Try to recall the last time you saw or heard a video or audio recording of yourself speaking. What did you like about the way you presented yourself? What didn't you like? What improvements could you make? (You may need to ask close friends or family members to help you critique yourself.)

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. she was a small woman, short and straight-waisted like a child in her brown cotton gown. her forehead was mild and benevolent between the smooth curves of gray hair; there were meek downward lines about her nose and mouth; but her eyes, fixed upon the old man, looked as if the meekness had been the result of her own will, never of the will of another. in at least one hundred words, explain how this excerpt uses explicit and implicit details to describe sarah penn.