Inventing A Voice

Author : Molly Meijer Wertheimer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0742529711

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Inventing a Voice by Molly Meijer Wertheimer Pdf

Inventing a Voice is a comprehensive work on the lives and communication of twentieth-century first ladies. Using a rhetorical framework, the contributors look at the speaking, writing, media coverage and interaction, and visual rhetoric of American first ladies from Ida Saxton McKinley to Laura Bush. The women's rhetorical devices varied--some practiced a rhetoric without words, while others issued press releases, gave speeches, and met with various constituencies. All used interpersonal or social rhetoric to support their husbands' relationships with world leaders, party officials, boosters, and the public. Featuring an extensive introduction and chapter on the 'First Lady as a Site of 'American Womanhood, '' Wertheimer has gathered a collection that includes the post-White House musings of many first ladies, capturing their reflections on public expectations and perceived restrictions on their communication.

Author : Barbara McAfee
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605099224

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Full Voice by Barbara McAfee Pdf

Vocal expression is a part of nearly everyone's workday, yet most of us are unaware of how much influence our voice exerts over our effectiveness. McAfee's work shows how we can deliberately marshal the power of our voices to support our intentions, aspirations, and relationships.

Author : Llewellyn Brown
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783838268194

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Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice by Llewellyn Brown Pdf

The voice traverses Beckett’s work in its entirety, defining its space and its structure. Emanating from an indeterminate source situated outside the narrators and characters, while permeating the very words they utter, it proves to be incessant. It can alternatively be violently intrusive, or embody a calming presence. Literary creation will be charged with transforming the mortification it inflicts into a vivifying relationship to language. In the exploration undertaken here, Lacanian psychoanalysis offers the means to approach the voice’s multiple and fundamentally paradoxical facets with regards to language that founds the subject’s vital relation to existence. Far from seeking to impose a rigid and purely abstract framework, this study aims to highlight the singularity and complexity of Beckett’s work, and to outline a potentially vast field of investigation.

Author : David Ciccarelli,Stephanie Ciccarelli
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118399583

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Voice Acting For Dummies by David Ciccarelli,Stephanie Ciccarelli Pdf

Make a career out of your voice? Easy. Voice acting is like acting, but just using your voice! It's a unique career where the actor's voice can be heard worldwide-in commercials, on audiobooks, in animated movies, documentaries, online videos, telephone systems and much, much more. The point is to bring the written word to life with the human voice. With step-by-step explanations and an abundance of examples, Voice Acting For Dummies is the ultimate reference for budding voice actors on auditioning, recording, producing voice-overs, and promoting themselves as a voice actor. Creating a voice acting demo Finding your signature voice Interpreting scripts Using audio editing software Promoting your voice acting talents If you're an aspiring voice actor or an actor or singer considering a career transition, Voice Acting For Dummies has everything you need to let your voice talents soar.

Author : Steve Sansom,Cher Brock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 1932274804

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Creating a Voice by Steve Sansom,Cher Brock Pdf

Author : Billy Porter
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781683359548

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Unprotected by Billy Porter Pdf

From the incomparable Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award winner, a powerful and revealing autobiography about race, sexuality, art, and healing—now in paperback It’s easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in America has never been easy. Before Billy Porter was slaying red carpets and giving an iconic Emmy-winning performance in the celebrated TV show Pose; before he was the groundbreaking Tony and Grammy Award–winning star of Broadway’s Kinky Boots; and before he was an acclaimed recording artist, actor, playwright, director, and all-around legend, Porter was a young boy in Pittsburgh who was seen as different, who didn’t fit in. At five years old, Porter was sent to therapy to “fix” his effeminacy. He was endlessly bullied at school, sexually abused by his stepfather, and criticized at his church. Porter came of age in a world where simply being himself was a constant struggle. Billy Porter’s Unprotected is the life story of a singular artist and survivor in his own words. It is the story of a boy whose talent and courage opened doors for him, but only a crack. It is the story of a teenager discovering himself, learning his voice and his craft amid deep trauma. And it is the story of a young man whose unbreakable determination led him through countless hard times to where he is now; a proud icon who refuses to back down or hide. Porter is a multitalented, multifaceted treasure at the top of his game, and Unprotected is a resonant, inspirational story of trauma and healing, shot through with his singular voice.

Author : Rebecca Boggs Roberts
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593490006

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Untold Power by Rebecca Boggs Roberts Pdf

A nuanced portrait of the first acting woman president, written with fresh and cinematic verve by a leading historian on women’s suffrage and power While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. She climbed her way out of Appalachian poverty and into the highest echelons of American power and in 1919 effectively acted as the first woman president of the U.S. (before women could even vote nationwide) when her husband, Woodrow Wilson, was incapacitated. Beautiful, brilliant, charismatic, catty, and calculating, she was a complicated figure whose personal quest for influence reshaped the position of First Lady into one of political prominence forever. And still nobody truly understands who she was. For the first time, we have a biography that takes an unflinching look at the woman whose ascent mirrors that of many powerful American women before and since, one full of the compromises and complicities women have undertaken throughout time in order to find security for themselves and make their mark on history. She was a shape-shifter who was obsessed with crafting her own reputation, at once deeply invested in exercising her own power while also opposing women’s suffrage. With narrative verve and fresh eyes, Untold Power is a richly overdue examination of one of American history’s most influential, complicated women as well as the surprising and often absurd realities of American politics.

Author : Courtney Dicmas
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0606368531

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Harold Finds a Voice by Courtney Dicmas Pdf

For use in schools and libraries only. Harold is an amazing mimic, and can imitate the sound of everything in his home. Tired of repeating the same old noises, he yearns to find out what other voices there are in the big, wide world. But what happens when he suddenly realises that he doesn't yet have a voice of his own?

Author : Mitchell Stephens
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781466879409

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The Voice of America by Mitchell Stephens Pdf

**WINNER, Sperber Prize 2018, for the best biography of a journalist** The first and definitive biography of an audacious adventurer—the most famous journalist of his time—who more than anyone invented contemporary journalism. Tom Brokaw says: "Lowell Thomas so deserves this lively account of his legendary life. He was a man for all seasons." “Mitchell Stephens’s The Voice of America is a first-rate and much-needed biography of the great Lowell Thomas. Nobody can properly understand broadcast journalism without reading Stephens’s riveting account of this larger-than-life globetrotting radio legend.” —Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University and author of Cronkite Few Americans today recognize his name, but Lowell Thomas was as well known in his time as any American journalist ever has been. Raised in a Colorado gold-rush town, Thomas covered crimes and scandals for local then Chicago newspapers. He began lecturing on Alaska, after spending eight days in Alaska. Then he assigned himself to report on World War I and returned with an exclusive: the story of “Lawrence of Arabia.” In 1930, Lowell Thomas began delivering America’s initial radio newscast. His was the trusted voice that kept Americans abreast of world events in turbulent decades – his face familiar, too, as the narrator of the most popular newsreels. His contemporaries were also dazzled by his life. In a prime-time special after Thomas died in 1981, Walter Cronkite said that Thomas had “crammed a couple of centuries worth of living” into his eighty-nine years. Thomas delighted in entering “forbidden” countries—Tibet, for example, where he met the teenaged Dalai Lama. The Explorers Club has named its building, its awards, and its annual dinner after him. Journalists in the last decades of the twentieth century—including Cronkite and Tom Brokaw—acknowledged a profound debt to Thomas. Though they may not know it, journalists today too are following a path he blazed. In The Voice of America, Mitchell Stephens offers a hugely entertaining, sometimes critical portrait of this larger than life figure.

Author : Mary Kay Carson
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1402749511

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Alexander Graham Bell by Mary Kay Carson Pdf

An introduction to the life and career of the inventor of the telephone, who was also accomplished in many other ways.

Author : Kathleen McDonagh-Hunter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1403298927

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How voice can lead identity re-invention by Kathleen McDonagh-Hunter Pdf

Author : Dean Wesley Smith
Publisher : Wmg Publishing
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1561466336

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Writing Into the Dark: How to Write a Novel Without an Outline by Dean Wesley Smith Pdf

With more than a hundred published novels and more than seventeen million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith knows how to outline. And he knows how to write a novel without an outline. In this WMG Writer's Guide, Dean takes you step-by-step through the process of writing without an outline and explains why not having an outline boosts your creative voice and keeps you more interested in your writing. Want to enjoy your writing more and entertain yourself? Then toss away your outline and Write into the Dark.

Author : Katie Booth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501167119

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The Invention of Miracles by Katie Booth Pdf

"An astonishingly revisionist biography of Alexander Graham Bell, telling the true-and troubling-story of the inventor of the telephone. We think of Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone, but that's not how he saw his own career. Bell was an elocution teacher by profession. As the son of a deaf woman and, later, husband to another, his goal in life from adolescence was to teach the deaf to speak. Even his tinkering sprang from his teaching work; the telephone had its origins as a speech reading machine. And yet by the end of his life, despite his best efforts-or perhaps, more accurately, because of them-Bell had become the American Deaf community's most powerful enemy. The Invention of Miracles recounts an extraordinary piece of forgotten history. Weaving together a moving love story with a fascinating tale of innovation, it follows the complicated tragedy of a brilliant young man who set about stamping out what he saw as a dangerous language: Sign. The book offers a heartbreaking look at how heroes can become villains and how good intentions are, unfortunately, nowhere near enough-as well as a powerful account of the dawn of a civil rights movement and the triumphant tale of how the Deaf community reclaimed their once-forbidden language. Katie Booth has been researching this story for over a decade, poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of deaf schools around America. But she's also lived with this story for her entire life. Witnessing the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her family would set her on a path that upturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone"--

Author : Anis Bawarshi
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780874214765

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Genre And The Invention Of The Writer by Anis Bawarshi Pdf

In a focused and compelling discussion, Anis Bawarshi looks to genre theory for what it can contribute to a refined understanding of invention. In describing what he calls "the genre function," he explores what is at stake for the study and teaching of writing to imagine invention as a way that writers locate themselves, via genres, within various positions and activities. He argues, in fact, that invention is a process in which writers are acted upon by genres as much as they act themselves. Such an approach naturally requires the composition scholar to re-place invention from the writer to the sites of action, the genres, in which the writer participates. This move calls for a thoroughly rhetorical view of invention, roughly in the tradition of Richard Young, Janice Lauer, and those who have followed them. Instead of mastering notions of "good" writing, Bawarshi feels that students gain more from learning how to adapt socially and rhetorically as they move from one "genred" site of action to the next.

Author : Emma Forrest
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408822067

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Your Voice in My Head by Emma Forrest Pdf

A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any other