Should School Be Year Around? Baker College Oral Communications Persuasive Speech 11/19/2013 Specific Purpose: To inform the audience on the pros of attending school all year around. Central Idea: Year around schooling provides many benefits to the students such as less summer learning loss‚ vacation can be distributed throughout the year‚ and families with child care can benefit from it. Introduction 1. What exactly is schooling all year around? 2. Shorter Summer breaks
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Every day‚ millions and millions of people around the world decide to go on vacation‚ and travel somewhere they have never been to before. Whether it is one of the many sunny beaches of Hawaii‚ the gothic buildings of Europe‚ or the bright nightclubs of New York City‚ people choose to experience the excitement of being in a place foreign to them. Nevertheless‚ one place that will guarantee your family a lifetime’s worth of fun and adventure is the state of Alaska: a place filled with vast national
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high school students spend the spring semester of their junior year stressing and studying for one of the most important tests that will get them into college‚ the SAT. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)‚ created in 1920‚ is used to select each year’s incoming freshman class.(source ) The “standardized test” is regarded as the test that will predict how students do in college. Therefore‚ colleges use students SAT score as the deciding factor on whether they are accepted into their dream school or denied
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Walker Mr. McGillivray ENG 4U February 3‚ 2013 Memories for a life time Everyone tells you that high school will be the best part of your life. But which part of high school is that? Is it sitting through long courses‚ the endless hours of homework‚ losing friends‚ getting your heart broken‚ or getting bad grades that you don’t deserve? When I look back at the last couple years of high school there was a lot of good and bad‚ but all the most memorable times was during extra curricular activities
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Many people are not getting vaccinated to prevent themselves from getting diseases. This is not just affecting adults‚ but also young kids who are getting sick easily. Children should get vaccinated at six months and up because we all want our children to prevent getting diseases. Many of us think vaccines cause autism‚ but researchers say‚ it does not give you autism. Vaccines are important to get because if they were not‚ then why would Disneyland be closed because people spread the virus‚ which
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cyberbullying is becoming more common. This leads me to believe that individuals should be prosecuted for cyberbullying. Kids who are cyberbullied are more likely to use alcohol and drugs‚ skip school‚ have a lower self-esteem‚ and also have more health issues. Approximately 30‚000 teens skip school every day due to the fear of being bullied or from being cyberbullied. Even though‚ cyberbullying can not physically harm anyone‚ it still hurts people emotionally and causes them to feel insecure
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teenagers excel in school. An early curfew will also grant teens more time to study and form a healthy bond with their family. Curfews positively affect teens in many different ways. Others believe that curfews unfairly interfere in teenagers’ lives. Many teenagers play a high school sport. Students usually do not arrive at the school until very late after a sporting event. Many varsity level games are not over until nine o’clock at night. Therefore‚ students do not arrive at school until ten o’clock
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There are many kids throughout the world that play sports. Some of them start playing at a young age like I did. I started playing volleyball‚ golf and basketball in the third or fourth game and I started playing softball at an even younger age‚ in kindergarten. I know that a lot of kids look up to many well known sports stars like Steph Curry‚ Tom Brady‚ Serena Williams and Ronda Rousey. The kids that look up to these stars want to have the same skills as them like‚ being able to shoot threes from
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individuals to receive world news in a matter of seconds. Social networks have become micro-blogs that people use as tools for political and social revolutions. Henry Jenkins‚ a media scholar and Professor of Journalism and Cinematic Arts‚ argues in his essay "Convergence Cultures‚" that technology convergence is actually a cultural movement that ordinary people participate in (434). Jenkins claims that "when people take media into their own hands‚ the results can be wonderfully creative; they can also
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hands us and sometimes it is good‚ but sometimes it is bad. A great activity offered by schools is softball and I am very thankful for that. First‚ softball makes a big difference in health. Second‚ we can get a good scholarship by playing softball and if we are a good enough player. Last‚ if we play softball‚ we are able to get physical with the other players. As can be seen‚ it is a good thing schools give us the opportunity to have all these great activities.
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