Silence

learning environment. However, oral communication is not the only way students learn. Silence is a powerful form of communication in the classroom (Guerrero, Hecht 2008). Many teachers are familiar to the action of asking a question and receiving silence from the students in return. Although during that silence teachers hear nothing from the students, it can quite possibly be the loudest part of the day. This silence from the students can mean multiple things. It can mean that the students do…

others the chance to share, you can’t force the silent client to speak. Also, with silent member, I would be skeptical about putting them on the spot because it may cause anxiety, which may cause them to maintain their silence. As a counselor, trying to understand the reason for the silence would be difficult, especially during the group meeting. I would…

father is standing in the doorway, "What the hell do you think you 're doing?" he screeches. This is it, I have to jump now. I hesitate as I look down again and my father 's booming voice shakes the room, "Answer me." There is a long silence but withing that silence there are thunder and lighting. "That 's it..." he trails off and marches toward me. I climb the ledge and throw myself out the window, closing my eyes to the quickly approaching ground. To my relief, I end up safe on the ground.…

female silencing that Bell Hook’s assertion builds on in the “Feminist Masculinity” chapter of her book by suggesting that patriarchal values and/or ideas are not only harmful to women, but they are also harmful to men in that they too can work to silence male experiences (Hook). Just as notions regarding femininity, ideas regarding masculinity are derived from patriarchal values (Solnit). However, Solnit focuses on…

intense as the pain of abandonment and neglect. That the greatest artists knew the most pain. When the light shines down on the stage, illuminating a solid circle of eerie radiance, silence descends upon the room. It was like the rest of the world was tucked away in a neat blackness, unable to penetrate the serene silence before a performance. Most performers say afterwards that a divine calmness descends upon them before they step on stage- that all worries and fears are sculpted away in those…

In the Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes his main character, Hester Prynne, loosely based on the real life Puritan dissenter, Anne Hutchinson. However, although Hutchinson is the main inspiration for Prynne, Hawthorne also wrote his own personality into that of Hester Prynne, making her a sort of cross between the characters of Hawthorne and Hutchinson. When she first appears in the novel, Hester Prynne is being taken from the jailhouse to a raised scaffolding…

a slower rate than those around them. This is exactly what happened to Kambili in the novel Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. This type of upbringing causes a cognitive dissonance that breeds silence, even when Kambili is not around her father who is her greatest oppressor. Silence, in many ways, forces Kambili to grow up in her own head, a fact that…

Harmonia Mundi is a chapter that speaks to how music has changed throughout history, how it continues to change through new ideas, and views on what defines music. It shows that as our understanding of music changes, the way we listen to and view music changes as well. The chapter is broken down into 5 main sections each highlighting a certain point or view one music. The beginning of the chapter detailed how in the beginning of time how the world is said to have been created by a…

“as much of a project of poetic self-presentation as the poem proper,” (McLane 435). Wherein Byron employs the gloss so that the author’s intentions are clear, Coleridge subverts this trope by pairing the “Rime” with an additive gloss that further complicates the underlying moral objective of the poem. While in some instances Coleridge’s gloss serves to explain the narrative such as, “His shipmates cry out against the ancient Mariner, for killing the bird of good luck,” (Coleridge 636) other…

Finally, I give up and grab my earplugs from my wallet. The silence wraps me up in a comfort blanket and my anxiety goes down once again. Cough Cough Cough Cough Cough If this man keeps on relentlessly coughing my head is going to explode. My ears try to concentrate on literally anything other than the constant…