Voice type

High school gives the students the chance to engage with different sports and/or extracurricular activities, many of which are not classified as sports. Show Choir is a sport that many single out and classify as an extracurricular activity. Show Choir is a group activity which combine choral singing with dancing to tell a story. Various groups travel across the United States competing for trophies. The groups are ultimately looking to acquire a championship reputation. So, what makes up a sport? If you sweat, work out, compete, or maybe condition can be possibly the considerations on what makes up a sport. Show choir is athletic and has team qualities which makes it a sport. When referencing to sports that are classified as sports, football…

Yuwei Pan 12/10/2016 From Cage to Glass and beyond Second paper Between the Female Voice and the Machine: Laurie Anderson We recognize and judge people largely according to their voices, whether they are intelligent or dull, sane or insane, female or male, good or evil, friend or enemy. Anne Carson writes that Aristotle found “the highpitched voice of the female is one evidence of her evil disposition, for creatures who are brave or just (like lions, bulls, roosters and the human male) have…

ideal happens when you take an opportunity. These opportunities are jobs, the voice of the people, and the freedom we are given. We have a right to these opportunities. These opportunities are what make so many…

connect to Stephen King on a deeper level, and I have his writing to thank for this. How characters interact through dialogue reveals a lot about them, although they may not know it themselves. On page 86, King recalls the time the paperback rights to Carrie were bought. He received a large sum of money, which was more than enough to provide for his family. On this page, he uses dialogue to grab the reader's attention and voice his emotions. His use of dialogue is very effective here because…

The voices we use every day may not seem to be of importance when thinking about an individual’s identity, however the human voice is something worth paying attention to. Some people have different voices that they use for different environments, while others have one main voice they use to communicate with people in their surroundings. In “Speaking in Tongues”, Zadie Smith explains the up and downsides of speaking with more than one voice, as it can either provide flexibility for things in life…

Listeners gather information from a speaker’s voice that they then relate to certain personality types and social statuses. However, most of the information received represents the stereotypes people impose on specific voice qualities. How does this relate to an actor’s portrayal of a fictional character? Both John Reese from the TV series, Person of Interest (P.O.I) and Bruce Wayne/Batman from The Dark Knight trilogy (TDK) possess similar voices but they also reflect the anti-hero/vigilante…

highly impactful on perception. Alexandra Frazer and Michelle Miller noted in their article Double Standards in Sentence Structure: Passive Voice in Narratives Describing Domestic Violence, Structuring sentences in a way that emphasizes women’s causal role in such violence, while deemphasizing men’s role, may be one of several mechanisms by which writers and speakers express their attitudes about gender, sex, and power. These mechanisms include the use of erotic rather than violent terminology…

hormones affect the voice? Amir, O., Kishon-Rabin, L., & Muchnik, C. (2002). The effect of oral contraceptives on voice. Journal of Voice, 16(2), 267-273. doi: 10.1016/s0892-1997(02)00096-6 A group of ten women were evaluated in this study. They were divided into two groups, five who use birth control pills and five who do not use birth control pills. The young women were between 22-23 years of age. The researchers divided each participant’s menstrual cycle into six equal intervals, which were 4…

For a large number of people, their experience with lab reports and scientific documents will be limited to a lab or two they are required to take in college for a general education credit. Skills learned in these classes will most likely be quickly forgotten and never used again. However, for those that work in a scientific field, writing lab reports is a fundamental skill that will be used time and time again. Lab reports can be used to express many different types of data and prove a variety…

A Closer Look at Spasmodic Dysphonia Approximately 7.5 million Americans suffer from a voice disorder (NIDCD). Voice disorders are speech disorders characterized by irregular pitch, loudness, duration, and vocal quality that are inappropriate for an individual’s age or gender (ASHA-Def of communication disorders and variations). Voice disorders are broken into three categories: functional, organic, or both. Organic voice disorders are broken down even further into structural and…