...makes the toy quite easy to make. It is an ancient mechanical device used for ceremonial purposes and as a toy. It is an object in the middle of a cord and can be made to buzz by winding the cord while keeping the end stationary. The object moves by pulling and releasing the tension on the cord. The most common way that it was made was with a large button and some string. History of the toy As children in the 1950's, this was a favorite toy. It is interactive and although it doesn't seem to do much, the hypnotic whirring and the pulling to keep it moving kept us busy for a long time. There are several different kinds of spinning tops. In East Asia the conventional way of spinning the top is by using a string. By the late 16th century, tops like these were being used by adults in Britain. The Museum has a varied collection of spinning tops, humming tops and gyroscopes. A number of optical toys was developed in the early 19th century and it is used as spinning to create moving pictures. One of these is the zoetrope invented in 1834. It consists of a metal drum pierced by a series of thin vertical slots. Paper strips, depicting a moving figure or object, are placed inside. When the child spins the drum and looks through the slots, the pictures appear to move. This is due to the principle of “persistence of vision”; the brain remembers what the eye has seen for a fraction of a second and so “pieces together” the separate pictures. How to make a Button-String Toy? Note: You can...
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...E.T. Lyrics Lyrics Artists News Soundtracks Apps MetroLyrics #ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ MetroLyricsKaty PerryE.T. Lyrics ArtistLyricssee allAlbumsPicturesVideosAwards E.T. Lyrics Katy Perry Print LyricsiTunes LyricsSubmit Corrections 4.8K Send "E.T." Ringtone to your Cell Show Hide Click highlighted lyrics to see their meaning You're so hypnotizing Could you be the devil? Could you be an angel? Your touch magnetizing Feels like I am floating, leaves my body glowing They say be afraid You're not like the others, futuristic lover Different DNA They don't understand you You're from a whole other world A different dimension You open my eyes And I'm ready to go, lead me into the light Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me Infect me with your love and Fill me with your poison Take me, ta-ta-take me Wanna be a victim Ready for abduction Boy, you're an alien Your touch so foreign It's supernatural Extraterrestrial You're so supersonic Wanna feel your powers, stun me with your lasers Your kiss is cosmic Every move is magic You're from a whole other world A different dimension You open my eyes And I'm ready to go, lead me into the light Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me [ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/et-lyrics-katy-perry.html ] Infect me with your love and Fill me with your poison Take me, ta-ta-take me Wanna be a victim Ready for abduction Boy, you're an alien Your touch so foreign It's supernatural Extraterrestrial ...
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...Making a Dubstep song A lot people have either heard a dubstep song or know of at least one. Some people like them, but some don't. Hearing these songs I always wondered how hard is it to make one. It turns out having free time, computer skills, and some rhythm are all you need, well some computer First you'll need some great to get started. The first thing you need is a computer. A lot of dubstep is the sound effects. You need a fast computer with a lot of memory. If you want a Mac, make sure it has 1.8 GHz, with an Intel Processor 2-4 GB of RAM and is OSX 10.5 or later. If you want a PC, make sure it has 2GHz Pentium or Celeron processor 2-4 GB or RAM Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7 a sound card with ASIO driver support. Next you'll need a music software, my favorite is GarageBand. The music software is used to prepare tracks, sample songs, mix and record. Other popular software is Fruity Loops, Cakewalk Sonar, and Renoise. You should strongly consider adding external hardware to the setup. Having a basic USB mic on hand to record vocals or raps is a good idea and good way to create new sounds to use. If you're at all interested in incorporating original found sounds or acoustic elements and manipulating them in your dubstep music, a solid microphone is a good idea. The next step is to learn about your equipment. Playing with the instruments you have on your computer can be a good way to familiarize yourself with...
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...that like some songs for no apparent reason either because the beat is catchy or just because everyone likes it. Philosophically it is not possible to like a song for no reason because there is always a reason for our actions. For something not to have a reason, it is an action without thought. But since liking something has an idea behind it, it is impossible to like something without reasons. When you like something, it is like an emotion because emotions are caused by reasons. Everyone has reasons for liking songs, some are fond of their likings and some are not. That is why some people admit to liking the songs they listen to and some just keep it to themselves. Therefore, liking something for no reason is impossible. From my experience, I tend to listen to the songs that sound catchy. I have many reasons why I like the songs that I listen to because they are either catchy, have significant lyrics that have meanings behind them or because the words that are being sung in the song connects with the situations that I might be dealing with. People use some songs to express their emotions when they can't explain it by using their own words. For example, the song "Trap Queen" by Fetty Wap, many people like it because of the funky beat and some people hate it because it is stupid. But a lot of people have their own opinions to different songs that they hear. We should not judge them if they like certain songs that we might dislike because to them, we like the songs that they despise...
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...to narrow my thoughts on to why do people hear certain songs and what does it mean to them? Song lyrics have more importance for some than for others as in the general populous (Buser, Flannery, Bentley & Gladding, 2005, p. 90). I want to know how important are those lyrics and its messages are to the general music hearing population. Buser, Flannery, Bentley & Gladding conducted a study by surveying 28 graduate students in counseling on the meaning of lyrical music in their lives. Their results showed that some songs were more popular or better remembered than others. Their data also showed that while some lyrics are personally meaningful and others conveyed important messages, a number of lyrics are just relaxing, joyful, and entertaining without a deeper level of significance to them. Although their data had its limitations with only surveying 28 graduate students in counseling, and the majority of those being female does limit the study’s findings. It still shows us what few people see in songs and the meaning that the lyrics are trying to convey onto their audience. 1. Does genre determine the depth of lyrics? a. As stated in the article that most of those song on the billboards top 20 are that of a rock and roll genre, and with that in mind I started wondering does the genre determine the depth and soul of the lyrics? Without lyrics a song is nothing and with the wrong lyrics the song can be worth nothing, but is their a difference in meaningful...
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...Music Cpuntdown This selection was from the top 10 Billboard classical music. My favorite musical Artist is Jackie Evancho an 11 year old girl that has the tone and quality and even the emotion of a 30 year old who has taken voice lessons for 20 years. She is a debut artist. The nature of her music is classical, and the best of her albums titled "In the eyes of an Angel" What i like about this particular song is both the lyrics and the music, because it make me to know that it does not matter your age your dream cam be achieved, if a young girl could sing and think like an adult, then there is nothing impossible. And also the lyrics talks about one believing in each other’s dream if you can look at yourself from the eyes of an angel. In this particular song the piano and the percussion were used in precise manner to enhance the lyrics of the song that brings you close to a kind of joyful tears. It was in verses and hooks. There was an intro, verse, hook that was sang solo by Jackie and another hook sang by the general back up group, and then back to verse. This next title of song is the latest of Jackie's album titled "Dream With Me”. This is also a classical music and the piano was the major instrumentation used, and it was directed by David Forster who has five Grammy awards. "Dream With Me" is a very good song but is not well executed as her other song. The lyrics were not very clear and not much people can relate with the wordings. It was also has an intro and followed...
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...“Drag Me Down” The theme of this song “Drag Me Down” is that nobody can take you down with the love and support of someone else. This shows that with the right support nobody can make you want to quit something that you have started. This song really speaks to a lot of people and it is one of the best. One Direction expresses figurative language in a few places in the song. They use a good example of hyperbole when they say, “If I didn't have you there would be nothing left…” (One Direction 7). They over exaggerate that if the love of their life was gone, he would have nothing else to live for, but there are a million things to live for. Which some people might believe that their world is going to come crashing down but only time will...
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...a foster home and my step was a very bad man. When I left my mom was the worst day of my life until I heard a song by Dolly Parton, Coats of many Colors. The lyric of this song really has touched my life for a long time. Thinking of how my life is a reminder of this song. As a teenager, I listen to rock-n-roll. The hair band like gun-n-rose, Prison and Rat was the one that I listened to the most. I had to dress like them and have that funk like to myself, like the cloths and the big hair. I had no care in the world about my parents I was running wild and having funny. But by doing that I got in trouble a lot. It was a funny time and I love it. I was rebelling against my mom so bad. When a finish school I got pregnant with my son and trying to listen to the music I real like as a kid gave me a headache, so I start to listen to country. This music real calmed me and relaxes me in a way that I could really relate to it more. My day to day life was just like to songs that I lived. Living my life throws music and personally relationship is how I get throw my day. Looking how I can change my life and my kid’s life. I know by letting my kids be who they are why I have a great family. The music I associate with comfort would be country, it is very relaxing. These songs help me deal with disappointment and stress knowing that my life will get better in time. Staying on top of life is the way to go in my life staying one step ahead and not letting...
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...Songs are an arrangement of poetic expressions applied into a musical composition. Most are expressed as narrative poems familiarizing the audience of an event that occurred. However, beyond narration, lyricists have implemented other idiosyncrasies of poetic devices into the lyrics. The 1980’s rock band, Queen, have three top selling songs: “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, and “Somebody to Love.” Within the lyrics, constant forms of repetition, various rhyme schemes, and narrative stories can be discovered. Repetition can be located within the lyrics of “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust”, and “Somebody to Love.” According to the text, repetition is to carry again or repeat (Roberts 791). Doing so creates emphasis...
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...read does not come from a book, a magazine, or a blog. It comes from a hip-hop song. The song was made by a Canadian rapper, turned singer, named Aubrey Graham. He is well known as Drake in the music industry. The song I am referring to is called ‘Jungle.’ There is one lyric in particular that caught my attention and stuck with me. The lyric itself personally inspires me to be my best and encourages me to keep moving toward success. The song is fairly new. It was released in February of 2015, along with seventeen other songs, on Drake’s album ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late.’ This is his fourth commercial released album. It was randomly available on iTunes on the thirteenth of February. The album has been very successful, as well as his others. The album debuted as number one on the Canadian Albums Chart and the Billboard 200. Because of ‘If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,’ Drake became the first rapper to top Billboard’s Artist 100 chart. Jungle has the third most plays out of the whole album. Drake has always been one of my favorite artists to listen to. I feel his music is more relatable than others. Jungle really grabbed ahold of my mind and wedged itself in there, continuously playing even when I’m not listening to the actual song. It loops the same part of the song over and over again when I’m in apposition of giving up. It is a rather emotional song though. The meaning of the song is said to be about him realizing he was down playing his feelings for a woman...
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...Job Principal: A Christian leader must never question his faith in God or God’s decisions. Key Verse: Job 42: 5-6 "My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes." Explanation: The book of Job describes a man who had his faith in God put through numerous test. In the story of Job Satan questions Job’s faith in God . He believes that Job’s faith in God is only strong because God protected him from evils in life. Satan wanted to be allowed to test Job’s faith. God did allow for Satan to test Job’s faith but only within reason. When Job began to lose the things that he had once cherished so much in his life he began to question his faith in God. One of Job’s friends tells Job that he needed to remain strong in his faith especially at this time in his life. Job’s story provides a great lesson to Christian leaders about remaining strong in their faith. God may allow Satan to put his people through certain test in life but staying strong and remaining faithful to God is the key to surviving them. Christian leaders may encounter many obstacles during their leadership but they must never stray from God’s faith. Isaiah Principal: Key Verse: Isaiah 6:8Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" Explanation: The book of Isaiah is also referred to as The Book of Salvation. Isaiah served as a powerful prophet sent by God to warn his...
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...power, using this power of language to degrade their enemies and those they consider beneath them, and shape language in their favor. Music ties into language completely. The words of song lyrics convey powerful messages. As language is power, those in control seek to repress the power of this language in music, attempting to keep the power in their favor. But this attempt at censorship only gives those words even more influence and any attempt to infringe our right to free speech should be fought for to prevent its loss. The censorship of lyrics has occurred globally and can be dated back as far as music and poetry can be traced. Let’s take Asia as an example. Under the ruling of the Taliban in Afghanistan, music became a crime (Korpe, 2004). Instruments were burned, and people were severely punished for singing or creating any kind of music that was not deemed acceptable by the government. In Kabal, President Rabbani went as far as to create an Office for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, which was used to regulate the lyric of song in the favor of the government, and punish those who spoke ill towards those in power. In Pakistan, musicians had to hold a license which specified the kind of songs they could perform, namely songs that praised the mujahidin and songs with texts drawn from the mystical Sufi poetry of the region. But musicians always had the last laugh. They secretly rebelled against this oppression, and this can be seen with the example...
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...“Maybe i’m addicted to pain.. what used to be what's gone” “there's definitely darkness, but it’s hard to explain, though everybody knows it,” “you know you want to be in love, but that's a tricky thing to find” Tyler Farr was a thinker,an observer of the human condition. He is know as these by many people but to me he is my hero, my saviour, my friend. One of his most emotional songs are “A Guy Walks Into a Bar.” Tyler Farr was an honest man he would come out and tell you the truth no matter what it was about some of his confessions were “I chew tobacco, I don’t smoke, I drink whiskey ‘cause I like it.” Tyler Farr wasn’t always a country star, before he became one he had worked at tootsies pulling seats parking cars and playing for tips....
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...I was hustlin' in front of, called the police on me when I was just tryin' to make some money to feed my daughter, and all the brothas in the struggle. You know what I'm sayin? It's all good, baby baby." This introduction is from the song 1994 song "Juicy" by Christopher Wallace, or as the world knows him, The Notorious BIG. The late Christopher Wallace used music to express the circumstances that he encountered as a young black man in New York in the 1980s. Like Wallace, and many other black men and women, life was extremely difficult during this time. The war on drugs had just ended (allegedly) and racial injustice was a huge problem....
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...When people approach the Bible without any concern for the historical-cultural context, their interpretation of what is written can be seriously misunderstood and lead them to form opinions and ideas other than what was originally intended. There is the danger of interpreting passages far too literally and missing the meaning that it holds for us today. Slavery is an excellent example of this. There are numerous references to slavery being acceptable in the bible. This was, unfortunately, a way of life then. However, that doesn’t mean that we should employ slavery, in any form, today, just because it was acceptable back then. In the Song of Solomon 4:1-4, Solomon proceeds to compliment his love with the following words: 1Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Mount Gilead. 2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone. He was, stating that her hair was as beautiful as that of the long, flowing black hair of the goats as the sun shines off of their coats. At a time when dental hygiene wasn’t really a concern, this was quite a compliment, as he was commenting on how white and straight her teeth were. If someone were to comment on the state of our teeth today or refer to your hair as being that of a goat’s, it would be considered quite rude! From a modern aspect, his “compliments” don’t seem to get much better: 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples...
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