When standing before an audience, whether it's ten people or a thousand, make sure you use appropriate gestures and posture. ... Theses simple gestures will have a huge impact with the overall effect your speech had on the audience and may help you to avoid fidgeting. ...
The poem that I chose to analyze is titled Incident written by Countee Cullen. I chose this poem because in so little words it says so much. It conveys so much feeling and emotion. Incident was written in the 1920's at a time when people of color were greatly discriminated against. Many public place...
The poem "Incident," by Countee Cullen, is one that could be described as a piece of Lyric Poetry. This is because it is a short poem that focuses in on the emotion of the poem, not the speaker or the event as much. Cullen shows how the happy feelings at the beginning of the poem change drasticall...
"An Epic Battle" In chapter 17 the scene that captured my attention the most is the confrontation of Ras the Exhorter, his men, the narrator, and Todd. This scene captured my attention mainly because of the violent climax after the build up of the characters and their motives. When we fist get...
I always thought I would live at the beach when I was older. My entire childhood was spent there. I remember the first time when I realized I never want to leave this place. I was four years old and my dad was holding my hand leading me into the glossy blue water. I had been coming here to this pa...
The idea of confusion in identity is explored in the short story "on the sidewalk bleeding" as a representation of andy who chooses to have an identity in a gang; the Royals. this impacts him not only for what society judges him for, but the end result of death and struggles of setting his true iden...
There are many ways to deduce the title that William Faulkner has named this story. Roses are a center of symbolism and have many different meanings. For example, they can mean love or they can mean war. The content and the narrative of the story, support the rose as a significant symbol in the sto...
Expectations come from what we are taught to believe, and whether that expectation are met or not is the result of actual experience. Gender and sexual expectations have been given general stereotypes in which case contemporary women have been viewed as soft, sympathetic, submissive and are to be ke...
She symbolizes principle the most in her altercation with the killer as he is shredding his most recent casualty into a wood chipper, when he can't take notice of her over the blare of the wood chipper, she gestures to the badge on her hat. ...
Who would have thought one tiny gesture so many years ago would lead me to where I am today? On a cold night in October 1988 I received something so special, it would change the direction of my life. That was the night I received a cross. If not for that little gift, my life would be drastically dif...
From being the old man who scolded me everyday into the great man who survived 2 great eras of history and I finally understood, he couldn't say it but those short tiny lasting smiles were his ways of saying I love you, his deep laughs were apologetic gestures, and scolding me was a way of saying he loved me, his grandson. ...
In the American short story "The Moment of Decision", Stanley Ellin fabricates a suspenseful mystery ending in a twist. The main character Hugh Lozier is described as a good man of perfect self-assurance. " Hugh was the exception to the rule that people who are completely sure of themselves cannot ...
"Love and Basketball" has everything and anything to do with communication and the relationships between the main characters. This movie entails not just a love story, but rather an intertwining family theme as well. This movie really explains the emotions of the characters and there decisions in...
beloved "It is the ultimate gesture of a loving mother. It is the outrageous claim of a slave"(Morrison 1987). These are the words that Toni Morrison used to describe the actions of the central character within the novel, Beloved. That character, Sethe, is presented as a former slave woman who ch...
