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    Chilean Folk Music

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    Chilean Folk Music There are four main types of folk music in Chile they are: -Northern Chile, Musica Andina -Central Chile -Mapuche Music -Chiole Music Each type or sub-genre of music has a quite distinct sound and can be related to the racial groups of these areas and to the history of Chile. Racial History of Chile The history of Chile is varied as it has influenced greatly the course of folk music in these four main areas. The history is marked by the following major events:

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    mentioning of Tamenend, a Delaware chief who allowed William Penn to pass through his lands. The Shuylkill Fishing Company started a trend of clubs commemorating to the event with dancing, parades with people cladded in Indian costumes, “longtalks”, and maypoles being erected every first day of May to celebrate the beginning of spring and eventually being called “King Tammany’s Day.” Deloria makes the case of how the Roman Catholic holiday of Carnival makes the minstrel appearance of a “double life” (15)

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    Communication Processes and interaction Patterns Analyzing the groups dynamics communication process and interaction pattern. The communication style of the group was verbal and non-verbal. Verbal was chosen because each member shared information by the use of speech. Member Mary/Lila use the verbal communication style paralinguistic, when her character had two different tones of speech when she separated her characters. The use of non-verbal communication was expressed by the groups facial expression

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    Hermia and Helena's relationship has changed greatly after the intervention of Puck with the love potion. Once best friends, they have become each others enemies, and all for the love of Lysander and Demetrius. Hermia and Helena were best friends when they were at school. "All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence?" (Act 3, Scene 2, Line 201, Helena) They had complete trust in each other, telling each other their deepest secrets. "Is all the counsel that we two have shared

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    Essay about puritanism

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    The Puritans dream was to create a model society for the rest of the Christians.. Their goal was to make a society in every way connected to god. Every aspect of their lives, from political views and employment to recreation and dress, was taken into account in order to live a more pious life. But to really understand what the aspirations of the puritans were, we must first understand their beliefs. The Puritans believed that a man’s only purpose in life was “to glorify God on earth and, if he were

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    Native American Culture vs. Western Culture “Sometimes it is impossible to know where you are headed without reflecting on where you came from. Understanding your heritage, your roots and your ancestry is an important part of carving out your adventure.” When reading from Close Range and A Radiant Curve the reader gets the feeling that both of these women have strong ties to their heritage, their roots. It is evident in Luci Tapahonso’s poem “The warp is even: taut vertical loops”. Tapahonso wants

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    In one beautiful, fluid arc, the pie slid off the table. Time slowed down for a moment as the pie drifted lazily through the air, individual flecks of whipped cream flying gently behind it like streamers on a maypole in the wind. It finished the circle and landed perfectly flat on the carpet, a trail of key lime carnage dripping the few feet from the table to the landing point. There was a full beat of silence, and then the chaos really set in. “FITZ!” “Are you kidding me, Tom, I didn’t even

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    Chiara Maddison The essay titled “Workers Revolt: The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin” by Robert Darnton discusses a massacre of cats that, according to the worker Nicolas Contat, took place in Paris in the first half of the 1700s. Contat’s writes about two apprentices, Jerome and Léveille. They had poor living conditions, were given food scraps to eat, and they had to deal with the master and their superiors. On top of all this, during the night stray cats would howl, keeping them

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne is an American novelist, who writes and focuses on sin, punishment, and atonement. However, he mainly focuses on the Puritan legacy. Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. From 1825-1837, Hawthorne perfected his writing and spent this time to help generate ideas for his novels and poems. One of the most well known novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne is “The Scarlet Letter.” The Scarlet Letter helped Hawthorne’s career to become one of the most successful of his

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    She is desperately in love with Demetrius and follows him all over, hoping that he will notice her. She is ready to betray her friend’s confidence in order to win him. She is tall and thin and called a 'painted maypole' by an angry Hermia. She is also the character who reminds both Hermia and the readers that they were once very close

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