Waltz

“Now these rooms can however you want them to be. There is no limit.” My sister Violette walked me through the bare witgril rooms. The rooms were originally reserved for the king and queen, but have since been replaced with bigger and more glamorous rooms for my sister when she became queen. I have changed a great deal over the six months that I have been at the palace. I have filled out in my bosom and my hips, but I was kept small in the waist by a tightly laced corset. I have groan accustomed…

was very respectful and the applause was only given when the conductor’s arms were down. I truly enjoyed this performance and I was impressed by the philharmonic orchestra. The performance opening piece was Kaiser-Waltzer by Johann Stauss Jr. This waltz piece had a fast tempo and its triple meter beat allowed the audience to stay awake and kick start the performance. I was especially impressed by the cellist’s solo. He did an exceptional job with expression and dynamics. The cello is my…

We moved to Cache Valley the summer before I started 5th grade. My parents found a house at the top of a hill on River Heights Boulevard. The backside of the house had large view windows that looked over “the island,” the river bottom and housing subdivisions. On an adjacent hill to the northwest was the Logan Temple. The little town of River Heights sat on the benches above the Logan river. It had a population of about 1,000 people. The first day of school I met my teacher Wanda Peterson.…

Nuclear war has been an ongoing battle since 1945 when the first nuclear bomb was created by Robert Oppenheimer. There are many conflicting viewpoints about nuclear weapons. For instance, the article “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” by George P. Shultz and William J. Perry, et. al., is against the “tremendous dangers” that nuclear weapons provoke. In contrary, the article “Why Obama Should Learn to Love the Bomb,” by Jonathan Tepperman, explains why we should “love the bomb”. Within the…

Diagnosed with depression and anxiety disorder. Unstable. Unwanted. Depression is a dance that I do not know the steps to. It brings me around, swinging and twirling me, but my shivering body does not want to dance. During late nights, it wakes me to waltz to the sounds of my own beating heart and ragged breathing. My shaky hands are not meant for this elegance. Anxiety does not dance with me. Anxiety is the shadow that follows me and watches my every step, yelling at me if it believes…

Benjamin Banneker correspondence with Benjamin Franklin is simply an extraordinary example of pose and articulation on Mr. Banneker’s behalf. The words dance off the paper as if they were performing the Waltz. The tone of this piece of writing is dripping with serious, but passionate details of Banneker’s experience with freedom; thus, embodying the spirit that once fueled the abolition of slavery. Banneker ties in multiple elements of freedom throughout the correspondence. I wanted to read…

Hector Berlioz was born near the French town of Grenoble on December 11th, 1803. Berlioz started music at the much later age of 12, meaning he was never a ‘child prodigy’. After learning enough theory, he began writing small arrangements and compositions.Due to his father’s discouragement, Berlioz never learnt how to play the piano, instead Berlioz became proficient at playing the guitar and flute. The first performance was at the Paris Conservatoire in 1830. This symphony is the perfect example…

Although some may believe that the world is becoming progressively less dangerous, they are wrong due to historical, economic and ethical reasons. If you look at demographics for war and terrorism, along with the crime rate in nations across the world, it is clear that humanity is at its most violent in years. Nations across the world are pending more on nuclear weapons and other military action. With as many moral and religious differences that are globally prominent, seemingly peaceful…

In each field of contemporary study, the passage from childhood to adulthood can be marked by one definitive point. According to Psychoanalysts, humans reach their pinnacle once they have matured their sexual interests, while Humanists discuss self-actualization. The Apache have the Sunrise Ceremony, and the Amish have Rumspringa. This common thread stretches across every major- childhood to adulthood is one clean transition. Contrasted in literature, The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield…

speaking, body language, symbols. At the beginning of the class, I did not know how to distinguish the different type of dances that are under the umbrella of ballroom dance. However, I slowly picked up on the different dances: Foxtrot, Swing, Hustle, Waltz, etc., and can now distinguished the differences and unique styles of each dance. If someone talked to me about ballroom dance, I would have little insight or knowledge about the subject matter because I never really learned about it or had…