Polka

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Antonin Dvorak was born on september eighth in 1841. Dvorak had eight other siblings and he was the first of the nine children. Dvorak was a composer for years before him and his brother invented the keyboard. First his work was the polka in music. He came to america in 1892 and found many things to find fun in but soon he missed his country and returned to it in 1895. When Dvorak and his brother invented the Dvorak keyboard They found something wrong with the QWERTY line on the keyboard…

and faggots. Different soups and stews were also favorites as they were inexpensive meals. Family was a very important value in the Polish Culture. Dancing was also a very important value to them. They danced at local ethnic clubs and churches where Polkas were very popular. In their country the government took most of their money they had. The parents would send their children to America for a better life. In Poland they had very severe weather. Therefore, they wanted to come to America to…

Have you ever seen those pictures of missing children on milk cartons? What if that face was you! The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney is a story about a fifteen year old girl named Janie Johnson. She lived a normal life, had tons of friends, went to school, and had two loving parents. But how loving where they? It was a typical day at school. Janie was sitting with all of her friends at their regular lunch table. She just had a peanut butter sandwich and was looking for something…

life. He knew the violin really well as a young child. He moved to Zlonice when he was just twelve years old to live with his aunt and uncle. There, he studied piano, harmony, and organ. While here, he wrote one of his most valuable pieces called the Polka. Dvorak worked hard from the 1850's to the 1860's. During the 1860's, he tutored many students. Among these students were the Cermakova sisters. Although she did not like her, Antonin fell in love with the eldest sister, Josefina. He wrote…

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her exuberant rhythm, movement, and love of music she truly made an occasion one to remember. Rosaura, her eldest sister, recalls “Her dancing left a room speechless, in awe of her perfect rhythm. I remember the way she would fling herself into a polka and captivate the room with her graceful talent. She had a way with music that none of our family ever did.” Gertrudis was fiercely…