“Speak YouTube to Me”: Investigating YouTube’s Culture and Communities The label “video essay” is often used as an umbrella term to designate a certain type of audiovisual analysis of film. A precise definition of the video essay is extraordinarily controversial as the video essayistic analysis often overlaps other forms like film essay or intellectual montage. In an attempt to describe the video essay‚ Andrew McWhirter calls it a “short analytical film about films or film culture” and a “general
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A Abominable—thoroughly unpleasant or disagreeable Abscond—leave hurriedly and secretly‚ typically to avoid detection or arrest. Affable— 1. easy and pleasant to speak to; approachable. 2. gentle and gracious. Alexithymia— inability to describe emotions in a verbal manner animadversion— strong criticism; a critical or censorious remark annihilate— 1. to destroy completely; to reduce to nonexistence; to defeat decisively; vanquish. 2. to nullify or render void; abolish. apposite (AP-ah-zit)
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language. Some words have been lost‚ changed‚ and added. This language often coincides with the American culture of the time. As the culture changes‚ so does the language. Offensive language has become common in today’s American culture‚ and stands as a regular part of the English language. The amount of offensive language heard on an everyday basis is astounding. There is no escaping it. Excessive amounts of people have come to embrace most of this language‚ but there are still certain words and phrases
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SIGNALLING WORDS Examples 1. Time/order At first At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private‚ but in the town a radical transformation was taking place. Eventually Eventually the group did manage to buy some land in a village not far from London‚ but the project had to be abandoned when the villagers zoned their land against agricultural use. Finally Finally‚ there have
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Word Stress and Sentence Stress Normally when we say "I feel stressed" it means "I feel anxious". Stress is a kind of worried feeling about life or work. But there is another kind of stress that actually helps us understand. This other kind of stress is an accent that we make on certain syllables and words when speaking English. When words combine to form sentences not all of them are stressed. Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or
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this by removing the hyphen from over 16000 words he describes that he finds it daft that we ‘don’t have time to reach for the hyphen key’ as its only one tiny key stroke. He feels that text speak is pointless and doesn’t save time as ‘the recipient of the message has to spend ten minutes trying to translate it’. He thinks that the text speak of the new generation is ruining the English language and taking over and eventually people won’t know how to speak the English language properly without ‘grotesque
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Words can have a huge emotional impact on people‚ and often affect their self-image and self-worth. It is words like "retard" or "retarded" for one‚ which can surely lead to such a result. People in today’s society are not aware of the true and hurtful meaning of this word when they use it. No matter when it is used or how it is used‚ it will always have the negative connection with those who have such mental disabilities. Futhermore with such frequent use‚ those suffering from these disabilities
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Before You Speak “He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity” (Proverbs 21:23). Lesson Goal: To help students understand that what they say and how they say it can prevent or cause conflict. Lesson Objectives: By God’s grace students will learn: 1. Why communication is important. 2. The difference between verbal and non-verbal communication. 3. What to communicate. 4. How to communicate effectively. Key Principle: Think before you speak. Begin
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In the summer in the year 2013‚ in Edinburgh Scotland‚ Julian Treasure spoke at a TED Talk titled “How to Speak so That People Want to Listen”. In his speech‚ he began with detailing what he called the “seven deadly sins of speaking”: gossip‚ judgment‚ negativity. complaining‚ excuses‚ embroidery‚ and dogmatism. After that‚ he preached about HAIL; his view for a good foundation for speaking. According to him‚ the traits that every speaker must possess in order for people to want to listen to them
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Being able to speak many languages help individuals talk more and not be so quiet. As mentioned in the essay Silence by Maxine Hong Kinston‚ she was silent when she had to speak English for the first time. No one wants to be known as the quite person in school. Most bilingual people come from families that have parents that were born and raised in different places. People that are bilingual can get a good job and get paid a lot of money. Also for people who know a second language it makes it easier
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