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Here's another short video, apart of a mini series about acting, by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes that touches on how to tap into your real emotions on stage, and in acting auditions. Helpful for anyone dealing with hard emotions to portray onstage.

This VPR radio program visits the topic of emotion in animals. Virginia Morell is an animal researcher and author of the book "Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures." Morell studies the emotions of different animals and their means for communicating those emotions. The large topic of interest in this short VPR news special is about whether humans have a special connection with dogs. Morell's answer is yes, dogs and humans have a similar way of communicating with facial cues and body language which makes our two species somewhat appealing to one another. This helps my research a lot in that it brings out not only the similarities between K-9s and humans but also the mysterious draw of one animal to the other. Since the domesticated dog is so closely related to the wolf, it is true that wolves have similar body language, facial expression and social behavior tendencies. Morell speaks about her topic of expertise with great ease and it is fun to listen to because she is so smart.

This website gives 6 steps you can go through to master difficult acting scenes. The six tips they provide are helpful hints about how to get around common difficulties when acting harder emotions, such as anger or sadness.

Becoming your characters is one of the most important parts in writing a novel because it helps the reader feel the emotions that the character is feeling. I think that this website helped me write about my characters and the relationships between the characters. This website was filled with some really good tips!

This website shows examples of college essays that were successful because of their voice and tone, creativity, and clarity. They range from emotional, cerebral, philosophical, humorous, serious, or a combination of styles. The most important aspect of all of them being that they got the applicants into the college of the choice. It is a very useful website for determining the flavor you want your essay to have!

This website provided me with games to help create immediate and reactive character development. I'm enrolled in theatre arts this semester, and some of these games are similar to ones we play. I may even suggest one of these games to play in class.

This book is very much a wildlife handbook. It is short and succinct. The section that was beneficial to my research about pack structure held very little new information, but one thing stood out. A paragraph talked about the size of a wolf pack, and how it is limited because if the pack is too large wolves can become distant from each other emotionally. Without strong emotional closeness among all wolves in the pack, a pack does not function properly. This was very helpful as it answered an important question I have been thinking about: why don't wolves just run in large herds and maximize the amount of food that they can hunt. A very good resource if even for that small amount of information.

The four topics that were covered on this site were sources of stress, signs and symptoms, reducing stress and helping your child cope with stress.

This site helped me get the basic understanding of the brain, before I got into more specific study. It covers a wide variety of topics, including general descriptions of the cortex and inner brain. The different parts of the brain are labeled, and neurotransmitters are briefly explained to give the reader a general sense of the brain. The article helped me on the right track when researching the inner brain and its structures, as it summarized the basal ganglia and limbic systems. It explains that the basal ganglia is responsible for conscious movements, and the limbic system controls memory and emotion. This site is reliable because it is a government site that takes data straight from Health and Human Services, which is well known for its great research. This site was used when I made my brain portfolio, which is the compilation of research I have done in an organized document.