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    The IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43 In order to understand the IV Ciclo Nordestino Op. 43, it would be empirical to understand Nobre’s first three piano cycles. “According to Bernardo Scarambone, “Ciclos Nordestinos” are Cycles from Northeast Brazil, where Nobre was born and spent part of his life. Nobre had as main goal to preserve his cultural identity as a composer. The first “Ciclo Nordestino Op. 5 was composed in 1959 and dedicated to Mozart de Araújo who was a Nobre’s friend.” The…

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    Tina Belcher is a character from the animated television show, Bob’s Burgers. The series is about the Belcher family who owns a burger restaurant in a seaside community. Tina is the eldest child of Bob and Linda Belcher and has two siblings, Gene and Louise. Tina, Gene, and Louise all work on the restaurant. Tina can be looked at different perspectives, the psychoanalytic personality theory of the intrapsychic domain, and the approaches to self of the cognitive/experiential domain. In the…

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    Action Observation

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    Part 1 (usually we center this left, and keep it bolded rather than underlined) In “Action Observation and Acquired Motor Skills: An fMRI Study with Expert Dancers” by Calvo-Merino et al., (usually you have to list all of the researchers names the first time before saying et al. et al is used as an abbreviation after first stating all those included in the process) the process studied was action observation. Through studying the acquired motor skill, dancing, Calvo-Merino et al. sought to…

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    Hip Hop History

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    along with vandalism as being anti-social and destructive. Break-dancing also was known as B-boying would dance during the breaks spun by the deejays. The two strongest types of dance in B-boying is Kung Fu and the African-Brazilian martial art, Capoeira. Lastly, rap often referred to emceeing was to entertain and hype up the crowd. A complex lyrical delivery of clever, playful, sophisticated rhythms and the poetry of hip hop is rap. There are different techniques of rap: some are sing-song and…

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    Brazil Research Paper

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    I chose Brazil for my term paper because I have always been secretly fascinated with the mysterious name, “Brazil,” the culture, the accents, the music and dance. I learned a few things that I did not know prior to the research such as the connection between Brazil and African slaves. I grew up believing everyone in Latin America was only Latin just like I thought all Europeans were only white until visiting and there were Africans there as well. I also learned that the Samba was not the…

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    African Influence in Latin America SHORT QUESTIONS 1. How do the Dominicans use the word “Indio”? By the 19th century, it was a way to use the word to perpetuate and define African ancestry. 2. To begin, Cuban plantations were conducted as prison due to the fear of revolution taking place, as it had in Haiti. Furthermore, the feature that all plantation owners had that resembled prisons was a watch tower and constant observation of slaves. 3. Blanqueamiento or whitening was implemented by…

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    Hip Hop Sociology

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    part of the hip hop culture. Breaking is a high-energy acrobatic dance, mixture of complex footwork, spins, kicks and 'freezes' - holding a position balanced on hands, head or shoulders. Kung Fu and the African-Brazilian martial art referred to as Capoeira where major influences on the breaking culture. Originally gangs used breakdancing as a method to battle over territory without physically fist-fighting or using weapons. Eventually it lead to the” heart and soul” of breaking which is the…

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    Paulo, Salvador and Porto Alegre), Adidas accomplices with a neighborhood association to offer different group and individual games, constantly taking into account the nearby request. Futsal, volleyball, sports, b-ball, judo, jiu-jitsu, move and capoeira are the most widely recognized ones, dependably supplemented by exercises exchanging life aptitudes and social qualities. The nearby venture group is prepared and checked by Gol de Letra specifically. As a component of the project, sports…

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    As I said earlier, there are certainly many different styles of samba. These types include samba caranavalesca, samba-enredo, samba baiana, samba-lenco, samba rural, samba de morro, samba da cidade, samba de terreiro, samba de breque, samba de partido-alto, samba corrido, samba-cancao, and samba-choro, to name a few. A distinction was made between hill and city samba somewhere in the 1930s. People that were considered middle class within urban areas began to like this new rhythm that they were…

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    Brazil Research Paper

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    BRAZIL República Federativa do Brasil or Federatice Republic of Brazil, or what we usually call Brazil is the biggest state in South America and the world’s fifth largest country by its Geographic and Population, with a total area of 8,515,767.049 km2 (3,287,956 sq mi), including 55,455 km2 (21,411 sq mi) of water, with over 190 million people. A country where world cup was held in 2014 is located between Andes and Atlantic Ocean. Brazil is famous with Sao Paulo, its capital city, Rio de Janeiro…

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