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- 881: Secret Lion: Analysis
- ... it is being compared to one. The second passage is a personification. Personification means that something nonhuman is given human qualities. The passage states, "Nature seemed to keep pushing us around one way or another, teaching us the same thing every place we ended up." This means that nature is pushing the boys around, trying to teach them lessons. That is a human quality that is given to nature. Nature itself ...
- 882: Lesbian Poetry
- ... s aunt, an abolitionist an advocate for women's rights) was born in 1880 in Boston. After receiving a physical education degree she eventually became an English teacher which she did until her retirement. While teaching, she wrote in many genres including poetry (Hull 6-10). Her most famous work is a play entitled "Rachel," which focuses on a woman of African decsent who rejects the archetypal mother-woman role (Hull ...
- 883: Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
- ... Hank Levy, Bill Holman, Ken Hanna, Gene Roland, Johnny Richards and numerous other arrangers, who were quite willing to help him push the creative edge as far as they dared, continue to be employed as teaching aids in many of the major universities and music schools throughout this country and Western Europe. Especially interesting to musical educators is the effortless manner in which the Kenton arranging staff time and again deftly ...
- 884: Acculturation: The Beginning Of Music Education
- ... rhythm patterns use your arms and legs and move with the music and try to get them to do it with you. Absorption, random response, and purposeful response are not all of the parts of teaching children music, but they are the fundamentals. Without this guidance, most children will not be able to go far in their musical ability.
- 885: Phish
- ... an essay that explores the origins and approaches of these various songs. “The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday” presents the initial Gamehendge saga that Phish would later perform. Fish’s study is called “A Self-Teaching Guide to Drumming Written in Retrospect.” Fish explains how he taught himself to play the drums and to be an effective performer. Phish’s five-piece lineup continued until the spring of 1986 when Jeff ...
- 886: Life's Too Short
- ... approach until he got to where he wanted to be. Through mastering the art of communication he grasped an audience and got the chance to convey his message. The song, "Gettin it", with its many teaching keys, and the life of Too Short are a great example of the fact that successful people don't get struck from heaven with a golden wand, successful people aren't always intelligent, successful people ...
- 887: Greg Graffin
- ... hold. Currently he still has to write his thesis on bone tissue , finish up some of his actual lab work and take the orals. He is planning to due this in 1997. He was a teaching assistant in The evolutionary department at Cornell university. He taught mainly pre-medical students when they took a course in comparative anatomy. His Ph.D. is in evolutionary biology but he sometimes refers it to ...
- 888: Porgy and Bess
- ... the casting and production of his opera. Todd Duncan, the first Porgy, recalled that Gershwin was "going around the country looking for his Porgy." Music critic Olin Downes recommended that Gershwin hear Duncan, who was teaching at Howard University as well as singing, but Gershwin rejected the idea because he felt that "he didn't want any university professor to sing." For his part, Duncan was not interested because Gershwin was ...
- 889: Science And Religion Rely On Each Other
- ... them – another idea turned down by science. So diverse yet involved are the two genres that it was (and in some ways, still is) voilently debated as to which would be taught in schools. The teaching of evolution in a Tennessee high school by Darwinian views earned John Scopes a trial and a guilty verdict, simply because religion was the favored way of thought. The very debate of how Science and ...
- 890: Holidays In Mexico
- ... starts with Las Posadas, this is nine days of candlelight and lively parties. Throughout Mexico, there is a reenactment of the holy family’s to Bethlehem. Children do this; it is an active way of teaching them the story of the nativity. This festival is finished with the smashing of piñatas and a scramble for the fruits, sugar cane, peanuts, and candies that come out. Both amateur and professional groups stage ...
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