Music is what my life runs on from day to day. Without music‚ my life would be a lost cause. So all thanks to a German instrument maker and his son‚ the clarinet was created. Johann Christoph Denner and his son Jacob‚ improved the chalumeau by adding a register key to the instrument‚ and later the chalumeau received the Boehm flute key system (Bellis)‚ which created what my musical life all started on: the clarinet and family. The very first original clarinets had only two keys to be played –
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How is new technology affecting gaming? Technology for gaming has evolved vastly in the past few years. Turner (2013) explains‚ how the game industry is huge and is still growing; more people are involved in the industry‚ and currently around 30‚000 people are working in this sector. Nintendo Wii and Xbox Kinetic‚ have introduced new features into gaming which involves the users more with the interface. Players motions can now be detected by the console and this helps people keep active (Turner
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“What’s amazing is‚ if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting‚ they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.”- Bill Gates. There are many great and not so great things about schools. Gunstream is very important to me because it is such a friendly and positive aura. It is safe to say that anyone that goes to this school can think of many great things‚ people‚ and memories
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Managing Own Learning D5 Communication and presentation M D D6 Autonomy/Independence M D D7 Quality M D Learner: Tutor/Assessor: Nigel Lindley Title of Assignment: Managing Own Learning Assignment Number: 1 of 1 for this Unit Description of Assignment: (Can be attached as a separate sheet if preferred) This assignments is designed for to reflect upon past‚ current and future progress on your course. This assignment is designed for you to reflect upon your course / life timetable
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erected from the ground. There was no colour here. No happiness. It had been 7 years since I last came to the city. I never wanted to come back‚ I thought the memories would be too painful‚ but Mr. Tom made me come. He said it would be good for me to get over my past. As I looked around‚ I remembered back to when the station was full of soldiers going off to the war. The bombing had clearly taken its toll on the city. It had been nearly a year since the end of the war and many factories were still damaged
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Two words--three‚ depending on how you feel about hyphens--have changed my life and net financial worth: Mid-Century Modern. If you’re a fan of “Mad Men” or martinis you probably already know about Mid-Mod‚ this rekindling of love for all things Fifties—sunburst wall clocks‚ tail fins‚ Tang‚ and‚ most significantly‚ the suburban ranch house. This infatuation with the brawny‚ ebullient time following the war when America was in love with space travel and clam dip was not in play twenty years ago
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Bullying changes a lot of people for the better or worse‚ it has changed me in a way I think for the better. I have been bullied for many reasons‚ some I could not figure out way. In every school that I have been in one type or another I have experienced bullying. It might be the fact that I’m tall or that I’m british. Bullying has caused me to lose focus and think some stuff it would be better not to mention. The loss of focusing has caused me in some years to do so bad that it would might of gotten
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A couple weeks ago I blogged about life in the Sixties and mentioned that computers were in existence‚ but housed in temperature controlled rooms and took up a great deal of space. This made me wonder how our lives have changed since computers have become commonplace. I attended high school in the late 70’s and remember a small group of students were selected to take a “computer class” which turned out to be a programming class. I wasn’t one of them. In fact‚ I didn’t see another computer until
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early childhood is extensive and rapid following particular growth patterns such as cephalocaudal‚ which means from the head to the toes and proximal distal meaning from the centre out. During this period gross motor skills increase dramatically and children are more active than at any other period in their life span. During late childhood muscle mass and strength gradually increase‚ legs lengthen and the trunk slim down‚ growth is slow and consistent. Children become better coordinated‚
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Has the teaching of mathematics changed over time? Mathematics is considered to be the oldest academic known to mankind. The changes in the teaching of mathematics run parallel to the history of the development of mathematical knowledge itself. By examining the history of this knowledge‚ we can see that it has been shaped by the necessities of different cultures and societies‚ the philosophies surrounding it and the psychology behind it. Although the structure of the teaching of mathematics has remained
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