The Egg Drop: The Short Life Of Flar

Two things that are utilized in daily conversation that are subconsciously addressed by each individual are audience and tone. The meaning of the word "audience" is understood to be a large group of people being spoken to. However, the word can refer to as little as one person; the true meaning of "audience" is simply anyone who is listening. Tone strongly relates to audience. Unknowingly, a speaker's tone can constantly modulate. The two main factors that influence modulation in tone are who is being spoken to and what is being spoken about. For example, the words used to ask a friend for assistance on homework will contrast to the words used to ask a teacher for the same thing. Before choosing his or her tone, the speaker usually addresses

For this reason, it is crucial to appeal to what that specific teacher expects out of a paper and his or her personality. Recently in AP Physics lab, the class completed a laboratory experiment where we dropped eggs off a cliff and tried to prevent them from breaking by constructing apparatuses to protect them. This lab report in particular was a little more flippant than others had been in the past; for this reason, when I wrote the report, I incorporated some humor into it, beginning with the title: "The Egg Drop: The Short Life of Flarold." Flarold was the name of my partners' egg, and its life was abbreviated because unfortunately it did not survive the 12-foot tumble. The instructions for writing this report were (obviously) to explain the physics involved in the adventures of this egg's suicide, and to devise better ways to construct the apparatus so it might survive in the future. However, addressing my teacher's personality and sense of humor, I purposely made the first step in my procedure to name the egg, and I continued to refer to the egg as Flarold throughout the report. The teacher appreciated it, but others might not have. If I had written this lab for a more serious college professor, I would have completely adhered to the physics instead of trailing off on my own alley. Not every teacher has a sense of humor, so when formulating this

Each week, I had to read a chapter from Eric Burnett's book on history entitled Our World's Story and compose a paragraph responding to it. The specific directions of the assignment were to find three things that I learned and one thing I found interesting in the chapter and explain it. My global teacher had a sarcastic sense of humor in day to day conversation, but assignments for her were more austere. Keeping this in mind, each one of my responses was formal and addressed only the things she asked us to; I resisted the urge to trail off. If my global teacher had expected me to trail off and communicate my ideas colloquially, I would have. In my opinion, my responses were monotonous and uneventful, but still comprehensible, as the directions