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    The Singing Butler “Nati! There you are.” He rushed over to where she was seated on the ground on the BACKSHORE of the Spanish beach‚ and he joined her. Her stilettos lay there‚ partly covered by the sand‚ where she had kicked them off and left them. She appeared to have been there staring out in to the sea for a while. Wearing a long‚ scarlet gown with a HEMLINE just below her ankles‚ matching gloves‚ and her silky‚ chestnut hair elegantly pulled up‚ Natalia looked exceptionally beautiful. But by

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    Sounds in English

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    Chapter 3: The Sounds of English. Consonants and Vowels. An Articu-latory Classification and Description. Acoustic Correlates 3.1. Consonants and Vowels. Traditional distinctions. Chomsky and Halle’s SPE definition 3.2. Criteria for consonant classification. Vocal cord vibration. Sonority 3.3. Manner of articulation. Plosives. Fricatives. Affricates 3.4. Sonorants. The Approximants: glides and liquids 3.5. Oral and nasal articulation 3.6. Force of articulation 3.7. Place of articulation 3.8. The

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    Perception of Sound

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    Perception of Sound Hearing allows us to do our everyday activities and improves our lives. It enables us to communicate‚ socialize‚ and interact in our environment. Good hearing also helps to keep us safe‚ warning us of dangers or alerting us to someone else’s distress. Hearing is necessary for us to be able to participate in life more fully. Our hearing provides us with a huge source of information; some of it is known to us and some we don’t even notice but when combined‚ this information gives

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    The Butler Film Analysis

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    struggle the African-American culture faced. Daniels did this by properly identifying his target audience‚ defining the message he wanted to convey to his audience‚ and in turn‚ compiling an all-star cast to complete his vision for the movie. “’The Butler’ offers a powerful cinematic corrective to past failures and‚ in many instances‚ is revelatory in its deft treatment of America’s racial

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    The Sound of Hollyhocks

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    generally described as a person’s inability to reason logically. In an acclaimed story‚ "The Sound of Hollyhocks" by a Canadian writer‚ Hugh Garners‚ the protagonist William Cornish Ranson (nicknamed Rock) displays qualities of a psychotic person in a desperate attempt to avoid reversing his chronological lifestyle patterns of returning to the dominance of his mother. This is effectively conveyed through Rock’s speech and actions.The life of Rock‚ a young banker is drastically churned when his new wife

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    experiment in a mall Cafe called Butler Chocolate‚ with a purpose of finding a way to help shoppers become happier. By giving each customer a piece of Butler ’s chocolate‚ the Cafe hoped to increase the number of smiling faces at the mall. Early findings have shown the importance of the research with shoppers averaging a happiness rating of 4/10 to begin‚ rising dramatically to an average of 5.6 after a Butler’s chocolate sample - a 16% increase in happiness. (Butler ’s Chocolates 2014) Our group found

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    A Sound of Thunder

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    r.A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury Imagine being able to travel back in time. Many writers have explored this idea in science fiction stories and movies. You are about to read one of the most popular_and thought-provoking_stories about time travel ever written. LITERARY FOCUS: STYLE AND MOOD A writer’s diction‚ or word choice‚ greatly defines a work’s style. Style is also determined by sentence length and complexity. A story that is written in brief simple sentences‚ for example‚ is different

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    Three stages in the articulation of a speech sound. Three stages of articulation of the sounds: [b]‚ []‚ [æ]‚ [u:]. Every speech sound pronounced in isolation has three stages of articulation. They are the on-glide‚ or the initial stage‚ the retention stage‚ or the medial stage‚ and the off-glide‚ or the final stage. The on-glide stage or the beginning of a sound‚ is the stage during which the organs of speech move away from a neutral position to take up the position necessary

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    Sound Acoustics

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    Indoor & Outdoor Acoustic Sounds Indoor Acoustics The Principles of Sound and Acoustics Sound is the apparent vibration of air resulting from the vibration of a sound source (e.g. guitar sound board‚ hair dryer‚ etc). We can describe such regular vibration in terms of the sum of simpler vibrations (harmonics). In other words any periodic oscillation and hence resulting waveform can be described in terms of the sum of its harmonics. Each harmonic being a simple sine wave (often called a

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    persistence‚ what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability‚ what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession‚ there is nothing at all. (Butler‚ 1) ~ Webster defines a prodigy as a “young person who is unusually talented in some way.” (“Prodigy”). Octavia E. Butler’s main character Laren Oya Olamina‚ of whom I will refer to as Lauren‚ was indeed a prodigy. Her unusual talent draws a remarkable resemblance to that of our modern day prodigies

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