Blog #3

Image from 'Yahoo images'

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9106414?query=how%20do%20films%20become%20famous&ct=eb

Hammer Films

-low budget films
-became well known
-mid-1950s ~ known for winning formula of horror, science fiction, and fantasy.
- Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing became well known because of the films
- Lost popularity because of higher productioned horror films from other companies
- in 1970s attempted martial arts-horror in The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
- The final film was an unfortunate remake.

Questions:
1. How do low budget films become so famous?
2. How do films make actors famous?
3. Why do a company's films lose their popularity after a few sequels/remakes/or other films?

Interesting Facts About Music (blog post #3)

Encyclopedia Britannica
"The Impact of Sociocultural Changes on the Youth's Achievement Orientation in Fitzgerald's The Beautiful and Damned"
Itafarida S.

• he explains(Fitzgerald) how songs that take a lot of time and effort and have a lot of meaning, aren't as attractive to the youth as they used to be.
• scientists did a study to find out the importance of the so-called "lost generation" in the development of American culture.
• he believes that most Americans these days drift off from place to place to get drunk and dance to different music and experience what other cultures do.  
• this study is also to compare youth from the Twenties to the new generation
• he sees how over time, we are exposed to new things and places, and this impacts our taste in music
• pop music has become mainstream and old music artists are now getting more recognition
• a particular "party" beat or fast tempo is what most Americans look for in songs these days and he tells how thats evolved over time. 

Questions:

- How have different cultures and their tastes in music had an impact on us today?

- How will the youth's taste in music change in 10 to 20 years? Will it stay the same?

- What did we think of the first "different" style of music? 

(ProQuest Platinum)

http://search.proquest.com/docview/236640501/1352263C3875E02B249/1?accountid=6222

Evolution of stringed instruments2.

http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-53720

• many instruments are 'hybrids'- or instruments that are 2 instruments in 1.
• stringed instruments are called chordophones.
• chordophones are mainly made up of lutes, zithers, lyres, and harps.
• they are called chordophones because you use a chord to make a sound.
• a chord is a combination of notes on the music staff that sound good together.
• the harp evolves from the musical bow.-
• the musical bow is similar to a hunters bow. it originated back in the stone age
• the harp originated in europe.
• a lyre is like a smaller harp with less string and it is played when held.
• the lyre comes from the ancient greeks
• the lyre is in a "U" shape

Music Helps You Work Better

 Pro Quest Article
Journal


- Music can improve cognitive skills and creative problem-solving and systematic thinking
-Music-based interventions for the more integrated cognitive abilities
-Listening to music may serve as an anxiolytic treatment
-People's mood significantly improved when they started listening to music
- Music can help calm stressed people
-Music helps people work better and harder, it also helps them stay focused
-During an experiment when they wouldn't allow people to listen to music they were in a bad mood for  longer amounts of time and their mood didn't change too much when working
-Self-assessment scores of cognitive performance were higher when they were allowed to listen to music


What type of music causes this?
Are there only certain types of music and is good for the mind?

http://search.proquest.com/docview/750430860?accountid=6222

What effect does music have on emotions?

Global Issues in Context

** Right Music is a Stress-Buster

• music has been proven to enhance concentration and energy
• music listened to in 20-25 minute intervals has stress reducing capability
• music therapy: the use of music to heal and aid patients

• What types of music are most effective in music therapy?
• Why is some music more effective in music therapy?
• Can music have reverse effects? As in, can music make you angry?
• How effective is music therapy?
• Who was the first to come up with relationship between psychology and music?
• Is there a current psychologist who is studying music and psychology?

Check it out here: http://find.galegroup.com/gic/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DateDescend&prodId=GIC&tabID=T004&subjectParam=Locale%252528en%25252C%25252C%252529%25253AFQE%25253D%252528su%25252CNone%25252C13%252529music%252Btherapy%252524%257E%2529_2&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R3&displaySubject=&searchType=&currentPosition=2&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28SU%2CNone%2C15%29%22music+therapy%22%24&subjectAction=VIEW_TOPIC_TREE&inPS=true&userGroupName=hins30136&sgCurrentPosition=0&docId=CJ280521465&contentSet=IAC-Documents&docId=CJ280521465&docType=IAC

Tupac Amaru Shakur

Encyclopedia Britannica
 http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9474467?query=tupac&ct=null
Tupac Shakur

• Tupacs real name was Lesane Parish Crooks till his step mom renamed him.
• growing up him and his family moved place to place not being able to keep a home.
• when his family finally settled in Baltimore he attended the elite Baltimore School of the Arts but never got to grauduate because his family decided to move again.
• after his family moved to calilfornia he started selling drugs and getting involved in gangs.
• in 1990 he joined Digital Underground and hit the billboard top 40 hits with his single 
  "The Humpty Dance."
•  his solo debut album 2Pacalypse was a big break from the dance party sound of digital underground.
• his success became a big influnce on his gangsta lifestyle.
• after his conviction for sexual assault in 1994 he came out of jail to release his third album "Me Against the World."
• tupac was paroled after serving eight months in prison and signed with Suge Knight's Death Row Records.
• on sept. 7, 1996 tupac was leaving a casino in Las Vegas where he attended a Mike Tyson fight he was shot by an unknown person and died six days later.

WorldHistory in context Ball,Bat and Bitumen: A history of Coalfield Baseball in the Appilation South
-Coal miners used to play baseball when they were on break and not on duty
-Teams originated from different mining units
-Fans began to watch them play
-Soon people began to fund and deliver baseballs for their team
-Compition grew among teams only to start tournaments and to bring in more fans
-Then once teams grew more well known cities began to play each other
-Baseball shaped reelationships among teams and the whole mining corperation

Music effecting focus

http://search.proquest.com/docview/912941112/13510E8A5C74D1FE898/3?accountid=6222

Title: The influence of music on mood and performance while driving.

Database: ProQuest

• Music influences daily behavior and moods.
• Music effects driving performance.
• Your breathing rate goes down when listening to music.
• Your heart rate increases when not listening to music when driving.  
• People are more relaxed and calm with music on.
• It depends on the person for whether or not music helps them focus.

1. Does loud music make it harder to focus?
2. Does certain music make a distraction?
   
   
   
   

Art in France

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sculpture in France
http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-207829

• Francis I brought in Itlalian sculptors to make sculptures for him
• in the 17th century France started to recognize Bernini as a sculptor
• the Pierre Puget sculpture was designed by Bernini
• the sculpture expressed Bernini's personality/background
• Bernini later became one of the leading sculptors
• because of the skills of French sculptors help Europe start leading in sculptures
• Antoine Houdon was a very successful artist who worked in Rome, France, and America
• his portraits showed a persons character not charm

1. What influenced Bernini's sculptors?
2. why are sculptures so popular in Europe?

Pop/Country Music findings, blog #3

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CCX3048900155&mode=view (Student Resources in Context. Refrence Source: Country Music)
In this article I learned:
Country started in the 1920s
Has more acoustic sounding instruments. i.e: banjo, guitar, mandolin
In 1960s country rock invented, Elvis brought this on
More rock and roll sounding music was added but still with meaningful words
Lyrics can range from religion to love being lost
One of the most popular genres of music
become more mainstream
began mixing with pop music. i.e: Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, etc
Is this the same in Europe?
Did it sound the same back in the 60s?
Which is more popular, Country Rock, Pop Country, or downright country itself?
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2346200806&mode=view (Student Resources in Context. Magazine: Billboard. Article: Country)
On the charts as you can see, country is ranging from country rock to downright country. I know most of these songs and most of the artists but a couple I have not heard of. Country has more of a meaning to it and has a soul and lyrical meaning whereas pop music has more of a enjoyable sound rather than meaning behind it.

Pyramids of Giza

Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pyramids of Giza

-The Great Pyramid is the biggest of them all, with a base length 756ft long.
-The pyramids accurately faces North, South, East, and West.
-They built the tombs for their kings.
-They cut around 2.3 million blocks of stone, some weighing 150 tons!
-Important kings to know, Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure.
-The original outer shells of them where striped or eroded throughout history.
-Scholars believe they used rollers, sledges, and levers to construct these mammoth catacombs.

Questions:
- Where did they get the limestone and granite materials?
- Why did they build them and how does it connect to their religious background?
- How does this compare to the Taj Mahal?

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9036944

blog #3: African music

http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9105889?query=african%20music&ct=

Encyclopedia Brittanica
African Popular Music

What I learned:

• Africa was strongly influenced by American music but out its own twist on it
• also influenced by carribean and jazz
• But later the music turned into more of a calypso style
• In african music, there is alot of percussion
• in the 50s,60s,and 70s, it was hard to get the music around the world. After that, they got more of the technology and they got to spread the african music through out a lot of countries
• most famous for rythms
• Music is part of rituals and ceremonies, as well as just listening to
• Starting to use more modern instruments with the african rythms

Questions:

1. What are the specific instruments that Africans use?
2. How does African music relate to other kinds of world music?

China's Clothing Garments

http://online.culturegrams.com/world/world_country_sections.php?contid=3&wmn=Asia&cid=34&cn=China&sname=Personal_Appearance&snid=7
Personal Appearance

Notes:
-Attire is usually conservative and simple.
-Men wear western style suits and women usually wear dresses instead of pants.
-People like to dress up for puplic intesad of being casual. 
- The traditional dress for women is the cheongsam. (a slim, one-piece dress).
- The traditional dress for men is the chang-pao (a long dress with four slits on the lower sides) and mandarin jacket.
- Silk is China's most famous export.
- Most garments are made out of silk because it is a quality fabric and also very expensive. 

Questions:
- What are the garments called that are their "everyday wear"?
- Are their clothing conservative and brigtly colored?

Different meals in the mediterrean

I found some traditional food dishes. They all belong in the mediterrean.
Italy
1.Margherita pizza
- the types vareys thourought the country
- thinner less rich then american
-tomatos and mozzerella cheese
- different then American pizza
Greece
2. Soulvaki
-skish kebab
-lamb/ chicken/ pork/ or seafood in cubes and veggies witrh it
- popular dish
- served on stick or on a pita bread
France
3. Corque Monsiuers
- it is like a sandwich
- eat it at lunch
- toasted ham and cheese
Spain
4. gazapacho
-soup
-luch
-cold

Croatia
 Strukli
inland people eat
salt and sweet dumpling


Culutre grams

Blog Post #3

http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-234570

• Haute couture-the creation of exclusive custom-fitted clothing made to fit the customer.
• Haute couture is very expensive; therefore, only a few thousand people in the world can afford to wear it, such as celebrities.
• This proves to show that fashion can sometimes determine your economic standing in society.
• Because high fashion is quite expensive, many haute couture boutiques are losing money on the sale of their merchandise because many people cannot afford it.
• Fashion shows are created to show the creations of the new fashions made by the couture designers. These shows definitely help to sell these clothes.
• The world's most famous fashion shows usually occur in Milan, New York, and Paris.
• In the nineteenth century people that wanted to present themselves like they were standing economically high in society; therefore, they hired skilled dressmakers to reproduce the original haute couture fashions without paying the actual price.
• With people paying less money for replicas of expensive fashion, that is how "knock-off" things came to be.

3 questions:
How do fashion shows affect the business of haute couture clothing?
Why are the most famous fashion shows occurring in Milan, New York, and Paris?
How often were the skilled dressmakers hired to reproduce the haute couture fashions?

3rd Blog Post

In this blog post I am looking into pastries more and how the textures and dessert types are made.

• http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9058687?query=pastries&ct=null
• en croûte is a french pastry term which means wrapped in a buttery pastry wrapping
• For a more flaky pastry, bakers try not to handle the dough as much
• wienbrod is a term for Danish pastry
• The usual main ingrediants for a pastry are stiff dough, sugar, salt, fat and some small amount of liquid
• A fun fact about pastries is that they rise about 10 times more when cooked because the steam in between the shortening (fat) and dough is rising the pastry up. 
• Before the puff pastry is baked it is smoothed with 2/3 butter and then folded and refrigerated, then after it is rolled out. This process is repeated many times.
• http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-50221?query=puff%20pastries&ct=

3 questions that I have after reading this article is where did pastries once start? Another question that I have is what are some traditional pastries that have been passsed down through the years and are still being made?  Also how have pastries changed through this modern world? In my research with the second article i had a question about how long the process of rolling out and refrigerating the pastry would be?

~Alaina Gonzalez

The urgency of gangsta rap

http://search.proquest.com/docview/291884957/135101E55FBA36316B/6?accountid=6222

- 20 Dec 1998: The N.W.A. AKA Niggaz With Attitiude, changed the way Rap and Hip Hop was defined.

-The album Straight Outta Compton, that was supported by the NWA, had the effect of an uncompromising effect on people that forced them to take sides on evrything from brutality of police to the rulels of the ammendments.

-Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella are the first artist to influnce the vibe of hip hop culture.

-Some references of hip hop incorperate a good balance of songs, and nice, original lyrics that are clean.

-Most artist of the hip hop organization base all there lyrics off their early day lifestyle and identities.

-The live versions of Compton's N the House" by Dr. Dre and MC Ren gave a lot of evidence of how much commotion their album caused.

• when columbus arrived 1.5 million indianns were living
• they were very influential towards the europeans
• foods war crops and many more things were given to the europeans
• after they that there cultures clashed
• resulting in westward expansion
• and was devesatating

Therapy of Music (blog post #2)

ProQuest Platinum
"The Effect of Composition (Art or Music) on the Self-Concept of Hospitalized Children"
Colwell, Cynthia M; Davis, Kathy; Schroeder, Linda K

• scientists would do studies to see the effect music has on the self-concept of hospitalized children (pre- and posttests)
• there were large differences in the tests covering behavior adjustment, physical appearance, freedom from anxiety, and happiness/satisfaction
• nurses used music as therapy in pediatric settings
• they used music to reduce anxiety & pain, and for relaxation.
• music helped develop coping abilities, express emotions, and deal with personal issues relating to their families, self-esteem, and self-concept.
• nurses would have patients write songs or fill in the blanks of songs to restore their emotional and physical well-being
• the studies were used to understand how music composition would affect the hospitalized children's thoughts on themselves and their environment 
• compared to the art composition group, the music composition group in these studies exhibited great improvement in self-concept 

Questions:
1) How did the patients physically respond to listening to music?
2) What types of music would affect them the most overall?
3) How could scientists tell if music affected them in the brain & where & compare the many brain pictures?
http://search.proquest.com/docview/223553810/135101A54E74AB7EC30/1?accountid=6222

• 27 states have names of Indian Descent
• First people to farm on the midwest
• beleive in take life to sustain life
• the arrival of europeans was really bad towards the indians

motion picture article

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9110698

- still photographs that are projected extremely fast to create the illusion of movement
- a type of art
- uses photography, and sound (orriginal film did not have sound) at same time.
- first truly massed form of enterntainment.
- offers fictional narratives to audiences.
- new meanings of artistic expressions, sush as acting, script writing, directing, ext.
- effective, especially with emotion.

This article has raised some new questions:
1. How do film cameras work?
2. How is film an art?
3. How did films become so famous?

Blog Post #2 (Article)

http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-9274273?query=Fashion&ct=
http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-200583

• Fashion is whatever is favored at a certain time by those who are known as "up-to-date".\
• The word "fashion" comes from the Latin, facere, meaning "to make".
• Fashion changes from season to season and from year to year.
• Books, plays, movies, and other events can affect the fashion of people.
• Kate Greenaway wrote a children's book with illustrations of a girl's unique dress in the book. That book affected little girls' fashion in the nineteenth century because that dress became the style for little girls back then.
• Little Lord Fauntleroy, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, portrays little boys wearing wearing velvet suits and curls in their hair. This became the style for little boys in the nineteenth century. 
• In the early twentieth century, brightly colored costumes from Paris-based ballets became the style for women in Europe.
• During World War II, women worked jobs involving much labor; therefore, they wore clothes that would be comfortable for the job. When the war ended, the style for women became much more casual and less formal because of the war.
• A rise in the economy in the 1970s and 1980s made people focus more on fashion, since they had more money.
• As techniques for photography and printing improved in the late twentieth century, fashion magazines from Paris were delivered all over the world to influence everybody's current style.
• In the early 1800s, the most famous influence on men's fashion was George Bryan Brummell because he recombined classic elements of the aristocratic wardrobe. He influenced men's fashion for many decades to come.

Questions:

• How can one person's style begin to affect everybody else, such as George Bryan Brummell did?
• How does fashion vary in different cultures, such as French fashion and American fashion?
• Which cultures followed the "anti-fashions" in the 1960s and 1970s? 

General Arab Clothing

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-14021
The history of Middle Eastern and Western dress > The Middle East from the 6th century

Arab Clothing:

-Arab's typically wear clothing that cover most of their body because they use it as protection from the heat, dust and blazing sunshine.  Yet, they still are able to pull off wearing the traditional clothing.

-The garments are loose fitting and cover most of the body, they are normally made out of cotton, linen and wool, but a nice outfit is made out of silk. 

-baldachin- the richly decorated fabric with a wrap of gold thread and a weft of silk. 

-damask- the source of richly patterned silk fabric.

- Most garment's are based off of traditional styles.

-Chemise or Tunic are very common loose fitting, long-sleeved garments for both men and woman that are considered casual. 

-Jellaba- Wide, long sleeves and a long skirt that may be slit up the side and some styles are open in the front like a coat.  That is also for both sexes. 

- Some outerwear for both sexes include the haik is an oblong peice of material (generally stripped) that Arabs use to wrap around their bodies or heads for day or night wear.  This is similar to the burnous which is a hooded garment also used for warmth day and night.

Background On Music (blog post #1)

What I learned:




- music is an art which is involved or contributes to every human society


- the majority of the modern music is heard in many different styles & most is contemporary


- it lends itself easily through words in a song or physical movement in a dance


- has been rewarded with reflecting and influencing human emotion


- music is also shown in radio, film, television, and musical theatre


- the various ways we use music in our society affect human behavior


- schools are now slowly learning to accept the teaching of music


- music is featured in all religions and varies, depending on their beliefs and values


Questions>
1. Why did the Greek philosopher strongly deny any fundamental need for music?
2. Which religions do not believe in music and art?
3. Why has the psychological understanding of play and other symbolic activities begun to weaken over time?


http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9110117?query=music&ct=eb

2nd Blog Post
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9110168
1.I learned that the word theatre is derived from the greek theaomai meaning "to see"
2.I learned audience means to hear so when people come to see/hear a play they are called an audience.
3.Theatre is not essentially a literary art.
4.The strongest impact on an audience is the acting, singing, dancing and the set/backgrounds.
5.Theatre music is usually related to something other than itself and is an enrichment of words.
6. Music emphasizes alternates between speech, song and dance.
7.Opera, or operetta musical is another form of musicals.

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9344446

-In many areas of sports there is scandal
-Many athletes have done drugs or before thier event
-many rules have been changed over the years for various sports
-The creaters of sports tried to prevent scandal
-The Anti Doping Agenccy was created to penalize athletic drug users
-Athletes say they use drugs to increase their gameplay
-If an athlete is very good then some think there a drug user
Why is there so much scandal in sports?

Music

http://school.eb.com/all/elementary/article?articleId=399997&query=world%20music&ct=null

What I learned
-World music is music from different parts if the world
- From Africa, Asia, Europe and much more
- First popular is African music
- Popular african singer is King Sunny Ade
- includes drums, guitars, and a lot of othe kinds of instruments
- Record companies began selling more world music
- helped spread different cultures to different countries
- some singers got together with aingers from different countries
- lots of world music was not just one person but it was a band

Questions:
1. What makes them sound so different?
2. How did culture spread?
3. is world music still popular in some places?

Second Blog Post

Second Blog By: Alaina Gonzalez

My questions were why and how are different pastries made in different parts of the world.  Also, how are desserts made, and with what ingredients.

Desserts are usually the last course, and in the US cakes, pastries, a bowl of pudding, or a scoop of ice cream are common desserts.  However in Britain nuts and fruit with wine is their sweet treat.  In France cheese and fruit is served, and in China they have tea, fruit, or coffee for dessert.  Desserts are different everywhere around the world! A main component of treats though is refined sugar.  Sugar played a huge role in the 19th and 18th century and that is why jelly and other sugary sweets are made today.  A dessert term that is frequently heard is mousse: which is a sweet dish that is made of egg whites and whipped cream.  Mousse is usually prepared cold or frozen.

Desserts
http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9030089?query=desserts&ct=

evolution of stringed insturments

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9105988?query=musical%20insturments&ct=eb

• Four different types: percussion, stringed, keyboard, wind, and electronic.
• Paleolithic Period(old stone age): made pipes and whistle instruments.  
• Neolithic Period(new stone age): clay drums and shell instruments.
• There is no proof of any specific instrument, being the first source of music.
• Many ancient cities created the instruments we play today
• four factors have changed basic instruments and made many new instruments with unique sounds. They are, materials, symbolic preoccupations, and patterns of trade and migration
• Western art uses folk instruments. (banjo, violin, mandolin, guitar, ukulele)
• Conventional Western thinking claimed that the earliest instruments were slightly modified natural objects such as bones, shells, or gourds. They would play a pitch then change into another complex form to make another instrument. 
• Early humans were sensitive to tones and pitches of sound, just like a dog or cat. This helped them to construct different instruments.

What made early humans want to change the pitch of their instruments and how did the know how to?

Food Culture

http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-207291

1. There are many different kinds of foods even though they are on the same contenet and so close to each other
2. Most European countries have wine, beer, or water with every meal.
3. Coffee is part of the desert
4. Most countries have desert after every meal
5. Many different types of deserts
6. There are many types of resturants in Europe, they have diverese foods.
7. Ristoranti in Itlanian means dining place or resturant

Questions
1. How did the the food in the resturants come to have the types of foods in the resturant?
2. Do the resturants have anything to do with what types of foods they have?

Architecture

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&source=gale&idigest=8de64512480f8c58026cd9fc2834cb47&prodId=GIC&userGroupName=hins30136&tabID=T001&docId=CX3049000054&type=retrieve&contentSet=EBKS&version=1.0

- Structures differ all over Africa because of it's diverse climates.
- The east African coast is rich in coral that hardens and can be used as building blokes.
- Rain forest areas have wood to build with and planted to weave water-proof roofs.
- They decorate their houses with shells and other colorful fragments stuck in mud.
- The buildings/ houses blend with nature, not like skyscrapers.
- Pise-mud placed in a mold and dried in a shape of a brick for building.
- Stucco-cow dung mixed with bean-pod liquid and and jumbled with ground up shell.

1)  How where the Pyramids of Giza made and why?
2)  Does religion have anything to do with with African architecture?
3) Are these ideas and materials used in another countries?

Music effecting people

Hazlewood, Charles. "Children need to hear the sound of music; An early dose of Mozart can aid concentration and creativity – so what are we waiting for?." Daily Telegraph (London, England) (Feb 10, 2012) Editorial; Opinion, Columns: 30. Global Issues In Context. Gale. Hinsdale Central High School (IL). 16 Feb. 2012
<http://find.galegroup.com/gic/infomark.do?&source=gale&idigest=8de64512480f8c58026cd9fc2834cb47&prodId=GIC&userGroupName=hins30136&tabID=T004&docId=CJ279572254&type=retrieve&contentSet=IAC-Documents&version=1.0>.

• In a school for children with ADHD, Mozart was actually found to cut racing heart rates and boost concentration. 
• It improves cognitive function and increases creativity. 
• Teenagers listen to classical music, which they never head before and it changed their lives.
• It's good to start kids with music at a young age.
• If you aren't inspired by music at a young age you never will be.
• Music used to be spread in churches, but less people go to church now.
• Classical music gets people creative and have good concentration.

1. Do Children get more intelligent from listening to classical music?
2. Would children not be very creative without music?

How are kinds of music from around the world different?

How does art and drawing in Italy influence others??

What European (Italy) styles of Art are interesting?

What tools they use?

Interesting facts.

Famous Artist.

You could draw with

• Pencil
• Sharpies
• Paint
• markets
• crayons
• pens
• oil pastels

Many people draw/paint with many different utensils.
Also i prefer shading and outlining. Makes the picture look realy good.

What is beauty in different cultures?

What is beauty in different cultures.
> How does it affect people lives?
>Do people lives revolve around beauty?
>What does it take to have beauty?
>How far will people go to be beautiful?

Background Infomation on Rap Music

• The first Rap Song Realeased was called "Rapper's Delight" by Sugar Hill Gang.
• A jamaican DJ known as Kool Herc introduced and helped develope Rap in the early 1970's.
• Rap came out of the new york streets and went mainstream in the 1980's.
• Some rappers used their music to take advantage of political power in spoken words.
• Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five opened the door for angry militant rap.
• N.W.A and Public Enemy  blended the line between music and politics, using rap music to say what they think heard by the goverenment.

http://www.school.eb.com/all/comptons/article-9313142?query=rap%20music&ct=null

http://www.school.eb.com/elementary/article?articleId=353563
- The Olypics were brought up from the Greeks
-Sports are created through the thought of compitition
-Many rules change over time for every sport
-There are over 8,000 known sports throughout the world

Art Background

http://www.school.eb.com/ebi/article?tocId=9272971

• about art styles for example Joycean, stream of consciousness
• classical greek styles are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
• art styles depend on resource availablity
• fine art appeals to sense of sight
• sculptures appeal to sense of sight or sense of touch
•  paintings and scultures are single arts
•  critics say all styles of art are abstract

Does lifestyle effect art designs?
Does religion effect art styles?

Music is healing

http://find.galegroup.com/gic/retrieve.do?sgHitCountType=None&sort=DateDescend&tabID=T006&prodId=GIC&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchId=R1&searchType=&currentPosition=3&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C5%29Music%3AAnd%3AFQE%3D%28KE%2CNone%2C7%29therapy%24&userGroupName=hins30136&inPS=true&docId=CJ197361286&contentSet=IAC-Documents&docId=CJ197361286&docType=IAC

-Music can work to heal a person when perscription drugs do not
-There is a music program when you listen to music for 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, and for 4 weeks
-This started in 2009
-Music can address the psychosomatic root of the diseases
-So far there a 55 tracks of medicinal musis and they are working on adding more
-Music can really help people with depression
- Patients have experienced significant improvements in heart-rate variability


How does music have as much power as prescription drugs?
What made doctors turn to music instead of something else?

Country and Pop music

http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/AcademicJournalsDetailsPage/AcademicJournalsDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Journals&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CA273786328&mode=view
 I learned:
Country music has never stayed stable
Has more meaning behind its sounds and lyrics than dance music
http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/suic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=SUIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ2346200828&mode=view
More women in the 1990s started becoming a massive part of music
Icons such as Madonna, Mariah Carey, and Whitney Houston became huge
Lots of money and wildly popular
easy and upbeat music very popular among teens
Parents and kids have a divided sense of music appeal

Are these artists popular in Europe?
Does music nowadays have more meaning inside of it?

Background or Arab Clothing

http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-14021
Arab Clothing:
-Arab's typically wear clothing that cover most of their body because they use it as protection from the heat, dust and blazing sunshine.  Yet, they still are able to pull off wearing the traditional clothing.
-The garments are loose fitting and cover most of the body, they are normally made out of cotton, linen and wool, but a nice outfit is made out of silk. 
-baldachin- the richly decorated fabric with a wrap of gold thread and a weft of silk. 
-damask- the source of richly patterned silk fabric.
- Most garment's are based off of traditional styles.
-Chemise or Tunic are very common loose fitting, long-sleeved garments for both men and woman that are considered casual. 
-Jellaba- Wide, long sleeves and a long skirt that may be slit up the side and some styles are open in the front like a coat.  That is also for both sexes. 
- Some outerwear for both sexes include the haik is an oblong peice of material (generally stripped) that Arabs use to wrap around their bodies or heads for day or night wear.  This is similar to the burnous which is a hooded garment also used for warmth day and night.

How do films effect people?

1. How do some visual effects work in films
2. How many genres of films are there?
3.

What effect does music have on emotions

Here is a link to an article I found interesting:

http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-9323246?

• the topic is about a man who studied both music and psychology
• the man, Henry Theophilus Finck, has written several books on the topic making him credible
• he went to Harvard University and later to Cambridge in England, making him even more credible
• he has a book called Success in Music and How It Is Won , that may help if the success has a psychological relation
• psychology: the science of the mind or of mental states and processes.
• philosophy: the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct.
• scholar: one who has profoundknowledge of a particular subject

(definitions from http://dictionary.reference.com/)

Questions:

-Are there studies that are researchable that may prove a relationship between music and pschology

-Is there a philosophy element to my question?

-Can I conduct an experiment regarding the 1st question?

Blog 2

In America we usually recognize dessert as candy, pastries, cakes, and ice cream, but in other countries around they world their dessert is having nuts and fruit.

In the Middle east, many people enjoy sharbat for dessert.
Sharbat: our sherbert that is an icy texture with a fruit flavor

First Blog Post!

1. How are desserts changing over time?
2. How has culture and family traditions invented desserts?
3. How are they made and with what ingrediants?

What I already know....
Desserts usually use a dough, sugar, flour, some sort of baking salt or powder, and sometimes jelly or other special touches.  Desserts are different in Italy then they are in Hawaii so cultures and family have influened them.

• The Native Americans were the first people to live in North America. 
•  They have definitely effected the culture and the land of the the Unites Staes today. 
• Indian word are everyewhere on the maps you see. 
• Twenty seven states have a Native American based name. 
• They were the first to plow lands now the midwest that now feed America.
• When the settlers came it was awful towards the Native americans culture  

how did Rap develope and how does it affect cultures?

sub questions:


Where did rap originate?
Do people shape the Rap/Hip-Hop culture or does the Rap/Hip-Hop culture shape the people?
What are different themes of rap music?
Is Mainstream rap destroying rap completly?
Which is more real Old School Rap or New School Rap?
How are different artist's lyrics similar?
How do different cultures look at Rap music?


some things i already know about rap music: i know that many artist rap about struggles, hate, love, self confindence, ect. Rap has also changed over the past ten years.

How does Music influence people?

Sub Questions:

1. Does technology effect how music is spread from different countries?
2. If there was better interaction through countries would we all be listening to the same music?
3. Does certain music influence bad or good decisions?
4. What types of music have come from combining others?
5. Do countries have the the same or different taste in music than other countries?
6. Does music influence different emotions?

 In this subject I already knew that technology has a big impact on spreading music, but I didn't know how much. Without technology would we not know other music? I knew that you can get emotions from music because I have experienced them myself.

How does music effect the mind?

Sub Questions:
    -How does music have the ability to change your mood?
    -Why do stores play certain music?
    -How can music change the way you think/feel about something?
    -Is it possibly to become mad because of rap music?  
    -Can country type music really calm you down or is it all in your mind?
    -Does music have the ability to change your sleep cycles?
    -Is there a secret in the lyrics to change your mood or is it the way the artist is singing it?

What I already know and would like to find out:
I do not know to much about this topic yet, but this is what I do know.  I know that if you play certain raps backwards there are still words and it is like a whole different song.  Also in stores they typically play loud, fast music. I would like to learn more of the phycology behind that.  I would also like to learn things to answer all of my sub questions.

What are different famous sports around the world?

sub questions

-Why are people good at sports in other countries? Do they play it differently in those contries?
-How were some sports created and where did they originate?
-Who are the founders of some sports and how did they get the idea for them?

What makes art different in every region?

To learn how art is different in each region i will have to research:

1.  How are art styles in North America different from Europe, and South America?
2. Are inspirations for art different in North America, Europe, and South America?
3. Is art influenced from religion, culutre or life style/events?

I know that there are many different styles of art used. Some regions like to use a specific style of art because it might reflect their life style or envirnment. I would like to find out how art styles change according to how or where they live?

How do country and pop music vary from culture to culture?

Sub Questions:
Do other genres of music feed into pop music? If so, what genres?
Do artists from different countries influence what is popular? If so, what are some examples and how many are there?
Does the sound of pop music sound different from culture to culture?
Does time period and mood affect how country sounds?
Is there actually one genre of pop music?

What I Already Know:
I know that pop music does differ from country to country. There are different sounds and instrument uses. I''m pretty sure that mood can affect what pop music is about and what it sounds like. Also, artists from different cultures and countries can affect how it sounds, but I don't know how many of our "popular musicians" are foreign.

How was musical theatre developed?

Sub questions:
How has musical theatre changed over time?
What different types/theme's of musical theatre are there?
How long has musical theatre been around?
How did people in history view musical theatre?
How do other cultures view musical theatre?
What are some terms to musical theater such as directions to where an actor or prop should be placed?

What I already know about this topic
I know that musical theatre has been around for a very long time. Musical theatre comes with many different types or theme's such as comedy, drama, horror ect. I know musical theatre (theatre in general) terms sucha as center stage, down stage left, down stage right, up stage right ect. I also know many other theatre terms sucha as strike, kill and more.

How does culture effect a regions architecture?

1. What was the purpose of their designs?
2. What are some famouse and important building structures around the world?
3. How does a regions raw materials effect the design and location?

This is what I already know....

- Many important structures are built for religious purpose because religion is important to many. Esthetics of different regions are based upon preference and beliefs ( flow, zen, lucky...).

How do films effect people?

1.  How do they make some of the Effects we see in films? How do people react to some of these effects?
2. Storyline
3. How can the music cause people to change their emotions during different scenes in a film?

How have basic insturments evolved into other insturments?

What was the first insturment?
How did the first insturment evolve into other instruments?
Who created the first insturment?
What cultures made each insturment?
What insturments do each culture play?

What do you already know about this topic?
The guitar, bass, banjo, mandolin, and uke are all very similar.

How are music form America, Africa, and Eurpoe different?

1. Where did it originate from?
2.Was the music always so diffrent?
3.Why does the music sound different? What instrument?

What I already know about this topic:
there are a lot of different varieties in american music and a lot of African music uses drums

4/5-Parker-Music

1. How has music developed from the 1700's in America to music today.
2. What were some huge factors that affected the path of music.
3. Who were some influential people/groups that affected the path of music.

Classical music dominated the 1700's to 1800's. The classical music took turns throughout the time but I don't know exactly what those were. In the early 1900's, swing and jazz were taking over. The african influence of improvation and traditional music created jazz. In the 50's Rock and roll appeared and commpelled the younger generation of the time. A couple of groups such as the Beatles and The Rolling Stones turned the whole music genre to rock. Around the 1980's Rap and Pop music appeared. It took the easy to remember patterns of rock and focused on the voice of the song.

What clothing do people around the world wear and why?

1) How do cultures impact this?

2) How do religions impact this?

3) How do where you live impact this?

I do not know a lot about this topic.  I can recognize what some cultures where but i do now know why and what the pieces of clothing are called. 

What effect does music have on emotions?

To answer this overall research question, I will try to find out:

1. What is the relationship between music and psychology?



2. Why are different people attracted to different types of music?



3. Why do stores play certain music?



4. Can a type of music be created to help keep debates calm?

This is what I already know about this topic and want to find out: I know that different people like different music, like hip-hop, classic rock, alternative, etc., but why is that? Is it because they are raised differently from each other?

How does music affect emotions? I know that music artist like Michael Franti and Jack Johnson think that music is a source of happiness.

Music for me is a way to clear my head, be more efficent, or sometimes just the opposite: it helps me procrastinate, too. Musioc really just works for me, I use it to my advantage.

Blog Post #1-How does culture affect fashion?

• How has fashion changed from a basic need to a lifestyle or statement?
• How can a fashion designer's nationality affect the style of clothes they make?
• Why can a person's sense of style affect the impressions they leave on people?

What I already know about this topic is that fashion is different in about every part of the world. Even if the difference is small, there are still differences in fashion in every part of the world because of different climates, people, etc. Different nationalities also dress different because of their religions, cultures, traditions, and beliefs. I would like to know how fashion used to be a basic need, and it is a lifestyle for some people now. 

How and why do food dishes develop in Europe?

HOLA!!!!!!
My sub-questions...
1. How do these foods become tradition?
2. Why do different foods develop?
3. What are some different foods in Europe? Are they realted to each other???

What is the culture of Native Americans?

Why were the encounters with the Europeans influential on the native americans.
Did there cultures ever clash?
What influence did they have on America?
What kind of life did they live?
How many tribes were there in North America?

Why does music have such an impact on the world today than music back in the day?

When you think of music, you see everyone doing it. It changes a lot of things that is good or bad. it can help or munipulate the mind. It can also make a war if it was that powerful