Age of Ballet

A ballet is a theatrical form of dance that are also mixed with other kinds of dances. Ballet is a french word that originated from an Italian word which is ballo, that means “a dance”. Through ballet, a dancer is able to show the human body in a very elegant and harmonious way. It has been alive since 500 years ago. However, the old ballet and the modern ballet is a lot different.

The first ever prima ballerina came from France. Her name is Mademoiselle La fontaine. She was popular for her long, stiff gown, her high-heeled slippers and her plumed head-dress. She was the sole performer of the Triumph of Love also known in french as Le Triomphe de l’ Amour. It was choreographed by Beauchamp and the music was by Lully. She was one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time that also started the professional dancers called ballerinas.

There were a lot of prominent ballet dancers in the history.

Marie Taglioni (1804-1884)

During those times, ballet dancers were able to “fly” because of the wires connected to their body that makes them fly like birds. She was one of them. His father influenced him and even made his own ballet which is called La Sylphide. It was a tragic romantic ballet. The sylphide died (tree spirit) leaving alone James to mourn for her in the forest.

Carlotta Grisi (1819-99)

When Taglioni was visiting in Russia as a tourist, Carlotta Grisi also arrived at the Paris opera. This is when Jules Perrot, a dancer, fell in love with her. Gautier also had a crush on her. He was the one who wrote a ballet story just for her. It was entitled as Giselle which is about a peasant girl who loved to dance but ended in a tragic way.

Ballet can also be funny:

The World of Badminton

About

In badminton, you need to be fast and swift. It is played with equipment called rackets and shuttlecock on a wood, dirt or even just a grass ground. The court of a badminton is a smaller version of a tennis court. Badminton was first developed in Battledore and Shuttlecock.

Playing the game

When the player serves , it is already the cue that the game has started. Each one on the other side will hit the shuttlecock with the net of the racket and not letting it touch the floor. Or else, the other team or player wins.

Strategies

The objective of the game is to be able to win it by making through the required number of points which is making the opponent make mistakes. One way, is letting your opponent hit the shuttlecock so hard that it will reach the outside of the lines of your side of the court. Another is not being able to hit the shuttlecock which means hitting it on the floor. Another is holding the net. Last but not the least, holding the shuttlecock with any parts of the body.

Basic Strokes

Overhead shots can be done by hitting the shuttlecock literally above your head. Underhand shots are thrown below the person’s waistline. If you hit it on the right side, it’s called forehand shot. On the other side, it is called the backhand shot. If you are left handed, you will always substitute the left for right. Serving should be done right. And if you want to win, use a smash or kill shot for a finishing move. There are also useful auxiliary shots. These are the hairpin and cross court net shots. You can also mix them. One example is the round-the-head shot where it looks like a forehead but it’s actually an overhead backhand shot.

Here is an example of a badminton match(single and men division):

Facts About Dancing

Dance is defined to be the rhythmic movement of the body. In every places in every country, even the indigenous people dance. Here are some more facts about the ancient history of dance.

Ancient Egypt

During the old Egypt, the land were filled by the flood from the Nile River.When it dries out, the soil became fertile. This will be the reason crops will be able to grow. This is the reason why the people performs a drama to honor the god Osiris responsible. They believed that the death and the rising of this great god has to do something with the rising and falling of the body of water that gives them food to eat. As the population grew, they became more specific with their worship. They made dances and they even call it the Dance of Stars.

Ancient Greece

The young children of the early age were taught to dance. The reason why is that the sole act of dancing will provide a person with with harmony of the mind and even the body. They were also taught because they will be the one dancing during family reunions and religious ceremonies. A Greek poet named Homer was able to record of how happy these children danced before.

Ancient Rome

Romans adopted a lot of things from the Greeks. One of which are their dances. Roman women danced to the statue of Cybele to honor her, the goddess of fertility. Even slaves do battle dances. Sometimes, they pay performers. They also dance during funerals. Even the Roman warriors dance to be able to win battles. Everyone during that time was a great dancer.

Today, there a lot of kinds of dances like traditional, ethnic, acrobatic, ballet, lyrical, disco dancing, modern dancing, ballroom dancing, classical, hip-hop, pop and there are many more genres.

Here is a funny version of the evolution of dance:

The Life of John Dalton

Early of the time duration of 1800s, a not-so-popular English scientist named John Dalton was working on a theory that became the foundation of the modern science. In his theory, he described how various kinds of atoms make up all types of matter.

In a little village in a place north-western England, John Dalton was born on September 6, 1766. His family was not a rich type of household. His dad was just a weaver. It was hard nurturing six children. He started schooling in A Quaker school and even took lessons relating to mathematics. He was just a humble and simple boy. On an early age of 12, he already started teaching. He also joined his brother in teaching in a place near Kendal. After a few years, they were already running their own school.

John Gough, a blind philosopher, influenced him to be a professor on a subject of mathematics and natural philosophy at a college in Manchester. He was also interested in other parts of sciences like botany. He was also the founder of Daltonism which is just called color blindness. He also studied weather and said that the air itself composes of different gases. In his diary, he made 200, 000 observationsThis made him study chemistry. With his experiments, he showed that all matter, except for gas are composed of matter. When they combine, they will become an element. He also said that they have different weights. He even made a table for the different weights. However, many are wrong. However, his theory about atomic weights was clearly right.

Even though he was busy with doing other science works, he still continued teaching students. In fact, he didn’t even marry.However, he was really ill and died from years of disease. He had a public funeral which was visited by almost 40, 000 people.

The History of Pi

Pi is the sixteenth letter in the Greek Alphabet (π). In math, it is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It has a value of 3.14159265358979323846… and the numbers go on without repeating. Translated to a fraction, it’s approximately 22/7. How did this important mathematical symbol originated?

Pi has been an alive concept as long as 4, 000 years ago by the Babylonians. They made it by calculating the area of the circle by getting 3 times the square of its radius.

But then, during 287-212 BC, it was first calculated by Archimedes from Syracuse. We all know that he is among the most prominent mathematicians in the history of the ancient civilizations. He was able to get the approximate area of a rectangle by using the Pythagorean Theorem which allows him to find the surface areas of the two basic polygons, the one inside the circle and the one circumscribed. He then proved that pi is between the numbers of 3 1/7 and 3 10/71.

It was also mentioned in the Bible:

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about. (I Kings 7, 23)

He made the Sea of cast metal, circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim and five cubits high. It took a line of thirty cubits to measure around it. ( II Chronicles 4:2)

However, their value was 3, not exactly the exact number.

Nobody really knows who had the idea. But all over the world, it was popular even in Ancient China by an early Chinese Mathematician named Zhu Chongzhi who lived between AD 429-500. However, the most accurate one during the computer age was  D. F. Ferguson. However, the word Pi is not only popular with math but also on some other aspects like the movie called the Life of Pi.

About Winnie-the-Pooh and Friends

Winnie-the-Pooh, or also known as Pooh Bear, was created and first written by A. A. Milne in 1926. It became a very successful children’s story and series of all time but after a close examination by group of experts, these turned out to be stories of seriously troubled individuals. This means that each character of the Winnie-the-Pooh collection of stories portray a different kind of disorder. The first and main character, who is Pooh, has an ADHD or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. He shows careless and indifferent behavior towards others. He also has Impulsivity with Obsessive Fixations. He is so obsessed with honey that he risks his and his friend’s life just to get it. Pooh also really likes to count a lot and that means he has an OCD or Obsessive-compulsive Disorder. Piglet has a Generalized Anxiety Disorder because he worries a lot and he is very anxious which explains why he stutters most of the time. Owl has Dyslexia. Although he is the most intelligent character, he still has a learning disorder such as spelling words wrong and reading with difficulties. Just like Pooh, Tigger also has ADHD. He is very hyper and thoughtless that he always gets into trouble. Kanga is an overprotective mother to her son, Roo, and it shows that she has a Social Anxiety Disorder because she decides everything what her son does and she doesn’t want her son to make mistakes. Rabbit also has OCD like Pooh because he wants everything to be well organized. Eeyore is always sad and lonely and this implies that he has a Depressive Disorder. Lastly, Christopher Robin has Schizophrenia. It means that of his animal friends are just products of his own imagination and because each of the characters has a disorder, these disorders could represent feelings within his own self.

How To Make an Essay

Writing an essay is always essential in school. However, every kid has troubles on how to write an essay that will create an impact that will give them an A+. Don’t worry, here are some tips I would like to share for you to be able to do your writing homework.

Researching

Before you get your pen and paper, you need to know what your topic will be about. You can get sources from the books in the library or legitimate ones in the internet. If your essay is about people, you can also conduct interviews from people. Note that Wikipedia is not always a suitable source. Check their references after the article. When you are taking notes, make it really detailed so you can keep track of it later. It will be better if you search for factual information rather than opinionated.

Picking Your Thesis Statement

Every essay has a thesis statement. This is not your topic nor your title. It is the summation of the ideas that will be found in the essay. It should not be too narrow nor too broad. You can do this by brainstorming your own ideas. You can list them down if you want.

Making Your Essay

After you’ve done everything above, you can now write your essay. But wait! Not the paragraph kind but the outline. The outline consists your A. Title, B. Introduction where it includes your 1. background and 2. thesis statement at the last part of the sentence, C. Body which consists your 1. First Major Category 2. Second Major Category and the list goes on, last but not the least is the D. conclusion which includes your 1. review and b. the answer, solution or final option. After you’ve filled out these things, let others read and criticize it. If there are no more errors, you can write them down into an essay form.

Tips on Making A Music Video

People are getting popular just by making music videos. They can hit a billion on YouTube like PSY’s Gangnam Style. However, do you know these easy steps on how to properly make a music video? A good video can be a smash while a bad one might be embarrassing.

What You Need

Obviously, you need the equipment to be able to record your music video. You can use any camera( or camcorder) as long as it is clear. If you want to edit it, make sure you don’t just use the Windows Live Movie Maker. There are a lot of applications you can find online. Always remember your budget. If you have zero, you can just borrow from your parents, teachers or your neighbors. Just make sure you return it to them on time with no damage or whatsoever. Lighting is also important. You will need additional light when you are in a dim location. Other things you need includes spare batteries, tripod, camera case, external microphone, and spare memory card.

What you need to know

1. Planning out the “story”

Yes, even though your characters are just dancing, you still need to have an organized plan on how to portray it. For example, the different locations for each part and etc.

2. Camera Angles and Movements

If you want a storyboard, you also have different angles for each one. You can find the different angles in the internet like extreme long shot, medium long shot, medium close up and the list goes on. Camera movements include pulling focus, dutch tilts, zooming and whip pan.

3. Editing

As I’ve said, there are a lot of tutorials you can find in YouTube for different kinds of video editing software. Don’t choose the complex one. The simpler, the easier you can understand and go on your way with the editing of the music video.

Here is an example: 

Facts About Gold

People have been improving themselves with gold following no less than 4000 B.C., as indicated by the National Mining Association. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East to the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs, gold shows up all through the old world. A Stone Age lady discovered covered outside of London wore a strand of gold around her neck; Celts in the third century B.C. wore gold dental embeds; a Chinese ruler who passed on in 128 B.C. was covered with gold-overlaid chariots and a huge number of different valuable items.

Gold is pliable and glossy, making it a decent metalworking material. Artificially talking, gold is a move metal. Move metals are exceptional, in light of the fact that they can bond with different components utilizing not simply their furthest shell of electrons (the contrarily charged particles that spin around the core), additionally the peripheral two shells. This happens in light of the fact that the vast number of electrons experiencing significant change metals meddles with the ordinary systematic sorting of electrons into shells.

Gold is still utilized as a part of gems, obviously, yet this component has additionally gone innovative. Gold is a phenomenal transmitter of power and is non-responsive with air, water and most different substances, significance it won’t consume or discolor.

Gold is additionally utilized as a part of pharmaceutical. The radioactive gold isotope Au-198 can be infused specifically into the site of a tumor, where its radiation can obliterate tumor cells without much overflow to whatever remains of the body. In 2012, specialists reported in the diary Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they could interface nanoparticles of Au-198 with a compound found in tea leaves to treat prostrate disease. The tea compound is pulled in to the tumor cells, keeping the nanoparticles stuck to one side spot for a few weeks while the radiation treatment happens. (The strategy has yet to be tried on people.)

History of Hollywood

We always hear about Hollywood and even see the Hollywood signs in some movies. There are a lot of Hollywood stars. However, do you know where the Hollywood had started? If no, here is the history of the hollywood and even the Hollywood sign itself.

Hollywood was made in 1853, with a solitary adobe cabin ashore outside Los Angeles, California. Developing harvests was so fruitful there that by 1870, Hollywood turned into a flourishing farming group.

One of its most eminent noteworthy figures was land magnate, Harvey Henderson Wilcox and his wife, Daeida, who moved to Los Angeles from Topeka, Kansas, in the 1880s. Wilcox, having lost the utilization of his legs from a session with typhoid fever before moving out west, purchased 160 sections of land of area west of the city, at the foothills close to the Cahuenga Pass.

It’s fitting that the Hollywood Sign, the overall image of the stimulation business, was imagined as an outside notice crusade for a suburban lodging improvement called “Hollywoodland.”

Truth be told, in spite of the prominent of the film biz, land has dependably been Hollywood’s essential monetary driver.

Despite the fact that the Sign’s appearance and reason have developed through the years, its essential optimistic message continues as before: This is a spot where enchantment is conceivable, where dreams can work out as expected.

By 1912, noteworthy movie organizations had set up creation close or in Los Angeles. In the early 1900s, most movie licenses were held by Thomas Edison’s Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, and producers were frequently sued to stop their creations. To escape this, movie producers started moving out west, where Edison’s licenses couldn’t be implemented. Likewise, the climate was perfect and there was speedy access to different settings. Los Angeles turned into the capital of the film business.