Voice

Recently in modern cinema, the dialogue of movies is ripe with text waiting to be analyzed through a linguistic lens. This can be looked at through the intonation of one’s voice, the “sharpness” of the voice, accent, and the lexical markers that they use. All of these metrics can be used to learn a significant amount of information about the character. The fine balance between using horrendous stereotypes and leaving too much up for interpretation is one often walked too far on either side in…

A year later at the end of Love is Never Silent, Janice had a retirement party at the factory where she worked since she was seventeen (Love is never silent). She invited all the staffs, friends and family members to come (Love is never silent). With a pastor’s translation, her stand in the middle among the people and had a speech using American Sign Language. The speech was a conclusion of her work journey in the factory. She informed everyone in the party that “The word silent, for us, is…

The last thing we all want to do when we are reading a book is flipping the pages back and forth to understand the page you we are reading. Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman, was one of the most interesting and most complicated books I have ever read. Being used to American writing style, it was pretty hard to stay on track with Black Water since it’s a Swedish novel. Being a detective is the last thing I would of have thought of myself. The readers of The Blackwater have become an unlicensed…

Laughing gas has been used as an anesthesia for dentistry since 1844. Up to today, it has been used for many other medical procedures and surgeries, but it is widely known and used for oral surgeries. The procedure of laughing gas in surgery is very simple, Dinitrogen monoxide (N2O) is a gas in which you inhale. When you inhale the colourless gas, it reaches the brain in around 20 seconds and it starts to relax your body and develop pain-killing properties to keep you composed and calm. You…

Toni Braxton has touched the world with her voice. She has sung many hits over the years. Here are a good number of facts that many people don't know about her. Stay tuned for part 2, coming soon! Number Fifteen: She Was The First Toni Braxton was the first female to ever be signed at Laface records. It goes without saying that she blew the producers out of the water with her singing! Number Fourteen: Her Family was Conservative Toni Braxton grew up in a family that was quite conservative…

Apple Inc.’s iPhones is dominating in the smart phone market segment, and the only two competitors were Samsung and LG (the hardware side). When it comes to the software, Google’s Android had been the only threat to Apple’s IOS software. But the situation now seems to be changing for Apple, after Google Inc., has launched its smart phone “Pixel”. Situation Primarily, the tug-of-war appears to be between Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Pixel, or perhaps, between the big players in the smart phone…

In the song “Stolen Dance” be Milky Chance which was released in the late 2013 in the album “Sadnecessary” became a hit this one of a kind song stayed at the top ten in over twenty countries (Stolen Dance - Milky Chance). This song is definitely a hit. The German composer Celmens Rehbein, was not even sure the song would make it way to the U.S. However, with the posting of Youtube the song and the composer got some great notice by the catchy beat the smooth lyrics. The first couple of lines…

I choose this experiment because my favorite science term and once you learn it’s pretty easy.This cannot be an impact to normal people but for example singers they have bigger lungs that’s, how they hit those higher notes that non singer can’t do.But why do they have more air capacity?Well one of those techniques is that they always stretch their lungs by singing.Non-singers for example all they do is talk so they don’t get enough stretch,if they were to do the exercise they’re lung more they…

enriched with Mexican-American Folklore. However, her adopted mother was not the one who taught her the art of cooking. She gives credit to the person who did teach her how to cook, her ex-mother in-law (her name was not shared to us). In the book Voices in the Kitchen, the kitchen “can represent an of multiple changing levels and degrees of freedom, self awareness, subjectivity, and agency. The social interactions of daily life that that unfold within a given space define its significance.”…

As part of this assignment, I shadowed and interviewed Ms. Erica Byrne, the executive director of Voices for Children (VFC). VFC is a nonprofit organization in Maryland that. “Provides trained volunteers, Court Appointed Special Advocates, to abused and neglected children in Howard County, who advocate in court to ensure each child a safe and permanent home” (voicesforchilden.org). There were a few key lessons I learned through this experience. These lessons include: 1) the importance of…