Noise Pollution
28/3/2011
What is noise? Have you heard the word "noise pollution"? Well, I don't know as well but I think I will enjoy learning it like you want to learn too. Noise, Latin word nauseas, meaning seasickness, is a dissonant sound; now you learned what a noise is, what is a noise pollution? Noise Pollution is an unpleasant sound, disturbing, and annoying, simply described as "environmental noise, " produced by machines, which afflicts one; basically, noise pollution is an unwanted sound created by human beings. Some of the expressions or noise pollutions we hear everyday are:
Transportations (traffics)
Dog barking
Toilet flushing noise
Scratching against the board
Effects of Noise Pollution:
As we all studied noise pollution, noise pollution is a disturbing sound; now we learn the effects. The main effects of noise pollution are human health, annoyance, speech and sleep interferences, and last of all decreased work performance. These lists given might sound weird to you, but noise pollution influences a lot of these categories.
Human Health: The noise pollution is one of the main causes of human health; it disturbs our behaviors and the health of one. Some of the solutions resulting from the noise pollution are indigestion, high blood pressure, lack of sleep, and heart disease. As a result, one will be mentally ill, and will be arduous to keep one’s life.
Annoyance: The annoyance in this case stands out for the volume of the sound. It can be expressed that lower levels of noise are irritating and also high volumes can be annoying. Science has proved that natural sounds are less irritating than intermittent sounds, one will most likely to react frustrated when one got disturbed by “a tap dripping water than falling rain.”
Speech and Sleep Interference: Speech and Sleep interference accounts for the limits and the condition of one reacting to the noise pollution. A person will frustrate when a noise of 50dB is produced since a noise that formidable to interpret can be a problem to one. On the other hand, when a high level noise disturbs one (such as my parents), they will react very furiously, telling that one should not be annoyed when sleeping. If this continues, one will feel tired or not energetic, so as said that, one should not afflict someone when he/she is sleeping.
Decreased work performance: Have you ever procrastinated before? Is it due to the disturbing noise produced from television? Have your parents ever say “Increased noise levels gives rise to a lack of concentration and accuracy at work.” They are trying to warn you that, your active brain, which simultaneously has to work both things (watching TV, and studying) at the same time, could lose concentration causing accidents.
Possibilities of helping/avoiding/eliminating Noise Pollution:
As you learned the objective of today “Noise Pollution,” and the effects, you can learn about the works to help, avoid, and eliminate noise pollution.
Now you are going to choose a nice abode to live in; you have chose your house and settled. Next to you, lives a rock band singing all day long, on the other side, there are elders fighting. Since you are at the edge of the block and on the first floor, you hear people passing by, cars driving, even constructions going on around the city. When you take a walk, you see barking dogs; also, the worst thing you can ever imagine is that you live next to the airport. Everyday living in this life won’t be easy, how about moving out.
It’s not all about moving in a nice place, it’s about choosing the suitable place for your personal needs (health). These ones above were the best story that one will never want to be involved in, if you want to avoid this matter, be thinking about the noise pollution.
Bibliography:
Noise Pollution. Web. 1 Apr. 2011.
Good examples of how noise pollution can affect life of society. The introduction did not flow as well as it could have, so be sure to read your writing aloud to pick up on areas you need to fix prior to publishing. Your concluding paragraph and example of the least pleasing situation was very good, but there are many other examples you could have given for dealing with noise pollution. For example: ear plugs for eliminating damaging noise, hearing aids for those people who have hearing problems already, also sound barriers, sound proof walls, quieter car engines, etc...
ReplyDeleteHey, I am currently researching on noise pollution too! I am working under the question, "What is the co-relation between noise pollution and cognition?"
ReplyDeleteI have found out many different adverse effects of noise pollution on a child.
Especially a learning child is affects the most. When the teacher explains and there is lot of noise nearby, only 75% of what she says is heard by the student. Now that is way less than what needs to be heard, 100%, :P!
But seriously, I have created a blog and didn't know about yours! I loved yours. All the themes you added and how do you make other people's comments shows on your post? In my blog (I use blogspot as well), I need to click on comments to see the comments and then post it.
Anyways, we both could help out each other on this.
I am Sunny
and my gmail ID is:
wickedbhaisunny@gmail.com
and my blog link is:
http://dbcontamination.blogspot.com/
Thank You,
Hope we keep in touch!
Hey Kyle,
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I am from India, where are you from?
I really really need your help. I am currently doing this mastery project thing from school. I have been given two months and I need to research about this question and get a 360 degree view of it. So I need to include any people who oppose the idea of spreading awareness of noise pollution. I also need to use different resources like a book, website and speech/video/talk. So if you can suugest me any of these please do as soon as possible.
Thank You,
These are some sites for you. Might help you.
http://www.nonoise.org/library/classroom/
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Noise_pollution?topic=49471
http://www.nonoise.org/library.htm
Bye,
Hope you reply positively soon!! :P