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Image and Sound, 2004.
A look at how image and sound combine to create meaning and the other functions of sound in television and film.
2,187 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, AU$ 99.95
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This paper examines how motion pictures and television are audio-visual mediums and how they engage both our visual and aural senses. It looks at how the meaning and emotion of a piece is commonly thought to come from the image and that the sound at best just duplicates the meanings from the image. It explores how music combines with, adds to and enhances moving image in many ways and how it can heighten and refine emotion as well as meaning.
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"The tone of music can be used to create meaning and generate mood in a scene or in a production as a whole. In The Empire Strikes Back the rebels attempt to flee from the empire. During this sequence Darth Vader's and the rebels leitmotif is heard. Vader's motif is played at an increased tempo and higher pitch to normal. The function of this change is to show the imminent danger of the empire and Vader's likely success in capturing the rebels. The rebels leitmotif is played but does not contain the opening and perhaps most identifiable phase. The tone is slightly deeper, the pace slightly slower and is mixed up in and slightly drown out by other sound effects. The function of this use of sound is to put the out come of the situation in doubt and make the rebels attempt at escaping unlikely. When the rebels do escape the distinctive opening to their motif is played at normal pitch and tempo and without the distraction of other sounds. This functions to signal their success but also the finality of the scene. The leitmotifs and the tone of the motifs are used to guide the spectator through narrative change."
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Sound Reinforcement, 2004.
An overview of the role of the live sound engineer in implementing sound reinforcement.
1,813 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 12 sources, MLA, AU$ 85.95
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This paper discusses how the term sound reinforcement refers to the strategic use of microphones and loudspeakers to project the sound of a band, theatre production or conference speaker across to an audience. It examines how it is necessary for a sound engineer, working in any area of sound reinforcement - from the front of house engineer in a large concert hall, to the stage manager at a theatre ? to have the confidence and knowledge required to problem solve quickly in the event of equipment failure, and keep the programme on track.
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"The term impedance matching is used when concerning the interconnection of loudspeaker drivers and power amplifiers, to achieve maximum power transfer. At this stage in the signal chain, it is very important to appreciate that the load impedance of the speaker (the whole cabinet, not just the driver itself) must match closely the source impedance (the rated output impedance of the power amp). If the source impedance is significantly higher than that of the speaker, the amplifier could overheat, or its automatic protection circuitry could cause it to cut out. Neither of these conclusions would be much good during a live performance."
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Imaging and Optics, 2005.
This paper discusses the way imaging and optics technologies are revolutionizing the way businesses communicate their products to the consumer.
6,020 words (approx. 24.1 pages), 20 sources, APA, AU$ 207.95
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This paper explains that imaging and optics technologies have provided a wide range of industries with the ability to label, track and prevent bad documentation to their products in a more efficient and economically sound business. The author points out that "automatic identification", the means of identifying a product mechanically and entering the data obtained automatically into a computer, includes bar codes, optical character recognition (OCR), magnetic ink character recognition (MICR), magnetic stripes and voice systems. The paper relates that a problem with voice recognition applications is that it can be affected by environmental factors such as background noise; however, this technology has been the focus of considerable efforts on the part of the telecommunications industry and the U.S. government's intelligence community, which continue to work on improving reliability. illustrations
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Purpose
Thesis
Audience
Introduction
Overview and Background
Introduction to Topic
Why Imaging and Optics are Important
What Imaging and Optics has done for Different Industries
Imaging and Optics Technology
Automatic Identification and Data Capture
Character Recognition
Magnetic Ink Character Recognition
Optical Mark Recognition
Current Technology
Bar Codes
RFID
Card Technologies
Non-Mainstream of Imaging and Optics
Introduction
Overview
Why these Technologies are not yet Mainstream
Emerging Biometric Technologies: Three Common Ways of Identifying an Individual
Voice Recognition
Recognition Types and Modes
Problems with Voice Recognition
Fingerprint
Pattern Extraction/Pattern Matching
Iris Code
Advantages/Disadvantages
Conclusion
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"By the beginning of the 1980s, various optical character recognition (OCR) technologies became available that made it possible to convert text to electronic form without the need for manual keyboarding. The scanner's ability to translate typewriter characters into bit-mapped image into ASCII text depends on a number of factors, including the sensitivity of the device itself and the legibility and method of preparation of the original document; however, improvements are being made all of the time and even formerly graphic-based scanning systems such as Adobe's notoriously slow PDF applications have incorporated character recognition systems that allow for textual scanning. Some of these character recognition systems incorporate features that provide output options to convert the text into a format used by common word-processing programs such as RTF, Word and so forth. According to Dry and Lawler, the term "scanning" is frequently used today to describe the process of creating digitized images; in this approach, a graphic picture of the page, rather than an actual transcription of the text itself, is stored in the computer."
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"The Sound and Fury", 2002.
Provides a detailed analysis of how authorial instructions in Section 1 of American writer William Faulkner's "The Sound And The Fury" smooth the progress of the reader's mental actions.
5,000 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, AU$ 184.95
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As a modernist writer, William Faulkner extensively makes use of and experiments with the literary technique of stream-of-consciousness. This being, by definition, "a narrative technique ... that renders the inner life of a character through an unending flow of thoughts, emotions, images, memories, and other associations moving through the character's mind." Faulkner, therefore, by making use of various narrative devices, guides the reader's imagination throughout the first section of "The Sound and the Fury" in such a way that she or he experiences the world of the thirty-three-year-old retarded narrator, Benjy, the way the latter does. This paper looks into the several authorial instructions for the production of actual sensory content, as well as into Faulkner's depiction of 'moving images,' which is often such that the process of composing the images on the mental retina is rendered less demanding.
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Introduction
Sensory Mimesis
Vision
Other Senses
Making and Moving Images
Conclusion
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""[Faulkner] always stressed the 'realness' of his characters, calling them 'flesh and blood people'... But, on the other hand, he always emphasised the artist's 'grab-bag of tools' and with that the artificiality of the character, constructed out of linguistic material." The fact is, like any writer, Faulkner has to try hard to translate the 'realness' of his characters onto paper, essentially making use of the linguistic sign. And he does that by constructing the personality and consciousness of a particular character by using specific linguistic and narrative devices. Bockting, in his article 'Mind style as an interdisciplinary approach to characterisation in Faulkner', terms this narrative approach as mind style, and defines it as 'the construction and expression in language of the conceptualisation of reality in a particular mind."
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The Science of Sound in Music, 2003.
A scientific illustration of how sound is produced by several different instruments.
893 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 46.95
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This paper examines how music is composed of a mixture of sounds, or a single sound, which is pleasing to the sense of hearing. It discusses some different instruments used to create sound or music. It also shows how sound can be created by an infinite number of things and focuses on the guitar, the flute, the kettledrum, and the human singing voice.
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"In order for sound to be produced, the muscles of the larynx contract and bring the vocal folds together. While the vocal folds are together, the diaphragm moves to a convex position causing the air pressure directly below the vocal folds to increase. When the air pressure below the vocal folds becomes greater than the pressure holding them together, a column of air breaks through the folds. As the air jets through the larynx, it makes a decrease in pressure that brings the vocal folds back together. When the pressure beneath the folds increases once again, the process repeats itself. Vibration is produced by the vocal folds opening and closing rapidly. Every time the vocal folds open a gush of air escapes."
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The Anthropology of Sound, 2002.
The history and development of the understanding of sound from an anthropological perspective.
3,148 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, AU$ 133.95
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This paper discusses sound from an anthropological perspective and concentrates on the origin and the nature of sound. The paper also reviews on how the study and the development of sound progressed with technology. It also concentrates on the association of sound with language and culture and shows how the pronunciation of words have resulted in different sounds with the development made in the writing scripts. The paper also lays emphasis on the association of sound with memory called echoic memory.
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"People love sound and sound today is ubiquitous; sound will continue to fascinate people for ages to come. The pleasures of sound flow from frequency, amplitude and harmonic constitution or waveform. Perhaps there is no other form of art where the pleasures of mere form are more marvelous in complexity, more intellectual in essence and purer in quality. Plato once suggested that the sensibility for sound might be the most civilizing of educational instruments. People and sound both belong to each other and both grow out of life."
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The Film: "The Sound Of Music", 1991.
This paper reviews the film "The Sound of Music", directed by Robert Wise, starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer: Theme, imagery, shot composition, camera techniques, editing, sound, acting and directing of the 1965 film.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, AU$ 46.95
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""The Sound of Music" was directed by Robert Wise, and it starred Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The movie won the Academy Award in 1965 for Best Picture. By examining the key theme of the Von Trapp family being re-integrated through the healing force of love (as seen in the Julie Andrews character), it is possible to see why the film has such a satisfying momentum.
This theme is brought out in eight different areas: The director uses each area to develop Plummer's character as the head of the Von Trapp family, who finds new love in Andrews' governess. This theme is set against the backdrop of the advent of World War II, the Nazis' entry into Austria, and the Von Trapps' escape from the German evil.
1. There is recurring imagery that suggests that Father Von ... "
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The Nantucket Sound Wind Farm Proposal, 2006.
This paper discusses the Nantucket Sound wind farm proposal, and it's value to the USA.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper discusses the issues of should the Nantucket Sound wind farm be allowed to proceed and do the apparent benefits outweigh the risks that opponents have outlined? In a word: yes. According to the paper, the Nantucket Sound wind farm proposal should move forward in its development. It represents a renewable source of clean electricity that has minimal impact upon the region--both environmentally and economically. The coming years will see ever-increasing costs for nonrenewable sources of electricity such as coal and natural gas. The Nantucket Sound region has the ability to produce much of its own electricity, cheaply and efficiently. The region should take advantage of that resource.
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Sound Editing in "Amadeus", 2002.
The use of sound and music as an artistic tool in this movie.
880 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 46.95
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This paper discusses sound editing in the movie "Amadeus". Background sounds and music are shown to be used to signal shifts in time or location, or to help guide the viewer?s attention to the most important feature of the scene. The absence of sound is used as well. Examples from the film are given to demonstrate these tools.
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"The movie opens with the sounds of Antonio Salieri?s attempted suicide, after he shouts his confession that he contrived to make Mozart die. The suicide attempt is experienced auditorally only ? his confession, his scream, his fall to the floor. This pivotal opening action in the movie occurs only by sound effects. This is a foreshadow of just how important sound effects will be in this movie.
"In a scene shortly following that one, a priest enters the madhouse. As he moves through, the piano can barely be heard, gradually becoming louder, under the sounds of the inmates. The sound of the piano, which plays ordinary and pedantic music compared to Mozart?s, demonstrates Salieri?s frustration at his comparative lack of talent, and sets up the scene with the priest where Salieri tries to get the priest to recognize at least one of his pieces."
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Propagation of Sound in Concert Halls and Rooms, 2002.
An analysis of the factors that need to be considered in designing an acoustically sound room.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 51.95
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This essay will discuss the various considerations that go into the design of a room or concert hall with the aim of producing acoustically enhanced sound and music quality. In general, the sound levels that can be heard by the human ear is between the range of 20 to 20,000 Hz.
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"The Sound and the Fury", 2006.
A review of William Faulkner's 1929 literary masterpiece "The Sound and the Fury".
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, AU$ 60.95
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This paper studies the usage of time as a literary element in "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner. The paper explains that Faulkner employed stream of consciousness in this novel, a groundbreaking development in literature. The paper shows how this style enabled Faulkner to explain his story through four sets of eyes, causing the reader to experience the events in a new way each time. The paper also demonstrates how "The Sound and the Fury" relies heavily on a time motif and the impermanence of time. The paper relates to each of the novel's separate time sequences: one spanning three days, from April 6, 1928 to April 8, 1928, the other spanning thirty years, from 1898 to 1928. The paper concludes with a positive review of Faulkner's effective sequences of the passage of time.
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"'The Sound and the Fury' is written in four voices each one with a different view of the events which transpire. The first section, commonly referred to as the 'Benjy section,' is written from the perspective of thirty-three year old Benjy, who suffers from a mental handicap. This section rapidly jumps through scenes without regard to time, showing us Benjy's lack of acknowledgement of time and presenting a formidable challenge in comprehension when read. The second section, known as the 'Quentin section' is written from the perspective of the Benjy's oldest brother, Quentin, who is an extremely moral and virtuous man, believing in the purity of youth and struggles to maintain it, or the illusion thereof. The 'Jason section' follows, and is from the perspective of the middle Compson boy, Jason, a lover of money and immorality. The last section is Faulkner's explanation of the story. Using the character of Dilsey, the Compson family's black house servant, to present an outside view of the family's saga, Faulkner explains the novel in his own narrative voice."
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Architecture, Acoustics and Reflected Sound, 2002.
How acoustics and reflected sound and used to the maximum in architecture.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This paper examines architecture, acoustics and reflected sound. It explains how rooms and concert halls are designed to minimize reflected noise and enhance sound quality
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The Use of Sound in "Apocalypse Now", 2002.
An analysis of the use of sound and music in the film "Apocalypse Now" by Francis Ford Coppola.
965 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, AU$ 50.95
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The paper describes how the film shows the insanity of war and the madness that goes along with it. The author shows how "Apocalypse Now" uses narration, sound effects, music, and dialogue to portray its message. The paper focuses on Coppola?s use of sound effects to reinforce the films theme of the horror and uncertainty of war.
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"Apocalypse Now begins by showing a scene with helicopters dropping napalm all over the jungle. The audience is treated to ?The End? by Jim Morrison and the Doors. We hear: ?This is the end?? mixed with the chopping of helicopters passing overhead. From the very beginning, Coppola lets the audience know that they are in for a journey of madness. The sound and music have a lot to do with the success of this scene (Dirks). It will not be the last time we hear the sound of the helicopters overhead."
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The Sound of Music, 2008.
This paper studies the film 'The Sound of Music', focusing on the them and music featured in the movie.
1,200 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, AU$ 60.95
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In this article, the writer introduces, discusses and analyzes the film 'The Sound of Music'. Specifically it discusses the music and theme of the film. The writer notes that 'The Sound of Music' is one of classic Hollywood's classic musicals and is still a family favorite today, even though it was first released in 1965 to movie theaters. The writer explains that it is a heartwarming story that tells the story of the rise of Nazi power in Austria in the 1930s, and how one family coped with the historic and frightening events swirling around them. The writer looks at the storyline and notes that the story is essentially true, but the film took fictional license with much of the truth involved. The writer discusses that the story would not be the same without all the music, and this indicates that it works in the film, making it more magical and charming than it would have been without all the wonderful songs.
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"The overarching film theme is the theme of love transforming a dysfunctional family, something that is purely an invention for the film. While the Captain was strict, he was not as strict as the film portrays, and in reality, Maria went to the family home to act as a nurse, more than a governess. The couple did fall in love, however, and did marry. In the film, Maria is the catalyst that brings the family together and helps the Captain see how much he loves his family. She nurtures the children and gets the Captain to open up and be much more loving and open with his family, and brings the entire family together. The family in the film is dysfunctional, because the Captain is so strict and so unable to warm up to his children, and they need a woman's touch to get past this feeling of domination and fear that permeates the children. They are not allowed to just be "children" until Maria comes, and that transforms the family and turns it into a "real" loving and caring unit."
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Sound and Fury, 2002.
Analysis of "Sound and Fury" by William Faulkner.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, AU$ 77.95
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This six-page undergraduate paper is an essay that makes "a good case for distortion" as distinct from literary realism. The essay is based on Sound and Fury by William Faulkner, and literary realism. The paper analyzes how the important elements of the work are "distorted" and explains how these distortions contribute to the effectiveness of the work.
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William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury", 2006.
A look at how William Faulkner uses the opening scene in "The Sound and the Fury" to teach his readers how to read the novel.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, AU$ 38.95
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This essay shows how the opening scene in William Faulkner's novel, "The Sound and the Fury", teaches the reader how to read the rest of the book by introducing the reader to the difficulties in narration and time that the story will present.
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"Throughout his writing career, William Faulkner always attempted to push the boundaries of literature. From creating his vast population and setting of southern characters to facing many tough southern topics such as racism and Reconstruction to stretching what was considered accessible and acceptable writing, Faulkner proved himself a true revolutionary and visionary. Perhaps his greatest feat, though, was teaching his reader how to read his work, and any other. One of the best examples of Faulkner teaching his reader how to read and how to experience a text is his masterwork, "The Sound and the Fury", in particular, the beginning passage. "
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