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    A graduation speech

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    Sometimes graduation is referred to as a commencement. We usually understand commencement to mean the beginning of something new‚ a new set of conditions to live and act upon. If you think about it‚ you can’t get to something new until you let go of something old. There in lies our understanding - a moment of time between the "before" and the "after" of an event. Right now - we are in the state of "before" the actual graduation. In a few short days we will be certified as the graduating class of

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    You have been invited to give a speech to the Australian Speaking Society on the topic ‘great speeches – the secret of success.’ Write the transcript for the speech including references to at least three speeches set for study. *** Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ an American essayist‚ lecturer and poet of the mid-19th century once said: “Speech is power: speech is to persuade‚ to convert‚ to compel‚” and how correct is he even today. Speeches are an essential form of communication in our society as it has

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    The Speech Community Peter L. Patrick Dept. of Language and Linguistics University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ United Kingdom Email: patrickp@essex.ac.uk http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~patrickp/ This article will appear in JK Chambers‚ P Trudgill & N Schilling-Estes (eds.)‚ Handbook of language variation and change. Oxford: Blackwell. ABSTRACT: empirical linguistics‚ is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history

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    In 1996 at Bonneville High school in Ogden‚ Utah a young foreign exchange student from Poland sat with her friend eating lunch. As she gazed upward she could see into the window of one of the history classes. To her horror‚ visible to the entire student body was displayed a Nazi flag. The flag was being displayed as part of a class on World War II and was displayed next to a Japanese flag‚ newspaper clippings‚ and other memorabilia to highlight certain aspects of that time period. After asking

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    on the absolute ruin of self that one faces through Socrates words. Straight from his introduction with‚ “Good evening‚ gentleman. I’m plastered‚” (Symposium 213 A) it appears‚ as this speech will be a random comedic interlude to distract from the ideas of the form that had just come about in the end of The Speech of Diotima. However‚ there is an underlying sense of tragedy and the ruin of self behind Alcibiades stories. Alcibiades is completely transformed by Socrates words‚ “If I were to describe

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    Vince Francis C. Calapan December 26‚ 2014 4-Fermionic Condensate Childhood Experience I can’t say that my childhood experience was so happy‚ wanna know why? Because some terrible incident happened in my childhood life. I was born on January 29‚ 1999‚ it was the feast day of St. Francis de Sales but later changed every January 24. It was the start of my childhood life and my childhood experience. I was the only son of Ervin and Jesusa Calapan‚ I was raised in a simple life‚ my father

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    Hello and good evening family‚ friends‚ fellow students‚ teachers and faculty. I want to thank you all for gathering here today to help us take part in the graduation and celebration of the Class of 2018’s achievements and accomplishments. On behalf of this year’s seniors‚ I believe that we’ve learned a lot throughout our 13 years of education‚ which accounts to 2‚340 days‚ or 17‚550 hours. Although not all of us showed up every day‚ especially towards the ending where our senioritis really started

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    Parts of Speech

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    Essay: Parts of Speech The term “word” is part of everyone’s vocabulary. Words are often viewed as units of meaning‚ such as when someone shouts “Fire!”‚ or as units of sentence structure‚ for instance when one is analyzing a sentence comprised of more than one word. Traditionally‚ these building blocks of language have been categorized under the label “parts of speech”. Members of the Indo-European group of languages have been analyzed in terms of parts of speech categories since classical antiquity

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    Persuasive Speech

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    ] Speech 101:Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography for Persuasive Speech Tahiri‚ Y‚ Lee J‚ Kanevsky‚ J‚ et al. “The differing perceptions of plastic surgery between potential applicants and current trainees: the importance of clinical exposure and electives for medical students.” Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 21(3) (2013). 178-180. Academic Search Premier. Web. 07 Oct. 2013. This online scholarly journal describes the perceptions of plastic surgery of medical

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    Creon's Speech

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    character introduced through his opening speech in the First Episode (lines 159-195) and how does this speech create tension? The bestowal of ruling legitimacy upon Creon sparks off the Greek tragedy. Polyneices and Eteocles‚ brothers of Antigone killed each other during their fateful battle for the Theban throne and Creon‚ as the closest surviving kinsman‚ rules as the Theban king. Creon then approaches the chorus of elders privately and pronounces his first speech‚ wishing to draw himself support from

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