H.W. Longfellow once said, “Music is the universal language of all mankind.” I was about twelve years old when I first heard this quote, and it has stuck with me throughout these past six years of growing as a musician. In my life there have been many people who have been influential in my choice of wanting to be a music educator. The biggest influence has been my own band director Scott Pries. He has shown to me that to be a good musician and educator you need to have passion about what you’re teaching
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I am writing this email to chronicle the conversation we had yesterday in your office yesterday (March 14th, 2018). As of late, my wife and I have been having difficulties with our neighbor in the unit directly below us. He has taken it upon himself to confront us on a regular basis about the noise coming from upstairs. The first incident happened in the month of December when the gentlemen yelled at our daughter to, “get your mother out here, now,” and proceeded to furiously bang on our door
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Have you ever found yourself at the top of the stairs then painfully and suddenly at the bottom? Well I have it started out a nice sunny day the grass was green the sky was blue… That all ended in a couple of minutes. I and my sister were outside playing when… It was my two older sisters Ginny and Mady at home keeping an eye on me and my little sister Naomi. Naomi was two and I was 4. We were swinging from a thin rope at the top of the stairs. My sister did it then when it was my turn my sister pushed
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when I was looking at them. I also had a hard time distinguishing who they were talking to and only knew for sure that they were talking to me when they were looking at me. When I was actually eating my dinner I could not hear anything except the sound of me chewing. I was pleasantly surprised that I only had to ask “what?” about five times during
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Pendred syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes early hearing loss in children. The chromosome is 7 and the gene is SLC26A4. It also can affect the thyroid gland and sometimes creates problems with balance. The syndrome is named after Vaughan Pendred, the physician who first diagnosed people with the disorder. Individuals who have this syndrome are typically diagnosed young because parents often notice delays in speech and balance problems. Pendred syndrome can cause life-long challenges but is
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how far we can go on an average scale, he chose to say “Uh, no, we can even farther” this led to him making his “sound machine” that allowed him to hear sounds that were too high-pitched for our ears to hear. He heard roses making a shrieking sound when their stems were cut, he heard a tree sob when he swung at it with an axe. His main example of what he wanted while making the sound machine, was using a dog’s hearing to guide him to what he wanted to do, he said “Dogs have better ears than us. You
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A man once made a movie of people going to the moon. He wished that people could hear what his characters. Well a man called Thomas Alva Edison made the first sound machine. It recorded the kid song “Mary had a little lamb.” Thomas called his machine the photograph. So the machine worked when you put tin foil around a cylinder and turn a handle. You shout as loud as you can into a tube. When you play it back you can hear a faint voice. After the foil was taken off it would no longer work. Later on
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Ultimatums, resolutions, they all lead towards war, and, the abnormality of the darkened skies sung to Alex visions of blood-soaked soil, teeth rending flesh, the discordance of battle, and the complete termination of a pack who were bound to resist Balder's demands for claim over this land. “There is no escape from the visions we received. We must follow through with the prophecy. If you did not believe in what we came here to accomplish you should not have made the journey.” Wrapped like twisted
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will cover sound. It will cover what sound is, how sound waves are created, Parts of a sound wave, Ears, Jobs, and the speed of sound. There will be pictures, equations, and illustrations to help explain the research. sound is an amazing gift from God, and it is important to know what it is. Sound is differing waves of pressure, or vibrations, made by molecules moving back and forth. There are 3 main points of sound: Quality, Amplitude, and Frequency and Pitch. Quality is how well it sounds. Amplitude
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heard through “speakers set on high to fill the whole house” (lines 37-38), that furthermore strengthens her relationship with music even further to the final stanza. In the final stanza, the speaker’s finds her peace and reminiscent tone again at the sound of the “timeless notes of jazz” (line 42) that stay “locked” so she is able to revisit the familial memories that aren't present with her anymore. In all, the speaker knows that her dependable father has be with her throughout all her childhood troubles
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