Essays on Talk

Report on consumer behavior

Bread Talk Group Limited is a leading food service business and recognized all over the world but based in Singapore. It operates in the food and beverage industry (Mark, 2005). The limited company took off with the help of stakeholders, as a small, fast-food joint in the year 1948. A sales representative named Raymond saw significant opportunities in the market and advised the two brothers to spread out their operations and open more restaurants. Close to nineteen years later, Bread Talk Group Limited had opened more branches outside Singapore. Mission defines the primary purpose of ...

"Robert Hayden"

The poem Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden tells about a hardworking foster father who does not get any appreciation from anyone. Robert Hayden was brought up in a poor family and he admired a foster father next door. Robert Hayden attended University of Michigan with H. Auden where he got much influence from Auden to continue writing. Robert also appreciated the work of other poets and his became his role models. Since Robert was black, most of his writings concentrated on race and he had lots of concern with racial expression.
This particular poem was about a father ...

Abstract

There has been a consensus across cultures that women are chatty and that they talk too much. However, this supposition is not supported by neither empirical nor normative research methodology. In their book, Language Myths: Women Talk Too Much, Bauer & Trudgill vehemently refute the hypothesis that women talk too much (Bauer & Trudgill, 1998, p.43). The dual are of the view that women do not dominate all discussions. Women dominate certain discussions depending on the social context at hand, and the comparative power that they possess in a given situation. As a way of discrediting the idea that woman talk ...

- Pitch Perfect
- Identify the Climax: The climax of the movie was the part wherein the protagonist, and the other members of her band, the Barden Bellas, made it into the intercollegiate a capella competition’s finals to fight once again after suffering from an embarrassing and devastating loss the previous year. In the climax, the Barden Bellas came in to fight, once again, their long-time rival, an all-male a capella singing group from the same university, in the competition’s finals. The outcome of the climax was a win for the Barden Bellas in the singing competition.
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The short story cathedral revolves around two men, Robert and the narrator. The narrator’s wife and Robert have not met for the past ten years but have maintained a close contact. The actual context of the story is in the narrator’s house, where Robert is coming to visit after losing his wife. Robert is visiting his wife’s parents when he thinks of visiting the narrator’s wife. The narrator is not enthusiastic about the visit but has to contend with it anyway. The narrator gives a background of his wife, how he had met the blind ...

Communication and Leadership

Abstract
The Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) has seventeen regular attending members. We are all athletes so we have a common interest in sports. I’m also interested in gaining experience in leadership skills and being on this committee offers me a chance to use them both in my department and in the community. Nine of the group members are men and eight are women. Although some of the literature on communication mentions a difference between how men and women communicate it is not obvious in this group. The student leader and faculty leader of the group help set the ...

The following delivery analysis is of a TED talk presented by Brene Brown, a researcher whose main focus has been on shame and vulnerability. In the talk she discusses the findings of the qualitative research she carried out on vulnerability. She found that although vulnerability is uncomfortable, it is absolutely necessary for human connection, creativity, joy, happiness, innovative thinking etc. and that the research participants she defined as ‘wholehearted,’ were far more accepting of feeling vulnerable than other participants who struggled with vulnerability. Her talk was engaging for a number of reasons which I will now discuss.
Brene initiated ...

Introduction

This paper gives a critical analysis of the issues of social concern discussed by Raymond Carver in his articles: What We Talk About When We Talk about Love; Cathedral and Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? These are his works which he wrote at different times. What We Talk About When We Talk about Love is a collection of short stories written by Raymond Carver. The 176 page fiction which was published in 1981 consists of short stories including What We Talk About When We Talk About Love; The Bath; Everything Stuck to Him; Tell Me We Are Going; ...

Introduction

Matters of sexuality and fertility especially during rehabilitation for the past thirty years have remained controversial because not so many people want to talk about them (Phelps et al., 2001). Persons with spinal cord injuries are in need of answers on how to handle their sexuality. These questions cannot be ignored. Most of them ask questions about their attractiveness, ability to have kids and relationships. To make the matters worse, studies on sexuality among people with spinal cord injuries are scarce (Karellou, 2003).
On a positive note, advances in this sector have provided ways through which such people can ...

- The National Association of the Deaf (NAD)
This is the nation’s civil rights organization formed for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in the United States of America. NAD was established in 1880 by deaf leaders to help champion the rights of deaf and hard of hearing community of people to congregate on matters important to them and to have their interests articulated at the national level.
On the international platform, the NAD represents the United States of America at the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), an international human rights organization.
Being an organization of purpose, the ...

Communication

COMMUNICATION
The Modern Rhetorical Triangle
Video 1 (Ananthaswamy, 2011)
Speaker
The speaker delves into the topic of astrophysics with an interesting incident that inspired his career. He manages to hold the interest of the audience, and shares useful information. The main purpose of the speaker is to educate the audience about the extreme conditions under which astrophysics is studied. The speaker provides pictures that illustrate his point. He explains clearly the reasoning behind the points that he has raised. In addition, he substantiates facts with examples, which helps the audience to elucidate the meaning of each statement.
The speaker ...

The title of Raymond Carver’s short story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” might suggest that the story is about the “Theme of Love”. However, this short story isn’t quite what most readers might expect. What is love? Many people ponder over the true meaning of love. This story tries to explore the true nature of love, but there is a lot more going on. The main characters are shown talking about bees, car accidents, cheese and crackers, domestic abuse, gin, and what not. Nonetheless, the short story reflects Carver’s style. The setting ...

The research study was aimed at carrying out an evaluation of a Teen Talk project in a school within the London Borough of Greenwich. The Teen Talk center was a health drop in center in the school. This was a pilot study that involved all stakeholders and was aimed at assessing whether the Teen Talk project was meeting its goals and objectives. The researchers employed questionnaires, surveys, one-on-one discussions and interviews as methods of collecting data. The study, as the researchers stated, was not aimed at highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the program, but to highlight the positives ...

The management of chronic diabetes self-care programs is mainly the responsibility of the patient. In primary care, nurses normally emphasize the prevention of complications and adherence to diabetes self management regimes. However, compliance to diabetes self-care programs is always a challenge for many diabetes patients. Diabetes self-management programs require patients to make many lifestyle and dietary changes. Diabetes patients need to be highly motivated to adopt and conform to the lifestyle changes in diabetes self-care programs (Perry & Collins, 2009). This paper describes the process of implementing a protocol for motivational interviewing for diabetes patients at Ben Taub Hospital in ...

I haven’t made many public speeches or presentations before, and the time I got to make a presentation before the class came as a shock. I generally don’t talk much, but having no option to pull out, I had to dig deep to instigate myself to stand before the class and make the presentation that I ‘managed’ to contrive. I was nervous and this reflected in the way I began my presentation. My voice was feeble, and I just couldn’t put words in my mouth. However, knowing the consequences of my action, I began my presentation. ...

In the first point of the article, the author says that Talk radio's listeners are disproportionately old and male. I agree with this point because most of the young and medium-aged people are out there working, which means they have less time to listen to talk radio shows. Most young people are interested in reading articles and watching television shows, but not listening to talk radio shows. In radio programs nowadays, most shows are conservative talk programs and political talk shows. The expected audience in political shows is elder people, especially men as women are busy running other errands. ...

Erich Fromm's Theory of Love in relation to Milan Kundera’s "The Hitchhiking Game" and Raymond Carver’s "What We Tall About When We Talk About Love"
Love gets repeatedly confused with the thought of losing oneself to something, which gets deemed as being larger than life, greater than the self or total of one’s parts (Fromm 7). From the desire for human connection arises a desire of fusing with another person, so that the two can become one; to know each other as wholly and as deeply as one understands oneself. Therefore, this essay tends to look ...

Analysis and Response

In this article originally published in The New York Times, on January 9, 1983, Marshall is discussing how she became a writer and what her influences were. Some of her influences were conventional:
I was sheltered from the storm of adolescence in the Macon Street Library, reading voraciously, indiscriminately, everything from Jane Austen to Zane Grey, but with a special passion for the long, full-blown, richly detailed 18th and 19th century picaresque tales: Tom Jones, Great Expectations, Vanity Fair, (6)
Elsewhere she mentions other famous white writers: Czeslaw, ...

The critiques of the Victoria repression, orientalism and commodity racism done by Foucault has played a major role in supporting the gender equality within particular settings in a society. This is by creating arguments on how the current discourse justifies equality in sexes, and rights for every gender to participate in the society development of upright morals so that acts like prostitution could be abolished. This analysis as well promoted openness in expression more so in matters pertaining to sex since all the society members are well knowledgeable about it. This open talk in matters pertaining to sex was ...

Book Review:

Baron, Naomi. Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World. New York: Oxford
“Language in an Online and Mobile World” by Naomi Baron is a thought-provoking book on the way that language changes in the online and mobile world. It also tells us the ways in which the new technologies affect and influence our speaking and writing. She tells us that there many ways this could happen, but that it is not what we would expect. There is more to language and the online and mobile world than what we think and Naomi Baron writes about this well.
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Language is one of the most, if not the most, important tool we have when communicating with each other. People talk and use different vocabulary when they talk to their siblings, their co-workers, or their friends. They also act different around them and the study of the behavior of a specific cultural group is called ethnography. Ethnography is “a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group” (Gee 2003). There are ...

Introduction

It came as a surprise to many when the National Football League (NFL) fined Marshawn Lynch of the Seattle Seahawks $50,000 for not talking to the media for an extended period of time (Schefter 1). However, according to the NFL, participation of its personnel and interaction with the media is part of their role because it contributes to the financial wellbeing of the sport and the league. Without this, the league would not be what it is today. This debate is bound to continue, with some of the league’s players feeling that players should not be fined ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

What We Talk about When We Talk about Love’
‘What We Talk about When We Talk about Love’, is a short story written by Raymond Carver in the year 1981. When this story was released, Carver was not well known in literary circles, and few would have guessed then that he would turn out to be the father of Literary Minimalism. As Monti opines, this story and the other sixteen stories in this collection, revived the realistic trend in short fiction, and their terse yet distinctive portrait of small town America, has come to be known as Carver’s ...

Analysis of Soldiers home with setting, symbols, characters and gender issue.

In Hernest Hemmingway’s story Soldiers Home we are going to analyze it for 1. Setting, 2. Symbolism and 3. Character. We are also going to talk about gender discrimination. Hemmingway’s story is about war. A man who has been away at the war comes back to his life in The United States of America. Here he is in the world that is so different from the world of the war. The setting is back in the United States of America. The setting of the past that is inside the soldier is inside his head. It is because ...

Hitler’s table-talk is a collection of speeches and conversation he delivered during the time of Second World War. The statements will certainly give the student of history or politics an overall knowledge of his opinions and thoughts about his own theories. This also gives the idea that he was very much conscious that he was being recorded. However, this increases the importance of his statements during the table-talks.

Hitler is the one and only dictator that keep a significant distance from any other dictators in the world. Some historians even recorded him as a phenomenon. For many people, ...

Introduction

In a catchy and rather humorous chapter titled “Courting” Helen Fisher bares basic yet essential truths on how people court. Jeff Abugov’s 1999 Mock documentary titled “The Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human” mirrors entirely all of Fisher’s assertions. A narrator tells the story of Billy (Mackenzie Austin), a shy young man who goes out looking for a date at a nightclub. He meets a beautiful girl named Jenny Smith (Carmen Electra). Billy gets Jenny’s phone number but loses it. He searches for the number frantically, finally resorting to calling all people named Jenny Smith from ...

Introduction

In this self-reflection paper, I discuss how I’ve undergone development with respect to sexuality based on cultural, familial and peer influences. This discussion will draw from various scholarly sources on sexuality and human development.

An Overview of my yester to current years

I was brought up in a Catholic home and the subject of sexuality in that setting was not talked about at all. I have a sister who is two years older than me and we were taught not to have sex until when we get married. I can recall that there were no discussions on sex or birth control or relationship matters. Interestingly, my ...

In the analysis of how friendship is struck and maintained, Knapp’s staircase model of relationship progress becomes necessary. Developed in 1978, Knapp’s Staircase borrows so much premises from the concepts that define the social penetration philosophy (Schrodt 77). It gives an overview of how relationships are grown and sustained. The starting stage talks of initiation. This is the level where, for the first time, a person encounter the other. Here a decision of whether it is worthy to strike a conversation or not is finalized. The next stage is of experimentation. Here, the individuals who have met ...

Relationships grow in positive environments. Support and encouragement, from both the partners in a relationship, establish a firm podium for a strong connection. However, the relationships become vulnerable due to certain elements that can be socially unaccepted. Various factors including alcoholism, drug addiction etcetera can ruin the essence of even strong relations. Many stories depict that alcohol intake makes the relationships vulnerable.
Authors from around the world have depicted the concept of survival of relationships in a challenging environment. Certain stories depict perception of its characters towards the pros and cons of successful relations. For instance, in the story ‘ ...

According to Holmes, majority of available evidences suggest that the common belief about women talking more than men is not correct but men talk more when men and women are together. Two Canadian researchers reviewed 63 studies that examined the amount of talk by American men and women in different contexts. Only two studies showed that women talked more than men. Research conducted in New Zealand also confirmed this view.
Holmes analyzed questions that participants asked in 100 public seminars. She found out that men dominated more during the discussion time in 93 seminars and only in 7 seminars, ...

Analysis of a Short Story

Analysis of a Short Story
            Raymond Carver’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love” is one of several stories that appears simple on first glance, but it’s actually complex and unique in many ways. Carver, who lived from 1938 to 1988, was famous for many of his works, including this one (New York Times, 2013). According to Geoffrey Wolff, Carver created narratives that are "brief . . . but by no means stark" (Poetry Foundation, 2013). Though known as an influential writer of American short stories, Carver was an alcoholic, whose wife, Maryann, and two children eventually left ...

Public Figures (their expertise and their assigned speech topic:How in one sentence would: (Oprah Winfrey's credibility as Talk Shows: Their Role in Society) be initially affected if she spoke on assigned speech topic of: The Comedy of Politics?�" plus one sentence on how to make her credible on the given speech topic 
Oprah Winfrey is a magnificent talk show host yet her grasp of politics is somewhat limited and she would probably stutter and veer off subject if given such a topic to talk about. Her credibility would be affected since she is an avowed Democratic Party supporter so ...

Interviewing Assignment:

SPH 1090.
INTERVIEWING ASSIGNMENT 2
QUESTION AGENDA
- Please, introduce yourself: what is your name, age, marital status, job.
- How many children do you have? How old are they?
- It means that you gave a birth to your child at 17, didn’t you? Was this a planned child?
- What did you feel when realized that you were pregnant? Whom first did you say?
- How was people’s reaction? The father ‘s of a child? Your parents’? What were their advices for you?
- You went to school at that time, didn’t you? ...

The Portrayal of Adulthood in The Chocolate War by Robert Comier and Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

The Chocolate War is about the bravery and steadfastness of Jerry, the protagonist, in refusing to engage in a depraved years-long tradition at Trinity High School carried out by The Vigils. The Vigils order students at the high school to complete various challenging tasks often with harrowing outcomes. The Vigils ordered Jerry to refuse helping out at the high school’s yearly chocolate auction despite the fact that they assured Brother Leon, the coordinator of the event, that they, including Jerry, would help sell chocolates. Jerry’s task was supposed to last for ten days, after which he would ...

Almost everyone likes to watch comedy television; there is a reason that there are so many comedy television shows on every day. Satire TV gave examples of shows that have grabbed the attention of many viewers, drawing them to their screens night after night. Some of the shows were Da Ali G Show, The Colbert Report, The Boondocks, and Saturday Night Out, among others. These shows got people glued to their screen because of the satire that they brought with. Some scholars insist that it is the comical part of the political shows that attract the attention of the ...

The world is but a canvas to our imagination. The name of the platform will be “Invest in Idea”. I choose this name because it explains a certain part of the information that you will earn on the website. It consists of two words like “invest” and “idea”, which means that you are going to invest a certain amount of money to realize or make people’s ideas (projects) possible.
My platform offer users to have the opportunity to open a business from a start. Audition will have a chance to share their new ideas and project to the ...

Language development is the methodology by which youngsters come to comprehend and impart language amid right on time adolescence. Language development starts before conception. Towards the end of pregnancy, the embryo begins to hear sounds and discourse originating from outside the mother's body. Newborn children are intensely receptive to the human voice and lean toward it to different sounds. Specifically they favor the higher pitch typical for female voices. They additionally are exceptionally mindful to the human face, particularly when the face is talking. Albeit shouting is a tyke's essential method for correspondence during childbirth, language instantly begins to ...

English

Happy family relationship means a lot of work, with preserve and maintaining them being extremely difficult. For this to happen, both partners should make an effort to make life together joyful.
So, what are the secrets of a happy family? There are definitely some that will help your family stay strong, and friendly for long time, if not forever. One of the main secrets for happy family is a skill to communicate with each other. In order to keep both family members happy you pretty much need communicate with each other, without which various problems and accidents will be ...

One of the key aspects of nursing is the focus on the society as the subject of the nursing career. The nurse has a role in ensuring that every member of the society can be assured of a healthy future and that their health problems today can be handled to achieve a positive outcome. It is the role of the nurse to seek any issue that relates to society health and seeking an amicable solution. When reflecting on a societal matter, it is always important that the nurse considers the role that group work plays in unearthing the potential ...

The conversation below takes place between two friends, Bill and Dave.

Bill: Dave, what is your take on this trending debate on abortion? It is all over – in the news, in schools and, practically everywhere. Personally, I think the idea of abortion is wrong and should not be given a second thought.
Dave: well, I did not expect anything different from you. After all, you are a priest. (Fallacy of relevance: ad hominen).
Bill: that is not true. Haven’t you heard Jones? He holds the same idea, so at least I am not alone in this school of thought.
Dave: I think you are also aware that Jones intends ...

Identifying with groups can be a very difficult thing, especially if you were not raised in that group. Even if you are very familiar with a common interest, you may also have problems with the group you belong to. What does it mean to belong to something? Does a person have to believe in everything a group professes in order to be part of it? These questions relate closely to two experiences in which I examined the role of identity groups in my life – studying abroad in an American university and thinking about car culture, which is one of ...

Kneucker, R. “Converging Technologies”: Legal, Ethical, and Social Implications. Integrating the Social Sciences and Humanities Dimensions in an Expanded European Vision Retrieved from < http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/ntw-raoul-kneucker text_en.pdf>
Technology and technological developments have various implications on the social, legal and ethical development of people. Despite the excitements that come with such developments, there are usually fears on how they will affect the society and well it will adjust. The article looks at the various aspects of life that are affected by such developments and the need for legal laws that will protect the public from manipulation. The author has highlighted ...

Nowadays, it is rare to see someone without a mobile phone as many consider it an important item not to be parted with one’s reach. Mobile phones could be considered the new age of communication as it enables users to contact and connect with their love ones, friends, colleagues or to anyone. At first, these mobile phones are only capable of doing calls while within a network. However, as technology progressed, these mobile phones became capable of sending text messages and eventually became the primary connection to social networking. One may find it difficult to comprehend if there ...

Communication is the key that people communicate with each other, which is also a very important way how do parents educate their children. From the moment when the parents holding the cute little baby who was just born till the moment of the parents saying “goodbye” to the “baby”, the parents play a significant role in the baby’s” life of being caring, supporting, loving and most importantly—educating the “baby” through communication. Recently, I have been through an awful depression which I had had got out days ago. During that time, I called my parents numerous times seeking ...

Hitler’s Table Talk is written in a way to make you feel as if you are having a direct conversation with Hitler over the dining room table. Or maybe it is more like being lectured by him because the talk offered in the book are monologues. The date and time of day is noted as well as who is with him during his talk. His conversations in the book explain the beliefs he holds dear such as the superiority of the Aryan race and who he considers to be a part of that race. He discusses his feelings ...

In order to relax from math anxiety, it is necessary for an individual to develop an attitude of constantly studying, as well as practicing. This is because math is a skill, which is normally acquired as an individual interacts constantly with math operations. It is said, “Practice makes perfect”. This applies to math in cases where an individual engages in doing math problems consistently. It is recommended that one begins by handling and researching on math problems, which are simple to learn and handle. This makes one learn the basics of math effectively. This creates confidence in an individual ...

Everybody has variety of goals to accomplish his/her dream in life. So, when I was in high school, I began to set my goals that I want to be achieved in the future. One of my very important goals is learning English language. I faced some difficulties with learning English language and I struggled with achieving this goal, but in the end, it was more than worth it.

In Saudi Arabia, while I was studying for my Bachelor’s degree of Art in Islamic Studies, it was obligatory for us to learn English language as a required subject for ...

With approximately 50% of adolescents sexually active by the time they are in Year 10, what skills and knowledge do they need to have to make, good decisions about their personal health? Discuss.
Introduction
“The development of a positive, healthy and responsible sexuality requires information, education and improved access to services. Increasing the available options enables young women and young men to exercise informed, self determined decisions”. (Youth Health Council – South Australia)
There has been a drastic change in our life styles, family structures and social system in the last two decades; today’s youth is much more technologically ...

Marketing Plan for Coca Cola plus protein

INTRODUCTION
Coca Cola is one of the biggest players of carbonated and non carbonated soft drink market in the world. It is one of the most valuable and iconic brands in the world; Forbes has listed Coca Cola as the world’s third most valuable brand (World’s Most Valuable Brands, 2014). It is one of those companies that invest heavily in its marketing initiatives. In 2013, the marketing spend of the company stood at $4 billion (Team Trevis, 2014). Coca Cola is a market leader of the soft drinks market and has a brand portfolio that included drinks ...

Introduction

Teen pregnancy is a health problem that has publicly been acknowledged. Teen pregnancy has repercussions that are long lasting for the teenage mothers and the baby. Teenage mothers are likely to score low on their language skills and may not graduate from high school. Teenage pregnancy opens doors to other problems such as substance abuse and may suffer from depression. Peer pressure is listed among the top factors that lead to teenage pregnancies. Teenagers, whose friends have boyfriends and are already having sex, start feeling pressured for sex and have boyfriends so that they can fit in the group. ...

Raising children can be a significant challenge for parents. Many times, despite how they predict they will react, adults do not know how they will actually respond to specific situations until they are confronted with them. A common conflict that occurs between parents when rearing a child is whether or not it is acceptable to argue with your spouse in front of your child. There are many variables to take into account while making this decision. Not all parents consider all of these variables; some think it is okay to argue in front of children and will not damage ...

As the effectiveness model obliges results and destinations to be characterized it just takes after that our perspective of certificates, skills, and different approaches to diminish a human into a capacity would take after. The reasoning runs so profound inside the understanding of instruction hypothesis that I end up a bit at a misfortune actually considering an alternative. Words like effectiveness have an extremely contemporary esteem in my calling, typically referred to from scholars, for example, Richard Clark. Expressed most essentially, why utilize any type of media that is more costly than one that accomplishes the same targets? For ...

Introduction

John Hunt Morgan was a popular Confederate general and cavalry officer during the Civil War. He is most remembered for his Morgan’s Raid wherein he led several hundred men on a more-than thousand mile journey from the South into Kentucky and as far as southern Ohio, which is the farthest point reached by any Confederate group in the north during this war (Dupuy, Johnson and Bongard, 1992, 525). He sowed terror and fear in the hearts of ordinary people from Indiana and Ohio (Boyer, 1912, 164-165). This short paper will examine General Morgan’s escape from the Ohio ...

The discussion on language and context confirmed my understanding that learning English as a second language was not a linear process. According to the first reading, learning English as a second language involves the participation of both students as well as teachers in different circumstances (Gibbons, 2012, p. 30). This is because of the fact that learning is a collaborative activity that requires the active participation of primary stakeholders. In this case, teachers and students are the primary stakeholders. I have had practical experiences whereby I am unable to use a second language in different contexts. I always feel ...

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today

Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today was a talk delivered by known economist Paul Krugman at Princeton University. The talk focused on the phenomena of Globalization and what it did to the world and its role the ‘mess’ it caused. He gave a short history of globalization by saying that it is not new to the world because it was ongoing during the late 19th century. In his talk Reflection on Globalization: Yesterday and Today , Krugman addressed what were the changes, one of the changes he pointed out was technology. People were replaced by machines, he mentioned, because longshoremen ...

Analysis of Spoken Discourse in the Film If Only

Abstract
Spoken discourse focuses on the words the speakers say and how these are spoken to convey a message. The film If Only, presents a series of conversations that revealed the events of the story. This study transcribes three major scenes to identify the frequency of key terms as mentioned by the characters. The verbal data were then segmented and coded for analysis. The theory of face-work was used as the conceptual framework of the study and the conversations were examined to identify how characters saved their face and protect the face of the persons they are having the ...

The tenuous thread of Destiny — Russian mistakes at Stalingrad — Racial mixtures — Sailors on leave.

This excerpt from Hitler’s Table Talk is particularly interesting. Here we have Hitler ranting at how Germany lost the First World War due to the fact that it had manifest destiny against it. He seems to blame the fact that Germany lost that war because it had not started producing tanks fast enough and blames the Home Front for that. He refers to the fact that the industriousness and foresight of such men as Lloyd George and Churchill looked ahead and immediately grasped the huge possibilities that the military tank could offer for better battle advantage.
Hitler also ...

Helen Epstein’s “Aids, INC.” was a different take on the virus which was affecting different areas of Uganda. She looked at the virus through the eyes of teenagers and adolescents who engaged in sexual activity. In her research, she kept referring to something called “Lifestyle Brand”. This is the term used for advertising products which would capture the attention of people who shared a certain style or image. It is something like talking to a set of people that one would define as a target market. However, the basis of grouping these individuals would be because of style. ...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop in anyone after exposure to an event that results in psychological trauma. Although there has been much focus in recent years on PTSD experienced by soldiers returning home from war, the disorder is not limited to that group of people. In fact, PTSD can occur in a variety of situations and to just about anyone, including abused children, sexual assault and rape victims, people who have experienced natural disasters, people who have experienced a car crash, and many other traumatic situations. In order for people with ...

Summary of “Mother Tongue”

In the essay “Mother Tongue” the American writer Amy Tan gives her personal account of the different types of English that she has dealt with throughout her life. She is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and was brought up in California: in her text she recognizes that because of this combination, and especially due to her job, language has always been a constant subject of analysis. It was the fascination about it that drove her to spend significant time in thinking of how any style of communication can affect the way we create images and express ourselves with complex ...