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    Describe the attributes of a good dancer. Discuss ways of improving each of these skills in a suitable training programme: (20 marks) A good dancer should have a range of attributes‚ which they use on a daily basis and in all their work. One of the first attributes of a dancer is having the correct alignment and posture. Posture is the position in which you hold your body upright against gravity whilst standing

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    For dancers‚ a balanced food group diet is required involving diary‚ protein‚ grains‚ fruit/vegetables and fats. Through following this structured diet‚ a dancer will obtain the correct amount of caloric intake. The estimated calories a female dancer should digest through intense training are 45-50 calories per kilogram of body weight. Following this requirement will help prevent injury as obtaining a low caloric intake affects performance‚ growth and health. The benefit of protein for a dancer is

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    fairness. Majoritarianism is accepted as an ideal way to determine social and legal codes but there can be serious drawn backs to this. For one thing‚ majoritarianism can mask power dynamics while oversimplifying the intricacies of decision-making. Masked power dynamics allows a status quo to be established that few critique despite the probability that the system is detrimental to another group. In conjunction‚ the oversimplification of the various identities one has can lead to conflict when two

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    Mao Last dancer

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    Act 1‚ scene 1 The music in the opening scene sets the theme Orsino opens the play with a lengthy monologue about love. He is a dreamer‚ very poetic. “If music be the food of love‚ play on”- Orsino It has been established that the main theme is ‘love’ It is a romantic comedy Technique- a rhyming couplet (two lines that rhyme at the end of a scene) a rhyming couplet is a summary of the scene (summarizing the previous lines) Act 1‚ scene 2 Act 1 scene 2 takes place in a ship wreck and the

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    idea is best displayed in Mao’s Last Dancer‚ where we see a young boy‚ Li Cunxin‚ rise from the depths of communism to a shining star in the dance industry. And through his life’s journey we are shown his coming of age and ideologies shift one country to another. The mentality of journey’s is also capitalized in the poem Journey to the Interior where the physical journey can parallel to a more complex internal struggle and confusion. Thus both Mao’s last dancer and Journey to the Interior convey the

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    with their own voices and living on their own terms? Mao’s Last Dancer takes place in old communist China‚ when Chairman Mao is at his most powerful. mao dominated the culture revolution leads people lose the Spiritual pursuit and freedom for more than ten years history in old China. Through the specific‚ image plots understanding the extraordinary experience of an ordinary people‚ that from li cunxin autobiography "mao’s last dancer". It is open to interpretation the love and sacrifice on his own

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    In Mao’s Last Dancer we are introduced to the obstacles faced daily by a Chinese boy and his family‚ living in poverty. In Meltdown by Ben Elton‚ we are introduced to obstacles faced daily by Jimmy Corby. Obstacles we can all relate to in the modern world. This is why I think we should study Meltdown by Ben Elton as well as Mao’s Last Dancer as a core text in the Overcoming Obstacles unit. Meltdown is about City Trader Jimmy Corby. Jimmy was living the life being rich‚ pampered and spoilt. That

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    Slave Dancer Quiz The Spaniard: • Cockfights are outlawed in Massachusetts. • The beginning of the chapter; 8 slaves dead= 5 men‚ 1 women‚ and 2 children. • Slaves nearer death than the crew even though they eat healthier food‚ and more. • Stout assumed the duties of Mate. • Ben Stout increased their misery. • Lost at Sea: Everyone lost literally and mentally; No hope of getting back. • “Stay way from the holds‚ lad‚” Stout. • Stout‚ “I am concerned about the crew.” “I want them in good

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    young peasant boy’s life by the name of Li Cunxin’s life forever. By pure luck he was chosen to study ballet and serve in Chairman Mao’s Revolution‚ he didn’t know it at the time but he would grow up to become one of the best dancers of all time. His book ‘Mao’s last dancer’ retells his amazing story of survival‚ courage and the battle one man had to prove his worth. Li Cunxin was born in poverty‚ stricken area in Qingdao‚ China to peasant parents who struggled daily to provide him and his 6 brothers

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    Today was the alpaca showcase. Braileigh was contestant #6 and she was the only alpaca dancer except for one other alpaca named May Belle. May Belle was contestant #5 and she was also a really good dancer and it intimidated Braileigh. Braileigh‚ waiting her turn in line was kind of worried on how there was another dancer in the contest now. She decided she would go talk to May Belle and see if she was as worried as she was. Walking over to May Belle she

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