Hearing Loss Video Analysis

I struggled to listen to the instructor and found myself having to work very hard to understand her then about an hour into class I began to lose focus and stopped paying attention. In this instance, I empathized with the children who have an unidentified hearing loss and struggle to pay attention in school. These children are often identified as having attention and behavior issues when in reality their hearing is the problem. This further emphasized the importance of services such as hearing aids, FM systems or other amplification methods to ensure that these children do not have to work so hard to understand

Incorporating logical appeals into her writing allows Heffernan to reach a larger audience. The use of logic appeals to statistically-oriented people as well as providing factual support as backing for the argument. The author writes, “the number of teenagers with hearing loss… has jumped 33 percent since 1994” (Heffernan, 2011). By referencing a statistic, the author is able to shed light on the harsh reality of headphone use: more young people are losing their hearing. Heffernan goes on to say, “headphone users who listen to music at high volumes for more than an hour a day risk permanent hearing loss after five years” (2011). By applying concrete facts to the argument, readers are able to see the

Jennifer Dignan prompts us to Throw Away Your Earbuds Now in the scholastic article she wrote, Throw Away Your Earbuds Now. She separates her article into three parts: an example of the problem, addressing the problem, and explaining how we can prevent the problem from happening to us. In this instance, the problem is that young people are losing their hearing quicker and quicker due to the fact that they’re blasting literally deafening music through their earbuds. This article ties in with an ABC video our class watched concerning the same topic. Jennifer Dignan wrote this article to teach teens that would be reading the scholastic magazine to educate them on how they can preserve their hearing, an extremely important skill, for the long future ahead of them.

There is a lot of controversy over music, musical genres, and the volume that music is played at, but the indirect effects of excessive volume are frequently overlooked. One novel helps illustrate these effects when caused by ear equipment. Contemporary earbuds as well as “seashells” in a book called Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury often lead to hearing loss, which leads to less socializing, and therefore physical and medical problems.

Deaf community has their different world, culture and language. Normal people might see deaf people not normal as others. They describe them as other individuals with disability. Indeed, deaf people have their own culture that let them see us as strangers and they are normal. As I saw in the video, I can see how they communicate with other normal people and how they try hard to describe something. If we stop for a moment we will see that they might think that we are who have a disability. What is amazed me most about the video is the deaf culture that makes them enjoy the life. I think that they have better social life than us. They usually meet each other and go to interesting clubs. They also go to sport clubs and participate in important

The cybersenses video examined two individuals with a profound loss of hearing and vision. The first individual was a little girl named Kelly who became death due to a disease that impaired her hair cells in her cochlea. Growing up she received a hearing aid, however the device got progressively worse. She explained to the producers that she could slightly hear some noise but nothing was definite anymore, and all she wanted in life was to actually hear noise such as the running river and fully talk to her family. Due to her circumstance doctors decided to perform a surgery to permanently fix or better her hearing.

Wearing earplugs for six hours has given me so much insight into what those who use hearing aids and cochlear implants experience. It has also given me a new appreciation for my ears. I did not realize how difficult it would be to attempt to communicate as I normally would with the earplugs in; however, it was frustrating, straining, and exhausting. I wore the earplugs in three different situations. The first setting was with my roommates at home, the second setting took place in a shopping trip to the mall, and the third setting in which I wore earplugs was a cell phone conversation with my mom. These experiences were trying, but ultimately gave me a better understanding and empathy for individuals who are hard of hearing; this exercise will

Vocational Planning in the Public School for the Hard of Hearing” by Wanda E. Yerkes places emphasis on the feelings and hardships that Hard of Hearing students are forced to endure at public institutions or Vocational schools. Ms.Yerkes discusses prevocational principles, the hearing aid, adjustment to the aid, emotional and social guidance, counseling and academic and vocational preparatory work. Yerkes believes that a lot of the problems they experience can be alleviated with proper training from jobs and schools. She also believes that giving children that are hard of hearing speech and language classes, along with auditory training can help them succeed in the workforce. However this statement is the reason behind some of the anger in

Our ability to hear, like no other sense, gives us the opportunity to engage. Being able to hear the muffled words of a teenager, the tender whisper of a grandchild, crickets on a summer night or birds chirping on your morning walk has an unmeasurable impact on our quality of life. That is why helping our patients to hear their personal best is critically important to the staff at Now Hear This®.

Marijuana is the flower of the cannabis plant, and if smoked, gives the smoker an euphoric high, but really has much more to offer than just the high. Using marijuana and the growing of hemp are presently illegal in the United States, with the exception of medicinal uses in some states. The legalization of marijuana has many advantages including for simple personal enjoyment, the usage of hemp and its by-products, and medicinal purposes.

There is a very disturbing video online that shows the shocking thing that a man found inside of his ear. The man in the video is frantic, and he is desperately trying to get the thing out of his ear. The camera man zooms into the man's ear and gives a clear view of what is inside of it. The man had two moths in his ear. This video is definitely not for people who have sensitive stomachs.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, the intertwined themes of self-identity and love appear many times throughout the novel, influencing each other greatly. Self-identity shapes the theme of love as does love shape the theme of self-identity through the lives of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, two of the four main characters. How these two characters viewed themselves was primarily based off of the perspective of the Puritan society they inhabit. Because of the strict Puritan law, religion, and belief system, Hester and Dimmesdale were viewed as sinners, or in specific terms, adulterer and adulteress. The self-identity of Dimmesdale influenced his love for Hester tremendously. Under Dimmesdale's facade of admirable morals and untainted identity lived a self-loathing hypocrite who spent so many years mentally and physically scorning himself, he had hidden from his love for Hester. Not only did Dimmesdale picture himself as a guilty sinner, he also pictured himself as an influential authority figure. This meant that because his ego was so massive, he was too afraid to confess his love for Hester to the townspeople and to Hester herself. Dimmesdale states, “At the great judgement day… then and there, before the judgment seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together. But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting” when Pearl asks him when he will stand with her and Hester again. Even though Pearl doesn't recognize Dimmesdale as her father, he

I was asked to produce a presentation that will raise awareness on the deaf and how to help in that situation. I have called this presentation “Hearing Loss – A Growing issue”. The Reason I have called my presentation this is because I wanted it to make an impact at first glance. I also wanted to make people aware that hearing loss isn’t just a small minority but can be seen as a bigger

Hearing loss is the most common physical disability in the whole wide world. In the United States alone, about 28 million people have some level of hearing impairment that interferes with their ability to understand normal speech and participate in conversations. Another 2 million cannot hear at all.

In Animal Farm, Orwell subtly presents tyranny through the character of Napoleon. In chapter 6, Orwell shows how Squealer is used by Napoleon to persuade the animals. “Surely none of you wishes to see Jones back?” Orwell has used a rhetorical question to show the manipulation and intelligence that the pigs have. The use of ‘you’ (second person) involves each animal as an individual instead of referring to the group as a whole to intimidate them and uses the fear of Jones to make them co-operate.