When I first started marching band during the summer going into my freshman year‚ I didn’t expect to fall in love with it. Freshmen percussionists at my high school are required to be in the front ensemble their first year and couldn’t be in the drumline until their sophomore year. Knowing this‚ I thought of the upcoming marching season as just a waste of time because I wanted to be in the drumline and I would never want to stay in the front ensemble beyond my freshmen year. Although I wasn’t expecting
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Stephen Lawrence 5-3-10 Persuasive Essay Nikunen 9A-5th There may be as many as 500+ members in a marching band‚ each having their own part that inter-locks with the 499 others’. I believe marching band should be considered a sport. Everyone must be incredibly coordinated and precise. The band as a whole‚ and individually must practice. Then there’s all the physical stresses that you have to overcome. Coordination plays a key roll in marching. A lot of teamwork goes into it as well. All the
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The history of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians between the 19th and 20th century was no different than any other Indian tribe located east of the Mississippi River. They were treated poorly by the government‚ lived in poverty‚ were scantily educated‚ and many were forced to relocate from their homelands in Mississippi to the Oklahoma Indian territory. But because of the hard work of one Indian Chief‚ Chief Phillip Martin‚ the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians now flourishes. Economic
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Being a conductor of a school band was one of my memorable event of my childhood. I was a freshman at Happy Palace High School. It was summer of 2002 when my high school was having a sports tournament. During that time‚ school held a selection process for band conductor. It was an opportunity for me to improve my self-esteem and confidence. I decided to participate and gave my name to the selection team. The selection process required each participant to perform a band conductor role by using baton
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end. As I called the band to attention and to march off the football field‚ I knew the marching season for the Mead High School Marching Band was coming to an end after another year. I remember feeling jittery and excited despite the fact that I was composed before our eight minute marching show began. I hopped off of my podium‚ used my shaky hands to disassemble the platform‚ and exited the field to catch up with the band. Our performance at the St Vrain School District Band Night marked the end
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South Alabama Jaguar Marching Band is a group of individuals who gather for the majority of major events that happen at South Alabama University and across the state of Alabama. The Marching Band provides entertainment and a lively atmosphere to any significant occurrence. The participants in the band consist of a variety of people from the campus of South Alabama with different backgrounds and interests. Being labeled a discourse community means the marching band has‚ “common goals‚ participatory
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my high school days are almost to a close. Band is going to be a major aspect of high school that I am going to miss immensely. For the past seven years I have been a member of the Hannibal Bands. I started out on clarinet but I later picked up the saxophone on the way. Even though I only spent three years in jazz band‚ I still enjoyed playing in the concerts and our trips to UMSL. However‚ it is concert band that I am going to miss the most. Concert band has always been my favorite both in middle
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The success was of these 2 bands boosted the popularity of alternative rock and made grunge the most popular form of hard rock music at the time. However‚ many bands at the time were uncomfortable with this sudden popularity.
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Claire Phillips Band 6 Midwife NMC Pin: 12G2067E Reflection I hereby declare that this work is solely written by myself and has never been submitted to any other learning establishment Description Whilst working on the maternity ward as a band 6 qualified midwife‚ I was allocated to look after a patient who was 36 weeks gestation and had had a preterm rupture of membranes (PROM). This patient was given oral Erythromycin when she wasn’t prescribed it. This incident was reported
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Trying to define "the American character" is like trying to describe water. The American has been shaped by years of war‚ mistakes‚ immigrant experience‚ and national culture. As America grows ever more diverse‚ the question of what it means to be an American yields an increasingly complicated answer. How do Americans really see themselves today‚ and how does the world see Americans? Do we have a culture that is based on well accepted American values‚ or is our culture now a battleground among competing
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