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    “Iktomi and the Dancing Ducks” Iktomi is an awful person that will do anything to get his way. He often outsmarts himself or gets outsmarted. In this allegory‚ Iktomi tricks some ducks into dance around some fire so he can kill them‚ then eat them. However‚ when he is sleeping and the ducks are cooking in fire a coyote comes along and eats the ducks. The setting takes place near a pond where the ducks were swimming. The protagonist in this short fable‚ is Iktomi a greedy‚ mischievous‚

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    History of Pole Dancing

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    Pole dancing is a combination of dance and gymnastics that is an increasingly popular form of fitness and dance. Pole dancers use a vertical pole which is either static or spinning‚ and train in gyms or dedicated dance studios. It’s no secret that pole dancing really started in the strip clubs. But it has evolved into so much more and pole dancing fitness enthusiasts and schools have been working tirelessly to change the perception to one of a legitimate dance style emphasising the acrobatics

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    The Dancing Girl Summary

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    The Dancing Girl Summary This story takes place in Bangkok‚ and is the story about a mans long lost love who goes away and comes back. Although the two never fell in love‚ he shared this love with her‚ but it was not returned back to him. This woman had been the prettiest girl in the village ever since she was a little girl. All the men showed interest‚ and tried there hardest to gain her attention‚ but she did not give any one of them any attention. She would work on her fathers boat‚ gutting

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    Trend of Street Dancing

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    Street dance refers to a dancing style‚ which was born at the street‚ following the hip hop culture in 1970s. It is basically improvisational‚ street dancers do not need a studio to dance‚ they can express at any available open spaces such as streets‚ dance parties‚ parks or school yards. It was once considered as inappropriate stuff for youngsters by adults because it is not a formal kind of dancing style. But lately‚ it is getting popular and accepted by majority of the adults and it has become

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    Paige Layman Literature 2nd hour November 4‚ 2014 The Dancing Plague The outbreak began in July 1518‚ when a woman‚ Frau Troffea‚ began to dance fervently in a street in Strasbourg. This lasted somewhere between four to six days. Within a week‚ 34 others had joined‚ and within a month‚ there were around 400 dancers. Some of these people eventually died from heart attacks‚ strokes‚ or exhaustion. The Plague started when a woman by the name of Frau Troffea started to dance in the streets of Strasbourge

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    We Keep On Dancing

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    Love and Loss over a Broken-Down Volkswagen Beetle in ’We Keep on Dancing’ By Monica Sztybel A Volkswagen Beetle serves as a reminder of a lost love in the Australian short film We Keep on Dancing by Jessica Barclay Lawton and Rhys Mitchell. Alan (William Gluth) is mourning the loss of his wife‚ Christine. It’s her birthday today and he was on his way to the cemetery to bring her gifts‚ driving her favorite old car. A breakdown cuts short his plans‚ and Alan pushes the car into the nearest garage

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    Dancing: Dance and Class

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    relationship create the illusion of what you want out of dancing. In the paper that I have read you can learn about the many different ways of how dancing has came about. A great dancer must have a good gravity balance‚ they must know how to breathe when moving‚ and a great flow of energy when they dance. From what I have read‚ it just makes me want to become more active into my dancing skills. There are so many wonderful people who have been dancing there entire life’s and have made a huge impact. I

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    Dancing Skeletons Summary

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    Dancing Skeletons‚ written by the biological and nutritional anthropologist Katherine Dettwyler‚ is an ethnography about child nutrition and development in Mali. While conducting her ethnographic fieldwork‚ Dettwyler had to remain completely impartial and any avoid any ethnocentric feelings that she experienced‚ as well as practicing cultural relativism. Cultural relativism is the principle that people should not judge the behaviour of others using the standards of their own culture‚ and that each

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    Three Dancing Goats

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    The Three Dancing Goats "fTT^HIS evening I am going to tell you the JL tale of the three dancing goats‚ " began Baba Trinco as he squatted on the floor and greeted us with his broad smile. " Once upon a time it happened that a hardworking young peasant was lucky enough to possess three dancing goats. He was lucky because they brought him all he desired a little comfort for his widowed mother‚ and a pretty wife. " He and his mother lived in a little bamboo hut and had a small plot of grazing land

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    In the book “Dancing with Skeletons” by physical anthropologist Katherine A. Dettwyler‚ Dettwyler conducts a first hand study also known as ethnography in Mali which is located in West Africa. Dettwyler’s book consists of written information of her ethnography in places in Mali such as Macina‚ Bamako‚ and Timbuktu. Dettwyler writes in her book about the CARE health projects in the villages located around Macina in northern Mali. In this essay I will be discussing the goals of the CARE health projects

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