4 Kinds of Presentations Most people are not enthusiastic about speaking in front of an audience. Public speaking can be a very scary and uncomfortable thing to do. Presentations usually serve one of four purposes. Those purposes are to inform‚ persuade‚ entertain‚ or to actuate. The purpose of informative presentations is to promote understanding of an idea or to convey information. They are often used to provide people with information about a concept or idea that is new. The second type of presentation
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Foreshadowing is the warning or the indication that something else is going to happen later on in the story. In Death and the Maiden‚ Ariel Dorfman uses this literary device to the maximum‚ exploring all the different ways he can make the reader predict or foresee what’s going to happen next. However‚ Dorfman also takes on the audience’s ideas and implements dramatic irony‚ giving the plot a twist of events and making the audience question themselves and their own theories as to why the character
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her story of the paper cranes. In that story if a sick people fold a thousand paper cranes‚ then the god will grain they wish and make they healthy again. She started to fold them and everyone she folded she feels a bit better. One day she met Kenji‚ who has Leukemia also. Kenji knew he is going to die soon. Just one day she Sadako was in form by the Nurse that Kenji had pass away. Sadako is afraid‚ some day she might be the next victim of the disease. Even though folding crane make her feel cheerful
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Stephen Hawking started his studies at Cambridge University. He began to study cosmology but later then realized that was not the path he wanted to go down. Eventually he became a professor of theoretical physics. By the age of 21‚ Hawking contracted ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)‚ a neurological disease that is incurable and very fatal. ALS eats your nervous system very slowly. From then until now‚ Hawking has defied this disease and is still alive to this day. Hawking has a family‚ and three
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Shadows in Thousand Cranes In Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata‚ Kikuji is mentioned as living in the shadow of his father. Kawabata uses shade as a leimotif to signify the guilt Kikuji has to live with. Not only does the shade represent guilt‚ it represents a sense of bewilderment and corruption. The shadow from Mr. Mitani—Kikuji’s father—cast on Kikuji denies Kikuji a life with happiness and excitement. The shadow—Mr. Mitani’s affairs with Mrs. Ota and the other one with Chikako—isolates
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metaphor on the basis) than I am interested in the preservation of the logically rigid signification at the cost of limiting my subject matter and perceptions. --Hart Crane Is life really full of logicality? Visualize yourself in a world where everything made "logical" sense. There is no creativity and individuality. "Oh‚ you cannot do that‚ it does not make logical sense!" Who cares? We‚ the people of this earth‚ are on the top of the evolutionary cycle. We are different from other living creatures
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In 2012‚ the concentrated eruption of disputes in East Asia‚ the continued conflict between Pakistan and Israel both suggest that the haunting history has been and even is increasingly to be sources of distrust‚ hatred‚ and thus conflicts in the world. As the 20th century passed away‚ the 21st century has brought us a difficult task as how to deal with our tumultuous past. I hope that the world in the new century would be a world that can be at peace with its past---it would not be mired in the historical
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Narrative Hair Cut An expensive barber does not necessarily cut hair better than a reasonably priced one. I used to think that a good haircut would be expensive‚ so I looked for a shop that did not have low prices. I found one and told the barber I wanted my hair cut short. He cut my hair and I went home. When I got home‚ my mother told me my head looked crooked. The barber had not bothered to make sure that the left and right sides were trimmed to the same length. When my hair grew back‚ I asked
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According to Stephen Burt‚ poems work by combining words into patterns intended to evoke emotion in their readers. Poetry is an attempt‚ according to Burt‚ to make people “happier‚ sadder‚ and more alive” (citation). The word poem‚ in the original Greek‚ just means ‘something made.’ Of its many functions‚ perhaps the most important function is helping people to make sense of themselves and the world around them‚ including troubling concepts such as death. Stephen Burt spoke of his difficulty processing
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Men Should Weep‚ by Ena Lamont Stewart highlights the extreme poverty experienced by a vast number of people living in Glasgow during the 1930’s. This is illustrated in their poor living conditions. The Morrison’s live in an overcrowded tenement in the east end of Glasgow. There is only one bedroom and Maggie and John must resort to making up a bed on the living room floor and sleeping on it. “A space has been cleared‚ C‚ for a mattress on the floor with pillows‚ blankets and old coats.” In addition
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