Earplug

The sponge earplugs are the awkward azure in my trumpet case. Apparently they do not fit with the trumpet gold. But by contrasting, they do shimmer the gold. I took out the two of my small blue sponge earplugs from the case. I squeezed the sponges as hard as I could, plugged one into my left ear, and spun it until it was perfectly fitted in. Then I plugged the other, and did the same to it. That was what the doctor asked me to do. I walked into the classroom, sit down, opened my music folder. The sponges soon expanded, filling up every minute space in my external auditory canal, almost strong enough to make my ears explode. The instruments’ sound volume was then turned down; less music flew into my ears. The earplugs, as though the physical…

are a major reason for damage to the ears, but only if a person attends without hearing protection. Simply putting in a set of earplugs can significantly reduce your chances of sustaining hearing loss at a concert. Damage prevention is so easy, yet 28 million Americans still suffer from deterioration of their hearing as they get older.1 Lack of public awareness is to blame for this problem, and the simplest way to fix it is to make changes to how venues hold their concerts. It is the…

Earplug Experience I did my ear plug assignment on a Friday that I didn’t work. I woke up and showered and got dressed. My mom already had plans of going shopping that day. After I got out of the shower we were leaving so I decided to put them in a couple minutes before we left. My mom was asking me to go get stuff while at the grocery store and other stores and I couldn’t hear her. All I kept saying was “huh” or asking her what she said. It was difficult because I constantly needed to keep…

In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, it is stated, “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This project allowed me to follow the words of Harper Lee, receiving the opportunity to understand what it is like to have a mild conductive hearing loss. A conductive hearing loss is due to dysfunction of either the outer or middle ear. To understand an individual’s beliefs, feelings, and…

days it got better because it wasn’t hard for me and I could understand people perfectly. I’m not the most social person so I thought having earplugs would make me feel ten times antisocial. Altogether it wasn’t that bad because everyone didn’t have…

This means that adults with normal hearing can detect sounds at and above their X mark for their left ear at a given frequency and volume, and likewise with an O for their right ear. My thresholds, in contrast, ranged from 30-50 dB. My results indicated I had a mild sloping to moderate conductive hearing loss. A conductive hearing loss indicates that the actual organ of hearing is unimpaired, and that the hearing loss is a result of problems of the outer ear (what you see) or the inner ear,…

On Saturday, February 20th I did my hearing loss stimulation. I woke up Saturday morning anxious to see what the day ahead of me would be like, as I was going to be living with a hearing loss for the day. I put the earplugs I had purchased a week earlier and walked downstairs into my kitchen. My first conversation with a hearing loss was with my father, who had no idea I was doing a project, he asked me “Danielle, why do you have earplugs in?” He was muffled, but I could still hear him fairly…

The Notorious B When you walk past the toy aisle at a store what do you see? Usually there are aisles that you look down and see nothing but a sea of pink. Why is this? Why do certain products lean toward certain genders? Companies often do this to target a certain audience and increase sales. The toy aisle in your local store is not the only place, however, you see these sort of divisions.Did you know that they make earplugs specifically for just men and for just women. I mean women have…

words that were being spoken to me. An example of this was when my mother said the word “zapato”, I on the other hard thought she had said “pajaro”. Clearly these words were not the same, “zapato” is the Spanish word for shoe, while the word “pajaro” means bird. Because of the misunderstanding of words, I was unable to process the correct information that was being given to me at that moment. Another example of a challenge I faced while participating in this experiment was the lack of…

Mildred wife of Montag, is obsessed with watching television which are called “programs” in their society. She considers her family to be television characters because she is so isolated from the real world and she never wanted children. She always refuses to have a conversation with her husband about their marriage or her feelings; she doesn't seem to have a real connection to anyone. Every time Montag would come home from work, he would enter the cold dark silence of his bedroom. His wife,…