little bit more artistic, called color guard. Introduction: Today I am going give you all an overview of color guard by talking about the background behind color guard, color guard within marching band, and winter guard. Body: The background behind color guard According to the Winter Guard Association
WGI Guard: Origins The national guard championships had occured during the summer at the DCI Drum and Bugle Corps Championships or at the National Contests of the American Legion and Veterans of Foregian Wars before 1977. One day on August 1977, the DCI Championships was held in a basement in Denver. The basement had columns in it so the performers had to manuver around them, while judges had to look around the obstructions. The basement also had no air conditioning as well. Despire the problems
packages from the international Red Cross. While the camps were not made to be a five star hotel, the camps treated their captives well enough that they could live comfortably. In Japan, this was not the case. As explained in Unbroken, a biography about Louis Zamperini,
share my excitement. They had good reason for anxiety; we had endured a turbulent, and were now circling Columbus unable to land. This started my experience at Winter Guard International World Championships in my junior year. Just a few days prior, the Catalyst Color Guard, the team of which I am currently captain, won the Texas Color Guard Circuit State Championships. We earned the highest score in the 10-year history of our program after an incredibly successful season. What enabled us to succeed
for each sport. The choice of them is left to the international federations. One delegate of each international federation must be present in order to check the entries. The members of these juries and the officials must all be amateurs. Where a jury has not been formed by th etime it should have started to function, the Organizing Committee will advise and decide how to form one. The Juries of Appeal for the sports not governed by an international federation shall be formed by the Organizing Committee
What will 51 billion dollars buy you in a Black Sea subtropical resort this weekend? So far, not much. This Monday, it has been reported that Russia has spent 51 billion dollars to prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics. According to a number of economists, this new estimate is more than double the cost of the 2012 games in London and the 2010 games in Vancouver combined. The news surrounding the games describes its outrageous costs, security issues, and lack of preparation for the opening ceremony;
Northeast United States. Media outlets had termed the blizzard Winter Storm Jonas and Snowzilla and regarded it as potentially historic***. The storm was so large that it was able to be seen from space. Astronaut Scott Kelly had released a picture of Winter Storm Jonas from aboard the International Space Station on January 23***. Type of Disaster The blizzard, considered a natural disaster, was rated as a Category 4 or “Crippling” winter storm on NOAA’s Northeast Snowfall Impact Scale***. According
civil war, he was regarded as the successor to Lenin, but he lost in the race of power with Stalin, his loyalty to the revolution and the Party meant that he did not fight for his survival until it was too late and he remained the icon for international communist. Trotsky held a dynamic role in the 1905 Revolution. He was the leading spokesman of the St Petersburg Soviet of Workers’ Deputies, and in this position he helped the organisation of the revolutionary strike movement among other activities
hitting or flicking a ball into the opposing team’s goal using sticks. The term field hockey would only be used in countries where the simple term hockey was used for different forms such as ice hockey, street hockey and etc. Field hockey has myriad international tournaments for genders, male and female, although in some countries such as the US, field hockey is played for the most part by females. Major tournaments for instance, Olympic Games - held every four years, World Hockey Cup (men and women) -
Afghanistan International students travel all over the world to study different lands education systems. Many of them come here to the United States of America, the land of opportunity. Many of them believe that if they come here they will have a better chance of doing what they have always wanted to do. I was given an assignment by my teacher to interview an international student I got their input on what it is like to be an international student here in the United States of America. I met
Hello everyone, thank you all for coming. I am here today to talk about the removal of a number of sharks from the wild. As West Australians you would be aware of the increasing number of fatal shark attacks in our state. In 2015 alone we had five deaths and this year already 3 divers and surfers have lost their lives in shark attacks- these are individual and community-wide tragedies! Whilst a number of initiatives have been discussed and or trialed by our government we need to find an effective
step of many more additions to make the castle we see today. Because it was built around war time, the tower was designed with the principle of defense. Roman walls, guard towers and gates were put up around the tower. Later other monarchs would also add more defensive walls, a moat, more towers and reinforce the military tower guards, Yeomen warders or more commonly called Beefeaters. Many of the monarchs continually improved on the white tower, in attempts to make it more and more secure. From its
were located in California, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Arkansas. It is recognized, then, by all that even wars must have limits. The limits that must be applied are essentially in the Geneva Conventions plus other treaties of international humanitarian law. All the countries participation in WWII accepted these terms, however Japan failed to follow through and ignored the laws. The Japanese captured thousands of American soldiers and held them in Japanese camps. The Japanese held
The Hermitage, also known as the Winter Palace, is an extravagantly decorated museum of monumental size that possesses numerous impressive features; ¨1,786 doors, 1,945 windows and 1,057 elegantly and lavishly decorated halls and rooms, many of which are open to the public¨ (St. Petersburg Online). It is home to millions of priceless works of art from the prehistoric Paleolithic Era and Iron Ages to modern pieces created by current artists (The State Hermitage Museum). The museum was founded by Catherine
of Karelia. Not that the veneration is ill merited, however. For three months, the Finnish state, equipped with but a dozen antiquated tanks and ten infantry divisions, managed to not just resist, but also humiliate the colossal Red Army on an international stage. “This was to be the icy Thermopylae – a Thermopylae every day - upon which the fate of European democracy rested” – and endure it did, until the sheer scale of Soviet forces shattered the Mannerheim Line and coerced Finland to sign a draconian
“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief.’” (James Naismith Quotes). In November, 1861, the inventor of “basketball” was born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada (Biography of James Naismith). But it never crossed his mind that he’d be the creator of one of the most popular world-wide sports known to man (James Naismith…:Inventor of Basketball). Dr. James Naismith had the body foundation of a fine athlete. As
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switched sides and views. Instead of the radical environmental activism that Greenpeace encompasses, Moore now focuses on how we can benefit humans while remaining as environmentally safe as possible. Patrick Moore was born in 1947 and raised in Winter Harbour, British Columbia, a fishing and logging village on the northwestern tip of Vancouver Island often referred to as the Pacific rainforest. His father was a logger and the past president of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association, while his mother
François Ozon films that he directs. Sexuality in the cinema can be seen in many of his films because it affects Ozon personally. The musical mystery film 8 Femmes was released in 2002 and sold 3,751,508 tickets. The film won awards at The Berlin International Film Festival, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, European Film Awards, and many more. Director François Ozon creates a plot that seems simple and ordinary at first. However, according to the research article “Une mine d'or inpuisable: the
Humanitarian Assistance and Sierra Leone Introduction When a country fails to provide the basic needs of survival for its people, the international community is faced with the issue of intervention. However, there exists no clearly defined doctrine to guide governments or humanitarian organizations in these matters. Some people believe that the protection of sovereignty is more important than the possible benefits of intervention, preferring that governments focus on domestic concerns. Opposing