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- 331: American Pastoral
- ... over, singing, speaking in another language or with an accent, or when pretending to be a different person or persona (1). Also, many stutterers report being “so scared” that they couldn’t stutter (4). Emotional stress often reduces stuttering too (5). Some stutterers are fluent when they try to stutter while others stutter more. Merry has many periods in the novel when she adopts some of these ideas and speaks fluently ... to complete a project. These become her own self-therapy of a sort to help her rid herself of the stutter. Also, however, there are times that make her stuttering more apparent. Time pressure, cognitive stress, and speech related fears and anxiety will increase stuttering (5). Sometimes when Merry was stuttering, Dawn’s “hands would be clasped at her waist, and her eyes fixed on the child’s lips”(90) and ...
- 332: The Minister's Black Veil
- ... In the story, Father Hooper says that everyone wears a black veil, meaning that everyone commits secret sins without revealing them to anyone. If you do not express your secret sin you would be keeping stress and tension locked up inside you, but if you express it, the stress and tension will be relieved. Another reason behind the veil might be sorrow. Deep, dark sorrow for someone or yourself might be expressed and shown with the help of a black veil. By wearing the ...
- 333: Scarlett Letter Log Of Chapter
- ... the woods. 1. This was a better chapter than the first because it made more sense to me. Chapter 6 Pearl Summary: This chapter is about Hester's daughter Pearl. It talks about how the stress put on her mother was transferred to Pearl her daughter. There was a part were Pearl grabbed the scarlet letter and that somehow it meant something. Then Pearl and her mother have a weird argument ... As the Puritans hold up Dimmesdale, the Romantics level him as a human. The Scarlet Letter is a myriad of allegorical theories and philosophies. Ranging from Puritanic to Romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne embodies his ideas to stress his Romantic philosophies through Pearl, Hester, and Dimmesdale throughout all of this.
- 334: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... related to jobs, problems in school, loss of loved one (like Sylvia’s loss of her father), their financial situation being bad, body image, or various abuses like physical, mental, emotional or sexual. Depression and stress are considered as the major factors in suicide. Different people deal with stress in different ways. It also depends on what kind of society and atmosphere you live in. Not everyone attempts suicide when faced with unbearable situations(kJ, pg.6). Some people cannot cope with it as ...
- 335: Music Therapy: Can It Help Anyone?
- ... no wonder why people love music. The benefits a person can receive from listening to it are amazing. Researchers and scientists are finding that the least music can do for you is greatly reduce your stress level, and who couldn't use that. We have now seen a stroke victim who is unable to speak, sing along with their therapist for an entire song. A young girl with cerebral palsy who ... reasons to use music in the medical field, also. One is to serve as an audioanalgesic, or sedative. For example, a patient with chronic pain is taught to use music to decrease the results of stress or to distract attention away from the pain. These are the two alternative interpretations to music therapy and both of them work. As for using the music as a distraction, there are two ways of ...
- 336: A Touch Of Jazz
- ... high. Children learned to discern subtleties of rhythm, melody and tone color as parts of their language. It is this that divides the West African musical tradition from the European one. When we want to stress a word we raise our voice, that is to say we go up in pitch. But in those African languages where a change of pitch would alter the whole meaning an entire word, you are left with only one device to emphasize your point: timbre. You can alter the tone color , the voice production, the vibrato of the syllable you wish to stress. This combination of pitch and timbre in African language is what the philologists call 'significant tone'. It has had the most profound effect on the history of American Negro music. It seems likely now that ...
- 337: The Inconvenience of Convenience
- ... by the personal automobile, is the wading through piles and piles of cars who are doing the same exact thing you are: becoming frustrated and late. Traffic jams are the number one source of daily stress in my life. The theory of the freeway is to create a road with a constant flow of traffic, so how is it possible that a freeway of four lanes can have more starts and ... answered by a living person of whom doesn't feel any human to human relationship, just human to machine. Convenience will make a person buy a car and let it turn more hair white from stress with payments and traffic pile-ups rather than accept a smidgen of inconvenience. And most of all, some humans are killed, sometimes by their own selves for a little convenience. Surely modern civilization rates convenience ...
- 338: The War On Tobacco
- ... There was a memo written in 1963 marked ³strictly private and confidential² which stated,² moreover, nicotine is addictive... We are then in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug effective in the release of stress mechanisms.²(Hwang). If the tobacco companies were in fact ³ignorant² on the correlation between their product and lung cancer along with other diseases, then they should make themselves more educated about their own product or ... There was a memo written in 1963 marked ³strictly private and confidential² which stated,² moreover, nicotine is addictive... We are then in the business of selling nicotine, an addictive drug effective in the release of stress mechanisms.²(Hwang). If the tobacco companies were in fact ³ignorant² on the correlation between their product and lung cancer along with other diseases, then they should make themselves more educated about their own product or ...
- 339: The Virtues Of Honesty
- ... also used in employment and security screening practices. The results of the polygraph are used with other observations, information and evidence, because no machine can recognize when a person is lying. The Polygraph measures emotional stress, which is reflected by this test, for instance, you do not have emotion stress if you are honest. However, if the subject is a pathological liar they will show no measurable body responses when they give a false answer. Mental abnormalities, ordinary nervousness, discomfort, excessive pretest and interrogation, individual ...
- 340: Sonnet 72 Shakespeare
- ... assonance between the words death and brag . Line 9 is an interesting line as regards the rhythm. For the last two feet reinforce the turn, introduced by the But . A regular rhythm would have a stress on shall , followed by an unstressed not . However, the opposite is true. This clearly adds to the contrasting quality of this line: after two regular iambic pentameters the stress on the not following the introductory But leaves no doubt about the turn the reader witnesses in this line. A truly beautiful example of a Shakespearean turn.
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