Hand gestures visually express thoughts as body language, and different hand gestures indicate various thoughts and emotions. Actors incorporate hand gestures so as to visually present their mood to the audience, as the face expression of the actor is often to far away to be seen.

SSR Reflection

Today I read Sun Tsu's Art of War, which is actually pretty interesting, considering the fact the only reason I read it was because it was a free book on my phone. It talked about various things that are applicable to life as well as war, such as (I'm paraphrasing here) 

"When fighting a short-tempered general, have your soldiers shout insults at him; when fighting an impatient general, wait for him to make a mistake. Thus, to exploit your enemy's weaknesses is to win the war."

"A clever general not only beats the enemy, he beats the enemy with ease. A mediocre general wins wars with great difficulty, a clever general wins them handily."

"Supply lines are the most important aspect in the Art of War. To take one cart of the enemy's supplies is to receive 10 carts of one's own supplies."

"Sieges warfare never works. Sieges are often long and drawn out, costing supplies and lowers morale of the aggressors. A good general always captures cities quickly and cleverly, and never resorts to sieges."

Poetry Slam Reflection

I honestly didn't know what poem to read for the poetry slam. I felt that most of my poems were pretty mediocre, and what I felt was my best one was potentially offensive, so I didn't risk reading it. Overall, I think I did well, could have done better, bla bla bla, stuff to improve. Anyway it was an interesting assignment, would do it again.