If you are bothered by a high-pitched sound, buzzing, or shushing in one or both ears, you may have a condition called tinnitus, which effects a majority of the population at some point in their lives. What is the sound I hear when it’s quiet? In a silence where someRead More →

While 81 percent of Americans prefer to sleep in silence and 77 percent refrain from sleep aids, 19 percent sleep listening to music, six percent use prescription drugs to help lull them to sleep, nine percent utilize a sound machine, five percent don a sleep mask, and three percent wearRead More →

In this poem silence is the taboo, what he wants to speak about he cannot. The speaker is mentioning to all enlightened people in this poem. Its theme is man’s inability to communicate with man. What happened at the Simon and Garfunkel concert in Central Park? There was one scaryRead More →

In a silence where some people could hear a pin drop, people with tinnitus hear a constant ringing in their ears. Does everyone hear slight ringing? Almost everyone experiences a slight buzzing, humming, or ringing in the ears from time to time. But if that ringing ears sound is alwaysRead More →

Wiesel sees silence as dangerous because it allows abuse to happen. In Night, when people are silent, abuse is perpetrated. There is a danger in being silent when we know injustice is taking place. One instance where the dangers of silence can be seen is with Moshe the Beadle. WhatRead More →