...Most people say the only way to make money from eBay is to sell on eBay. They are almost right. They are actually tons of other methods to profit using eBay, and selling is only one of it. As oppose to selling, buying can be your first step to profit from eBay. And, it can be your starting point to have a successful online or offline business, provided proper selection and long-term strategies are applied. I am a person who doesn’t like to waste time, and I don't like to make mistakes. So, when it comes to eBay, I wanted to know exactly what to buy in the first place? Buying the wrong items/services/products/businesses can be the starting point of losing money, not making money. Let me share one of my experiences, I was looking to buy a portable DVD player sometimes ago. I got to know that there is a new design, a slot-in type, which retail stores are selling around $ 400 per pcs. That was too high and I know I can get it at a better price, and I started to look around at eBay for it. I found the same product, which are selling at eBay around $300-350 and this product is getting some good amount of bids. After that, I did some research using some other methods, and it tells me that it sells. Now, I know that this product is worth buying, and I started buying it. I ended up selling it at $ 300-350 per pcs, and my cost is $200 per piece. And when more people start selling and profits dropped, I stopped with this product. Now that you agree that knowing what to buy is...
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...Movie Trailer Aim of the video clip: The aim of this movie trailer is to attract an audience to the film, to entertain, to show some parts of the movie to persuade people to watch the film. The chosen parts in the trailer have an interesting sound effect which attracts audience and persuades people to watch the movie. It also has an aim to inform the age certificate of the movie, to tell the viewer about the release date of the movie. Target audience: This movie trailer in aimed at males and female’s age fifteen and above, this is because many people are likely to get frightened from this trailer; however it is also for people who enjoy horror movies. Good and Bad features: Feature | Good Features | Bad Features | Loading the clip | The movie trailer load quickly if the trailer in downloaded, the viewer does not have to wait for long. The file size (1,842KB) is appropriate. | The trailer takes time to load if watching it on the internet and this could be a problem for some viewers if they do not have the time. | Compatibility | The file can be played with different media players defending on which media player the viewer is using, however this only works if the trailer is downloaded. | The file needs to be downloaded before it can be used to play with other media players this could cause problem for some viewers if they do not use the same media player as the one used on the web. | Different Components | Different sound effects are used which makes the trailer...
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...Elizabeth Ann Armstrong Course Speech (27 WEB 201108) Test Quiz 3 Started 8/29/11 3:09 PM Submitted 8/29/11 3:14 PM Status Completed Score 17 out of 20 points Time Elapsed 4 minutes. Instructions Answer questions. Question 1 .1 out of 1 points Reggie had a speech to prepare. He selected a topic, did his research, and sat down to draft the speech. He outlined the main points first and added the introduction and conclusion later. Is this a "textbook" way to organize a speech? Answer Selected Answer: Yes; your text suggests to start with the body of the speech first, then go back and draft the intro. Correct Answer: Yes; your text suggests to start with the body of the speech first, then go back and draft the intro. . Question 2 .1 out of 1 points The primary objective of class lectures, seminars, and workshops is to Answer Selected Answer: inform. Correct Answer: inform. . Question 3 .1 out of 1 points When you inform, which of the following do you accomplish? Answer Selected Answer: all of the above Correct Answer: all of the above . Question 4 .0 out of 1 points If the central idea is "There are three ways to interpret the stock-market page of your local newspaper," and you organize the speech into three parts, which method are you using to generate the main ideas? Answer Selected Answer: all of the above Correct Answer: logical divisions . Question 5 .1...
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...Both texts similarly use comical Lexis to create an informal tone for the purpose to mock and entertain. 'The Stone Age Report' is a transcript of an extract from 'Horrible Histories' which is a fact based children's programme that often exaggerates and mocks historical events in order to teach yet entertain the young audience. In 'The Stone Age Report' Bob Hale, a fictional news reporter, often creates an informal tone through his use of atypical scientific terms which are often slightly altered to suit the young audience. This is evident as 'homo heidelbergensis' is abbreviated to simply 'Heidi', creating a less formal register which refers back to the initial purpose of 'Horrible Histories' that is to teach and entertain. Similarly in 'President Obama Orders An Ice-Cream' comical Lexis is used for satirical purposes to mock the typical exaggeration and overly serious tone that Obama possesses. The satirical piece published in 'Private Eye' is aimed at an older audience but aims to mock the supposed...
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...Written Assignment 4: Essay on Barack Obama’s speech at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial (2006) Even when a life ends, a soul can manage to live on with the people who it has left behind. This can appear through memorable deeds that a life can have managed to make before it passes. The above is what Barack Obama’s speech at the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial from 2006 is about. Through the use of many of the same rhetorical instruments that Martin Luther King used before him, Obama establishes not only what Martin Luther King meant to America but also what he means to Obama on a personal level. In the following, I will make a rhetorical analysis and interpretation of the speech. The speech can be described as being an occasion speech which means that Obama’s aim is for him to entertain his audience at the memorial, by interpreting his vision of Martin Luther King Jr. The speaker is Barack Obama who is an African-American senator and soon-to-be presidential candidate in the United States. The audience for his speech is the participating to the national memorial, but primarily the speech is meant for the African-American inhabitants. He entertains his audience by reminding them of the great things that King has accomplished for the African-Americans in the United States of America: “I will tell them that because he did these things, they live today with the freedom God intended...
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...and his friends’ purpose were to entertain the audience; however, there were many elements such as structure, content, and delivery attributing to the efficacy, direction, and purpose of their performances. T.J. Miller did not adhere to a strict structural script within his performance. His performance was impromptu and minimally scripted. Therefore, a strict structure did not exist. Instead, his performance had a topical organization—jumping from idea to idea, carefully accommodating the audience’s reactions. Due to the abrupt topical switches, he had little transitional sentences, but I do not believe this negatively impacted the performance. His initial contact with the audience was dry, but eventually connected with the audience. Miller began with an introduction of himself and his background, which served as a bridge to relate with the audience and establish his credibility or ethos. In addition, he interacted with audience members by asking them questions and using their answers as jokes to further establish his ethos. There was no specific objective in his comedy other than the overarching goal to entertain. His speeches and monologues were varied and covered many topics from school to sex and drugs. Therefore, an explicit thesis did not exist. However, there were many elements attributing to the purpose of his performance. First, he implemented a rhetorical genre to guide his performance’s content and style. He began with a speech of introduction to establish rapport...
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...Transcript Analysis for Bridget Jones Script (Section B coursework) Bridget Jones is a romantic comedy film first released in 2001, based on the 1996 novel by Helen Fielding. The extract I have chosen to transcribe is the opening scene, when Bridget meets Mr Mark Darcy. The film focuses on how Bridget is unlucky with men, her weight and her job and many other aspects of her life. The movie is supposed to relate to women who feel they have the same life problems as her. The main speaker in this scene is Bridget Jones directly speaking to others and also she provides narration as well. Often speaking in the background of situations. Bridget Jones’s general target audience would be mostly women aged 17 upwards as some teenagers may enjoy Bridget’s story too, however some men may also be interested in watching the movie as it may explain the way women are supposedly meant to think. There are also numericals used, for example an ordinal determiner ‘32nd’ by using numerical it this gives more information to the reader and lets them into the life of Bridget, if they understand more about the topic of the character they will then enjoy the movie more, and understand key things which have happened in the film and what will continue to happen. There are many interrogative sentences used in the text for example ‘now what are you going to put on?’ and ‘how’s it going?’ this reminds the readers that in Bridget’s life everything is questionable as the topic of the movie is a comedy romance...
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...The main importance of plays is to inform and to entertain your audience. Most plays will only show their audience one of those through the sitting of the performance. When writing short plays, the play writer has to inform and entertain the audience in 5-10 minutes to get their point across. There are challenges for short play writers like developing characters as well as trying to develop the plot in such a small amount of time. There are also benefits of writing short plays like keeping the audience’s attention throughout the whole play rather then the audience sitting bored through a full play, they also take less time to write, so the play writer could get more than one story done a year for their publisher. In the plays Sure Thing and The Philadelphia in David Ives’, All In The Timing, David Ives demonstrates how he succeeds as a short play writer. Ives uses techniques like repetition and rhythm in both of these plays to inform and entertain his audience....
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...school counselor told me that I needed to take a Speech Communication class. Knowing that it was a pre requisite to graduate, I know that I had no other choice but to tough it out. The next several weeks, I thought would be some “agonizing” weeks, turned out to be some of the most fruitful times I had at National University. Public speaking has always been one of my weaknesses, but taking this class has provided me with many tools to add to my tool bag to be successful in public speaking. One of the lessons I have learned is knowing the basics of communication is important in building the foundation of a good speech. So, when we are preparing for a speech, we have to know our audience. Another part of the basics of communication that is just as important is knowing how ethics ties into communications. When speaking to an audience you must build trust based on factual information. If you give factual information and not false information your audience will be more likely to receive your message. Another important lesson I have learned is, how important Speech preparation is. It can either make or break your speech. So, come unprepared, you are almost guaranteed to fail in delivering an effective speech. If you prepare properly, your speech will come out almost naturally. The first part of speech preparation is to know what type of speech you are going to give. Is it to persuade inform, or entertain? Based on the three types of speeches, knowing your...
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...fans would buy the product. It also helps in their ratings in the music videos. It has impacted all over the world in a sense that people cannot live without it any more. Every day, children, teens, and even adults turn on their TV to see what is going on. If not at their home, some buses, medical offices, all over Manhattan, and even trains have TV’s to inform, entertain, and even educate people. Radio stations have also become very popular and growing rapidly. There are so many different types of songs in the FM station. You also have the AM where inform people about the news and traffic around your area. The development of mass media has been developing rapidly and continues expanding because of new and more advanced technologies. It is amazing how the years pass and with it the different types of advancements. You would be able to hear the president’s speech with the comfort of your car or your home. These developments have changed American families. | How did each development influence American culture? | Each of these developments has a significant influence in American culture. You could educate yourself, entertain, and inform. You could easy escape from your life...
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...The battle royal is the basically a symbol for struggle, and how regardless how learned an African American is, he isn’t the same in the eyes of the white spectators. They would blindfold the fighters, and treat them as entrainment while they flail about the ring, trying to hit each other. As for the naked blond, she was just there to tease the boys, and show them temptations. They can see, but are forbidden to touch the beautiful blond woman, so again it symbolizes something they are lusting for but are unable to obtain. As for the month, it was there to symbolize wealth and even if the African Americans were able gain some of the white man’s wealth. They wouldn’t still be equals, because they will always be beneath them and just floundering...
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...Comparison of Pharmacist Transcript and Dead Parrot Sketch Both Texts A and B focus on a ‘service encounter’, where a customer enters a shop, expecting an issue or complaint to be resolved. Whilst Text A follows many of the conventions of a service encounter, such as a question/answer structure, the parody purpose of Text B, coupled with the fact it is speech that is crafted to entertain the audience, both employs and mocks convention. The common conventions of a service encounter are shown in a variety of ways in Text A. It opens with the pharmacist uttering the phatic ‘good morning’, who then follows this with the interrogative ‘can I help you’, which is to be expected in his role as advisor. Text B equally employs an opening greeting, ‘Hello’, but this unusually is from the customer instead of the shopkeeper, and the stage directions indicate that the shopkeeper wants to do anything but help, as he ‘tries to hide below [the] cash register’. This parody of generic conventions at the beginning of the scene sets the comedic tone for Text B, and emphasises that this scene is an artificial construct, created to amuse the audience and to mock social conventions. This is typical of Monty Python sketches, which often seek to ridicule convention and authority. Both texts deal in different ways with the relationships between the participants. In Text A, the pharmacist shows a professional and helpful attitude by asking a range of pragmatic questions, such as ‘have you got a temperature’...
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...scandals and other problems for her clients (biography 1). Kerry’s background is an important factor in her message to her audience. Her background is her credibility, as well as her attention getter. Kerry is not only a famous actress that has a proven track record in Hollywood, but she is a graduate of the university she is speaking to, making her success seem more possible to the audience as well as putting weight and meaning to her message. Kerry’s commencement speech was given to arguably one of the hardest audiences to speak to, a group of some five thousand college students. Kerry is speaking to the large graduate class of George Washington University, as well as the graduates’ family and friends. However, not only is she speaking to some ten thousand people, she is speaking to current college students, as well as graduates from other schools. She is speaking to all of these groups because her message is focused not just to George Washington University graduates, but to anyone who is watching her speech...
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...while preparing a report for the management of my company. My goal while speaking to them would be to either inform, persuade or entertain the upper management. While doing this I need to know the interests, likes and dislikes. I will tailor my speech to the needs of the management which would lead to a positive reaction from them. Why you need to know your audience? This is important because in order to achieve your purpose, as well as to get the expression and applause you desire, you must satisfy the audience with something in which they are interested. Thus, it is important to know what your audience is interested in, what their expectations are and even what mood they are in. In speaking to a group of managers at work, you have a good idea of who will be in the audience. There may be some individuals to be wary of or to whom you should focus the speech. It is a good idea to know who is important in my career in giving his presentations. If you find out about some key people in the audience, you can use them in your opening comments to gain rapport with the audience. Everyone likes a humorous comment about the boss, at your expense, not at his or hers. Audience Analysis and Reception Page 2 Comments you make at the beginning of the speech or presentation can give you clues about your audience and their expectations. When you know what the audience wants and likes, when...
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...first amendment what do you think? Is it freedom of speech? Freedom of religion? Freedom of press, assembly and petition? Do do you think of the millions abusing this amendment day by day? Or actually trying to persuade, inform, entertain and amuse your audience? On April 26, 1983, Matthew Fraser, a high school senior at Bethel High school, gave a speech nominating classmate Jeff Kuhlman for his schools class vice president. The speech was filled with sexual innuendoes prompting disciplinary action from the administration. All though Matthew Fraser thought he was simply helping a friend out, There was much wrong with his profound speech. Does the 1st amendment prevent a school district from disciplining a high school student for giving a lewd speech at an assembly? According to ABC-CLIO When taken to court, the court upheld the school district by a 7-2 margin that officials acted within constitution. With that, Fraser was suspended for three days and his name was removed from the ballet to be selected as one of three to give a speech at graduation. Even though Fraser and family thought it was unfair, Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the court and proved that he had in fact violated and abused the first amendment. While Fraser was giving his speech, school councilor observed the gestures and reactions the many peers of Fraser’s who attended. Some were hooting and cheering on his obscene speech, while many others were very uncomfortable and in...
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