You have been invited to give a speech to the Australian Speaking Society on the topic ‘great speeches – the secret of success.’ Write the transcript for the speech including references to at least three speeches set for study. *** Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ an American essayist‚ lecturer and poet of the mid-19th century once said: “Speech is power: speech is to persuade‚ to convert‚ to compel‚” and how correct is he even today. Speeches are an essential form of communication in our society as it has
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describe a little bit about watermelon and how it came to my country. i. Description: Watermelon comes in many various sizes‚ shapes‚ and colors. It weighs pounds and is full of sweet watery juice. ii. History: There is a legend about a young man‚ Mai An Tiem‚ got expelled to an isolated island because of his lack of gratitude to Hung King. One day‚ there was a white pheasant flew from the west and dropped down some strange seeds. He picked them up and planted them. Then‚ he became wealthy because
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little more effort‚ and what seemed hopeless failure may turn into glorious success.” The right figure whom I can quote here is Colonel Sanders. Many of us enjoy the finger licking good meals of Kentucky Fried Chicken today‚ but do you know that‚ the man behind this world
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punished but excused. He suffers from a mental disease which may be due to physiological defect. The crimes which are deliberate breaches of the moral law should be punished‚ because they are not caused by physiological defects. But in insanity the man is alienated from himself and his acts are not his own. He ceases to be a person‚ and may therefore be treated as a thing. He looses self-control and should therefore be controlled from without. If we reduce all crimes to pathological phenomena‚ we
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Chapter 6 Decision Making and Ethics Chapter Learning Objectives Compare and contrast the rational model of decision-making and Simon’s normative model. Discuss the contingency model for selecting a solution. Explain the model of decision-making styles and the stages of the creative process. Explain how participative management affects performance. Review Vroom and Jago’s decision-making model. Contrast brainstorming‚ the nominal group technique‚ the Delphi technique‚ and computer-aided
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In computing‚ an input device is any peripheral (piece of computer hardware equipment) used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system such as a computer or other information appliance. Examples of input devices include keyboards‚ mice‚ scanners‚ digital cameras and joysticks. Many input devices can be classified according to: * modality of input (e.g. mechanical motion‚ audio‚ visual‚ etc.) * the input is discrete (e.g. key presses) or continuous (e.g. a mouse’s
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Vocabulary Activities for The Old Man and the Sea So you’ve chosen to read The Old Man and the Sea‚ by Ernest Hemingway. Good choice! This book won the Pulitzer Prize for excellence in literature in 1953. Activity #1: Word Sorts Write the words from the Word Banks on index cards or slips of paper. Mix them together and sort them into three groups: words you know well‚ words you know a little about‚ and words you have never encountered before. Spread the words out rather than piling
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on the absolute ruin of self that one faces through Socrates words. Straight from his introduction with‚ “Good evening‚ gentleman. I’m plastered‚” (Symposium 213 A) it appears‚ as this speech will be a random comedic interlude to distract from the ideas of the form that had just come about in the end of The Speech of Diotima. However‚ there is an underlying sense of tragedy and the ruin of self behind Alcibiades stories. Alcibiades is completely transformed by Socrates words‚ “If I were to describe
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BAHUROOPEE GANDHI Written By Anu Bandopadhyaya Forwarded By Jawaharlal Nehru Forward This book is for children. But I am sure that many grown-ups will read it with pleasure and profit. Already Gandhiji has become a legend. Those who have not seen him‚ especially the children of today‚ must think of him as a very unusual person‚ a superman who performed great deeds. It is desirable‚ therefore‚ for the common aspects of his life to be placed before them‚ as is done by this book
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A child’s education starts from his or her mother at home. In this context what Gandhiji said was true. For he said‚ “If you educate a man‚ you educate ah individual‚ but if you educate a woman‚ you educate an entire family” Education of a child starts from the family and mother is the first teacher. But‚ the irony in India is that although the deity of education is a female i.e. Goddess Saraswati according to the Hinduism‚ innumerable number of women are illiterate. In most of the families the birth
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