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​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

 

 

I participated in a drum circle over the weekend and thought to make my analysis on all the different drums that were present. Some were hand drums and others had sticks and other tools for striking the head of the drum.

A drum is played by striking the head of it with either one's hand, stick or other relatively hard object. On some drums its impossible to change the note however on others, specifically hand drums, the player can place their hand on the open end to distort the waves on the inside and increasing the pitch. Hitting the drum at different distances from the center to the rim also changes the pitch, the center being the lowest and the rim being the highest.

Different drums are shaped differently and thus have different sounds, however the basic design is a cylinder open on one end and covered with an elastic material covering the other. Some drums have strings attached to the elastic head, that when tightened increase the pitch of the sound produced.

While observing and experimenting with all the pitches I was able to make with the drum, I noticed it was similar to the slinky lab we did on Friday. When the drum head was pulled tighter by the strings attached to the side there was less space for the same amount of energy to travel. Similar to the slinky when it was pulled for a long distance and shook the waves seemed long and slow, however when the distance between start to finish was shortened the waves shortened and seemed faster.

I'm going to San Francisco! I'm one of six people going as entourage to root on Sinnea and the rest of Philly's Brave New Voices team. This is a tremendous opportunity and I'm extremely gracious that I'm going. Now we just need to fundraise money. Our fundraising goal is $20,000. We're off to a great start with almost $7,000 dollars raised. If anybody knows of anybody who can help please send them to pypm215.org. Any help is extremely appreciated. People who are social media savvy please tweet the link and put on you facebook walls! Thanks!

I'm going to San Francisco! I'm one of six people going as entourage to root on Sinnea and the rest of Philly's Brave New Voices team. This is a tremendous opportunity and I'm extremely gracious that I'm going. Now we just need to fundraise money. Our fundraising goal is $20,000. We're off to a great start with almost $7,000 dollars raised. If anybody knows of anybody who can help please send them to pypm215.org. Any help is extremely appreciated. People who are social media savvy please tweet the link and put on you facebook walls! Thanks!

It's nice to just relax alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll weekend. Yesterday there was a kinetic fair thing. It was pretty cool. Some kids in the engineering club were there. They made a bike in the model of a rocket. My manicure is chipped already.

Yesterday I walked around with stefen and these other two girls. We walked from 42 to university center and walked on the u-penn campus. there was a pond full of turtles ,ducks and Koi fish. There was a giant koi fish and we named him/her magikarp on the other side of the lake was a guy playing guitar making a mood and stuff.we bought bread and feed them to the ducks and koi and walked partially to 30th and market then back to Zachs house after that zach and stefen walked me to 40th street and I went home from there and I almost got hit by a car while dancing in the street. Fantastic day.

My mom and I have very different definitions of the word "enough".  I tend to fall on the lighter end, while with her, a party for 8 becomes a gathering for 20. I like to think that I am usually right, that we have too much food.  However, there are times when I wish we had a little more. Today we went food shopping together and, despite my protests. came home with 5 bags of chips, 4 trays of sushi, 3 packages of cookies, 2 pounds each of nuts and carrots and 2 tubs of hummus.  Did I mention the drinks?

There comes a time when we all have to learn to live life in the moment. If we live in the past we'll never truly move forward and if we only live for the future we'll never notice the joy that surrounds us in the present.