Atoms Of Sound Analysis

In the essay “I Am Not Charlie Hebdo” the author, David Brooks, writes about the publics reaction to the attacks at Charlie Hebdo. He believes the American people are hypocrites. They believe in freedom of speech and expression only until it effects their own personal views.

Silence is known as the lack of sound: the lack of words. It is also a well known fact that words can be dangerous, as people can spread false rumors and hate speech. However, silence, though it is a lack of words, can prove to be even more dangerous than the words of hate themselves. Reason being, though the silence can not be used to spread the hate, it does not do anything to prevent or stop the hate from happening.

Melodic tunes ushers in the first scene of the classroom, which fades away as Mrs. Whitney introduces Max to his new classmates. There are also natural sounds such as thumping of feet by basketball players. The sound is used effectively for transition from one scene to another. Drumbeats mark Max’s exit from the school environment to that on the street with Ms. Cross. A song then introduces happy moments for most characters including Max’s participation in a pre-basketball match entertainment. The song represents the happy moods from one scene to another for a while. It helps in enforcing the story of a happy young man who becomes sad after losing the woman’s love to his friend. The natural sounds of ambulances and police cars sirens are so deafening that it is difficult to hear what Max tells Mrs. Blume leaving the audience to decide on what transpired. However, it becomes clear when Mrs. Blume files for a divorce. Rock music in the scenes where Mr. Blume spoil Max’s bicycle and Max’s bees revenge mission portrays dangerous situations the characters are in as reflected by Max arrest. The sounds cement various themes in the film including theme of love, betrayal, conflict among

In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut uses the motif: distinct distracting noises to develop the theme: sometimes, everybody being equal isn’t always the best way to keep it. This is so, because the noises represent the physical restraints held on society, when it actually restrains their ability to think for themselves, and be their own people. This also signifies that when people of low intelligence as normal, it drastically reduces the creativity of civilization. These are the reasons that validate why the repeated noises in the story tie to the lack of creativity and quality of life in the timeline.

Liam O'Flaherty uses similes to enhance the story “The Sniper” by creating mental images and connecting the reader’s experiences to quotes in the story.  In the beginning of the story, a civil war between the Free Staters and the Republicans is taking place.  A Republican sniper is resting on a roof at night time, and looks over the streets of Dublin.  The author states, “Here and there through the city machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms” (213).  The shots are fired into the darkness in random bursts, breaking the silence of the night.  O'Flaherty then uses a simile to compare the sounds of the shots with dogs barking on lone farms.  This can allow the reader to be able to

When vieweing horror media, there are many different techniques used to build the suspense. The technique of using artistic elements is used greatly when creating a suspsenseful mood. This technique is especially used iin “If Cornered, scream” and in “Lights Out.” In “If Cornered, scream” Thurmond uses the act of foreshadowing events to develop the mood. However, Sandberg uses sound effects to build the mood, in “Lights Out”. In “If Cornered, scream” when the protaginist is dricing home from the mental institute she reviews the safety lectures given to the nurses, every night she drives home. These actions by the nurse leaves the reader feel suspcious and unsure of the story. “Each night during the drive home, she relieved the safety lectures

6.) Sound is used to provide important transitions in the film, for example, sound links are used, and those are aural bridges between scenes or sequences which help transition the place and time in the film. One second we see the three men in the car driving down the road, and the next minute we see them wondering in the woods. Sounds are needed to provide these transitions because sometimes words can't be used to make the transition.

Silence. See, it drives us crazy, just the word makes me think a little harder and my mind runs wild to find a way to avoid it. Silence, often times preceded by the word awkward, we scramble to find ways around it, usually by listening to music or maybe by the sound of our own voices. Silence is something that drags out the time, makes the clock click a little slower, because we simply do not like it. We want something to fill that absence because we’re simply not used to the vacancy. Everywhere you go there is noise around, some kind of sound. But imagine living in a world without that. To most people that thought is detrimental, but to some it is the reality of everyday life. Though I personally am not deaf, nor do I know anyone who is, I have always been intrigued by Deaf culture. Being deaf is not a just a disability, it is simply a different way of life.

As rain seeped from the heavens, the dreary charcoal buildings began to resemble grotesque tombstones. The rain swirled across the concrete road, past the abandoned basketball court haunted by the echoes of childhood and under the park benches where lovers had once met to profess their passion. The rain-soaked wind pushed the corroded swings, their eerie creaking harmonizing with the wind’s soft moans. In its wake, the rain left shallow ebony puddles doomed to virginity, forever untouched by the rubber soles of childrens’ rain boots. Raindrops tapped against dark window-panes, filling the street with a melancholy melody. Nobody peered from beneath a curtain or dared to don an umbrella and venture into the street. An eternal slumber seemed to consume the neighborhood as rain continued to batter the earth. Rain overran the town and thunder resonated through the paper-thin houses, but the town

The Awakening by Kate Chopin ends with the protagonist reliving old memories and eventually entering the ocean to drown herself. However, this ending does not feel like an ending for this character, instead it feels like a new beginning of awakening. This effect happens through the use of indicative diction, symbolic imagery, and alluring sound.

Nighttime had already settled in, and the clock was ticking closer to twelve a.m. It would have probably seemed like any other peaceful night. Suddenly, walls began to tremble. The floor started shaking. Loud booms rang out. The quivering began to intensify, causing belongings to fall in residents’ homes. It was the beginning of the 5.7-magnitude Oklahoma earthquake, which struck on November 6, 2011 and resulted in significant structural damage (“Oklahoma’s Largest Quake in Decades Buckles Highway; Rattles Residents,” CNN). A journalistic study—published in the journal Geology—conducted in 2013 showed that the 2011 earthquake was actually caused by fracking, a practice in which water is injected into the Earth’s ground (“Wastewater Injection

EVAS, he experiences irregular shifts in his hearing ability so monitoring his audiogram is vital for effective communication, so one service that needs to be added is regular audiological evaluations when a change in hearing is suspected or at least monthly. The acoustics of classrooms and other learning environments can significantly alter how Sam has access to spoken language. So the audiological evaluations need to include at minimum an aided audiogram and evaluation of personal amplification (hearing aides) and educational modification (FM unit). My preference for this type of evaluation is for an ASHA certified Educational Audiologist. This should be completed whenever there is a documented change in hearing or any changes in seating

In Joss Whedon’s episode “Hush” of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he had to find a way to tell an entire story with very little dialogue. This technique is very hard to do and it takes someone with a very high skill level in order to be able to accomplish that. Sound is a very important component to any sort of moving visual. It allows for the plot to move forward, it enhances our senses, and it helps our brains to remind us of what is happening. Within this episode the characters discover just how instrumental sound is and learn what it’s really like to lose a part of that, by not being able to speak. Whedon does a pretty good job of navigating his way through the episode without sound.

Clay woke up to the loud, and obnoxious screeching of the alarm clock that rested on the floor next to his bed, he groaned in annoance at realization of consciousness, wishing sleeping felt longer.

Sound is embodied in the black body whether it be in everyday conversation, intimate exchanges with a loved one, heart wrenching calls, or music rendered from the soul. Sound is essential to living beings as both a primary and secondary sense used to interact with the world. Sound enables communication. Communication creates community. Community leads to emotional connections and understanding. The use of sound enables one to connect with their spiritual side as seen in the muck. Sound gives power, and the ability of black characters to control the sounds they create in Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God and Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” enables them to attain the ultimate happiness and sense of belonging in their communities.