The night before the game I couldn’t sleep because I was excited and nervous. When I woke up I was so excited because the game is going to start in the next few hours. My dad and I left for the game around 9:30‚ we were in a rush to the stadium to keep from getting lost in the millions of fans. The car was moving as fast as a cheetah. The cold November air breezing through the air‚ swish‚ swoosh. Seeing the block O on the fifty yard line gave me goosebumps‚ seeing my own breath made me nervous. The
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reference more traditional Mayan customs (Olsen & Sheehy‚ 2008). The music at these events is more likely to have instrumentation and performance qualities similar to those of ancient Mayan tradition‚ such as the use of a shaman singing a ritual chant. This chant departs significantly from post Encounter musical theory‚ involving the singing of a single tone that drops to a lower pitch when the shaman pauses briefly to take a breath (Olsen & Sheehy‚ 2008). Other shamanic musical performances include
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“Fair is foul and foul is fair‚” chant the witches in the first scene of Macbeth. This paradoxical statement adds to the play’s sense of moral confusion and immediately sets the stage for what becomes one of the main themes of the play‚ by implying that nothing is quite as it seems. Countless times‚ characters in the play are unable to discern the true meaning and reality behind deceptive appearances. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ deception is a recurring theme‚ developed through cryptic means of speech
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"The Lottery and Religion Organized religion and traditions have been a common idea throughout every civilization since the beginning of thought. All of these religions have had some sort of doctrine of faith or standardized set of codes and practices that have been passed down through the ages. In Shirley Jackson’s "The Lottery‚" The author presents the idea that without questioning the practices of our rituals‚ we lose the meaning of why they were conceived in the first place. The first
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Paikea inspires her uncle to teach her the taiaha‚ a stick used for fighting. Women were forbidden to board a waka‚ a fighting ship of the Maori tribe‚ and Paikea is able to sit in her dad’s waka with Koro at her side and she leads them off in a chant. As the waka leaves all the villagers gather around the beach with excitement and perform a ritual ceremony as the waka heads out to sea celebrating the new heir to the chief. None of this would have been possible had Pai not fought traditions and
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Written by Shirley Jackson‚ The Lottery focuses on the cruelty of man in its most raw state- the sacrifice of an innocent human being at the hands of the people with whom that person lives with. Written in 1948‚ this short story was published by Jackson in New York‚ where the audience of this story reviewed it ferociously‚ claiming that it was the most absurd story they have read. No one understood the message Jackson wished to convey across to the reader. However‚ looking deep‚ we find that there
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This is shown when Sodapop chants a saying when leaving the house for the rumble. “ I am a Greaser. I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up people. I rob gas stations. I am a menace to society. Man‚ do I have fun!” (Hinton 136) This chant begins a game in which Darry and Two-Bit pretend to be Socs. This lets them get their excitement out for the rumble‚ but also shows
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Weird Sisters have clearly initiated his downfall and actions to follow. In the beginning the Weird Sisters cruel intentions are demonstrated to the audience when their evil nature is explicitly stated as they chant‚ “Fair is foul and foul is fair”‚ in the opening scene of the play. This chant refers to the Weird Sisters’ belief that all that is good and valued to society in Shakespearean times(e.g loyalty‚ peace and respect) is evil and disregarded by them and their nature. And viewed through societies
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is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music found throughout the northern Indian subcontinent. The style is sometimes called North Indian classical music or Shāstriya Sangīt. It is a tradition that originated in Vedic ritual chants and has been evolving since the 12th century CE‚ primarily in what is now North India‚ Pakistan and Bangladesh and to some extent in Nepal and Afghanistan. Today‚ it is one of the two subgenres of Indian classical music‚ the other being Carnatic music
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in the first movement are 3/4‚ 2/4 and it also has an alternating metre. * The initial tempo marking is 168 crotchet beats per minute. * Parts of the movement are based on a traditional Chinese work chant. * The work chant was based on a pentatonic scale. * The work chant can be heard at figure one and three. * Characteristics of Each Section within the Movement * The movement is composed in rondo form. * There is little modulation except in the C section. *
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