Response to an article: Clam cleanup

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http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0110-clam_cleanup.htm

Biologists Clam Up Waterways To Determine Sources Of Pollution

In this article, a brilliant discovery about the clam, the small organism used to be our food items will be shared. For me this is one of the most interesting topics I've found today while reading the Science Daily.

Biologists discovered that they can use CLAMS to determine the toxin's sources in water. Clams are used as pollutant traps. These small organism clean the water in a natural way. They feed absorbing toxins in their tissues as they draw in water. Biologist place the clams in the rivers and streams are contaminate pollutants, which some you can see and some you cannot see such as pesticides, lead, arsenic and PCBs. Later on, they open the clams' shells and determine which kind of pollutant contained in those streams and rivers. This is a smart way to analyze the health of a stream or river.

This is a cool way to cleanup the environment, the clams become tiny pollutant detectives. We cannot imagine how amazing are these creature's ability. For example: the clams detected a banned pesticide in Maryland, buried years ago and no slowly leaking. By using clams, I believe these small organism will help scientists determine the toxins' sources in the water earlier to find solution for it. The earlier they find out the problem, the easier to solve it. To fix the pollution problems, that's costly to cleanup the polluted water. But nowadays, they are trying to find a new and inexpensive way to fix the problems. Clam is just one of the organism that scientists use in biological testing such as plant, animal, and microbial indicators.
From this article, I believe people have to rethink the role of animals or just organism such as clams.

Genre of music by composers in different eras

There are variety genres in classical music, which is each of them playing the vital role in general music, especially in classical music. In this article, the most significant and considerable genre, the Symphony will be discussed. For a century, the invention and development of the Symphony by composers through different eras are always the most interesting and argumentative topic for music critics in the world. In every period of classical music, there is a composer who is the norm who created the great inspiration to other composers in not only their time but also hundreds of years after that. Beethoven in Classical era, Tchaikovsky in Romantic period and Debussy in 20^th century music are the most important composers in their generation. Their symphonies are always the greatest classical works ever composed of all time.

In the classical period from 1750 to 1820, the Symphonies had three movements: a fast movement, a slow movement and later on another fast movement. Beethoven was the first composer dramatically expanded the symphony and put choir in to this genre. He expanded almost of his symphonies in four movements; especially his Symphony No.6 has five movements. His Symphony No.9 was written including vocal soloist part and choir in the last movement, turning it into a choral symphony. Later, Hector Berlioz, a French composer followed Beethoven and wrote Romeo and Juliette using soloist and choir in 1857. Beethoven is the composer who famous of his initialization of the leit motif in his Symphony No. 5. The short-short-short-long motif is very well-known, which called the Fate motif. This Symphony is one of the most popular and best-known compositions in all of classical music, which was described the symphony as “one the most important works of the time”.

With the rise of established professional orchestra, the symphony assumed more prominent place in concert from 1815 to 1910. The romantic music struggled to increase emotional expression and power to describe the truths, while extending the formal structure from the classical period. The new term Symphonic poem or Tone poem was used to describe a symphony which content of a poem, a story novel, a painting, and a landscape. Tchaikovsky was the only Russian Romantic composer who did not use oriental influences in his music. He preferred using folk tune melodies in his compositions. The melodies in his symphonies are always described the most beautiful, and most famous melodies in all music. They are notable for their immense elegance and gracefulness.

At the turn of the century, the classical music was divided into many different styles. There were variety trends such as: Modernism, atonality, neoclassicism and expressionism. The music in this period is shorter in form, highly colorful orchestration, and dissonant fragment melodies. Debussy emerged out to be a spearhead in France. His music is defined with a lot of different styles and influential from different composers. For instance: The “infinite arabesque” and complex counterpoint of Javanese gamelan, the stylization of nature in Japanese landscape prints, and the oriental influences of Russian composers.

What music means to me (part II)

Very long time ago, I found a clear answer for this question, which took a lot of time to find out. The first thing that comes to your mind might be “Is that too obvious that you are a musician so of course music means your job, your career, your future, etc.” I would answer: “Yes, it is” but for me there is much more than that.

There is a reason that I believe that music belongs to my life. I didn’t choose music, it chose me. I was luckily born in a family with music tradition, that I have right to be proud of. Both my grand-father and my dad are great musicians. Especially my dad is the one who loves music so much that he decided to teach me playing musical instrument even my mom had given birth to me. My dad loves my music and he plays music all day long when he stays at home. This is the way that makes me become a child that I can recognize a lot of classical pieces. In that way, because of a very simple reason “my dad loves this piece”, classical music becomes a part of my life and I find that how empty and boring the world can be in just one day without music. I listen to music anytime that I can: walking or cycling to school, having meals, taking a rest…

I found that I really love music more after studying at music school and summer music camp for children. Those were all great opportunities for me to understand and play music. It is no longer the music for me to entertain but I become a person who makes music and entertains my parents, my friends and people that I don’t know. But the feeling of making people smile and happy for me is indescribable. From the moment that I play music to people, the magic of music has changed my life.

Yes, music inspires me in so many ways. I’m not sure how it works; it sounds really miracle but for me it’s true. It changes gradually the way I think, the way I treat my parents, my friends, the way I see things around me. I realized that every day is a story, which can be happy or sad but I love it because I see my parents, my friends, strange people are all so adorable to me. Music helps me realize a lot of valuable things in life, makes me think about how to becomes a better person, how to make people around me feel happy.

More than that, music gives me a chance to dream and a chance to achieve my dream. With my favorite music I feel like my imagination is unlimited. I can play the cello with image in my mind that I’m playing in a garden with so many colorful flowers or I play for a very unique recital in Carnegie Hall, my dream concert. It can be whatever and wherever I’d love to be. But it’s not just imagination. Music gives me the chance to achieve it. It encourages me to practice every day, try my best to have further dream and achievements with music, my passion and my life.