On the First Beat

Intrinsic Cardiac Activity: The first peak of the electrocardiogram graph corresponded to the atrial contraction of the heart. The second peak of the electrocardiogram graph corresponded to the ventricular contraction of the heart. The third peak observed corresponded to the relaxation of the heart. Frank-Starling Mechanism: There was no significant trend observed in ventricular contractile force in response to increasing imposed length of the heart (Fig 1a). A maximum ventricular contractile…

their first U.S. hit. This, along with many other up and coming British…

his mixer to switch quickly to the other turntable, where the same beat was cued up and ready to play. Using the backspin technique (also referred to as beat juggling), the same short phrase of music could be looped indefinitely. Punch phrasing or clock theory is yet another of his creations. This technique involved isolating very short segments of music, typically horn hits, and rhythmically punching them over the sustained beat using the mixer. Scratching which may not necessarily be one of…

Region Tournament, and finally The State Tournament which was in Dell Rapids. You will find out all the games we had and the feeling everyone had throughout the mighty journey. So first the team got put together by the coaches. We had 18 players are our team. The team practiced a lot three times a week! We had our first tourney in Milbank where we went 3-0 and blew out everybody. Then we had a lot of games against other schools and tournament teams. All of us knew we were gonna be pretty…

athlete, but mostly because she is confident! The first reason why Squeaky is a memorable character is because she is a motivated athlete. We know she is because she doesn’t care who knows she trains. Some kids don’t let on that they study or practice. Squeaky doesn’t care though. She will practice until she can’t move. That’s motivation.…

vocals and a smooth rhythmic beat to create a beautiful arrangement of R&B music.The beginning of the song welcomes the listener to a slow, deep synthetic drum beat paired with a soft synthetic clap. Shortly, Mario’s silky vocals occupies the foreground with the gentle beat taking the background. As…

did the spanish did to be on the top of the war? Even though the spanish were outnumbered by Native Americans the Spanish were able to defeat the Native American easily.There are four important reasons the make this thing happen.” The first reason that the outnumbered Spanish won the battle was that Spanish gathered together to other tribes to fight against other tribes. According to the author “when the tlaxcaltecas and the men of cholula arrived, they called to each other and…

See Past the Skin Creator and benefactor of the Beats Generation, Jack Kerouac prevailed for his composition techniques and mongrel forms of African American culture, style, and music with a twist of European literary cultures to mirror Kerouac's ambitions of both to join the standard artistic convention furthermore to restructure it (Johnson). The Beats Generation offered a critique of middle class American values. "Beat" differently characterizes as a curtailed form of "beaten down" or of…

beliefs about gender roles affect the way him and his family lives and their fears. Okonkwo fears weakness because as a child his father was lazy and weak to the clan. He dislikes it so much that when he finds his son, Nwoye, to be lazy, he would beat him and nag at him for it. He believes a man should live…

of the 20th century. He was an only child who lived a privileged life. His mom taught him piano at the age of three while his father taught him chess. When he turned five years old his mother furthered his passion in music by helping him write his first piano composition, ‘Indian Gallop’. When Prokofiev was nine years old, he wrote, ‘The Giant.’ At age 13 he went on to study at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he got the chance to study with Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.…