Frédéric François Chopin

a) Romanticism is art in the late 18th century emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
b) Frederic Chopin played romantic music.
c) Nobody can be totally romantic in nature.
1) Chopin played Romantic music.
2) "Character Pieces" are a staple of Romantic piano music. It is based on a single idea or program. They are characterized by the idea they invoke.
3) "Etudes" are three sets of solo studies for piano played by Chopin. There were 27 overall.
4) Frederic Chopin was a very ill man. He also had a relationship with George Sand, a woman. After she made a comic showing him like a weak man, their relationship ended but their friends tried to keep them together.

Arnold Schoenberg

1) The understanding of his twelve-tone work has been difficult because of its “revolutionary nature”. He was “subjected to a range of criticism and abuse” – wikipedia
2) His music isn’t used much today, and only listened to by musicians
3) This type of music was mostly used between 1920 and 1940 mostly in Germany
4) It is difficult to find a connection to the past
5) It is absolute music
**$$** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D54-8RCh1So
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oarPobOc-js
++**++ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs (12-tone music)
$$%%$$* Arnold Schoenberg most important contribution to music was the 12-tone music.

a. His most important contribution to music was the twelve-note technique
b. His approach to music was different because his idea was to play all 12 notes of the chromatic scale as much without emphasizing any
c. The influence of his music is waning.

17/11 What did I learn

Today, in citizenship class, we learned even more about social boundaries and cliques. We learned about how they affect our lives. Ms Sheilah told us that cliques are not always good. They can make people not included feel bad. The main social boundary in our school is language, I think... We also learned about stereotype. Stereotype is when people judge other big groups of people because of what they look like or what they do. Those are the main things we learned today.

Art 8 10/11

1) The two people I have to describe are two of the workers that were shaping the glass at the beginning. They were both wearing blue T-shirts and black pants. They looked like they were concentrating a lot. One of them was one of the people that had to blow in a tube to make the glass extend. His final goal was to make a kind of glass (to drink in). The other one was making some small animal shapes out of the glass to show us. It was very funny.

2) The glass in Hsinchu is famous because there is a lot of gas and silicon inside. Hsinchu is the Silicon Valley of Taiwan. It is still not as good as the glass in Venice.

What did I learn?

What I learned today where all the rules and duties that we have as citizens. And, I learned the rules in our class. The main rules we have are:
- no talking out of turn (talk when it is your turn, not when the teacher is talking
- sit up pay attention (makes your listening better)
- respect (same thing as the first one)
- cooperation (work and help others)
And a special rule, no food. Last class, they found a cockroach!

Citizen

I am a citizen of:
- France
- The World
- HIS
- European Union
- My House
- My Compound

Need For Speed Shift

OK, so I have this game in the title and unfortunately I got TOTALLY ADDICTED. Oh my god, it is so annoying, I almost can't think of anything except that. Even if I don't play a lot, like a few races per day, it is so fun! So bad Gordon is never here to stop my addiction...