physically visited the area and makes the readers more sympathetic to his argument. When the audience is introduced to the value of the Arctic Refuge with a first-hand experience‚ they are more willing to cooperate and agree with Carter. Further into the speech‚ Carter gives examples of past presidents "both Republican and Democratic " who took steps in protecting the Arctic Refuge showing that "The extraordinary
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Worker from University of Tennessee. She is the Director of Social Services at North Mississippi State Hospital and has been working there for sixteen years. Her topic of the presentation was mental illnesses and schizophrenia. I really enjoyed her speech because I had little previous knowledge of mental illness. Even though I have taken a few classes that discussed the illnesses‚ I can understand better with stories or a way to imagine a situation and Debra provided that. Information that I thought
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Windsor Garden Club for hosting this event and inviting me and my fellow cadets to participate in this fine competition. Regardless of who wins‚ you’ve pushed us all to become better citizens by giving us this unique opportunity. I was asked to write a speech about myself but how can one articulate in words who one truly is and what they shall one day become. But‚ for the sake of concision‚ I’ll skip my childhood years and focus on what i’ve been doing in high school since it is most relevant to the brink
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"A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" Abraham Lincoln June 17‚ 1858 MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: If we could first know where we are‚ and whither we are tending‚ we could better judge what to do‚ and how to do it. We are now far into the fifty year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting and end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy‚ that agitation has not only not ceased‚ but has constantly augmented. In
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In the 1940’s while playing in a hidden cave in Lascaux‚ France‚ many children found a remarkable painting on the wall. After telling about their findings‚ researches and explorers visited the cave and it was then they saw the “Chinese Horse”. The art got its name because it resembled the ceramic horses of the Han Dynasty in China. Although the reasoning for the painting is unknown‚ they research has shown that several paintings in this era included plants and animals. It was not the only painting
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Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (21 February 1855 - 13 March 1913) was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century‚ and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal‚ Marcelo del Pilar‚ Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena‚ although he neither involved himself directly in that movement‚ nor later associate himself with the First
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Thomas Jefferson was an eminent inventor in the eighteenth century and his involvement as an inventor is very distinctive. Since Jefferson grew up in a family of farmers‚ he was strongly inquisitive in farming so he wanted to invent something that would make it easier. He invented an iron plow that dug deeper and averted soil erosion. To produce more of the same product he used mathematical procedures and marked outlines. There is a lot of controversy whether or not Jefferson invented the popular
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Ezenwa Emejuru Assignment 1 10/11/14 The speech Thurgood Marshall gave in 1987 was part of the constitutional bicentennial celebration. Politicians and Judges around the country were celebrating the "Founding Fathers" for their intelligence at writing a document that established the guiding legal principles of the republic for generations. But Marshall was one of the few people pointing out that the original constitution required numerous amendments‚ momentous social transformations‚ and came
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the theory of evolution being incorporated in schools many religious families became severely distressed. Court cases began popping up all over the nation in both favor and opposition towards the new teaching of how life on earth began. The most famous trial being the Scopes trial‚ which effected the education system afterwards due to its intense trail known as Darrow vs Bryan and even the odd conversation that sparked the whole fight. On March 24 1923‚ Oklahoma Governor John Walton signed the
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1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that electrified a nation. In Washington D.C‚ King delivered his speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and as his powerful voice echoed out across an audience of 200‚000 people‚ echoes of the Gettysburg address could be heard as well as the Declaration of Independence and the Bible. It has been called “masterfully delivered and improvised sermon‚ bursting with biblical language and imagery.”The passionate speech is filled with rhetorical devices that
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