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    Speaker: Alisen Lafaive‚ Gender Studies major at Clarkson University Date of Speech: October 26th‚ 2013 Location: Clarkson University Occasion: Gender Conference Subject: Women advancing in the Physician Assistant Program Alisen Lafaive started by informing everyone of how many educational and career opportunities the Physician

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    understand…all small things that can change a person’s day‚ week‚ or month. When Ashton Kutcher gave his speech at the Teen Choice Awards in 2013 he thanked the teens and encouraged them to value the small things in life. His casual tone and his word choice creates a speech for teens to remember. In this generation the way somebody says something makes a difference. Ashton starts his speech off by saying‚ "what’s up?" This is an extremely casual tone which makes the listeners feel like they can

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    Bias The speech it obviously catering towards females‚ the speech was presented at a U.N. Women’s Conference‚ this speech is about the rights women should expect to receive under human rights. While using the politics to reinforce the rights of women she is using political bias and she is using a gender bias. Rhetorical Devices This speech has a couple rhetorical devices‚ the first one I found was a Rhetorical question when she said‚ “Wasn’t it after all after the women’s conference in Nairobi

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    "Nobody reports on what the speech was even about‚" he said. "At least I saw the movie ‘Gattaca.’ I read the book ‘1984.’ They didn’t even read my damn

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    Coercive Acts and Quebec Act The Coercive Acts and the Quebec Acts were British responses to actions that were taking place in the British colonies in America. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts passed during the spring of 1774. The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the people paid for all the tea that was thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party. The amount of tea thrown over was equal to more than seven hundred thousand dollars in the year 2007. Parliament also passed

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    response to that lack of financial accountability‚ the government passed the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ with the goal in mind to restore the confidence of investors‚ while protecting the capital markets. The government recognized the need for corporations and businesses to have strong internal controls in place‚ as an important element for rebuilding confidence and trust. Section 404 of the act stresses the need to perform an annual evaluation of internal controls and procedures for financial

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    level of violence to a country still recovering from its first civil war (1989-96). And much of that violence was directed at women. During this speech by the Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee‚ she tells us powerful stories to tell of her own life’s transformation and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. During my analyzation of the speech‚ I started off by looking at Leymah’s projection‚ clarity‚ and charisma. Leymah project’s herself amazingly‚ by have an amazing personality and

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    Red Cloud’s speech was directed towards all white people who were taking the Sioux Nation’s land and to the United States government. In his speech he asked for help from the whites to bring peace and put an end to the hostility between the Native Americans and the white people. Red Cloud was the chief of one of the Sioux tribes. He asked for help and informed all of the white people that Native Americans were the same as the whites. He told them that the Native Americans wanted peace and were only

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    Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet; Act 1 and Act 2 Analysis Act 1 Scene 1 • The setting of the play is in Verona Italy. • The Capulet’s are people that like to start fights and say harsh things to the Montague’s; Example: Sampson: “I won’t eat dirt. If a Montague insults me. I will spit on him. And I will spit on all those Montague women too”. This is an example that tells us that the Capulet’s are harsh people who like to start a fight. • The Montague seem like peacekeepers and

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    It showed how one incident happened right after another following a similar script. Gladwell used hand gestures to demonstrate the similarities of the actions seen in videos recorded by the school shooters. I appreciated the organization of his speech. He started off giving facts and then into ideas of the reasoning’s behind school shootings. I didn’t get a vibe that his information what at

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