Reggaeton

Reggaeton

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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.

Lines of freedom

Ford

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.

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.

This Christmas

In two days christmas is coming up. At my age I dont expect to get much for christmas as I did the previous years. In the previous years I got video systems such as the playstation 3 the x-box 360 clothes and games for the system. Just last year I recieved the psp silver.

Add on 12-25-09

This christmas unlike the others, I didn't get any technology such as handheld games a game console or games for the systems I already had. This christmas I got Rocawear boots, the air max lebron 7s in white black red and the all black air max lebron 7s, Asolo boots, Perfect Pushup.

Mathematical concept: Rationalising the denominator

"Rationalising the denominator" is when you move a root (like a square root or cube root) from the bottom of a fraction to the top.

Multiply top and bottom by the square root of 2, because: √2 × √2 = 2

Note: It is ok to have an irrational number in the top (numerator) of a fraction

Tours

Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies Page 42-49 Boerum Hill & Cobble Hill




On my walk through Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill I saw churches, houses, apartment buildings, and gardens. Some of these things existed for over a hundred years. These things are historical because of its importance to the community and the change it caused the community.

An example of these churches are the Manhattan’s trinity church and a Episcopal church, and a Dutch reformed Church which was the home to Brooklyn’s oldest Jewish congregation. The garden is the Hoyt street garden which has existed since 1975. The apartment buildings was modeled after old tenements which went up in the 1870s. The Brooklyn inn was part of the prohibition but they was a speakeasy which means that they sold illegal alcohol. Today there are churches that has been there for many years and are still being used for religious activities. Houses such as brownstones are still up and being used.

On my walk through this neighborhood and reading the section in the book Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies I learned how neighborhoods are different and how they are alike. I also learned how neighborhoods have stayed the same over the years and how they have changed over the years.



Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies Page 51-55

Carroll Gardens & Gowanus



On my walk through Carol Gardens & Gowanus which is my neighborhood I saw a canal, parks, and bars. Some of these things existed for over a hundred years. These things are historical because of its importance to the community and the change it caused the community.

An example of the canal is the Gowanus canal. The Gowanus canal is a part of history because it created a man made water way to transport goods into the city and the borough of Brooklyn in 1889. The issue project room is used for music performances, poetry readings, and other art events in the 20th century. The park that is in this neighborhood is Carroll park that was designed as a city park in 1867 by Richard Butts. Two bars are the Canal Bar and P.J. Hanley bar. The Canal Bar was made in 2005 but may seem of a similar vintage. The P.J Hanley bar was sold in 2005 but owned by the Hanley family since 1958 and under their name since 1874.

On my walk through this neighborhood and reading the section in the book Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies I learned how neighborhoods are different and how they are alike. I also learned how neighborhoods have stayed the same over the years and how they have changed over the years.







Bibliography
Walking Brooklyn: 30 Tours Exploring Historical Legacies
 - I used this link to get information on the tour and what route to take. I also used this link to get the route I was going to take for both neighborhoods and the directions.

Reflect me: The memoir of Ronald Lashley

Preface
This is a clutch basketball story. This summer I have been playing more basketball than before. I have hit many clutch three pointers in my age group and older age groups. In my age group, fourteen and under I hit a clutch three pointer to put us done by one point late in the fourth quarter even though it resulted into a lost by three points. In a higher age group sixteen and under I hit a clutch three to take a one point lead late in the fourth quarter. The game resulted into the game going into over time and later on into a win. During these two moments the emotions in the gym and outside on the court was palpable due to the tension of the game.
 
 
 
I am Me
I am Ronald Maurice Lashley, a child of Ronald Lashley and Gwendolyn Lawrence. I grew up mostly in Bedford-Stuyvesant Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in that area because of my elementary school P.S.305 which was a block away from my grandmother Janie Lawrence house. Even though I didn’t actually live there it was basically my home. The emotions in my grandmothers house was palpable no matter if people was talking or not. I am a person who may not be the toughest which makes it so I now how far I go with certain people. I am a person who listens to hip hop and R&B and who ever is making clairvoyant music.

May 20th


On May 20th it was my birthday. I had to go to school because it was a weekday and school is every important. On that day, being a kid I did not want to go to school to just do work all day and later go home and have to do homework. On that day my apartment was getting painted which really caused me to become upset. Every step me or my parents and sister took through the house you heard plastic with no walls to lean on. The one thing that was actually was a good thing was that I got a strawberry cheesecake which was my favorite. On this day I was able to realize that my birthday is more about becoming older and maturing through life and the anniversary of your birth.

Say Good Bye


I lost my innocence when I began to fight and talk back. As a child I felt much stronger being able to stand up for my self even if it was the wrong person or time. When talking back it was the wrong person when I did it to people such as teachers, my parents or any other adult figure. In school I began to lose my innocence when I reached about 3rd and 4th Grade. In school I began to lose my innocence when I became talkative and began to miss work such as homework. I began not doing homework because my parents weren’t sitting there with me when I did my homework to make sure that I did it. With homework since I became able to go outside by myself, I would sit there doing only some of my homework and say I was done so that I can go outside to make they rest of the day blithe. As a younger child my parents used to sit there with me as I did my homework and helped me with it. In class since I began to become talkative I became more conspicuous in class and I had incomplete class work because I would do more talking than working.

SCHEDULE OF THE SCHOOL DAY