Kathy Kong's List: Articles for Culture Essay

• music program in school will help develop your brain to a higher level and faster than other students

  • -proven fact?
    -is this what a lot of students nowadays think?
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• music is everything
• Music is physical education
• foreign language
• It is its own language and uses symbols to represent ideas
• Music is the universal language that everyone understands and can relate to. Music is what brings everything together. It is something that everyone kno

  • -very true
    -music is commonly defined this way
    -becoming a great influence and great way of communication in society
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• music is art
• transform them into an emotion and feeling

  • -a release of emotions
    -great for handling stress, creativity, individualism
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• critical that music classes remain in schools
• who knows what the world would be like.
  

  • -question worth pondering over
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• healing and harmonizing the mind, body and spirit.
• healing promotion and encouragement of heightened awareness
• mind balancing
• widly recognized since the early 1950s
• music therapy can reduce heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, stress and anxiety
• compared the effects of classical music to rock and roll music on plant growth.
• classical music helped the plants to grow faster; whereas the rock music actually deteriorated the plant's growth.
• humans
• increase in IQ

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• it won't make her smarter.
• debunked what has been called the "Mozart Effect," a temporary increase in intelligence experienced after listening to a piano sonata written by the famed composer.

  • So many people believed, and continue to believe this... I've always questioned how can classical music make anyone SMARTER?
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• The notion that babies would be smarter if they listened to classical music was born out of this hype.
• be given to all new babies when they left the hospital.

  • This is a glimpse at one narrow side of American culture perhaps?
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• one of the most popular shows on American television
• one of the most popular shows on American television

  • why do people want to watch this?
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