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
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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
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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
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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
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In this paper, I will present some important facts 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
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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
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modifications of speech. Definition and overall info. Pronunciation styles The term phonostylistics stands for the phonological processes conditioned by style, i.e. style-sensitive or style-dependent ones. A scale of styles may be set up in a variety of ways, still it is generally encompassed within the extremes of emphatic vs. informal, with formal in between. Emphatic style is well-exemplified by motherese and citation forms, informal styles include casual, colloquial, intimate, while a speech, a lecture
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Presenting A Speech Giving a good oral speech is a skill that is required in all walks of life. This is a skill that can be learned and can be improved over time. There are a few things a presenter must do before actually giving a speech. The first is pick a topic. This is important because the presenter must know what he or she is going to talk about. The next factor you need is to know your audience. The best presenters are audience-centered presenters. The last step in giving a good presentation
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After the meeting, Douglass realized the only reason Andrew Johnson met with Douglass and other African American leaders was to get his speech into the papers. In order to respond to that speech Douglass wrote a reply that would go out at the same time as the President’s speech. Much of the response is focused around the idea of peace. Douglass’s other works do not focus on creating a peaceful America. The reason that President Johnson was not in favor of granting the black man the right to vote
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create a powerful speech, where as in this lecture the most dominate strategy that reoccurs is the use of hyperbole. With the use of hyperbole, Stewarts compares servile labor to the equivalent of slavery. Within the lecture, Stewarts states in the beginning of the text, “Few white persons of either sex, who are calculated for anything else, are willing to spend their lives and bury their talents in performing mean, servile labor. And such is the horrible idea that I entertain respecting a life of
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