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

The power of Touch

Touch, as one of our five senses, is our most primitive sense. In fact, many may think that the sense of touch is the first sense that we experience. From birth we are touched and cared for. This experience of being held and nurtured is vital to the child’s development. Touch is a sense we often experience in everyday life, but do not realize the significance of it.
The sense of touch is used in sports, but is frequently overlooked. When a player hits a homerun, scores the tying point, or makes a big play he is commonly congradulated with a friendly butt slap. Although this seems like a nonchalant reaction to a great play, there is more to the butt slap than congradulations. Butt slaps also reveal how close the two players are. Freshman Lacrosse player Max Levine explains, “I personally think that the closer two teammates are with each other, the farther down their slaps will be” (Doman).

Touch has also been experienced by people without limbs, which is refered to as a phantom limb. People without limbs have reportedly found that their phantom limbs act as though it is still there, causeing them for example to reach for a cup of coffe that is not there. Some people with phantom limbs experience excrutiating pain from the cut off nerves in their stump. Phantom limbs can supposedly be treated by a number of methods including, “vibration therapy, acupuncture, hypnosis and biofeedback” (“Phantom limb”).

In our society touch is quite valuable and often unseen. According to Rodha Watson, “Touch is an important means of communication. Agentle squeeze of the arm, a good hug, an arm across someone’s shoulders, a light tap on the hand. All of these speak volumes without a word being said” (Watson). Touch as an important means of communication and as the first experience from birth should not be overlooked or taken for granted.

Word Cited

Doman, Mary. “The extra-low five: the art of the butt touch.” JUH Newsletter. 26 April 2007. JUH. 27 Sept. 2007. <http://media.www.juhnewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news>

“Phantom Limb.” Wikipedia. 10 Oct. 2007. Wikimedia Foundation. 10 Oct. 2007. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb>

Watson, Rhoda. “The common touch.” Nursing Older People Vol. 17 Issue 1 44-45.

Sodium chloride

Sodium and chloride are two key elements that combine to make salt. Sodium is number 11 on the periodic table and has the symbol Na. Chlorine is number 17 on the periodic table and has the symbol Cl. When combined together they form a compound called sodium chloride or as commly called table salt. Salt is most commonly known for its destinctive taste and is regularly used in food, but the smell of salt reminds me of a lot of memories.

For me the smell of salt reminds me of ocean salt water. Every summer my family and I would take a family vacation to a beach. We went to beaches in Delaware, North and South Carolina, Florida, Mexico, and the Carribeans. When we traveled to these places my senses would smell my car, if we were driving, a crowded airport, or airplane. When we arrived or were close to the beach I could always sense the smell of salt water carrying in the ocean breeze from a mile away. It was a sign to me that we were there and we were only moments from a town along the shore loaded with surf shops, seafood resturaunts, and souvineer stands.

After we checked into our hotel, I would always want to be the first one to the beach. I would put my towel down on the sand with my sandels and head for the ocean. Now the smell of the salt water was as strong as ever. As I walked through the wake splashing up little bits of water I see thick white foam in the shallow ocean water. The ocean water creates this thick foam when it washes into shore as a reaction of the high amounts of salt in the water being stirred up by the wake. On beaches in the US such as Myrtle Beach, or any beach on the Atlantic Ocean, there is more salt in the ocean water. This causes the ocean water to make more foam and gives it a more pungent smell. The wake is also rougher giving the water a darker blue color. On beaches in the Carribean such as the Cayman Islands there is less salt in the ocean water resulting in less salt foam and smell. Even though the Carribean Islands have less salt in its ocean water the ocean breeze blows the feignt salt smell all over the tiny islands. There is also less wake in the Carribeans giving the ocean water its beautiful light blue color which allows anyone to see right down to the ocean floor.

While swimming in the ocean water I could not get away from the smell of salt. When I would dive down under the wake I would close my mouth to keep all of the salt water out, but when I surfaced the taste of salt remained on the edges of my lips. This feeling of salt so close to my nose only bothers me a little; the worst feeling is when one get a mouth full of salt water. It has only happened to me a few times. Having a mouth full of salt water completely overloads one’s senses with an extremely strong salt flavor and smell. One immediately spits the water out and keeps repeatedly spitting to get every last sense of the salt water out. This is enough to immediately end one’s swim in the ocean. The only remedy is to run to shore and wash one’s mouth out with some fresh water.

Salt as itself is one of the basic tastes, but it also has characteristics of smell. The smell of salt can be very mild when one thinks of table salt, but at the same time can be very overwhelming when one thinks of a mouthful of salt water. One may also relate the smell of salt to greasy fast food and potato chips, but for me it brings back the relaxing feeling of being in the warm and sunny Carribeans.

second smell test

This smell is very different from the first. It is not as strong and I can only smell it if I hold it up to my nose. It smells a little like coconut and some sort of flower. It mostly reminds me of a fresh clean spring time smell.

A stong scent

The first thing that comes to my mind is a magazine perfume insert. The kind where the page is glued down and you open it and smell a sharp fragrance and paper. The smell is fresh and seems as though it could cover up very common scents. This smell reminds me of whenever I would go out to places at night where people smoke a lot. At home I used to go to a local pool hall which was always filled with smoke and I used this to spray myself when I got home.

The Essential Sense of Smell

My sense of smell is very important to me. Since I have never lost my sense of smell, I could only imagine what it would be like. To live in a world where one could not smell any scents at all good or bad is hard to comprehend. I use my sense of smell everyday without realizing how valuable it is.

Smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. It is said that the average human can identify 10,000 different smells. This means without the sense of smell there would be 10,000 things that you could not recognize via memory.

For me, the smell of a freshly cooked turkey coming out of the oven triggers many memories of family Thanksgiving meals. Every Thanksgiving my family would have several relatives over for a big Thanksgiving meal. On those nights the smells did not stop at cooked turkey; there was stuffing, potatos, corn, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, and of course my favorite, pumpkin pie. All of these smells are locked in my memory along with big family dinners where we talk all night and get ready for the holiday season.

My sense of smell is also very important to me because the sense of smell influences the sense of taste. Taste is only able to sense if something is sweet, bitter, sour, or salty. When one chews on a piece of gum one may taste if it is a sweet or sour type of gum, but without the sense of smell one would not be able to taste the refreshing mint, bubblegum, strawberry, or any other type of flavor. I could not imagine losing a sense such as this, thus making my sense of smell such an important one.

salt and vinegar

Again I tasted something very crunchy. I chewed it into smaller and smaller pieces tasting more and more flavor until I swallowed it. This chip was different from the first; this chip was a lot thinner and more round. At first it tasted like a normal salty chip. Then I tasted a sour flavor which was vinegar. I was not suppried by this flavor because I had eaten it before.

Cheesey Chips

First I tasted cheesey spices that surrounded my mouth. Then I crunched down on a hard chip. I tasted several different cheeses one of which was probably cheddar. I chewed on this crispy texture and crunched it into smalled and smaller pieces until I swallowed the chip. About ten seconds after I first tasted the cheesy chips I began to taste something spicy. For a few seconds my mouth was very hot then cooled off.

Favorite Taste

One of my favorite flavors is that of pizza. There are a lot of different flavors in pizza. Pizza can also be made in many different ways. Pizza can have different cheeses, even several different cheeses on the same pizza. Cheeses such as american, provolone, mozzarela, and cheddar. Pizza can also have tomato pizza sauce, white garlic sauce, or no sauce at all. Pizza can also have different crusts such as Chicago style, thin crust, or regular. Considering all of these, my favorite pizza flavor is cheese pizza with red tomato sauce and regular crust.

Pizza has many different flavors in its combination of ingrediants. The crust of the pizza gives it its texture and crunchiness. The crust does not have a very bold taste to it. Infact, the crust’s flavor is overshadowed by the rest of the pizza’s flavors. The red tomato sauce on top of the crust is one of pizza’s main flavors. The red tomato sauce gives the pizza an Italian flavor. Its similarity to maranara sauce makes me think of pasta and other Italian dishes when I bite into it. The texture of the sauce is almost the opposite of the crust. Tomato sauce is liquidy instead of hard crispy pizza sauce. The sauce has a stong taste in comparrison to the rest of the pizza. With different herbs and spices mixed throughout the pizza, the sauce flavor stands out the most.

Cheese is also a main pizza flavor. Cheese has a mild taste that complements the sauce and crust very well. Pizza cheese is usually very soft and can strech when you take a bite. Cheese is one of the most important parts of a pizza; the cheese must be fresh and not too strong to complete the ideal pizza flavor.

picture narrative

I am standing uder some trees by a lake. The people I am standing with are under the trees too gazing at the lake. Our town is on the east side of the lake. It is a quiet town during the day, since we only have about 30 citizens. Across the lake is another town. I have never been over there to meet those people. I wonder what kinds of people live over there. What do they do? Do they also have trees to lay under like our town? I can’t help but wonder if they are thinking the same things. Why is the woman in front of me alone? The other two women under the trees are standing next to someone, but she is alone.