EDMONTON - Russell Duff Brown. Jr., age 70, passed away on Tuesday, September 12th at his home. He was the son of the late Russell Duff Brown, Sr. and Phyllis Quaife Brown. Russell was a Maintenance Foreman with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.…
“Aw, man, we could have run those guys, sure”(52). This significant quote from the main character Derrick Bowen in the book Pull by Kevin Waltman gives the reader an idea of how the character was like in the beginning. In addition, the beginning of the book also gives the author several opportunities to have Derrick go through periods of changes later on throughout the story. For this reason, the author is foreshadowing the changes he will, later on, make with Derrick. Pull is about Derrick Bowen a Junior at Marion High with college offers from Division one schools. When he is on the court, he is one of the best high school basketball players in the nation, but injuries and personal problems are keeping him…
In the daily social life, communication plays an important role in helping individuals to share ideas and strengthen their relationship. Except the words people used in the communication, body language is the other significant part of it. Body language is a special language that people use body changes to cooperate with their words to express feelings and emphasize ideas. Every single body language the person used will affect the result of his conversation, even though he does not aware of it. Obviously, effective as well as decent body language will help them set confidence and support from others. In order to explain how body language works, I choose an interview of Naheed Nenshi who is the mayor of Calgary. By analyzing his body language through the interview, we can see how he reacts with…
Ms. Toews has trouble controlling her world, and her narrative sometimes feels lost and muddied. Tense is sometimes mixed, making one wonder if this is the present or if Nomi is older now, looking back. Interesting threads in relationships and characters are picked up, dropped off quickly, and are never seen again, or are picked up much later and consequently seem less relevant. And if the high points seem inscrutable, the low points are painfully obvious. Some metaphors seeem juvenile, like Nomi's dream that Jesus is staring down at her from the foot of her bed with a baseball bat "poised to smash in [her] head for a lie [she] had told" leave one with a sense of regret at their inclusion. Nomi is endearing and interesting, but Ms. Toews over-writes her and won't leave a moment of subtle poignancy alone.…
Chad Tredway, a Loyola alumnus, came to our business seminar to discuss how his Jesuit education influenced his success in his career, as well as gave us advice on how to make most of our time here at Loyola.…
Nonverbal communication plays an essential role in any conversation. Individuals who are aware of nonverbal actions during conversations can more effectively interpret what is being communicated.…
The plot of the show focuses on the social evils that challenge the collective development of society, aiming to desist young minds from venturing into crime for the purpose of obtaining wealth quickly. It also advises the rising users of roads and their families to exercise maximum caution while in their new cars, which may cut short their lives within seconds. This show aims to curb the escalating incidences of road accidents, especially involving new cars, which the owners might manhandle. The explicit meaning addresses the demographic ranging from youthful adults to middle-aged viewers, cutting across both genders. This is implied by the majority of the characters, who are aged roughly along these lines.…
Mitch Landrieu’s speech explains his reasoning for the removal of the sacred Confederate Monuments. Mitch is right in saying something needed to be done about the Confederate Monuments, but there are far more important things that need to be addressed and fixed in the city of New Orleans before removing those statues.…
Many aspects of spoken communication are distinct in their uses of language. This distinction is for the fact that each variety of spoken communication, in return, uses the functions of language in their own specific ways and for their own specific purposes. Language of radio announcers is but one form which illustrates this distinction and the discussion of this essay attempts to explore the use of language within this variety of spoken communication – through the evident use of lexical, syntactic and phonological features and furthermore in discourse structure. This exploration can be achieved in reference to presenter Leighton Smith’s radio interview of Prime Minister John Key, which featured May 16th on the Newstalk ZB radio channel.…
I chose graded project number one, being Nonverbal Listening Patterns. Nonverbal listening patterns means, certain messages through a variety of cues such as body language and tone of voice.…
Everyday in the workplace, especially in the relationship between supervisors and non-managerial employees, verbal instructions will be given multiple times throughout the workday. But what happens if those instructions aren’t verbal? These “non-verbals” aren’t always clear and sometimes may not even reflect the verbal actions of the supervisor so it can cause confusion and other conflicts in the workplace. Throughout my past several work shifts I took notice of my supervisor Mike’s non-verbal actions and how they reflect other aspects of his personality, leadership style, etc.…
A few weeks ago, I was at the Ultimate Billiards. I decided this would be a great place to practice my exercise of non-verbal listening patterns. I noticed my friend Vanessa, whom I’ve known for ten years. We talked for an hour about family and friends. Later that evening, I met Sue, whom I’ve known for three months. Our conversation, thirty minutes in length, consisted of critiquing the other players, discussion of rule fairness, and tournament requirements.…
The professional career of Sign Language Interpreting offers several different settings and fields one can interpret in. An interpreter is not obligated to pick one field and interpret only for that field. On the contrary, it is wise for an interpreter to gather experience from all of the various settings, and then pick one or two areas to specialize in. I have yet to gather a reasonable amount of actual interpreting experience to select my future area of expertise. Nevertheless, with the current knowledge that I possess, I do have an ideal setting in which I want to interpret in, as well as a setting that I don’t want to be involved in.…
It is language that is the only tool that man can draw on to communicate with each other. Every country has its own national language. However, there is a universal language that even people who are deaf and/or speech-impaired can use. It is body language. Yet most people are still ignorant of the existence of body language although it is used by them very regularly and plays an important role in our life, on almost all aspects. “Body language” by Allan Pease is an interesting and useful book and gives readers a deeper understanding about this subject.…
American Sign Language (ASL) is a beautiful language that involves communicating by using your hands and facial expression. Although ASL is so much more than using your eyebrows or memorizing signs. ASL has its very own grammar, format, culture, history, terminology and other unique characteristics. When someone that ASL is not their native language, may succumb to using signed exact English (SEE). What is the history behind ASL and what exactly is the difference between the two version of sign?…