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Jun Lu
Mr. Brown
English 11
26 October 2009
From What I Love
What is the one thing that impacted my life? That would certainly come to the answer of one of the beauties I love and enjoy – Piano. For many people, piano is just a musical instrument that they could use as a tool to perform and to entertain others. To me, it is more significant because it changed me from the inside to the outside, from how I think to how I act. It made me a better person in ways of processing problems, handling stress, and made me a happier person because I am more capable of coping with stress.
Throughout the years since I was a little kid, I heard about all the beautiful sounds and music that you can create with piano. Though I never had a chance to see one myself, I always paid special attention to the piano melodies in the music. During the summer of freshman year, I went to my friend’s house to do a project together; the first thing I saw when I walked into his house was the piano sitting right there by the wall next to dining table. As I approach the piano I was irresistibly reaching my hand out to touch it and lay my fingers on the different white bars that created diverting sounds. My friend was nice enough that he said he would teach me how to play some songs with it. From that day on, I was addicted to the elegancy of the piano, going to my friend’s house every day after school until the end of the summer learning how to play piano.
Since then I’ve always wanted a piano to be around in my house so I can play it whenever possible. Therefore, during sophomore year my dad surprised me with a keyboard for my birthday, I was thrilled. After I got my lovely keyboard, I went on the internet and try to learn something new to play on the piano every day after school. Before I received my keyboard as a gift, I always felt really bored and lonely after I get home from school because there was not anybody home because my parents are consistently working, and I felt that I have nothing to do other than to work on the homework. After I got my keyboard, it drastically changed the feeling that I had when I got home from a tiring day of school work. The keyboard provided me an escaping path from stress and also it keeps me company with good music. Many of my friends say that I am an aggressive to some extent and very impatient person. I quickly lose especially with activities such as fishing. It is fascinating even to me that I had so much patience with the piano where I just sat there learning and practicing repetitively on the same song to get good at it. Because I started to play piano, it changed me as a person that if I just give a little more patience to everything that I do, I would most likely enjoy it more.
I use piano as an escape route from stress. Whenever I feel sad and down, I would play music with my keyboard to abreact my feelings. Listening to the euphonic melody coming from the piano also calms me down from stressful situations, such as when I am stuck on a problem in homework and cannot figure it out or when I heard the news that my grandfather was tested positive for cancer and that I just can’t face the fact of it. Piano made me a better person in thinking wise because when I meet up with stress and confusion, I am able to calm myself down and think more thoroughly into the heart of the of the problem and different perception of the situation. Other than the problem handling improvements, I also changed in my habits that would help me succeed school and in the future. My addiction toward the elegancy of the piano, disciplined me to practice repetitively. Thus, it helped me developed the habit of practicing and reviewing the things I do not understand.
Ultimately, piano had changed me significantly from the inside to the outside in many ways that turned me into a better person. Because of piano I am capable of thinking more in-depth into the heart of the problems, and competent of coping with stress on a daily basis. As well as assisting me to develop a good habit of practicing and reviewing that would be a perfect tool to help me succeed in life.
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Jean – Jacques Rousseau was born to a middleclass family in Geneva Switzerland in the year 1712. He came from a family that had voting rights and his father Jean – Jacques Rousseau, a watchmaker was also a lover of music and education. Rousseau’s mother, Suzanne Bernard Rousseau, was the daughter of a preacher and died nine days after childbirth due to difficulties. Rousseau also had an older brother named Francois; the two brothers were both raised by their Father and a paternal aunt.
At a young age his father got into legal trouble and to avoid imprisonment the family fled and they lived with Jean Jacques Rousseau’s’ maternal uncle after his father remarried. Rousseau uncle then sent him away to live with a Calvinist minister. With the minister he learned mathematics and picked up the elements of art. Rousseau who was deeply moved by religious services and for a time even dreamed of becoming a priest.
After he was finished with school he had a few unsuccessful apprenticeships; first for a notary and then an engraver by whom he was treated very harshly. The practically orphaned Rousseau spent much of his spare time alone exploring his first love, nature, which he ran away from Geneva as a vagrant in 1728.
His wanderings led him out of Geneva to Sardinia then France, where he met Madame de Warrens, a nobleman who helped bring Protestants to Catholicism, and for the next ten years she gave him an education, and much needed moral and financial support
Finding himself mostly on his own besides the support of Madame de Warrens Rousseau he supported himself for a time as a secretary, servant, and tutor. He received a small inheritance from his mother at age twenty – five and with some of that he repaid De Warrens for her financial support of him.
In 1743 1742 Rousseau moved to Paris were he wished to take on a career in music. He initially went to Paris to propose a new system of music to the Academy of Sciences; despite his efforts it was unsuccessful. He published musical theory and wrote for the opera, attracted the attentions of King Louis XV and court when he composed, Le Devin du Village (The Village Soothsayer). Rousseau was offered a pension from the King, but denied it in attempts to live a modest life, and after the success of his opera, he promptly gave up composing music. He also befriended and Therese le Vasseur, a pretty seamstress, who became his mistress and together they bore five children.
In 1749, the Academy of Dijon held a contest that Rousseau won first prize in by answering the question “Has the progress of the sciences and arts contributed to the corruption or to the improvement of human conduct?”Rousseau felt that humanity was good at nature but corrupt by society. Although it is still widely believed that all of Rousseau’s philosophy was based on his call for a return to nature, this view is an oversimplification, caused by the excessive importance attached to this first essay.
His second major philosophical essay, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality among Men which stated that the advancement of science and art had not benefited mankind and that I took away individual liberties and gave governments more powerful. After its publication, Rousseau returned to Geneva, reverted to Calvinism and regained his official Geneva citizenship.
In 1756 he moved to France , a year after the publication of the Second Discourse, Rousseau left Paris after Madame D’Epinay lent him a cottage, on her estate at Montmorency. His stay here lasted only a year because of repeated quarrels with Madame D’Epinay and her guest, Rousseau moved to housing near the country home of the Duke of Luxemburg at Montmorency.
During the later years in his life was when he wrote the bulk of his renowned work including the novel, Julie or the New Heloise. Then in the year 1762 his most important and chief philosophical works: including The Social Contract; which showed his views on political philosophy, and one on education, Emile. The Paris government condemned both books mainly because of his views on religion forcing him to leave France. Rousseau then moved to Switzerland and started to work on his life stories, his Confessions. A year later, after coming across difficulties with Swiss government and then moved around and live in Berlin and Paris and ultimately moved to England to stay with David Hume. However, due to constant bicker with Hume, and his inability to learn English or make friends his stay in England lasted only a year, and in 1767 he returned to the southeast of France under a false name.
In 1770 when he returned to Paris where he copied music for a living, it was during this time that he wrote what would be his final works Rousseau: Judge of Jean-Jacques and the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. His final years which were spent in deliberate withdrawal did not allow him to enjoy him fame. He died on July 3, 1778.
this is 9th grade advanced history
and my and suggestion just anything to help improve it so yes grammatical errors
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