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    What is a hero?A hero is someone who can save someone else’s life or teach them things that can change their life. Three people that inspire me or made me want to make a difference in the world are Malcolm X‚ Martin Luther King Jr. ‚ and Rosa Parks. They are my heros because they done things that they believe in and that they thought were fair because they wanted to make sure everyone had rights to do whatever they want whenever they wanted to do it. I believe that everyone has a voice in the world

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    Malcolm X: By All Means Necessary As I finished reading the book "Malcolm X: By All Means Necessary"‚ I thought about a lot of the things Malcolm X stood for; equal rights‚ black power and freedom from the "white man". Malcolm had an ideology that he stood for strongly‚ which to me is especially important. Malcolm fought for the black population in the 1960’s through adversity and defeat‚ he took a stand for what he believed in and helped change the

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    Running head: Rixos Rixos Hotel in Kazakhstan: Rixos President Astana and Rixos Almaty Marketing Project Subject Instructor: Group # Semester Marketing Plan: I. Executive summary II. Current marketing situation A. Market overview i. Market demographics and needs ii. Market trends and target market growth B. SWOT analysis i. Strengths ii. Weaknesses iii. Opportunities iv. Threats C. Competitive and industry analysis D. Product

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    ‘Everything grew larger than life in the steamy hothouse of Darwin and the people were no exception.’ How important is place in this novel? Peter Goldsworthy’s Maestro demonstrates the importance of setting in understanding characters such as the protagonists Paul Crabbe and Eduard Keller. Written in a retrospective narrative from Paul Crabbe’s point of view and how the settings of ‘steamy’ Darwin‚ ‘suburban’ Adelaide and ‘hypocritical’ Vienna affected him. Upon moving from Adelaide to Darwin

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    Cinderella As children most of our life lessons were acquired through the simplicity of fair tales. Subliminal messages taught us to always believe in true love and that good wins out over evil. Young and naïve‚ as children‚ all we desired was a good story and a nap‚ but the lessons we learned lasted a lifetime. Growing up my beloved fairy tale was Cinderella‚ not only does true love win but good wins over evil and eventually the world is set right. Once upon a time in a kingdom far away‚

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    Review: “The Nutcracker Suite” - A Beloved Traditional Classic Tale Charms Audience with a Magical Sensation December 27‚ 2009 by Daniel Maikawa The Nutcracker Suite was an elaborate fairy- tale ballet written by E.T.A. Hoffman in the late 1800’s which was accompanied by the brilliant music of Tchaikovsky. It included two acts consisting of five scenes: The Party Scene‚ The Fight Scene‚ The Land of Snow‚ The Land of Sweets and The Dream Ends. This 1993 version of The Nutcracker Suite performed

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    was the high beat "Swing". Swing was said to have been born in 1938 when Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers recorded "George Swing" (Microsoft music). Others say it started on a cold night when Bennie Moten’s band got an entire Kansas City ballroom jumping (World Book 159). Still others say it all started in 1932 when the great Duke Ellington recorded the album "The Anthem of Idiom"‚ "It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)". From the definition of the Webster Dictionary

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    Hip Hop Dance History

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    feelings and who you are inside. Dancing shows your inner talent and abilities that can take you far. It’s also about entertainment whether it’s choreography or free style. Hip hop dance has a short history since most of other type of dances like ballroom‚ ballet‚ jazz‚ and modern started in the early 1900s. Hip hop dancing began in New York City during the late 1960s and early 70s. During this time‚ people without professional dance training brought dancing to the streets because they enjoyed

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    History of Salsa

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    Chapter I History of Salsa Salsa is a dance form with origins from the Cuban Son (circa 1920s) and Afro-Cuban dance (specifically Afro-Cuban Rumba (dance)).[citation needed]. It is generally associated with the salsa music style‚ although it may be danced under other types of music with an 8-count rhythm. Before and around the time of World War II‚ the music traveled to Mexico City and New York. It was in New York where the term "Salsa" was created. In fact‚ the use of the word salsa for danceable

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    11st Class: 01/16/13 Pre-Jazz Influences African Elements in American Music [The Jazz DNA] -Syncopated rhythm – playing rhythms in between or against the stead beat -Improvisation – art of spontaneous composition in music -Call and Response – echo style (copy)‚ question and answer style of musical conversation -Individuality – human voice as instrumental model Use of bends‚ slides and timbr (tone manipulation) to sound like no one else. -Beat – steady pulse -Rhythm – sound

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