OUTLINE FOR THE SECOND SPEECH College Show ‘n’ Tell Speech Prompt Student Name: Katie C.R. Handel Day and time of class: M/W 12:12-1:25 SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: I WILL SPEAK ABOUT Germany‚ surgery‚ unknown future TO AN AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE WHO are a general audience of college students FOR THE PURPOSE OF Informing my peers about my past‚ present‚ and future Speech Content: I. INTRODUCTION A. attention statement B. thesis Today I hope that
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Riordan Manufacturing has three operating entities Georgia‚ Michigan and California plus a joint venture in the People’s Republic of China. Basically‚ the operating entities each have their own Finance & Accounting Systems and they provide input that is consolidated at Corporate San Jose. The basic components of each system are as follows: General Ledger Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Order Entry Procurement Sales and Purchasing History Invoicing and Shipping Payroll Financial
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The Lighting Thief By: Rick Riordan This book is about a young boy who learns that he has superpowers and is destined to be a hero enters a new school where he makes fast friends with a brainy girl and a geeky boy‚ makes fast enemies with an entire section of the school‚ and excels at their unique sport. No‚ I’m not talking about Harry Potter. The hero in question is Percy Jackson‚ who may not have a lightning scar‚ but does set out on a quest to
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Proposal #1 1. Topic: I am studying the definition of art through the life and works of Rick Riordan 2. Question: because I want to find out how he portrayed the different characters of Greek mythology in his “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series 3. Significance: in order to help my reader understand how pop culture influenced different modern retellings of Greek mythology Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series focuses on a modern retelling of Greek mythology
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Aunty Em also offered them the item they needed the most‚ free food. Not only did the food taste good‚ but also its smell was irresistible. Percy even said‚ “The aroma was like laughing gas in the dentist’s chair—it made everything else go away”(Riordan 173). Additionally‚ I assume that both Grover and Annabeth caught on right away‚ but Percy was too engulfed in the food to notice anything was wrong. So when his friends started asking questions‚ he just denied them. I also believe a reason they overlooked
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Contents Chapter One ....................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter Two........................................................................................................................................ 7 Chapter Three ................................................................................................................................... 16 Chapter Four ............................
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Percy Jackson is an interesting character. In the book The Lightning theif by Rick Riordan the main character Percy Jackson is somebody that changes a lot. He started as an outcast who gets picked on daily and becomes the Demigod (a demigod is somebody with a normal human parent and one god parent) that everyone wants to be and looks up to. Percy’s change didn’t happen overnight though; it took him the course of the book for his true colors to show. Beginning the book off‚ Percy has a negative
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Percy Jackson The Lightning Thief is a book about a 12 year old boy named Percy Jackson. He has Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD and dyslexia. At the beginning of the book Percy has one friend named Grover. At first Percy does not know that he is a demigod. Percy’s mother was driving him and Grover to Camp Halfblood. On the way there a Minotaur attacks them and before he kills it the Minotaur takes his mother to the underworld‚ but it looks like she died. When he first gets to Camp
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Annabeth join him and Luke gives a powerful shield of his own to protect Percy. Will they be able to succeed? 4.Percy Jackson & the Olympians‚ often shortened to just Percy Jackson‚ is a pentalogy of adventure and fiction books written by Rick Riordan. The Lightning Thief is about a twelve-year-old dyslexic ADHD boy‚ Percy Jackson. Once after returning home from his boarding school‚ Percy and his mother Sally Jackson‚ decide to go to the beach in Montauk. After a series of tragedies at Montauk
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Ryan Brandon T-2 9/19/09 The Lightning Thief My book‚ The Lightning Thief‚ was written by Rick Riordan. It is a fantasy/adventure fiction. The publishing company is Miramax books‚ and the date of publication is 2005. The cost of the book is $7.99‚ and there are 376 pages. The main character’s name is Percy. He goes to boarding school in New York‚ and has been kicked out of several schools before. One day‚ he and his class are on a field trip‚ and during that trip his math teacher
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