Persuasive Speech - Merger A MERGER has a great deal in common with a marriage. In both cases‚ each side needs to be clear-eyed about the other’s strengths and weaknesses‚ to find areas where the partners can work together and other areas where they could each use some personal space. As in a marriage there is always a discussion about whether a name change will occur‚ and couples may fight about whether to keep or toss one person’s beloved orange sofa. Merging companies too often botch their strategizing
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A Persuasive Speech about “Why Smoking Should be Illegal” Abbie Carter 8A Hello‚ today I am here to talk to you about the life-threatening consequences smoking can have and why I believe that it should be illegal. Across the world‚ even in the most deprived areas‚ millions of people are smoking. Every minute of every day‚ these smokers‚ young and old‚ are paying for cigarettes to feed their deadly craving. It is a well-known fact that smoking can seriously damage your health‚ not to forget the innocent
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engineering graduates is shrinking. Students no longer see the aerospace industry as a choice career path. Higher-paying private sector jobs are alluring‚ and interest in federal service is declining. Together‚ those factors raise serous questions about NASA ’s ability to recruit and retain a new generation of scientists‚ engineers and technologists needed to send astronauts back to the moon by 20250 and then on to Mars years after that. Nearly 40 percent of the 18‚146 people at NASA are age 50 or
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Skill – Reading Comprehension Name: _________________________ Is Pluto a Planet? By: National Geographic Kids (Adapted by Have Fun Teaching) Many people are saying that Pluto is no longer a planet. Are they right? Is Pluto no longer a planet? There’s debate in the scientific world about this issue. National Geographic News says that‚ according to the International Astronomical Union‚ a full-fledged planet is an object that orbits the sun and is large enough to have become round due to the
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harm to our earth‚ would you be concerned? Today‚ our carbon emissions are skyrocketing so alarmingly fast‚ the atmosphere has not been this warm in 66 million years. The excess carbon has caused a five degree fahrenheit increase in our planet’s atmosphere over the past few years (NationalGeographic). Although that does not seem like too drastic of a change‚ that increase is triggering floods‚ insect plagues‚ and extinction in many species. Our wasteful attitude toward this planet has caused excessive
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the surface of Mars is about 100 times less dense than the atmosphere of Earth. The Martian atmosphere is dense enough to support a weather system that includes clouds and winds. According to experts‚ Mars ’ roller coaster-like weather is more chaotic and unpredictable than scientists first thought. At times‚ the sky can appear pink and cloudless‚ filled with windblown dust raised from the rusty Martian surface. Tremendous dust storms sometimes rage over the entire planet. Most of the dust storms
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learned that Pluto is not just a giant ball of ice‚ but has a molten core just like Earth‚ and may have the right ingredients to possibly hold life. Although this sparked a possibility of life outside of earth; we should start exploring at our oceans first. It is part of human nature to be curious about what is beyond our horizon. But before we see what’s past it‚ we should find about what is right under it. Only about 10% of the ocean floor has been charted‚ much less than the dark side of the moon
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STUDENT NAME/SECTION: Addie Chan - 017 1. Topic: Do Not Procrastinate 2. Circle the General Purpose of your speech: (to inform or to persuade) 3. List the Main Points that you will develop: I. The disadvantages for procrastinating II. The advantages for not procrastinating 4. Method of organization: Circle One Method Below Chronological; Spatial; Topical; Cause/Effect; Problem/Cause/Solution; Problem/Solution; Comparative Advantages; Monroe’s Motivated Sequence: [Attention‚ Need‚ Satisfaction
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Persuasive Speech Outline “Computed Mediated Communication” I. Introduction: A. Attention-Getter: How many of you can actually remember the days when you had to communicate via the phone or through letters‚ when you had to actually write checks and present them to humans to get cash‚ or had to go to the library to do literally all of your research? B. Link-to Audience: Most of us can’t imagine life without email‚ ATM machines‚ or the Internet because we rely on these things everyday
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purpose of my persuasive speech was to influence the audience to be more involved in the community by volunteering. I felt that my speech was suitably organized with a sustainable attention getter‚ a clearly organized body and a storytelling conclusion. I started the speech by asking the audience‚ “Has anyone ever stopped to help you when you were in a time of need and want to pay it forward by making a difference in someone else’s life‚ then why not volunteer?” In the body of my speech I included a
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