With all these different styles of hip-hop dance, I wanted to find out why people danced. ... When I dance, I feel, as if I'm able to let go and dance freely as if nothing else matters. ... Baptist University used a modern dance routine and a hip-hop routine to compete with. ... My interviewees were named Egg and Rock from the "Ones To Watch" dance school, Fanny from the BCDC (Billy Chan Dance Center) dance school. ... Rock (his name) started dancing in 1998 and has been dancing for three years. ...

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In dance music the climax is somewhat different. ... Gilbert and Pearson describe a variety of dance spaces. ... The gender and sexuality of dance music are also important and probably not unrelated to the primacy of MDMA use in dance culture. ... Dance is often considered a feminine activity. ... In todays dance culture women dance for themselves, the loved-up but androgynous atmosphere meant that women could talk with men unafraid of their motives in much the same way as women had previously gone to gay discos just to dance. ...

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During the early twentieth century architecture took a new turn into the more modern way, with clean lines and a new influence of nature, which resulted in a new era of design as a whole. ... Modern architecture has its roots in a number of different origins. ... The Chicago School, an American architectural movement based in late 19th-century Chicago, was the first manifestation of modern architecture. ... Burnham was administrator and Root was the designer. 4 Together they were "among those who lead the Chicago School- (Curtis 63), and built some of the first steel- frame structures, s...

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Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus What myths are to the race, dreams are to the individual, for in dreams, as in myths, there also appear those primitive emotions and feelings in the form of giants, heroes, dragons, serpents, and blood sucking vampires; representations of guilt, retribution, and fate; of lust and power, of monsters of the deep unconscious and of unknown but overwhelming beings which fill our nights with nightmarish dreams and make us fear our sleep, but which, rightly used, can be fruitfully integrated into our personality. ... What began with a simple dream became twenty-...

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In the Cotillion the 18 roses (18 men dance with the debutante, handing her a rose) signify the growth that has occurred and the candles (18 women speak of past memories and wish luck to the debutante after lighting a candle) represent the light in the debutantes future.... Almost like the Filipino debut the girls are presented in front of the crowd with their escorted and they dance a set choreographed dances, that they've been practicing(De Valle 131) The debutante balls and cotillions are great example of the diversity in coming out celebrations through out the world. ...

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The band was spreading its exciting new style of orchestral modern Jazz, mixed with a healthy dose of blues and swing, all over the country and was beginning to spill over into Europe; and the critics the critics were raving about this daring and innovative group that was translating the speedy Be-Bop language into a big band style that people could dance to, understand, and enjoy. ... Nationwide, club-goers seek out venues where Salsa, Bossa Nova, Merengue, Calypso, and other African, Caribbean, and Latin influenced dance styles can be enjoyed along with the music that accompanies them, but v...

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Concepts and social factors like class, gender roles, family relationships, and religious values among others have been cultural constants throughout history. As such they have had a tendency to creep into aspects of popular culture. Stories serve as a cultural medium to transfer values, ideas, and...

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The cultural and developmental aspects of American history in the 17th and 18th centuries are certainly among the most important and influential factors in the shaping of this country's long and storied history. The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and how it should...

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The SSC must also be entered with the assistance of drumming, singing, dancing and the use of rattles. ... Renewal Celebrations: The Sun Dance amongst the Plains Natives is perceived as a replay of the original creation. Its name is a mistranslation of the Lakota sun gazing dance. ... A sweat lodge purifies the participants and readies them for lengthy fasting and dancing. ...

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Whether it be fighting, chilling, dancing. ... Lionel Richie has these three dancers that are our boys. ... he typical break dancing movie reflected the dancing as a means to avoid a physical conflict. ... This is an "authentic" break dancing movie. ... Dancing, I was fighting every week. ...

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During the 1600s to the early 1700s, the majority of the music was mainly instrumental accompanied by dancing and chanting. ... However, slaves did dance and chant often because the enslavers felt that this would give them some relief from the cruelties of slavery. ... Even with all of these bans, the people still assembled in song and dance. ... Jazz was a more energetic and upbeat form of Ragtime music; it was a music that anyone and everyone danced to. ...

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It's the voice of God talking."19 At the age of fifty-two, Richards can still support herself and her husband with the money she earns as a professional psychic.20 Ghost hunting clubs, alien-searching satellites, and psychics are only a few of the many outlets available to Americans in modern times. ... Her two main series are The Vampire Chronicles and The Mayfair Witches.22 The Vampire Chronicles portrays modern vampires through a vampire's eyes, often as victims of the "dark gift"23 of vampirism, struggling to come to terms with their nature or accepting it and moving o...

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Judith Thurman writes of Toni Morrison's literary style, "She treats the past as if it were one of the luminous old scenes painted on dark glass and she breaks the glass, and recomposes it in disjointed and puzzling modern form." ...

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That is to say, one must start with the understanding of the theory, what became known as the painted Word, behind Modern art between 1945 and 1975. ... In order to contemplate why Modern Art is not truly what one would call art, exploration of the Word and how it developed is an absolute necessity. ... "The Boho Dance", as Wolfe calls it, occurs because it is the "culturati"-who tend to be the museum curators, the art critics, etc.... They do this around the 1920's and 1930's more and more simply because the art work of the Modern movement is becoming so odd. ... Modern Art'...

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Eliot's Four Quartets The Flood (1961-62) dance-drama for television Fanfare for Two Trumpets (1964) Variations for Orchestra (1964) Requiem Canticles (1966) In His Own Words "I consider that music is by its very nature essentially powerless to express anything at all, whether a feeling, a state of mind, a psychological mood, a phenomenon of nature, and the like. ... He was not to return to Russia until 1962, though his works of 1914-1918 are almost exclusively concerned with Russian folk tales and songs: they include the choral ballet Les Noces, the smaller sung and dance...

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Ghost stories are big business in today's modern English language culture. ... There is no mourning at this festival however, it mainly comprises cheerful dancing and celebrations. ... " The skeletons are meant to appear as friendly, forgiving, and passionate, and are usually portrayed as doing things that a normal living being would also do such as dancing, eating, playing sports, or spending time with family. ... Because of Hamlet, this theme of revenge, especially on behalf of a family member has become very common in modern English culture. ... The tale of horror the ghost of Ham...

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The economy of Cuba is a largely state-controlled,The island of Cuba located at the crossroads of the Caribbean Sea and North Atlantic Ocean, brought many immigrants by the trade winds from all corners of the earth, who than influenced lives on the country's visual arts,architecture, literature, dance, music,and a passion for sports. ...

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It also possesses a "point dance," an extremely recognisable piece of choreography that becomes attached to a K-pop song by the consuming public, in the form of the "horse riding dance.... He started off as, and continues to be, an incredibly popular rapper and singer who has skirted on the outside of standard K-pop while commanding the respect of audiences due to his witty lyrics, comedic personality, charisma, energetic dancing and larger-than-life concert shows. ...

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Stages of Acceptance in T. S. Eliot's "Burnt Norton" The Four Quartets were written over a period of eight years, from 1935 to 1942. These years span World War II and they also follow Eliot's conversion to the Church of England and his naturalization as a British subject. These poems are the work...

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The Gothic culture is linked to style and attitude; the subculture is connected to frustration against society and a need for escapism (Dancing on Bela Lugosi's grave: the politics and aesthetics of Gothic club dancing, 1999). ... Goths also dance in a particular way, they let their body move in its own way to the music, this is projected through twists, gestures, spinning, and so on (Dancing on Bela Lugosi's grave: the politics and aesthetics of Gothic club dancing, 1999). ... This is because due to, example modern books and movies; the superstitons linked to them have dissol...

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"Know Thyself ": The Role of Apollo in Greek Life and Literature The figure of Apollo has been supremely influential in Greek life and literature since the beginning of Greek civilization, and has resonated throughout history to both modern religion and psychology. ... Apollo also represents choral dance, singing, music, art, poetry, youth, sanity, moderation and entertaining in the Greek world. ...

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He also transforms many of the threats or monsters present in the text to be played out by more modern "monsters- and uses scenes from the text, although modified in his film. His transformation is modern enough, and brought into the real world enough that the transformations and the origin of the storyline are not obvious unless someone has read both the text and watched the film and is looking for connections. ... He uses the Cyclops from the text in his film, but transforms the traditional monster into a modern monster- a greedy man posing as someone trustworthy. ... The dance of the Ku Kl...

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Products such as hosiery and makeup were marketed as essential for a woman of the modern world. The advertisements out at that time really emphasized the breakthroughs in modern technology of the decade. ... The fact that it is a musical allows it to use scenes with interesting dance numbers to divert the audience from the real issues involved. ... The camera angle used is a close up on her face to show her emotions that she really wants to be on the stage, which is reinforced by the cutting between the look on Roxie's face and the sexy dance moves of Velma Kelly. This shows that Roxi...

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India, Cambodia, and Indonesia are home to some of the most religiously influential megalithic structures of ancient Southeast Asia. These monuments stand before us in the present as faint remnants of the ancient civilizations that aspired to build towards the heavens. Each of the Hindu temples disc...

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CUBAN SANTERIA Santeria, which literally means, way of the saints', originated in Cuba. Santeria is considered an Afro-Cuban religion. It has roots in Africa, specifically the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria. When Africans were brought to the New World as slaves, they brought with them their Yoruba religious traditions (Nunez: 3). Slave owners forced them to give up their beliefs and convert to Christianity. ...

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