Inflection

My goal was to get up to the podium, give my speech, and use the inflections and tones I intended for the speech. I would say I was pretty successful in doing so. In a few spots I lacked the tone I wanted, but for the most part, and the important parts, like the sarcastic bits, I did use inflection that was necessary. My pacing was a little off at points, but I expected that to happen sooner or later since I was nervous. I also wanted…

watch the recordings, but it was also interesting to see what I did and what I should change/keep the same for the future. Looking at both videos together, I noticed that my strengths included I keeping eye contact with the audience and having inflection in my voice throughout almost all of both of my speeches. I had notes to look down at while I was giving my speech…

Inflections, more precisely the basic lines that appear in Modern English were established during this time. The replacement of normal gender in Middle English for grammatical gender, the loss of the old system of declensions in the adjective and noun and,…

Honky takes the serious issue of racism and shines a light on certain aspects by using comedy and satire as tools to support and help illustrate topics discussed on stage. My focus of this paper will be on two actors that I believe personify comedy and seriousness the most in this production, Sam Richardson as Dr. Driscoll and Judd Johnson as Thomas Hodge. Richardson and Johnson both focused heavily in these two categories in Mikell Pinkley’s production of Honky, but Richardson’s comedic take on…

As author George Saunders said in “Thank You, Esther Forbes” on page 62, “By honing the sentences you used to describe the world, you changed the inflection of your mind, which changed your perceptions.” In this simple, yet elegant sentence I would elaborate its meaning as, The more vocabulary you have at your disposal the more vividly you can describe the world around you. Let me give you an example; If you and a 5th grader see an apple on a chair, the one with the more broad vocabulary would…

Innate human tendencies have been described in variety of ways. The term “archetype” refers to recurrent patterns of design, story-telling, symbol-making and ritual expressions found all over the planet at different historical times. Knowing that each human is the reincarnation of a long-lineage of ancestors, you would expect to find common themes of pattern recognition, group behavior, story-telling and symbol-making wherever you found humans. Species memory, perceptual skills, needs, drives,…

As I read the chapter “The Teaching Circuit: A Blueprint”, I tended to agree with the author’s idea of the four virtues of master coaches. Excellent trainers often exhibit similar qualities. These qualities best outline their characteristics and how they become who they are. When I was twelve, I had one of the greatest swimming years of my life, and I largely contribute that to Coach Chris. In the third virtue, the article talked about how exceptional mentors use terse and effective statement…

How do Language and Literacy Develop? In this essay the aim is to explain how language and literacy develop from the ages and stages of development, although oral language provides the foundation for written language they are both very different. Explaining features’ that are key to language acquisition and the development also comparing two theories from different theorists, I chose to look at the theory of Vygotsky whom is a Social interaction theorist and the other by Skinner whom is a…

blessing and deserves a chance at life, along with that water needs to be filtered in those countries. E coli, diarrhea, dehydration, etc. can harm so many people and for those mothers who give birth in those conditions can potentially pass any inflection they have to that unborn child. Children with AIDS,…

Welles used sound to establish and further enhance the viewer’s attention to the meanings of what is portrayed on screen. Another impressive use of sound in Citizen Kane is the sequence after the end of the newsreel announcing the death of Kane. We are exposed to a room, dimly lit and shallow (unlike the deep and wide banquet room), full of men. The camera focuses on Mr. Rawlston, who, while he speaks, performs a myriad of motions towards and against the camera – all of which are enhanced…