essay choice

I chose the Persuasive essay type because I have not done it yet, although I have written many persuasive essays before. Persuasive essays start with a strong statement which the writer then tries to persuade the reader into sharing a similar view point. In my essay I stated that hearing was the most valuable sense. I then provided evidence of this by explaining that hearing is heavily used for communication, imperative for listening to music, and an irreplaceable sense.

hearing test #2

this song was more rap/hiphop than the first. the intro had a lot of different rythm and beats and lyrics were sung over it. the intro broke off to the main song where there was fewer beats.

hearing test #1

the music sounds like rock and is fast paced. the begining guitar solo sounded like something out of guitar hero. the notes go back and forth very fast and i could imagine this song being very hard to play on that game. after listening to a couple verses i didnt really understand the lyrics

hearing thesis

My main idea is going to be about how valuable hearing is and how we use it in everyday life.

What is the value of hearing and how do we use it in everyday life?

How do I use hearing to function in everyday life?

Persuasive

I will persuade the reader that hearing is one of the most useful and valuable of the five senses.

How is being able to hear the sounds of nature valuable?

How am I going to strech this into 2 pages?

my thesis is going to be about hearing and its value and how we use it. since this is a persuasive paper i am going to have to convince the reader through examples that hearing is one of the most valuable senses. i use my sense of hearing a lot by listening to music. this always puts me ina better mood when i am listening to my favorite song or by chance find a remix of my favorite song that i like even better. hearing is also used in nature. we often hear such things as wind blowing, leaves falling, rain, thunder, and song birds. hearing is also used in communication by hearing the words other people are speaking and inturpreting them as a language. in this persuasive essay i am going to have to find several quotes to prove my points.

the loss of hearing

Hearing is one our most valuable senses and as I could imagine, would be a tragedy to lose. Hearing is very essential to our everyday life. Hearing is responsible for half of the way humans verbaly communicate. Without hearing this would have to be changed and everyone would communicate by some other means such as sign language.

One of the main things I would miss if I ever went deaf is music. Everyday I listen to music either on the radio, my ipod, or my computer. It is something I enjoy doing so much that I would not want to live in a world without music. To not be able to hear soothing melodies or catchy rythms of my favorite bands and songs would be a great loss for me.

In some breakthrough cases instead of people loosing their hearing, doctors have even been able to allow the deaf to hear again through cochlear-implant surgery. When the audiologist turned on the cochlear-implant Richard Reed explains,

“I heard some loud beeps and boops;, then I heard her say, “Can you hear me?” I could indeed, but had something gone wrong? I’d expected it to sound weird, sure, but she sounded as if she were using, bubbles instead of words. Her voice was musical, like a toy piano, each syllable a tiny ping. My reply was loud, a gruff, high-pitched Popeye voice. The audiologist said there was nothing wrong” (Reed, 1-2).

This must be an amazing feeling to be granted the sense of hearing for the first time and listen to all the new sounds that we are exposed to in everyday life.

works cited

Reed, Richard. WHAT IT FEELS LIKE…TO REGAIN YOUR HEARING. 2007. 10 Oct. 2007

<http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=8&sid=affc0c74-0bee-4bcb-9260-d0e63532a9ce%40sessionmgr8>

hearing poem

• music
• nails on a chalkboard
• mellon arena after a goal is scored
• saxiphone
• window blind rising up
• fire alarm at 4 a.m.
• cell phone ring in class
• the beatles

works cited

Stradley, Linda. What’s Cooking America. 2004. 17 September 2007
<http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Pizza/PizzaHistory.htm>.

Perception of texture by vision and touch: multidimensionality and intersensory integration. 15 Oct. 2007 <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=2940321&dopt=Citation>

Smell & Taste. 15 Oct. 2007. < http://www.entnet.org/healthinfo/topics/smell_taste.cfm>

Stradley, Linda. What’s Cooking America. 2004. 17 September 2007
<http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Pizza/PizzaHistory.htm>.

Touch test #2

the first thing i felt was two paper circles that made a sort of spindle. wrapped around the spindle was a type of cloth that was soft and seemed like it would be absorbent so i thought of a length of gauze that one would find at a hospital. then i found that the cloth that was unreaveled from the spindal had two sides to the item one was very fuzzy and the other was rough and felt like plastic. this type of texture reminded me of velvet so thats what i thought the item was.

Touch test #1

the item i touched was not very hard but was definately not soft. the texture felt like paper but i did not want to jump to that conclusion. the first thing i felt was that there was a slight crease in the paper. i felt the edges and they were perfectly cut and seemed like equal dimensions. i began to think of what type of paper this was like a handout or maybe something we got before in english class. as soon as i felt that the paper was extremely smooth, smoother than classroom paper i began to also feel very little bumps which reminded me of a dollar bill. as soon as i thought that it was a dollar bill i quickly smelled it and sure enough it had a slight dollar bill ink smell to it.

Thesis statement for touch

Touch How important is touch to a human being? for my essay i am going to write about touch but touch is very broad there are many different views and aspects of touch that i can write about i have thought about writing about how touch is vital to humans and it is needed but i now want to write about all five senses and how they may tie into touch when we studied taste we came to the conclusion that taste is greatly influenced by smell and that you can only taste sweetness, bitterness, sourness but the real flavors of our favorite foods like pizza ice cream or chocolate cookies are sensed by our sesn sense of smell maybe this is true with touch with a sense such as sight we see everyday and our touch can be influenced by this when we first look at some thing we think is it rough? is it smooth? and immediately come to a conclusion of what that item will feel like then we touch it and process this data to conclude what the item really felt like today when we do our touch workshop this is what many people may do when they go to feel the item they are to sense today i brought in a cleaning cloth for glasses and computer screens it is black and looks really fuzzy and one can conclude many things from this

Do any other senses tie into touch?

Do the other five senses incluence the sense of touch?

intro : taste and smell

para1 : sight and touch

a. observing texture

b. feeling in front of you when blind

c.

para2 : smell and touch

para3 : hearing and touch

para4: taste and touch

conclusion : touch and all five senses