Oct. 23

As I have started my research my first source that I found is the one that I beleive will have the best information for me to use. Granted it is not a very long source but it explains the effect of Mozarts music on babies. It give the same explanation that I have heard so many times before. It talks about babies that listen to Mozart for 30 minutes used less energy when they were sleeping than babies who were not listening to Mozart. The reason I think that this is a really good source is beacuse I found it throught the library's website and it is a periodical, and it also restates what I have heard my whole life about babies and Mozart's music.

Topic for 18th

Me and citations have a long frustrating past! It took me a very long time to figure out a correct way to cite and now when I cite I put the authors last name and the page number and it hasnt failed me yet. It took me prolly 5 years to figure out that citation and it was the most gruling process for me because I already am not a good writer so when my teacher threw a citiation on top of that i about lost my mind. Every teacher I have ever had has always tried showing me every citation style that they thought would work for me and granted some of them were easy for me but the majority of them were the most confusing things i had ever seen in my life. Along with learning how to use them it took me a while to learn their purpose, they are used first to give the author credit, second to help the reader find the quote in the article or book that you pulled it from. Using MLA is the most widely used and it has such a wide variety that, i beleive, it can help you with any type of citation that is out there.

Source

"Mozart Benefits Preterm Infants." I saw this article and was not sure if I should use it or not in my paper for the simple fact that it is talking about premature babies and that is not really the focus of my paper. As i read a little of this article I realized that this would be the perfect source for my paper. Though the article talks about premature babies it describes what listening to a Mozart sonata did for the babies and it also gave me my argument. The article talked about how the researchers only studied certain mozart peices so it gave me the argument "is Mozart the only type of music that can be used to help babies fall asleep, help them sleep deeper, help them with their physical state, and does it increase brain function."

This article helped me get this paper up and running by asking that simple question. Is Mozart the only composer who created music that can aid a sick baby, help a baby fall asleep and help increase brain function at young and older age.