Stuttering

Speaking skills is the most crucial part for students in academic world. However, many students experience anxiety in speaking when they are asked to express themselves in front of the class or other people. This is true even their language abilities are good. Anxiety in itself is not a bad thing since a certain amount of anxiety can motivate learners to learn and acquire one particular language. In this term paper, I am going to explore the causes of feeling anxiety in speaking English among…

Introduction Down syndrome, while perhaps one of the most physically recognizable conditions of developmental disability, is still one of the least studied. Even though what we do know shows that with early intervention we can substantially improve the individual and their families’ wellbeing. Down syndrome occurs in one out of eight hundred live births, and is the most common genetic cause of mental retardation (National Institutes of Health, 2005). Idea Definition Downs syndrome can fall…

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud was born on September 4, 1896 in Marseilles, France. He was one of three survivors out of nine children born to a Levantine Greek mother and a wealthy ship fitter father. His parents were first cousins. Such a successive mortality rate may have been in part due to congenital problems that played a major role in his illnesses. Artaud spent time in the Army and was discharged due to “self- induced habit of sleepwalking. His most productive works come only after a…

Through a psychological perspective we can analyze actions people take and determine why they acted the way they did. Experiments such as Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment shed light on the great lengths people are willing to go to for an authority figure. When his research first came out it was believed that the “banality of evil” was the cause of the subject’s behavior, however new studies suggest that people’s willingness to abide to authorities is conditional to the belief that the…

There are kids that excel in their linguistic abilities and there are others that have trouble explaining through the use of words. One little boy of Asian ethnicity spoke to his classmate with complete sentences and his friend responded back with stuttering and broken sentences. The little Asian boy had trouble focusing and had a lot of energy while being in class but he had a strength in communicating with others. Another form of cognitive and linguistic development is for students to have the…

Shelly had struggled to become the number one sports reporter for the school newspaper. She had proved that she could write a better story than anyone else who wanted the position. She showed better interview skills than anyone else did. She knew more about every sport in which Prellis High competed. She knew more about the school’s sports history. Laurie, the newspaper’s editor in chief, had been uncertain, but no one seemed anywhere near as knowledgeable as Shelly, not even the boys. So the…

Bobby was heading to his job for the day and heard a girl scream behind the building. His partners, Molly and Dave, heard the scream to and headed to the back of the building. Molly saw Bobby and said “did you hear that to.” Bobby replied and said “yeah, I heard it in my car while I was coming.” All three of them searched around and didn’t find anything. Bobby’s job was to go to haunted houses. They only go if the house owner reported it to them. Dave said “let's just go back to work and see…

This is monumental as this is the first sentence uttered with a stutter less ease, signaling the peak of his confidence. This progress, however, is completely lost as Nurse Ratched issues her threat shown by his quick fear and reversion back to stuttering: “Duh-duh-don’t t-tell, M-M-M-Miss Ratched” (315). He once again becomes a “poor miserable, misunderstood boy” under the clutches of his mother and the Nurse who uncoincidentally, are good friends (318). As McMurphy is blamed for the suicide,…

felt like she needed to get back by putting someone down. Miss Ratched uses her manipulative voice, and says, “What worries me Billy…’is how your poor mother is going to take this”’(314). From hearing this, Billy Bibbit quickly returned to his old stuttering self. He replies, “Nuh! Nuh!...’You d-don’t n-n-need!’”(315), Ratched rudely interupts and says, “Billy Billy Billy… ‘Your mother and I are old friends’”(315). Nurse Ratched continues manipulating and conniving Billy by saying, “Billy, I…

Language is different types of expressions. It can be found in art, music, movies, writing and amongst many other things. It is a form of communication that varies between each individual. But most importantly, language can determine an individuals’ personality. When a language is dominated, it can show self-identity, success and most importantly, it can show how power isn’t as strong and important as one thinks. I thought everything was going to be the same as it was in Mexico. I always knew…