American. She came from an Osage. Betty Marie Tallchief was born in 1925. She spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. When she was four she took her first ballet lesson. Ballet broke her out of her shell. This section of the story tells how she became to love ballet. She became a star in her hometown. She performed her ballet skills at county fairs and other places. She was natural good at ballet. Her being

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    Jean Claude Colin Jean Claude Colin was a Marist missionary who brought Christ into the lives of many with his work. He was born in 1790 in St. Bonnet le-Troncy. Jean Claude’s initial upbringing was very suitable. When his mother gave birth to him he was the eighth child of a large loving family. Colin’s parents owned a piece of land which they farmed during the warm months. During winter they made ends meet by weaving. All was well at the beginning of Colin’s life‚ especially when taking

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    ballet dancer must be at the peak of their physical fitness and have impressive technical capabilities. However‚ all of that means nothing if the dancer has no artistry. A professional ballet dancer must be able to tell a story and convey a character‚ allowing themselves to be emotionally vulnerable on stage‚ in front of an audience. The objective of a dancer is to tell the story with their body and their characterization‚ taking the audience members on a journey with them. A ballet dancer wants

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    Located in the Art Institute of Chicago is Claude Monet’s “Arrival of the Normandy Train‚ Gare Saint-Lazare” painted in 1877. This artwork is representational because based on the historical train station known as Gare Saint-Lazare. The reason for his inspiration for painting this piece is Monet was intrigue by the industrial revolution of transportation so he rented an apartment start painting different time setting of day of trains in Gare Saint-Lazare. Then Monet gave this for Impressionist exhibition

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    “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self’ focuses around Alice Walker who did not feel beautiful most of her life because of a flaw she had. When she was complimented or told she was beautiful‚ she refused to believe it. But was the reason why Alice did not feel beautiful was because of her flaw‚ or because females are expected to look perfect? Would she have felt better about herself if she would have been a male? Alice Walker judged herself so harshly because she was a female‚ not a male‚ and

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    does it really mean to be a dancer? Anna Pavlova‚ Misty Copeland and Mikhail Fokin are just prominent examples of real dancers. For decades the only way to become a professional dancer was to be a ballerina and stand in a corps de ballet. Also taking the alternate route to do the impossible and be a principal dancer‚ which is better known as a prima ballerina. However in today’s society more jobs have been recently presented for dancers such as being a commercial dancer. The dance world is opening

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    In ’Harlem‚’ Langston Hughes is saying that dreams are an essential part of survival. He begins his poem by asking a question‚ “What happens to a dream deferred?” When you delay a dream‚ what becomes of it? Rather than fading away‚ Hughes compares dreams to food‚ a basic component of life. When dreams are put off‚ they become dried and shrunken like raisins‚ and they are not as ripe as the grapes they came from. Hughes is saying that dreams are an important part of life‚ and when they are ignored

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    Color Blind The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance exploded in a New York community during 1918 and 1937; some refer to as The New Negro Movement. It was the time when Black Americans were passionate about shedding their Jim Crowe past. Black Americans wanted a new society for themselves that were viewed as talented and intelligent. The Harlem Renaissance enhanced the appreciation of Negro society showing that the black man was more than just an asset to be claimed‚ rather a talent to

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    of this time consisted of paintings created out of personal interests‚ time and atmosphere being heavily incorporated into the paintings and using a wide range of colors that represented the scene. One of the most prolific Impressionist artists was Claude Monet who was known as one of the creators of the style. The painting that vividly shows his style and the style of many of the artists that practiced after him is called the Boulevard des Capucines. Created in 1873 this painting was created using

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    is super smart and asks a lot of questions. His poem is a free verse. “Harlem" consists of eleven lines broken into four stanzas. The first and last stanzas contain one line‚ while the other two contain seven and two lines respectively. With each line‚ our speaker mixes it up. Some lines are short‚ others longer. Some lines contain only monosyllabic words‚ other are chock full of syllables. His poem was originally titled “Harlem

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