吸毒一口，误入虎口。据统计，截至2014年年底，我国累计登记吸毒人员295.5万名，估计实际人数超过1400万名，禁毒形势依然严峻。近年来时有曝光的明星、官员吸毒事件，严重污染了社会风气。明星、官员之所以吸毒，其根源在于他们（ ）
Often spirituals Religious, spiritual, or ecclesiastical matters. Religious Committed to the practice or adherence of religion. I was much more religious as a teenager than I am now. Spiritual Of or pertaining to the spirit or the soul. Respect towards ancestors is an essential part of Thai spi...
The accepted traditional template of piano rag format was contorted by nearly everybody including Scott Joplin. Also, cakewalks, many marches, intermezzos, two-steps, one-steps, blues, and songs have often been included as part of the genre, which was inclusive of and evolved from all of ...
As moves go, this was not a hard one. The distance was short, the help plentiful. The head of my Church Council turned up at 7:30 am and set up a coffee urn borrowed from the Church Vestry. Several kinds of muffins, still hot and zipped into those warming bags that church ladies a...
Blues came about as a fusion of African musical traditions, spirituals, and work songs, and also included some European influence. It quickly became a way to tell stories. To understand the core essence of blues, you have to look at its historical roots. It was born during turbulent times ...
We know these songs as Negro spirituals. They are characterized by rhythm and simplicity. Even though they are not always theologically accurate, they express a faith that God is really the One who is in control. The singers of these songs were Africans, even though they lived in America, ...
You see at last there was something like an American folk music that everybody understood: a real natural folk influence, jazz, much more real and natural than any Indian love calls or Negro spirituals could ever be. But, our composers were still in high school and were still being American...
2. Think back to the activities you did that made you forget about the passage of time. You have probably heard people say, “Time flies when you are having fun!” Moments like this are what psychologists call the “flow,” and what spirituals call connecting with the divine. Whatever is...
You see at last there was something like an American folk music that everybody understood: a real natural folk influence, jazz, much more real and natural than any Indian love calls or Negro spirituals could ever be. But, our composers were still in high school and were still being ...
One promising place to look is the black intellectual tradition. Conventional wisdom has it that the concept of wilderness was invented by and for white men,4but in fact wilderness also plays an important role in the political and literary works of black Americans. These works deserve greater ...