Essays on Noise

The sound of silence “A horrid stillness first invades the ear, and in that silence we the tempest fear”(Dryden, 7). Silence inevitably starts with a sound, which either goes off very slowly, or ends in a Swift movement; and it ends the same way it started, with noise. Noise, sound, our perception of both has…

I was given the opportunity to shadow a nursery nurse on my first day of practice to do a hearing screening on a seven year old boy at the local school within my clinical practice tutor’s workload. On arrival, we were checked by the school reception staff that gave us clearance to access the school…

Communication is the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior. It is a two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange (encode-decode) information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning. In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places. Teachers…