Jesse Johnson Speech Bailey April 12‚ 2005 Persuasive Speeches When starting to think about what I am going to do for my persuasive speech I tried to think of a topic that I am going to be able to learn something from and also a topic that I already know something about. I was thinking of doing a speech on legalizing marijuana but I feel that a lot of people do speeches on this so I wanted to think of a new topic. I really have not thought about what
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Hazing is a social war between the coming high schoolers of today‚ causing young adults to take their own lives every year as and escape from being sent to a learning environment only to be surrounded by the negative tendency of their peers. Teasing and picking on some to an extent to where that person kills them self is cruel and inhumane. Athletic code of conduct was a code passed after 5 kids were so called horse playing but later being described and charged with battery assault by mob and Hazing
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CONSTRAINTS ON EFFECTIVE PERSUASIVE SPEAKING Selective Listening -audience attends to messages‚ interprets them ‚ and remembers them selectively -if vague or unclear the audience will “clarify” with their views -start with areas of agreement and move to differences -audience may ignore message because of common ground Selective Perception Denial- refuse to accept a message that challenges them to change no matter what Dismissal- dispute that the message doesn’t apply to them Belittling
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Hazing: The Right Form of Brotherhood? Brotherhood‚ according to Merriam Webster dictionary‚ is the condition or quality of being brothers. It is an association of men‚ a fraternity or union‚ united for common purposes. But this brotherhood has its conditions. Members have to go through “hazing” which serves as a ritual which involves humiliating‚ abusing‚ and harassing as a way of initiating a person into the group. If brotherhood is what these groups are for‚ then why do hazings
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Informative and Persuasive Virgilio Caban South University Assignment 2 Abstract In order to understand the two types of speeches we listen to first we must understand the meaning of each‚ for example the Informative speech is as the word states ‘to give information’. The second the Persuasive speech is where a person (the speaker) is trying to convince or sway the audience to follow his/her ideas. Human beings are in general terms visual learners‚ when an individual is presenting a speech
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Traditional hazing at colleges means for a new freshman or “pledges” to perform strenuous‚ humiliating‚ or dangerous tasks in order to be accepted into a sorority. At a California State university two young pledges were found dead due to drowning on a beach near Los Angeles. It was discovered that the pledges were blind folded and their hands were tied before entering the water. The two women were forced to do this after days of no sleep‚ and the women were also forced to do embarrassing and hard
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Hazing has always been seen as a secretive campus activity when it comes to fraternities and pledging. A series of many cases of injuries and deaths related to fraternity hazing activities occurred in the United States over periods of time. Young college men are being hospitalized and even worse‚ dying‚ just for a couple of friends that give them a sense of belonging. The major causes of hazing are the students’ wanting a sense of belonging in a big college campus‚ the college’s infrequent knowledge
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Hazing in universities across the nation has become an increasingly dangerous ritual that is seemingly becoming more difficult to put an end to due to its development into an "underground" activity. Though a regular activity in the seventies‚ hazing‚ a possible dangerous act of initiation to a group‚ has now become an activity that is banned in thirty-nine states (Wagner 16). However‚ this ritual has not been stopped or become less severe. In fact it is becoming more dangerous. Since it has been
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Chap 1. Purpose for persuasive strategies a. To strengthen commitment i. Move readers further along the scale in the direction they were already headed ii. Listeners may vaguely remember these arguments but had not considered them carefully iii. Very common approach b. To weaken commitment iv. Moving listeners closer to the middle of the scale v. Hostile Audience: An audience this is strongly committed in opposition to the views of
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1‚954 words Along with many other so called traditions in this world hazing is one behavior that has just gotten out of control. With the way the world is today‚ and how long hazing has been going on I believe it will never be stopped. Hazing is involved in so many things in this world. There are some groups out there that people have to go through tasks just for applying. Then after if he or she makes it in there are more tests and tasks to go through. It goes on in sports‚ colleges‚ the military
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