Admissions Essay - The Dance of Life
For the dancer, music and choreography are paramount. The music guides the dancer, and the moves express the music. However, the dance has to start from somewhere.
Similar to planning a career in medicine, the dance has a beginning. It starts with an idea of what the final creation will be. The music, which is the background for the dance, must be chosen carefully because it controls the mood and direction of the dance. Education is the music for the dance of a doctor. For this reason I chose to attend Xavier University of Louisiana because I felt it would provide me with the right music to guide my movements. Attending Xavier has helped keep me on the path to my goals by providing support, guidance, and opportunities to learn and grow. With this foundation I am prepared for the rigors of medical school and the challenges of adjusting to new people, situations, and responsibilities.
The dance cannot exist with music alone; the choreography helps complete the dance. Choreography often involves learning dance from other dancers, or learning a new type of dance to make the existing one more exciting. Going beyond the normal boundary increases the chance that the dance will effectively intertwine the music and choreography, so the dance will go beyond the original idea. Shadowing neurosurgeon Dr. Norgran in high school and pulmonologist Dr. Yaeger in college, has given me a new perspective on going into a career in medicine. These people helped me to see that I would have to be willing to alter the music of my life in order to finish the dance of a medical career.
The best expression of dance comes from a skilled and experienced dancer. Ultimately, I want to dance the dance of medicine in a way that fully expresses the essence of the dance, which is a dance of knowledge and compassion. A dancer that can take the music and choreography and express the essence of the dance, has an indefinable quality that only those with a pure love for their calling can possess. In dance, that special quality is what separates the average dancer from Baryshnikov or Pavlova. That aspect is one that intertwines unsurpassable skill with a focused relentless devotion to the task. Although I have danced since the age of three, I know I do not have this prima ballerina quality, but as a future doctor, this same kind of quality is what drives me.
The narrative that Rowlandson wrote was originally titled “The Sovereignty & Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promise Displayed: Being a Narrative of the Captivity and Restauration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson Commended by her to all that Desire to Know the Lord’s Doings to, and Dealings with Her. Especially to her Dear Children and Relations.” In 1682, the title was dropped and republished the narrative under the title “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” which is best known as today. This book is separated into “removes.” The first three “removes” focus on her desperate efforts to care for her dying daughter. The rest of the “removes” focus on the difficulties she faced while being kidnapped and held captive.
Every dance that is created by a choreographer has a meaning and or purpose behind it. The dance choreographed could be used to send a political, emotional, or a social message. Regardless of the message being sent, each dance created possesses a unique cultural and human significance. This essay will examine and analyze two dance works from history and give an insight into what each dance work provided to the society of its time.
Learning about Dance: Dance as an Art Form and Entertainment provides visions into the many features of dance and inspires scholars to keep an open mind and think critically about the stimulating, bold, ever-changing and active world of dance. Learning about Dance is particularly useful for those who do not have a wide and diverse dance contextual, such as students in a preliminary level or survey dance course. This book consists of twelve chapters. Chapter one dance as an art form focuses on the basic structures of dance. Dance is displayed through the human body, it has the control to communicate and induce reactions. Dance can be found in many different places, it enables the participants and seekers to touch and knowledge the joy of movement. Dance is discovered as being one of the oldest art forms worldwide. Dance existed in early cultures was recognized in a sequence of rock paintings portrayed dance. Since this discovery of rock paintings, several other forms of art have been found that depict dance. People used rituals in order to worship the gods and believed that the rituals held magical and spiritual powers. During the ancient period civilizations sentient decisions began to be made with regard to dance. Other periods that had an impact on dance were the medieval period, the renaissance period, and the contemporary period. Chapter two the choreographer, the choreographer is a person who comes up with the movements created into a dance routine. The choreographer expresses themselves through choreography because this is their way of communicating with the audience. In order to be a choreographer you must have a passion for dance. Each choreographer has their own approaches and ways of making up a routine. Choreographers ...
The span of three hundred years transformed the world. The Puritan's obsession was time. They thought that all time was God's time. They were a culture obsessed with the passage of time and many authors wrote about it. In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, the passing of time along with the rite of passage illustrated Rowlandson's Puritan beliefs. Through the author's lens, the reader can see her journey, her struggles, and her faith and dedication to God.
Ganes, Earnest J. A Lesson Before Dying? New York: Vintage Books, 1993. Genre: Novel. 256 pages Setting: The story is set in a small Cajun Louisiana town in the 1940’s. The setting in this story is significant because, the whole story is about how a young black boy is treated unfairly and sentenced to death because of something he did not do.
In the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, By Ernest Gaines, the main character, Grant Wiggins gives a man meaning in his last days alive. Wiggins gives him a book to write his thoughts in, and helps him to realize that he is not a “hog.” He shows him that he is truly a good person, and that he should die with his head up, knowing that he led a worthy and honest life. Mr. Wiggins changed greatly through the story, from a cold school teacher to an open hearted and caring man. This helped his relationship with others as well as Jefferson. Through his changing, he became the one man that Jefferson could trust.
Ballet is an athletic art form that utilizes muscle control, flexibility, and physical strength. It requires extreme discipline from the dancers and takes an extreme amount of mental concentration. This discipline causes dancers to have success throughout life and specifically in academic studies. There are many ways that dance can affect the success of a person’s life; however, there are two in specific that make dancers generally more successful. To begin, ballet causes dancers to be self-motivated workers; dancers cannot rely on others to push them to be better, but must have the drive within themselves.
The main reasons to lost billions of dollars, lost precious lives and lots of damages to the nation were the Stock Market Crashes. On Thursday October 24, 1929 and on Monday October 19, 1987, there was a crash of stock prices on New York stock Exchange. It was a huge crash of stock prices in a single day. Billions of dollars and a number of precious lives were lost. But what we particularly think about Stock Crashes and how does it affect to common lives. The stock markets crashes and its affects are interrelated. The term stock crash came in to English Dictionary around 200 years ago. There was a first stock market crash in the history of economy and in early industrialization era, in the year 1878. It occurred in Wall Street and followed by huge opposition of stock system.
The article, “You Have To Love Dancing To Stick To It”, written by Merce Cunningham was exceptionally relatable amongst the group discussion with the dancers. The structure of this article was much like a poem. Depending upon the reader, each section could be broken down into different ideas. Merce Cunninhams’s background consist of beginning as a tap dancer, studying with Martha Graham, and commenced the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1953. He choreographed pieces outside of the theater and collaborated on filmdances, videodances, and instrumental in the development of computer programs for dance (90). Referring back to his choreographic skills, Cunningham is an artist that not everyone enjoyed. His focus was directed to seperating the human being from their actions.
Both Anne and Mary held strong religious backgrounds. Both of these women were of the Puritan faith and a strong sense of their devotedness was incorporated into their work. Strong religious values allowed both these women to persevere the struggles that they were to endure during their lifetime. Mary Rowlandson’s hardships were more severe however than anything in which Anne had to endure during her lifetime. Mary Rowlandson was held captive during King Philip’s War. The
What stands out the most to me about Mary Rowlandson’s depiction of her captivity is her humility through it all. In many ways I found her example to be encouraging to me as I read of the trials that she faced because through it all she never failed in her faith. Her humility is apparent as she discusses her situation with her son. It is clear how much she has lost and it would be understandable had she and her son chosen to become angry at God but instead she chooses to, like Job, show humility when he says, “naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return… blessed be the name of the Lord” (The Eighth Remove). She recognizes that everything she previously had belonged to God and she chose an attitude of surrender by admitting
The only major contributor to the crash would be the downfall of the dow and the values of shares and stocks. The first day was referred which was referred to as Black Thursday was when it first started. The dow which was referred to as an index that tracks the daily price of shares was counted at 305.85 that day (2). The problem was
The Chinese Communist Party called upon all Chinese to take on physical labor to transform the economy, forcing more than one hundred million people into projects. To encourage industry, small steel and iron-making furnaces were set up in the countryside. Large factories could not get enough of the raw materials they needed. Many problems made clear that the high goals made could not be accomplished. The communes, which were the size of towns, combined farmland and laborers of one whole district into a unit. The individual commune was placed in control of all production and was to operate as the sole unit; it was subdivided into the production brigade, and the production team. By the fall of 1958, about 750,000 agricultural producers' cooperatives, now designated as production brigades, had been amalgamated into about 23,500 communes, each averaging 22,000 people. About forty families constructed a production team, and about ten teams created a production brigade. Each brigade had certain jobs to do such as tree planting, operation of storage facilities, or transportation. Each commune was planned as a self-supporting community for agriculture, small-scale industry, schooling, marketing, administration, and local security, which was maintained by militia. Organized along paramilitary and laborsaving lines, the commune had communal kitchens, mess halls, and nurseries. By 1959, five hundred million people were working on twenty-six thousand communes.
“If you dance with your heart, your body will follow” -Mia Michaels. The In every dance performance there are two things that must be present the dancers and music. When an audience sit to watch a dancer they are looking for an understanding through the dance, movement that analyze what a dancer is capable of doing. As a dancer for ten years and counting. I have done Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Hip-Hop and Gospel I have the opportunity to experience all and learn what makes an excellent dancer. For the greatest dance routine comes with hard work, passion, dedication and sweat.
Since agriculture began to be developed nearly 10,000 years ago, people throughout the world have discovered the food value of wild plants and animals, and domesticated and bred them (Early Civilization). Today, people go to the market or grocery store to pick up cereal, rice, bread, meat, fruit, vegetables, and olives. People hardly ever think of where the food generally comes from. Most of the food that is found in the grocery store wouldn't be possible without world agriculture.