Gesture

seated in the classroom based off of their educational needs. Some of my students need to be facing the front of the teacher and or smartboard to maintain their focus. Another support I used for my students was to add hand gestures to some of our vocabulary terms. I added hand gestures to words such as roots, under, big, and tiny.…

Adults tend to make gestures when they communicate whether intentional or not. It generally helps the speaker express their thoughts, and research shows it makes the listener comprehend the information more extensively. Since gesture and speech are so closely correlated, they are often thought of as a single unified system. Hand gestures are generally used universally but vary throughout different parts of the world. For example, a V sign with fingers may indicate peace in some areas of the…

Hands are a part of the body that a large number of both contemporary and older literary works use to represent an overarching theme, each in a slightly different way. The two hands can represent balance between good and evil, authority and power, or a plethora of other themes. In the play, Macbeth, Shakespeare often uses this motif of hands to enhance the clarity of one of his overarching messages. At first impression, Macbeth seems to be a loyal and righteous character, however the coercing…

skills for an individual. Many of the greatest conductors have spent decades perfecting their craft and creating their style, while building their musicality. One element that sets apart the greatest of conductors is expressivity. Proper expressive gesture can influence not only audience perception of an ensemble, but also the ensemble sound. The notion that expression can influence ensemble sound…

History has always been recorded through time in multiple ways like video, songs, writing and through art. Of the many forms of art used to capture situations, cartoons have become a popular type in the most current time. Cartoons have been used since the 1700s to depict different situations in seriousness or humor. Cartoons appear in the form of movies and television shows to bring smiles to its viewers and even in the form of comics to bring out the adolescence in any person. They have been…

Two additional aspects that I evaluated were my gestures and body movement. My movement throughout the presentation was the biggest area that I must criticize about myself. I was very stiff during the presentation. In the beginning, I stood in one spot, and I did not move anywhere else. My hand gestures were okay, in that I moved my hands during the speech, but for the majority of the speech both hands were holding my notecard…

Unfortunately, it is simply beyond the scope of this paper to analyze the entirety of these two productions of A Doll’s House. As a result, three scenes will be compared, contrasted, and analyzed through Butler’s theory in order to examine these gender performances. The three scenes chosen for this endeavor are as follows: Nora’s discussion with Torvald in the very beginning of Act I, Nora practicing the tarantella dance before the party in Act II, and Nora and Torvald’s final confrontation in…

Before I even started interacting with them using gestures and sign language I could see that they knew something was wrong simply by my behavior as I am usually a vocal person around my friends and am rarely ever not speaking. Their reactions weren 't anything out of the ordinary at first they would look…

just speaking. Objective communication is observed. Objective communication can be known as facial expressions, hand gestures, or body gestures. An example of this is the universal sign for choking, which is placing your hands around your neck. Have you ever thought of how you learned these skills as a child? The answer is observation, you have likely seen someone do these gestures and retained…

For my piece of practical work I had to frequently switch characters and successfully convey the differences between each part I played through the use of my acting skills. In the earlier stages of rehearsals I was concentrating on my role as a student and my role as teacher. In one scene I immediately change role from that of a teacher to a student. When playing my role of Emily Griffin a year 11 student I first put on an accent to correspond to the area my character was living in and therefore…