British artist Jeremy Deller’s The Battle of Orgreave is a historical re-enactment of the violent confrontation between the striking miners and the police at Orgreave Coking Plant‚ which took place during 1984. This confrontation between the miners and the Thatcher’s Government was the most violent conflict‚ which came to epitomize the unremitting struggles. Jeremy Deller was born in London in 1966. Much of his work involves collaboration with individuals and groups of people as well as a collection
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Benefits of being in marching band I’m doing my paper on the benefits of being in Marching Band. Parents‚ students and teacher’s say it’s good to be in Marching Band. What they say is that Musicians do better at everything‚ Marching band is great exercise for the exercise-averse‚ Band kids are the best kids‚ period. People say that band students have a better memory‚ because most students have to memorize the music. Having to learn about two hundred different scales and play them from memory
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Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City‚ Kansas on August 29‚ 1920. He was born under the name Charles Christopher Parker. His father did not play a huge role in his life and left Charlie and his mother after Charlie was born. Charlie’s mother‚ Adelaide "Addie" Bailey‚ was a strong independent woman who was half African American and half Choctaw Indian. She soon moved the family to Kansas City‚ Missouri. Charlie then began going to school. In 1931‚ Charlie went to Lincoln High School in Kansas
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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
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The Jungle (reading questions) 1. What is the significance of the title? What is the relationship between animals in the jungle? In this case‚ what has dehumanized the people throughout the novel into “beasts” engaged in a savage competitive struggle where the strong devour the vulnerable? 2. How are the meatpacking houses able to so thoroughly exploit those employed to process the meat? Why doesn’t Jurgis and others simply quit and go to work for another company? 3. In what ways are the employees
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The Jungle‚ by Upton Sinclair takes the reader on a journey through the inadequate factory conditions throughout the industrial revolution. The Jungle introduced us to the the Rudkus family‚ with the father (Jurgis) being the main character of the book. Upton Sinclair uses this family to show how extremely terrible the environment was for new immigrants into America. As the story begins to unravel Upton becomes frustrated with the capitalist society; He had been cheated plenty of times out of work
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Being shielded by Hollywood‚ society views band members as the weird geeks in school. What most do not think about‚ are the benefits that band members gain from being in such a tight social group. Famous movies‚ like American Pie‚ make it hard for band members to express to the world all of the great things that marching band has to offer. It is hard for most to look past the stereotypical marching band geek and envision the advantages of being in marching band. There were many times when I would
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1) The song Gandalf’s Fall was composed by Howard Shore for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001. It was created to accompany the scene were one of the lead characters‚ Gandalf the Grey‚ dies. It is one of the saddest and most moving songs I have ever heard. Even without having any context for the song‚ one can listen to it by itself and easily understand that it signifies loss and sorrow. Unfortunately‚ the full version of Gandalf’s Fall was not included in the motion picture
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Being the Drum Major of a marching band is an incredible honor. This statement is particularly true for the Dunmore High School marching band. The DHSMB is renowned for having an amazing band‚ led by amazing Drum Majors. To be a Drum Major‚ one must possess a tremendous amount of skill and abilities that extend beyond playing an instrument. Some of these skills include: being a skilled musician‚ an innovative leader‚ and an effective motivator. I‚ Nico Summa‚ am the best choice for Drum Major for
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Anne Mette Iversen‚ a modern bassist‚ composer‚ and bandleader based in Berlin‚ releases her seventh album on the Brooklyn Jazz Underground label with the suggestive title Round Trip. This idea of leaving and return to the same point is scattered throughout the eight original compositions whose exciting arrangements and interplay won me over. Most of the tunes on the recording thrive with a groovy‚ pulsing rhythm that feels contemporarily urban and provocative to the ear‚ gaining even more emphasis
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