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Americas and the Influence of Latin Culture

Practitioners of Santeria do pray to Catholic saints, but they also venerate animistic gods and goddesses which stem from the Afri...

1930s' Chicago

In a paper consisting of six pages Chicago back in the 1930s is considered through such topics as Al Capone and gangsters, corrupt...

Radha by Ruth St. Denis

fact, one might readily surmise how this absence of formal instruction actually enhanced the creativity and originality that emana...

Contemporary World and 'Sacred' Technology

Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life" author Richard Florida (2002) contends that we have changed because we have sought ch...

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spencer

the mirror and Belphoebe lies in their joint abilities to assist the characters in this story on the path toward their future. Bo...

The Sociocultural Dance Influence of Alvin Ailey

a rural to urban environment that would have a profound impact upon Aileys all-inclusive approach to dance (Dingus, 2000; McDonagh...

Mythical and Religious Themes in the Eastern Art Tradition

in regard to religious art. Religion, of course, is very diverse in India. Hindu is the primary religion (comprising 82.6 percen...

Music of Ireland and the Chieftains

Chieftains I in 1964 (Hudson, 2005). According to Moloney, who is acknowledged to be the principal guiding light behind the grou...

Surfacing by Margaret Atwood, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, and Environment

returning home only to find his friends drunk and lost to the world. He essentially needs healing and he can only find healing thr...

Russell Banks' Continental Drift and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony

complete of his sense of self - everything within his environment has the feeling of being "other." Tayo is literally the walking ...

School Dance Curriculum Proposal

reduce the chances of developing several chronic illness later in life. Regular physical activity reduces the chances of heart dis...

U.S. Modern Dance History

skirt of transparent silk, being back-lit would produce dramatic shapes of light through the skirt (Eley, 2002d). She created her ...

Modern Dance 'Mother' Martha Graham

Greek legends and even Biblical themes. Her style was unique to say the least. Graham used her body in a...

Leisure Music

when I first heard this tune" aspect to it. Or maybe the student has other reasons for why music is a...

The 'Personality' of a Nightclub

workday with someone special. I talk about my routine trials and tribulations and ask Tim about his day. He smiled and told me a...

Structure of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

he feels totally disconnected from the world - everything is "other." This disconnection from reality is integrally tied to the ea...

Bruce Bower's 'Sacred Secrets of the Caves' Reviewed

when some archeologists needed assistance in searching through caves that seemed to bend and twist and go on forever, with at leas...

Dance and Daily Life Movement

up his body from the legs, then the hips, shoulders, arms, wrist and finally the fingers as the ball is released from the pitchers...

The Dance Film, 'Tap'

dance in his life. What makes this film powerful in its presentation of dance is that it makes the viewer aware of the passiona...

Learning to Dance in Terms of Cause and Effect

just want to learn a new type of dance. In relationship to effects, as it relates to the first cause, learning how...

David Maguire/Sacred Choices

this argument on the fact federal policy on such issues as embryonic stem cell research has been decided along religious lines (Ma...

Self Awareness and Environment in Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

alienated himself from Mother Earth in his anger and frustration, cursing the jungle rain, which "grew like foliage from the sky."...

Australian Aboriginals

one or the other, is not making one culture look worse or better than the other, and is ultimately leaving any decision or opinion...

Report: “Teaching the Elephant to Dance”

in the past is actually keeping them from succeeding in the present. That is, because methods worked for them before, they keep do...

Andrew Dubus/Dancing After Hours

viewpoint. His point appears to be that life is, in general, a painful, isolated experience, as the connections that people feel...

The Sacred Architecture of the Maya at Copán

"witnessed great political growth during the early years of the Late Classic period under the reigns of long-lived rulers" and the...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Edgar Degas and Interpretations of Dance

their videos and use it on stage. Madonna, and Michael and Janet Jackson, are just a few pop stars who incorporate dance into thei...

National Standards/Fine Arts

A 3 page research paper that, first of all, briefly outlines the general content of national standards addressing the fine arts: a...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...