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The Sound of Life Music: Luxury or Necessity? The world has transformed to adapt to new technologies into a place where humans, the organic beings are plugged into inorganic or mechanical machines at almost any given point in the day. The recent developments of television, cellular devices, and media players makes everyone a techno-wizard in some regard. One of the categories electrical equipment can be categorized into is that of music. Music can be listened to in person at concerts or other…

Noise can cause permanent hearing loss at chronic exposure levels of at least 85 dB or higher for an eight hour period (Peter M. Rabinowitz, Pg.1). The louder the sound, the shorter the time period before NIHL can occur. Sounds of less than 75 decibels, even after long exposure, are unlikely to cause hearing loss (Hearing Health Foundation 2015). Hearing loss that is caused by the noise exposure due to recreational or non-occupational activities is termed socioacusis. Hearing loss due to…

instruments, rather than just listening to the sounds. Many of the songs that were played also sounded quite similar. I noticed that the first two songs sounded almost the same because they both were in an upbeat tempo, had a higher pitch, and sounded like bagpipes were being played. This was probably the most striking thing that I saw here. I thought that it was very interesting that there could be a variety of instruments played together that could make it sound like there were bagpipes…

ear called the cochlea, which is lined with little hair cells. Sound waves are transmitted by the external ear, through the center ear, to the internal ear. In the internal ear, the sound wave weight moves the hair cells, which then send messages to the mind, through the sensory system, about the sounds heard by the ear. High clamor levels will harm the hair cells in the inward ear and decrease the capacity of the ear to "listen" sounds and transmit the data to the cerebrum. Once the hair cells…

written in first person from the viewpoint of Seamus Heaney himself, he focuses on the reactions of his parents and the people he see’s instead of his own. Seamus Heaney 's “Mid-Term Break” uses sound, motifs, and enjambment to create meaning throughout the poem. Sound such as sibilance, the hard “c” sound, and alliteration, to create meaning as they all serve…

Phonetics is the study and identification of speech sounds. The phonetic alphabet is not the same as the English alphabet, although there are many of the same characters. In the phonetic alphabet, there are 14 vowels sounds and 24 consonant phonemes. When speech-language pathologists use the phonetic alphabet for transcriptions with their clients, they are able to use the transcriptions to plan therapy lessons according to their speech and language disorders. Without the use of the phonetics,…

object is, we use perspective to give our point of view on what we are sensing. If we see a bee on a flower, we tend to get scared or freak out because bees aren’t the friendliest. As we all know there are five senses; Vison, Taste, Smell, Touch, and Sound. It only takes a small amount of energy “absolute threshold: the minimal intensity needed to just barley detect a stimulus” (Gilbert 132). Our brain is working hard to keep all your senses in check. If one of these senses aren’t working, this…

piece when the entire brass or the woodwind section would come together on rhythms and play chords together creating a fool smooth sounds that glided over the audience. However, though this piece may have sounded easy and laid…

Acoustic reflexes are contractions of the stapedius muscle in the middle ear. This reflex occurs when a loud sound is presented to the ear causing the tympanic membrane to stiffen and cause a change in immittance (Martin & Clark, 2012). When measuring the acoustic reflex threshold, we are measuring the softest sound that can cause a reflex of the stapedius muscle as well as the duration of time needed for the reflex to decay. The reflex is presented as a deflection, or a curve/dip, on the…

compared to “a hive.” He says we need to “press an ear against its hive.” In this stanza Collins is telling us to listen for the sounds of the poem, and what they convey (danger, excitement, sadness, etc.). The importance of words in poetry is represented by the hive that Collins wants us to press our ear against. Traditionally readers do not think to listen to the words and sound that the words make, but this is exactly what Collins is asking us to do. Another way to experience the poem is to…