White Noise

Wow, that shut me up. Not the monkey business, but that harsh compliment. Cut me some slack, I’m only twenty-two and I haven’t had my quarter-life crisis yet. At least, I’m not denying these traits of me. I completely agree and I appreciate your candor… even if it was harsh. The “I” pronoun, I like that idea. Writing is about everything but writing— it’s a selfish act. Lets begin with DeLillo’s _White Noise_. (I’ve written a paper on this book already, analyzing Jack’s masculinity and the way…

the novel, White Noise, is Wilder, the youngest son of Babette, Jack Gladney’s wife. Jack Gladney worried about Wilder and states, “I also wondered why his vocabulary seemed to be stalled at twenty-five words” (DeLillo 35-36). We may infer from the text that Wilder may have a learning disability. Since Wilder may have a learning disability, Wilder is a child, and Wilder does not understand death, Wilder may be the symbol of youth and innocence throughout DeLillo’s novel, White Noise.…

Analysis of themes in Don DeLillos novel White Noise. Reality versus fabrication. An obvious theme within DeLillos novel White Noise is the conflict between reality and fabrication. For example, this applies well to Jack and his altering personalities. Even though Jack has created a respected, intellectual identity for himself through the character of J.A.K. Gladney, professor in the studies of Hitler, he remains awkwardly aware of the fact that this entire character is a lie. In reality, the…

Don Delillo, the author of White Noise, wrote an incredible story about the invention of plots, and explains how naming things correlates with the idea of certainty and uncertainty. He does this through the main character of the novel, Jack Gladney, along with other characters that are in Jack’s life, such as his friend and co- worker, Murray Jay Siskind, a neuroscientist and another co-worker, Winnie Richards, and the creator of Dylar, Willie Minks. White Noise teaches us that naming things are…

Finding names is not an easy task, but based on the articles, “The Weird Science of Naming New Products” by Neal Gabler and “How’d it Get That Name” by Bob Greene, it demonstrated interesting ways on how products were named. In Gabler’s article, “The Weird Science of Naming New Products”, he explains the random process in naming a virtual reality experience. They found a man named Shore who insisted in looking for ides off a science fiction website. He looks for words such as “Jumpdoor”, “Jaunte…

Realness beneath the layers of cosmetic perception”. Here, DeLillo seems to be speaking passive aggressively to deliver a message to his wife that conveys that it could also happen to her, anyone to be exact. This could also be referencing the negative outcomes that accompany the desensitization of society. In the case of this sentence, it seems that the husband is instilling fear into his wife’s heart just to enjoy seeing her reaction. This somehow explains why people always have an undying…

Is the thought of death just white noise to our lives? Jack Gladney, the main character in White Noise, is overtaken with the fear of death at every turn- he has a strange fascination with death. We can see it everywhere- from his thoughts, arguments with his wife, even in his profession. The only thing more prevalent than his thoughts of death are his thoughts of how to escape it. He turns to consumerism, drugs, and plain denial. Even though Jack seems terrified of dying, He is completely…

fun houses by the monotony of life, and it takes a traumatic event to jolt them awake and realize that the truth lies beyond the glass. These moments manifest themselves in many different forms, but in Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” and Don Delillo’s White Noise, these moments come about through the promise or possibility of death. As the parents in Bradbury’s novel are killed by their children and Delillo’s Jack Gladney is shot…

In 2012 a study out of Newcastle University revisited the land of gross noises and subjected 16 people to 74 different sounds from running water to the scrape of knives on glass, asking them to rank them on a scale from pleasant to excruciating. [pic: PD] Once again, the worst of the sounds fell in that bad-Hertz sweet spot…

Quadrature PSK systems [6][7]. 3. QAM: QAM improves the noise immunity of the system by allowing the signal vectors to differ, not only in their phase but also in amplitudes. It utilizes carrier phase shifting and synchronous detection to permit two DSB signals to occupy the same frequency band. The two DSB signals are orthogonal to each other. IV. NOISE AND CHANNELS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS A. Noise in Communication Systems The term noise refers to unwanted electrical signals that are…