got around the village of the young girl’s unique voice. Soon enough, she began expanding past her village to around the Nile Delta and also into Cairo, enthralling many with her powerful voice awakening a huge following. She began performing in concerts by the 1920s when she had grown very famous. At times during her performances, alcohol was served, making her father; an imam concerned. He responded by ordering Umm to appear as a boy by cross-dressing
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Why a Musical Instrument is an Important Hobby Audience: Students just starting secondary school. I don't know how many of you play an instrument, but I personally have been playing the drums for just about two years now. Although I don't play in a band or even have a strict practising routine I find them to be a key part of my life now, something that I would find very difficult to live without. As you are starting secondary school, this is an ideal time to start playing an instrument. Not necessarily
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In most cases parents have no idea that their children are experimenting with drugs, and it is usually not the parents' fault. When their kids ask to go to a concert with some friends, most parents agree. What they don't know is that same day their teenager bought a dime bag of marijuana and rolling paper and plans to smoke at the concert. Even if they only do it ten or twelve times a year, that number will increase over the years. Kids feel that doing drugs only once in a while won't hurt them
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Concert Critique # 1 On February 9th, 2013, I attended a concert that was performed by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. This concert was organized by the Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Mayor’s Office and Recreation Department, and was performed in the Berkley High School Auditorium. The Charleston Symphony Orchestra would actually have 2 instrumental sets with a brief intermission between them. The 1st musical set was played by their String Quartet and they would be playing Mozart’s String Quartet
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is “Mariah Carey Has Been Strongly Warned not to Perform her Birthday Concert in Brussels” * Facebook Post- “After the tragedy in Brussels this morning, Mariah Carey (hyperlinked to her FB page) has been strongly warned NOT to perform in Brussels!” (link) * 2 Twitter Posts- “Mariah Carey has been warned NOT to perform in Brussels!” #TMZ (link) “Mariah Carey has been strongly advised to NOT perform her birthday concert in Brussels!” #TMZ (link) * Instagram Post- “Mariah Carey’s security
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her new added voice we sounded different and our choir director had to make some changes so the harmony was on the right track. This was challenging because it set everyone back at least a week and it took longer for us to memorize for our upcoming concert. Another criteria is understanding the lexicon of music. Swales says “on the concept of discourse the term communities of practice refers to genres and lexis, but especially to many practices and values that hold communities together or separate them
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Philo Essay For my third assignment, I will be discussing my views on personal identity and how the different traits and factors among individuals make us who we are today. So, when it comes to an individual’s personal identity, I think that there are several different traits and factors that make each and every one of us unique and somewhat different from everybody else. While there are some people that have a lot of similarities in common, I don’t think that really determines who you are as a
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JUDGE: Good Morning Ladies and Gentleman, We are here today for the trial of Mr. Danial Saleem, is this person a psycho? Or a plain murderer? now we shall begin the trial, with the opening statements of the prosecutor followed by the defense lawyer. THE POLICEMAN WILL BRING IN Danial..AND Danial IS LAUGHING LIKE A CRAZY PERSON! PROSECUTOR(Ak): Your honor, this man Danial is a very dangerous criminal, the police have been looking for him for many years and due to this
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During my adolescence, not thriving educationally or emotionally, I was moved to an online charter school. I was never the social type or had many friends. However, at the age of twelve, I reached out to a total stranger on social media. They seemed to be distressed, coincidentally, our conversation seemed to help. My young heart felt a sense of warmth like no other, I accommodated a stranger in need. Using social media I culminated a community of friends from all over the world. With all these
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Student # Multiple Choice Questions 1. Tammie makes $150 a day as a bank clerk. She takes off two days of work without pay to fly to another city to attend the concert of her favourite music group. The cost of transportation for the trip is $250. The cost of the concert ticket is $50. The opportunity cost of Tammie's trip to the concert is: A) $300. B) $450. C) $500. D) $600. 2. When a provincial government chooses to build more roads, the required resources are no longer available for spending
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