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    One of the main realities of the human existence is the constant passage of time. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner explores time in many new and unexpected ways as he tells the sad tail of the Compson family. The Compsons are an old Southern family to whom time has not been kind to. Years of falling apart mainly from slavery have brought them to the brink of destruction. Most of the story focuses on the Compson children who are undergoing the worst of the social and moral decay

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    Assignemnt 3 Sound

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    Assignemnt 3 – Sound Construction Technology 5 – 200471 Damir Kukic 17038124 Q1. List and explain three ways that noise can be reduced at the source. Noise can be reduced at the source by placing noise in sound proof enclosure. A special enclosure does not need to be constructed for the noise source. Structure-borne noise can be eliminated by flexible connections to the services and placing machinery on resilient supports. Q2. Explain how noise attenuation differs for a point source

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    The Nature of a Sound Wave

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    Sound and music are parts of our everyday sensory experience. Just as humans have eyes for the detection of light and color‚ so we are equipped with ears for the detection of sound. We seldom take the time to ponder the characteristics and behaviors of sound and the mechanisms by which sounds are produced‚ propagated‚ and detected. The basis for an understanding of sound‚ music and hearing is the physics of waves. Sound is a wave which is created by vibrating objects and propagated through a medium

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    Sound In The Jungle Book

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    impact sound has on the movie rather than the images. The Jungle Book was created with a variety of sounds that function to reveal character‚ shape the audience’s attention‚ and shape the audience’s feelings. One way sound impacts this film is by unveiling the characters of Kaa and Shere Khan to the audience. As Mowgli is snatched up the tree by Kaa‚ he speaking in a high pitch following a “hiss.” The pitch level was emphasized in Kaa’s character to create a diegesis of what a snake may sound like

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    Live Sound Setup

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    level will allow a sound signal to travel from one or more microphones to a mixing console. At the mixing console all signals will be mixed together in the right balance and levels and sent out to an amplifier. The signals are then converted into much larger signals and sent to the speakers creating sound waves for the audience to hear. (Fry‚ 2005) The aim of this report is to analyse by way of reference books‚ government occupational health and safety guidelines and various sound websites‚ the installation

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    Sound and Sense Essay

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    Sound and Sense” By: Alexander Pope Alexander Pope’s “Sound and Sense” explains true poetry stems from the use of both meter and diction to reinforce the meaning and theme of the poem. Pope demonstrates his point of view by meticulously creating loud and soft phonetics to echo the sense of the poem and evoke realistic imagery. Alexander Pope explains in “Sound and Sense” that “The sound must seen an echo to the sense”‚ this advice is reflected in lines 9-12. “When Ajax strives some rocks

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    Sound In Air Lab

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    Speed of Sound in Air By: James Chen Lab Partner: Jin Zhang and Jake Salpeter Phys 130‚ Lab section: EE11 TA: Khaled Elshamouty Date of lab: October 29‚ 2013 Introduction Sound is a longitudinal (compressional) wave caused by a vibrating source. In this experiment‚ we use standing sound waves created by the tuning forks to determine the speed of sound in air in a tube when it reaches different resonances. In this lab we focused primarily on using standing sound waves (compressional

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    Sound And Fury Analysis

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    I chose the documentary Sound and Fury as my topic. My current clinical practice area of interest is the family‚ and this film focuses on the aspects of the family. I am also interested in working with children‚ and I felt that choosing an ethical dilemma involving children might help me within my future practice. Although I have no history working with the deaf or people with cochlear implants‚ I found the concept to be very interesting. Sound and Fury allows us to look into the lives of the Artinian

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    Sound Of Music Analysis

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    The musical and film of the Sound of Music is set in Austria in the late 1930s with Europe on the brink of the Second World War. In historical context Austria has been portrayed by some historians at the first victim on Hitler’s expansionism of the Third Reich as part of its plan to conquer Europe and remedy for the injustices in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. This treaty ‚ amongst other things‚ assigned guilt to Germany for starting the First World War and ‚ under duress compelled it to pay

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    Alexis Baca Amy Earle English 9 November 13‚ 2014 “A Sound of Thunder” and “Nethergrave” “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury and “Nethergrave” by Gloria Skurzynski were good‚ well written science fiction stories. Both stories used technology to greatly change the life of the main characters. “A Sound of Thunder” involved dinosaurs and a time machine in which the characters used to go back in time. The time machine was built to go to the stories setting in a jungle‚ sixty million years in the past

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