Month: June 2020

I have never known anything about Mozart other than he started composing music at the age of nine. Mozart started his music career because his father was a professional musician. His father taught Mozart clavier pieces at the age of four. Wolfgang also had the ability to teach himself violin. The young master musician strained hard to advance beyond what his youth limited him to. So the entire family toured around Germany, France, and England. They performed for all sorts of people, and Mozart was exposed to new musicians and composers.

When Mozart was seventeen years old, he became a court musician for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. It was a great opportunity – he was being paid to compose in nearly every possible musical genre, letting him flourish as a composer. But Mozart gradually grew bored and frustrated with the life and society in Salzburg, as well as the lack of opportunities for getting operas performed. He went to Paris to find new opportunities. Sadly, the Parisian musical world didn’t seem to take much notice of him. He ended up back in Salzburg. Later, his father had gotten him a position as a court organist.

After experiencing what it felt like to work together, Mozart decided to go to Vienna to work alone. Over the years, his fame spread wider and wider, and he became known as the best keyboardist in Vienna. He composed bunches of musical concertos, earn great deals of money from them.

Mozart was finding it hard to survive because Austria was at war. Mozart’s main source of income, the nobility, was going through a money drought. Mozart performed less and less in public; his fame was vanishing. He started borrowing money heavily from friends. At the end of the next year he had to take a position as chamber musician for the Emperor to earn enough.

He continually struggled for the next few years, taking long trips to other European cities to try and spark his fame again and make some cash. But it never seemed to work out for him. In 1790 things began to look hopeful. Mozart started working furiously, turning out new piece after new piece. His financial situation improved, and his music from this era is some of his most beloved. Then, as Mozart started a new piece, he fell ill. His wife helped nurse him as his illness grew worse and worse. At the age of 35, Mozart passed away to an unknown cause. Mozart left the world to be grateful for such treasured art.

     

The quoit was from Mozart

Mozart was smart creative and very positive,

Worked hard on songs and pieces,

I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Never give up when stressed and when other people suggest,

The rule is the rule,

Don’t be a fool,

Work until you see the pool,

This way you might fell supercool,

Others don’t accept,

At least take a rest,

Just reject and keep going,

Just when he was four,

He studied till he was sour,

Then found out music was for him, 

He worked till music was his aim

We all know that probably one day we might have to abandon the earth and go somewhere else. NASA has been trying to find a way to genetically enhance our body so that we can live on a different planet such as mars. They have to make us a little bit less human so that we can live mars.

I think this subject is really cool, and I actually really want to know what it might feel like if I was tweaked a bit to be less human. NASA wants to start flying in the 2030s so they have some time to research and figure out mor about the odd phenomenon of tweaking the human body so that we can live somewhere else. It might take a very long time but I think that they will succeed.

There is another thing that the people at NASA might do and that is terraforming Mars, this will make the land in mars be like how it is like on earth. Many Astrobiologists vote against doing this because they think it might make the organisms already living there die out. I also think that we shouldn’t terraform mars.

In conclusion I think that this project is really cool and I hope that NASA can do it successfully. It will be very big if it does work because then we will be able to live on mars or even other planets. It will be very good if NASA is able to succeed.

Mozart is a well known character in music and contributed many pieces that will be remembered even in our generation. He was a prodigy, a musician, and a composer. Even though he was always poor and quite a jerk, he is still today’s most renown classical musicians ever.

At a really early age, Mozart started to play the piano and his dad, a composer, was astonished about how Mozart could make his own pieces and play them almost perfectly. His dad then decided he had a child prodigy son. He spent a lot of money on trips to other places besides Germany (their current home) and Mozart performed there. At first he just performed with some people that just wanted to enjoy music and explore, but very soon word got around about how good he was. Soon enough he would be playing for kings, princes, and nobles. However there were many people that were jealous and envious about Mozart. Those people came to Mozart’s performance to see if he was for real and in the end, there was no question. Mozart was a prodigy.

After Mozart traveled around the “whole world” back then, he started to grow up and settle down his childhood. Soon he got married and started to compose new pieces. A total estimated amount of pieces he wrote during his VERY SHORT lifetime includes: 15 masses, 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos, 12 VIOLIN concertos, 17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets, 600 individual pieces, and even more that he didn’t have enough time to finish. See, he was a very busy man, whenever a good song came up to his mind he would immediately write it down and start working on that. He has too much unfinished work and he wasn’t really competent. He simply didn’t care about earning money, only his music (He also wasted his money on lavish things). In the end he was really poor unlike other composers so he died a pretty young age because of sickness. However even though he died with so much unfinished work, he still gave us plenty of masterpieces and wonderful music. He simply left a great influence and taught the future generations his genius and work.

In conclusion, Mozart was a great musician! He experience many hardships such as poverty and envy but in the end, we still remember him as a great musician and a very influential composer.

The story, “Hearts and Hands”, is about two men on a train, one the marshal, one the malefactor, who meet a woman, called Ms. Fairchild, if I remember correctly, and distinctly knows the criminal, Mr. Easton, though the story does not tell who is the felon and who is the justice-server. Also, Ms. Fairchild is clueless about who is the criminal and who is the officer and assumes that Mr. Easton is the marshal.

The impression that Mr. Easton is “…of handsome presence with a bold, frank countenance and manner”, and the other man “…a ruffled, glum-faced person, heavily built and roughly dressed.” Who knew, that Mr. Easton is the offender, and the man who looked like a bad guy was actually the marshal! Thus the story proves, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.”

Lots of times the story is short, but I could still get a lot out of it. the story was adequate and fun to read, and had a very interesting setting. I have not read that many books that are interesting and take place in a train, forget about “Around the World in 80 days”.

The short story is kind of a cliffhanger, because at the end Ms. Fairchild has just realized that Mr. Easton is the malefactor, and we don’t really know what happened to him. I like these stories because they get you thinking about what might happen next.

-Justin

For years, scientists have wanted to inhabit a planet other than Earth. If one day in the next, say, 20 years, we could live safely on Mars, would I do it?

The answer is no. First of all, in the article, it states that humans may require genetic modification in order to safely inhabit Mars. I would not want to do this, because what if this went wrong? I could easily lose my life. Also, I do not my DNA merged with another life form’s.

Second of all, I really like Earth. Earth is where I live. There are so many wonderful places to travel, and so many things to do. If I went to Mars, I do not think that I’d like it, and the environment would differ very much from Earth’s, so I wouldn’t feel very comfortable.

Also, I would miss my friends and my family. I don’t think that all of them would come too, and I doubt communications would be strong enough for us to converse daily. It would be sad if I had to leave them behind, when they help make me love Earth so much. I can’t imagine not having them there.

Lastly, I would miss my home. I would miss my stuffed animals, my room, basically everything. I would miss the birds singing every morning and the beautiful green trees and flowers. I would miss playing in the snow during winter, and playing sports in the yard during summer. Everything that makes Earth Earth I would miss.

In conclusion, although going to Mars sounds interesting, I don’t think I would want to do it. I think I would miss everything on Earth too much. I’m sure there are adventurous people out there though, who would jump at a chance to go to Mars. If someone I know goes there in the future, whether temporarily or as their new home, I would love to hear about their experiences and I’m sure it would make a great tale to tell.

NASA is already proposing a manned space mission to Mars is 2030, which is 51 years after the manned Apollo missions. Except the one main problem NASA faces is the radiation in space. It is highly dangerous to humans, the many health hazards includes cancer and radiation sickness. Humans now want to use genetic engineering to solve that problem.
Astronauts that go into space have to go through the Van Allen Radiation belt, which is energetic charged molecules captured from solar winds. Tardigrades are the only animals that humans seen that can survive in space. These micro animals have a thin powerful skin to survive. Since humans want to use Tardigrades to make humans less vulnerable to space radiation, they will use genetic engineering. They want to modify of edit our genes with Tardigrades. Using biotechnology, it will makes use less vulnerable no radiation.
Sending humans to Mars is very dangerous, especially since there is a lot of radiation on Mars and in space. Humans want to modify our genes using genetic engineering to makes us less vulnerable to radiation.

On April 23rd in 2013,
the press put out this tweet:
Breaking news
Obama has a bruise
and the white house went BOOM.
The message was retweeted 4k time.
But all of it was fake
that’s a crime,
but it still went viral.

This news was fake
and none of it was real,
the press was hacked
by Syrians in teal!
Their purpose was to mess up society
but they disrupted more than a variety.
All of trading went to a halt
based on the president,
it’s the Syrians fault!

As everyone started tweeting,
a lotta money went down,
$139B
in a single day!

For some reason
fake news spread faster
than real news from broadcasters.

The point of this poem
is that news, the big total,
might be fake or real
So it’s all on you
to decide whether it’s real or not.

Intelligence, power, loyalty, bravery, and heroism. These are all common habitudes each and every individual wishes to inherit. In literature, the theme of a piece can provide a deeper meaning for many aspects of life. The short story The Secret Life of Walter Mitty written by James Thurber is about a man called Walter Mitty. He is diagnosed with an unknown mental illness that causes him to constantly daydream about himself being the best. He dreams to be a war hero, a life-saving doctor, and many others. A recurring theme in Thurber’s piece that can also be connected to reality and different pieces of writing is how humans enjoy being seen as superior in any situation.

In each and every of Walter’s wild daydreams, he is always seen as the best of everything. In his first adventure, he is a ship captain who demands to charge through a wall of monstrous waves. This dream represents bravery and determination. The next dream he took place in a hospital, where he saved the lives of many sick patients and also fixed a broken machine. This dream represents intelligence. His next dream was about himself being accused of shooting someone. Even though the jurors concluded that he could not have shot someone at such far distances, Walter states that his accuracy is good enough to hit the victim. This dream shows how even though one is accused of wrongdoings, one may still try to be seen as prideful. In Walter’s last dream, he was a war hero. In order to protect his soldiers and friends, he sacrificed himself for the greater good. Life is the most valuable existence, and Walter still decides to take a step further and sacrifice his own life to be seen as heroic. Dreams are usually perceived as wishes. One who dreams of becoming rich often wishes to be rich. This means that Walter, and many other people, wish to be seen as superior in any situation.

Dreams of feeling superior can be seen in many other pieces of literature. The short story Rules of The Game exaggerates Chinese tradition, and is about a smart Chinese girl and her mother, who is not fluent in English. When the child asks her mother if Chinese people are good at torture, her mom answers that Chinese people are good at everything, including torture. Obviously, torture is not something to be proud at. Her mother said that Chinese are good at torture because she does not know what torture is. Despite the fact that her the mom does not know what torture is, she still proceeds to accept that an “unknown” word is something that the Chinese are good at. This shows how people even want to be great at unknown activities.

Being seen as good also weaves it way into reality. In many of the Ted Talks that were recently assigned to watch, the speaker explains how people enjoy being seen as good. One of the Ted Talks explained how one can change their behavior in different ways, such as stopping to smoke. One of the ineffective ways the speaker mentioned was giving out warnings, such as saying that if one smokes, they will contract lung cancer. This method was ineffective because people tend to avoid occurrences that they don’t like. The speaker then explained that providing information that helps someone will encourage change. When one tells a smoker that not smoking will be able to let them breathe easier and cough less, the smoker will listen more attentively because people enjoy being seen as good. In another Ted Talk, the speaker explained about different types of mirrors and their usage. There were normal mirrors and true mirrors. Normal mirrors are more common and are used to see self beauty. These common mirrors also display a distorted reversed image of someone’s true face. True mirrors show the truth, there is no distortion and is not used to see beauty. The speaker continues to explain how many people have surprised reactions when its their first time looking into a true mirror. This is because they are used to seeing themselves as wonderful through the normal mirrors, and the true mirror takes away the beauty.

To wrap everything up, being seen as superior can almost be seen everywhere. Many other pieces of literature also share this theme. In real life, wanting to be seen as superior is an everyday occurrence.

The short story “The Secret of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber is about Walter Mitty daydreaming. He and his wife are on their way to do some errands, he indulges in a daydream in which he is a brave military commander piloting a hydroplane, but his wife interrupts by exclaiming that he is driving too fast. This pattern is repeated several times. He starts daydreaming, and then his wife brings him back to reality. In reality, Mitty does not do anything very well. Although Walter Mitty’s daydream life has much exciting action, his waking life, as recounted in the story, is routine and uneventful. In his waking life, Mitty drives with his wife into Waterbury for the regular weekly trip to shop and for Mrs. Mitty’s visit to the beauty parlor. After dropping his wife off at the salon, Mitty drives around for a brief time, then parks the car in a parking lot, purchases some overshoes at a shoe store, with some difficulty remembers to buy puppy biscuit, and goes to the hotel lobby where he always meets his wife. After a short time Mrs. Mitty appears, complaining to Mitty about the difficulty of finding him in the large chair where he has “hidden” himself, and then for a “minute” (actually much longer) leaves Mitty standing in front of a nearby drugstore while she goes to accomplish something she forgot. During these events, he goes into five daydreams or fantasies, which not only are induced by the events of his waking life but also affect them. This was a confusing story as the daydreams were being cut by reality, and it was hard to know what was happening. The story was very interesting.