“The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling — things that never happen, so it seems, if someone is looking.” I picked this quote because the language seems so innocent and light. I picked up on the contrast of the “light” and “blowing” atmosphere in the beginning of the sentence, and the suspense at the end. The word “shy” personifies the room in a way that is so subtle a reader…
Now that I have finished this project, quite honestly, I just feel relieved. Although I enjoyed drafting, reviewing, and practicing my speech, I dreaded the final presentation. When the project was first presented to the class I felt a pit form in the middle of my stomach, I had no idea what to write about, how to write it, or how I was going to present it. I went home and just began to type “word vomit” into a Google…
I really feel like I learned a lot from this TED Talk. Before watching this I had some previous knowledge of power posing and the idea of faking it until you make it. However, Cuddy’s in-depth explanation of what power posing is, what it looks like, and its effects were mostly new information for me. I thought it was so interesting that in only two minutes someone could potentially alter their hormones to convince themselves and others that they are…
After the dry run, I feel so much better about my speech. Initially, I thought that seeing a recording of myself would make me more nervous for the final presentation. However, after looking at the video, I feel slightly more confident about how I will look while presenting. I purposefully stance myself so that I was not trying to make myself look smaller, and I moved my hands and body in a way that made me look more dynamic than…
The best advice I offered to another peer was to re-organize their speech. Although the evidence and lessons were thoughtful, they had them organized in a list format. By combining some of the examples and moving the lessons to the end of the examples, the point will come through clearer, and the speech with sound more organized. I consider this my best advice because it doesn’t ask them to change any of the content; it just helps suggest a way…
I found this chapter really interesting because of the emphasis on the audience. When giving a speech the speaker’s main goal is to express how they feel to a large audience. If done incorrectly, the speaker can become so focused on their subject that they forget their subjects. This chapter not only punctuates the need for an audience-adapted subject, it went in-depth about ways to connect the audience to the subject. One technique that this reading mentioned was creating a…
“Authors coffin was a little frosted cake and the red-eyed loon eyed it from his white, frozen lake” I chose this quote because I really enjoyed the play on colors Bishop uses. Throughout the poem, the author uses imagery( such as the loon, the coffin, marble, the snow, and the Lilly) in order to highlight the contrast between the loon’s red eyes and the bleakness of its surroundings. I found this to be very powerful and piercing, almost as if…
“Holmes disregarded the outstretched hand and looked at him with a face of granite. Milverton’s smile broadened” (2). This quote stood out to me because of how the narrator juxtaposes Holmes and Milverton. The defamiliarzation that comes from comparing a “face” with “granite,” helps readers understand the contrast between Holmes’s expression and “Milverston’s smile.” Why does the narrator choose to tell readers about this specific interaction? Would critics consider this narrator to be reliable? Why or why not?
