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Piano/Thumb Piano

When looking into the instrument I wished to play I thought that making a simple small piano would be easy. It's just a box with strings and keys you press that hit the corresponding string. While doing light research I noticed it was actually very difficult to piece something like that together. Then a friend of mine happened across an instrument called a thumb piano. It sounded like the perfect thing to make. So when i got home I looked it up. Basically its a bunch of different sized metal pieces that are bend in the middle and held down. It's played my pressing down on a metal piece and then releasing it causing a sharp crisp sound to be produced. The number of pieces can be varied so the range of notes is easily acquired like an actual piano. Its shape can be a small box with metal strips on top and a piece of wood that acts as like a ditch above the box like board. The metal strips are places strategically on top of the wooden ditch and then a bar is placed across them and pressed down to bend the metal pieces in a out wide U shape. I'm not sure about how tuning takes place but the vibrations of the metal to metal makes the nice sound.

To see for yourself check out this youtube video.

Blog #2

As you already know my topic is Israel. Like I said in the first blog I wanted to focus more on what’s happening with Hamas and how people like, Michael Levin die everyday fighting for their home land, and then there is Gilad Shalit who gets captured. The videos are very touching and interesting to watch. It really shows that people care enough about something that they will fight for anything. There is only so much information to date about Gilad Shalit, and what the deal with his situation, but if Hamas isn’t lying he is still alive and ok.  September  14, 2009 was the first video broadcasted since he was captured in 2006. Since most of the video are on YouTube, I could get you a link either at the bottom of this blog which you would have to watch outside of school or  I can see if there are other sites I could get the videos for you. I, my self feel like people need to know more about whets happening not just from CNN. Every news website or TV Channel have their own views and opinions. In what I see/ hear on the news everyone try’s to blame it on Israel, and how different things are their fault. Well its easier saying that then actually taking time to research. I bet 9/10 people reading this didn’t know that Hamas use little kids as human shields because they know that the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) won’t bomb or shoot the them. They do this because, they don’t like dangering the lives of little kids. They don't shoot them because they decide not to. They are all fighting form their homeland. Get to know about Israel, it won't hurt you.

http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-4244,00.html


http://www.haaretz.com/meta/Tag/Gilad%20Shalit

http://www.habanim.org/en/index_en.html

I really miss it... Wish we could have won that playoff game. Now my time as a member for the SLA rockets baseball team is over, I think it is now time to start and focus on my college career playing baseball for CCP, and later in the years for the PPD, and onward to Temple, but all in all I will always be a member of the SLA Rockets in heart.

​God there is nothing to do but sit here and listen. My brain feels like it's slowly fading away form me. I'm so bored that i just want to go to sleep.

This school is boring.  I want to see something else! something that POPS! to catch my attention and these tables are so bland! kll,ms. .fkpflg;l;gm 'paowm';qs;kd[opasp;laksd[popsdf ;k[ok;ldkp;askldm.,v'd;f'sll,s.msld';l,sd;f 

I'm done now. 

I want a baby turtle. They're just so cute and cheap to get. I would probably get bored of the turtle fast though. Once animals get old I lose interest. It's awful of me and I feel bad, but it's just the way I'm programmed. I'm also programmed to constantly crave something sweet, but I never crave anything salty.

Four friends in wildwood after prom. Best vacation ever. 

Figured out how to get an A in math that being said i got 20 slides to do and no time to talk.

1. Práctica de ortografía (spelling)​
2. Vocabulario
3. Más vocabulario
4. Quizlet

​Guitar

--How is it played? What does the person have to do to produce sound?
It is played by applying force to frets and strumming the strings.

I know I must alter each of the thickness of strings and also I must alter the tightness of the strings along the neck.


I know that the sound waves travel into the hole of the guitar and travel outward. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-MrZKU3Js

I am completely and utterly in love with Mark Wahlberg.

*sigh*

Musical Instrument Blog #1:

Guitar:

As the strings are "plucked" it makes a sound. Also the person has to hold the strings that are located in front of the guitar as he/she plucks the strings at the end. By holding the strings at the front of the guitar, this produces different sound. Since the guitar has a lot of strings, they all have different sound to it. To change a note, the person has to move to the desired string at the front of the guitar and at the end. This change the note and the sound. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6gPWc_AWVM

Today appears to be a bad day as far as senior attendance. I sincerely hope that this doesn't keep up because I hate to see my teachers in a bad mood.

To: My Girlfriend

My prom was kind of bad, the food sucked, and the music was alright at the start but got pretty bad, pretty fast. overall the prom was somewhat boring, but you know what? It wasn't my prom, it was our prom because at least I was with you, and Id do it all again to see you in that dress again, and to just share the night

Acoustic Guitar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsD6uEZsIsU

Acoustic Guitars are played by strumming up and down various strings that produce different sounds. You change the notes by placing your other hand along the top of the string on the metal bars that are called frets. An Acoustic Guitar is shaped like a number eight that is hollow and only has one hole in it which is located at the bottom. When the strings are strummed the sound travels down them into the hollow eight shaped part and the sound bounces off the walls of it to produce a much better sound. Above the base of it there is a long bar like object which has all of the string attached to it and runs all the way from the top to the bottom of the number eight shaped base. This makes me think that I would need something that is very good acoustics and is able to let sound move freely in it. A connection that can be made with what I already know about waves is that as the sound bounces off the inside of the guitar the sounds waves slowly dissipate jus as the energy from the slinky did.

Oh honorable sleep, how you tempt me with your wonder!
A collection of odd jobs, a plethora of small animals.
Perhaps a falcon for good measure.
Falconry is a dying art. We must all raise falcons!



I've lost them all. Pardon: I pushed them all away.

Just got in from a pretty awesome prom weekend. Prom was amazing, wildwood was okay. I will post some stories later this week, but I'm too tired now. 

For this project I have decided to make a violin. A violin is played by using your left hand to play on the strings and your right to move the bow to make the tune warmer. When you push down on a note with your left hand and move the bow with your right, you have to create an even tone and make it nice but take your time.
When playing the violin you change a note by putting you fingers on the string and moving the bow and the different strings you touch the different sounds come out.
The violin is shaped like a guitar it's just that the violin is smaller and doesn't have a hole in the middle instead it has a sort of lift in the middle where the hole would be.

A. Cierto / Falso. Escribe si la frase es cierta o falsa.

1.     La casa tiene un piso.

2.     La casa tiene una piscina (swimming pool).

3.     En el garaje hay unas bicicletas.

4.     En el baño hay un guardarropas.

5.     En el dormitorio (cuarto/habitación) hay un espejo.

B. Ahora inventa 5 frases de cierto o falso.

The title of your post should be: E1 U9 Cierto o Falso. Screenshot the image of the house and include it in your post.

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Necesitas utilizar tus auriculares para completar las actividades.

I.      Actividad de BBC (Tour de Casa)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/living_the_dream/game.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/home/flat/index.shtml

Actividad #1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/home/flat/a1/index.shtml

Actividad #2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/home/flat/a2/

Actividad #3: http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/languages/spanish/lj/a3/splj_flat_a3/quizengine?quiz=flat&templateStyle=flat

Actividad #4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/home/flat/a4/

Actividad #5: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/lj/home/flat/a4/index_js.shtml

1. http://www.ctspanish.com/tyl/house/potato/house1.htm
2. http://www.ctspanish.com/tyl/house/potato/house2.htm
3. http://www.ctspanish.com/tyl/house/potato/house3.htm

I made a sandwich and a banana.

When I was walking through the city the other day, I dropped an empty bottle I was holding onto the ground and it rolled under a street pole cover-thing. I looked to the left, and then I looked to the right, and then I walked away. True story.

​Gay is not a civil right? I don't understand, I think it should be because you should have any and every right to be happy in your own skin without feel any way about it. The definition of civil rights is rights to personal liberty established by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. constitution and certain Congressional acts, especially as applied to an individual or a minority group; the rights to full legal, social, and economic equality extended to blacks. As I research more and more about civil rights I find that people are blaming the president of the United States of America, Barack Obama for this non-sense. Msnbc.com are saying that when Barack Obama got elected in 2008, that is when voters in California voted to over turn the rights for gays and lesbians to get married in Florida and California. Msnbc.com asks “how can you compare being black to being gay?” You can easily hide the physical appearance of being gay to dodge the harmful discrimination by other people. However, you can’t disguise the color of black skin. There is not a way to escape the mind corrupting discrimination and non-acceptance.

Citations-

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27983598/ns/us_news-life/t/gay-new-black-debate-marriage-ban/
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/civil+rights