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Note: The following essay was assigned so the students could practice their editing and also consider biases, which is part of their Wikipedia assignment. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

A time when I learned to like something
Required assignment of English 102:

When I was a teenager I used to think of classical music as drawl; I had been accustomed to the Rock n' Roll lifestyle. I couldn't stand  the slow melodies, I thought it was just for old people or music majors.

That was until, last year when my family was spending the holidays together at my grandmother's. We got into a fairly heated debate involving political viewpoints. In the midst of this my grandmother decided to put on classical music, Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" to be exact. As the song played on, our arguments started to fade. Until, finally we were all content just sitting in silence. After I got home I thought about how the slow classical music may have been the cause.

I decided to do some research on the effects of classical music on the brain and overall mood of a person. I found that listening to classical music can increase dopamine levels (the happy hormone). Dopamine levels also increase when people find information that agrees with their viewpoint. I read this in NY article explaining the psychological impacts on how strongly a person's viewpoint can be ingrained even when told they were wrong or given false information to build off of in clinical studies.

After reading all this, I decided  that I could finally start to enjoy another genre of music with a newfound respect for the classical artists out there.