Name: Aunso, Jemimah Lea, S. Course and year: BSED 1st 1.What is dance? Dance is a performance art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement. This movement has aesthetic and symbolicvalue, and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture.[nb 1] Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire of movements, or by its historical period orplace of origin. An important distinction is to be drawn between
Words: 6745 - Pages: 27
Social Stratification Classes and Castes. Class is the primary way in which people approach social stratification. The upper class (the landed gentry, the titled nobility, and members of the royal family) has roughly the same social position it has had since the nineteenth century, when the middle classes began to compete successfully with the landed interests for influence. However, the upper class lost official political influence (and credibility) in the twentieth century. The major change in
Words: 3480 - Pages: 14
“Moving is hard, I know.” “It’s fine. I’m fine,” Michonne assured her. “James has a very important job.” Winnie raised her brow. “James?” Michonne shook her head. “Dad. Slip of tongue.” Winnie strode toward her daughter, gently stroking at her coily afro. She glanced at the large mirror across the room. “We should have straightened this for today. First impressions are lasting ones.” “Mom,” Michonne groaned. “What?” she giggled. “A little taming never hurt nobody.” She wrapped her arm around her daughter’s
Words: 2015 - Pages: 9
Lenin walks around the world. Frontiers cannot bar him. Neither barracks nor barricades impede. Nor does barbed wire scar him. Lenin walks around the world. Black, brown, and white receive him. Language is no barrier. The strangest tongues believe him. Lenin walks around the world. The sun sets like a scar. Between the darkness and the dawn. There rises a red star. – Langston Hughes In the early 1900’s there were very few political parties focused on the plight of African Americans and their
Words: 2423 - Pages: 10
name: República de Cuba Current government officials Language: Spanish Ethnicity/race: mulatto 51%, white 37%, black 11%, Chinese 1% National Holiday: Triumph of the Revolution, December 10 Religions: predominantly Roman Catholic and Santería (Afro-Cuban syncretic religion) Literacy rate: 99.8% (2002 est.) Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2009 est.): $111.1 billion; per capita $9,700 . Real growth rate: 1.4%. Inflation: 4.3%. Unemployment: 1.6%. Arable land: 33%. Agriculture: sugar, tobacco, citrus
Words: 624 - Pages: 3
Ja’Quil Mitchell Cuba: Aesthetics Location and Geography The island lies about ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. Its western tip begins about 125 miles (210 kilometers) from Cancún and extends 750 miles (1,207 kilometers) east-southeast. The area of the country is 48,800 square miles (110,860 square kilometers). About a third of the island is mountainous, consisting of the Guaniguanco chain in the western province of Pinar Del Rio, the Escambrey in the south-central province of Las Villas
Words: 704 - Pages: 3
Film Review for Diversity in Health Course Arranged (2007): Centers on the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman and a Muslim woman who meet as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn they share much in common - not least of which is that they are both going through the process of arranged marriages. Present on the following information: * What is the film about? * Arranged is a film that celebrates the integrity of two deeply
Words: 737 - Pages: 3
to tell me that wasn’t possible! They had adopted something that was ours and turned it into a fashion statement. As a child, I looked in the mirror and saw my hair as some sort of hindrance, but when a white man or woman wears their red or brown “afro”, it’s stylish, new, and beautiful. But that wasn’t the worst part of it. I didn’t have many problems with that either. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. And I now live in a time like the other two combined; assimilation from both parties
Words: 681 - Pages: 3
The above quote came from James H. Cone an American theologian best known for his advocacy of Black Theology and Black Liberation Theology. Cone includes the Black church and its teachings when asked a question about the African American Experience he will return to the scripture for answers. Other times will find the answers within slave spirituals, the blues, and writings by prominent and substantial poets, artists and authors. There are many other leaders who contributed to the cause of the black
Words: 762 - Pages: 4
Lormand September 10, 2013 The Assassination of Malcolm X On February 21, 1965, I was among the 400 Negroes that gathered in the Audubon Ballroom at 166th Street and Broadway in Harlem to attend a regular Sunday affair of Malcolm’s Organization of Afro-American Unity. Being that Malcolm’s movement emphasized self-defense, there was no search of anyone at the rally. The rally had been scheduled for 2:30pm. It was to be held in the second-floor hall of the two-story building. I arrived early in hopes
Words: 837 - Pages: 4
