Sound

I woke up around 7 p.m to a mysterious sound coming from my window, so I called my friend, Gilbert. “Hey, Gilbert,” I whispered, “Can you come over to my house? I keep hearing something, and I don’t know what it is.” He got here and after we called Robert. We went outside to where my window was and nothing was there I was horrified. We went back inside, Robert, Gilbert and I were talking about what we were going to do today. We thought about going to north central park around 12 a.m. Time…

The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines music as "the art of combining vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion" (Concise Oxford Dictionary 1992). However, the music genres known as Noise music and Musique concrète, for instance, challenge these ideas about what constitutes music's essential attributes by using sounds not widely considered as musical, like randomly produced electronic distortion, feedback, static, cacophony, and…

Impersonal Communication: I worked for Hallmark at Jordan Creek Mall for roughly two and a half years. I started working at the end of my sophomore year of high school where I thought I would start to learn about the real world. I had a simple, short interview that consisted of only three basic questions. The manager that had interviewed me was going to be gone for two weeks on vacation the following weekend. The manager wanted me to be done with school before I started working in the summer. At…

For as long as I can recall I have enjoyed the ability to observe society and those that live within it, henceforth, recently in the past weeks I have enjoyed spending time with a few close acquaintances from going to a public restaurant to enjoying a motion picture flick. In all these activities I was able to not only observe the public but the environment around us and found some interesting aspect that stood out to me. Observing while spending time socialize is anything from easy as I felt…

The person who I interviewed was Oscar Ward, a Paramedic Captain. The focus of the interview was the communication system between the firefighters, and with the other emergency agencies. Captain Ward mentioned that face-to-face is their primary way of communication within the fire department, and with the other emergency agencies. In other emergency circumstances, radio will be another common communication system to use. It caught my attention on how does the communication system work during…

As I close my locker I can hear the faint buzzing of the group message of the homecoming group. Before I can succumb and grab my phone I walk away feeling lost and uneasy. This allows me to look up and observe what is happening around me. There are a lot of people on their phones- looking at twitter, snapchat, or their messages. There is a group of boys huddled around talking in hushed voices outside of the upper 500 pod. The last thing I see is a couple huddled against the wall across from my…

With sweet melodies or jarring lyrics, music speaks to us all. Everyone has music that is special to them, that tugs on their heart strings or kisses their lips with a smile. There are songs that chip at scabs and scars, songs that pull tears or conjure joy, and songs in which every word of every line elicits a memory. In The Music Never Stopped, directed by Jim Kohlberg, we are presented with this same situation for two different characters through two different genres of music. All…

Once upon a time there was a girl who was a social butterfly and didn't think twice of speaking up. Then something changed she became recluse and started to second guess herself. Was it the chemicals in her mind changing, the harassment she started to get, or just what comes with puberty? She would never know, maybe it was all three. All she wanted was the alarm that went off in her head to stop. It was relentless the rush of nonstop thoughts that went through her head. The erratic pace of her…

Questions from Lin et al. (2013) 1. Describe the methods by answering the questions below. a. Who did they study? 1984 older adults (mean age, 77.4) without prevalent cognitive impairment b. What did they measure? They measured the relationship between cognitive decline and hearing loss over time. c. How did they form their groups at baseline? Baseline for this study was a “cohort consisted of participants without prevalent cognitive impairment who underwent audiometric testing…

“I can’t believe you mistook a crush for intense hatred, what the fuck Scarlett? Maison sighed, shaking his head “I thought the heart palpitations were from rage.” I said sheepishly trying to defend myself. “Yeah, well you’re a fucking idiot, you might be smart but your common sense is truly lacking. Mistaking the crush on your roommate for abhorrence” “Alright alright, enough of your big words, can’t we just agree that i have a no common sense and no idea how to deal with this huge…