which for me was Geometry. The bell rang and came second period. My schedule said "Public Speaking‚" but I did not have a clue on what that was. I began to get tense and anxious because surprises are not my thing. The teacher walked in and said‚ "Hi‚ welcome to Public Speaking. You’ll be learning how to speak in front of a large group of people. We will be reading speeches and also debating against one another." My heart dropped. I started to get even more edgy. All my life before freshman year‚ I struggled
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Ceremony novel is full of emotions from the beginning to the end. It started with the trauma of Tayo when he thought he was shooting crowd of Japanese soldiers‚ in which his uncle Josiah was among. This novel portrayed the fearful feeling people show to change. For instance‚ the Night Swan showed a level of prejudice when she described some interracial relationships as “fools”. Also‚ this expression reveal the ignorance of the community toward mixed ethnic group. The lack of appreciation toward earth
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Name of Text: “Welcome Stranger” Composer & Date of Publication: Stephanie Dowrick‚ 2008 Type of Text: Feature Article What is the text about? The text basically gets you to question whether you are an includer or excluder. It’s about people fitting in to different groups at all ages. Identify links to belonging: What elements of this text explore the concept of belonging? The whole text explores people’s connections to others in different groups and settings and questions our role in
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Informative Speech Study Drugs and College Students I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: "I reached into my backpack‚ grabbed an Adderall‚ and went to the bathroom. I smashed it on the bathroom sink and snorted it. I went back to my class and zipped through the rest of my exam‚ and it made all the difference." This student incident was found in a 2005 article published by Baylor University on the alarming use of “study drugs.” B. Thesis: Many of you may be unfamiliar with such a topic‚
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Alice Walker who wrote “The Welcome Table” had issues of race and gender that was the center of her literary work and her social activism. She participated in civil rights demonstrations. (Clugston 2010). This short story has a theme of life and death. It shows the plot of the story‚ the point of view and has symbolism used to show the death of the old woman and what the church members thought of her as a black woman. (Clugston‚ 2010‚ Section 7.1 and 7.2) Later in the story‚ she is walking
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“Frost Point‚ welcome home.” This is what I hear every year for a month. Growing up as an army brat my family moved around a lot. This was the same for my uncle and cousins. It took years for either of our families to find a forever home. During this early time in my life there was only one place that never changed. Frost Point. My grandmother‚ aunts‚ uncles‚ cousins and parents gather with their 12 children to Rideau Ferry‚ Ontario‚ Canada every summer for a month. Every few years my home would
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Why Wedding Ceremony is Such a Big Event? “Will you love and honor each other as husband and wife all the days of your lives” Introduction As part of the society and culture‚ the tradition especially in wedding ceremonies had fallen into the categories of social anthropology. Wedding traditions is the mirror of the culture‚ and believe it or not‚ a mirror of bank accounts. With the evolving world of modernization‚ the spirit and values of marriage is still in the ceremony‚ and the wedding rings
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Welcome to Lebanon high school “ Welcome to Lebanon High school “ . Emily Gipson‚ a 16-year-old ‚ made the 5 minute‚ 38 second video titled "Welcome to Lebanon High School‚" which was recorded inside a Lebanon High classroom. The video passed 600‚000 views‚ just over a week after it was posted Jan. 22. Gipson begins the video saying: “Welcome to Lebanon High School. Where I walk down blank hallways every day. Where students walk down blank hallways every day." The video comes after
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I. [Attention Getter] Did you know in 1971 the US college education cost only $500 (cnbc.com). A. Today even our books cost more than that. According to the College Board‚ the average cost of tuition for the 2016-17 year was around $34000 (collegeboard.com). B. Tuition is increasing at a fast rate; in 2005 public college tuition took up about 35% of a typical family’s income but now costs the equivalent of 47% (time.com). II. [Establish Controversy] The total student loan debt in the US as of
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Page 1 Leslie Silko’s Storyteller Response After reading the passage Storyteller by Leslie Silko‚ I have become more aware of the conceptual terms brought to us while reading and discussing in class. Cultural assimilation plays a huge part in Native American culture and still occurs today within tribes and families. Acculturation‚ similar to cultural assimilation depicts cultural interactions as happening at different levels and directions. In this response‚ I will analyze both of these
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