High School Musical

In my opinion, playing high school sports is one of the best extracurricular activities in high school. My freshman year I participated in football, basketball, and golf. I had fun playing each of these sports, and I took pleasure in being highly involved in hobbies outside of class. However, after my freshman year, I felt that I was too busy and needed to cut back on what I was involved in. So I decided to quit basketball. At first I thought it was a mistake to quit because I had been on a…

Senior year of high school is stressful, packed with scholarship forms, and major decisions. We have many challenges ahead of us and the next two semesters are bound to be tough. The infamous college search we all will be facing in a little under a semester is going to be stressful and intimidating, however, there is a way to make it all less challenging and it takes five steps. Do not let the future distract you from seizing new moments and experiences. Make plenty of new memories to reflect on…

I picture the 1978 comedy music and teen film that could always get me to sing along. Grease first stated when it became a musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey with additional songs written by John Farrar in 1971. It was actually named after the 1950s United States working class youth subculture known as greasers. The musical was set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School where a group of teens learn the complexities of friendship, romance and adventures. It also takes you through the…

Excitement. That was my immediate reaction when I was cast in the winter musical. Theater had always been a secret passion of mine but until this year I had never auditioned, or even acted at all. I knew I wanted to perform on stage, and with the help of theater classes in school, the director had given me a chance to prove that I belonged there. Growing up, I had always seen sports as my “thing” and never even knew theater existed or how much it would change my life. Finally, after hours of…

There are two main reasons I want to be at NYU: New York City, and music technology. First, the city. I went to LaGuardia High School, and when I first applied to college, I was searching for something new. I figured it would be a nice change of pace to leave the hustle bustle of the city and head off to some place quiet. As the semesters went by, my upstate campus began to feel isolated. After a certain hour, the whole county shuts down and heads to bed. Quite a shock coming from the city that…

While most films offer a sort of distraction from reality, musicals are often a utopia of wealth and happiness (Belton, 2009). Through dazzling song and dance, they make routine look like pageantry and loneliness feel like individuality. Even the most conservative of musicals transform the everyday into a spectacle, transitioning dramatic tensions into a melodic fanfare. Singing liberates the characters to express themselves in a way that mere words never could, giving them a freedom from the…

incorporation of both theatrical elements and rock music in the musical theatre has matured significantly, which has been notable in the show Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Advocated by Fricke (1998), Hedwig had been by the time the first rock musical that truly rocked. On the one hand, Hedwig serves as a successful model where elements of musical theatre and rock have been harmoniously integrated. For instance, based on only eleven songs of its musical score, the story of Hedwig unfolds in the form…

participating in high school sports is benefiting or hindering high school education. Amanda Ripley cites foreign countries performing better than the United States in international standardized testing as an example supporting their idea for the problem high school sports poses, since many high schools in foreign countries do not sponsor scholastic sports. European students usually play for club teams outside of school. Ripley also mentions the poor academic and economic states of struggling…

Facebook. We started hanging out at the end of my sophomore year. Our relationship was perfect all summer, we had no conflict it is like we were in our own little bubble but all good things must come to a close. When school started up again our relationship became very complicated. When school started the drama started. Lies were created about each other by other people and exes from the past came back into the picture. We did not stop and listen to what each other had to say, instead we just…

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