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Listening To Sounds Analysis

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Upon finishing listening to what was my first podcast ever, it did not necessarily change my thoughts about noise of modern life. This is because I am and have always been an appreciator of the simple things in life. For example, I am the type of person who will sit in an airport and just think about the fact that in this one place where there are a multiple number of people, each of them has their own life. Each of these lives are being carried out all at the same time, and each of those lives are filled with different experiences, different losses, different gains, they have each had a vulnerable moment and a moment where they were filled with love and more importantly each of them has their own story. Each of these people have their own …show more content…

The best thing about the noise in our society is that although there is a negative effect in situations of the ability to listen to personal music, there is also a positive side which encompasses the same thing. The reason that most of us listen to our own music is not only possibly a sub-conscious effort to seclude ourselves from other around us, but also because we want to please ourselves by listening to sounds or music we like. Therefore, one example of how noise in our society promotes communication would be when a group of strangers are somewhere and here the new Taylor Swift song that they all love, they catch themselves singing and dancing to it, simultaneously noticing the others doing the same which breaks that barrier of being strangers by making them realize they have something in common. This later leads to them speaking to each other and possibly beginning a relationship. Similarly, from a more fundamental perspective sounds as simple as someone chopping wood outside, singing in the shower in the morning, or the sound of a jump rope hitting the pavement as little kids play, all play in the role of promoting communication; all you have to do is listen for

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