Inflection

The Sunday School Easter program was about to begin at Bethesda Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. For my last time speaking in front of the congregation before leaving for Tennessee State University (TSU), I was charged with introducing the speaker of the program. As I stood in front of hundreds of people to recite the introduction that I wrote, I was confident and thoughts of how far I had come since giving my life to Christ ran thru my mind. My spiritual journey began when I was about 5…

A comic book generally consists of a system of related panels with images that may or may not incorporate text in order to tell a story. Unlike a traditional novel, a comic book is able to incorporate certain visual elements of rhetoric. These elements of rhetoric range from, but are not limited to, motion lines and visual perspective, to color intensity and the style of the font chosen to print the lettering in. These elements of rhetoric all work together in order to more effectively tell…

Thus the London cityscape and its inhabitants are depicted by a macrocosm of self-contained “thousand[s of] worlds” of people that share its space. These “places” and people lack specificity but are separate and “distinct” from each other, forming metaphorical “worlds” coinciding within the city. Dickens presents a conceptual framework to understand the social body of London through its division of people as microcosms who are “almost unconscious” of other’s existence beyond their own. His…

In a totalitarian society where love, compassion, and intimacy are not permitted- two people manage to find each other. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Winston and Julia are an unlikely match who would likely be incompatible in a normal, “free”society. While they are united in their passionate hatred for their society’s government (known as “the party”), they are complete opposites in their vision to overthrow or rebellion of it. Winston has a different view on the party than other people, he…

waist for spiritual reasons, and men and women wear body art. Normally, women usually carried their babies on their backs; this is a tradition used by many African tribes (“Arts”). The language of the Igbo tribe is based on a lot of pitch and vocal inflections that define the meaning of the word. One word can have many different meanings because of this. Another thing that is very important in the Igbo language is idioms and proverbs (“Ibos”). An idiom is when a word has both a literal and…

“male-female conversation is cross-cultural communication” (Griffin et al., 2015, p. 432). Several factors are included within a conversation to help people understand a message. Some of these factors include loudness, softness, pauses, silence, inflection, and nonverbal gestures. People need to think about what they are going to say prior to saying it. This way the receiver is sure to understand the message. The Bible states “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only…

Repair café started from Amsterdam, Netherlands where Martine Postman and her family started to think about ways to reduce waste going into landfills. Today is has more than 1,100 sites across 30 nations. The idea of repair café is steered by the people who are aware of the environmental issues just like Annie Leonard, the creator of the film ‘The Story of Stuff’. As mentioned both from the film and this article about repair café, products today are manufactured in a way that make their parts…

Ethan Frome is a harrowing tale of one man’s bitter failures in life. Our protagonist, the novel’s namesake, is surrounded by pestilence and misfortune. However, these follies cannot be dismissed as fate, for it is Ethan’s own choices that decide his future. The main theme which nearly all of the characters suffer from is hopelessness. In the exposition as the reader is introduced to the character of Ethan Frome, it is made clear his problem is that he never left his hometown: “‘Guess he’s…

his peak and where performance fell. Using this information, appropriate improvements and alterations can be made to maximise the performance of Rosberg and the vehicle for his next event. Interpretation The point A (in Fig. 6) is the point of inflection on d(t), when Rosberg was travelling his fastest. At this moment, he was travelling at 225.0 kph and had travelled 122.7 km meaning he was towards the end of the 36th lap. Holding a solid average speed of 142.8 kph for the entire race, with an…

I decided to write my paper about the movie “Rain Man.” The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was produced in 1988 and was written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. Rain Man depicts the one-sided relationship between two brothers. The movie is about an autistic savant name Raymond, who is a resident of a home for the mentally disabled, is played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking, self absorbed, self centered hustler, egocentric, younger brother, Charlie Babbitt, played…