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    Marita Blake Biography

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    “I have gray ones, blue ones, pink ones, yellow ones, purple ones and then I have these rain boots and a pair of slippers.” She turned her passion of Crocs into a club held in flex “Nick Cappella and I as the co-presidents and we wear Crocs every Friday.” Blake turned her Croc Club into something more “It started out to be a fun thing but, I started thinking maybe we could do things with it.” She used the Croc Clubs to give back to her community…

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    Antonio Vivaldi, is my composer he was born in the year 1678 in Venice, Italy. He was recognized as one of the greatest bourke time perdid authors. He was a violinist, teacher, and cleric in his lifetime. He was influenced by the widespread across europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His most popularest piece is a work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four…

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    Western Civilization Question 5 Western civilization earliest music began with the social religious development that took place in Europe during the middle Ages between 500-1400 AD. The Catholic Church’s chants dominated at this time with their sacred music known as the Gregorian chant. This sacred music gradually developed into polyphonic music known as organum. However, secular music also flourished from Trouveres and Troubadours, until it was crowned with secular compositions of the first…

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    Most religious music was a cappella, and as small organs became more widely used, it eventually developed into the very large and popular Baroque pipe organs. Religious music progressed greatly and was reformed after the Middle Ages because the church employed most of its great composers…

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    from the Renaissance into the Baroque, therefore allowing some flexibility in the range of years to classify each era. The Renaissance era of music had many of the same features of the Medieval era. One of the main similarities was the use of a cappella music. Again, music of this period had primarily no instrumental accompaniment. However, organs by this point had stops. These stops allowed for the player to be able to control which pipes were receiving air, allowing for control of tone…

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    PERSONAL NARRATIVE: I feel the lights hit my face as I nervously make my way to the Steinway at the center of the stage. Sitting down, I adjust the bench and start to warm up. The judge sits adjacent to me, staring over her paper. She says, “whenever you’re ready,” and I start with the first few notes of the Chopin prelude I’ve been working on for an entire year now. Feeling the music progress exactly as I’ve practiced it for months now, I finish and bow. I hear the applause in the background,…

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    switched to harmony singing. According to Mentalitch.com, in 1949, they got their big break when they won on Arthur Godfrey’s radio talent show Talent Scouts. The Chordettes became regulars on Godfrey’s popular tv show, singing in their harmonious, a cappella style. The main songs that people know especially from today, is “Mr.Sandman”, and “Lollipop”. The girls signed with Columbia Records and made their first album called “Harmony Encores” and when they were on the show, Godfrey’s musical…

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    Political Apathy Analysis

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    Having established the reasoning behind this continuing shift towards satirical, simplified, and often trivialised political coverage, and analysing its benefits and detriments, it is crucial to now examine the tangible impacts this has on the behaviours, beliefs, and attitudes of the voting public. In an analysis of the media’s contribution to political apathy, Washbourne (2010, p.11) identifies three key indicators: disproportionate coverage of “cynical or self-interested” topics, rather than…

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    my giant makeshift stage, which is really just a gazebo, but feels like Madison Square Garden to my four year old brain. I watch the piercing eyes of my preschool classmates as my chest rises and I take a huge inhalation; and I begin my shaky, a cappella rendition of “Sk8r Boi” by Avril Lavigne. As I finish the song, my peers applaud and I am greeted with a feeling of pride and accomplishment that I had yet to know in my previous four years of life. My first day of “big kid school” comes…

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    and “not a lot of people left around” suggest a threatening hostile situation, where the speaker is a survival. “Laying on the ground” could possibly be an allusion to surrendering, to represent almost giving up. Schultz introduce this video by a cappella to symbolize he is starting a journey…

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