position. He represented the country with a stern but caring characteristic. His tone shifts from sympathetic and hurt at the beginning to powerful and confident in the middle and to motivational in the end. President Clinton’s last few sentences in the speech‚ “My fellow Americans‚ a tree takes a long time to grow‚ and wounds take a long time to heal. But we must begin. Those who are lost now belong to God. Someday we will be with them. But until that happens‚ their legacy must be our lives.” A beautiful
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During a congressional debate in March of 1995‚ Republican Congressional Representative John Mica addressed the House of Representatives. In his speech‚ Mica expressed his distaste for the then-current welfare system by holding up a sign that read‚ “Don’t feed the alligators” (Gustafson‚ 2009‚ p. 660). As can be inferred from this visual statement‚ Mica likened welfare recipients to alligators— the same carnivorous reptiles ever-present in the senator’s home state of Florida. If welfare recipients
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In the beginning‚ Hillary Clinton starts her speech with achievement that women have been achieving which leads everyone to feel proud of today’s world’s women. However‚ she clearly highlights all the terrible things that women have to deal with‚ such as rape‚ burning‚ abortion‚ honor killings etc. One of the examples she gave was girls being abused and tortured because they are born as girls. “It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food‚ or drowned‚ or suffocated‚ or their spines
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In today’s day and age‚ the discussion that seems to be the most trending is the 2016 presidential election. Being dubbed “insane” with the many claims and events by the candidates‚ there are a select few topics that are definitely deemed to be “controversial” in conversation. One topic being the email scandal on Hillary Clinton’s part. Losing thousands upon thousands of emails may seem like a harmless mistake‚ however‚ those emails were suspected to hold classified information that was never meant
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Oprah Winfrey Commencement Speech at Stanford University 2008 Oprah’s audience was very receptive of her mainly because she is a respected icon known all over America. The audience was a group of diverse faculty‚ staff‚ graduates‚ family and friends. When Oprah started her speech welcoming the audience‚ she gave them an icebreaker saying she wanted to let them in on a secret to personalize her speech. She lets the audience know that her god daughter Kirby attends Stanford and she is very proud
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The first essay that I had read was a speech written by Sojourner Truth about women rights. Her intention of writing this was to tell others and encourage them that women can do all things that men can do. She has done everything that a man has done so what makes her less of a person? She was trying to accomplish everyone to be on her side and encourage them to stand with her. This speech was written 1851 at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron Ohio. This speech was very powerful to rebuke many antifeminists
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Malcolm X- Harlem Speech Malcolm X uses several persuasive techniques to make the speech appealing to the audience‚ and to get them to respond in a certain way. His aim is to make them understand that they are not being treated equally in relation to white people even though its the only way that they know. Some of the techniques used are repetition‚ specific tone‚ inclusive language and shows some signs of constructing a persona. He uses repetition of words and ideas in his speech. Repetition
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There are a number of steps that we‚ as speech pathologists‚ must take to diagnosis Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS). As with any diagnosis we make‚ we must complete a full evaluation‚ looking across all aspects that may affect your child’s speech. This includes interviewing the child’s caregivers (you)‚ taking a look in your child’s mouth‚ testing their hearing‚ and assessing their speech and language strengths and difficulties. Another test we have children complete to help us be more positive
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Pericles Funeral Speech: Hype or Truth Several philosophers and thinkers have graced Athens but none probably have described Athens as vividly as Pericles did with his funeral speech delivered in honor of the martyrs of the Peloponnesian War. This speech was given almost a year after the Peloponnesian War started and its purpose was to inspire both the citizens and the army of Athens. In his speech Pericles describes Athens as a flawless state when compared with its contemporaries. Pericles highlighted
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I went the first day‚ so I don’t have a recording to look at. Even though I cannot see my speech I still realized some of my strengths and weaknesses. Some of my weaknesses consisted of: bad transition words‚ sounding shaky within the introduction‚ and time. My strengths consisted of: good movement‚ good tone‚ good statistics‚ and good eye contact. To start off my introduction I was very nervous‚ and I don’t know for sure‚ but I think the audience could tell. My transition into my first main point
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