Show Reformers

The performance that I observed, was a theatrical performance group called “Stomp”. This group doesn’t narrate a play, but it does narrate an artistic performance that takes the audience on a journey. This group portrays a great amount of energy throughout their performance while using their body and everyday items to create a special type of rhythms and energizing beats. It’s a mix of dance, music, and theatrical performance combined to create one electrifying beat. I couldn’t find a scene where the performers weren’t enjoying their roles, as much as the audience was enjoying their performance.

In the last several centuries, countless reform movements have attempted to shape and expand democratic ideals in the United States. A democratic ideal is the personal qualities and behavior of a government that are necessary to its continued democracy. Such as life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, diversity, truth, religious freedom, and patriotism. All constitutionally given rights we all, as Americans, have in one way or another as a result of early reform movements.

Between the years 1825 and 1850, the US underwent a series of social and political reforms which attempted to democratize American life. Reform movements during this period of Jacksonian Democracy attempted to dissolve disunity in the social ladder and pushed for equal rights among all citizens. Stemming from the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century, many of these reforms were backed by religious ideals over democratic principles. At the forefront of the cause, however, was the hope for a more democratic system in which there was not only popular sovereignty, but a sense of social leveling.

Throughout history, political, social, and economical issues have erupted and caused society to reform. These reform movements are created in order for the people of America to have the ability to resolve the issues they see in their communities. Some of the movements that have been most prominent in the united States during the early 19th century are the Women’s Reform Movement, the Prison Reform and the Education reform. All of these developments allowed awareness to be created about the problems that everyday citizens were experiencing and how they were going those change problems into resolutions.

Prior to the Civil War, the United States experienced several different reform movements. These movements included the temperance movement, education movement, prison movements, women's rights movement, and the anti-slavery movement. When glanced together, there may initially seem to be little connection between these various different movements. However, they were actually supported by a common theme, the liberation of the human spirit. This idea that all humans should be free provided the support for all of the different movements. The temperance movement was based on the idea that humanity should be free from its own vices. The education movement linked knowledge and freedom. The prison reform movement was not based on physical liberation, but on the idea that the spirit-crushing punitive emphasis of old fashioned prisons would not create any possibility of change in the inmates. The women's rights movement was based upon the notion that women should not be treated as inferior to men because of gender. Finally, the anti-slavery movement did not focus solely on the idea that slavery, as an institution, was inherently bad because it deprived people of their physical liberty without just cause, but also on how slavery was practiced in the antebellum South and the indignities that accompanied it.

I have always had a genuine interest in change. This is probably why I love the Progressive Era, a movement consisting of Americans with diverse backgrounds and cultures seeking reform from generations of government corruption. Similarly, Harvard University offers a variety of opportunities through advanced and technologically superior research facilities that I feel would benefit my goals for pursuing change in the way we treat illness in the United States.

Over the past two centuries, America has seen some of its greatest highs in the Roaring Twenties, as well as periods in which the colonial experiment would seem a failure, such as the Great Depression. The U.S. went from that one country that revolted against British imperialism in the new world, to a nation that demanded worldwide respect with the military prowess and economic prosperity it expressed during and after the War of 1812. For the next two hundred years, the U.S. would go on to develop a new sense of identity, an identity that distinguishes us from the rest of the world, one that led us to persevere past the dark times, and onto new heights. This sense of Americanism has seen the ramifications of slavery, fought in twelve major

For many, a fun summer often includes a visit to some sort of fair, whether it be the county fair or even the state fair. One of the unique aspects of the Ohio State Fair, specifically, is that they have their own youth choir known as the All-Ohio State Fair Youth Choir. This is an organization designed to bring high school students from all over the state of Ohio to live at the Ohio State Fair for eighteen days to make music. Throughout this experience, I have learned many important skills that will stick with me throughout the entirety of my life. Here is just a small sample of what I’ve learned.

On September 19, 2016, I attended a live performance at “Villa Elba Lounge” in the Bronx, New York. The group featured was “Felo Swing y su Orquesta” and the main singer was Felo Swing. During the presentation, the eight members of the group played an important role to accomplish their goal, which was entertaining. However, two of them had more than one function: they were part of the choir. But, also each one of them had to play an instrument; one a piano, and the other one a guitar. Most of the time, Felo Swing was featured as a soloist, because he sang most of the songs alone. The remaining five members of the group had also fundamental parts of the presentation: two of them played guitars, one the bongo, one the drum, and the only woman

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In Coming Alive: Choral Directing with Lloyd Pfaustsh, a director could be the only vocal teacher that students will have in their time in school. Most students will try to imitate the conductor. The students will when try to sound similar and only learn how to be imitative. The three key stones to help build up those learning techniques are: warm-ups, breath support, and diction. When warming-up a choir, the director will be able to help activate the breathing to either help with posture or breath control that all improve the singer’s vocal techniques. In warms-ups, directors need to work towards applying the warm-ups in the repertoire that the students are working. He worked on vowel sounds, constant articulation and resonance potential.

Show choir is a lifestyle to most it as we call it a way of living. Some people find it very offensive when they ask “do you want to join show choir”, and then they get a response like. NO I hate glee. My first question is what does glee have to do with it? Do people even know what show choir really is? Glee has made millions of dollars trying to portray their way of thinking about show choir. Do you ever see the parents that put in the hard work of costumes, stitching dresses that have fallen apart, making sure everyone costumes are fit, and they work hard at bingo most of the time to pay for it. On

The Catholic clergy initially supplied the independence movement with some of its important early leaders, the relationship between the Church and the independent states had been troubled. Liberals of the independence movement opposed the Church’s power over political life, their monopoly over the education system, its vast real estate and landholdings, and the exploitative fees that its priest charged. Liberals aimed to completely reform the relationship between church and state.

Major benefits of provincial experiments include that they lessen resistance within the bureaucracy to reform. A radical reform policy could be difficult to implement immediately on the national level, as the risks would be too great, and thus resistance from the bureaucracy also too strong. It would be much easier to gain approval for implementing a radical new policy, in a small limited geographical area. Should the policy experiment fail, it would be possible to limit adverse effects to that area, and the risk thus getting greatly reduced. If the policy experiment turned out well, it could be successively spread to new areas, and possibly even introduced at the national level, by the central government.

While in the front stage the performer is aware that they are acting in front of people and acts appropriately to the given situation. But