hung?” the princess asked happily. “No, darling, of course he won't be hung, but he is going to be hanged,” The king said cruelly. “Father, we could be so happy together. We could be like a Taylor Swift song.” The princess started to cry. “That sounds all fine and dandy until he kills you to rule Delamína alone,” The king told his daughter in a knowing tone. Well, at least he knows what's up, I thought to myself. “But dad he wouldn't do that. I bet he came here to propose to end the feud,”…
Tinnitus is the ringing in the ear, which is an unwanted sound that one can hear. The sounds can be constant or comes and goes, soft or loud, and in one ear or both. There are three ways to distinguish the symptoms of the patient’s tinnitus sound: tonal tinnitus, pulsatile tinnitus, and musical tinnitus. Tonal is a near continuous sound that are affiliated with subjective tinnitus, which is just the normal ringing sound, pulsatile is pulsing sound that one hears from their heartbeat and for some…
At 5:30, after the minor procedure, I got off of the operating table and the sounds around me were… different. Weirdly vivid. My life became a little less different. While my hearing is still a little imbalanced, things are easier. Junior year was a struggle and memories from my AP Biology class still haunt me, but senior year…
Music is a way of life, it’s the beat in the human heart and the rhythm of a person’s step. Some people have the ability to make music even more touching and meaningful to human life. These people are composers and use their talent to bless us with music. One of the famous songwriters/musician is the talented and esteemed Taylor Swift. The music she writes reflects her background, career and other relevant information. Taylor Swift’s background is an important part of who she is, knowing these…
protects the nasal passage by directing a portion of the substance to the mouth. The uvula hangs fro the end of the soft palate, in humans. The placement of the velum all depends on what sound you as a singer. If you have a high, lifted velum your sound will be more legit or classical. A good way to achieve this sound is by whimpering like a dog, or by acting like a queen and saying “ I am the queen” works well, this one also lowers the larynx. Having a middle or medium soft palate comes from…
With hearing loss, it makes it incredibly difficult to tell the difference between a sound that is directed towards you and a sound that you hear in the background. Avoiding Social Settings As a result of all the symptoms discussed above, it is not uncommon for those with hearing loss to want to avoid social settings. More often than not, those that suffer…
Music is one of the most popular engines for self-expression today, most considerably amongst younger persons (Rentfrow et al., 2009). People wear shirts and hats embellished with their favorite band, decorate their homes with posters and records, and blast their favorite tunes with the windows down during the car ride home from work (Rentfrow and Gosling, 2007; Rentfrow et. al., 2009). Furthermore, the rise of social media in recent years has magnified both the scope and the means of which…
was not published until after his death. The tone of this poem goes from happy and joyous to fear and death. Several elements are used throughout this poem such as assonances, personifications, and onomatopoeias. Assonances is the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible. In “The Bells,” there are several examples. In Stanza 1 Line 3, Poe refers to silver bells as “merriment their melody foretells”.…
Kayla Burkhart welcomed five children into her early childhood music class April 19, 2018. The children range in age from 15 months to four years old. This class was held in a large choral rehearsal room at Butler University in Indianapolis as part of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir Early Childhood Program. Through an observation summary, we will analyze and discuss great aspects of and room for growth regarding the pedagogical approach to this class. More specifically, we will use Gordon’s…
In "words are birds" Francisco X. Alarcón uses many metaphors comparing words to birds to suggest that words, although many and vastly different, all fall under one category and unite us all. The poem begins by giving the reader an overview of how words and birds are related: "words / are birds / that arrive / with books / and spring" (1-5). The correlation between words and books is obvious, as they are often put together, but the author is comparing words to spring as well to show that we use…