Reggaeton

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My School Benjamin Banneker

Reggaeton

Reggaeton is a form of urban music that became popular with Latin American youth in the early 1990s. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton's predecessor originated in Panama as reggae en español. After the music's gradual exposure in Puerto Rico, it eventually evolved into a new musical style known as reggaeton.     Reggaeton lyrical structure resembles hip hop lyrics. Like hip hop, most reggaeton artists recite their lyrics rap-fashion rather than sing it melodically, although earlier reggaeton songs were toasted in which some are today. Unlike hip hop music, however, a significant percent of reggaeton artists are also singers, may blend rapping and singing, and may also have a "street" image, similar to Akon. Like hip hop music, reggaeton songs have hooks that are repeated throughout the song.

The war is generally considered to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Many countries were already at war by this date, such as Ethiopia and Italy in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and China and Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.^[3] Many that were not initially involved joined the war later in response to events such as the German invasion of the Soviet Union and the Japanese attacks on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and on British overseas colonies, which triggered declarations of war on Japan by the United States, the British Commonwealth,^[4] and the Netherlands.^[5]
The war ended with the victory of the Allies in 1945, leaving the political alignment and social structure of the world significantly changed. While the United Nations was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts, the Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next forty-six years. Meanwhile, the acceptance of the principle of self-determination accelerated decolonization movements in Asia and Africa, while Western Europe began moving toward economic recovery and increased political integration.

First letter is My Letters

For each letter in my first name I found a city that starts with that letter.
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Indian Customs

 Indian Customs
While to many people raised in the west, this might sound odd. It is important to remember that in Indian society an arranged marriage is seen as an act of love. Since marriage is one of the most important decisions a person will ever make and because divorce is not accepted among most Indians, it is imperative that the marriage choice is carefully thought out and planned. How can a young person make such an important decision on his/her own? Instead, the family (usually the parents) look for certain traits in a marriage partner. Some desirable traits looked for in both male and female are: matching levels of education, matching cultures, close parental cities, matching religions, and matching vegetarians/non-vegetarians just to name a few.

Time of the year : March-Date Varies Year to Year
Places to visit : All over India
Duration : One-Two Days, Varies Regionally

Holi is probably the second most celebrated Indian Hindu holiday. It is a time of great joy and color. It is known as the most lively Indian holidays, in short, it is the Mardi Gras of India, minus the nudity of course! It is observed all over India, especially in the North. It marks the harvesting of winter crop (Rabi) when wheat corns get ripened and turn golden brown. It heralds the end of winter and the beginning of spring. For many westerners and/or Christians, Holi even shares some characteristics of Easter. Not only does it come close together (usually a day apart) but Easter is considered a time of colorful spring celebrations as well. However, that is where the similarities end. In fact, while it is celebrated in a similar fashion all over India, there are so many different legends and stories associated with it regionally that you are bound to get different stories about Holi in just about every region.
CELEBRATIONS
People celebrate this festival of colors joyously with friends and relatives. People come out wearing pure white clothes and gather together in a common place where they "play Holi". People throw colored water with pichkaari (a traditional device to spray colored water from a distance keeping oneself safe), gubbare (balloons filled with water to throw on others from a distance) and gulal (colored powder) at each other and make merry. Singing and dancing add to the gaiety of the occasion. Playing Holi  begins early in the morning and continues through the day. 
Rituals
Usually the night before Holi, a huge bonfire is built. It is said to cleanse the air.Traditional delicacies are prepared in advance and served while playing Holi. Families, friends, and neighbors get together to enjoy this festival of colors.
Farmers celebrate Holi by offering their first crop to the Fire God Agni.
The drinking of bhang is also a common practice, though if there is any religious reasons behind it, they are now obscure. Bhang is an interesting concoction of grass of the opium plant mashed and mixed with milk or sweets. Some families also give their children these drinks but most reserve these for the adults and exercise caution.

Festival

Easter is a time of religious festivals and gatherings

The United Methodist Church, Woodland Presbyterian Church, Holy Rosary Catholic Church, St. Paul's Luthern Church, Woodland Christian Center, and Bayside Church of Woodland as well as St. John's American Lutheran Church and Calvary Chapel in Zamora and the Christian Church (Disciple of Christ) are all offering activities for their parishoners to mark the resurrection of Jesus. Woodland churches will be holding numerous Good Friday and Easter Day services as part of a weeklong Easter Week celebration. Some churches, such as American Lutheran, will also hold their annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. Activities will start at 10:30 a.m. and include egg hunts, crafts and games. A hot dog luncheon will be served at 11:30 a.m. Easter is a time of springtime festivals and gatherings in Woodland and worldwide. In Christian countries Easter is celebrated as the religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God. But the celebrations of Easter have many customs and legends that are pagan in origin and have nothing to do with Christianity.Scholars, accepting the derivation proposed by the 8th-century English scholar St. Bede, believe the name Easter is thought to come from the Scandinavian "Ostra" and the Teutonic "Ostern" or "Eastre," both Goddesses of mythology signifying spring and fertility whose festival was celebrated on the day of the vernal equinox. Traditions associated with the festival survive in the Easter rabbit, a symbol of

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fertility, and in colored easter eggs, originally painted with bright colors to represent the sunlight of spring, and used in Easter-egg rolling contests or given as gifts.

Poerty

Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry

To mark the 10th anniversary of the prize that bears his name, Scott Griffin wanted to make a statement. To that end, the chairman and the trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry decided to double the amount of the Griffin Poetry Prize, from $100,000 to $200,000.

"We weren't trying to necessarily make it bigger than anything else, but to make a statement: that this is important, that poetry is important," Griffin said Tuesday, after the nominees for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize were announced at a news conference in downtown Toronto.

Each of this year's seven finalists receives $10,000, while the two winners will receive an additional $65,000, bringing their total to $75,000.

In a reverse from last year, where eventual international category winner C.D. Wright was the lone female poet to be nominated, women dominated this year's shortlist, six to one.
P.K. Page, who died earlier this year at age 93, is on this year's shortlist of Canadian works for Coal and Roses, alongside Kate Hall for The Certainty Dream and Karen Solie for Pigeon.
The international shortlisted works are: Grain by John Glenday, A Village Life by Louise Gluck, The Sun-fish by Eilean Ni Chuilleanain and Cold Spring in Winter by Valerie Rouzeau.
Last year's winners were A.F. Moritz of Toronto and Wright, who hails from Providence, R.I.
The judges for the Griffin, poets Anne Carson, Kathleen Jamie and Carl Phillips, read some 400 books of poetry to come up with the shortlist.
The 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist readings will take place June 2 in Toronto. The winners will be announced June 3.

CANUCKS UP FOR HUGO PRIZE

Two Canadians have been named finalists for the Hugo Award, the world's top prize for science-fiction writing.Robert J. Sawyer, based in Mississauga, was nominated for best novel for his book Wake, a story about a 15-year-old girl who discovers an emerging artificial intelligence lurking on the Internet.
The novel is the first book of what will become the WWW trilogy.
California-born Robert Charles Wilson, who recently became a Canadian citizen, was nominated in the same category for Julian Comstock, A Novel of 22nd Century America, premised on a future United States ruled by a Christian fundamentalist oligarchy.

Imagine You are Driving

Imagine you are driving

nowhere, with no one beside you;

with the empty road unraveling and raveling

in sympathy as the wheel turns in your hands.

On either side the wheatfields go shimmering

past in an absence of birdsong, and the sky

decants the shadows of the weather from itself.

So you drive on, hopeful of a time

when the ocean will rise up before you like dusk

and you will make landfall at last –

some ancient, long-forgotten mooring,

which both of you, of course, will recognize;

though as I said before, there is no one beside you

and neither of you has anywhere to go.

From Grain, by John Glenday
Copyright © John Glenday 2009

Myths

Gaelic Myths/Legends

There are several legends recounting the ownership of the Brugh, all of which involve similar ambiguity and complexity concerning day and night and the passage of time. It would seem then, that the myths relating to Newgrange dramatise a basic idea, which is interesting when one considers the solar alignment and the possible pre-historic usage of Newgrange as a megalithic calendar.

The old tales tell how the gates of the world stand open at this time. Journeys to the "other world", either metaphorically or otherwise, may well be transformative. It is for this reason that Samhain can be seen as a time when the past and future are available to the present. It is a time to see ourselves as part of the web of past and future. We are not isolated in time.

Many of the more curious and supernatural events in Irish mythology are associated with Samhain, including two of the legends associated with Newgrange and Aonghus.

The term mythology can refer to either the study of myths or a body of myths. The main characters in myths are usually gods or supernatural heroes.Some thinkers believe that myths resulted from the personification of inanimate objects and forces. According to these thinkers, the ancients worshipped natural phenomena such as fire and air, gradually coming to describe them as gods.
 

Social Network

Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.

Legends

Myths

Pop culture music

Rap music is the latest African American cultural commodity to titillate white audiences. Not only has this music become increasingly popular among white Americans, but its characteristics have infiltrated numerous aspects of mainstream white culture including its fashion, movies, and vocabulary. Most striking is the embrace of this traditionally black cultural item by young, white males. 

Throughout this study, all of my informants implied that an overtly masculine culture surrounds rap music. According to their responses, barring a few minor exceptions, such as L'il Kim, Foxxy Brown and Mary J. Blige, females are virtually non-existent in this culture as performers or purveyors of rap music, although they are often the subject of rap songs. My informants' responses also belied their adherence to traditional stereotypes about masculinity and femininity, i.e. that men act and women are acted upon.

Henrietta Lacks

Henrietta Lacks was born on August 1, 1920 in Roanoke, Virginia to Eliza (1886–1924) and John Randall Pleasant I (1881–1969). Henrietta “Pleasant” Lacks married her first cousin David Lacks I (1915–2002) in Halifax County, Virginia. Henrietta Lacks convinced David to go north to search for work and later followed bringing their children with her. David found work at the Sparrow's Point shipyards and found a house for them on New Pittsburgh Avenue in Turners Station. Henrietta Lacks went to Johns Hopkins Hospital with a worrisome symptom which was spotting on her underwear. She was quickly diagnosed with cervical cancer. Eight months later, despite surgery and radiation treatment, the Sparrows Point shipyard worker's wife died at age 31 as she lay in the hospital's segregated ward for blacks.

            After Henrietta Lacks died in 1951 from having cervical cancer  left behind her tumor cells. The cells, dubbed "HeLa" for Henrietta Lacks, multiplied as no other cells outside the human body had before, doubling their numbers daily. In the 50 years after Henrietta Lacks' death, her tumor cells combined mass is probably much larger than Lacks was when she was alive and have continually been used for research into cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and toxic substances, gene mapping, and countless other scientific pursuits. On the day of Henrietta's death, the head of Hopkins' tissue-culture research lab, Dr. George Gey, went before TV cameras, held up a tube of HeLa cells, and announced that a new age of medical research had begun--one that, someday, could produce a cure for cancer

            If I was one of Henrietta Lacks’ relatives it will be a little disturbing knowing that her tumor cells are all around the world. I would be happy that they are using something that she no longer use to help find a cure for cancer. Since the doctors such as Dr. Jonas Salk can see how fast the cells are duplicating maybe they can find a way to slow that process down. If I didn’t know that Henrietta Lacks organs was still alive I would be very fuming because that is part of her so those are also her remains. By Henrietta Lacks organs still being alive that also means that part of her is still alive.

                                     

Google news: Nicotine Replacement

The exam lasted about an hour and a half, and the president is in good health, according to a summary by the physician who performed the exam, Dr. Jeff Kuhlman.The report said the president weighed in at 179.9 pounds with his shoes and workout clothes on. He has an enviable body mass index of 23.7, but his doctor wants him to modify his diet to get his LDL cholesterol, now 138, below 130. The president is still using nicotine replacement therapy and the doctor's recommendations include continuing his smoking cessation efforts.I believe that since Obama is using nicotine replacement therapy he really cares about his self meaning his health.

Popular Culture: Art Work

FORMS OF ART means the type of artwork such as drawing, painting, sculpture (carving, modelling, assemblage and construction) architecture, printmaking, electronic media such as computer and digital graphics, ceramics, Visual Design, Graphic Design, collage, photography and Post Modern appropriation and recontextualisation.

There is a LANGUAGE which is used to describe the Arts. This language is explained by using examples of student work and brief summaries. Extra information is available in the many texts and reference books available. This in not comprehensive but a student research tool for beginners in Art.

In 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci was born in an Italian town called Vinci. He lived in a time period called the Renaissance, when everyone was interested in art. Even though Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous because of all the other things he could do. He was a sculptor, a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musician, and a mathematician. When he was twenty, he helped his teacher finish a painting called The Baptism of Christ. When he was thirty, he moved to Milan. That is where he painted most of his pictures. DaVinci's paintings were done in the Realist style.

Health

Swine influenza virus is common throughout pig populations worldwide. Transmission of the virus from pigs to humans is not common and does not always lead to human influenza, often resulting only in the production of antibodies in the blood. If transmission does cause human influenza, it is called zoonotic swine flu. People with regular exposure to pigs are at increased risk of swine flu infection. The meat of an infected animal poses no risk of infection when properly cooked.Swine flu, also known as 2009 H1N1 type A influenza, is a human disease. People get the disease from other people, not from pigs.

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Shocking Brawl

A Brawl broke out during a basketball game at Monessen High School late last week.It happened during halftime of a basketball game between Monessen and Washington high schools Friday night. Mario Tarver, a 15-year-old student at Monessen High School says a fight between two girls spiraled out of control and he got caught in the melee in that spilled out the hallway. "I just started to walk away from him and he told the other officer to get me. When I got around the corner, he started to tase me and my track coach tried to help me," said Tarver. "It was like a stabbing, and once I fell - this lady stood over me. I just got up and tried to get to my mom. Students and parents in the Monessen School District say they're embarrassed after a fight following the boys varsity basketball game ended with arrests and police tasing a student. 

A taser is an electroshock weapon that uses electrical current to disrupt voluntary control of muscles. Its manufacturer, Taser International, calls the effects "neuromuscular incapacitation" Someone struck by a Taser experiences stimulation of his or her sensory nerves and motor nerves, resulting in strong involuntary muscle contractions and the devices' mechanism "Electro-Muscular Disruption (EMD) technology".

To me this taser incident wasn't needed because all they have to do was call back up to call to get the students out the building and to send everybody home. This situation did not need students to me tased  to try to get their point across.

Police Taser Student at Basketball Game

Map Of Gowanus

CommunityWalk Map - Brooklyn New York Gowanus