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Thompson, Paul..”Startling Finds on Teenage Brains.” SpingBoard: English Language Arts Ed. Betty Barnett. Tampa: College Board, 2015. 89-90. Print.

Long ago, in Greek mythology were dangerous creatures. Who lured sailors with their enchanting music and voices, and made them shipwreck on the jagged coast of their island. Roman poets placed them on some small islands called Sirenum Scopuli. These creatures were called Sirens, also known as The Daughters of Phorcys.

The infants benefit, since the music helps prepare the brain to think in a special way. According to Dr. Diane Bales, in his article called "Building Baby's Brain": The Role of Music ", this structure stimulates the same patterns in the brain that are responsible forrazonamient .the Music also plays a positive role in skills language. According to Ann Gadzikowski, coordinator of the Museum Child in Chicago, there is a strong connection between the development of language and musical skills. To develop both language and musical skills, we must learn to Audits identify

People can develop and enlarge the brain with training, the most part of musician that play a piano or violin, they are capable in increase the part of his brain that is responsible to the musician ability, with a long session of training.

The human brain consists of billions of neurons (nerve cells) and develops rapidly during early childhood. These nerve cells send electrochemical signals to each other to form the brains essential functions of language, communication, learning, memory, movement, thinking, and problem-solving. This essay will explore the changes in children’s behaviour from early childhood to adolescence as the brain develops.

The development of the cortex in late teens is closely related to a child 's cognitive stimulation at four years old. Other factors such as cognitive stimulation at eight year old and parental nurturing showed no effect on the brain scans. These results are proof of a sensitive period that determines the development of the cortex. It is extremely important to utilize the proper curriculum during this particular window of opportunity.

From intense body changes, such as a growing brain and body, to new and harder expectations at school, middle and late childhood is often a very difficult time for many individuals. In order to understand the effect of many developmental changes during late childhood, I interviewed twelve-year-old Riley. Riley is an up-coming seventh grader at a local middle school and is very active in sports, such as soccer, tennis, and golf. She has an Auditory Processing Disorder, which means that her brain is not fully developed and is not completely attached to her ear; due to this disorder, Riley cannot process information as quickly or as well as her peers. I met Riley through her older sister and a good friend of mine several years ago, and I conducted

And they took a group of 6 year olds and gave them weekly singing and piano lessons for 9 months. And in this study they took a baseline IQ score at the before the 1st grade and then taken again at the beginning of 2nd grade with the time in between provided for the experiment. And they found that on average the kids that received the lesson IQ was 3 points higher than it was 9 months earlier. This might be in part because when learning to play an instrument much like learning a new language you brain is required to build new connections and remap the network of the brain to work faster. Another study that was published from Christopher Johnson at the University of Kansas was out to prove if this raise in IQ also would affect the testing scores of children. And they found that in an elementary school with good education in the arts scored 20% higher in both English and Math standardized test, than an elementary school with little to no music education. Johnson sums it up by saying, “Schools that have rigorous programs and high-quality music education and arts teacher probably have high-quality teachers in other areas. If you have an environment where there are a lot of people doing creative, smart, great things, even people who aren’t doing that have a tendency to go up and do better.”

The first article showed the correlation between third grader, with various degrees of musical experience, who were tested on a battery of auditory processing and reading related tasks. One-hundred eighty four third-grade children from three mainstream public schools were participants in the study. Many of these participants had no previous knowledge of hearing or neurological problems. Of the 184 third-grader 13 failed to complete portions of the testing protocol and 15 failed provide information about their musical history and therefore were excluded. Of the 156 remaining children, 108 took music lessons at time of the study and the other children never participated in any form of formal music lessons. Some children with musical experience had between 1-36 months of experience and were taking music lesson and playing a musical instrument at least once a week. (http://journals.plos.org)

Luckily, many studies have shown that skills may always be developed and is indeed a fact. Learning how to play an instrument or simply learning how to read sheet music can help the left side of the brain, in which primarily controls the logic and reasoning, as well as the right side of the brain, in which controls the creativity and imagination, develop differently compared to a child who does not have a knack for the arts. A study from Northwestern University showed a student must be engaged in

Overall, the article covers the correlation between brain disorders and musical processing. The authors, Camilla Clark and Laura Downey and Jason Warren, have a claim that recent findings in research allow us as a society to further understand the biological role of music. The evidence provided is quite useful for the authors and researchers themselves, as it assists in forming a more concrete answer as to what the role of music really is in our human society. Similar to the first article, there is a significant amount of data. But, in this article there is more data concerning the different responses that result from different types of music on different types of brain disorders. There are even full brain scans with highlighted parts that show which parts of the brain are responding to music. As for counterarguments, it would be quite difficult in this case to provide a counterargument because of how plausible the claim really is. Answers are forming from the extensive research, but the answer to what the true biological role of music hasn’t come up yet. As stated before, this article is almost entirely information and is certainly a scholarly form of text. There are no biases from what has been read so far. There isn’t much of a gap in the argument because the data that has been formed from the extensive research does show that we are learning more about the effects of

In addition, contrary to the link found between musical education and IQ, genetics also plays a “substantial role in the link between music training and IQ” (Schellenberg 296). Therefore, the children’s abilities to reading or perceive better may be something that they received from their parents at birth. Genetics is not a variable that can be controlled or altered with music or at the will of a parent. Prodigies are a product of nature. At the age of 10, Alma Deutscher, wrote an entire opera version of Cinderella on her own, a task that is quite challenging for even adults to accomplish. In a “60 Minute” feature, a now 12 year old Deutscher creates a song with 4 random notes the host picks out of a hat (“60 Minute”). Within less than a minute she is able to impromize a piece with the four notes and create a story that can be heard in the melodies of the song.

The focus of this review is biomechanical in nature and builds on and extends previous reviews and overviews. While much is known about the biomechanics of the kicking leg, there are several other aspects of the kick that have been the subject of recent exploration. Researchers have widened their interest to consider the kick beginning from the way a player approaches the ball to the end of ball flight, the point that determines the success of the kick. This interest has encapsulated characteristics of overall technique and the influences of the upper body, support leg and pelvis on the kicking action, foot–ball impact and the influences of footwear and soccer balls, ball launch characteristics and corresponding flight of the ball. This review

Although many, one positive way music education is beneficial to students is that it has a large impact on brain stem growth. With the incorporation of music in a student’s daily life, the brain stem’s responses become more robust (Brown). Therefore, the amount of brain stem growth correlates with recent musical training. As stated by Brown, an adjunct professor at the University of Baltimore, “student’s that are involved with a large amount of music will see more gains in brain stem growth”. Furthermore, the neural changes that occur in students as adolescents stay with them into adulthood (“Music Matters”). This allows students to be more prepared once they go into the workforce as adults. Along with the brain stem’s responses being more robust, it’s sensitivity to sound increases (“The Benefits” 1). This is abundantly evident from early on, as mother’s sing to their infants to facilitate brain stimulation and development. Enrichment through music, starting at a young age, seems to improve individuals speech sound development and use of more advanced vocabulary. Adolescents’ language also improves with the use of music in a student’s academics (Miller 46). Luehrisen

"Islam" is derived from the Arabic root salaama meaning peace, purity, submission and obedience. Islam stands for making peace by submitting to the will of God and obeying His law. Jews and Christians view Islam as the latest of the world's great religions. However, worldwide Muslims (sometimes written "Moslems") understand their universal religion as the "final religion" and the "primal religion."