Billy Joel and His Battle with Depression Since the early seventies‚ Billy Joel has displayed greatness with his success in music‚ and has captured America with the sounds of his catchy tunes. Many accomplishments have been made‚ such as winning five Grammy Awards and many top ten hits in the seventies‚ eighties‚ and nineties. Joel has been successful throughout the years‚ but one thing he is still trying to overcome is his depression‚ and that is a hard thing to control. As early
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Frederic Chopin and Billy Joel Nearly two centuries separate two of the greatest pianists of all times; yet Frederic Chopin and Billy Joel have many similarities in their composure of music. The biggest connection among the two is their love for the piano. Not only did they both enjoy playing the piano‚ it was a way of life for both Chopin and Joel. Chopin‚ a half-Polish and half-French composer from the Romantic era is known to some as the “prince of the romantics” (Zamoyski). Joel‚ an American pop
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Allentown by Billy Joel was a song that described the troubles of the late 20th Century blue collar worker. As workers moved away from cities and jobs moved overseas in the 1980s and 90s‚ the typical blue collar worker was hurt as their unions and workplaces were closed to make way for the new serviced based economy. Specifically‚ Billy Joel is describing Allentown‚ Pennsylvania. Of which was affected by the economic turn of the 80s because most of its residents worked in Bethlehem‚ PA at a steel
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Synesthesia: What We Know and Don’t Know How many of us know what synesthesia is? What do we eat it with? How is it used or what is it used with. Well let me just tell you that synesthesia is a condition in which people have difficulty distinguishing between various sensory inputs. Synesthesia comes from two Greek words‚ syn‚ which means together‚ and aesthesis‚ which means perception. Therefore synesthesia literally means‚ "Joined perception." "Synesthesia is an involuntary joining in
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exams are normal. In the same family: synesthesia appears to be inherited in some fashion; It seems to be a dominant trait Synesthesias frequently co-occur. Having one type of synesthesia makes you 50% more likely to have a second type (Eagleman and Cytowic‚ 2009) 72% of self-reported synesthetes are female‚ says The Synesthesia List website. Most synesthetes report having had synesthetic perception since childhood‚ although synesthesia can also be caused by brain damage or
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Synesthesia is a genetic and a neurological condition in which one’s senses overlap and affect one another. For example‚ the sound of a piano can produce the color blue‚ or the letter “A” can generate the sound of a violin. Synesthesia is defined as “a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality‚ as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color” (Dictionary.com). For instance‚ if one sees a color‚ it can conjure a scent. If
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History of Synethesia July 11‚2006 History of Synesthesia Synesthesia has been known to medicine for almost three hundred years. After interest peaked between 1860 and 1930‚ it was forgotten‚ because psychology and neurology were premature sciences. Psychological theory was full with associations‚ and concepts of nervous tissue were insignificant. Subjective experience‚ such as synesthesia‚ was believed not a proper subject for scientific study.(pg3) Synesthesia’s history is interesting
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Some scientists believe that synesthesia results from "crossed-wiring" in the brain. They hypothesize that in synesthetes‚ neurons and synapses that are "supposed" to be contained within one sensory system cross to another sensory system. It is unclear why this might happen but some researchers believe that these crossed connections are present in everyone at birth‚ and only later are the connections untangled. Some studies show that infants respond to sensory stimuli in a way that researchers think
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Synesthesia can occur between nearly any two senses or perceptual modes‚ and at least one synesthete‚ Solomon Shereshevsky‚ experienced synesthesia that linked all five senses. For example‚ perceiving letters and numbers (collectively called graphemes) as colored would be indicated as grapheme → color synesthesia. Similarly‚ when synesthetes see colors and movement as a result of hearing musical tones‚ it would be indicated as tone → (color‚ movement) synesthesia. While nearly every logically possible
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Synesthesia; The /’s and *’s mean disregard them currently but I may decide to use them later //********* Have you ever wondered what color a c major is? Or what the word train tastes like? Most would say that the only way to experience such a thing would be a massive drug trip‚the likes of which lsd has never seen. But‚ I have good news for you‚ ladies and gentlemen. You don’t need any dangerous chemicals‚ or mind altering substances‚ // //you just have to rewire your brain. Though‚ I guess you
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