White Noise

deathly quiet, lifeless) I think to my self, “ am I hearing things, have I gone crazy?” (delirious, insane) I hear the noise coming from down the hall, I jump up and cautiously walk toward the bedroom door, the slightest light shining off from my alarm clock is glaring threw the dark (Lightless) bedroom. Grasping the bedroom door handle, getting ready to rapidly open the door, the noise appears again. I quickly but quietly get back to my bed. I lay awake in silence watching the clock minute by…

when traversing the corridors. I knew to expect the clip-clop of hard stepping walkers in the silent tunnels, and the high pitched buzzing and whining of electrical components overhead. Outside, the wind would make soft, mid pitched whuuu and shhh noises, which would serve as background for trees that would swish or rustle, people who’s voices would carry far in the open area, and the clanking and clanking metallic sounds of the construction that constantly plagues MIT. During the soundwalk, I…

John Cage's 4 "33" is about silence and possibly time. The first value that I think is significant to the composition is silence. When I think of the word silence, nothingness comes to mind. What I mean by nothingness is no noise; you hear not one person or any other kind noise around you.…

misunderstood from their obvious intentions. The novel, White Noise, is written depicting the scenario of America in the future, revealing paths that Americans might take. Throughout the story, Delillo in a somewhat subtle matter criticizes American society’s flaws. Taking place in a small mid-western college town, the Gladney family encounters difficulties with raising children, drug addictions, and personal fears. The satirical postmodern novel, White Noise, by Don Dellilo, uses the Gladney…

While most research has been conducted on the effects of excessive hospital noise on patients, the article by Ryherd, Waye and Ljungkyist (2008) examines the effect of these high noise levels on unit staff. Ninety one percent of nurses surveyed felt that noise negatively affected them in their daily work, and almost half admitted to adjusting alarm levels so that they would not hear them. The literature review conducted by Ryherd et al. revelaed that staff take no action for the majority of…

Noise According to health and safety authority (2017) Noise is defined as unfavourable sound or too loud sounds such as blazer, phones, ambulance, wheelchairs, confused patients, radio, television in rest room and trolleys. The impact of sounds on hearing can be short term or long term. Short term deafness frequently happens after leaving a noisy place. The fact that hearing getting better within less hours, this should be not rejected as it is a symptom that leads to such sounds could be long…

experienced (thankfully) throughout my adolescence. In an attempt to combat teenage loitering, numerous businesses and storefronts throughout the U.K have placed a sound box outside, known as 'The Mosquito'. This device emits a shrill and ear-piercing noise, only audible by teenagers and young adults. While this may appear unorthodox,…

Biologicals are one type of natural noise in the marine environment. Biologicals refer to when marine animals use their underwater acoustics to communicate with each other, explore their surroundings, or to find prey. Dolphins use echolocation, which is a process of sending sound waves, to find prey. A second type of natural noise are underwater earthquakes, avalanches, and volcanoes. Earthquakes can produce sounds when they have high magnitudes. Volcano eruptions have also been heard…

doors, windows, walls, flooring, ceiling and ventilation ducts. The second area the interior room acoustics it shows how a room size, shape surface and materials affect interior acoustics and how they could be altered. The third area is mechanical noise, this occurs through ventilation ducts, vibrating compressing units and buzzing light ballasts. The last area is the practice room which is considered as the backstage area. Since the performers are practicing…

legislations with respect to the noise produced by the flying of aircraft, the urban and suburban commute, factories, etc. It, also, introduced certain groups of people as most vulnerable; these groups included children and teenagers, people with hearing disorders, the elderly, night shift workers, people with illnesses, pregnant women, and those with mental problems. In the meantime, the sound produced by airplanes was found to be one of the most important sources of noise pollution. In…