The Beat

Texas State Jazz Ensemble: Special Guess Steve Houghton- Music Critique The Texas State Jazz ensemble, with special guest drummer Steve Houghton, was filled with an uplifting set list. A mixture of trumpets, drums, piano, saxophones, bass, guitar, and trombones played harmoniously with distinct soloist for each song. The Texas State Jazz ensemble did a wonderful job, especially their solo performers. Steve Houghton was also quite fantastic, living up to his name. The overall experience was very…

Repetition: A Thing Repeated “Trying to walk the same way to the same store takes high-wire balance: each step not exactly as before risks chasms of flatness. One stumble alone and nothing happens. Few are the willing and fewer the champions.” In just thirty-seven words, Kay Ryan is able to capture a universal truth: beauty will always remain for those who choose a life of depth, for those who choose to live life on the wire, repetitiously retracing their steps on the footpath of life. Like…

written by Alice Walker is a series of private letters between Celie and God, also later a few between her and her sister Nettie. Celie was a poor, ugly and uneducated African-America fourteen-year old girl. In Celie’s first letter we learn that she was beat and raped repeatedly by father, Alphonso. Her father impregnated her twice with a son and a daughter which he then put up for adoption. Celie’s father continued to abuse her and pulled her out of school. and then her mentally ill mother…

Katie had to make a huge decision in leaving her abusive husband in the beginning in the book, Katie made very smart decisions, but she was also very scared. Her first decision that made her character very smart was just leaving her husband in the first place (Sparks 18). Katie’s birth name is actually Erin. Erin legally changed her name to Katie, because Katie was so freighted that her husband Kevin would come to find her and take her home. Katie traveled by bus instead of, plane, car, or taxi,…

When you’re in the car singing along to your favorite song or you’re at the store buying food and a song start playing over the radio you don’t stop and think about how or where music came to be. Not a lot of people know who first thought music or who produced the first song. Where did music come from? There are many scholars from around the world who are trying to figure out what the first type of music was and where it came from. A group of researchers found a flute in 2009 that was made…

Human fetuses do not have a heart beat until ten weeks and do not feel pain until about 18 weeks but do they have a right to life? Once the egg and the sperm connect it then forms a zygote which then turns into a fetus and then turns into an infant but does that mean the infant has a right to life? In my opinion I feel as though human fetuses acquire a right to life at conception for three reasons: the first group cells duplicate and turn into a fetus, once the egg and sperm meet fertilization…

The conga is a novelty dance that is danced individual with a partner, or in a line also known as a “conga line”. The basic steps in a conga line include three shuffle steps on the beat followed by a kick on the fourth beat. When the conga is done as a couple dance, the dancers face each other and move opposite direction of one measure, then they switch directions. When you are at a party, many times people will start a conga line. This is done by each person behind the next places their hands…

In part one, Hov speaks of how rap is a different form of poetry. Instead of the words playing the only role, the beat is a vital tool for any rapper. When the beat is set, then that is when it allows the rapper to find their own rhythm with their life speaking lyrics (Carter 14). In his book, Jay-Z encourages the reader to compare the making of poetry to rap. He does this by answering the…

warning against war, perhaps directly referencing R. Vaughan Williams' own personal beliefs. Divided into six sections or movements, the text is taken from poems by Walt Whitman, John Bright, and passages of the Bible. These pieces are: "Agnus Dei", "Beat, beat, drums!", "Reconciliation", "Dirge for two Veterans", and "The Angel of Death." Overall, R. Vaughn Williams' Dona Nobis Pacem is a composition driven by chromaticism and powerful rhythms, often used to symbolize the strain of war.…

Ever since Rebekah Lynn entered high school she is always been tired and hasn’t been able to participate in sports because of joint issues. It took 4 years for Rebekah to finally get a diagnosis of POTS and she still struggles to manage the symptoms. Rebekah Lynn has never been able to live a normal life because of her health issues. Like other young children Rebekah wanted to be active so she tried to participate in sports, such as track and cheerleading. Unfortunately, by eighth grade…