Sarvar Aliyev
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How it sounds to be 18.
Presumably, everyone knows that seeing and hearing are the two main senses of people and the fundamentals of our life. These two sentiments are the essences for all human efforts. Although, both of these two higher senses might seem evenly significant, it is not always figured out that hearing has the more substantial effect in identifying the character of our lives. A dog barks, a sheep bleats, clock alarms, these all sounds elicit a particular response in our minds. In our daily lives, people are inundated with a diversity of sounds. Through the sounds we make our life more meaningful and rich in content. There are plenty of sounds
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Everytime before sleeping at night I always check my clock whether it is set or not because I need it for waking up in the morning and not late for the class. For some people alarm clock can be unpalatable for waking up in morning, but we should also take into consideration that the results of not waking up on the right time are much worse. Actually, I am not favourable of using alarm clock, however the sound of it has a very significant impact in my life. From my point of view, alarm clock is very influential when it is set for the exact time that I have to get up, or sometimes five minutes earlier, thus it makes me lie at least 2 minutes in a bed and accumulate my minds if I appreciate. Every morning before going to school at 7:30 it bells and forces me to wake up and not late for the class. On the other hand, I am pleased with alarm clock which makes me get up by increasing the selected my favorite music, because it is kind and more
Age is also a common cause of hearing loss, Over time the hair cells in the cochlea gradually gets damaged, hence hearing deteriorates.Hearing loss occurs in old people as by this time most of the hair cells are damaged.
Noise is ubiquitous in our environment. (Pediatrics , 1997) It is undesirable sound, unwanted sound. Sound is what we hear. It is vibration in a medium, usually air. Sound has intensity, frequency and duration. The ability to hear sounds at certain frequencies is more readily lost in response to noise. (Pediatrics , 1997). The further you are from sound the less effect you hear it but the more closer you are to sound the louder it is.
In Kevin Young’s poem an “Ode to Pork,” the sound effects play immensely into the overall tone of the poem. It could help the reader conjure up times when they were in the kitchen themselves or having a meal prepared for them. It does also add heavily to a nostalgic flair by making the reader go back to possibly good memories of some kind of gathering. Even if it was not pork, it still became in a sense semi-personal to the reader because one thing is truly universal everyone does eat and everyone has some fond memory of eating their favorite food. Furthermore, humans are very apt at remembering sounds very well so as I read this I can even hear the sizzling grill or the popping of bacon.
Hearing loss is a major global public health issue. Hearnet (2017) defines hearing loss as “a disability that occurs when one or more parts of the ear and/or the parts of the brain that make up the hearing pathway do not function normally” (para. 1). There are many different types of hearing loss, which can have multiple causes, giving each individual experiencing the issue a unique hearing loss case. These types include Auditory Processing Disorders, when the brain has problems processing sound information; Conductive Hearing Loss, a problem with the outer or middle ear which prevents sound making its way to the inner ear; and Sensorineural Hearing Loss, when the Cochlea or auditory nerve is damaged and cannot
The Russian harlequin in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness expresses a common habit amongst sailors to smoke when he exclaims to Marlow, “Smoke? Where’s a sailor that does not smoke?” (132), correspondingly, in today’s world it is common for daily surroundings to include loud, obnoxious sounds that can potentially damage ones hearing permanently. This type of hearing disability is frequently referred to as N.I.H.L (Noise-Induced Hearing Loss). “N.I.H.L can be caused by a one-time exposure to an intense ‘impulse’ sound such as an explosion, or by continuous exposure to loud sounds over an extended period of time, such as noise generated in a woodworking shop” (“Noise-Indu...
The mental and physical processes that work together is what creates the ability for the mind to properly perceive the information that is received. The brain and the senses interact in such a way that gives the mind freedom to interpret this information into the individual’s own reality. Without this combination of influences, it would mean that the mind does not go beyond the information given because it would simply be a biological function and the unique interpretation of events could not happen. But since the mental and physical processes do work together the mind takes the information that is received and the mind constructs different interpretations of the sensory information. There are many ways where this can be advantageous. In one way, the mind creating interpretations of information is what allows for individuality and for different opinions in situations. Without the interpretations it would seem that human perception of events would be identical in every way. But besides the advantages there are also disadvantages, such as the fact that there are many ways in which th...
In my life, I've had a major setback that has changed how I live life day to day. When I was five, I was diagnosed with permanent hearing loss. I have hearing loss in both ears, mostly in higher frequencies, but I still have some hearing loss in the lower ones too. Since I was 5, it has only gotten worse, just in the past year there has been drastic changes in the frequencies that I can't hear. Hearing loss affects me day to day, for example if anyone whispers something to me, nine of ten times I can't hear what they are saying. My academics also get affected because sometimes I can't hear what we have for homework over all of the background noise of people packing up, so sometimes I just don't do homework because I never heard it in the first place. Not doing homework because I can't hear it affects my grades as I will get zeros for not doing it.
Today’s society consists of numerous individuals who are diagnosed with disabilities that prevent them from partaking in their everyday tasks. Not everyone gets the chance to live a normal life because they might have a problem or sickness that they have to overcome. Deafness is a disability that enables people to hear. All deafness is not alike; it can range in many different forms. Some people like Gauvin, can be helped with a hearing aid, but some can’t because of their situation and health reasons. In society, hearing individuals consider deafness a disability, while the deaf themselves see it as a cultural significance. In the article “Victims from Birth”, appearing in ifemnists.com, Founding Editor Wendy McElroy, provides the story of
There has yet to be a culture discovered which lacks music. Making music is seen historically to be as fundamental as the characteristically human activities as drawing and painting. Many even go so far as to compare music to language and claim that music functions as a "universal language." But it is rarely the same music, however, that all peoples respond to. What is it that we are responding to when we listen to music? Strictly speaking, music is not a language, (1) because it has neither outside referents nor easily detectable meaning. Ludwig Wittgenstein explains that although we understand music in a similar way as we understand language, music is not a language because we still cannot communicate through music as we can through language. (2) More recently, Susanne Langer argues that although we understand music as symbol, because we are so caught up in seeing symbolic form function like language we tend to want to make music into a language. But, Langer argues, music is not a kind of language (3) because the significance of music lies not in w...
.... There are devices for the television and the telephone and one-on-one communication. There are remote microphones that can help improve speech understanding in noise, a major obstacle for older individuals. Remote microphones can facilitate tuning in to the conversation for the individual with cognitive issues. For some hearing-impaired individuals implantable hearing aids have become an option. They do not require batteries and they do not have to be removed when sleeping or bathing. There are also rechargeable hearing aids, which removes the necessity for changing batteries, especially for those with memory issues.
I will be telling you how I wake up in the morning. There are a few things that you will need to know. The night before you go to bed, you should set your alarm for the right time. You will also need to make sure that you have the coffee pot ready to go for the morning so that you will only need to turn it on when you get up. Another thing that you will need to be aware of is the snooze button; it can be a major pitfall in getting up on time. My alarm clock takes a battery so that, if the power goes out, it will still go off at the right time. The last big pitfall is not going to bed early enough to get enough sleep for the next day.
Music, a form of art, made up of unique and special sounds containing elements of pitch and rhythm can powerfully soothe one’s soul. Firstly, there are different types of music, and each has its own features. These sounds and features are what I admire in music because to me it creates a new form of communication to one’s consciousness. It stimulates our mind and gives it a sense of harmony and peace through the hardships that life poses for us. As a kid, I would always listen to music from any genre, deciding which genre would complement me the most as I grew older. In middle school, I remember going on the computer and finding a website/program where I could make my own beats. From that day on, I spent countless of hours each day making sure the tune sounded proper and pleasurable for my ears. At first, it wasn’t good, but eventua...
For my inquiry science lesson I taught to my peers, I chose to do the sense of hearing. Overall, I am not very happy with the way my presentation went, I really let my nerves get the best of me. It is really awkward for me to teach elementary lessons to college students, it 's hard for me to bring it to the level I need since I am looking at my peers as I teach it, but as the semester has gone on I 've gotten better with this. Although I wasn 't happy with it, there are a mixture of strengths and weaknesses. My objective for the lesson was students will be able to use their sense of hearing to identify objects by whether it has a loud/soft sound or if the object is light or heavy. I believe the students reached the objective, I just didn 't
For this assignment, our class was instructed to spend two to three days with impaired hearing. To do this, I obtained some regular green foam ear plugs and wore them while going about my daily routine. The plugs gave me a decent 30dB loss in my “mid” and “upper” frequencies. At first, I did not see how it would be possible to walk around with ear plugs in all day. I started to think what my other instructors would think, but being an audio arts and acoustics major, most hardly batted an eye. Truthfully, I thought I would put my plugs in when I wanted to jot notes down for my journal, but that was not the case. My ears became acclimated to the loss and I could keep them in for most the day. The purpose of this exercise was to reinforce the point our professor had been teaching us all semester; living with hearing impairment is possible, but incredibly challenging.
No human culture has ever been identified as not being associate to music, and for majority of the people, music is simply the source of the most powerful as well as the most significant experiences of their lives. In over 100 years or so since the first ever recorded music was widely available, our lives have become fully suffused by it; we are thus born and die to the music, we eat, sleep, shop, travel and simply make love to music, we also work, play and enjoy to music (Clarke, 2012). As most of our powerful memories are linked to music, or are usually accompanied by music – and maybe even as listeners, we almost become just like the music which we hear. As TS Eliot wrote; “Music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.”