Honing Listening Skills If an interviewer has a normal tone of voice, an attentive and active way of listening, and a non-judgmental manner, he/she will maintain and even increase the candidate's interest in providing information. For an active listener, listening means hearing, comprehending, and remembering. ... Active listening is a communicative tool that provides opportunity for the following: • To show support and assist in relaxing the speaker. ... • To listen to the tones of the candidate's voice. ...

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While I haven't determined the relationship to the reader I understand that Douglass was using an active voice. ... While again we see an active voice, Eudora is present the entire time and is speaking presently. ... The voice is active, nothing used in past tense. ...

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Angelou was active in the civil rights movement and worked side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. ... Her poetry gives voices to the voiceless and also to the people who feel like they have no other option but to be trod upon. ...

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"Forget about having a robust guiding voice, the victims have no voice at all," Teves continued. ... That's why we have been advocating for them to have a greater voice in the process. We have also actively supported the 7/20 Recovery Committee to improve communication and the ongoing distribution of assistance. ...

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Of course these ideas of supply and demand and active government didn't just come to him. ... The New Deal was a very active government plan because it had the government working directly to make jobs and fix the economy. ... For many years he was an active voice in economics. ... Roosevelt never publicly embraced Keynes' theories, and at times voiced disagreement with parts of his theories, there were many similarities between the works of the two men. ... Roosevelt the idea of an active government and John Maynard Keynes showed him how to do it. ...

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Hughes began writing in high school, and even at this early age was developing the voice that made him famous. ... Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. His innovations in form and voice influenced many black writers. ... Beginning in the 1930s, Hughes was active in social and political causes, using his poetry as a vehicle for social protest. ... Langston Hughes has earned a place amongst the greatest poets America has ever produced, but more than that Hughes has given a voice to the African American experience. ...

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Susan wanted women to have a voice in more than just the classic domestic sphere. ... Her active participation in the movement for women suffrage started in the eighteen-fifties. ... She was active in obtaining the passage of the act of the New York legislature in 1860 giving to married women the possession of their earnings and the guardianship of their children. ...

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Me, being the teacher in the classroom, I would be actively engaged with the kids and I would be with them on their level, kneeling, squatting or sitting, so that my eyes are leveled with the children's eyes. ... " Listens actively to children. ... I would also invite children to express ideas and give all children the feeling that they have a voice in the classroom. ...

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The Sons and Daughters of Liberty used boycotts, agitation, propaganda, and violence or near-violence to keep the Revolutionary movement alive. They wanted to set an example for the people and give the British a warning saying they weren't going to put up with their taxes and acts. The Sons of Lib...

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There is an overarching sense that women's voices are not sufficently heard, that women need to be more active participants in the political process, and that women can shape their quality of lives and those of their families and communities through their involvement. ... Women especially need to step up to the plate, and get more active, more involved. ... Whether it is to the editor, state legislaturek, or member of Congress, writing a letter is a powerful tool for getting women's voices into public view. ... With our diverse and strong opinions, with our voices, cares, concern...

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Richard Wurmbrand Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who founded Voice of the Martyrs in 1967, was born on March 24, 1909 in Bucharest, Romania. ... In America he continued his missions work by starting The Voice of the Martyrs organization. Today this organization is still very active and very well known. ... Two years later he retired from his day-to-day work at The Voice of the Martyrs and on August 11, 2000, his wife Sabina passed away. ...

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First off, back in the eighties the CDC was very active in fighting diseases and the government was always cooperative. ... The government didn't even respect the voice of the influential gays in the government. ...

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Up until seventh grade, I thought I'd been active in life. ... Although we could see the soft light from the next room, hear Miley's pop Southern voice, and feel the cold concrete beneath us, all that we really sensed was unity. ... Before it, I had a certain image of myself-I thought I was active, unlike the pictures of flowers I used to take when I was younger, but I learned in reality I wasn't. ...

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They were unable to speak their minds and to be active. ... Women that were self-less were women without voices or said to be dead. ... Women represented as the "monster" are selfish, active, outspoken, and naturally evil. ...

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The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States most commonly found in young adults who are sexually active. ... After all, eleven year olds are too young to be sexually active, are they not? ... These young women have to voice out their own experience in their own matter to set precautions for those who are under consideration of taking this vaccine. ... " This is why it's dangerous as well to inject the HPV vaccine to women who are already sexually active. ... " The FDA and CDC further investigated the vaccines due to the ...

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He also had a very soft, hypnotic voice and whenever he smiled his teeth were very shiny and pointy. ... In the movie the actor who filed his role was a very big man with a powerful voice. The last character, Jabez Stone, wasn't given a very active role in the short story, but he was described as " an unlucky man...he had a good wife and children, but the more he had the less there was to feed them." ...

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P may have delusions of persecution (sees himself as the target of hostile forces) and/or delusions of grandeur (P sees herself as having great powers and/or importance) Other disorders of thought: C Thinking becomes confused and disorganized C Inability to stay focused on one topic Disorders of attention: C inability to concentrate; P easily distracted by irrelevant stimuli C P may experience difficulty focusing on a single chain of events Verbal behavior anomalies: C Incoherent strings of words ("word salad") C Neologisms (made-up words) Disorders of emotion: C Can r...

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One distinctive mark of the great writing of the Harlem Renaissance includes the development of a creative voice that explains both Black history and the pain endured. ... His writing consistently exhibits a voice that embraces the African-American experience through symbolism in an act of glorification rather than shame. ... Hughes' use of this Blues aesthetic serves several functions: it brings an active quality to the complexities of pain and it allows a reality of human understanding to come alive in his poetry. ...

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"Kincaid sat at the typewriter in her Hudson Street apartment and attempted to recreate her mother's voice in its first fictionalized incarnation" (Paravisini-Gebert 51). ... The story also uses the mother's voice as way to deliver instructions to her daughter in a nagging manner. ... Her mother was obviously worried that she was going to become sexually active because she stresses purity in the story. ...

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Numerous women were active in these campaigns but were left nameless, including many women of color. ... They have also worked to uplift the black race, achieve a voice in government and work toward equality for the race as for themselves as women. ...

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At the beginning of the book Maya is a confused little girl suffering from the associated with being a black child in America. She is also suffering with the pain of living without her parents. Maya is smart and ingenious, but she always feels like other people judge her for being black. She feels v...

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The Hebrews, alto respecting women, did not allow them to own any property onto have an active place in government. In Rome women were not allowed to voice there opinions .They were viewed as lesser beings, who's role in society was to give birth and to take care of children. ... They still didn't have the right to voice there opinion and were still viewed as property. ... The art of the Renaissance gave women some freedom to voice there opinion about the arts and social issues as long as there opinions weren't very harsh. ...

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Andre Edwards March 13, 2002 English II-7 The Most Famous Conductor of the Trackless Train Harriet Tubman the most active "Greatest Conductor- of "The Trackless Train-(U.s. ... Many African Americans knew her as "Moses of her people-(voices of triumph); "Moses being the biblical figure who led Jews from Egypt-(world book encyclopedia vol 19) helped about 300 enslaved African (the new encyclopedia Britannica) travel north reaching and crossing over Mason-Dixon Line, the line that divided the free from the slave states (us News). ... When she reached Pennsylvania she recalled, "I looked at ...

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The first book was called The Voice of Hope, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama. ... The fifth book Fearless Voice of Burma is an interesting, easy-to-read biography of the leader who, despite her politically active background, lived a peaceful scholar's life in England until she returned to Burma to care for her ailing mother in 1988. ... The young people wanted to able to voice their discontent with an education system that does not challenge their intellect. ...

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If people wish to change the system, they must change their role in healthcare reform from passive to active. In order to bring unification and unconstrained functionality to the U.S. healthcare system, people must first educate themselves on how their healthcare works, voice their opinions, and finally join together to bring reform. ... According to Jeffrey Koplan, M.D., "Patients should learn how to become active participants in their own healthcare, which means taking part in decisions involving diagnosis and treatment." ...

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