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Aaron Copland’s “Hoedown” from Rodeo incorporates several elements of music to further its ideas. The “Hoedown” is peppy and in duple meter. It is program music, using traditional American folk tunes and an impressively diverse range of high and low pitches to convey a sense of vastness, representing the immense American frontier. The movement’s beginning uses consonance as all the notes seem to mesh well with each other, but the middle shows some dissonance, as the notes seem harshly unrelated…

started recording with an independent record company that released her first record in 1984. Her father wanted them to perform Tejano music, a male dominated genre or music, popularized by Mexican Americans in the United States. Tejano music or Tex-Mex music is the name given to forms of folk and popular music originating from the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas. With it beginning in the late 19th century, it became a music genre with a wider audience in the…

In early 1931, farmers in the southern plains were at their highest peak of money making. While the rest of the nation was being affected by the Great Depression, farmers were producing wheat in masses. The land was described as green and lush and the soil rich. Nobody had realized what they were witnessing would only last a short time before tragedy struck. Railroad companies and states released advertisements to lure settlers to move to the south. Not conscious of the drought to come, farmers…

Deep-Fried Fruit Loops, Oreo Beer, and Ramen Grasshopper Cookie. III. Atrractions 1. The Texas State Fair is the only fair in the U.S. that includes a full auto show of 9 acres of brand new automobiles and 85% of fair goers attend the show. 2. Big Tex, the fair mascot, is 55 feet tall and has become an icon of Dallas and Texas. It was recreated in 2013 after a fire due to an electrical failure in 2012. 3. Texas Star Ferris Wheel is the most popular ride and is 212 feet tall that makes tallest…

Background Information Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 was passed during the Civil Rights movement. The section served as an amendment to a document created by the Chicago Office of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services, Section 794 provides individuals with disabilities, protection from discrimination within any organization or program that receives federal financial assistance. Before the Act, individuals were expected…

and get employed by Friz Freleng as an animator for the Leon Schlesinger Studio which would get sold to the Warner Bros. later on in 1936. There, Chuck Jones would be assigned to work as an assistant animator with Warner Bros. in 1933 working under Tex Avery, who was big name in the animation industry. Jones would direct his first…

26, 1995, at the Astrodome Stadium in Houston, Texas. The legendary Tejano music star, Selena Quintanilla, became one of the most famous Latin music artists around the world. She was referred to as the “Queen of Tejano”. Tejano music, also known as Tex-Mex is a popular music genre that blends European, Mexican, and U.S. musical influences (Tejano). At the beginning of the concert you can hear the musicians improvising, while Selena made her grand entrance in a horse – drawn carriage, waving at a…

Almost every other mattress types make use of bonding agents and petroleum based foams that persist to discharge toxic chemicals into the air as they become old, contributing pollution, both indoors and outdoors. Oeko-Tex 100 standard-certified, Green Guard certified or Eco-Institute certified mattresses are tested to make sure that dangerous toxins don't exist in the end product. Longevity: The material used in these mattresses is extremely durable. All-latex mattresses…

Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provides a useful method of teaching academic writing. Each chapter has different contents like chapter two is the Art of Summarizing, chapter three is the Art of Quoting and chapter six is Planting a Naysayer in Your Tex Every chapter has a unique understanding and the specific way to teach that how to use correctly. All of these learning processes in this book will make your personal writing skills inventory shine. Summarizing is an important point…

there was a surge in the amount of Mexican restaurants. This is when chili was introduced to the Mexican immigrants and soon they started to blend traditional Mexican food with the cooking practices of Texan cooking and the style of cooking known as Tex-Mex was born. The immigrants used the ample supply of beef and added a little bit of cowboy flare. Soon after many other new dishes were being invented like chimichangas and nachos. The chimichangas were invented in the 1950s at El Charro…