Grammy Award for Song of the Year

What is Hula? When people hear hula they picture beautiful girls with long hair in grass skirts and coconut shell bras, dancing gracefully to the beat of the drums accompanied by chants. Although that is true, hula is actually much more than entertaining and remembering different techniques of moves, but properly understanding the stories behind them. Hula maintains meaningful parts of the Hawaiian culture with its bond to express history and spiritual beliefs. I am neither Hawaiian nor do I…

elements offer maintenance of continuity by relationships, social support, self-concept, coping, and personal goals (Atchley, 1989). The continuity theory suggests that older adults will maintain lifestyle activities, and relationships adopted in younger years by formulating strategies to maintain physical and…

activities that prepared him for a career in musical theatre. Such activities included participation in scriptwriting at an early age in school; Sondheim often speaks about his experiences writing while studying at George School. It was here a then twelve year old Sondheim met James (Jimmy) Hammerstein. Jimmy was the son of famed musical theatre lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, and thus began one of the greatest mentorships in American musical…

not the first time that rebellious music has been blamed for society's ills. From Elvis to Columbine, the songs of music obsessed youth have often been clamed for anti-social behavior," (2003). With the negativity of music, music have played a roll in two separate incidents that have involved youth acting out, because of the explicit lyrics they are hearing. "The first incident was a 16 year old junior high school student in Moses Lake, who shot his algebra teacher, after watching a video of a…