What Do You See?

In the comments section below, leave something that tells a story about this photo from your point of view. You are the narrator, you tell the story that YOU see in this photograph.

This photograph is my own.

AP Test Plan Prep... stuff

So here is how it goes. My plans for preparing for the AP Test is to..... prepare.

Okay, so I don't have any set plans as of this moment, nor even last night. However, I'll take up what the Doc said today in class. Proper diet, sufficient sleep and pretty much that. Mentally, I have no clear plan for that. Physically, I'm taking his advice.

Perhaps for a mental preparation, I'll.... implement whatever I know (and more) in my everyday routines to get me more familiar with the stuff.

Joy Luck Club Remix

Socratic Notes

• Play <or any sort of leisure time> is needed for anybody
• Lets creativity and freedom flow
• Beneificial in terms of sociability and creativity down the road
• Too much structure is dangerous
• Mostly influenced by what the future outcome may result in
• Too many restrictions  will destroy later life
• Keep to a minimal, guidelines would be best
• Break old habits
• Keep a straight mind
• Stand strong
• Don't fear failure or rejection

1) Considering how these concepts have been introduced, that thought where grades no longer matter is when the individual can truely learn. That free-roaming learning without that constant nagging of that "OMGBBQSAUCE! This is going to be GRADED! I must make sure I get an A+++++!!!! ksdhfvaencv" type crap which usully ends in half hearted work that still gets that stupid grade giving the student a false sense of "intelligence".

2) Bringing these concepts to help my performance on the AP exam is just to go out and look for relative subjects for the AP exam that interest me. As weird as it may sound, structured learning does not always have to be detrimental to anybody. If anything, I'll just need to find my hurdles and prepare ways I can get pass them with the limitations that I have in the structure of the AP exam itself while still maintaining the actual subject focus in mind.

3) The setting of guidelines and the usage of creative ways to collaborate with others can be extremely beneficial. Of course, some structure is needed to keep it from being too chaotic, but perhaps maybe even introduce a game of some sort to encourage the creative learning to enhance that network.

Lecture Notes: Tale of Two Cities

1. "The Frozen Deep" - 1857 
1. inspired A Tale of Two Cities.
2. self sacrifice
3. love triangle (how delicious)
2.  Fell in love with actress name Ellen and left wife - 1857 
3. Ellen inspired Lucie's character
1. Other characters:
2. Charles Darney and Sydney Carton (originally named Dick Carton)
1. doubleness of character
2. Charle's Dickens' initials
4. Public readings for prophit - 1858
   • separated from wife
   • left his editors
5.  New editor - 1859 
   • first three chapters of A Tale of Two Cities are pubished (woo) 
6. Experiences in London gave him a "profound knowlege of the city"
   • a dark and fascating place
   • "everything is there and disconnected
7. Paris: 1844
   • "most extraordinary place in the world"
   • strange, striking things
   • half size of London
   • visited 15 times
   • public charity readings
   • last visit was 2 years before his death
   • vibrant modernizing city
     • had a darker side:
     • dark, wicked place, but wonderfully attractiv
     • liked visiting the Morgue
       • public attraction
       • attraction of repulsion
8. Worlds of London and Paris were the same in his story
9. people were haunted by memory of French Rev.
   • very brave for confronting that fear in his story
     • published in weekly and monthly volumes
       • restricted his focus
   • "Best story I've ever written"
10. 1860: first stage version of book
11. 1899: The Only Way
    • another stage play
12. Silent film - 1909 (These are remarkably fun)
13. Sound film: 1935 
14. Thomas Carslisle
    • friends with Dickens
    • influence
    • "History of the French Revolution"

Shakespeare in ABC's "Castle"?

You may want to skip ahead to about eight minutes and twenty seconds (8:20). A dead give away thanks to Castle himself, but you can take your own guess if you skip to eight minutes and thirty-five seconds (8:35)

Big Question with a hint of Abstract

         

How does the study of music theory and mathematics help us understand music in a much larger picture?



While a surprise to most of the musicians and common people, there is not much of dissimilarity between music and mathematics. Learning music will not necessarily improve math skills to that of a genius mathematician with an individual, yet it will strengthen certain parts of the brain that are implemented in numerical properties. Some of which include relationships, a different voicing or method of solving a problem, etc. To most, math and music are very irrelevant when it comes to both subjects.



Dating back to ancient Chinese, Mesopotamians and Egyptians, the study on the principle of sound and the mathematics of it, and during the time of Plato, harmony was considered a fundamental branch of physics which is known today as musical acoustics, or just acoustics. In early Chinese and Indian times, theorists show the similar approach towards mathematical laws of harmony and rhythm was fundamental to even that of human well-being, and not just the world.



The use of mathematics to understand music is only a theory. Like math itself, there is only a certain point that is reached where the numbers don’t come out as complete whole, such as pi. Some aspects may not even exist at all when it comes to music. Both are very complementary when it comes to one another, but highly advanced mathematics wouldn’t be found in music of any simplistic or complicated form.