Immediately‚ I had my topic chosen for the Oral Communications second speech‚ the Informative Speech; usually it takes me ages to come up with a subject‚ so it was nice to get the most difficult part of it out of the way straight from the get-go. I was prepared well in advance and had an extravagant introduction and conclusion planned. My outline and sources were finished and put together before many of my classmates that I knew of‚ and I was rehearsed and felt confident. It was an interesting
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Informative Speech Topics The following come from this site: http://www.goodspeechtopics.com/informational-speech-topics.html Informational Speech Topics 1. 1. Personality tests 2. 2. Who are the libertarians? 3. 3. Aromatheraphy 4. 4. What is inflation? 5. 5. Electric cars 6. 6. What was Watergate? 7. 7. Political parties 8. 8. Describe a piece of current legislation 9. 9. Biography of an important person...........who is...? 10. 10. History of an event (Halloween‚ etc.)‚ or describe
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Halloween Throughout the last decades Halloween has been traced back since two thousand years ago to the ancient times in Europe when the Celtic people celebrated the beginning of winter on the evening of October thirty-first. The Celtic people believed that death was strongly linked to the long and bitter winter. They thought that during the winter the dead and the living existed simultaneously. In the 1800s the Christians began to gain authority and the history of Halloween was forever changed
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Halloween is celebrated on 31st October annually. It is a mix of ancient Celtic practices‚ Catholic and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions. It is said to be a day when the dead will return to earth and the ancient celts will light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off these roaming ghosts. 1. Why did the ancient Celts begin the tradition of wearing masks and costumes on Halloween? Answer: To trick evil spirits. 2. According to superstition‚ a person born on Halloween has what
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Final Draft Is it appropriate for students to trick-or-treat on Halloween? Every year‚ I see nothing wrong with Middle School students trick-or-treating. I think it is appropriate for them to participate in the tradition of Halloween trick-or-treating. Three reasons why I think it is appropriate for students to trick-or-treat are: the fun of getting free candy‚ dressing up‚ and being able to hang out with friends on Halloween. My first reason why I think it is appropriate to trick-or-treat
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Informative Speech Assignment Type: Informative Speech – must contain the essential characteristics of an informative speech: clarity‚ association of new ideas with old ones‚ coherence and motivational appeal. Length: Speech will be from 5 to 6 minutes. Topic: Above and beyond all else‚ an informative speech must share information with the audience that they don’t already know. Pick something that you know about and are interested in enough to research. The topic must also be relevant and/or
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Speech Topic: The Importance of Sleep Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about how a bad sleep can influence our body physically and mentally‚ and steps to improve the quality of sleep. Audience Analysis: (Refer to chapter on Audience Analysis)(RU Core Goal: a) Summarize Audience demographics‚ prior exposure/knowledge‚ common ground/interest‚ disposition/attitude‚ and situational characteristics. Recognizing that most of my audiences are busy with study and after-class activities‚
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thought that my Informative Speech went very well. There were a few things that I think I can improve on‚ but other than those little hiccups I think that I executed it very well. To prepare for the speech‚ I practiced three times. One time in front of my mother‚ one time in front of my whole family‚ then on time by myself. These practices really helped me feel more confident about what I was going to say and help me figure out what I needed to add and or put in to make the speech better. I felt
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Halloween Halloween is the night of October 31‚ the eve of All Saints’ Day‚ commonly celebrated by children who dress in costume and ask for candy or other treats door-to-door. Halloween has evolved from the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain to a modern Halloween that has become fewer ghosts and monsters and more about costumes and candy. The Celtic also marked this day as the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter. The Celtic believed that it was a transition between the seasons
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David Hopper COMMS 2110 Austenfeld 04/02/16 Informative Speech Formal Outline Thesis: There are physical and social effects of alcohol that are not only detrimental to your own physiological and psychological well being‚ but also to those you interact with. I. Alcohol is a general term denoting a family of organic chemicals with common properties. Members of this family include ethanol‚ methanol‚ isopropanol‚ and others. This introduction discusses the physical‚ chemical‚ and physiological
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