AGAINST HEADPHONES (Argumentative Article)

Day : Sunday 

Date : 22 of May 2016

Title : Against Headphones

Times : 7 minutes

Pages : 2

Thesis Statements :

Some teenagers in America had lost their hearing. They  can’t hear rustles or whispers, according to a study published in August in The Journal of the American Medical Association. These teenagers exhibit what’s known as slight hearing loss, which means they often can’t make out consonants like T’s or K’s, or the plinking of raindrops. The hearing lost is caused by the overuse of headphones, they listen to the music with a high volume through headphones in hours a day.

Outline :

• The number of teenagers in America with hearing loss — from slight to severe — has jumped 33 percent since 1994.
• Many researchers attribute this widespread hearing loss to exposure to sound played loudly and regularly through headphones.
• The history of headfhones.
• Headphones work best for people who need or want to hear one sound story and no other.
• Make it a New Year’s resolution, then, to use headphones less.

Pros :

Whatever you call it, children are listening to something on all these headphones — though “listening” is too limited a concept for all that headphones allow them to do. Indeed, the device seems to solve a real problem by simultaneously letting them have private auditory experiences and keeping shared spaces quiet. But the downside is plain, too: it’s antisocial. As Llewellyn Hinkes Jones put it not long ago in The Atlantic: “The shared experience of listening with others is not unlike the cultural rituals of communal eating. Music may not have the primal necessity of food, but it is something people commonly ingest together.”

Headphones work best for people who need or want to hear one sound story and no other; who don’t want to have to choose which sounds to listen to and which to ignore; and who don’t want their sounds overheard. Under these circumstances, headphones are extremely useful — and necessary for sound professionals, like intelligence and radio workers.

In the name of living a sensory life, it’s worth letting sounds exist in their audio habitat more often, even if that means contending with interruptions and background sound.

Cons :

many students overuse headphones. They are habitually blast MP3 players, including iPods and smartphones. They use headphones to listen to music at high volumes for more than an hour a day and risk themselves to permanent hearing loss after five years.

Resolutions :

Make it a New Year’s resolution, then, to use headphones less. Allow kids and spouses periodically to play music, audiobooks, videos, movie, television and radio audibly. Listen to what they’re listening to, and make them listen to your stuff. Escapism is great, and submission and denial, too, have their places. But sound thrives amid other sounds. And protecting our kids’ hearing is not just as important as protecting their brains; it isprotecting their brains.

Author's Opinion : 

Headphones work best for people who need or want to hear one sound story and no other; who don’t want to have to choose which sounds to listen to and which to ignore; and who don’t want their sounds overheard.

Vocabulary-expression learned :

• Ubiquity
• Spans
• Amplifier
• Coil
• Sermons
• Din
• Clamor
• Ingest
• Stiff

Comment :

I agree that headphones can cause the hearing loss, actually it depends on the individuals who use it. because sometimes, headphones will be very usefull, as I experienced it, when I want to be focuse with my assignment but it's very noisy around me, I prefer use headphones but I do not overuse it with high volume. If they use it to listen to the music as often as possible with high volume for hours, of course it will make their hearing lost. So just use headphones properly.

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