Jig

The historical museum I choose to visit was the Palm Springs Air Museum which has been opened since 1996 and is a non-profit organization. I visited this museum on the 17 of November. The Museum boast thirty-eight aircrafts all from small fighter jets to massive bombers. As well as groups, people, and weapons that were significant in war times during World War Two. While their taking in all the different types of airplanes and how each one was used to help in the war, there was one airplane that…

Medicine is an important part of the world we live in, but where did modern medicine come from? Over many years medicine got better, not instantly. The basics of modern medicine can subjectively be traced back to World War I. While World War I was not the first time medicine and medical treatments were used, it was a time of great and very important developments. Medicine change to fit the world that was changing around it. World War I’s weapons and previous methods of medical care made way…

Communication The Key to Happiness in the Parent Child Relationship What is the most important quality necessary for a strong parent-child relationship? Eye contact with a parent is a unique connection with no verbal response, yet it still projects guidance (4). In the short story “Write Me Sometime” the father feels a sense of connection with his daughter when she writes him letters, and when he takes her out for lunch. Feeling the sense of support by sending a letter to a parent, knowing…

Dancing is one of the few things in this world that you can 't put a time table on to find its origin. We can guess that dancing has been around since the beginning of the human race and even before in other species. It is a trait that has been programmed into us as a species. We learned that beauty is pre-programmed trait among people that carries on throughout time from generation to generation. You must thing of another form of beauty other than paintings and sculptures, and that form is…

Symphonie Fantastique (1830) – Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique is said to be the most significant work of French Romantic composer Hector Berlioz, written in 1830. Berlioz, born December 1803, was no child prodigy, not studying music until age 12, however in 1924 he abandoned his Parisian medical studies to peruse his compositional career. Symphonie Fantastique differs from the previous symphonies of Berlioz, as this follows a narrative through the music, therefore making it an early…

unable to wake myself, most likely phasing out of REM sleep. When I was finally able to awake I had realized that I had one of the most bazaar dreams of my life. It went something like this; the Cross Country team and I had just finished our warm-up “jig-jog” and began to do our dynamic stretching outside of Crissey Hall, between the front door and parking lot (which is not where we normally practice). Koster was calling out our dynamics and we were doing them to the best of our typical ability…

American tap dancing evolved from African stomp style dancing and Irish step dancing, which is known in modern day as Irish Riverdancing. A percussive style dance where rhythm is made with metal taps, is a dance that can be performed without music due to the drumming of the taps worn on the shoes to create the harmony. Transformed from African Stomping, American Tap Dancing uses rapid foot movement where the dancer, taps complex rhythmic patterns to create a highly energetic performance. “Tap is…

night the crew had seen in three moon cycles, so a bit of drinking seemed inevitable. Boots pounding against the salt weathered wood while bottles of ale clinked in celebration. A few of the completely intoxicated men had taken to dancing a merry jig around the perimeter of the ship, while others clapped in sync with their jumbled steps. Captain Samuel Carlyle took a swig of rum and let out a blissful sigh before slamming his bottle on the table in front of him. He laid back in his chair with…

of the nineteenth century, ragtime is found in the performance of honky-tonk pianists near the Mississippi River, also influenced by the black banjo music and cakewalk rhythms. In addition, origin of ragtime is also found in British popular dance, jig rhythms, and marching songs in the sixteenth century. Ragtime composer Scott Joplin played his work just as it is on the music score and considered his music as the American classical music close to the pieces of Mozart or Chopin. Joplin’s…

Gerrymandering: Good or Bad? Gerrymandering is the manipulation of boundaries as to favor one party or class. This form of control has gone back and forth between the Democratic and Republican parties. The practice, having been around since the beginning of American politics, has had many negative and positive effects on elections, politics, and parties. In a famous court case, Baker v. Carr, the lack of enforcement of gerrymandering regulation in the states was brought to the attention of the…