Cause and Effect

As you listen to music in your car, while taking a shower, shopping, or when you are out to eat, have you ever thought that it could be beneficial? Studies have shown that music can help with memory, relaxation, and exercise. Studies have proved that music can help with alzheimer and dementia patients. Music also helps with other memory factors such as depression and also reduces stress. Classical music is found to be one of the best types of music to enhance storage in one's memory. Increasing the release of hormones in the body is an effect of music, which helps with memory. Also, preparing for tests, studies have shown that music can help while studying. Working in a nursing home, I see a lot of alzheimer's and dementia and music is a common activity that we offer weekly to the residents and it shows a difference, not only in their memory, but in their attitudes. Relaxing is something we all strive for. Music can be relaxing in ways such as helping with pain, sleeping, and muscle tension. Researchers have stated that some music can help slow the progression of Parkinsons. Researchers also state that some types of music can produce dopamine and serotonin, which are imbalanced nuerochemicals that effect Parkinson's Disease. Music also has a possitive effect on lowering blood pressure, improving respiration, reducing heart rate and improving cardiac output. Cancer patients have also been known to reduce pain and anxiety and improving their mood and quality of life by music therapy. When it comes to a race, music can help accelerate your speed. Research has said that music can increase endurance by 15 percent. Up beat songs will increase or match your tempo of running strides which will also help someone to run longer. While listening to music during exercise, it can distract one from feeling the burn. This also results in weight loss and a more healthy life style. Although music can be beneficial with memory, relaxation, and exercise, everyone has their own taste in genres. These different genres can effect a person in different ways and can effect each of these beneficial points differently. Works Cited: http://clearinghouse.missouriwestern.edu/manuscripts/230.php http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA401014/Music-to-Soothe-and-Relax.html http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/healthy-living/wellbeing/health-benefits-of-music.htm http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/exercise/workouts/music-increase-exercise-endurance.htm

Argumentation Blog

I read Blogworld and Its Gravity: The New Amateur Journalists Weigh In. I thought this story was kind of boring actually. The Author listed off a bunch of people I do not know. I am also not a big fan of politics and other argumentations they were making. Matt Welch, the author, said that blogging got more popular after September 11th, which I can see why. It's kind of cool that he gets to blog with people who have been through September 11th, and was there physically and saw what had happened. I'm sure you can feel the intensity of the blogs when you read about people who have seen or was around the actually crash of 9/11 that day. Some of the blogs and bloggers he wrote about in his story seem like they have nothing better to do than argue. I guess I don't understand the point of arguing all day about nothing. Or about something, but it would not change anyways. I think some of the blogs would be interesting to read though, and they might have a really good point of view.

Process Analysis Draft

Our Polish Ambassador Mini Vacation On our way to Milwaukee to see The Polish Ambassador, we made a few stops to waste some time. The first stop was the Tanger Outlet Mall in the Dells. I love going shopping when I'm out of the Onalaska area to see if there is anything different at these malls. Taylor, Josh, and I shopped from store to store until we reached the end of the strip mall. Most of the stores were similar to the stores in Onalaska, but it was worth the stop! As we left the Tanger Outlet, our stomach's were gargling. Denny's is right by the Tanger Outlet Mall so we had to stop, since we do not have a Denny's in the Onalaska/ La Crosse area. The inside of Denny's looked like a Diner from the Elvis Presley era. As we finish our meals, our stomach's feel like they are going to explode. We leave Denny's to head back on the road to our destination. The car ride to Milwaukee seemed to take forever. To pass time we obviously listened to music. We also decided to bring out our childish side and play traveling games, such as I Spy. After we play a few games we decide to stop again for a bathroom break at a local gas station. We got some snacks for the road and something to drink. Once we check out our items, it is back on the road again! After a few hours of traveling busy interstates, we arrive at our hotel in Milwaukee. Our hotel was a simple, cheap hotel. No pool or anything special, just a place to stay for the night. The show is still not for a couple of hours so we decide to check out a little bit of Milwaukee. As we weave between streets in downtown Milwaukee, we pass through Marquette University. The buildings look like an old, historical school, along with most of the buildings in downtown Milwaukee. It is a very neat scene. We try and find a mall on our smartphones. We were successfull and found one about 15 minutes away from the downtown area. As the GPS leads us in the right direction, we come across a Sonic! I don't eat fast food very often, but we were on a one day vacation, and I haven't seen a Sonic since I was in Kansas. My friends also have been waiting for the day to enjoy Sonic for the first time. We pull up to a drive in similar to Rudy's In La Crosse. After examining the menu, Josh, the driver, pressed a button to order our food from his car. A few minutes after we order our food, the girls bring out a tray of food as they balance on rollerskates, also known as car hops. For not having Sonic in a long time, and for Josh and Taylor's first time there, we really enjoyed our fast food. After our meal was finished and we were stuffed to the brim, we head back to the busy and crazy streets of Milwaukee. As we get further out of downtown, the buildings and houses are a little more rusty and old and as some people would call it, the "trashy" part of town. There was alot of small strip malls and little stores, nothing like clothes shopping or anything, just stores for necessities mostly. As we get further away from downtown Milwaukee, it almost feels as if we are going into another city. The GPS instructed us to go a direction that seemed unfamiliar and unrealistic as we enter a part of Milwaukee that has nice houses and a great community. Little did we know, it was the right direction. As we arrive at our destination, as the GPS would say, we encounter a big, two story mall. Just like at the Tanger Outlet Mall, we start at one end, except this time we started and one floor and came back on the other. This mall was a lot more fun than the Tanger Outlet Mall. There were more stores and a few new ones that we did not have at the Valley View Mall in Onalaska. This mall was so cool that the mall cops got to ride around on segways! I was totally jealous! Escalators were found in numerous spots throughout the mall along with a couple elevators. After we explored the two floors and went to all the stores we wanted to, we decided we should probably head back to the hotel and meet our friends, Nate, Jared, Travis, and Derek. Leaving the Milwaukee mall, we once again pass by sonic, and the marquette university and end up back at the hotel. Our other four friends had just gotten there, so we made it in perfect time. Now it was time to get the party started!