Listening On The Rhythm : How Rhythm Conveys Emotion

Speaking is form of art that can either be a natural gift or a practiced talent. Much like there are several different ways a person can draw: cartooning, free hand, or realistic, there are many ways in which a person can speak. Nikki Giovanni’s speech “We Are Virginia Tech” makes people cry, rejoice, and move on. A speech is one form of art that can evoke these types of emotions from people.

People need to have a certain type of voice to make a speech effective. To make a speech effective it depends on your tone of voice and how you deliver your speech. If you deliver your speech effectively, it could be memorable and even make a great impact on the world. An example of a speaker that made a great impact on the world is, Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered the famous I Have a Dream speech. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights activist and he wanted to make a change in America. King wanted American’s to treat each other equally and not have discrimination against people depending on what race they were. King’s speech is effective because of the tone and rate he uses, his reasonable arguments, and his use of repetition

American involvement in the war can ensure the rest of the world will hear a strong message; the United States will not hesitate to take action. Through this our country can prove that we are more than a new fledgling land but a full-fledged country

Some Americans, such as the Warhawks, believed the war was essential. One reason they wanted to fight was because of impressment. During the Napoleonic Wars with France, Britain wanted the United States to only trade with them. After we declined, Britain was angry and started taking our ships and kidnapping our sailors so we

The Americans were more ideologically motivated than the British to win the war. They were fighting to win their political and economic independence and by the way if they had lost they would have been severely punished by the British. Meanwhile, the British had no significant ideological motivation for the war. The soldiers were merely doing their jobs. This intangible difference helped the Americans push on even when it seemed that the British were going to win, on the other hand, as soon as the conflict got too costly and politically opposed, the British grew less supportive of the war effort due to lack of passionate

“We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school” (21)

Speeches have been an effective way for someone to share their thoughts and opinions about topics for years. Have they continued to be successful due to changes in the way that they are given, or is it because modern-day orators have continued to use some of the same speech techniques? To determine the answer, a comparison of an old political speech to a contemporary political speech would be required. In both speeches, Speech in the Virginia Convention and We are not Afraid, both Patrick Henry and Hillary Clinton use allusion, restatement, and parallelism to effectively state their views.

America has always had a variety of reasons to choose from in explaining their decisions to go to war. The three wars that Americans fought between the end of the 19th century and the mid point of the 20th century involved reasoning as varied as economic benefits or international tranquility.

Giving a successful speech, in any language, is a difficult yet gratifying skill. Great speeches can be inspiring, compelling, and even revolutionary – indeed, these speeches are deliberate, succinct, engaging, and unforgettable. Two examples of such great speeches in both literature and in history are Mark Antony’s eulogy in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Robert F. Kennedy’s On the Death of Martin Luther King. Through the speakers’ use of parallel structure, caesuras, and personal references – three stylistic devices and techniques – not only were both speakers able to embellish their speeches; it also allowed each speaker to deliver an even more powerful speech. In these speeches, the use of repetition through the anaphoral and

The two poems “To His Army Before His Defeat in Battle” written by Catiline and “Message to Invasion Troops” written by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, share a common theme, tone and purpose of speech. Both poems clearly exhibit that their main purpose is to inspire and create a strong body of people to lead each other through the endeavors of combat. Firstly, the two speeches share similar themes because both contemplate and impose the ideas of strength and dedication, spread over a specific group of people. The tone is generically passionate and keen; both authors intend to motivate and influence their audience in a powerful manner. Conventionally, they share the same general purpose of speech, which is to captivate the audience whom they are

Dig up the materials for your speeches. Arrangement. Indroduction, narration, division, proof, refutation, and conclusion. Style. The five virtures of style are proper language, clearness, vivdness, decorum, and ornament. Memory. This is the canon hardest to adapt to modern speechifying. Delivery. Here you actually act, in both the theatrical and active sences. (Heinrichs 293)

The final paragraph from For the Common Defense Introduction (xiv) says: “American’s have had a peculiar ambivalence toward war. They have traditionally and sincerely viewed themselves as a peaceful, unmilitaristic people, and yet they had hardly been unwarlike. Statistics alone testify to the pervasive presence of war in the nation’s history, for tens of millions of American’s have served in wartime and more than a million have died in

How can a poem still have rhythm without rhyme? There are certain tools of rhythm that

The impact of music on positive psychology and emotion is a well known fact. Music has an extraordinary ability to change people’s emotions. In humans, music has the ability to invoke emotions of sadness, happiness and even fear. The purpose of this study was to investigate the casual relationship between music practice and participation on the emotions and well-being of male and female adults. The hypotheses for this study were as follows; Hypothesis 1: Music practice and participation has an emotional impact on individuals under study; Hypothesis 2: Preference of more music genres is positively correlated with higher levels of happiness among the population under study; Hypothesis 3: Preference of more music genres is positively correlated with emotional response among the population under study. Results of the study indicated that both age groups had a positive emotional response to music.

When we suppress our emotions or exert strong will power to control our actions, our voice reflects such activity. We may appear calm and even manage a smile, but there is edginess to our voice that shows the tenseness. An effective voice reflects the speaker's true feelings about the idea. A voice that reflects the speaker's personal involvement is generally vigorous. According to Wilbur E. Gilman, a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and author of The Fundamentals of Speaking, the speaker who develops the skills to control his voice gives his words richer and fuller meanings, makes his ideas clearer and more emphatic, brings out contrast in thought, expresses a variety of feelings, heightens his climaxes and total effect. Hypothetically speaking, a moving object always attracts attention. This principle is true in public speaking in the sense that a speaker can always count on moving his vocal emphasis by lowering or raising his voice to help him gain or hold the audience's attention. Vocal emphasis is valuable for punctuating the speech and providing variety. I feel that the effective voice is vibrant, forceful, and varied. A voice that is alive is filled with the excitement and enthusiasm, which the speaker feels. In Franklin Roosevelt's "fireside chats", I can see the importance of vocal emphasis. Roosevelt's speaking on the radio seemed spontaneous and intimate, as though he was in the living room with his listening