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    Knowing that I was going to take this course I was extremely nervous and unexcited. I have always been told that I am not the best writer. Putting my work out there for others to read was very nerve racking. I knew nothing about poetry, non-fiction, and fiction. I knew the definitions, but that was the extent of it. During the lessons throughout the semester I gained knowledge of poets such as Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummins, Frank O’Hara, and many others. During class we discussed different meanings…

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    more alive. Both narrators use two distinct voices to recount their unique stories, weaving their second, lamenting voice between the first narrating voice with grace and shocking fluidity. Although both lamenting voices slow the narration, they provide deeper insight into the narrator’s…

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    fall into the hateful cycles of humans they once despised and form an unbalanced and corrupt hierarchy. With the use of passive voice, questioning, and personable word choices, Animal Farm forms subtle themes of manipulative control and the power of perception of circumstances. The dominating pigs in Animal Farm use the syntax and diction choices of passive voice, rhetorical questioning, and manipulative words to control the lower animals. As the pigs grew tyrannical and begin to…

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    Powerless Women

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    down” and stand up for myself and my beliefs. People don’t realize that their voices are in important in society and everywhere they go. Throughout the semester, we learned about using our voices. Our voices in class, during group work,…

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    People say, “ college level writing comes from college level thinking”. However, students often fail to realize this truth and eventually, criticize their teachers for low grades. In my case, I always viewed myself as an average writer until I joined college.During high school years, when I hear English teachers lecture students on revising their writing, I usually produce an average essay eligible for a fair grade; most of the time, I did receive acceptable grades in those writing .Even so, I…

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    Voice Evaluation Report

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    Voice Evaluation Identifying Information The patient is a 60-year-old, male, high school sociology teacher with a 14-month history of progressive dysphonia. The patient was diagnosed with a large substernal thyroid by a laryngologist and underwent thyroidectomy surgery 7 months ago. The patient notes that voice problems have persisted for about a year. The patient reports that prior to the thyroid surgery, his voice problems were more severe than his current voice quality. Immediately after…

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    (structure), velopharyngeal incompetence (movement), and velopharyngeal mislearning (articulation). Normal resonance is control by the size and the shape of the pharyngeal, oral, and nasal cavities, which provides the quality and uniqueness of the voice from the vocal tract with airflow and sound. Airflow is converted into air pressure by articulators, which…

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    This trailer is for the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street, which contains many of the codes and conventions expected of both a movie trailer and a horror movie. While the titles/intertitles, transitions, and voice overs have clear meaning within the codes of movie trailers, the sound effects, dialogue, and locations follow the codes of the horror movie genre. This analysis will seek to understand each of these components and how they correlate to the two larger sets of codes. As…

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    freewriting as well, and I am going to try to do these free writing exercises more often. Many people may think that over editing is not a problem, however Elbow argues that over editing can make your writing dead and gets rid of the sound, texture, and voice of natural speech, that you get when you free write. Over editing also can deplete creativity in one’s writing and make writing better grammatically, but not story…

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    Abduction Lab Report

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    Voicing When we inhale, air passes into our lungs. Between our pharynx and trachea, each of us have a pair of vocal folds that separate when we do this. This process is called abduction. We use a small intrinsic muscle in our larynx that pulls the vocal folds apart allowing and allows air to move into our lungs. This causes the glottis to open from the back to the front, and the vocal folds wave from the back to the front. The posterior cricoarytenoid muscle is responsible for this…

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