Essay On Bring It On

All of the performers looked very comfortable and in their element. I did notice that one of the players while doing their solo accidently forgot a measure of music, but they quickly picked back up. This experience was new to me, but it was exactly like I expected it to be. It followed a stereotypical jazz concert to a tee. I honestly enjoyed the music being played but I did not enjoy my time spent their. This concert was one of the longest ones I had been to and it was frustrating. I was planning on taking my bookbag into the concert with me to take notes on the performance, but i was forced to leave my bookbag in the hallway outside of the auditorium. If it was not a requirement I probably would not go again. I would much rather go to a concert that I knew a friend who was performing in one, it would be a lot more entertaining for me. Although this concert is not something I typically would enjoy I would definitely recommend this concert to others who enjoy jazz and listening to music who is played by talented younger

Never have I ever attended a performance like this without my parents dragging me against my will. The only other time I have ever attended a concert of this nature is when my parents force my sister and I to go to the local opera house every year on Memorial Day to honor our troops and watch a couple boy scouts earn the title of eagle scout. Honestly, because I have only been to these types of concerts against my will, I did not know what to expect. I was extremely stressed out about what was appropriate to wear and how early I should show up, without my mother’s time schedule, I was more than just figuratively lost. I did not pick this concert because I was interested, I simply picked a concert that I could attend without any conflicts to my class and practice schedules and went for it.

On December 1, our class went to Weiberg Theater, in Frederick, Maryland. It was presented by Chamber Theater productions and the name of the play was Encore. The theater itself had a very nice interior, but I didn’t like the exterior. The inside of the theater was very well decorated and the designs on the walls and ceilings were very detailed and . However, like I mentioned, the outside was not so appealing with boring cement walls. Also, the audience was not very polite, and I didn’t like the bathrooms. I wouldn’t recommend seeing a show there. I have definitely seen better at different locations.

Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, America has been on edge about the topic of terrorism. Groups like Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Taliban, and now more recently, ISIS, has kept the world cautious of their every next move. Looking more closely into how these groups are formed and operate could help us better understand how they can be stopped. Studying the history of terrorist organizations can help us better predict the future of terrorist organizations.

Many people, mostly immigrants, because of their race or culture have had to deal with marginalization, an act of making something or someone unimportant or powerless within a society or group, having them learn to work through it because they feel like they don’t have any rights and they need to do whatever it takes to support and keep their family and themselves safe. People like Muslims and Mexicans, whether their immigrants or not, are the ones that are marginalized the most making it hard for them to live a life where they are not looked down at and are not oppressed or discriminated by others.

I was eating cheerios on the morning of Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, when a friend of my family’s came over and told us to turn on the news. A Boeing 767 had just impacted the north tower. Everyone was confused about what was happening, to include me. This is really the only memory I have specifically of the attacks on 9/11, when I was 5 years old. I knew and understood what had happened that day. What I never heard about was the legislation that passed in the days to follow.

Then we walked into the New Jersey Preforming Arts Center, which is a very nice building. The acoustics of the hall were very nice which made for easy listening. The seats themselves were not the greatest because once again we like saving money.

Background/Cause: The September 11 attacks were largely caused by Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda. He held beliefs about the United States leading up to the attacks saying that America was weak. According to his comrade, Abu Walid al-Masri, bin Laden believed that the United States was much weaker than some of the people he was associated with. Bin Laden believed that the United States was a “paper tiger,” a belief not only held because of America’s departure from Lebanon, but also by the withdrawal of American forces from Somalia in 1993 and from Vietnam in the 1970s (Bergen).

On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a Tuesday morning, a Boeing 767-222 aircraft plummeted into the twin towers. Boarding 56 passengers including 5 hijackers. After the incident, no survivors were found all passengers and more were found dead at the scene.

Multiple groups and civilians have responded to the terrorist attack 9/11 in different ways, having different viewpoints, values, and ideologies. George W.Bush who was the President of the United States of America at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was against what occurred. George W.Bush talks about the incident as being a monumental day in our nations history, and how he went from being a “President primarily focused on domestic issues to a war time President”, something he never anticipated or wanted (27). George W.Bush valued America and it’s rights to freedom and believed that whoever was responsible for this act of terrorism is held responsible. His values and beliefs can be seen as a conservatism ideology as he believes terrorists must be stopped and destroyed, he doesn’t believe that militant Islamists can peacefully co-exist with the Western world, forever will be on going attacks on America implicated by Islamic terrorists (28). Conservatisms believe that terrorism posses one of the greatest threats to the United States of America (34).

The concert “Spring Winds” took place on Santa Fe College’s Gainesville campus. “The Santa Fe Handrummers” were all dressed in African clothing since they were performing traditional African songs. “The Santa Fe Winds” were dressed up in suits in dresses and they all looked nice. Some people in the audience dressed up while others wore more casual clothes. The venue was clean with comfortable seats. It looked like the venue was able to hold around a hundred people. The sound quality was great but it was a little loud due to how close the seats were to the stage. The concert was still enjoyable and I had a great experience.

The World Trade Center was a really tall building in Manhattan. It over sixteen acres and it had a large plaza in it with seven buildings, and an underground shopping mall so people can go and shop. It had a centerpiece and it was called the Twin Towers. The towers were so big that it each had 110 stories and, it can have approximately thirty five thousand people. In the daytime the population, location, and sheer size of the towers had a lot of people that made it an obvious choice for a terrorist attack. In fact, in 1993, there was an attack under the World Trade Center in which there was a car that had explosives in it and it did kill about 6 people and injuring over thousands. That didn’t kill as many people as the 911 even though that

“Terror and civilization are inseparable… Culture has evolved under the shadow of the executioner… One cannot abolish terror and retain civilization. Even to relax the former means the beginning of disintegration.”

The concert was performed on the Southam Hall stage at the NAC; this is a large hall with extremely good acoustics. It is a nationally known stage, so the quality of the hall is very good. Generally, the audience was very receptive as it was composed of adults, who were all silent. The acoustics were very good as the hall spread the sound throughout the hall without making it echo. This had a positive effect on the performance, because it was possible for the orchestra to be clearly heard from any point in the entire hall. I was impressed by the large number of students that I saw that night because the show deserved to have been heard by many young people.

Ever since the beginning of the terrorist attacks on American soil, the War on Terror has been involved in the lives of Americans and nations near us. The War on Terror’s background originated through conflicts between warring countries in the Middle East; U.S. involvement started when a terrorist guided plane crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York City. The attack was suspected to be the work of the middle-eastern terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The U.S. military, under the leadership of then commander-in-chief George W. Bush, declared a “War on Terror” on the terrorist group and the fighting began.