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    A Dancer Research Paper

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    hair done into the most perfect bun that would sit on the top of my head. But being raised with a limited source of income made things very difficult. I was never able to join a dance studio, instead I would sit in front of the TV watching Angelina Ballerina, dreaming of what I could be. The day I chose to take dance my freshman year was the best choice I could have ever made. I knew that I was a decent dancer, but I was so insecure and unaware of what I could do. As I transitioned to dance two, I was

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    Champion”(which is the reason why they compete with them). The mother was excited and optimistic about the idea of her daughter being a prodigy; similarly, the daughter imagined herself as being famous, as she was quoted by saying: “I was a dainty ballerina girl, wait to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I was like the Christ child lifted out the straw manger, crying with holy indignity, I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling

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    “I'm 5'2", I Started When I Was 13, I'm Black, But I've Made It Happen. I'm Very Lucky To Be Where I Am... It's Possible," said American Ballet Dancer, Misty Copeland (Racine). To get to where she is today, Misty Copeland went through a rough childhood of living in a motel, accomplished her goal of becoming the first African American principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, and has become influential to women and the diversification of classical ballet (“Discover Misty’s Journey”). I’ll start

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    beautiful artistic story of The Swan, for the very simple reason that every movement and every gesture signifies a different experience for someone who is opening up your mind, and eyes that they’re attempting to escape death. The ballet is not about a ballerina being able to transform herself into a swan, but about death, with the swan simply being a metaphor for that. Watching Svetlana Zakharova performing The Swan she really used a combination of masterful technique with expressiveness. It was like she

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    day-to-day wear. So it shouldn't come as a surprise when we suggest that they can even work for a holiday, such as Halloween. The following is a list of a few of our favorite ways to dress toddlers up in a costume using our trendy toddler clothes: Ballerina This costume is really easy to accomplish using our stylish toddler clothes. Go to our kids boutique online to purchase one of our tutu dresses in pink or black and a pair of ballet flats from our selection of kids fashion shoes. Add a pair of

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    American society bases a shocking amount of gender norms on sports. From day one, boys are given infant-sized jerseys and rattles shaped like footballs and girls wear cute ballerina dresses; if you don’t empathize with your given sport as you grow older, then you’re in danger of being taunted as a homosexual. People don’t always realize that lesbians are more marginalized thanks to the ever-present patriarchial opinion. Susan K. Cahn explores the sociology behind female athletes and sexuality in

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    individual. The society was based on unfairness because not many people were born with similar appearances, talents or gifts. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. story is based on equality which shifts to beauty and perfection which is hated throughout the story, using ballerinas as a reference of beauty and perfection. They use mask to disguise their beauty to make everyone equal in their world. “and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and

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    'Harrison Bergeron'

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    With imperfect eyes, total equality is hard to accomplish, especially with the notion of judgment and competition constantly tempting otherwise. However, the high hope of peace and utopia in fulfillment has always been a human thrive. Throughout history many men have attempted such perfection. Karl Marx inquired the structure of communism through the Manifesto to ensure equality to a large socially grouped people. According to Vonnegut, so did the U.S. government, in the year 2081. In the outrageous

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    Kurt Vonnegut published “Harrison Bergeron” to express his thoughts of what a world with equality might look like. The setting of this takes place in front of a TV to emphasis how much is it looked to for answers. The government wants everyone the same and will go to any means necessary. In the constitution, “all men are created equal” can be found, and this short story explores the ideas of when that sentence is taken too literal. In “Harrison Bergeron,” Vonnegut paints his readers a picture illustrating

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    Who Is Audrey Hepburn?

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    Audrey Hepburn, internationally famous for her career as a beautiful Hollywood actress, considered her involvement in the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, more commonly known as UNICEF, as the most important thing she ever did in life. Hepburn used her fame to earn a position as an International Goodwill Ambassador, which quickly became her greatest passion. In April of 1989, during the Second Sudanese Civil War, she gave her “Statement to the UNICEF Executive Board” to advocate

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