Loudness

The Mask of Alzheimer’s My grandfather was like a masked man. I have no idea when he took off his disguise, but it was most certainly not around me. His façade toward me kept me from truly knowing him. He was a quiet, reserved man who I always nodded my head to, even when I didn’t understand what he was saying. His thick accent would rumble deep in his throat –spoken like an elongated smoker’s cough. “Pass di mote gyal.” His knobby hands would have grasped the remote control and flipped on…

Maulensview (Maulensview is a society in which people terrorize people in other parts of the world by using remote-controlled robots.) It was a normal day in Maulensview. Everyone in town violently gripped a controller as their eyes were fixed on graphic, gory images that depicted real life. All of them, from ages 2 through 81, were mashing their fingers on buttons that manipulated their every move. If they pressed A, their machine would shoot, B- they would fight, and C- they would stab. It…

The gravest economic crisis of the 20th century, which, caused by the stock market crash on Wall Street in the United States on October 24th, 1929, called “Black Thursday”, propagated in the whole universe, the lively in a decade of market recession a massive growth of the unemployment and the poverty, but also by profound social and political shifts. Later the First Word War, the economic system of the United States was booming, and the technology innovation for the home appliances as…

operas, pitch, dynamics, tone color and so on. “Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound” (Kamien p. 4, 2010). Without pitch, a song would be flat and would not be enjoyable. The dynamics are the degrees of softness or loudness to create music. The tone color helps to tell different instruments apart from each other by hearing weather it is mellow, dark, rich, brilliant, or bright. Different instruments are used to achieve different emotions in music. This is the…

Veterinarian - Animal Saver You are probably one of the many people who get amused by animals. You are sitting on your couch shuffling channels on the television when the discovery channel passes by and catches your attention. The thought of being a veterinarian for a living crosses your mind. Veterinarians are professionally trained animal doctors. They help animals when they’re having health problems or physical problems. “Working as a veterinarian may have several benefits, but it also has…

Abstract—In Indian classical music system Raga is a combination of notes which is able to create pleasing effect. There are various ragas in Hindustani classical music. Here we consider the raga Malkauns which is a popular raga in north Indian music system. Raga Malkauns is used in music therapy predominantly as it is meditative raga and observed to affect the soul. Here the spectral parameters of raga Malkauns are compared with the raga Bhairav and tried to see its impact on blood pressure.…

The Way It Haunted Me People say that good things always come in pairs, but what about bad things too? My parents, sister and I decided to visit Cedar Point during what I like to call a dark fall. The days were hazy and honeyed, and cinnamon and pomegranate aroma filled the air. The skies were always awake and illuminated with the never-ending thunderstorms, and murky rains; the scattered leaves were luminescent in their yellows, reds, and purples as if they forgot they were about to die. That…

Admiring the honeysuckle bushes with my cousins and dancing to the salsa music booming next door. Roller skating to the queens library and licking the melted Carvel ice cream off of my tiny hands. Singing on stage in Central Park for the first time. Climbing the top of the metal globe in Corona Park. These are the moments that defined my halcyon days. The moments that taught me anything is possible. These days were made up of firsts and millionths. The first time eating lasagna and the millionth…

see than the mundane everyday life. It also provides the opportunity to communicate with the community and have one on one conversation or even with a group without having the need to be rushed by other things you might need to do or by the loudness or busyness of towns and cities. The contrast of what people are used to seeing is what attracts them to it so those who live in the rural places will probably not go to the park as much as those who live in the urban areas because it is…

“And one man in his time plays many parts, / His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, / Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. / And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel / And shining morning face, creeping like snail / Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, / Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad / Made to his mistress’ eyebrow.” (II.vii.141-48) Jaques is defining all the stages of man. Though these stages may be overgeneralized, they hold truth to them. The first line…