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...with it,” Vinson said. He said that the band allows the Kuumba singers to “really feel the music itself rather than just trying to bring that extra ‘oomph’ ourselves.”Hendricks said exposing younger musicians to America??s musical history is the most rewarding part of teaching. “It’s passing on cultural heritage to young people who otherwise would be deprived of it completely,” Hendricks said. “Unless young Americans go to universities where jazz...
Echaveste claimed that the immigration debate currently taking place is just another example of a historic conflict between America??s economic interest for foreign workers and its reluctance to admit them as citizens. She pointed out that the US initially encouraged Chinese immigration in order to help build the railways, but then passed the Chinese Exclusion Act during the 1890’s in response to fears of the cultural impact of the migration. “For centuries,” she said, “Americans have been asking themselves ‘who gets...
...American Pie”) gets its title. The ridiculousness of the song should give a sense of the SNL-like quality of the movie, which revels in its hilarious and biting satire of American life. The movie parodies everything from terrorists to America??s fixation with reality television, from middle-American earnestness to the current Bush administration. But what makes this movie really entertaining is the secret admiration it has for all of the values it pokes fun at; especially its love for the greedy American stereotype it eviscerates, epitomized by Martin Tweed (Hugh Grant), the Simon Cowell/Ryan...
...Weitz. While the film may come across as anti-pop culture, Weitz insists that is not the intention. “This film is definitely not just a flat-out rejection of pop culture,” he says. If anything, “Dreamz” simply illustrates America??s fascination with popular culture—right down to Grant’s spot-on Cowell impression. One character in the film that demonstrates this obsession is Omar, a still-learning terrorist who is supposed to infiltrate “American Dreamz,” but becomes...
...whether at Caltech or RISD, an Ivy League school, or a community college—should be graduating without at least some basic knowledge or skill sets, the observed deficiencies in their baseline ability are reflective of failures in a separate domain, namely that of secondary education. Because America??s high schools are where basic reading, writing, and quantitative skills should be taught, they are also where the accountability for substandard performance in basic skills should lie; illiterate and innumerate students should not be receiving diplomas or making their way to college in the first place. Remarks made...