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Breast Cancer

Posted by Nia Berry in Anatomy and Physiology - Best on
This keynote is on Breast Cancer and the various treatments used to maintain and or cure it. It was created as my 10% time final project which was self-chosen due to my personal relationship with breast cancer. I aim to inform my audience on exactly what breast cancer is, how to look for it, and the process after finding out one has breast cancer.
Breast Cancer 10% time

"Maybe She's Born With It" Advertisement- Nia Berry

Posted by Nia Berry in Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - Rami on
My product is a print ad directed to women in society who heavily use make up. The message I am trying to convey is that make up is advertised to the young for the wrong reasons. Such products as "Maybelline", with their slogan, "Maybe She's Born with It, Maybe it's Maybelline!", are suggesting that beauty is born with and if you do not feel beautiful, their products will fix that. This ad is an effective way to reach my audience because it takes the innocence of a little girl playing in make up to a level of enlightenment, showing the reason why the little girl feels the need to cake on make up to feel like a pretty model from the commercial. If I was to do this again, I would like to take my product more public and with greater design and narration to fully explain the concern of my advertisement.

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Musical Blog

Posted by Nia Berry in Physics - Echols on
Post #1

The instrument I am interested in making is a pan flute. It is in the genre of wind instruments, which are generally played by blowing on them. To produce the sounds and notes from wind instruments, pan flutes in particular, I have to blow into the top open parts of the flute and the different length pipes each make a different note when blown into. The shape of the pan flute is like a diagonal array of pipes from tallest to shortest. This makes me think that length places a key part in the changing of notes. Based off a similar observation from blowing into soda bottles with various amounts of soda in them: when more space is in the bottle, the deeper the sound is when you blow, I think that frequency/pitch of the waves are based off length.

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Post #2

The instrument pan flute,produces sound by causing vibrations into the air within the pipes which causes the air molecules to vibrate and pass energy down until it reaches the fixed end and returns back up to the free end, making a sound. The various sounds or “frequencies” are produced depending on the length of the pipe. To recreate this instrument I will be using PVC pipes of various lengths and nickles to create the fixed ends. I will play this instrument just as anyone would play an actual pan flute, by blowing into the various pipes to form different notes of a song (row row row your boat in this case) .
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