Non-Verbal Communication

Non-Verbal Communication .1 What is Body Language? Body Language is the unspoken communication that goes on in every Face-to-Face conversation with another person. It tells you their true feelings towards you and how well your words are being received. Between 50% of our message is communicated through our Body Language 40 % tone of our voices and 10% only are our words. Your ability to read and understand another person's Body Language can mean the difference between making a great impression or a very bad one! Reading someone body language can help you in a job interview, that meeting, or special date! Every one of us has experienced the feeling of like this person and not dislike that person but without necessarily knowing why. There was something about them. We often refer to this as a hunch or gut feeling, two descriptions directly relating to our own body's physiological reaction. Everyone has experienced the feeling that they have just been lied to, haven't they? We all here during a conversation have experienced the feeling that someone is lying to us. The words of the conversation probably weren't what we noticed as a direct lie. It was more likely to be the body movements that showed he is lying to us. Darting eyes, palms not visible, shifting from one foot to another, hand covering mouth or fingers tugging at the ear are clues. All the clues are

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My Wilted Rose

My Wilted Rose "We are all born for love... it is the principal of existence and its only end" by Benjamin Disraeli is a marvelous citation I lived my entire years in belief. I always believed in love. My entire life depended on this quote albeit I was at the immature age of fifteen. I also believed that when a person dies then that certain person at their very last moment of existence their memories would rise in their head all in a sphere of memories and to conclude, they would discover the truth about which person meant the most to them. And all this would come true in a matter of a day or, even two hours..... It was Sunday, 12th October. The first thought that came into my head as woke was 'Linda would have been sixteen today.' I struggled out of bed with a heavy heart. Glancing at my face in the reflection in the mirror I couldn't see what she saw in me. 'But the rest of you looks scrawny, there's no other word for it' I told myself fiercely. Downstairs set about breakfast for Rohit and Vinay (my brothers), suddenly I couldn't face them. 'Gone for a walk, back at two,' I wrote, propping my note up on the table, 'breakfast on the table, pancakes, apple pie and cream in the pantry for lunch. Taking an apple, a chunk of cheese and a small bottle of water, I let myself out of the kitchen door. Judging by the sounds on the upstairs landing the others were up and ready!

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Essay Cloudstreet Narrative P.O.V.

Essay - Cloudstreet - Narrative P.O.V. Jessica Wilkey The right choice of point of view for a story is crucial, as it is essentially the voice that tells the story. In Tim Winton's Cloudstreet it is Fish who tells the story in the first person, with third person omniscient qualities. This point of view gives the reader the realism and intimacy or first person while still allowing an insight into the views and experiences of the other characters in the novel. This point of view contributes in developing the main themes and messages of the text, particularly those of "stickability" and the importance of family. Cloudstreet is a story set in Western Australia about two rural families who come from separate tragedies to live together in one rambling, "great continent of a house" in urban Subiaco. Over a period of twenty years, the colourful characters of the text grow, experience and learn together. They come to realise the importance of family and "stickability" - the very Christian and Australian notion of love. They journey from being two very separate bodies to becoming one "whole restless mob". The use of Fish as the narrator emphasises the theme of tolerance and unity in families and in Australia. Fish is seen as having two or three aspects to his role as narrator. The whole story is told in retrospect by Fish, in the few "seconds it takes [for him] to die". In this way,

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Theatre In Education

Drama Evaluation - Theatre In Education No Smoking. As a group we were confronted with the task of creating a piece of drama, for educational use. We decided to choose a 9-10 year-old audience, as found in a last year class of primary school. As a result of the audience, we chose a topic, which they will, or already have covered; this topic was the dangers of smoking. The theme was a 1950's comic superhero style. We created very animated characters, such as Dr. Cigaro, and Will Power, whilst using frequent humour to soften a usually poignant topic, which involves serious illnesses including death, and are very heavy topics for 10 year olds. Our base aim was to prevent children, who are highly influenced from becoming a victim of peer pressure, and smoking. We outlined and focussed on the areas, which involve the ideas that smoking is not a healthy habit, and that it makes you smell, and an irritable and angry person, trivial qualities compared to death, nevertheless we felt it would not have been appropriate to mention this to year 6 children. We essentially wanted to create a piece, which demonstrated the dangers of smoking, and fore-warn the children so that they know the facts, and can be mature in a situation much like Nicky Nicorettes'. However 10 year olds are hardly likely to be spurred by reels and reels of facts. So we had to create a story that they could relate

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Which sources of knowledge- books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other- do you consider most trustworthy, and why?

Prescribed essay Topic 10: Which sources of knowledge- books, web sites, the media, personal experience, authorities or some other- do you consider most trustworthy, and why? All human beings acquire knowledge, in one way or another. Some of these ways are trustworthier than other, based on their accuracy, preciseness, coherency, and facts...for example. Not every person gets the same knowledge from the same information that is given to other person. Each of us has our own way of acquiring and assimilating information, which sometimes may coincide with other people's or not, depending on how we understand it. I am going to explain which sources of knowledge are those that I prefer, although each of those has not only got positive aspects, but also negative. No matter how accurate a source could be, there would be some negative aspect related to it. On of the sources that I think is one of the trustworthiest is one's experience. Your experience through life will determine a basic knowledge that will be a very good help when you have to deal with new choices ahead of you or when facing new issues. I will talk about the aspects of experience together with the features of senses. Although they are not exactly the same issue, both of them relate to one individual, and this person has a very subjective view of these two. Senses are quite similar to experience in that both of

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What are the critical differences between content and process theories in motivation?

Kathryn Perkin UBU number: 001017620 Question 3: What are the critical differences between content and process theories in motivation? Work, Employment and society Peter Prowse Word count: 1994 There are many different things which influence people's behaviour and performance. Different things motivate different people and affect how each person performs. There are many different theories on motivation, which have all been subject to criticism and findings which contradict the original theory. We need to look at what people feel and how they think in order to help predict their behaviour in given situations. To study motivation you need to examine the two main theories: Process and content theories. Content theory: Attempts to explain specific things, which motivate people in different situations. It is concerned with identifying people's needs and strengths. It looks at what motivates a person. Process theory: Attempts to identify relationships among variables which make up motivation. How it is initiated and sustained. It looks at the process of motivation. Content theories There are four main theories of motivation. -Maslow's hierarchy of needs model -Alderfer's modified need hierarchy model -Herzberg's two-factor theory -McClelland's achievement motivation theory Maslow's Hierarchy of needs model This theory was originally published in 1943 and examines

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