...Talking Styles New studies are showing that key words can determine if people are more compatible. They also show talking styles with people whom talk similarly communicate better. Are these claims real or is it just happenstance? Communicating is how we let our words convey or thoughts and ideas. Being on the same page can bring people closer. People, who talk similar, communicate with each other similar. This can affect the closeness of friends or help in romantic relationships (Bower, 2010). Bruce Bower wrote an article titled: Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance. In this article claims are made that talking styles that are alike between people can predict lasting romantic interests. Researchers call this language-style matching (Bower, 2010).It measures how much people pay attention to one another. It states that even people who do not get along may have similar skills amongst themselves. Examples are given with speed daters: citing that those with the same language skill sets are more likely to get better results in longer lasting relationships. Another example is crisis negotiators. . We all communicate with each other based on our self-image and self-concept of our selves. Our listening skills and language skills change over time and depending on the person we are communicating with how we express ourselves (Sole, 2011). We adapt and change our language skills to meet the desired affect we want. Word manipulation is a skill...
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...I read the article, “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance” by Bruce Bower. He talked about how the length of relationships can be based on your styles of communication. Bower also discusses how the use of function words such as; pronouns, articles, conjunctions, prepositions and negations”(Bower) can have an affect on conversation partners. He goes own to explain how language style matching “signifies not how much two people like each other but how much each is paying attention to what the other says”(Bower). After reading the article, I went to the Language Style Matching website and took the test. In this essay I will talk about my score and my thoughts about the Language Style Matching test. When I first read the directions to the Language Style Matching test, I was wondering what kind of results I would be given based on single conversation. I use a conversation between my best friend and I, through via text message and the score we received was 0.72. My best friend and I have been close since we were in the second grade; I believed the way that we used our words affected our score. I do not believe the website score was accurate because of the closeness that we share, and the understanding that we have with each other. There are times we can finish each other’s sentences because we know each other thoughts on certain subjects. I thought that we would get a higher score than what we received. I do not know how they come up with the scoring on this test...
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...The article “Shared Talking Styles Herald New and Lasting Romance” gives an overview of how different elements such as function words play an instrumental role in determining the compatibility between men and women. In my opinion, this article represents both consistent and inconsistent information. According to Bruce Bower 2010, two people who hat one another will often exhibit a high amount of language-style matching. I believe this to be a true statement due to the fact that both individuals are experiencing the same feeling, so the language will be similar. Friendships are formed from characteristics such as language-style matching. Positive relationship stems from combining the two elements together. I am also a firm believer that communication is a two-way entity, and both parties must be willing to compromise certain aspects for the overall success of their relationship. The language style matching exercise is a great tool in measuring the compatibility but must not be set in stone. I’m also a firm believer that opposites do attract. An old cliché that states “men are from Mars, women are from Venus” gives a clear description of the differences between men and women. Men approach conversations with a distinct set of rules and interpretations of talk. Men focus on status and independence; women focus more on intimacy and connection. Not only do men and women communicate differently but they think, feel, perceive, react, respond, love, need, and appreciate differently...
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... Mendanbar’s sword is missing?! In the fiction book entitled, Calling on Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede, Morwen and her friends, Telemain, Cimorene, Brandel, Killer, Scorn, and Trouble go on an adventure through and beyond the Enchanted Forest to find Mendanbar’s, the King of the Enchanted Forest’s, sword. They find that the sword is missing when they first go to figure out what caused Killer, a rabbit, to turn into a seven foot, eleven inch, blue donkey with large wings. When they found that Killer had eaten a clover patch that had been invaded by wizards, they decided to inform the King and Queen about it. Starting from the beginning, knock! Knock! Knock! Morwen encounters a visitor. It was Chairwitch Archaniz. She came to tell her about the complaints the Deadly Nightshade Gardening Club has been getting from Arona Michaelear Vamist. Morwen was in a gardening club for witches, since she was a witch herself, and was being told that the club was becoming too normal for witches. A few minutes had passed and Archaniz left. When Morwen started to walk in, one of her nine cats, Murgatroyd, Fiddlesticks, Miss Elizaa Tudor, Scorn, Jasmine, Trouble, Jasper Darlington Higgins IV, Chaos, and Aunt Ophelia, told her that Archaniz’s cat had been chased by a rabbit and they wanted her to go check it out. When they got to where the rabbit was at, they found his paw was stuck in a lilac bush. Morwen got his paw unstuck and asked for an explanation. Since nearly eight feet wasn’t a normal height...
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...How to Approach a Case This is not the only approach that exists, but it’s a worthwhile one to try as you get started. 1. GETTING ORIENTED It’s useful to think of a case analysis as digging deeper and deeper into the layers of a case. 1. You start at the surface, Getting Oriented and examining the overall case landscape. 2. Then you begin to dig, Identifying Problems, as well as possible alternative solutions. 3. Digging deeper, Performing Analyses you identify information that exposes the issues, gather data, perform calculations that might provide insight. 4. Finally, you begin Action Planning to outline short-, medium-, and long-term well-defined steps. Typically, you’ll need to repeat this process multiple times, and as you do, you'll discover new analytical directions, evolving your assessment of the case and conclusion. a. Case Analysis Overview Analyzing a case is not just about digging. It’s also about climbing back out to examine what you’ve unearthed, deciding what it means, determining what to analyze next, and digging some more. Often your examination of information about a problem will change your idea of what the real problem is and about what to analyze next. The process is similar to when a detective investigating a crime shifts his or her opinion about the most likely suspect as more clues come to light. Gather your materials and tools. These include the case and any other related materials to supplement your reading...
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...Tralisa A. King 555 5th Ave. Fredericksburg Virgina 22401 December 15, 2012 Mr. and Mrs Jones 777 7th Ave. Fredericksburg Virginia 22401 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Jones: My name is Tralisa King and I am writing to inform you that I have received your letter and would first, like to congratulate and wish you well in your new ventures as a family in holy matrimony. I understand that you would like my advice on producing a long lasting and happy relationship. I feel the need to advise you both that I am not a relationship therapist however, as you are aware I have taken a course in interpersonal communication and would be more than happy to provide you with as much knowledge as possible that I have obtained in this class. Hopefully, based on what I have learned and your cooperation in working with me this will help to resolve any issues that may arise in your relationship. Using interpersonal communication effectively can be the foundation needed in order to keep and/or develop a productive, calm, and stronger relationship. These are some of the things I would like to address. 1. The principles and misconceptions in effective interpersonal communications. 2. Identify the barriers to effective interpersonal interactions. 3. Describe the process by which self-concept is developed and maintained. 4. Assess their personal communications and improve their communication competencies. 5. Develop strategies for active, critical, and empathic listening. 6. Recognize how words have...
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...choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.” (209). John Green shows the funny way to tell a sad story through the humorous, sarcastic tone while talking about something as severe and upsetting as cancer . This book will have you laughing and crying by the time you reach the end, it is certainly a book worth reading. Hazel Grace Lancaster, the 16 year old cancer sufferer, protagonist and narrator, lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she is forced by her overprotective mother to go to cancer support groups as an effort to meet friends. The bond demonstrated between Hazel and her mother was both a believable and a relatable mother-daughter relationship. It is at this support group, that Hazel meets her best friend and first love, Augustus Waters. Their relationship shows how much more meaningful life can be if you have someone to share important experiences with. It also amplifies that although the couple is young and both have suffered from hardships, including cancer, it does not get in the way of the pair building a relationship, a skill that many could learn from. Throughout the novel, Hazel does not let the illness that she has been marked with stop her from having goals or dreams. It is shown through the authors writing style, that the target audience is young adults. John Green is able to do this successfully by having the story told through the eyes of an adolescent, creating the tone and dialogue as though it is told...
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...guilty for surviving, so explained it with his “superiority” so he would have the will to survive. “There were countless things about the pre-collapse world that Kirsten couldn’t remember - her street address, her mother’s face, the TV shows that August never stopped talking about - but she did remember Arthur Leander, and after that first sighting she went through every magazine she could find in search of him.” 40 This shows us that Arthur had the strongest impact on Kirsten’s life. He is the one who inspired her to spend her life performing, and provided her with one of the only tangible items she has had since before the pandemic - the copies of ‘Station Eleven’. Arthur is a stronger part of Kirsten’s identity than her street address growing up, or her mother’s face. I think the reason Arthur is such a strong part of her memory and identity is because Arthur’s heart attack and subsequent death was the moment which marked the transition between pre- and post-pandemic life. After her family died, Kirsten had to become more mature and take care of herself. Arthur’s death is her last memory of her childhood, so this defines her childhood for her. Observations about the author’s writing style How does the writing style develop the plot/mood/setting/theme/character? How does it impact the reader’s response? Example(s) Page The author alludes to other art forms (like the fictional comic book, ‘Station Eleven’) and other artists’ work and lives (like Shakespeare’s). The theme of mortality...
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...blond hair appears flattened out of gold.” I think by using figurative language Percy wants to better explain what specific place and object, which is in my opinion very effective because it makes essay look more understandable. Percy’s choice of words is great too, which entertain readers. 4. As I mentioned before Percy’s use of metaphors in his essay “Invasion” is very effective since he’s got a very nice choice of words that attract readers. Percy uses extended metaphor very effectively too. He compares to unlike things and continues it throughout few sentences. But comparing to short metaphors extended one doesn’t help him as much as short ones because of its size. 5. There were several instances where Percy used straightforward style such as in these sentences: “The last time I was there, January, I trudged into a coffee shop to warm up. Ahead of me in line stood a teenager. He was wearing sunglasses, designer aviators. His hair was...
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...used to great effect in the prose with special emphasis on falling and birds. O’Brien employs various literary techniques to create a giddy, dreamlike tone in the passage. Powerful themes are presented includingthe desire of release and the inability to rid oneself of blame.The passage gives insight into the pure and innocent psyches of the soldiers which are normally hidden through gruff exteriors. The structure of the passage is set as two almost solid paragraphs with very little form and shape. This physical density allows the reader to appreciate the immensity of the prose and becomeengrossed in the flowing movement of it.The initial paragraph is broken in the centre by an italicised sentence which deviates from the informal flowing style used previously to a coarse colloquial one. This serves to give the piece a sense of balance and symmetry while also reminding the reader that even in this ethereal vision the soldiers are still very much human. Partway through the initial paragraph one unusually large sentence begins making up the bulk of the passage. This creates a graceful, fluid tone that contributes to the dreamlike feel of the prose. This is enhanced by frequent use of dashes and commas which give the reader respite while not breaking the surreal grasp of the passage. The excerpt employs various uses of symbolism throughout its whole. The first of which are the ‘jumbo jets’ that transform into ‘screeching’ ‘sleek silver birds.’ These planes in particular are the...
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...“Survival of the fittest” – Competition or Cooperation? Among the most damaging myths and metaphors in business talk are those macho 'Darwinian' concepts of 'survival of the fittest' and 'it's a jungle out there'. The underlying idea, of course, is that life in business is competitive and it isn't always fair. But that obvious pair of points is very different from the 'dog-eat-dog', 'every [man] for [him]self' imagery that is routine in the business world. It is true that business is and must be competitive, but it is not true that it is cut-throat or cannibalistic or that 'one does whatever it takes to survive'. However competitive a particularly industry may be, it often rests on a foundation of shared interests and mutually agreed-upon rules of conduct. The competition takes place not in a jungle but in a community which it presumably both serves and depends upon. Business life is first of all fundamentally co- operative. It is only within the bounds of mutually shared concerns that competition is possible. And quite the contrary of the ‘every animal for itself’ jungle metaphor, business almost always involves large co-operative and mutually trusting groups, not only corporations themselves but networks of suppliers, service people, customers and investors. Competition is essential to capitalism, but to misunderstand this as 'unbridled' competition is to undermine ethics and misunderstand the nature of competition too. The most persistent metaphor, which seems to endure...
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...never use the word “I” in a formal paper. While writing this paper, I feel a strong urge to erase the words “I agreed” and rewrite the entire page in a more formal manner. Murray’s article changed my idea of the writing process by making me realize that every piece of writing is autobiographical whether or not an author is writing objectively through word choice, sentence structure, metaphors, and even punctuation. A reader can learn much about an author through his or her word choice. An author’s diction may seem more colloquial or more obscure and academic depending on his or her personality. Murray demonstrates how an author can use creativity by creating words when he uses the words “squenched and “companioned” in his poem “At 64, Talking Without Words.” Though these are not words one would find in a dictionary, they are understood by readers and aid in defining the author. Sentence structure is an important piece of writing. An author may utilize a run-on sentence or a one-worded sentence in order to create a point or emphasize one, however grammatically incorrect the sentence may be. Charlotte Brontë, for example, frequently uses run-one sentences in order to complete a thought without the interruption of a period. Authors may write about themselves through metaphors. In Murray’s poem “Black Ice,” he mentions the image of a fish almost haunting him. Although he never truly saw this fish, the whole poem “[became] autobiographical by being written” (Murray 61). An...
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...Point out three metaphors and three epithets used by the author to characterize the main character (Stephens) and comment on them. Three metaphors : trifle embarrassed apologetic laugh forcible ring Three epithets: thick-set and stout a round red face bullet-shaped head All these stylistic devices describe the main hero as a person who is very tired of life, he is passive, but he wants to change something in it, that is why to show us the antagonistic character of the visitor, the author uses an oxymoron “bright dark eyes”. Also we can see the despair of a stranger, because he uses “short, sharp sentences”, to emphasize it the author told us that they had “a forcible ring”. 2. Give synonyms of colloquial style to the following literary words: “to flounder”, “hazardous”, “content”, “a trifling indisposition», «errand”, “to perceive”. To flounder – to struggle Hazardous - dicey, chancy Content – pleased A trifling indisposition – reluctance Errand – trip To perceive – get, understand 3. What words and phrases are used to describe Stephens at the beginning and at the end of the story? How can the reader gather that Stephens was happy in Spain? What was it that attracted him to Spain? The narrator used epithets, metaphors, oxymoron and other SD to describe Stephens. He used such constructions as “trifle embarrassed”, “…holding it in one hand absent mindedly stroked it with the other.”, “apologetic laugh” , “with a round red face from...
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...06.07B Political argument A. 1. In paragraph 3, Orwell points out two common faults in the sample passages. What are these faults? Correct grammar and syntax. 2. Orwell presents guidelines for using metaphors. Briefly describe these guidelines. Being preoccupied with grammar could make writing meaningless. He said you can have a whole bunch of words with no metaphors and these words would have no meaning. Too much metaphors and no paying attention to grammar will bog the meaning down. This will make the reader lost and he won’t be able to understand. It’s good to use good grammar, but don’t make that your only concern. 3. Pretentious diction poses a number of problems, according to Orwell. Explain what these problems are. If they are unable to put their thoughts in “words” then their ideas won’t be effective. Grammar is like cane to hold up their sagging argument. 4. Give three examples of Orwell's idea of meaningless words. romantic, plastic, values 5. At the time of this writing, how did Orwell view the state of the English language ? How did it get that way? He thinks the English language is too vague. He thinks it’s easier to make up words then to find a word in English words. 6. Orwell mentions and explains "the defense of the indefensible." What are some examples of this? What is the importance of English usage here? Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations-Defense. Defense doesn’t...
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