Directions: Rewrite your blog, "Determining Arguments." Look for any elements we have so far discussed that you could improve, and also perform a read-aloud with your blog. Eliminate spelling errors, make sure that your blog is in the form of a paragraph, and take any of your peers' constructive criticism into consideration that you think would help improve your argument. Also, now that you can identify logical fallacies, please fix those errors as well.
Check points 2, 3, 5, and 7 on page 14 of Inquiry should help. Also, check out the LBH revising section of the LBH guide posted on D2L.
If you did not perform this blog, then this will be your opportunity to do so. Write a single draft first, and then check for editing points (perhaps share your intended post with a friend, family member or co-worker for assistance).
Due February 26th before class.
Reply: Free pass. No reply. The initial response will be worth the full 4 points of the week.
Sound can become unbearable and even used as a form of torture. In the video "Massive Attack-Saturday Come Slow" for example, a man starts reading lyrics and then begins telling of his personal experience at Guantanamo Bay where they would chain him up for two days in a cold room and allow high decibels of distortion or music to torture him. An expert claimed, “Sound can become painful at any level." Distortion in particular at high frequencies can be dangerous and painful to the human ear, causing permanent damage. This can be believable considering the times at musical concerts where I’ve stood too close to the speakers and woken up the next day to plugged ears. It took a few days to recover from that. However, two to three days consistently would be much worse. Think about the recovery time from sitting, being chained up in a cold room with twenty-four hours of distorted sounds. Even whistling can do harm on a persons hearing if it is done for prolonged amounts of time. The expert in the video states: You can't take people into a lab and drive music at this level". Being pinned up for that long and then being sent back into society would have traumatic effects on many. It could cause a form of PTSD. This mans account of being released proved how traumatic it can be without human interaction. He couldn’t even walk and even communicating was hard. Distorted music should not be allowed to torture. Music was created for entertainment purposes, and for people to relate to. Using something as simple as a form of entertainment, is saddening considering it is something humans enjoy on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteThe main argument of the "Massive Attack-Saturday Come Slow” video is how sound can be both pleasant and excruciatingly torturous. The beginning of the video supports this by starting with whispers of poetry traversing into painfully loud tones which can be hard to endure. The Loud tones make it hard to concentrate on what they are saying and are very unpleasant to the ear. You might wonder “Who is being tortured at this point?” Is it the victim in the video, or you? The video’s introduction concludes with music which comes as a relief, contrasting all those offal sounds. The middle of the video could have been more convincing if the victim being tortured would have gone into more details of the tortures effects on him. If he talked about the effects of the sound on his physical or mental state I might be able to understand the effects of sound torture with better clarity. However the sound torture victim only describes the details of the employment of sound torture. The video argues its point well appealing to the viewer’s values and emotions. The viewer might ask themselves “Who could consider sound torture to be humane?” “Could you imagine having to undergo sound torture?” The video supports its clam by: testimonial, audio and visual evidence. The video ends with a Non-Newtonian fluids dancing on a speaker. Non-Newtonian fluids turn into a solid when pressure is applied. Perhaps this is a metaphor that sound too can become like a solid when pressure is applied.
ReplyDeleteIn the video "Massive Attack-Saturday Come Slow", sound is illustrated as a form of torture. The beginning of the video shows sound at different decibels and explains the effects it has on a person’s hearing and mind. In the middle of the video they offer some truth to this when bringing in a man who was tortured at Guantanamo Bay. He explains how he was affected emotionally by being locked into a room for 2 days and having loud music constantly playing. In the end of the video they have a speaker with some sort of shavings bouncing around as they play sound at different levels.
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ReplyDeleteHonestly I can't say I can relate to her on many levels but I can understand where she is coming from. Everyone should have a chance. Just because you come from a background that is not as great as the "Jones" some say does not mean you can't be at the same level as others. She mentioned her being the only black girl in the first college she went to and that can be hard on someone. I have experienced being that outsider in the class when everyone’s circle is the same and you feel you’re different. It is a heavy load to not feel in a way accepted or at least comfortable. Once she decided to move were she felt like she belong she become more relax and accepted. She pointed out she had friends that were in the same system as her but they still did not accept were they stand and wanted to be just like the “upper class” and have what they have; but there were others who had contempt on people that did not share the same class as they did. Which I don't agree because now they are basically doing the same as what a rich person comparing themselves to a poor person is doing. Neither way is right whether you poor looking down on the rich or vice versa. People have to learn to not look at one's background but look at everyone as a whole and equally. Accept who you are, work for what you want.
Hi Tiye, I'll reply to yours if you take a look a mine. We still have time.
DeleteThe main point of "Massive Attack-Saturday Come Slow", shows how sound can be used for torture. In many different ways sound can effect human sense of hearing. The introduction supports this argument with a few examples of distorted, and irritating sounds, and clear more pleasurable sounds. The video start with a man speaking very calm, as if he was trying to settle someone. A clear song plays with no distortion showing how music is a form of sound that create comfort. Another example of sound effecting the human's sense of hearing is the discomfort sounds of distorted, and loud music being used for torture for long periods of time. The middle part would have been more convincing if the video provided a video a visual of this account. A video would have been concrete evidence for those claims. The conclusion of this video shows a white liquid being bounced, and formed into shape with the bass of the speaker, not a real clear conclusion to this video.
ReplyDeleteIn the video "Massive Attack Saturday Come Slow", shows how sound can be used many different ways for torture. Sound can effect human sense of hearing in many different ways. There is evidence in the introduction that supports the argument . The video start with a man speaking very conservative. Then some clear song plays showing how music is a form of sound that create comfort. Another example of sound effecting a human's sense of hearing is the discomfort sounds of distortion, and loud music starts being used for torture for long periods of time. At the end of the video, it shows a white liquid being bounced, and formed into shape with the bass of the speaker.
ReplyDeleteIn the video Massive Attack- Saturday Come Slow. Sound can be used to torture. Some of the prisoners at this site, are being tortured and used for an experiment with unbearable sounding music. I am one who have firsthand experience with the loss of hearing due to loud noise. However, I have no idea of what they were going through. His introduction describes where they were and his state of mind. He supports his introduction by stating what they are doing to them day by day or hour after hour. And he support his evidence by saying, they use loud music for days to torture. Another supporting evidence is the narrator telling us about the ears and demonstrating what the human ears look like when using cheap speakers with loud music. This loud noise can be devastating to some people. In the video, he replicates our ear drum and demonstrates what loud sound can do to hearing. This demonstration showed what the ear drum function like when subject to loud music or loud noise. We subject ourselves to a kind of noise torture daily. We don’t realized the decibels it take to damage our hearing. We walk around with a set of cheap speaker headphones in our ears, oblivious to what we are doing to our hearing. And day by day and hour after hour, we torture ourselves in one of the same way the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay were tortured.
ReplyDeleteIn the video, "Massive Attack-Saturday Come Slow", the main argument is how sound can become painful and with the right amount, can become damaging. In the intro, the scene with the speaker and sand mixed with the sounds support the argument. The sounds start light, then slowly progress and intensify with the sand violently bouncing on the speaker. The man was a detainee, imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. He experienced torture by sound. The detainee was forced to listen to loud heavy metal music for days. Throughout the entire video clip, the background music mixed with other distorted sounds were painful to the ears. Adding more distorted music during the middle of the interview could have been a bit more convincing. The last scene with the distorted sounds and the clay rattling on the speaker work well to wrap up the video. The sounds were uneasy and were torture to the ears.
ReplyDeleteIn the video “Massive Attack Saturday come slow” It shows how Music can be used in positive ways as it can be used for negative ways, the man described how he was tortured which is the evidence of his statement and it was sufficient to support his introduction, at the end on the video we see the odd changes on a liquid as the music goes, it shows how loud music can seriously damage the human ear.
ReplyDeleteIn the video "Massive Attack Saturday come Slow" it shows how music can affect a human's body and mind in both negative and positive ways. In the beginning there is poetry and light background music, and then it goes into very loud music. The author gives examples on how music can be negative by playing loud ringing music throughout the whole video. The man gives his experience at Guantanamo Bay, and how he was tortured for 2 days straight with loud music. These two examples are evidence that loud music can also be used as a form of torture. At the end there is clay being molded into different shapes to show how torturous music really can be. When the music went louder the music jumped, but when the music went low it stayed still.
ReplyDeleteThe main argument of this video is that torture is inhumane. The introduction of video catches your attention. It proves that torture can have a lasting effect. This video’s main support is the vivid examples the character gives while in captivity. There is no need to make the middle part more convincing; the examples given by the individual were convincing enough. The conclusion of this video visualizes how sound can be used to physically harm someone’s body.
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