English passive voice

Knowing that I was going to take this course I was extremely nervous and unexcited. I have always been told that I am not the best writer. Putting my work out there for others to read was very nerve racking. I knew nothing about poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. I knew the definitions, but that was the extent of it. During the lessons throughout the semester I gained knowledge of poets such as Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummins, Frank O’Hara, and many others. During class we discussed different meanings…

more alive. Both narrators use two distinct voices to recount their unique stories, weaving their second, lamenting voice between the first narrating voice with grace and shocking fluidity. Although both lamenting voices slow the narration, they provide deeper insight into the narrator’s…

down” and stand up for myself and my beliefs. People don’t realize that their voices are in important in society and everywhere they go. Throughout the semester, we learned about using our voices. Our voices in class, during group work,…

Voice Evaluation Identifying Information The patient is a 60-year-old, male, high school sociology teacher with a 14-month history of progressive dysphonia. The patient was diagnosed with a large substernal thyroid by a laryngologist and underwent thyroidectomy surgery 7 months ago. The patient notes that voice problems have persisted for about a year. The patient reports that prior to the thyroid surgery, his voice problems were more severe than his current voice quality. Immediately after…

(structure), velopharyngeal incompetence (movement), and velopharyngeal mislearning (articulation). Normal resonance is control by the size and the shape of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, which provides the quality and uniqueness of the voice from the vocal tract with airflow and sound. Airflow is converted into air pressure by articulators, which…

This trailer is for the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which contains many of the codes and conventions expected of both a movie trailer and a horror movie. While the titles/intertitles, transitions, and voice overs have clear meaning within the codes of movie trailers, the sound effects, dialogue, and locations follow the codes of the horror movie genre. This analysis will seek to understand each of these components and how they correlate to the two larger sets of codes. As…

Peter Elbow and Stephen King could not be more different types of writers. One is known for his horror and sci-fi writing style, and one is a professor of english at a highly accredited school, but differences aside, both Peter and Stephen make very good points about their preferred type of writing styles, and it’s hard to conclude whether Elbows method of freewriting or Kings method of just telling the story is a better way to write. Peter Elbow’s main objective in his work of literature, was…

Vocal exercises and management of breath are requisite to sustain the center-of-the-note (Miller, 1996). Further to protecting the health of the speaking and singing voice, singers learn how to support and manage their breath by adjusting the sternum and rib cage. Miller explains that the support of breath begins by breathing deeply to raise the sternum and rib cage to its fullest and highest position. Then, holding…

Voicing When we inhale, air passes into our lungs. Between our pharynx and trachea, each of us have a pair of vocal folds that separate when we do this. This process is called abduction. We use a small intrinsic muscle in our larynx that pulls the vocal folds apart allowing and allows air to move into our lungs. This causes the glottis to open from the back to the front, and the vocal folds wave from the back to the front. The posterior cricoarytenoid muscle is responsible for this…

American Voice American Voice is characterized by the theme of brave and how they take on one of the greatest armies in the world. And they’re strong because they won the war against the British. And hard workers because they build the United State Of America. The American voice is characterized by the theme of Brave. This is demonstrated in Patrick Henry, speech “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”.This ideas is also found in “which our enemy can send against us”. This support the…