To some, a school like NYU, with its large class size and city sprawl, might be daunting. But to me, the drama program at NYU Tisch is quite the opposite. At Tisch, I would be surrounded by millions of New Yorkers and 50,000 students, all with different stories and different backgrounds, a global and real campus - and yet, at the same time, I could grow and learn artistically with a small group of my peers. The program mixes the artistic intensity of a conservatory with the academic respect of a
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Once his monologue was finished the audience was hit with a thundering of male voices. In an article written by Sophronia Knott, Sutton being a major character spends most his time on stage and describes how his professors guided him and cast mates on how “to take care of ourselves and our
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Maitre Hauchecorne makes one little accusation against him into a bigger deal than it needs to be. In the story, “The Piece of String”, Hauchecorne is accused of stealing the pocketbook of Maitre Houlbreque, although in all reality he just picked up a piece of string that was lying on the ground. He tries to defend himself, but in the end he just ends up making the situation worse. Hauchecorne makes his situation worse by bringing up the subject, telling everyone, and not letting it go, but he could
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In concluding our Pastry Concepts and Design course each team of four individuals was paired with a local artist for our final project. From there, each team of two was tasked with developing a plated dessert inspired by the artist and their work. Four local painters, sixteen students, and eight teams led to the creation of eight unique and specifically engineered desserts. For this project, the Gold Team was assigned Oscar Aguilar Olea as their local artist, an expressionist figurative painter famous
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My presentation was on World War II aircrafts, the different varieties, what they did, and why people used them. I also gave the viewers background information about World War II and how aircrafts played a major role during that time period. I analyzed four different groups of aircrafts and types of aircrafts that fell under each category. After giving information about the type of aircraft, I showed a picture as an example for the viewer to better grasp the information at hand. After doing
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1. What is the argument presented? The argument presented focuses on the dangers of driving while drowsy or tired (the title is a bit redundant). 2. Who is the audience targeted? I believe the audience is meant to be drivers. 3. What is the author/creator trying to persuade the audience to do? The author appears to be trying to educate drivers and reduce drowsy driving. 4. What design principles are used? Comment of the use of images, space and layout, colors, type, and font size, sound,
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From expository speeches on Beyonce to persuasive speeches on tomatoes this unit has been both exciting and tense. This unit has taught me how to apply rhetorical devices to effectively present the purpose and thesis. The effectiveness was then later reinforced by professional presentation conventions such as: visual aids and intentional pauses. In previous english courses, rhetorical device were only vaguely introduced. Without this prior knowledge, I did not fully understand how presenters structured
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Initially, a rhetorical situation is where the writer or the speaker is trying to persuade the audience on a certain topic. Lloyd Bitzer explains the rhetorical situation in great detail, in his article “The Rhetorical Situation.” He broke it down into three parts: the exigence, the audience, and the constraints. The exigence is the reason or situation that needs to be taken care of. The audience is the people to whom the writer or the speaker is trying to persuade. The constraints are the obstacles
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able to use a sarcastic tone when her character was questioning the actions of the other character, which gave the audience some amount of insight to the relationship between the two characters, as sarcasm is something we generally use with people we are close to, and usually when we are upset with them. Her face usually conveyed a confused look which helped demonstrate to the audience that the character did not understand the motivations of the other and could not believe that they had taken the actions
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On the evening of Friday May 20th I went to see the Spamalot production being put on by the EOU theatre department. From the moment I walked into the theatre I was blown away by the detail of the drop that was blocking the stage from view. I was also quite pleased with the orchestra and the announcement recording at the beginning of the show. I was thoroughly enjoying myself throughout the entire production and I was laughing for almost the entire show. While watching the productions there were
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