I started marching band during my freshman year in high school. My first thoughts during my first practice were “this is too hard” and “this isn’t for me” but later in the year, I learned to enjoy it with every event I participated in. The Cedar Hill Longhorn Red Army Marching Band is a great organization that teaches a great number of skills useful for life to become successful in any situation such as teamwork, time management, and discipline. Teamwork: All aspects of a team is critical. Each part
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said, it is not surprising that this performance is but one in a succession which culminates in a final performance at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Kansas Wind Ensemble has 71 top players from the following instrument families: woodwind, brass, and percussion. Given such a narrow but diverse group of instruments, I found it difficult to form any preconceived general ideas about what to expect of the music. That is how the music would physically and mentally affect me. I did
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Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle Upton Sinclair wrote his book The Jungle in 1906. This book was a huge success. Sinclair was born on September 20, 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. Sinclair grew up poor with his mother and father. His mother sent him to his richer family on his mother's side. He started to write children’s stories and humor pieces in magazines at age 14. He also he started writing stories at age 16. At 18, he graduated from New York City University. After the success of The Jungle, Sinclair
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Patriotic Salute • arr. Timothy J. Isham This collection of 4 short grade 1 arrangements of patriotic tunes will allow your sting orchestra to proudly inspire audiences at school patriotic or ceremonial occasions. Titles include America, The Beautiful; My Country 'Tis Of Thee (America); You're A Grand Old Flag; and The Star Spangled Banner. Each set includes three copies of the 3rd Violin/Viola T.C. and piano parts. Total duration 6:30. Kendor Playground String Orchestra #8499, $45.00 Stony
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Marching band has given me a lot over the past three years. I became more socially and physically involved with school and fine arts, and I learned that I’m happiest when I’m surrounded in a musical setting. I care for our band program, and I want to leave my senior year with as much commitment as I can give. This past year, as I improved not only as a player, but a marcher as well, I began to expand my leadership outward in my section and in the ensemble. For example, when I noticed a problem within
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“Detail Atten-hut!” “Creek!” This is something I’ve been shouting for three years now. Marching band is the one place where I can freely shout as loud as I can. I have to. If you are not loud enough, practice will not end until you are. The marching band has been something so incredibly important to my life, I can’t imagine what it will be like when I’m done with college. What am I going to do with myself when I don’t have friends to go see? When I don’t have a horrid and hot two and a half hour
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CHRISTIAN SHARPLES Curriculum Vitae | Address: 6 Church Road, Newcastle, NE1 1NE Tel: 01234 567890 Mobile: 0777 777 777 Email: another@hotmail.com Date of Birth: 13/10/1996 Personal I am a determined individual that can work effectively in a team and has a burning passion for sport. I work with sheer determination and achieve whatever I set my mind to which will contribute to the success of when working in a team. My ambition is to gain a degree in Sports
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Rev. April 27, 1993 Destin Brass Products Co. ost Teaching Note Substantive Issues Raised The managers of Destin Brass Products a y or P re struggling to understand the relationship between their costs and prices for each of the three products produced and sold by Destin. One of the products, pumps, is coming under increasingly competitive price pressure. As a result, Destin has been unable to maintain its desired profit margin. At the same time, Destin has been able to raise
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Seligram, Inc.: Electronic Testing Operations 1. What caused the existing system at ETO to fail? 2. Calculate the reported cost of the five components listed in Exhibit 6 using: a. The existing system. b. The system proposed by the accounting manager. c. The system proposed by the consultant. 3. Which system is preferable? Why? 4. Would you recommend any changes to the system you prefer? Why? 5. Would you treat the new machine as a separate cost center or as a part of the
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its own different rate. 3. As shown above, we recommend that the Destin Brass should use the activity based costing. In the second question, we figure out that the costs for Pumps would be reduced by 23% in comparison of using standard unit costing and 17% in comparison of using revised unit costing. Because Pumps attributes 55% of total revenue, the saving costs would be having a great positive impact on the Destin Brass. For flow controller, the activity based costing would raise the cost
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