White Noise

to be overused or taken for granted. In what ways do you think noise pollution demonstrates the tragedy of the commons? Now, I’m a nitpicking jerkass, so I’m going to tear apart everything he said. “I believe that noise pollution can cause a noise tragedy” What? Cause a noise tragedy? What the fuck? Is that even English? “9 times out of 10, most of the noises you hear can be quite annoying to others.” Ninety percent of the noises everyone hears are annoying to other people? Does everyone…

pollution-related premature deaths were due to ischaemic heart disease and strokes (“World Health Organization”, 2016). Also, the smoke from the factories built in populated areas is increasing all sorts of skin, heart, and brain diseases. Not only that, the noise pollution has negative effects on hearing or auditory sense organs. It can also cause deafness, tiredness, and mental losses. In addition, the water and soil pollution can also affect our health in various ways. According to the…

bathroom. There are many noises throughout your day. The poem “Atoms of Sound” is about everyday noises are what form your days and nights. Throughout your day you hear many noises. The television turned up; chitchat on the telephone (lines 9-10). You can also hear your dogs. Their long claws clicking on the floor (lines 4-5). You may also have siblings, so you will hear them in the morning also. My brother wailing, red fist clenched furiously (lines 29-31). Those are just some noises in the…

Before we began walking as a group we took a few minutes to discuss what we thought we would hear during the Soundwalk. We assumed that we would be hearing the buzzing of busy Toronto streets, lots of cars and people continuing on their daily routines in the midst of Chinatown. We anticipated music coming from stores, the occasional ringing of a telephone and possibly an emergency vehicle alarm, but we didn’t know if all of these elements would be heard during our walk. We do not feel that the…

Pollution is the most common factor that has caused our oceans to take a drastic turn for the worse. One of the highest overlooked types of pollution within the waters come from noise and transportation. In fact, sound waves travel farther and faster in the sea than in air and “many marine mammals like whales and dolphins, in addition to fish and other sea creatures, rely on communication by sound to find food, mate, and navigate” (Denchak). Human-caused sound waves disturb the marine animals’…

At the University of Connecticut, located in Storrs, Connecticut, all first-year students are required to live on campus. The University provides several housing options, including thematic communities like Honors Program housing or Business Connections Learning Community housing, gender-inclusive housing, and standard co-educational, non-thematic options. Regardless of a student’s housing selection, the student will live in a community that is maintained by Resident Assistants. Depending on the…

The main argument against the dog park plan is that: "Noise from barking dogs and yelling owners will disturb nearby residents." (No Dog Park for Muscatine, paragraph 3, line 2.) This is silly because in Muscatine, noise complaints are only taken after 10:00 in the evening, while the dog park would close at sundown. If the residents of Muscatine are fine with human noise until that late, then why would they care about some noise from the dog park during the day? One reason that a dog…

0.4038 ppm. This correlates with the earlier attempts in analyzing solutions with concentrations less than 1 ppm. While inaccurate due to the rapid conversion of the complex, if the absorbance measured as the thiocyanate was added, then the signal/noise ratio may have been small and relatively good spectra could have been…

significantly smaller 32 percent. One heartbreaking aspect of these deaths was the fact that in twenty-nine percent of these headphone related accidents, a car horn was honked loudly or repeatedly, someone without headphones in would have heard such noise and been warned of the fatal danger that was approaching (www.npr.org). Many states recommend that you play music as low as possible while wearing headphones and walking, jogging, skating, or skateboarding to prevent these types of…

Follows has a much more subtle way to evoke fear in its audience. The music in the movie almost never starts off loud. In fact, it usually begins at a level that is almost impossible to hear and. As the soundtrack slowly crescendos, the background noise becomes quieter, until the sounds of the score have completely drowned out the sounds from the scene. The score mainly consist of digitally-rendered ambient sounds along with synthesizers and percussion instruments. In scenes where the monster is…