In many ways this is a question Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) himself might have asked. Deleuze took nothing for granted and insisted that the power of life – all life and not just human life – was its power to develop problems. Life poses problems – not just to thinking beings, but to all life. Organisms, cells, machines and sound waves are all responses to the complication or ‘problematising’ force of life.
Once, A. J. and Darlene Braswell had it all -- fortune, three beautiful children, power, bright futures. But then their golden son, Andy, was killed in a grotesque battle with a giant blue marlin, and in the ten years since his death, the Braswell family has crumbled -- Darlene ultimately giving in to suicidal depression, the family business nearly in ruins.
In Sound, the inhabitants of Mammoth Island learn how sound energy travels in waves. While herding their mammoths toward fresh pasture through a maze of canyons, someone sneezes and the sound reverberates, startling the timid mammoths and causing them to run away! A visiting inventor explains that sounds are caused by the movement of molecules -- what scientists refer to as vibrations. Thinking about how our ears translate vibrations into sound leads a bright young Islander, Olive, to create a primitive microphone.
Sound Reading is an intermediate/advanced supplementary text focusing on the listening comprehension and reading skills. Each unit contains several explanatory exercises. The teacher may use this text for student practice in one or both of the skill areas.
Listening Comprehension. These exercises are graded progressively in level of difficulty throughout the text. In all of the listening exercises the teacher is the English language model. Students listen to the teacher for comprehension. It is important to note that the student does not look at the reading while doing the listening comprehension exercises.
