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This 4 page paper discusses some of the problems individuals face when large numbers of people live in an increasingly smaller space. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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privacy and personal space. This paper considers the effect of noise on individuals and what can be done to alleviate the problem; it also discusses the concepts of territoriality, privacy
and personal space, and how they become more important as populations grow denser. Discussion In their work on the non-auditory effects of noise, Sheldon Cohen and Neil Weinstein, as their
title suggests, take a look at the effect of noise on things other than hearing. They note that noise pollution "is rapidly growing as a major environmental concern" and that
there are numerous sources of noise in areas where populations are dense (Cohen and Weinstein, 1984). Among the auditory pollutants are such things as the "moderately intrusive sounds of
our neighbors, children, pets and televisions to the high-intensity sounds of aircraft, automobiles, trucks, and constructive equipment" (Cohen and Weinstein, 1984, p. 45). But do these sounds damage hearing? That
is what they set out to discover. The first thing they did was to differentiate between sound and noise, defining the first as "changes in air pressure that are detected
by the ear" and the latter as "sound that is unwanted by the listener because it is unpleasant, bothersome, interferes with important activities, or is believed to be physiologically harmful"
(Cohen and Weinstein, 1984, p. 46). Sounds can seem unpleasant because of their "physical properties (e.g., intensity, frequency, and intermittency) or because of their signal properties (i.e., their meaning)" (Cohen
and Weinstein, 1984, p. 46). Problems with unwanted sounds include excessive volume, "auditory fatigue" and possible hearing damage (Cohen and Weinstein, 1984, p. 46). But what one person considers noise
another might consider pleasant; the example was someone playing rock music. A teen might enjoy it at 110 db, but a neighbor might find it extremely annoying; he might also
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