Pet Peeve Speech

In today’s world, it seems everybody owns a mobile phone, and when people are in public areas, particularly a library, it is a social norm to either put it off or put it in a silent mode. But for my breaching experiment I wanted to break this social norm by going to the library and put my phone on, on full volume and see how people around me would react. Some of the reactions were surprising, but

In the article "Is anything Wrong With This Picture?" by Lauren Tarshis and Kristen Lewis, we learn that humanity needs to communicate better. We need to learn to communicate with people face to face all over again. For example, "We don't bother to take out our earbuds in the checkout lines" (Tarshis & Lewis 25). This shows that the way we treat each other is so bad we don't even bother to pause our music or podcast for even a minute. These days it seems our phones never leave our sides. The article states, "We take them into bathroom stalls" (Tarshis & Lewis 25). This is saying we don't have enough decency to leave our phones outside. Humanity needs to learn the proper way to communicate with each other.

In such a short period of time people now seem more absorbed by these objects which are meant for communication but at the same time separate people from each other and shape the way people communicate. It is almost as if everyone was from a different country and did not know how to communicate with each other. My main focus on this project was the dining halls but since I currently live on a ten story building here on campus I could also notice this same behavior of using phones in the elevators. People usually walking in listening to music or with their phone, and the eye contact is kept to the minimum. Nobody says anything but a very few amount of people who say a greeting when they walk in. So with the observations on the elevator I saw that this behavior was not only displayed in dining halls, but basically everywhere and because everyone has these items I could notice it even while I was walking to my classes. Some people did not even pay attention to where they were walking because of being focused on a phone. In the most extreme cases I saw people on hover boards while using their phone which is life-threatening for the user and people around

John is encouraged to put his earplugs in while traveling in the hallways, during PE, and in the lunchroom. Headsets are utilized in the classroom during group activities, and in the library. John excels academically with

Technological advances during the last fifty years of human history have given billions of people instant access to unprecedented communication methods. Individuals are no longer limited to letter writing and sending telegrams to convey a verbal message. E-mails, text messaging, video chat, instant messenger, and various social media outlets are all platforms for human communication in the modern world. One of the most significant communication devices to surface from the technological serge is the cellular telephone. Every individual with a cell phone has the ability to call any person, place, or agency at anytime as long as the individual is within the service provider's coverage area. The prevalence of cell phone owners has increased the use of cell phones in public places, such as schools, restaurants, and theaters, and their use in public is associated with both positive and negative implications. Some argue cell phones should be banned from public places because they are a social distraction, inhibit the user from being able to focus properly, and can cause safety concerns by interfering with airplanes and hospital equipment. Despite the negative impacts associated with cell phone use in public places, cell phones must be allowed in public for safety reasons, emergency scenarios, and to support the individual's right to personal freedom.

A century has passed since the creation of headphones, yet they have only recently come under fire. Headphones provide a way for people to listen to music, audiobooks, and podcasts privately without disrupting others around them. However, all of this private listening may soon fall on deaf ears. In Virginia Heffernan’s article “Against Headphones”, she presents an argument stating that although headphones are useful in some professions, they cause substantial hearing loss, especially in young people. The formulated argument is effective and valid, and incorporates ethos, logos, and opposing viewpoints with rebuttals.

The headphones have become common in the everyday life of everyone in a long time, and it also brings lots of arguments. In an article in The New York Times Magazine published on January 7, 2011, titled "Against Headset" by Virginia Heffernan, Heffernan is an author of New York Times, an American journalist and also, a founder of the Screens blog, which eventually became the Medium blog, said that people should resist headphones. In addition, I chose this article to analyze because I liked the way the author use her rhetorical techniques in order to convince parents of teenagers to restrict the use of their child’s headphones and how well does she use ethos to build some trusts and credibility to her audiences, how well does she provides statistic facts and reasons to convince her audience, and how well does she uses pathos to create emotion to sustain argument as well as building bridge between her audiences and she.

The Navy caught wind of Baldwin’s invention, and headphones became commonplace for military workers and soldiers. Following World War II, headphones were designed for music consumption, which later led to the Walkman, the formation of Sony, and the headphones of modern times (Heffernan, 2011). Heffernan also provides an explanation of how headphones work, stating “when an audio current passes through the device’s voice coil, it creates an alternating magnetic field that moves a stiff, light diaphragm” (Heffernan, 2011). Describing the history of headphones and how the technology works portrays Heffernan as a credible author with a deep understanding of her subject matter, which earns the trust and respect of the audience.

In the article” Is Anything Wrong With This Picture?” By Lauren Tarshis and Kristina Lewis. They explain that technology these days is changing how we use our manners. Because it talks about how we block people out with our headphones and music it, also how we not paying attention to your surroundings and that we our using our phones for EVERYTHING. The article “Is Anything Wrong With This Picture?”

For centuries, persuasive literature has used a variety of tactics to sway the audience’s thoughts. From appealing to emotion, to appealing to logic, authors have devised a way to not only change what a reader thinks, but how they think. In the article, The Argument Against Headphones, author Virginia Heffernan discusses both the advantages and disadvantages to the usage of headphones. However, she predominantly stresses the drawbacks of said usage throughout the writing. Heffernan repeatedly uses the main tactic of fear to influence how the audience thinks of headphones in a negative manner.

I don't know about you, but that race home after school to fight your bladder so you don't pee your pants is probably the only exercise I do all day. It's like a marathon; first, the run to your bike, then the fast peddling, then the struggle to find your keys, and finally the last leg of the race: sprinting to the bathroom. I take for granted that most highschoolers don't live on a tropical island in the middle of the Pacific and ride bikes everywhere, but I bet for most Kwaj residents, my pet peeve is also theirs. The marathon home is tiring and at last I can let everything go, but wait. Of course there is no more toilet paper on the roll. Are you serious?! There can only be one logical explanation to why the toilet paper is all gone: my parents.

Being distracted by your phone for a split second can not only change your life forever, but possibly someone else’s around you. Checking to see texts, answering calls or seeing the latest tweet has become more important than road safety. Society is forgetting how to communicate with each other without the use of technology. While sitting in a waiting room or standing in an elevator, take a look around you. In todays society, rather than talking to each other we are more inclined to use out cell phones to pass the time.

Heffernan then goes in to talk about the history and evolution of headphones, they’ve been around for over a century. Heffernan goes on to talk about how they were used in The Navy and World War 2 to communicate. She says that by 1979, when sony was invented, headphones and earbuds were used in most devices, such as phones, computers, tablets, and MP3 players. Heffernan then

Earplugs are placed into the ear canal in order to block the entrance of sound by forming a hermetic seal. Earplugs are better suited for longer use for those individuals who are exposed to noise throughout their workday, and provide a significant amount of attenuation. However, the effectiveness of the earplugs depends on proper insertion, and requires training employees on how to correctly place them in the canal. The level of attenuation can vary depending on how well the earplug is fit, as well as the motivation of the employee to wear them consistently (Berger, 2003).

For my observation, I went to the Buckland Hills Mall in Manchester, Connecticut. I sat a table located to the left of the Forever 21, inside the main entrance by the Panera. At the eight table positioned in a semi-circle across from the escalators, I sat at the table at the far right end. This gave me an open view of shoppers going up and down the escalators and shoppers walking through the mall, as this table was located at a busy intersection which a person must walk through to get from one end of the mall to the other. In addition, shoppers coming in through the main entrance had to walk by me to enter the mall, allowing me to also observe those shoppers. I observe all shoppers walking through the mall, and I divided my observations by male and female. For my operational definition of using a cellphone, it included holding a cellphone in their hand and looking down at