Non-verbal communication is actions or gestures that can be perceived that don't come directly from physical language. ... Whether they be gestures or actions, a lot can be perceived from them. ... This is also similar to the first two, but these gestures or actions are done to substitute the words that would mean the same thing, and do not involve actual speech. ... A lot can be perceived from how person dresses or the gestures they make. ... The same gesture could mean something totally different in another. ...

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On Tuesday January 20, 2009, President Barack Obama announced his Inaugural address outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as the forty-fourth president of the United States of America. Obama's Inauguration speech was a noteworthy moment that was observed not only by three million pe...

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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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As America began to recover from the Civil War, it faced three questions. First, how would he South be rebuilt? Second, how would blacks be reincorporated back into society? Third, how would the Southern States be reincorporated into the Union? But for these questions to be answered America would ha...

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Sexuality in the Military Homosexuals have been excluded from our society since our country's beginning, giving them unequal rights. The Emancipation Proclamation gave freedom to blacks from slavery in the 1800's, and women were given the privileges of males in the early 1900's with the women's suf...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonia...

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The Great Gatsby is an excellent novel, which greatly depicts the roaring twenties, and what is was like during the Jazz age. The Great Gatsby was written by Scott Fitzgerald, an odd, interesting but greatly intelligent man, who wrote the popular book shortly after he married his wife Zelda. The nov...

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American Renaissance Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," belongs to the period known as American romanticism, the period called, by F.O. Matthiessen, the American Renaissance. The American Renaissance took place roughly from 1840-1865, though the most significant work of this period was prod...

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"Today is the first day of a new beginning for our department," proclaims Ali Sadoon, director general of civil defense, as he proudly gestures to a dozen firemen of the invigorated Baghdad Fire Department, clad in brand-new "Baghdad Fire Department" T-shirts supplied by the U.S. military. ...

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My name is ____ and I would like to share about my ethnicity. I moved to New Jersey, United States of America straight from the Philippines, located in Southeast Asia. I am included as an Asian. I have come across people think we should be called Pacific Islander. I have tried to explain that Pac...

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After living in America my entire life, I've witnessed many different cultures. One that I recently was able to experience in a recent trip with my family was the Salvadorian culture, my parent's homeland. I was able to witness many different relationships between family members and neighbors. I was...

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The United Nations is an organization founded upon the aftermath of the Second World War to act as the hub of forthcoming international cooperation, aiming to be a forum of deliberation where moral values were to be spread to maintain peace and security, assuring the development of friendly relation...

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Title: The Importance of Public Speaking Ability in Successful Careers Topic: Public speaking is an important professional skill and easy tactics to perfect this skill are easy to learn. Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to get the audience excited about the ease of learning oratoric...

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Our ranch in southern Colorado was a land of rocks, trees, sagebrush, cactus, and cavernous ravines. It was beautiful and dangerous. I loved my home - it was the perfect place for a boy like me; rowdy, out-of-control and in need of space to roam and play. One day, my father allowed me to ride Bulld...

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In the poem, "The Amtrak from Boston to New York," by Sherman Alexie, the author introduces two characters from different walks of life, which are brought together on an Amtrak from Boston to New York. Though, these two characters are on the same Amtrak, their cultural perspectives and differences s...

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Terror at Home Terrorism has become a raging epidemic this last decade. None can argue that the most damaging example was the attack on the two towers of the World Trade Center. This by far was the most damaging, awakening, and notorious attack of terrorism that the world has seen on mankind yet....

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U.S. News and world Report July 14, 2003 Author: John Leo Pg. 7 The Supremes' Sophistry Everyone knows that the decisions of the U.S. Supreme court can affect the lives of our loved ones as well as us dramatically. Whether it's a decision about personal liberties or racial equalities, these d...

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According to Goffman it most certainly did,"" distortions of women's shapes and gestures often covey messages of social subordination."" (378) Moreover this meant merely by the stance of a women in an advertisement it showed her as having " dependence- the willingness to make oneself into an object, and the most destructive of all, " a greater vulnerability to the caprices of a domination emotionality- (378). ...

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Marriage and Family in Changing Society One of the challengers of sociology is that some of the key concepts are in everyday life. Nowhere is this truer in the field of marriage and family. Marriage and family had played a main role in human history. From the beginning of human civilization, o...

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Verbal abuse may take the form of sexual jokes, comments with sexual overtones, inquiries about a person's sex life and unwelcome gestures, indecent exposure, and unwelcome display of sexually explicit pictures or objects. ...

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" (Yep 58) Kind gestures like these truly resonated with the Kues and always made them understand that they were doing this "barnstorming" tour, which was to play for the proudness and braveness of their Chinese heritage. ...

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It was during World War 1 that modern propaganda techniques really began to be used. Propaganda came from all countries and for many different causes, even though the way those countries used propaganda differed, they all got their messages across. The way and the type of propaganda used varied gr...

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The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, better known as the Patriot Act, was passed on October 26, 2001 in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. This bill allowed for an increased ability to wiretap and ...

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Although this did not free all slaves in the nation, in the loyal slave states of Missouri, Maryland, and Kentucky, slaves continued to be slaves until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, it was an important symbolic gesture that identified the Union with freedom and the death of slavery. ...

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away"(2). ...

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