...The passage opens by Isabella using a speech representations, she refers to Angelo as ‘my lord’ this mode of address reinforces the difference in class and also the respect that Isabella must give to him, not only because he is in charge but also he could potentially save Claudio’s life. A common thought that has been displayed in many plays such as Measure for Measure is that men are weak and women are the strong willed ones who cannot be lustful but for a man it is more acceptable and for a dramatic twist Angelos turns round to Isabella and states a declarative ‘we are all frail’, he reinforces his point by again stating ‘women are frail too’. To Angelo’s short remarks Isabella replies with a paragraph agreeing with his thoughts, this can be seen as a dramatic technique as Isabella is strong willed and stubborn yet she agrees as states that even she is weak - which could potentially encourage him - but her agreeing can also help bring to light just how much power he has. ‘call us ten times frail; for we are soft as our complexions are’. He has so much power that Isabella must agree with what he says if its harmless. Shakespeare uses the dramatic technique of presenting Isabella as either naive or a really dedicated soon to be nun, but not letting Isabella know that Angelo is talking actually talking about wanting to sleep with her. Shakespeare highlights that Isabella hasn’t been aware of Angelo's intentions as previously they spoke and Isabella offered ‘gifts’ but in her...
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...absolute control as an emperor and limited many things that were established during the revolution such as women's rights and freedom of speech. With the Napoleonic Code, he favored order and authority rather than individual rights that the revolution supported. Napoleon also introduced religion back and rekindled the relationship between church and state.apoleon was more of a rejection of the completion of the revolution because he did keep a little of the revolution such as property rights, but he also wanted absolute control as an emperor and limited many things that were established during the revolution such as women's rights and freedom of speech. With the Napoleonic Code, he favored order and authority rather than individual rights that the revolution supported. Napoleon also introduced religion back and rekindled the relationship between church and state.apoleon was more of a rejection of the completion of the revolution because he did keep a little of the revolution such as property rights, but he also wanted absolute control as an emperor and limited many things that were established during the revolution such as women's rights and freedom of speech. With the Napoleonic Code, he favored order and authority rather than individual rights that the revolution supported. Napoleon also introduced religion back and rekindled the relationship between church and state.apoleon was more of a rejection of the completion of the revolution because he did keep a little of the revolution...
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...the ending of the speech by Socrates, a beautiful, wealthy and drunk Alcibiades enters the event. This triggers the beginning of Alcibiades speech of travesty, which is disguised in praise, reciting the “secret nature” of Socrates to the guests at hand. The purpose of adding Alcibiades’ speech at the end is to display the nuisance with social expectations for love and the inability to meet them. The character of Alcibiades is used to portray the tragic nature of good merit and the tragedy. He is unable to gain virtue through sexual relations, and there for is forced to remain mortal. The purpose of the speech at whole is to celebrate the fertility of heterosexual relationships and how they are justified in giving birth to children. Alcibiades wants to engage in a relationship with Socrates which in terms is a homosexual relationship. To justify homosexual relationships, they would have had to prove them as productive as a heterosexual relationship. Meaning if what a heterosexual relationship can justify through Diotima’s speech is a child and a relationship which can be carried on in the future has to be the same of what a homosexual relationship can do. This forces Alcibiades to consider his own behavior in the framework of these expectations. Moreover, Alcibiades believed because of his looks, brains, charm and wealth he could embark on a homosexual quest since he had it all. His thought process with these qualities included engaging into a relationship with Socrates with...
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...PERSPECTIVE The logic of indirect speech Steven Pinker*†, Martin A. Nowak‡, and James J. Lee* *Department of Psychology, and ‡Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Departments of Mathematics and Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Edited by Jeremy Nathans, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, and approved December 11, 2007 (received for review July 31, 2007) When people speak, they often insinuate their intent indirectly rather than stating it as a bald proposition. Examples include sexual come-ons, veiled threats, polite requests, and concealed bribes. We propose a three-part theory of indirect speech, based on the idea that human communication involves a mixture of cooperation and conflict. First, indirect requests allow for plausible deniability, in which a cooperative listener can accept the request, but an uncooperative one cannot react adversarially to it. This intuition is supported by a game-theoretic model that predicts the costs and benefits to a speaker of direct and indirect requests. Second, language has two functions: to convey information and to negotiate the type of relationship holding between speaker and hearer (in particular, dominance, communality, or reciprocity). The emotional costs of a mismatch in the assumed relationship type can create a need for plausible deniability and, thereby, select for indirectness even when there are no tangible costs. Third, people perceive language as a digital...
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...Criticizing Bill Clinton Speech Essay “If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign” William J. Clinton,1974 Introduction: Critics should pay a very special attention to the Bill Clinton apology speech. The speech of the ex-president Bill Clinton was a bright example of how perfect rhetoric techniques might fail to deliver the message of a president to a mass audience if it goes about his morality. In his speech, Clinton, actually confesses he had a private relationship with Monica Lewinsky. It is a rule that such a confession and especially from a person of the highest position in the society means the end of the career. It took William Jefferson Clinton seven month to realize that people need apologies not for the deed, but for the lies. A close look at the speech opens a wide range of elements did not manage to make it truly appealing for the citizens of the United States of America. In his speech, Mr. Clinton admitted he did a wrong thing and at the same time he did not truly show how much he regretted that his “misbehavior” lead to irreversible consequences in his private and political life. The key failure of the speech is that Mr. Clinton moved the accent away from the affair he had to the necessity to concentrate on more important things. In other words he told the society that they are stuck on unserious matters, while important political events are taking place. Bill Clinton’s goal was to make people get over the scandalous...
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...hyperthyroidism Insert Student’s Name Insert Institution’s Name Introduction Communication is an important aspect in the client – healthcare provider relationship because it builds a foundation and the doctor or nurse can provide useful and timely diagnosis that the client sorely needs (Doenges & Moorhouse, 2012). Communication is also imperative in building trusting relationships with patients and their families. Such relationships are built upon honest communication between the two parties involved. The value of communication between these parties is also highlighted fact that it produces a therapeutic effect for the client as has been validated in a controlled studies. The following essay examines the situation whereby a particular condition impacts a client's ability to communicate and the effects the condition may have on the patient’s ability to communicate including the psychological and the physical impact of the disorder. The condition, hyperthyroidism, is examined in order to determine its effects together with the role of a speech therapist in helping such clients impacted by the condition in the health environment. The patient has had a thyroid gland surgically removed. Furthermore, the means and the strategies that the professional may employ in facilitating effective communication in order to build therapeutic relationships is examined. The strategies may include basic communication skills and non-verbal. Hyperthyroidism Hyperthyroidism is a condition in which highly...
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...In the book Hamlet, there are many brilliant and unordinary speeches, they all relate and if you analyze them deep enough you will see how they all have a relationship. Most of these speeches have a strong theme or point. There were so many speeches and quotes with great meaning and extraordinary wording, for every speech or quote there is always a hidden message or point Hamlet, or some of the other actors are trying to make. Hamlet is the main speech giver and always contemplates himself during his quotes or speeches. He was much undecided and was always changing his mind during his speeches. He was a troubled man during this time and it showed in the way he acted in the situations he was in, and also by what he would say, and how he would say things. The first speech I choose was from, (“Act I, scene ii”). In this speech Hamlet speaks these lines to Claudius and Gertrude after enduring the unpleasant scene at the court. Hamlet was then asked by his mother and stepfather not to return to his studies in England. They wanted him to remain in Denmark, presumably against his wishes. This I believe was all Claudius doings. Here, in this scene Hamlet thinks for the first time about suicide. When he talks about desiring his flesh to melt and wishing God had not made killing himself a sin. Hamlet felt so strongly that, suicide seemed like a good alternative to life in a hurtful world. He ends up saying he must not do such a thing because it is forbidden for him to do such a thing...
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...Friendships and close relationships are something that influences people to the extent that it leaves an impact in their lives. It is something that can influence a person in both negative and positive ways. Things like friendship, relationships, love has no barrier, all it needs is a nurturing and a valued perspective. It can work wonders in people’s life or partner’s life or someone who you are nurturing it with. As quoted by Epicurus, the famous ancient Greek philosopher, “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” This quote completely throws light on the King’s struggle in order to gain that courage and then overcoming his lifelong huddle. “The King’s speech,” is an Oscar-winning film, which truly touches the deepest part of our hearts. It was released in 2010, rated R and directed by Tom Hooper. It is a biopic story about Britain’s king George VI Albert (played by Colin Firth) and his lifelong struggle to overcome his Speech impediment or if to be precise his stammering. He was suffering from the stammer since the age of 4 or 5. The movie opens with Prince Albert, known as “Bertie” to his wife and family, who was later known as king George VI, the second son of King George V, speaking at the close of the 1925 British Empire Exhibition with his wife Elizabeth (played by Helena Bonham Carter) next to him. His speech unsettles the thousands of listeners present. The Prince...
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...for Appellant 601739 2072 5th Ave. Suite 43 New York, NY 10292 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ……………………………………………………………….....i TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ……………………………………………………………..ii QUESTION PRESENTED ……………………………………………………………….1 STATEMENT OF THE CASE …………………………………………………………...2 SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT …………………………………………………….6 ARGUMENT ……………………………………………………………………………..8 I. A government employee is entitled to constitutional protection under the First Amendment when the speech in question addresses matters of public concern and does not adversely affect the employer’s operations and functions …………………8 A. A government employee’s speech must contain matters of public concern in order to be protected under the First Amendment ……………………………9 B. If an employee’s speech addresses matters of public concern, the employee must show that the speech did not cause a disruption to the functionality of the workplace ……………………………………………………………………11 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………..15 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE ………………………………………………………….15 CERTIFICATE OF COMPLIANCE ……………………………………………………16 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES United States Supreme Court Case: Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 (1982) ………………………………8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 Pickering v. Board of Ed., 391 U.S. 563 (1968) …………………………...8, 9, 11, 13, 14 United States Court of Appeals Cases: Jeffries v. Harleston, 52 F.3d 9 (2nd Cir. 1995)...
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...IP 611 Sample Proposal General Topic: Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” Speech (1952) Why: It is the first great demonstration in America of the use and power of television to shape politics. As with Nixon himself, the speech was brilliant, bare knuckles and mawkish, all at once. By going over the heads of the press in directly appealling to the American people, this speech saved Nixon’s political career, delivered a hard (and some would say low) blow back on his political opponents (especially Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee for the presidency, whom Nixon was running with in 1952), and seriously embarrassed his wife. Possible subtopics: • Richard Nixon’s early political career • Nixon’s relationship with Eisenhower • American political parties • Presidential elections and campaigning • Campaign finance • American media • Television and American society • Public response to the speech • Effects of the crisis on Richard and Pat Nixon • Canines Research Question: What effects did the “Checkers” speech have on Richard Nixon’s career and on American presidential campaigning and politics in general? Working Thesis Statement: Richard Nixon’s desperate, hastily organized “Checkers” speech not only saved his political career—while souring the relationship between himself and Dwight Eisenhower—it fundamentally altered the nature of political campaigning in the United States by its enormously successful, direct appeal to the American people through the...
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...Las Angeles leads Flor into a different culture. John Clasky, the head of the household is a down to earth master chief who has trouble dealing with his neurotic wife, Deborah. As the two cultures collide it makes for laughs and above all, testable space for communication theory. According to Julia T. Wood (2004) in the book, Communication Theories in Action, speech community theory “focuses specifically on how different social groups teach members distinct styles of communicating and interpreting the communication of others.” (p. 220) As indicated by Jennifer Kramer (2007), speech community theory is categorized under the socio-cultural tradition (Kramer, 2007b). An example of this theory in the movie, Spanglish, was how the main character, Flor, and the Clasky family came to represent, what Wood (2004) called, separate “speech communities” (pp. 220-221). Wood (2004) indicated that a speech community is, “A group of people who share understandings of communication that are not shared by people outside of the group.” (p. 334) In this case, Flor spoke a different language and was part of a different speech community than that of the Clasky family. This made it difficult for them to understand one another, especially in the...
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...LESSONS LEARNT - KING’S SPEECH On Jun 16, 2015, Prof. J Bhatnagar showed the movie ‘King’s Speech’ in the class as part of case study. The film is based on the true story of Prince Albert’s struggle to overcome his public speaking challenges. Not only does he have a stammer in his voice, but like most people, he fears public speaking. The movie is both an entertaining, and very real depiction of the struggles most people face regarding the challenges of public speaking – not because of the King’s stammer, but because of the fear he experiences, and the steps he takes to overcome. At the end of the movie, the class was given an assignment to identify the learnings in the said movie. Based on my understanding of the movie, the learnings and the concepts that featured in the movie are covered in succeeding paragraphs. 1. The importance of the "Informal" or ‘Humour Element’ in Learning. Lionel, the speech therapist, really insists on a first name basis for their teacher - student relationship. He insists on calling the king, "Bertie". Moreover, he stresses informality and humor in the teaching environment. This is so important a concept for learning and dynamic relationship between student and teacher. Research also suggests that using a student's name during instruction can alone, raise scores and help learning, as opposed to no name being used. 2. Credentials are over valued. There is a scene at the end of the movie where the king is angry/overcome upon learning that...
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...English Language Essay Topic: “Writing is a more prestigious mode of language than speaking.” Writing and speaking are important aspects of our lives. These modes of language share significant differences between each other. However, they both allow us to communicate to others in society effectively. Despite how vital it is to be able to write productively, speaking is a more essential mode of language than writing. Speaking allows us to socialise with the people around us and develop relationships. Although, we can convey more complex ideas through writing as it is more organised and structured. Ultimately, it is much more efficient to express emotions through speech than writing. Socialisation has played an important role since the beginning of human civilisation. Through speech, we are able to interact with one another and develop close relationships with others. When we begin our education in Prep, no one knows each other that well. Over time, students start to get to know each other a little better through speaking to one another about various topics. If a handful of people have a common interest in a certain toy such as Hot Wheels, they will talk about it amongst each other. Most friendships are often formed through individuals having similar interests. When you talk about it with people who share that interest, it indicates to them that you have a good knowledge of the particular interest. It also allows them to talk about it in more detail without anyone getting...
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...Derek Johnson The Kings Speech Topic, what was this about? The Kings Speech takes a completely different view on a typical war movie. With the threat of World War II, and Hitler at the height of his popularity, this movie is focused on King George VI and his “mechanical difficulties of speech.” Not even able to tell his daughters a bed time story, Queen Elizabeth seeks out help from a different type of speech therapist, by the name of Lionel Logue. (Not doctor!) The movie focuses on the bond these two begin to share and the progress that the King is making with his stammer, ultimately ending with the King having to unite Britain with a wartime speech. When did this take place? This film took place right before the start of World War II, and his wartime speech was dated in 1939. Where did this take place? This took place in Britain, mostly in the castle and at Lionel Logues studio. Who are some of the main people? This film mainly focuses on the relationship between King George VI (Bertie) and his speech therapist, Lionel Logue. Bertie’s wife, Queen Elizabeth is also a supportive character. There are scenes with Hitler giving speeches (in which Bertie seems jealous of his speaking abilities), Winston Churchill being in a meeting (claiming he had a stammer as well), and his brother King Edward VII. Why did this event happen? Bertie’s brother, King Edward VIII had to step down due to controversy regarding his relationship with a married woman. ...
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...Term paper of general linguistics The introduction of sociolinguistics Sociolinguistics is one of the micro-linguistics which concentrates its attention on the changes and developments of language. It is, first and foremost concerned with the different variations and their derivative phenomena and tries to provide reasonable explanations to them. Sociolinguistics has two major concerns. On the one hand, sociolinguistics pays much attention to the relationship between language and society so the relevant language phenomena include stylistic variation, social variation, idiolect variation and regional variation, because those language variations have their own process of developments and linguistic values. On the other hand, sociolinguistics centers on the relationship between language and culture and has produced a new discipline, cross-culture communication. Because one culture’s meat is another culture’s poison, the different thinking patterns, value systems and cultural peculiarities are most interesting topics for scholars in this field. Language and gender Language and gender is one of the foci of sociolinguistics. Its theoretical ground comes from the inequality reflected in male-dominated society. Broadly-speaking, females have been subordinated to their male counterparts in social, economic and political fields. Females are, to some extent, marginalized in social affairs. This unjust situation may be seen as a kind of sexual discrimination. However this...
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