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    protesting the Vietnam War, killing four students and wounding nine others. Author Jan Harold Brunvand describes a ballad as a narrative folksong or “a folksong that tells a story”. This song would be an example of Emergence Folklore. According to Martha C. Simms of the book Living Folklore, “In many groups, folklore emerges in a response to an event” and this song was a direct response

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    John 11: 1-2 Study Guide

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    I. John 11:1-3, “1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. 2 † (It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3 Therefore his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.” A. One of the most missed understood subjects in the Bible is the sickness and death of the friends of Jesus that He loves. 1. Gen 48:1-2, “1 And it came to pass

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    Jerry W. (2016), jerry’s journal, http://jerryjournal.com/tag/purata-kes-buli-di-malaysia-2016/ Alsaker, FD dan Valkanover, S (2001). Early diagnosis and prevention of victimization in kindergarten in J Juvonen & S Graham (eds), Peer harassment in school, Guilford Press, New York, 175-195. Anda de dan Diane. (1999), The Evaluation of a Skill-Based Violence Prevention Program for High School Adolescents. Social Work in Education, v21 n3 p137- 49 Banks, R. (2000). Bullying in schools. Eric Review

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    subsequently caused her to lose her sight and hearing. Her mother noticed, a few days after Keller’s fever broke, that she no longer responded to the dinner bell, or when a hand was waved in front of her face. As Keller got older, she and a friend, Martha Washington, the younger daughter of the family cook, invented a form of sign language for the two of them. By the time Keller was seven, they had created over 60 different signs to communicate, but around that time, Keller had become very wild and

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    The Globalization of Dance There are many styles of dance that changed drastically from where they are now. Whether comparing American contemporary dance to European, evaluating classical ballet, looking at the difference between American and European pointe dance, or analyzing the evolution of ballroom and hip pop, it is evident that dance is never stagnate. Dance continue to evolve while being an important part to the arts. Ballroom dancing started in the late eighth century in England. In England

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    Robert Frost Influences

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    Alexander graham bell once said “as one door closes another opens” just like that Robert Frost’s life has been a world of events. Events such as living in a farm, tragic losses, and being a peripatetic has affected him. Robert Frost life events had influenced his poetry because he wrote poems on them. From co-valedictorian to a farmer to a poet, Robert Frost had endured many things. Born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, Frost and his family moved to Salem,NH after the death of his father. Robert

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    On the other hand, the last two years of school have changed my attitude toward gender and sexuality, gave me a profound understanding of feminism and sex, and prepared me to be a responsible woman. Since I had been going through a hard time when I was embracing ambiguous forms of deportment to be attractive but not too sexual, I decided to find answers in the books. I took many classes related to gender, such as Feminist Studies: Sex, Love, Romance. I learned how women were described as a weak group

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    1 Lesson 2 Study Guide Broadway The American Musical: At the start of the 20th century, the popular vaudeville shows that crossed the nation became the training ground and inspiration for the birth of the American musical. As the primary location for the professionalization of American performance art, understanding the complicated negotiation of gendered and racial identities on the Broadway stage provides important background to the development of an American identity in concert dance through

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    Quixote in 1964 and Coppelia in 1966. Then the company began to experiment with ballet and modern, combining them to form, specifically the Martha Graham technique. (Martha Graham created 181 ballets and a dance technique that has been compared to ballet in its scope and magnitude. Many of the great modern and ballet choreographers have studied the Martha Graham Technique or have been members of

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    Wiley invited members of the community to attend an educational discussion about the program repertoire. He explained the emotional authority Copland is able to capture through his work, Appalachian Spring. The beautiful ballet was composed for Martha Graham, one of the principal modern American dancers of the twentieth century. The piece was based upon the life of a pioneer in the springtime at his new cottage in Pennsylvania. The music expresses the journey and emotions of the pioneer and his new

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