Informative Speech Purpose: To inform or educate the audience about a topic of your choice. Time: 4-6 minutes Topic: Choose a topic that interests you and would probably interest your audience (the class). Consider what your audience already knows about this topic and what their attitude about this topic will be. Do not inform us of something we already know tons about. You may not choose something that could be done as a demonstration speech. Requirements: - You must inform the audience
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Commemorative speech about Michael Jackson My Favorite idol Special person‚ one of the greatest contributor to American pop music industry. Influenced billions of people worldwide with his many self-composed songs and dance moves Famously known to have changed his skin colour Won total of 13 Grammy awards (8 in one night during the 1984 Grammy award ceremony which earned him an entry in the Guisness world record ) A controversial figure. But let’s just focus on his achievements and his
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The Lottery is a short story written by Shirley Jackson. This story takes place in a small town located in the US. This story happened on 27 June at10 am in the morning. It is a warm and bright day. It is a perfect day to celebrate the lottery‚ which is the huge annual ceremony for this town. All the citizen joins together in the town square to rejoice this event. The children are playing on the plaza and gathering the stones‚ they look exciting and anxiously. It seems to be a common celebration
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to that of life in countries like Mexico with issues of poverty and alcohol and drug abuse. Starting at a very young age Alexie had overcome many obstacles as does his characters in his stories. In the short story‚ “This is What It Means to Say Phoenix‚ Arizona‚” the author Sherman Alexie shows the struggles of Native Americans in a white man’s world. To help us better understand these struggles‚ this paper will analyze the characters‚ theme and setting of this story. The characters of a story
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DNA to protect the ones close to us‚ but not always the ones outside of the family. A good person does not care if they are related to the person they are trying to help. They extend their love and care to all people‚ no matter who they are. Percy Jackson‚ no matter what he faces‚ never leaves anyone behind. When Grover sacrifices his life so Percy could make it back to Olympus and stop the war from happening‚ Percy goes back for him. Percy never forgot about grover and showed that by going back to
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Title : Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief The book of The Lightning Thief was written by Rick Riordan and published in June 28‚ 2005 by Disney Hyperion Books. The book’s genre is a fantasy literature about the world of half-bloods‚ heroes and Greek mythology. Riordan started the story when is son got interested in Greek mythology he asked his dad to tell him myths as the bed time story. When Riordan ran out of myths to tell him his son asked him to make up one. So Riordan made a character named
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They left later in the day and were 25 miles away from Washington D.C. . My son wrote “We arrived by railroads and there are more troops than we thought‚ this’ll be a close one.” I received news today that Stonewall Jackson received his name from this war. His real name is Thomas J. Jackson which none of us knew because all the town heard about was “Stonewall
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supplied the money to all of the players that were involved in the throwing. One particular player out of the starting nine was “Shoeless” Joe Jackson‚ an all star and a future Hall of Famer. He was one of the first players in the court case who pleaded guilty for taking money to intentionally lose the 1919 Baseball World Series. After the court ruling‚ Jackson told reporters‚ “The jury could not have returned a fairer verdict‚ but I don’t want to go back to organized baseball--I’m through with it.”
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Bo Jackson Thesis statement: Bo Jackson is talented in about any area of sports. He s also one of strongest men ever known. Bo is very generous to kids that have problems or disabilities. Bo has one of the biggest decisions of his life to make. He needs to decide what kind of career he’d like to make. He could choose either football or baseball. Bo won the Heisman award in football and will be the number one draft pick in the NFL. But the problem is‚ Hugh Culverhouse of the Buccaneers wants
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The theme of “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson Things may not always be as they seem in our lives. This is shown in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson from 1949. The story begins describing a small‚ peaceful town that seems normal and it actually is throughout the story‚ but that is just because the reader doesn’t have all the details and we just assume that everything is alright. There are several themes and hidden messages throughout the story‚ but “not being able to dismiss or reject a certain
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