Final Product- Fashion Project

Final Product

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Final Project

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blogg post final project

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Final Product

My Passion Project Recipes




Mexican Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

• 8 cups whole milk
• 2 ⅔  cups (8 ounces) chocolate chips
• 4 tablespoons sugar
• 4 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon chile powder
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• Pinch salt

Directions

• In a large saucepan, combine all the ingredients and 1 cup water over medium heat, whisking constantly, until hot but not boiling, about 8 minutes (the mixture should smooth). Pour into 4 large mugs.

Crispy Fried Tofu With Sweet Chile Sauce

Ingredients

• For the Tofu1 (14-oz) block Mori Nu "Extra Firm" Silken Tofu (see Tips)
• 3/4 cup Cornstarch
• 1/4 cup Cornmeal
• Salt and ground Pepper to taste
• Chili Flakes to taste (optional)

• For the Sweet Chili Sauce3 tbsp Sugar
• 1/4 cup Water
• 1/4 cup Rice Vinegar
• 2 tsp Cornstarch
• 1 tbsp Sambal Oelek (see Tips)

Tips
1. Tofu: If you cannot find the Mori Nu brand, then simply use "Medium-Form" or "Soft Tofu". The book mentions that you can also use Firm/Extra Firm tofu but that it will taste drier.
2. Sambal Oelek is an Indonesian Chile paste. If you cannot find it, use whatever chili paste is available to you and add as per taste. You might need less/more than the 1 tbsp depending on the type of chili paste you are using other than the one mentioned.
Method
1
Slice the tofu into cubes/1-inch thick slabs. But before that make sure that drain any water and pat it dry completely.
Important Tip: I was a little slack in doing a good job and it shows the way it fried. So make sure to use several layers of paper towels and let it sit  for few minutes esp. if you are using the tofu that comes with water
2
While that's draining, mix the remaining ingredients in the "Tofu" section in a pan.

3
Make sure to blend it well.

4
Next add the tofu cubes to this mixture.

5
Coat it well. Due to the mistake (as mentioned in the Step 1 tip), my coating was not as smooth as it should be.

6
In a shallow (12 inch non stick) pan heat some 3/4 cup of vegetable oil until shimmering in med-high heat. Carefully add the tofu to the oil

7
turning it until its crisp and golden on all sides. It takes about 5 minutes. Gently lift the tofu

8
and drain them on paper towels. You can transfer them to 200F oven to keep them warm.

9
Meanwhile for the sauce, whisk all the ingredients mentioned in a small saucepan

10
and cook over med-high hear, whisking constantly, until the sauce is hot and thickened. take around 5 minutes. Cover and set aside to keep warm.

That beautiful shiny, glossy and addictive sauce works so wonderfully with that crispy tofu.
The crispiness when you first bite into it then leads to softness of the  silken tofu. Though being a lover of tofu, I can eat them all alone, my better half preferred it with the sauce.

Cinnamon Apple Pie with Crumb Topping X2

All Butter Single Pie Crust:

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1 tbsp sugar

1/2 tsp salt

6 tbsp butter, chilled and cut into pieces

4-6 tbsp ice water

Whisk together flour, salt and sugar in a large bowl. Rub in butter with your fingertips, pressing it into the flour mixture and breaking it up, until mixture resemble very coarse sand and no pieces larger than a large pea remain. Using a fork, stir in ice water until dough almost comes together into a ball. Press dough into a ball with your hands and wrap in plastic. Chill for at least 30-60 minutes before using.

Filling:

4-5 med/lg Jonagold or other pie apples

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp all purpose flour

1 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground allspice

1 tsp vanilla extract

Mix apples, sugar, flour, spices, salt and vanilla together in large mixing bowl. Let stand for at least 10 minutes.
Set aside while dough is rolled out.

Crumb Topping:

1 1/4 cups all purpose flour

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled

In a large bowl, whisk together remaining flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt. Pour melted butter over flour mixture, and stir with a rubber spatula until large, moist crumbs form.
Preheat oven to 425F.
Roll out chilled pie dough to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Press crust into plate gently. Pour apple mixture into the pie crust and gently spread into an even layer. Sprinkle crumb topping over apple slices, using your fingertips to break up and distribute the crumbs evenly.
Bake for 20 minutes at 425F. Lower oven temperature to 375F and bake for additional 35-40 minutes, until apples are tender and crust is browned. If crumb topping becomes too dark, gently tent a sheet of aluminum foil.
Allow pie to cool completely before slicing.
Serves 8.

Final Product

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Final product

Art Passion Project on Prezi

Final Project

Effects of Music On Athletes (blog post #7)

"Effects of Synchronous Music On Treadmill Running Among Elite Triathletes"
> Peter C. Terry
> http://search.proquest.com/docview/922044882?accountid=6222

• music can provide athletes with external influences to help with performance, psychological, and psychophysical benefits during physical activity.
• athletes choose self-selected music that can motivate them while training and improves their endurance.
• music slightly reduced their amount of time-to-exhaustion, mood responses, feeling states, blood lactate concentration, and oxygen consumption.
• mood responses and feeling states were more positive with motivational music, compared to either neutral music or no music.
• music provides athletes with background stimulation, which relates to movement patterns and musical tempo.
• music teaches athletes a sense of control and lets them rely on the beat of the music to keep them going during training.
• helps athletes to become more efficient with their steps and regular movement patterns.
• motivational music for athletes consists of catchy melodies, inspiring lyrics, an association with sporting endeavour, and a bright, uplifting harmonic structure, keeping us wanting to do more.

Interview w/ Mrs. Burkemper (blog post #6)

I interviewed Mrs. Burkemper, the school choir director, because since she has a strong passion for music and has studied it for her entire life. I have also heard many great things about her and how her love for music really does rub off on others, which makes her a good target to interview. These are all what makes her a reliable source. 


- I interviewed Mrs. Burkemper through e-mail and she responded with great responses very quickly.

1. Can certain genres of music have an affect on your moods? 

Absolutely-  music can convey so many different emotions.  It can bring you to a past time and a place, bringing past memories to light.  Research has shown that classical music can help provide focus or relaxation. 

2. Does music have an impact on your life personally?

Absolutely!  It is what I do for a living and has been the main focus for me since middle school at least.  My husband is a music teacher and some of my closest friends are musicians and music teachers.  It is my passion, my career, and my pastime.

3. What type of music do you enjoy and why? Has it always been that way?

I teach all styles of music (classical, jazz, gospel, languages, folk, rock, pop, broadway, etc).  I enjoy studying classical music (ancient to 20th century).  I enjoy listening to Top 40.  I am a huge Dave Matthews Band fan.  What I enjoy listening to has definitely evolved.  I listen to more choral music because of what I do.

4. Can good and bad influences come out of listening to music? 

That’s a tough question.  I would argue that good influences come out of music definitely- it has a lasting impact on performers and the audience.  I believe that bad influence comes from the person and the choices they make, not the music they listen to, but that is just my opinion and not based on fact or research!

5. Which genre of music do you prefer to listen to when you're happy, or sad?

Really, anything that feels good at the time.  I like mello acoustic music (singer/songwriter coffee house type stuff) but sometimes Bon Jovi helps me rock out. 

6. When do you usually choose to listen to music? 

In the car is when I listen most.  I always have to have the radio on or my iPod plugged in.

7. When did your interest in music spark?

Age 6 when I started playing piano and it went from there.  Violin, clarinet, and always singing.

8. How does sharing your love for music with others bring joy to you?

I get to share my love of music and see it instilled in them.  I see how much they love music through their performances and their desire to continue singing after high school!

Final Project

Final Project - How are films made and affect people?

Shortened version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXUwL2uyfqA

Final Project

Final Project: Comic

This comic shows one of the many benefits of music therapy.

blog post #6 - interview with Russio Robert

The image above is from 'Yahoo images' and shows a scene from the film "Battleship" Which has a realistic view on how aliens would find our planet, and what they would do when they got here.
-films have to be realistic, so that you feel what happened in it could happen to you.
-Films do have emosional effects on people

Fashion Blog Post #6

Part A:
-My source, Mrs. Sopiarz, has studied fashion merchandising and teaches fashion merchandising and cooking.
-She is a reliable source because she knows the factual information for fashion merchandising from an unbiased point of view. She has studied and knows it; therefore, the information that she has told me in the interview is reliable.
-I interviewed her a few days ago through e-mail.
Part B:
I asked her:
1) How do fashion merchandisers sell the clothing. Later, I found out: through publicity, advertisements, magazine ads, newspaper ads, and commercials.
2) How fashion merchandising affects the fashion industry. Later, I found out: The fashion merchandisers communicate well with the public to see what clothing they would like to buy and are interested in.
3)What else does fashion merchandising call for? Later, I found out: You must have a creative and artistic side because you must be able to know how to mix clothing together, separate different patterns and fabrics, etc.

Kenney Mencher

I didn't have someone to interview, so I watched a video and made a mock interview with the guy in the video.

1.      Dr. Zahi Hawass is a famous egyptologist, who has discovered many artifacts and revealed much of Egypt's past. Also he is currently the Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.

2.          He is a reliable source because he is an expert on Egypt and pyramids . He has also studied at University of Cairo, Alexandra University, and got his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written many articles and books about Egypt.
3.     I watched a Natural Geographic video on May 3

PART B

1.     Q: What kind of labor did they use to build the Pyramids?
         A: Thats a misconception started by the greeks centuries ago. We have studied the bones of many of the workers and they where very healthy and well taken care of. Also we have found many bones of cattle and fish, which shows they have had a very balanced diet, in which slaves wouldn't have had. Also we found their injuries where fixed properly, for example if a laborer broke a bone they would set it and give it time to rest, which would not happen if he was a slave. 
2.     Q: How does their religion/beliefs connect with pyramids?
         A: They believed the afterlife was very important. The kings would build the pyramids because they believed they would be closer to the gods and live eternally. There are also shafts that lead to the east and the west because they believed the soul would go the West at the evening and comeback from the East. That is also why it was, so crucial to have the pyramids angled the way there were.  
3.     Q: What were somethings you discover around the Great Pyramids of Giza?
         A: We find other tombs of important people around the pyramids. These people where higher in the job ladder for the construction. Also they had may graves of the workers themselves. We have found the foundations and some walls of their community that they lived at while making the pyramids. 

http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/National_Geographic_Into_the_Great_Pyramid/60026615?trkid=438403

Music and emotions

#7 

Listening to music as a re-creative process by: Oliver Grewe

•  Music influences emotions
•  Moods change from music
•  Music is used as a test to see if chills are caused by endorphins
•  Music may actually activate a separation-distress brain
•  Most common emotion from music is happiness
•  Music can bring memories forgotten
•  Music causes chills/goosebumps

http://search.proquest.com/docview/222216288/1367B858D6B70D1A549/1?accountid=6222 

Fashion Blog Post #7

Encyclopedia Britannica(Database)
The People Who Produce And Sell Clothing
Author N/A
http://www.school.eb.com/comptons/article-198838

• Every person that's involves in making and selling clothing adds to the value of the clothing through his/her work.
• Farmers and ranchers are the sources for clothing material.
• Farmers raise cotton, flax, silk, etc; most clothing is made of that.
• Some workers/ farmers also sometime catch and kill animals to make clothing out of their fur such as coats and shoes.
• People who produce finished clothing are called garmentworkers. 
• Clothing could not be made today without transportation workers to bring them to the places they're being sold.
• Advertising is also a huge factor in selling clothes because that is how the people bring their attention towards them.
• When people buy clothing, the only person they see is usually the clerk; but there is much more to it.

Blog post #7 - Computer Generated Imagery (CGI)

Source: http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-21968?query=Computer%20generated%20images&ct=

The image above is from 'Yahoo images' and is of the cgi creature Zilla, from the film Godzilla.
o Encyclopedia Britannica             

- control images on computer screen

- Applications broken down to 4 categories:

- Design ~ computer is used as a tool for designing objects

~ provides an interactive drawing tool 

~ interface to simulation

~ gives analysis tools for the engineer

- Fine arts ~ use computer screens to create images

- Scientific visualization ~ Scientific events exhibited pictorially and are in a motion to provide more insight into the phenomena

- human-computer interfaces ~ able to communicate with computer

- Need a rapid display of real-time images

blog post #6

PART A

1.      The person I studied is named Elena Hildreth. She is a District Manager/Purchasing Director

Quest Food Management Services.

2.      She is a realible source because she works with different foods and incorpating them into peoples diets

3.      I interviewed her on Thursday, May 3rd, at school in person

PART B

1.      Where are the foods in Europe orginate from?

>   people have migrated all over and the brought different foods and they specailized it.

2.     How did these dishes come from where there were to being traditional?

>   They come from all over. Europe is made out of many different countries clearly having different cultures but a lot of the foods are the same kind of idea and they are alike.  They are similar but they may have different things on them or seasonings on them because of the resources around the,.

3.   How did dishes become traditional?

>   Food is like somthing thta is handed down. Recipes from different families get handed down generation by generation. They are also past around to different people.  A lot of the traditions strated my just me religious or it is a country thing. Like how Italians eat seafood on Christmas or somthing.

4.  How do we incorporated these foods into our diet?

>  a lot of the food that Americans eat is very bland so we eat a lot of different foods from around Europe or even the world.  Even though a lot of the food we prepare is modernized it is based of some european foods. Sometimes if the food is very ethnic people won't eat it because it is so different

world music #6

Person I interviewed: Patrick Burke of Washington University in St. Louis. He studies musicology and he is professor at the university.

He is a reliable source because he is a professor

I emailed him

3-5 questions:

 1. How are different kinds of world music, like American, Asian, and
> African music alike?

Not very.  Music all over the world is incredibly diverse.  While all
kinds of music involve pitch and rhythm, there are many different
approaches to these parameters.

2. Are the different kinds of music's backgrounds similar?

Not really.  Music is often very specific to a given culture, and we don't
have enough evidence to uncover the origins of music itself.

3. What are Asian instruments?

There are thousands.  Some that you might research are the koto (a
Japanese zither), the gamelan (an ensemble of percussion instruments in
Indonesia), and the ney (a Turkish flute.)

> 4. How does culture in world music affect how it sounds?

Culture has a major impact on how music sounds.  For example, large,
complex societies often produce large, complex musical ensembles (think of
the symphony orchestra, for example.)  Cultures that prize self-expression
often produce music that involves a lot of improvisation (jazz in the US,
for example.)

> 5. When did world music start to come together?

"World music" as a named concept dates to the 1980s, when record companies
began marketing music from outside the US and Europe under this label. 
But musical influences have been spanning geographic and national
boundaries for thousands of years.

Blog Post#7 Guitar Interview- Jerry

Interview: Jerry- My guitar teacher.

-Where did the guitar start becoming popular?

• It first started in Spain
• Then desended into the middle east where it became more known.

-How did the eletric guitar evolve?

• The very first eletric guitars(with pickups) were made out of frying pans.
• Most guitar manufactures were the ones who influenced the making of the guitar.
• In the 1920's a guitar company named Lloyd Loar made the first magnetic pickup.
• These pickups allowed guitars to become very loud. 

-Who was Les Paul?

• He built the first solid electric guitar out of a log.
• Many people thought it was weird, but he added sides to the log to make it more "guitar like".
• It became very famous and Les Paul works for many popular guitar making companies, such as, Gibson.
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- How has guitar music evolved from when the first guitar had become popular?

• People started becoming risky with the music they made.
• People were not afraid to make music that has not been heard before.
• The Beatles, Lez Zeppelin, Jimmi Hendrix, and many influential music composers inspired the music that is being created today.

-Why do you the the guitar is an appealing instrument to people who want to learn music?

• Its attractive to people who like music in general.
• Many people like the sound of it, and the variety of sounds you can make.
• There are songs you can play that may not sound as good on other instruments.

Music and emotions Interview

Interview with Kailee Holly, an expert.
Q: What kind of music is most beneficial in music therapy sessions?
A: "Client preferred music is the recommended music that therapists among our profession use."


Q: What do you find really rewarding about your profession?
A: "I find my work to be extremely rewarding, I love forming relationships with my clients. I also love how powerful music can be, it can transform an extremely isolated and nonverbal client into a completely different person."


Background on Expert:
Kailee Holly is a Music Therapy Student Assistant at the Berklee College of Music. She works with clients and is very passionate about her work. 

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
-Aldous Huxley

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
-Billy Joel

"Music can change the world because it can change people."
-Bono

How Music fills our emotions

How Music Fills Our Emotions
By: Patrik N. Juslin and Vastfjall
http://search.proquest.com/docview/212255046/136793670FF28E7E791/4?accountid=6222
-Emotions is a relatively brief, though intense, affective reactions to potential events or changes in one internal or exprenal inviroment.

-Music introduces a wide range of basic and complex emotions

-Musical emotions have relied on merley self-report

-Music usually induces emotions rather than moods

-The primary question is how are musical emotions induced

-Brain Stem Reflext is one way. This refers to a process where an emotion is induced by music because one or more dundamental acoustical characteristics of the music are taken by the brain stem to signal a potentially important and urgant event

**FINISH**

Native American art history #7

http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-77679?query=north%20american%20art%20history&ct=eb
Encyclopaedia Britannica

• most of Native American art had a purpose/service
• Political and Militay use art for weaponry
• The incas and Aztecs like to use art for religious purposes like ceremonies
• Art was also a peace offering to calm an angry god
• used ornamental materials like feather, shells and minerals 
•  art has a significant meaning like a marrige
• when tribal cultures blended so did the art styles

Music Blog #7-2

I used: http://www.school.eb.com/all/eb/article-9110142?query=jazz%20music&ct=null
"jazz." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2012. Web. 3  May  2012.
<http://www.school.eb.com/eb/article-9110142>.

Things I learned:
Jazz is and was never completely composed
performer is completely in control creatively
got developed by slaves from africa and spread to the USA
whites in Europe thought that Jazz was interesting because of its sound, it was not like classical music
began forming in the 1800s
formed from the Africans from their native musical traditions
1920-1929 was known as the jazz age because of its popularity

More info on Middle East clothing

Clothing and Fashion, Middle East

By: Karaminas, Vicki.

- Mixed influences have enriched and modernized the diverse cultures and produced a custom of dress that bis both progressive and yet still represents its traditional designs. 

- Fashion is adapted and chaged by new social orders, local climates and activites. 

-Men's attire generally differs within the gender more than women's whose modes of dress have been traditionally dictated by taste and political reform. 

- Structure and meaning of clothing caries across regions in design, fabric, shape and ornament.  

- They dress modestly due to old traditional views and to cover up from the hot sun, and dust.

-Male populations are normally seen in mid-calf length tunics that were belted at the waist.

-Turban headdresses were made up of a contunuous strip of narrow fabric. Turban sizes varied from small to large depending on social class. Some made the cloth ends as decoration using the silk fabric in weaves.

Link: Clothing and Fashion, Middle East 

Book Summary (blog post #5)

book title: "This Is Your Brain On Music"
author: Daniel J. Levitin
chapter: one

• many people, when they hear the word music, the great masters; Beethoven, Debussy, and Mozart, come to mind.

• others may instantly think of Busta Rhymes, Dr, Dre, Moby, etc.

• the people who grew up in the 1940's or 50's may believe that anything made before 1940 or after 1960 isn't really considered music at all.

• a well-known composer, Edgard Varese, famously defined it, "Music is organized sound."

• while we listen to music, we are actually perceiving multiple attributes or "dimensions,' and our brains organize these fundamentals into higher level concepts.

• music and dance contribute to similar attributes such as giving rise to perspective, foreground and background, emotion, and many others.

• pitch, rhythm, tempo, contour, timbre, loudness, spatial location, reverberation all are extremely important elements of music, which lead on to the higher-order concepts such as meter, key, melody, and harmony;busying every part of our brains.

• each genre of music helps to change our brains in to believing everything we're hearing, but not always act on it and make good or bad decisions in life.

Chapter Summary - 

In the book This Is Your Brain On Music, the author, Daniel J. Levitin explains that your brain has a complex way of responding to music and many people are biased towards which genre of music relates to their own life. I agree with this statement because our brain does respond to things strangely and it does change over time. Obviously, people are going to choose their favorite genre of music depending on what they have gone through in life to relate, and the attributes of music giving us a strong perspective and emotion.