Hi Johal, Your oral presentation about your dance journey was an inspiring story, which opens up many opportunities in your life. It is amazing to know that how it shakes your personality and helped you to overcome criticism. Throughout out the presentation, you did really well in presenting your ideas in a very comfortable manner and maintained good eye contact with the audience. As well as, you answered to the audience questions in detailed at the end of your presentation. You presented with confident. You could improve your PowerPoint slides by using light backgrounds to highlight dark pictures rather than using dark purple background. Also, your speech would have been more effective if you could use large images on each slide.
In Bruce Cockburn’s Hoop Dancer, a song written in 1979 from the album The Trouble with Normal, he expresses his theme using a number of vivid rhetorical devices. The song begins by illustrating the scene using vivid personification. When recalling the sound heard he gifts it life recalling its laugh fading, its snake like nature, as well as its t sliding over the “seeming infinity of while light in neon,” This simple personification paints a vast picture that contrasts the age old sound with the crowded neon lit utopia of the present, this picture and contrast will set us up for the theme of this song. The next device cleverly utilized in this song is an anaphora this writer used to emphasize their point. After illustrating this horizontal
The first thing that jumped out at me was the ability to change fonts and font sizes on the Slide Master. Changes made in the Slide Master will apply to all slides throughout the entire presentation. This eliminates the need to format each slide, and will help free up time for the creator to focus on the material they want to cover in the presentation. Powerpoint also has a setting called AutoFit, which I found helpful. This setting forces a reduction in the size of the text when the user types more words in each text box than it will hold.
Through the implementation of various rhetorical strategies, sensory imagery, and eloquent phrasing, Leah Hager Cohen effectively depicts the predominant idea that despite the stereotypical assumption that the audibly impaired cannot possibly be normal, her grandpa is, indeed, quite normal. The author employs vivid sensory imagery strategically throughout the essay. By strategically, she applies the images meticulously in order to fortify her ideas. She writes, “He smacked his lips and sucked his teeth…” (2, 5-6).
Special Olympics Approximately 400,000 people in the United States have Down syndrome. Autism affects 1 in 68 children and that number continues to flourish. There is no cure for autism or Down syndrome and they shouldn’t be ridiculed for something out of their control. Aside from the negativity, people with disabilities continue to persevere. The athletes in the Special Olympics are empowered and embraced by the organization, strangers, their family, and their friends.
Introduction Attention Getter: I realize that this is not what you would want to see from someone who’s supposed to explain to you how to make a slideshow look good. Give Specific Purpose: However, as this presentation goes on, I’ll be fixing this so I can give some ideas on how you can make one that’s more creative and visually appealing.
Maria W. Stewart Analysis In this excerpt of a lecture given by Maria W. Stewart in the year 1832, she has a strong point: Although the African Americans in the northern colonies were free, they were not treated equal as the white people were. Stewart uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to bring her point in the situation, such as argument, compare and contrast, and appeal to ethos. Along with the persistent and serious tone, it is clear that she sees the unfair treatment of African Americans a major problem.
In the novel the Running Man the author, Michael Bauer, captures the experiences of a marginalised character, Tom Leyton. The main characters of this novel are Joseph and Tom Leyton. The author reveals what occurred to a Vietnam war veteran, Tom Leyton after the Vietnam war, as well as how he was excluded from society because he had post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tom was shut out from society because of his illness. The author represents this through isolation, marginalisation and experiences of torment in society.
Past leaders such as Andrew Jackson, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Marc Antony are evidence that society does not reward morality and good character in leadership. Society is drawn to leaders that have good rhetoric, propaganda, and charismatic personalities, and society supports them despite their immorality. Society is concerned about stability more than the morality of their leaders and will support immoral leaders in times of crisis to provide stability. In history there have been multiple leaders that have used rhetoric, propaganda and charismatic personalities to gain power, despite their morals.
As Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Donovan Livingston, a graduate at Harvard Graduate School of Education, has similar views on education. His passionate and inspiring speech called “Lift Off” was given at HGSE’s Commencement Ceremony on May 25, 2016. The speech discusses the importance of education as well as the obstacles and injustices students, especially those of color, have experienced throughout history in getting an education. Livingston’s graduating classmates who are becoming teachers, as well as teachers and educators in general, are the audience of his speech.
Sandra Cisneros is trying say that life is not fair and has dissapointment as you growing up much like how Esperanza feels about her house on mango street. Sandra is comparing herself with Esperanza in the book to refer her life. The Disappointment Cisneros feels is the same as what Esperanza feels in the book. Esperanza is Disappointed when she realizes how the canteen is not special. In page 76 she found out what the canteen was.
Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin was a short story about the struggles of living in a tough, rundown neighborhood and looking to drugs as a way out. Baldwin’s intent on writing this piece focuses on pain and suffering. The author stresses that not everybody is born in the best circumstances. Sonny was one of those people who grew up in a rickety town where people often did not make it out successful.
William Butler Yeats demonstrates a unique way to keep the readers guessing throughout the poem. He sheds light upon the fact that society as a whole has drawn attention to sin over faith while the end the world is arising and “the centre cannot hold” (3). The author makes it clear that as a reader you can identify the literary devices diction , allusion , and foreshadowing along the the text. Yeats uses the first stanza alone is able to describe the diction found in the poem as a head scratcher or hard to understand.
In, ''My Left Foot Story '', Christy uses rhetorical analysis include: logos, ethos, and pathos. Christy's actions with his left foot made him inspired and a great story teller which is appeals to ethos and credibility. Because he was not able to control his body, till he discovered someday that he could use his left foot, the only part of his limb that can controlled. He learns to paint and write and became one of the most influential figures. Through Christy 's story the readers feel happy and encouraged.
Often known as the Father of American Literature to many educated individuals, Ralph Waldo Emerson in his oration “The American Scholar” brilliantly provides a sublime example of how Emerson earned his title through the appliance of diction, syntax, allusions, and many other rhetorical devices and strategies. Indicated towards his highly educated audience, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Emerson introduces the idea that the common class and common concepts of everyday life are becoming the future of art and literature through purpose, credibility, and tone. As many great writers, Emerson does not simply tell about his idea, but instead uses rhetorical strategies to help show his central point, one such strategy being purpose. Being focused on informing his audience of the coming days, the use of purpose can be
Comment on your own performance. How did it go? What could have gone better? Overall, I think my group and I executed a successful final performance on stage. I think we communicated the theme of our dance to our audience very well by using the five elements of dance (relationship, body, energy, space, and time) effectively.