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The Sounds We Create

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In the second unit of my promptly named class "Light, Sound, and Time", we took a deeper look into sound and how it works. Usually in my projects, I try to become the teacher to tell you about how to do things for yourself but this time I will be showing you what I learned and hope that I can make enough sense. We started out by asking "what is sound?". Just based on prior knowledge and a little help from the past unit, we decided that sound is a wave. Sound is a wave yes, but what else is it? Sound is more than a transfer of vibrations, at least for humans. Take music for example, no matter what it is it has an effect. Whether it's a beautiful melody, a loud guitar solo, or literally nothing. During the unit we talked about music constantly. Through the middle of the unit we talked about the math behind how fast sound is and can be. Believe it or not, but sound is affected by everything in its surroundings. Sound travels fastest through solid matter, slowest th

Us, and Others

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"The Importance of Psychology" Owlcation, 2021 As I am typing this we are wrapping up our first unit in "A Nations Argument." This class was a collage of people declaring their independence on different levels through out the history of America; The beginning, when it was several colonies and groups of native Americans, to the Declaration of Independence, to what it even means to declare independence, and now, where we students have been asked to make our own declaration. A declaration of study to tell our teaches exactly what we want, need, and deserve to learn about.  School, from kindergarten to high school, seems to be an introduction to our world. Slowly progressing in the intensity and amount of knowledge to be passed on to later generations to secure a future for other generations to come. It's the start of us. There has always been this kind of start, either in an actual school or learning in life. In America, which is mostly where we talked about, we h