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    Imagine a song that reminds you of the early Saturday mornings where you sat staring at the television screen watching one your favorite cartoons as everyone in your house is fast asleep. Now imagine that you’re an adult‚ you’re stressed out‚ attempting to balance your responsibilities and trying to figure out what the heck to do with your life. You sit at your work desk staring at the computer‚ you’re longing to be a kid again‚ young‚ free-spirited‚ free of worries and ready to take on the world

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    During my time as a drum major‚ I had to use my formal operational scientific thinking quite a bit. Our job was to give the appropriate command whistle at the exact moment the band was supposed to execute a maneuver. The band director informed me of the count the band was

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    Saturday at the Canal Analysis In the poem‚ Saturday at the Canal‚ author Gary Soto tells the story of two teenage kids who are unhappy with their lives. They were expecting their lives to be different even though they were only seventeen. The author makes sure we realize just how miserable they are. He uses descriptive writing to help us understand how they feel. Soto is also careful not to be too specific about certain ideas in order to help the reader create their own interpretation of this poem

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    instantly implies the genre and sets the tone of the film: the shot is very typical of the horror movie genre of films from the 20th century (which is also when the film is set). 3. The first shot pans down across to where Mr Tweedy and his two dogs are walking. The view of the fence surrounding the farm closely resembles the prisoner-of-war films which inspired the film itself. There is almost no sound and the music is quiet and mysterious to effect. He has dogs with him‚ most likely for protection‚ with

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    My father William is a short man‚ whose patience is shorter than dynamite when lit. He is a stocky man‚ with an appearance consisting of a sharp rounded nose‚ beady brown eyes‚ and a rounded scarred face. He is caring‚ funny‚ and wise and has always been supportive of me. The traits he possesses motivated me to become who I am today. On the date of August 13‚ 2007‚ he decided to take my brothers and me to Borrego Springs to ride quads. Once we arrived the smell of the scorching sand forced its

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    To really understand where the Femmes sound came from‚ we need some background on the beginning of punk music. It started in the 1970’s with the beginning of the rejection of mainstream conservative ideals and testing new musical limits. This is a parallel to the 1950s when kids blasted rock n’ roll to the dismay of their parents and Elvis Presley’s hip shaking brought sexuality to the mainstream. History was repeating itself‚ "punk youth seemingly place themselves outside the parent culture as

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    blurs into a perpetual Sunday. Another way of expressing dimanchophobia might be "life in a world without calendars." A popular expression of this condition can be found in the pop song "Every Day is Like Sunday‚" by Morrissey‚ in which he describes walking on a beach after a nuclear way‚ when every day of the week now feels like Sunday. It’s a true story. Please don’t think I’m a hack because this one paragraph is so long. The book has many other paragraphs that are much shorter. Plus‚ there

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    styles of body-movements and gestures‚ in the costumes worn by the performers‚ and in the shape and size of the drums used to provide rhythmic sound patterns to accompany the dancing. The drum used in Kandyan dancing is known as the Geta Bera‚ the drum in Ruhunu dancing as the "Yak Bera"‚ and drum in Sabaragamu dancing as the "Davula" (the word Bera or Bereya in Sinhale means "Drum") The Geta Bera is beaten with the hands as is also Yak Bera‚ while the Davula is played with a stick on one side

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    inaccurate representation at the fair as most events were set up purely for entertainment and not so much educational purposes. Right off from the start as soon as you entered the fair grounds it was pretty safe to assume that there were most likely no walking and talking trees during the Renaissance era. That was a clear demonstration of something inaccurate and unrealistic‚ more for show than anything. Although there was a good mix of things that could be considered more realistic then others‚ the majority

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    Abstract Long ago‚ the drum beaters community had been earning their livelihood by serving and performing their skills in various social functions like marriage‚ child birth‚ idol immersion procession‚ marriage procession‚ welcome ceremony‚ political rallies‚ and other administrative purposes. Application of modern technology in music has brought a sea change in the lifestyle of the drum beaters and thus putting their livelihood at stake. Even though there is an existence of jajamani system in our

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