August 2009
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Dancing plays an important role in culture.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your response.
Over thousands of years humans have been communicating with eachother. People from all over the world need to express their feelings and thoughts. In the modern world we mostly use writing and speaking to express ourselves. However, there are a few more ways to do so. Dancing can be a good example, because with mimics and gestures dancers try to explain something.
All of the nations in the world have different cultures and almost in all of them there is at least a piece of dancing. Dancing is an important aspect of our traditions. Dancing figuares will be the same no matter how old they are. Because native people dance to show their environment and life style. This is a way of representing our traditions. Samba dancers from Brazil, for example, represent the life in Brazil in their dance, samba, an observer can see how relaxed and also dynamic place Brazil is, according to the dance figuares.
A tradition belongs only to one nation and culture. So does dancing. Dance figuares may be similar, because traditions and cultures affect each other, but we can easily see that samba is quite different from the horon, for example, a dance of people from Blacksea area region in Turkey. When watching the Horon you can easily learn about the life in this region. In their dance figures, you can realize the excitement of the blacksea people. While dancing they shake their bodies just like hamsi in cold water, which is a species of fish that lives mostly in the blcksea. From their dance moves it is remarkable how rebellion and brave these people are. Also the clothing can give us a clue about the life.
In conclusion, as I have illustrated above there are many reasons that dancing plays an important role in a culture because of its uniqueness and what it represents
Author: Erdem/Point=3+
People listen to music for different reasons and at different times. Why is music important to many people? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
Over the last 50 years or so, listening to music for different reasons and at different times has become so important for people's lives. People from all over the world listen to different types of music, like rock, pop, jazz...However, listening to music is important to many people for two very different specific reasons
The first reason as to why listening to music is important to many people is that of human health. The listener can create whatever image he or she wants to when listening to music. By listening to music one can start their day and gets the brain flowing in the morning. This is an essential part of life as listening to music in the morning helps you calm down whenever things go wrong in the day. Thousands of people, for example, are treated for cancer each year, and recovering from serious procedures can be painful. However, studies show that music eases the recovery of individuals who have undergone bone marrow transplants to treat cancer. Also, research supports the use of music to modulate heart rate and blood pressure which can relieve stress symptoms in patients with heart disease.
The second reason as to why listening to music is important to many people is that of educating children. Music helps the mind to develop and grow. It is a proven fact that participating in a music program in school will help develop your brain to a higher level and faster than other students. Music actually improves communication between the right and left brain, allowing you to gain better comprehension and memorization skills, for example. Music is science. It is exact and demands accustics. Music is math. It is based on the rythmic subdivisions of time done in a split second. Music is history. The music you hear or play is usually an indication of the time and environment in which it was created. Music is a foreign language. The music is not any language known to man. It is its own language and uses symbols to represent ideas. Most of all, music is art. It is the greatest form of art that allows a human to take boring notes on a page and transform them in to an emotion and feeling you can not measure.
In conclusion as I have illustrated above there are many reasons as to why listening to music is important for peoples lives and that is
