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    Patryk and Kasia Wezowski

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    They also explain how to take questions and answers along with not being silent for too long. They also teach the importance of hand gestures and how to properly use it for communications. "As with words‚ we tend to pick up our hand movements from the groups with whom we communicate most frequently—especially our peers" (Doll‚ J. 2013). Presenters can use hand gestures to get there point accross or to gain more attention. By using newer technologies the couple can show in slow motion the

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    4-2-13 Part I: Nonverbal Communication Try This: Research what one hand gesture means in a different country. (You may ask people from other countries/and or conduct your own web search or library search for answers). Some suggested countries/cultures to research might be: Italy‚ Japan‚ China‚ Greece‚ and the Middle East (10 points) Hand gesture: middle finger‚ pointer finger‚ and thumb all up. Country/Culture referenced: China What does it mean

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    Gestures and Cultures

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    Gestures and Cultures For regular people who travel at the first time to a foreign country‚ it would be difficult to communicate in gestures. You may say humans share the same gestures‚ so they can understand each other; however‚ they may understand gestures but unfortunately with the false meaning. They would misunderstand you since they have other meanings for gestures. Therefore‚ gestures are the same as languages. They are different from culture to another. First‚ to hold two fingers like

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    Can Doodling Help Us Concentrate?” Divine Caroline. 24 Jun 2011. < http://www.divinecaroline.com/22189/96010-drawing-conclusions-doodling-help-us>. 25 Sept 2011. Chatham‚ Chris. “From Mind to Hand: Hidden Knowledge Revealed and Enhanced by Gestures.” Science Blogs. 5 Feb 2008. <http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2008/02/from_mind_to_hand_hidden_knowl.php>. 28 Sept 2011. Cloud‚ John. “Study: Doodling Helps You Pay Attention.” Time Science. 26 Feb 2009. <http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0

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    to communicate. Ways in which we can communicate without verbal communication are: Body language Facial expression Gestures such as using our hands Writing and drawing Using equipment such as computers Touch Emotions (a combination of the above) 1.1 This is behaviour where communication can be achieved through actions and body language alone. For example hand gestures are something most people do without noticing. When talking we use our hands to emphasise points such as a size of an object

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    An Ancient Gesture

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    Ancient Gesture¡¨ by Edna St. Vincent Millay and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ by Donald Finkel. The poets use the legend of Ulysses as the background of the poems. The rhyming schemes are very obvious in the poems and they create fluent to the reader. The poets use allusions and style differently but they use the style to reveal the theme. Although ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ and ¡§The Sirens¡¨ allude to the story of Ulysses‚ Edna St. Vincent Millay and Donald Finkel use allusion differently. ¡§An Ancient Gesture¡¨ was

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    expressed in his body language." "body language - noun - the process of communicating what you are feeling or thinking by the way you place and move your body rather than by words kinesics - the study of the way in which certain body movements and gestures serve as a form of non-verbal communication kinesics - the technical term for body language. Kinesics is pronounced ’kineesicks’ with stress on the ’ee’). The word kinesics was first used in English in this sense in the 1950s‚ from the Greek word

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    Insignificant gestures “If I could peel back time‚ I would do things differently. But you don’t get second chances”- insignificant gestures (ll. 11-12). One wrong decision can haunt your mind for life – especially those decisions you take at a life-threatening point. These wrong decisions can be the cause of a long-term damage like Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and because of the emotional consequences; it can change our lives and personalities completely. That is the main theme in Jo Cannon’s

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    Herero Play Analysis

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    audience could understand both sides of the story. All his actions and gestures were tactics accordingly to what was happening in the play were incredible. Another black man

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    Visual Literacy Tyson McCreight Visual Literacy in Business Christi Magnuson 2/24/13 Brian Kennedy’s lecture on visual literacy was very interesting. I’ve never really thought about visual literacy that way. You really don’t realize how you would perceive things in the world if you couldn’t see anything. He says that we learn everything visual first. Then the others things come after that. The more I think about it‚ the more I believe what he is saying. In our book the definition

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