" Nonverbal communication includes gestures, facial expressions, and body positions (also known as "body language"), as well as unspoken understandings or some assumptions, and cultural conditions that may affect any encounter between people. ... Communication is key to any relationship and you have to communicate effectively face-to-face to get a point across without using gestures that are insulting. ... Your bodily gestures can determine your thoughts or attitude of the moment and knowing when you shouldn't act careless. ... A few examples are your facial expressions, b...

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This consists of body language, gestures, and facial expressions. ... The popular stereotype of Italians, involving big gestures, lots of hand-waving, and plenty of loud and excited shouting, may be a stereotype, but it exists for a reason. ... People use gestures as an everyday utensil like waving, pointing, beckoning, and using their hands when they're arguing or speaking animatedly. But sometimes gestures are misinterpreted and that can mean that someone gets offended. ... Without gestures people will need to express their emotions, and intentions through better choice of words, gestur...

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Along with verbal interaction, non-verbal gestures, and special attention to the interactions with clients that have special needs play a significant role in the effectiveness of the communication between both parties (Kebicz, 2004). ... The nurse was aware to be close to her client, a caring non verbal gesture she displayed as bending down to talk to her client that was in a wheelchair. ... The non verbal gestures offered by the two women also offered understanding, care and sincerity (Kebicz, 2004). ... Each plays a significant role in the effectiveness of communication that facilitates the...

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The performances of the sermons included gesturing dramatically, or sometimes weeping openly or yelling out threats of hellfire. This acts and gestures turned these sermons into a gripping interesting performance. ...

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While party size, weather conditions, day of the week they are visiting, alcohol consumption and method of payments have all shown to be factors in a tipping percentage these studies focused on different gestures and mannerisms that the server can administer and what sort of effect they had on tipping percentages. ... While all of the above evidence seems to hold true in those specific encounters there is no real evidence that those gestures will hold true one hundred percent of the time. ...

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Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby coveys not only a sense of sympathy and compassion towards the anguished mother, but also a sense of gratitude and thankfulness for letting her sacrifice her sons for a greater cause. The deaths of a mother's sons prompt the president to write a personal and pa...

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As I mentioned, there were many pros to the Japanese-American relocation camps during World War II, and although one may agree that the relocation camps were a harsh gesture, they proved to have valid reason. ...

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Internet Terminology and Linguistic Conventions In our globalized world today the internet gives us the greater opportunity to communicate to each other through e-mail and chat room. The groups of internet users and people who love to chat in online chat room have their own cyberspace language...

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However, when he and his wife Mary try and figure out who originally gave the $20 to the stranger to eventually spawn such a gesture, they cannot agree on a single person who would be worthy of such praise and fortune. ...

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On October 7, 1957, the Space Age officially began. The USSR had sent a satellite, "Sputnik", into orbit around Earth. The journey lasted less than 100 minutes, but it was a landmark occasion nonetheless and the Soviet Union had sent a message to the capitalist world. Aboard Sputnik was a radio tra...

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When Robert Pirsig suggested that science was traditionally concerned with truth, while art was traditionally concerned with beauty, he was both right, and wrong. Science and art appear to be very separate studies, but they also rely heavily on each other. The Greek word for art is techne, which t...

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On June 21, 1850, two renowned dancers, Cesare Cecchetti and Serafina Casagli, gave birth to a boy who would become one of the greatest legends of classical ballet: Enrico Cecchetti. Cecchetti was born in the Tordinona Theatre dressing room in Rome, Italy. The theater played a significant role in C...

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Although for modern viewers the Hunter's offering may seem more elusive, as De Jongh explains, for the contemporary viewer, the gesture would have been easily understood. ... Whilst there is a possibility that critics are guilty of deciphering symbols within Metsu's painting where there are none, thus tarnishing what may just be an affectionate gesture, the number of recognized symbols within the painting that carry sexual associations make their inclusion seem purposeful. ...

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There is a German proverb - One has only to die to be praised. Whether Alfred Nobel had not heard it or not but he set an example to prove to this world that people could be praised during their lifetimes. Alfred Nobel documented his famous will embellished with a novel and unprecedented thoug...

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Although the Proclamation did not free all slaves in the nation "indeed, no slaves outside of the Confederacy were affected by the Proclamation "it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. ...

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Even Rembrandt was impressed with the human body, this work is exciting because it is full of pomp, fanfare, military splendor and its visual excitement is increased by the variety of individual gestures and show's Rembrandt's observation and interest of body language. ...

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This material had to fill in at least one of three textual gestures: a patriarchal, a patriotic or an anecdotal one. ... The gesture chosen had often nothing to do with the original character of the material. ...

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Depending on the area of origin of the drama, for example, movements might be very simple and easy to learn, or they may be very complicated and complex systems of hand gestures and eye expressions that take years to learn. ... Depending on the style of Indian theatre chosen, it might be necessary for actors to go on special training sessions to learn the methods and meanings of hand gestures and eye expressions. ...

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Americans have helped without knowing whom their actually helping but they still make gestures of friendship and love all because we want to help someone; just as Huck found himself when he ran cross Jim and found that he had been sold by Miss Watson; but, he has ran away instead. ...

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Far removed from today's individualistic society, is the ancient Greece portrayed in Homer's The Odyssey, where hospitality and good-will were customary. In the epic, Zeus decrees that those who seek clemency from the gods must welcome travelers with hospitality. A man was obliged to give his finest...

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Reverend Dimmesdale and his physician, Roger Chillingworth, experience several transformations in their character. Such are evidenced by Hawthorne not only with their actions but with vehement portrayals of the manifestation of their character in their visage and gestures. The intimacy in their ki...

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Child abuse comes in many different forms. The first one that comes to mind is physical but there are many types. There is physical, sexual, physical neglect, emotional abuse. I"m going to explain each one, their symptoms, and how they could affect children who have to endure them. Though child ...

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With his dramatic gestures, slang verbiage, dirty blond hair and tanned, robust frame, Steve Irwin is presented more as a comic strip rather than a serious Australian role model that children look up to. ...

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The volatile Eddie, basis his heartfelt violence and antagonism of the degradation of the aboriginal culture cause by the white people, who he consistently refers to as "the white fellas"; as gesture of immense disrespect. ...

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Abstract This paper is about child development principles and dealing with a diversity of students in the classroom. Children develop at different rates and therefore a single child can show more rapid change in some developmental areas than in others. The study of child development is organized int...

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