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    and the relationships we acquire. Two landmark films in American cinema‚ Citizen Kane and It’s a Wonderful Life‚ touch upon the topic of the valuation of a man through different means and character development. Along with the television series The Simpsons‚ both of the aforementioned works expounds upon where value genuinely lies in American culture. In Orson Welle’s 1941 masterpiece Citizen Kane‚ viewers follow the life path of newspaper mogul Charles Foster Kane. The film begins with Kane on his

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    Verbal communication represents just a small percentage of winning the sale and dealing with clients in business. The rest is to have adequate non-verbal skills and to know how and when to use them properly. More than voice or even words‚ non-verbal communication actually takes people in to what is on other people’s minds. Sometimes although our voice and words are under control‚ our body language‚ including the tiniest facial expressions‚ movements and gestures can give our true thoughts and feelings

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    The Simpsons: An Imperfect Ideal Family The essay The Simpsons: An Imperfect Ideal Family was a paper written by Eliezer Van Allen explaining how the popular T.V show The Simpsons was not so unrealistic and impractical as many Americans had thought it to be. In fact‚ The Simpsons was‚ more or less‚ a ““cracked-mirror version” of our own imperfect but lovable selves” just in a cartoon‚ sitcom type form. This essay talks about how The Simpsons family often reflects the way many current families live

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    Socratic Irony

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    The topic of my paper is the philosophy of Socrates. Specifically I will discuss Socratic irony and the Socratic method of inquiry. The main points I will cover are; what was Socratic irony‚ and why did he use the method he did to seek the truth? My paper consists of three main parts. First a description of the more important books by Plato‚ about Socrates; sines Plato is the main source for information about Socrates. The second part is an analysis of the texts‚ focusing on the above stated topics

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    Verbal Learning Paper Psych/550 November 4‚ 2013 Dr. Samantha Hickman University of Phoenix Verbal Learning Paper Many people often wonder what verbal learning is. To some people verbal learning can simply mean learning verbally with a person’s mouth. However‚ verbal learning does not only mean learning with a person’s mouth‚ and individual can learn verbally in different ways. Verbal is consisting of words that spoken rather than written. Some people

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    emotions reliably in their faces. Since recently studies of non verbal communication came more prominent as teachers of acting and pantomime analyzed how facial and body movement convey emotions. American anthropologist Edward T. Hall developed proxemics. Proxemics enables people to send and receive message without the use of words. He studied how people in different culture uses gesture‚ posture ‚ speaking ‚ distance and non verbal signs to communicate their feelings and social status because

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    Verbal Learning Concepts

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    550 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Verbal Learning Concepts of Memory Paper Psychology - General Psychology Prepare a 1‚400 to 1‚750-word paper in which you analyze the concept of verbal learning. As a part of your analysis‚ be sure to address the following items: Describe the concept of verbal learning. Compare and contrast serial learning‚ paired associate learning‚ and free recall. Explore the concept of Mnemonics in the recall of verbal stimuli. Don’t bring a lot of stuff

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    Non-Verbal Language In human-being society‚people can communicate together by verbal and non verbal language .To know clearly about the meaning of non-verbal language .We can analyse the way and how we use non verbal language. We can use our words to express our fellings.However ‚body language or non verbal language is also the useful way for us to express our idea. In society ‚ we often use body language such as by gesture‚posture‚facial expression or eye contact to express our feeling. Examples

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    The Non Verbal Communication Communication is the transfer of information from one person to another which could be in the forms of written‚ oral or non verbal communication. The Non verbal communication plays in important role in defining the status of relationship between the employee and employer. Often the message conveyed in a non verbal communication is in the forms of gestures and action of the individual. There is a lot of information that are conveyed in between lines that a manager needs

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    Irony in the storyteller the main type of irony that we can find in this story is situational irony. The bachelor being good at story telling is ironic because we wouldn’t expect a bachelor to be good at entertaining children. The bachelors description of the little girl being “horribly good” is ironic The little girl in the story that the bachelor told was well behaved‚ and usually the characters that show a positive behaviour in childrens’ stories don’t end up being eaten by wolves. The way that

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