Smile

expressions influence emotions. It is believed that there is 50 different types of smiles, but most studies dealing with facial expressions focuses on two types, a “standard” smile which triggers your zygomaticus muscles and a “genuine” smile which triggers both your zygomaticus and orbicularis oculi muscles. Research showed…

seven seconds to judge a person (Pitts, 2013), but because the action of smiling resides in the cingulate cortex of the brain, if someone smiles the automatic response is to smile back unless the reflex is resisted (Stevenson, 2012). What if the immediate response is to frown because of the disgusting state of the smile? Teeth are an important part of a smile but if they are yellow and dirty, a person's life will be associated with uncleanliness. Because life is hard, drinks like coffee, tea,…

Betrayal, is a word typically associated with the feelings or thoughts that you or someone might feel crossed, hurt or used. That was how I felt the day my best friend had told me she was pregnant, I felt off balance as if the simple thought of her even having a child was inconceivable. It made me sick and angry, that her life was thrown away so easily just because her boyfriend failed to use proper protection. My acceptance over the truth eventually broadened along with my best friend’s belly…

I now sit alone. I begin to worry if I my registration was processed. What if my paperwork got lost? What if they didn’t reserve a spot for me? What if I got sent home? I look around as the last counselor stands up. She seems kind with a warm smile to match. The relief finally washes over me as I hear my name as well as the final eight kids left in the room. After a small trek through the camp, we arrive at our sleeping barracks. We sit in a circle and begin to learn about each other.…

pile up on the ground at least two feet high. Comfortable silence floated around me as the sun set with pink sky as it’s backdrop. A few minutes later Alice arrived, toolbox in hand, as she ascended the steps she wrapped her coat around me with a smile and then went to work on the door to try and budge it open. When that didn’t work and the snow was still rising, she started working on prying…

She was a little colder, a little harder to get to know emotionally. Although she smiled less, she had 3 great friends who always tried to make her smile and laugh. She’ll never be the same carefree girl she was because of how her Dad’s death has shaped and changed her. She’ll always have this fear of everyone leaving her but she’s learned a lesson that she’ll always remember. Don’t go through life…

character, rather than trying to move it for each frame. For example, a clay person might have 20 or more mouths, each one with different expressions that the animator can swap out in between shots. If the character is smiling, their smile has to grow. When we smile, the muscles in our face have to move and…

takes me 25 minutes to get to Cedarwood High. Once I arrive I head straight to my locker. On the way there about 10 people already say hello to me, just like every other morning. And just like every other morning, I wave and say hello with a genuine smile on my face. Everyone knows the name ‘Dakota Michael’. They all know the self confident, beautiful, funny senior. The one that all the girls want to be and the girl that all the guys wish they had. But they don't know the whole story, and…

experience was nonverbal as well. “A person who smiles at us is sending a nonverbal signal that the person finds us to be like him or her and is a friend, not a foe” (p. 299). They beautiful people we encountered we often-exchanged warm smiles with or waves and they then smiled at us at well. I could tell they felt welcomed and not judged or ashamed. “That simple facial expression communicates a number of important things to the person receiving the smile. It says, “Welcome,” “I’m glad you’re…

As the applause began to thunder, they stood up hand-in-hand and took a bow. Becca’s smile was soon radiating throughout the audience. Caleb was the first person on his feet clapping with such fervor that he inspired the entire audience into a standing ovation. Becca was half blind from the bright lights shining in her face, but from where Caleb stood she could see him clearly. Her heart was so full in that moment; she could have stayed right there and been completely happy for the rest of her…