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    Siddhartha’s success. It was demonstrated through the different voices Siddhartha hears during his journey. The voice is considered as a motif in the book because it was vital for Siddhartha’s enlightenment. It represents the guidance in Siddhartha’s search for enlightenment because it helps Siddhartha to sever the cycle of desire, saves Siddhartha from suicide and leads Siddhartha to attain Nirvana. Siddhartha’s inner voice guides him to sever the cycle of desire. In the town, Siddhartha

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    Sariah Cali Jane Eyre Voice Diction Critique Participating in Jane Eyre gave me many interesting insights into how the use of voice and diction can affect the portrayal and believability of a character. Throughout the large cast of the play, many people used effective elements of voice to tell their character's story. Both my own work and the work of others taught me a lot about the many uses of the voice. First, I want to evaluate my own performance. My performance as Bertha involved many different

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    Mark Herman Little Voice

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    This week’s film was Little Voices by Mark Herman. In short, this film talks about this shy, reclusive woman who has issues displaying her true feeling, but at the same time she has a special talent of singing. Little Voice (Jane Horrocks) gets her break when her mother hooks up with this recruiter named Ray Say (Michael Caine). Throughout the film, there are many developments that build each character's persona. The mother of Little Voice, as the audience will know, is a repulsive and sometimes

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    The two flood myths, The Voice, The Flood, and The Turtle, and Genesis follow a similar story line as they attempt to depict the punishment placed upon humans for their misconduct on Earth. The myth tells the tale of how a certain figures suffer the consequences of their actions. These flood myths present the idea of a select group people receive a warning from a higher being telling them to construct a form of shelter that will protect them from a flood that will be used to wipe out the people,

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    remember citing in my head a particularly intriguing topic Anne Karpf brought up briefly within the first chapters of her book. She said, “Voice and speech are treated as almost identical, and speech as little more than spoken language… We raid speech for its semantic meaning, and then discard the voice like leftovers, detritus.” (Karpf, Anne. The Human Voice. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. Pg. 13). This opinion of hers seemingly challenged her readers to search throughout their everyday lives in order

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    Najmah misplaced both her speaking voice and her figurative voice, but gradually gained them back through the book. (BS-1) The event that causes the loss of her voice is her mother and Habib dying, on top of Baba-Jan and Nur being taken away to the Taliban. (BS-2) Najmah is starting to gain both of her “voices” back, by trying to speak and being ready to let go of her silence, and by starting to make her own choices. (BS-3) Najmah almost completely gains back her voice, by making all of her own decisions

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    The voice is an individual’s main mode of communicating his or her wants, needs, and emotions among other things. Each individual’s voice is different, depending on whether the individual is male or female, and ranges in pitch and loudness. The voice is something that defines an individual as a person by helping shape the person’s overall personality and attitude. However, there are many factors that may cause an individual’s voice to be affected. According to Verdolini and colleagues (2006), the

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    “The Voice” is a short love romantic poem written by Thomas Hardy in 1914. The text consist of four stanzas, four lines each. It is telling a story of a man dealing with the loss of his beloved woman. The poem is melodic, filled with despair and romantic state of grief. The speaker of "The Voice" projects his feelings onto the landscape. He's sad inside, and what he sees outside of himself reflects that sadness, the state of being miserable. He is grieving, and the world surrounding him is the reflection

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    "Sometimes a Voice" by Don McKay describes the want to rise above a current state. The first stanza introduces this idea as a voice wanting to be more than a voice. The second stanza takes the idea even further and places the reader inside of a situation, almost like a story. Furthermore, figurative language is used constantly by McKay to help get this theme into the reader's head. Even in the first few lines, McKay employs vivid imagery and personification to heighten the effect. The voice "wants not

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    3.1 Technical Feasibility The voice monitoring and sampling software is developed by using the java environment. Also because java is a platform independent language, and hence the class files of java program can be executed on any of the operating system easily. Pocketsphinx provide the technical feasibility of voice recognition. 3.2 Economic Feasibility For system to be worthwhile the economic feasibility of the software should be in reach of as much people as possible. As far as m-seeker is

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