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Devote Yourself to Lifetime Fitness
The healthier you are. The more productive you become.
Once a person is healthy there is a great chance that he would have fewer absences, either in school or in work. Most importantly, he is capable of handling stress as well as develops a more positive attitude.
A healthy person may live a longer life. And, enjoy its whole span with a healthy body and mind.
This healthiness can be achieved thorough a consistent fitness exercise. For you to secure an unfailing health, you must commit to fitness for your lifetime. This is not an exaggeration.
A lifetime commitment on fitness will make you safe from the miserable feeling of obesity. Dr. David Satcher, formerly a general surgeon, identified that the excess weight of the body is epidemic.
He stated that this type of epidemic caused the deaths of almost 300,000 people yearly. In fact, excessive body weight becomes the secondary cause of death in America.
Most physicians never fail to remind their patients, as well as the whole public that physical fitness is the primary cure to avoid these threatening diseases. But why is it that more and more people have become unhealthy?
The fact that excessive body weight can harm a person’s health is not anymore news, for it is a fact that has long been existing. This is neither history, because it is not yet resolved.
Instead, this existing truth is a problem that worsens through time. The health problems mark a dramatic increase. One of its causes is the lack of physical fitness.
The system of the contemporary society requires more of human effort and time. Fast moves, rush paces, almost every adult is always in a hurry. That they don’t find some time for conducting a physical exercise.
People tend to ignore the most vital ingredient of a daily routine, exercise. And the problem was worsened by technology.
Nowadays, you can climb staircases with stationary feet, escalators and elevators are everywhere. You never mind to stand up from your chair to take your files from other table for you can just easily move your swivel chair.
So, where else will you place fitness?
Fitness is a thing that needs not to be taken for granted. Everything now is instant, food especially. Certainly, you don’t want an instant life too. Then, a lifetime commitment on fitness is your key to lengthen your life.
Engage yourself to fitness exercises, and make it as a part of your life. Always think that it is an important meal that you should not miss in a day.
If you are truly busy, you can opt for a 24 hours fitness center. The service there will always be compatible to your schedule, undoubtedly.
Consider this; you are doing your best to cope up with time. You work to earn for a living, to support your family and enjoy life as well.
But think, will you really be able to use and enjoy your investments when your health has already deteriorated?
So, you must invest in good health too. And that is through a lifetime commitment on physical fitness.
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What impact did “the Charleston” have on society?
you know the dance. :] introduced in the 20s can you help me? did it inspire new dances? new hobbies clothes, etc.
not asking you to do this for me. just asking for assistance
It is odd how a dance can change society but yes ‘the Charleston’ had an impact upon American Society. ‘Shake your booty’ was the theme of the day. Instead of two couples arm in arm gliding gracefully across the floor to smooth flow of a waltz with its staid 1,2,3, whhoooppp, pacing, here was a dance described as syncopated, a quick jarring 4/4 riff which required movement and allowed partners to dance face to face not hand in hand. In short it was the sort of dance two total strangers could do without the need for actual physical contact. They just faced each other and shook arms & legs while swaying their bodies. It was/is a great dance for caffeine and/or cocaine addicts or simply boot legged booze!!
It was also a dance gleamed from ‘black culture.’ In a lily white America it was ‘risque,’ a way to connect with ‘those other people.’ Though the Charleston was adopted from a folk style of dancing, it was ‘refined,’ in other words White People CANNOT DANCE and so ‘the Charleston’ had to be taught preferably by a swarthy handsome MAN with sleeked back vasolined hair. This added another ‘forbidden’ element. A fit handsome man shaking his pelvis decades before Elvis.
Yes a contradiction – - – pelvis thrusting yet no physical contact!
When women were shaking their b^tts it helped to emphasize their bodies by wearing what is best described as a tube or sheath dress with fringe or beads that rose in the as they thrust out arms & legs.
Here is an example of how ‘The Charlston’ impacted society in the life of one man. George Raft was born in ‘Hell’s Kitchen ‘ New York the child of poor German Immigrants (Rapft) with no definable future, George hung around thugs in bars & taverns in an age when a teenager could do so. Healthy athletic and handsome in a slick sheik fashion, George was invited by ‘Society Dames’ to teach them ‘The Charleston.’ This led to featured gigs in clubs & dancehalls and society ‘dives’ such as the country club. And if a matronly dame wanted a handsome young man to show her how it was done and if she showed her appreciation with an envelope & a bit of cash, well why not. George Raft parleyed his skills as a dancer into a career as an Actor and enjoyed dcades of gainful employment while contributing to the folklore of Hollywood (see movies with Humphrey Bgart, James Cagney, and Mae West among others)…
Getting an interruption here will throw link andd snippet at you..
http://www.1920-30.com/dance/charleston-dance.html
“”"”According to Miss Jackson, the “Charleston” is a very smooth dance when properly performed. People who are inexperienced, she says, do a sort of clog, which is not, according to her, the correct way to dance the “Charleston.” Miss Jackson uses the original “Charleston” music from “Runnin’ Wild” and “Georgia Brown” for her numbers.
The orchestration for the new “hoofing” mania is distinctive. According to Emil Coleman, the time and rhythm are the same as in the fox-trot, but the accent, being oddly placed “between beats,” makes the curious syncopation that has so violently taken the country by storm. In the fox-trot the accent comes on the first and third beats; whereas in the “Charleston” it occurs on the first beat and an eighth before the third beat. It is that little eighth “off-beat” that fascinates the lovers of jazz so that they just can’t resist this latest terpsichorean craze.
Another distinctive feature of the dance is that it is “flatfooted.”
For the benefit of those optimistic persons who feel themselves capable of learning to dance by correspondence course, the following information is given:
Oscar Duryea, American authority on modern dances, describes how it is actually performed. The position at the start is as follows: Man’s left foot behind the right, left toe at the heel of the right, both toes turned out—his partner’s right foot in front of her left, her right heel at the toe of her left foot, both toes turned out. The man raises the left foot and at the same time raises on the toe of the right, turn both toes in, twisting on the ball of the right foot. With the feet in this position, both toes are twisted out, with the man’s left heel in front of his right toe—his partner’s right heel in front at her left toe.
The man raises his left foot, at the same time rising on the ball of the right foot, and twists both toes in, then puts his left foot behind the right one, and on the balls of both feet twists both toes out—his left toe behind at the right heel. His partner raises her right foot, at the same time rising on the ball of her left foot and twists both toes in, then puts her right foot in front and on the balls of both feet turns both toes out—her right toe in front at her left heel. A toddle movement is taken through-out all the “Charleston” steps, on the foot on which the weight happens to be. “”
http://www.bosquemuseum.org/Exhibits/events.htm
“”The Romance of Dance exhibit opened at Bosque Memorial Museum on Sunday with a private viewing and tea for patrons. The official opening of the new exhibit is set for Tuesday.
The 1920s era display replaces the elaborate Christening gown display, The Rockabye Baby in the Treetop.
Exhibit coordinator Mary Orbeck, assisted by Nancy Bratcher, Sudie Knudson, Willene Pack, Sue Posey, Tricia Seavolt, and Ann Wiland, has designed a new display highlighting the roaring 20s.
The new museum exhibit brings the fashions of the 20s in retrospect with installation of 16 dresses from that era. Included in this exhibit are significant items relating to this period which have been selected and placed in the shadow boxes opposite to the large showcase.
Most of the dresses are fragile and care has been taken to respect the fabrics that are not too far from being 100 years old.
The gowns represent the Museum’s collection, as well as six on loan from the Historic Waco Foundation, and four from local lenders: Betty Bronstad, Mary Orbeck, Carolyn Tyssen, Kay Warren, and Lexie Van Tassel. Other memorabilia for the shadow boxes are on loan from Carolyn Flanagan.
The 1920s, a prosperous time period known by a few names, such as the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Flapper Nonsense, and certainly, the time for the Charleston Dance Craze is highlighted in the exhibit. It features the styles that were popular among the young women of that time who wore fashionable dress.
The great fashion designer, Coco Chanel (1883-1971), first designed the 1920 silhouette which epitomized her flair for futuristic thinking in the fashion world. Other famous designers soon followed her thinking and their clothing represented the new freedom for women.
Chanel promoted the styles associated with flappers and worked in neutral tones of beige, sand, cream, navy, and black in soft fluid jersey fabrics cut with simple shapes that did not require foundation garmets or waist definition.
By 1923, the gowns gave the illusion of being first long and then shorter, with dipping, scalloped and handkerchief hemlines in floating fabrics. By 1926, skirts were at their shortest in the 20s decade and showed the knee until 1928. But by 1929, there was a trend toward longer skirts. By 1930, change had taken place with longer skirts, even below the knee.
During this era, there was an increased use of makeup and young women often applied it in public. Hair was bobbed and a cloche hat or cap was in vogue. Hair had to be cut short to fit under the cloche and it was a sign of being “in the know” to wear a cloche which indicated that the girl’s hair had been bobbed.
Each generation represents its era in the fashion world, in the choosing of style, including the hair style, the clothing, and even the photography. Pictures from the past have endured to assist in the study of the styles and fashions which have led to an understanding of the 20s culture and the people who lived it.
This period was a time of change for America, and modernism was a trend that had its beginning in this era. The period seems to reflect a time of fun and frivolity where people, by observation, can garnish a moment of vicarious pleasure in the study of their lives and their fashions.”"”
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