Gesture

Chang-rae Lee’s novel A Gesture Life follows the character of Doc Hata, an aged Korean Japanese American, after he has sold his medical supply store. In in his old age Doc began to think back on his life and what he has experienced. His attention focuses on his experiences during World War Two in the Japanese army. Doc Hata saw many of the evils that are hidden away in humans during his experience. The biggest event that caused the true evils of humanity to be seen are the arrival of comfort…

Just how important is it to use hand gestures to improve your public talk, presentation or sermon? This is one aspect of public speaking that speech trainers frequently ignore. As a result, many people sitting in the audience can find themselves distracted, amused, or even irritated by bad or inappropriate use of gestures. Let me tell you a brief story. Just a few days ago, I was attempting to buy some eggs. A simple enough task. However, I did have a problem. My neighbour, who keeps chickens,…

In the story “The Gestures of Grace” Alison Melotti-Cormack is telling us to be calm and accepting of others. In this story she talks about how teachers have to get along with their students and how she doesn't want to be a teacher. She also talks about how to show grace while being a teacher. Lastly, she talks about listening to others and how life builds up your courage and resilience. The author is telling us that teachers need to know the gestures of grace. She also is telling us what…

Hand Gesture Authentication: Biometric authentication has the main goal of identifying a user and providing access based on some unique physical characteristic. This is traditionally done by analyzing a person's fingerprint, palm, eye, or even face structure. However a new way of biometric authentication is under development, and may be more accessible than other forms, authentication through hand gestures. The user is identified by the shape and curvature of the hand, hand posture, and…

In the novel, Madame Bovary, Flaubert explores hand gestures to establish the nature of the characters and the power of the relationships between the characters. With the description of the character's hands, Flaubert presents Emma and Rodolphe’s personas. Flaubert also foreshadows the character's future actions or their demise and empowerment over others. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert altars hand description and movement to further enhance the story of the Bovary’s. Through the detailed repetition…

Lee’s A Gesture Life. After getting to know Kkutaeh, one of the comfort women at the military base, Doc Hata falls in “love” with her. When she asks Doc to end her misery by shooting her, he instead pretends they might be able to have a future together even though he knows that it would be near impossible-- for she will most likely die from mistreatment. Even though he thinks he loves her, he fails to let her go, instead causing her to endure a tragic end. Doc Hata lives a life of gestures,…

The short story called “Insignificant Gestures”, is written by Jo Cannon and it`s about a doctor that looks back at his time as a district health officer in Africa and he ponders over the choices he made and his time there. The narrator remains unnamed through the story. He used to be a district health officer in Africa at the age of 28, and ten years later when reflects back on his time he has retrained as a psychiatrist. He emphasizes a lot that he isn´t the person he used to be back in…

Everyone can suffer, even those who seem to have nothing but strength. In the poem “An Ancient Gesture” by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the speaker compares herself to Penelope, the wife of the great hero Odysseus, and shows that even she felt pain, and that it is not a weakness, but a necessity. The poem compares the two using brief, simple sentences and short comparisons. Rather than use overly drawn out descriptions, Millay instead writes using short sentences and stanzas. Despite the fact that…

Gesture Recognition of American Sign Language words with Prime Sense sensors using MATLAB Manjusha Choorakuzil, Unnikrishnan Parameswarany,Michael Buckleyz Dept. of Computer Science and Engg. University at Buffalo,SUNY Amherst,Buffalo, New York 14226 Email : mchoorak@buffalo.edu,unnikris@buffalo.eduy,mikeb@buffalo.eduz Abstract—Sign Language is the primary medium of communication for the hearing impaired and mute in our society. Like any good Sign Language, American Sign Language (ASL) does…

nonverbally with the gestures and movements that the speaker does. Kinesics includes emblems, affect displays, illustrators, regulators, and adaptors. Emblems are body gestures that translate into words or phrases that the speaker would use verbally. When using emblems, people must be careful because in other cultures gestures differentiate. What may be deemed as respectful and courteous in one area may be viewed as disrespectful and outrageous in another. A common type of gesture used in the…