everyone. …………………faculty‚ honoured……………‚ relieved parents‚ family‚ and friends‚ it’s a distinct pleasure to be in New York City this evening to celebrate the biggest milestone to date in the lives of you‚ the young men and women before us: your graduation from Columbia University Business School. It may surprise you‚ but as big a evening t as this is for you‚ it’s an even bigger evening for your parents. They may look calm and collected as they sit in the audience‚ So‚ for everyone here this evening
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Analysis of Barack Obama‟s Speeches Junling Wang School of Foreign Languages‚ Northwest Normal University‚ Lanzhou‚ China Email: wangjl36@163.com Abstract—The Critical Discourse Analysis is often applied to analyze political discourse including the public speech‚ in which the speaker wins favorite response from the audience. This paper‚ based on Critical Discourse Analysis theory and Systematic Functional Linguistics‚ analyzes Barack Obama’s presidential speeches mainly from the point of transitivity
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The 8th amendment to the constitution prohibits the government from inflicting cruel and unusual punishments because they exhibited an inhumane way of executing "inmates"‚ tortured their guilty victims to death and were considered to many as unjust. It also prohibits high bail or excessive fines against the defendant. However‚ it has also been deemed Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States (according to the Eighth Amendment) to inflict physical damage on students in a school environment
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Evaluate how TWO speeches you have studied employ rhetorical devices to represent visionary ideas Powerful speeches affirm universal values which remain prevalent in human nature’s aspiration to productively approach the future. Noel Pearson’s speech “An Australian history for us all” (1996) and Anwar Sadat’s “Statement to the Knesset” (1977)‚ through effective use of rhetorical devices‚ creates textual integrity to explore visionary ideas: establishing the need for change by examining “the past
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Is Abiding by the 8th Amendment Constitutional? The government has laid out an array of civil rights to protect the liberties of the people with the induction of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The large majority of these amendments are appropriate and remain prominent in the modernized American governmental system but these basic human rights carry substantial controversy‚ the most arguable being the eighth. This amendment states that there shall be no cruel or unjust punishments inflicted
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History of Cinema The Graduation of the Graduate: the film’s influence on American Cinema For my research paper I would like to explore the motifs and key themes in the classic American film‚ The Graduate (1967). By investigating the adaptation of the novel by Charles Webb into a screenplay‚ the use of symbolism‚ soundtrack‚ metaphors and setting‚ I will determine the film’s role in American cinema history‚ and how its effects are still seen in film today. In 1963‚ Charles Webb
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Unfortunately‚ many students could not maintain their top performance at their schools. According toOrganized Wisdom‚ more than 58% of college students fail to provide great performances at school. It’s mainly because of stress. But stress is not the only factor. there are more factors that can drop student’s performance. Those factors will be presented below. 1. Health Health is one important factor to be considered. No doubt that student’s health should be kept well in order to maintain performance
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Graduation Speech Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Yes‚ after your graduation you will be officially called ladies and gentlemen and expected to act as one in the world of careers. Congratulations on passing college. I hope you really enjoyed your stay in college. It is a period to look back and smile about when you grow older. I feel that somehow I haven’t earned the right to stand here and talk to you about a career in banking and what I have learned. You see‚ I have only been
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"The completedness of a speech relies on the contribution of the parts to the whole" Choose TWO speeches and argue how the structure of each contributes significantly to your understanding of the speech as a whole. An orator’s ability to utilise speech structure permits them to not only convey their ideas efficiently‚ but also to help achieve a social change and improvement. This notion of social change is at the heart of any successful speech. The idea of “parts to the whole” is shown in both
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the skill and mindset of an athlete. I not only use my competitive nature on the field but I also utilize it in the classroom. When I was younger‚ I would despise the person who got a higher grade than me. I wouldn’t actually hate them‚ I would hate that they beat me. But when I would get the highest grade in the class I would feel like I had won the championship football game. Now onto where I am from. I am from Laguna Hills California but I say I am from Mission Viejo since most of my friends
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