Soundview Case Study

Audio Engineering I am passionate about audio engineering and a can see myself doing it as a career. I have always pushed myself to learn more about music, and the skills I have learned have helped me to realize that I want to work in the recording industry. “Starting a

Emilee Pflueger SPPA325-001 Hearing Loss Simulation In order to gain a better understanding of the difficulties faced by people with hearing loss I wore ear plugs for an entire day in a variety of settings. The hearing loss simulation made relatively simple parts of my day much more difficult and really showed

David grew up in the Soundview section of the Bronx, which was a middle class neighborhood with mostly Jewish and Italian families.

The most recent census data available for the 10472 zip code area is the 2014 American Community Survey. The 10472 zip code is located in the Soundview section of the South Bronx. This zip code covers the northern area of Soundview, before the Bruckner Expressway. It is part of New York’s 15th congressional district, it’s known for being the smallest and poorest congressional district in the US. The 15th congressional district makes up for the majority of the Bronx, for this reason some of the information presented will be compared to the Bronx borough and 15th congressional district census data.

Parkchester between 1950 and 1980 was predominantly white. A demographic census conducted in the 1950 showed that of the 1.45 million Bronx residents, only 97,700 identified themselves as Blacks and 20,000 as other races. The census counted in these years emphasis the majority of whites that resides in Parkchester at this period. There were approximately 90% of residents in the South Bronx that identify themselves as White. As the year progresses, there was a change in the ethnic makeup, a 1960 census indicates that 164,000 of the 1.45 million residents were Blacks. Throughout the years to come census counted have show that the number of non-whites residents that identify as black and Hispanic have double. Research has said the reason for the changes was due to the Depression. Blacks and Hispanics were moving into the Bronx from Harlem. The movement was due mainly to rent control of apartments in Harlem, these low-income tenants that sparked the construction of public housing projects throughout the Bronx. In addition to renting control, many Blacks and Hispanics moved into the Parkchester neighborhood because of accessibility to the elevated subways for easier

I called to Ms Porter, she was concerned about the hearing process, she stated that she spoke with the Hearing Rep, Carlos Castillos and he had told her that he did not find any break in policy or rule, so he is going to request an administrative hearing. She said that

Explain that wearing the aids as often and as consistently as possible is essential to speech and language development for the child. The hearing aids provide access to sounds for the child and without this stimulation speech and language development will be negatively impacted. Auditory input is needed to help the child to learn to listen, if the aids are not being used and the auditory pathways of the brain are not being stimulated then the child will eventually lose that ability. The quality of the signal in the hearing aids is directly related to the child’s speech intelligibility. A high quality auditory input provides a better opportunity for learning and better speech intelligibility. Full access is important for children who are learning

E. CONDITIONAL USE - Public Hearing 9. Blake Rice, corner of Veterans Parkway & Academy Drive, C-2, Townhomes- 40 units Mr. Ogren reported the applicant is requesting conditional use approval for a 40-unit condominium townhouse-style development (Eagle Ridge) on a 4.23-acre property. In this C-2 zoning district a maximum of 16 dwelling units per acre are allow; the proposed density is 9.46 dwellings per acre. The development will look like a townhome development with six buildings and each building with six, seven or eight dwelling units attached together. A front and rear yard area is shown for each condominium unit. However, the units will be sold as a condominium. For example, a buyer of a 1,200-square foot two-story condominium

Mini Essay: Using Tones Through My Own Experiences “I’m sad!” says the person in a happy manner with a huge smile on their face. Now what’s wrong with this sentence? If an individual were sad, they would not be shouting that out, especially not with a smile on their face. So what would need to be changed to make this rhetorical situation make sense? The tone of course, so let’s try this again. “I’m sad…” says the person burying their face in a pillow. Now that’s more like it. In “Issue 3” of Writing Identities, the author states that “Your tone should engage your audience in a way that will invite them to feel receptive to your message.” This meaning, that a person’s tone needs to make sense, it needs to match up with the situation of which

Sound Essay What do you think when you hear sound? Do you think of the old tale that says if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make any

History of Woodside Woodside was a rural neighborhood filled with farms in the 18th and 19th century. Residential development did not begin until the 1860’s by Benjamin W. Hitchcock. It was the perfect place to develop a suburban neighborhood by being near the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR). Transportation had once

Sounder is about a poor African American family who lives in a cabin on a plantation. His father is a sharecropper and during the winter work is scarce for him. During those times the father and his coon dog, Sounder, goes out at night to look for food for the family. Every night they return without food and more desperate to find food. One day, the father returns home with a hog he had stolen. The father is arrested. Sounder attacks the Sheriff. The Sheriff shot Sounder causing him to run into the backwoods. The son searched for him but he never found him. One day the boy thought he saw his father in a work camp and got badly hurt. He found a schoolhouse and wandered into it. There he met a teacher that said to him I will move you in and teach

When the Native American tribe sold the island of Manhattan to Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India for some beads and wampum whose equivalent value was less than $30 today, they would not have had imagined that Manhattan became one of the hottest land on earth, from a real estate market standpoint and other kinds of development standpoints as well. Lower Manhattan, also known as downtown Manhattan, encompasses not only the famous financial district that has long been in people’s sweetest dream or darkest nightmare, but also the artsy SoHo, Battery Park City, and one of the first public-private development project—Stuyvesant Town. The rise of the real estate market could be accounted for by a wealth of factors, including population growth,

The most significant of the newly constructed transportation network was the Cross-Bronx Expressway, a road cutting through the heart of the Bronx. To make way for this expansive construction project the city employed eminent domain, displacing upwards of 60,000 local residents. Uprooted residents, mainly impoverished African American and Puerto Rican families without enough resources for better housing winded up in the expansive public and subsidized housing of the South Bronx. Once a safe haven for the upwardly mobile first and second-generation immigrants in the prewar era, the Bronx was not always thought of as one of the nation’s poorest slums. The shifting post war economy took its toll on the once thriving manufacturing businesses

An Analysis of Richer Sounds PLC 1.0 A Report on How Richer Sounds Functions 4.1 A Classification of the business according to its ownership, and an explanation of the benefits and constraints of this type of ownership Richer Sounds is part of the Private Sector, which consists of businesses who seek to make a profit. Julian Richer is the sole owner of Richer Sounds, which means he has full control over the business, but the Directors run it. Richer Sounds is a regional unlisted Public Limited Company, which means it is not listed on the Stock Exchange. Julian Richer is owner of all the shares of Richer Sounds, but the official name of the company is still Richer Sounds PLC, even though the shares are not for sale to This includes the company name, location, share capital and their objectives. It also states what the company can and cannot do, which is referred to as the ‘general trading company’, which means they can do anything that is legal. The Articles of Association is what outlines the internal management of the company, which would usually include things like the role of the directors, the rights of the shareholders and the frequency of shareholder meetings, but anything that involves shareholders would not apply to Richer Sounds as it is owned by only one person. They may