Smell

track, and I have a specific “pump up” list of music that I try to listen to before every race. The reason I have this specific list, and listen to only these songs, is because they remind me of past successes. Some of these songs include; Fire it Up, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Eye of the Tiger, and Super Villan just to name a few. Going back to my 80’s style of music again. I also enjoy listening to upbeat music and Pandora radio, while I am studying and working on homework because it keeps me…

The book I chose to share is The Smell of Other People’s Houses by Bonnie-sue Hitchcock. It shows the perspectives of four teens living in Fairbanks, Alaska right before and after the switch of Alaska being apart of the U.S. in the 1970s. Ruth is a lonely teenager that lives with her younger and louder sister, Lily, and her mean grandmother. Her mom is mentally sick because Ruth’s dad died while in a plane crash. She becomes pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby. Ray, Ruth’s unfaithful boyfriend…

Sense of Smell” By Sofia Perez, is a tear-jerking story because the author narrates her story in a way that it affects people’s emotions. It is sad how the accident affected the writer until she lost her appetite and even her interest in culinary. Being a food writer, she spent most of her time planning he,r next meal (par. 15). And after being involved in an accident, she could no longer do what she liked most. And worst of it, it was later found that she had even lost her ability to smell.…

successful commercials that have ever aired was the “Man Your Man Could Smell Like” by the company Old Spice. As a result of the campaign, “Old Spice’s Twitter following increased 2700%, their Facebook fan interaction went up 800%, and the traffic to OldSpice.com went up 300%” (O’Neil). The increase in popularity raised questions around the United States on why this specific commercial was so successful. The “Man Your Man Could Smell Like” Old Spice commercial aims to connect with the audience…

The essay “How Long Has It Been Since You Smelled a Flower?” by Richard Shelton describes his experiences with prisoners. He begins by stating he’s worked at the “nexus where language intersects with the lives of prison inmates” for forty years (1). Shelton then begins to delve into the mistreatment of prisoners by the state, primarily by deprivation. Prisons were originally designed to isolate inmates and deprive them of the marvels of nature; this can still be seen in today’s prisons. Humans…

Nose, by Frances Killea, it discusses how dogs have the ability to smell more scents then humans. These smells that dogs detected are also able to determine certain traits or moods. Dog’s ability to smell beyond our ability helps humans, and for example when a human goes missing and humans cannot find them they might call in a searching hound. This searching hound due to its great senses can find a human. One reason a dog can smell better that humans is because of their 220 million olfactory…

a writer intoxicated with the senses, writes about the sensory experience of smell in the first chapter of A Natural History of the Senses. She engages the reader with an aromatic story consisting of the evolution, cultural obsession, and science of the “mute sense”, smell. From early on Ackerman asserts that smell is the most direct of all of our senses. To help support her point, she describes the mechanics on smell. She informs the readers about receptor cells containing cilia that absorb…

senses: taste, smell, touch, sound, and sight, are the things that make life worth living. They are what illuminate and diversify life. Sight is a truly remarkable sense, as is hearing. These two senses allow you to be aware of everything that is going on around you. The sense of touch allows you to be able to describe your surroundings. Words like soft, rough, smooth, hard, etc., would be nonexistent without the sense of touch. The sense of smell and taste go hand in hand, without smell you…

mental state. She starts off my talking about a smell that the wallpaper has. Then, she says how it creeps all over the house, as if it is alive and a person. The word “creeps” is significant because the narrator later uses this word to describe how the lady in the wallpaper moves about and how the narrator herself moves to see the lady in the wallpaper. After saying the smell creeps, the narrator continues to personify the smell when she says that the smell is “hovering in the dining-room,…

which maintained their survival. Today, we don 't rely on our senses nearly as much as our cavemen ancestors, but they are still very important. From a young age, we are taught about the five senses and the things they do for us. Our sense of smell allows us to smell good things like cookies in the oven or warn us of danger such as smoke in the house in the middle of the night. Amazingly enough, our sense of sight allows us to see the beauty of nature and the things around us, and it protects us…