LIFE AND LITERATURE

ELIZABETHAN THEATER                                     The Elizabethan era was a period during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I from 1558-1603. England thrived under Queen Elizabeth’s reign, and the robust cities flurried with activity. There were great developments in art at the time and it was later considered the height of English renaissance. Life was full of work but there was leisure time as well. Entertainment was plentiful such as feasts and festivals, fairs, dance, music, art, sports, and hunting. Elizabethan theater was the most significant form of entertainment during the 16th and 17th century, it was a time that produced history and culture so rich that it is still remembered and relevant today. Elizabethan theater was a truly entertaining period that impacted all of society bringing out the good and b...

    SPARROW                                                 -K. A. ABBAS           In Sparrows by K.A. Abbas we have the theme of cruelty, fear, resentment, tradition, connection, redemption and change. Narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator the reader realizes from the beginning of the story that Abbas may be exploring the theme of cruelty. As Rahim is walking home his neighbors silently talk about how cruel he has been to some of the animals in the village. The reader is also aware that both of Rahim’s sons have left him due to his cruelty and his continuous beating of each son for no reason. This may be important as there is a sense that not only is Rahim cruel towards both animal...

APOLOGY FOR POETRY                                                                                -SIR PHILIP SYDNEY ABOUT AUTHOR :            Sir Philip Sidney was a child of privilege, born to Sir Henry Sidney, Elizabeth I’s governor of Ireland, and Lady Mary Dudley. His godfather was King Philip II of Spain; his uncle Robert Dudley was one of Elizabeth’s closest advisers. Philip was educated to join his family’s tradition of service, first at the Shrewsbury School and then at Oxford. Following a three-year tour of Europe (1572-1575), where he perfecte...

POWERFUL PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION:                    Presentation skills basically refer to the ability to communicate in an effective way whether in small or large groups. The process involves explaining and showing the content to an audience. Powerful presentation call for powerful presenters. Appearance is the most and the first important thing during presentation. Most people make an assessment within 30 seconds that often lasts a   lifetime and can be almost impossible to change of incorrect. The mirror exercise will get you more present to who you are in the world. INTENTION:                  The presenter must have the following intentions in his mind:                         ...

                                                               LISTENING AND SPEAKING                    LISTENING COMPLAINTS IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL MANNER           In the Listening and Speaking section of this unit, the focus is on listening to “complaints” (in a formal context) and listening to “problems and offering solutions” (informal). “Complaints” call for “action” to be taken after the facts have been ascertained. With regard to listening to “problems”, the listener has to practice active listening and “offer solutions” or “suggest ways” by which the problem can be solved. The onus to solve the problem is not on the listener. Decision-making rests with the one who shares the problem and seeks solutions. Listening and responding to complai...

                                                                SONNET 18                                                                          -WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE       The poem opens with the speaker putting forward a simple question: can he compare his lover to a summer’s day? Historically, the theme of summertime has always been used to evoke a certain amount of beauty, particularly in poetry. Summer has always been seen as the respite from the long, bitter winter, a growing period where the earth flourishes itself with flowers and with animals once more. Thus, to compare his lover to a summer’s day, the spea...

                                           WORD ACCENT: CERTAIN GUIDELINES     The segments of spoken language are the vowels and consonants. The speech segments are called segmental phonemes or primary phonemes. They combine to produce syllables, words, phrases and sentences. As we utter them, we make use of wide range of tones of voice. This speech features, which are higher than sound segments are called suprasegmentals.       The speech features that are higher than the sound segments are length, stress, pitch, intonation, rhythm and juncture. Here I am describing about stress. Stress is a suprasegmental feature. Stress refers to the prominence given to a syllable. In English all the syllable in a word are not uttered with equal force. One or more than one syllable is articulated with greater force than the rest. The degree of force with w...

  TECHNICAL WRITING INTRODUCTION  Technical writing impacts every developer. They consume content written by technical writers in the form of documentation, and they also produce technical content. Companies and open source projects alike understand that well-written documentation is key to product adoption. In fact, 93% of respondents to a 2017 GitHub survey said that “incomplete or outdated documentation is a pervasive problem” in open source.   In this post, you’ll learn what technical writing is, discover examples of technical writing in software and beyond, and gain an understanding of other skills technical writers develop to create successful and effective documentation.   What is technical writing? Technical writing is the practice of creating primarily text-based instructional or informational documents for users. In software development, common genres of technical writing include product and API documentation, manpages, tutorials, and guides....