Informative Speech Purpose: To inform or educate the audience about a topic of your choice. Time: 4-6 minutes Topic: Choose a topic that interests you and would probably interest your audience (the class). Consider what your audience already knows about this topic and what their attitude about this topic will be. Do not inform us of something we already know tons about. You may not choose something that could be done as a demonstration speech. Requirements: - You must inform the audience
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The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town located in the US. This story happened on 27 June at10 am in the morning. It is a warm and bright day. It is a perfect day to celebrate the lottery‚ which is the huge annual ceremony for this town. All the citizen joins together in the town square to rejoice this event. The children are playing on the plaza and gathering the stones‚ they look exciting and anxiously. It seems to be a common celebration
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The dominant figure that steered the course of the Abstract Expressionist movement was the infamous painter Jackson Pollock. He was born Paul Jackson Pollock in Cody‚ Wyoming on January 28‚ 1912. He was the fifth and youngest son and grew up in Arizona and California after his family left him when he was a little over one year old. Pollock’s artistic journey began at the Manual Arts School in Los Angeles‚ California where he joined two of his brothers. From there‚ he went on to New York to attend
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Commemorative speech about Michael Jackson My Favorite idol Special person‚ one of the greatest contributor to American pop music industry. Influenced billions of people worldwide with his many self-composed songs and dance moves Famously known to have changed his skin colour Won total of 13 Grammy awards (8 in one night during the 1984 Grammy award ceremony which earned him an entry in the Guisness world record ) A controversial figure. But let’s just focus on his achievements and his
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Title : Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief The book of The Lightning Thief was written by Rick Riordan and published in June 28‚ 2005 by Disney Hyperion Books. The book’s genre is a fantasy literature about the world of half-bloods‚ heroes and Greek mythology. Riordan started the story when is son got interested in Greek mythology he asked his dad to tell him myths as the bed time story. When Riordan ran out of myths to tell him his son asked him to make up one. So Riordan made a character named
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to that of life in countries like Mexico with issues of poverty and alcohol and drug abuse. Starting at a very young age Alexie had overcome many obstacles as does his characters in his stories. In the short story‚ “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona‚” the author Sherman Alexie shows the struggles of Native Americans in a white man’s world. To help us better understand these struggles‚ this paper will analyze the characters‚ theme and setting of this story. The characters of a story
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DNA to protect the ones close to us‚ but not always the ones outside of the family. A good person does not care if they are related to the person they are trying to help. They extend their love and care to all people‚ no matter who they are. Percy Jackson‚ no matter what he faces‚ never leaves anyone behind. When Grover sacrifices his life so Percy could make it back to Olympus and stop the war from happening‚ Percy goes back for him. Percy never forgot about grover and showed that by going back to
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Bo Jackson Thesis statement: Bo Jackson is talented in about any area of sports. He s also one of strongest men ever known. Bo is very generous to kids that have problems or disabilities. Bo has one of the biggest decisions of his life to make. He needs to decide what kind of career he’d like to make. He could choose either football or baseball. Bo won the Heisman award in football and will be the number one draft pick in the NFL. But the problem is‚ Hugh Culverhouse of the Buccaneers wants
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In short fiction‚ characters experience conflict that impacts plot development. Firstly‚ in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson the conflict is man vs. nature. To provide a reason why this happens in the small town‚ Jackson wrote “Lottery in June‚ corn be heavy soon.” (Jackson 4). This was said by Old Man Warner‚ the oldest person in this town and this shows that Tessie‚ the women who gets sacrificed‚ is conflicting with the actual agriculture sacrifice. This conflict only starts to show at the end
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They left later in the day and were 25 miles away from Washington D.C. . My son wrote “We arrived by railroads and there are more troops than we thought‚ this’ll be a close one.” I received news today that Stonewall Jackson received his name from this war. His real name is Thomas J. Jackson which none of us knew because all the town heard about was “Stonewall
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