The whole art and joy of words": Aslan’s speech in the Chronicles of Narnia by Joy Alexander THERE are many instances in literature of characters stepping out of the books which create them. What I mean is that many people recognise and know about Robinson Crusoe‚ Oliver Twist‚ or Peter Pan who have certainly never read the stories in which they feature. Another example is Aslan‚ who is widely known to be a lion and can perhaps be associated with Narnia even though little else about the Narnian
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Reported Speech Table for change in tense of reported speech (Statements) The tense changes into the corresponding past. Direct Indirect/ Reported Simple Present tense Simple Past Tense Present Continuous tense Past Continuous tense Present Perfect tense Past Perfect tense Present Perfect Continuous tense Past Perfect Continuous tense Simple Past tense Past Perfect Past Continuous tense Past Perfect Continuous tense Past Perfect Past Perfect Simple Future (will) would Future continuous
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you all words of encouragement and some advice so you can move closer towards completing your goals. Some of the topics I want to cover include goals‚ failure‚ time management‚ and what type of people to surround yourselves with. I will also give examples of successful people who gave their all to get to the top I believe everybody has a purpose on this earth and by setting goals you are working towards your purpose in life. Having a goal gives your life meaning‚ and it allows you to focus on something
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have to be both) Disfluences Mostly stuttering-like disfluencies (SLDs)‚ such as repetitions‚ prolongations‚ blocks Mostly non-stuttering-like disfluencies (NSLDs)‚ such as interjections/filler words‚ phrases repetitions‚ revisions Examples of disfluencies: Repetitions of sounds of syllables: y-y-you wa-wa-watermelon Prolongations: sssso; thiiiis Blocks: sound gets stuck and person has difficulty moving forward to next sound: p---eople Interjections/filler words: um‚ uh
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Hannah Smith 30 December 2012 Clinton Speech Summary The main idea of William J. Clinton’s speech “Remarks to the Convocation of the Church of God in Christ” is that the United States is becoming more violent every day‚ many innocent children are dying every day‚ and that he wants the American people to start doing something about it. In his speech Clinton spoke at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. last delivered a sermon about freedom. Clinton used the opportunity to address issues of
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Pronunciation of Nouns in Text to Speech systems E.Veera Raghavendra‚ Lavanya Prahallad IIIT Hyderabad‚ India raghavendra@iiit.net‚ lavanyap@cmu.edu At present most speech synthesis systems use raw text as their input which is understandable from a human point of view but problematic for the machines since the process of converting text to speech is very complex; in this paper we discuss the need for having a specific SSML tag for each “mention” (1st occurrence‚ 2nd occurrence) of a proper noun
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of the law‚ namely hate speech. By and large‚ it is a broad category that subsumes verbal attacks based on the target’s race‚ ethnicity‚ religion and sexual orientation (Mohr 2013:238). Due to the fact that hate speech is designed to demean‚ despise and ostracize people on the basis of the above-said factors‚ it can be easily seen as a term related both to the phenomenon of insulting and fighting words (Neu 2008). And yet‚ a detailed enquiry into the scope of hate speech reveals that –as opposed
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Speech Analysis On October 10‚ 2013 I gave a speech to my classmates about the three most important steps in investigating a murder case. These are including separating witnesses‚ collecting evidence‚ and interviewing suspects. Watching the video of my speech‚ I observed many strengths and weaknesses: strengths including a lot of facts‚ an interesting topic‚ and talking at an average pace. Weaknesses that stuck out to me were my hands consistently being in my pockets and reading directly off my
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The informative speech was better concerning the delivery‚ the speech flowed better and I was also more confident with my speaking ability which showed because I did not stumble over my words as much as the narrative speech. The narrative speech was not as extemporaneous as the informative speech‚ because I practice it much more almost memorizing what I was going to say. Whereas on the informative speech I just laid out my main points and I covered what I felt like covering when I was standing in
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When you bring up the subject of drug testing recipients on welfare there are a variety of stands and opinions that people have on this matter. People who are providing their opinions come from many different cultures and important positions that may affect how they feel about this subject. My objective is to explore these different stands to give everybody a better understanding of where our peers may be coming from. The idea is not for me to take a stand but represent each stand there is in a
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