Album Review 1-15-08

Live for the Givah! Volume II is a great way to show talent through a cappella voices. Ramacapella is a group of campers and staff at Camp Ramah in Ojai California. The music is a mix of different traditional Jewish compositions, Israeli modern songs and remakes of American songs. There are two different sessions of campers and each one has the sound that shows people that you don’t need background music to have a good sounding outcome. The different harmonies in the songs show the purity in the voices. There are songs that you can just relax to and there are others that are very upbeat and feel like you can dance to them.

Besides the Ramacapella group, there is also the 8th grade band from both sessions. The talent at such a young age is unbelievable. As first session performed the song Al Haritspah, which means on the floor. The small electric guitar solo is pretty good. It is very difficult to perform a song in a different language. The second session group did Hashachen. The song had been remade well. Both of these groups did a good job in learning a song in a different language in a short amount of time.

The next age up is Etgar band which is still very talented. They are a group of 9th/10th graders. They chose and preformed the two songs each session. One song in Hebrew and one song in English. Session one preformed a rap political song in Hebrew. The other song that they preformed was Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N’ Roses. It wasn’t as good as the original but it was still ok. It is fun to sing along to. The second session Etgar band was good. The singer’s voice was not that great but the band was really good especially the guitar solo in Achlom Lanetsach. The other song that they did was Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Guns N’ Roses. The band members really worked together to make this song work.


Overall, this CD is a great! The different voices really stand out and true talent shines through. Starting with Ramacapella with their solid sound of beautiful voices to rap in Hebrew. If you are someone that is interested in music that is song by people all ages, this is an album for you. To listen to the music you can go to http://reasonmediagroup.com/ramah/ I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
Live for the Givah! Volume II is a great way to show talent through a cappella voices. Ramacapella is a group of campers and staff at Camp Ramah in Ojai California. The music is a mix of different traditional Jewish compositions, Israeli modern songs and remakes of American songs. There are two different sessions of campers and each one has the sound that shows people that you don’t need background music to have a good sounding outcome. The different harmonies in the songs show the purity in the voices. There are songs that you can just relax to and there are others that are very upbeat and feel like you can dance to them.

Besides the Ramacapella group, there is also the 8th grade band from both sessions. The talent at such a young age is unbelievable. As first session performed the song Al Haritspah, which means on the floor. The small electric guitar solo is pretty good. It is very difficult to perform a song in a different language. The second session group did Hashachen. The song had been remade well. Both of these groups did a good job in learning a song in a different language in a short amount of time.

The next age up is Etgar band which is still very talented. They are a group of 9th/10th graders. They chose and preformed the two songs each session. One song in Hebrew and one song in English. Session one preformed a rap political song in Hebrew. The other song that they preformed was Sweet Child of Mine by Guns N’ Roses. It wasn’t as good as the original but it was still ok. It is fun to sing along to. The second session Etgar band was good. The singer’s voice was not that great but the band was really good especially the guitar solo in Achlom Lanetsach. The other song that they did was Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Guns N’ Roses. The band members really worked together to make this song work.


Overall, this CD is a great! The different voices really stand out and true talent shines through. Starting with Ramacapella with their solid sound of beautiful voices to rap in Hebrew. If you are someone that is interested in music that is song by people all ages, this is an album for you. To listen to the music you can go to http://reasonmediagroup.com/ramah/ I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!


I can't figure out how to put a picture here on my blog but you can go the website pervided to see pictures and learn more about Live from the Givah! Volume II

Lit Circle Part 2 post12-13-07

This is my second lit circle response to the book Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. For out 3rd liturature circle meeting, my group had to read to page 200. It was a pretty graffic section about making love. This section explains one of the main themes that my group came up with is Love. One quote that we thought really relates to the them is,

Spitritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.

(Marquez, 199)This quote is important to the story because it shows the reader what love in that time really is. It also clears up why Florintino Ariza constantly is craving to make love with every women he sees.

I have been surprisingly enjoying this book. If I wasn't doing liturature circles though, I don't think I would enjoy this book so much. The book is a bit disturbing and there are times when you just want to put it down but the lit circles make the book interesting. We talk and laugh about it so that we can make it more of a joke because we are disturbed by the content. It has been getting better but then again because it is so disturbing, i think that we just want to get it over with and finish the book.

A big question that i have is why did we need those first 20 pages of the book about
Jeramiah de Saint Amour?
I think that it was not important to have Jeramiah de Saint Amour because it just confusses the reader to believe he is a main character but he never comes back after Fermina puts the letter in her drawer. It might be there to introduce the characters but it doesn't really work that well.

Love in the Time of Cholera Reponse 12-9-07

Love in the Time of Cholera (LITTOC) by:Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a very interesting book. In Spencers class, we have been split up into liturature circles to read different books. I am with 4 other kids reading LITTOC and for our second liturature circle meeting on friday, we had to read to page 120. The book started with Fermina Daza and Dr. Urbino at an old age all the way up to when he dies. This is the begining of a interesting story. As i am reading i have been predicting on what is going to come next and sometime i am right like my group thought after the first meeting that Femina will have an arranged marriage to someone beside Florentino Ariza (her young lover that she ends at the end of the second long chapter). I have had some confusing parts like in the very beginning of the book the author makes a big deal about a character that commits suicide and we don't here anything about him ever again. i dont think that that part was necessary to the book and it was about 20 pages. When i was reading about Florentino and all the letters he wrote Fermina Daza was so sweet that i could just picture how he looked when they discribed him and i got really attached to his charater which seems very sweet! In our liturature circle on friday, we kind of drifted away from the book but not really because we were talking about long distant relationships (Florentino and Fermina's relationship was long distant)and how they are very difficult to keep alive so they dont usually work. I didn't expect Fermina to end the relationship becuase write before it said how much she loved him until she saw him again btu it was not like she never had seen him. i thought it would be because her father made an arranged marriage like he was talking about. i think that the liturature circles have helped me understand the book a lot more and i am enjoying it more than if i was stuck struggling to understand it myself.i can't wait to find out what happens next!

study study study 10-10-07

Today, in class we were doing math in math/chemistry and taking notes in Spencers class for our quiz on Friday! Tomorrow, i have a presentation on pH that i am really confident about because i have done a lot of research on it and i can allaberate on each slide because unlike in spencers class that we wrote everything we were going to say on the powerpoint presentation on the slides, we made it condenced and easy to understand! Good night!!!

pH powerpoint 10-9-07

Today in class, Kerstin, Coco, and I worked really hard on our powerpoint for our pH research that we are presenting on thursday. We all used the websites that we posted on our previous blogs and for the work cited page we turned in yesterday. We each contributed to the powerpoint and we all had good information on our blog. I am just glad that we were able to work on that the two hours so now we just need to present it and of course keep researching. I found more information today in class but it is all on the school computer and on our powerpoint (also on school comp.)

In spencers class we were watching powerpoints and taking notes on them because we are having a quiz on thursday. It was kinda interesting but my hand really started to hurt and my finger started to turn purple. I know how hard everyone worked in the class though and i know my group was really productive. It was just hard to give the ppt yesterday because we didn't really know what spencer wanted us to do but know we know for future ppt presentations.

pH reseash con. 10-8-07

THe first website (on the blog before)was about acid, bases, and pH. It is a really cool website because it gives valuable information and equations that will be able to help me with the water project for Annes class. It also has this really cool animation about proton exchange. It is simple but you understand what it means by moving protons. It also shows a diagrom of what the Neutral Solution: [H3O+] = [OH-] is and also Acid Solution: [H3O+] > [OH-]. Check out the website.

1.http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/7-ph.htm

The second website is another good website about pH. It talks about the moles and how you can figure out pH of water by the consintration of H plus moles/liters. They have a diagram which is a pure water and the numbers for pure water.

2. http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/pH.html

this next website is formated like a ppt or a flash with information. It has moving parts which shows a scale where you can see the numbers move. It talks a little about the Power of Hydrogen but it is also interesting to actually see diagrams when you are learning about something.

3.http://www.johnkyrk.com/pH.html

The next website is by Roger McFadden. It talks in details about ACIDS, BASES AND SALTS, SIMPLIFYING A FORMULA, A GOOD WARNING SIGN, SEVERAL METHODS FOR MEASURING pH, IMPORTANCE OF pH IN OUR LIVES,and NEVER IGNORE pH VALUES. This website is from the Coastwide Laboratories so i feel that it is really trustworthy.

4.http://www.coastwidelabs.com/Technical%20Articles/ph__the_power_of_hydrogen.htm

pH research 10-8-07

THe first website i found was

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/7-ph.htm

ill tell you more about it later!!! got to go to class!!!