Chapter 2 Giving your firs speech: developing confidence Three different purposes for giving a speech (p. 25). -Do you want them to learn something? If so‚ your general purpose is to inform. -Do you want them to respond by believing or doing something? Then‚ your general purpose is to persuade. -Do you want them simply to laugh and enjoy themselves? Your purpose is to entertain. 4 different ways to introduce a topic (p. 27) -orient the audience by drawing their attention to subject
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found across different works of art. Songs such as “If Today Was Your Last Day” and poems similar to “Oh‚ The Places You’ll Go” present the idea of the future. While the future is uncertain the emotions portrayed in these works make the concept seem less frightening. “If Today Was Your Last Day” is a song clearly about living life in the moment‚ because of the uncertainty in life. With lines such as “leave no stone unturned”‚ “leave your fears behind”‚ and “every second counts”‚ this song encourages
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Poem in Your Pocket Day originally began in April of 2002 in celebration of New York City’s National Poetry Month. The Mayor of New York‚ along with the Departments of Cultural Affairs and Education‚ introduced Poem in Your Pocket Day to the residents of New York City. Residents were encourage to select a poem‚ carry it with them throughout the day‚ and share it with others. In 2008‚ the entire country was encouraged by the Academy of American Poets to join the poetry day making it a national celebration
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The last day of my high school career is fast approaching and I can only imagine how I’ll be feeling when I step out of S.F. Austin’s grounds for the very last time. Throughout these four years‚ I have felt a lot of urgency about graduating high school. I didn’t think that the time to graduate would come soon enough. But now‚ that time is finally nearing. I cannot believe that it has come this fast. <br><br>I remember my first days of high school. I was just dying to experience all the new and exciting
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was yelling at my sister and me‚ “Get up girls it’s time to go school.” I didn’t understand why she was so excited. I miserably dragged myself out of bed; I just wanted to crawl and hide and the blanket. It was a cold day in March 1999‚ I was fourteen years old‚ and it was my first day of school in America. I was scared. My sister and I got ready‚ but we were not happy. We knew we had to go to school‚ and mom would not let us stay home. We walked to the bus stop right across the street from our house
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The Pros of a Six Hour Workday Tic‚ tic‚ tic‚ that’s all you think about while you sit at work‚ watching the hours‚ minutes slowly pass you by. Six hour workdays are better for your mind‚ body‚ and paycheck. During the Industrial Revolution‚ factory workers used to work around 12 hours a day‚ until Henry Ford came along and changed that‚ making his factory run on 8 hour days. People with the opposing view‚ believe that "allowing employees to work shorter hours . They found it was bad for workers’
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The first day of school‚ and even more exciting‚ the first day of middle school. Sixth grade! Oh how grown up I thought I was! Unfortunately‚ though‚ my euphoria quickly dissipated. Whilst standing at the bus stop fantasizing about all of the friends I would make and the fun projects I would do‚ the other kids at the bus stop started to laugh at me and call me names. They were making fun of the fact that I didn’t wear matching clothes. This was the first time that I realized that I was being made
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Sixty days into the “First Hundred Days” of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency‚ he updates the nation on the progress they have made‚ and what is in store for the future. May‚ 7th‚ 1933 he uses the fireside chat as a platform to push forward proposed bills that Congress had yet to act upon and encourage his nation to stand behind him. The first opportunity he speaks of is employing jobless young men‚ which will be later be known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Roosevelt intended for
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loud‚ it could be heard in china. The town were very grateful for these two young boys‚ well‚ for the most part at least. Dan and Phil’s first day at school was quite interesting! They woke up‚ very excited for a new place‚ a new building. They got ready‚ put on their matching t- shirts and hopped into their parents flying car and made their way to school. At first‚ all of the children stared at the two like they were straight from a story book. The two boys walked by everyone slowly‚ And hiding his
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In The Hours Intertextuality is a term first introduced by French semiotician Julia Kristeva in the late sixties. She says that a literary work is not simply the product of a single author‚ but of its relationship to other texts and to the strucutures of language itself. "Any text‚" she argues‚ "is constructed of a mosaic of quotations; any text is the absorption and transformation of another." ( www.litencyclopedia.com‚ Kristeva: Word‚ Dialogue‚ and Novel‚ 1966). The Hours is a piece
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