Below you will find a list of 125 of 250 potential informative speech topics. Be sure to analyze your audience and time limit before selecting a topic. These topics can be used as they are‚ or you might have to make them more precise to suit the situation (available time‚ class requirements‚ etc.). 1. How nuclear power works 2. The biography of your favorite actor 3. How to make pizza 4. The history of comic books 5. How to change your car’s oil 6. The story of how your school was founded
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The response we give or receive from the media regarding serial killers differs from person to person depending on the environment they are in or were brought up in. Violence is something that occurs everyday and everywhere no matter how much most of us wish it didn’t. The media plays a large role in how we receive our information regarding serial killers and that is not just speaking about the news and newspapers. We here about serial killers in fiction books‚ magazines‚ movies and television sitcoms
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Serial Killers: America ’s New Epidemic. Serial killers have been around since the dawn of history‚ their numbers multiplying exponentially within the past five decades. In recent years‚ words such as "baffling" and "mysterious" have become routine to describe the growing phenomenon. It is imperative to develop a workable solution and general understanding of these predators in human form as a new wave of serial murders reach crisis rates in this millennium. More than fifteen-hundred serial killers
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Serial killer ‚ “a person who commits a series of murders‚ often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic‚ predictable behavior pattern”. This is the definition of a serial killer. In our history there has been multiple serial killers‚ you could even say way too many. Ted Bundy was born on November 24‚ 1946 in Burlington‚ Vermont. When born his mother Eleanor Cowell kept him hidden as an illegitimate child. Eleanor was an unmarried twenty two year old. She delivered his to
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List of Informative Speech Topics People/Celebrity Topics •Biography of an actor‚ author‚ painter‚ politician or the life of some influential person who has an important place in history E.g.: Life of Bill Gates‚ Life of Virginia Woolf etc. •Stories of real life heroes E.g. Heroes of 9/11 •Biography of some scientist‚ key inventions and how he/she changed the face of the world •Your favorite television/movie/cartoon character or any other famous personality that you like •Life of serial
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Serial Killers – Are They Born Bad? Throughout history and in the modern world serial killers have been committing murders and creating a sense of fear and horror. In order to answer the question‚ whether serial killers are born bad or become one because of external environment‚ it is necessary that one defines what a serial killer is. A serial killer is a person who unlawfully murders two or more persons in separate events (Giannangelo‚ pg. 5). What distinguishes a serial killer from a murderer
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Perhaps one of the most famous contract killers in history‚ Richard Kuklinski‚ or better known as the Iceman‚ killed these people during his lifelong career. This paper will delve into Kuklinski’s mind and past to prove that the many circumstances and conditions that Kuklinski was subjected to‚ led him to become the absolute perfect killing machine. To understand Kuklinski and his actions‚ it is imperative that one get know him first. Although the famed killer may be dead‚ it is still possible to examine
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there something genetically different about serial killers and murderers? Can their behavior be explained by a difference in their very make-up? Or are they made violent by seeing violence‚ having un-supportive and demanding parents‚ being mentally‚ sexually‚ and physically abused? Nature vs. nurture is one of the most sought after answers in the field of psychology and may never be “answered” but can be “understood” I feel study in the minds of serial killers has helped to define exactly what nature
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an infamous serial killer from Transylvania. Driven by a desire for eternal youth‚ she turned vampirialistic. She would drink the blood of young girls and enjoyed torturing them before their deaths. What made her this way? Let’s investigate. Before we can understand Elizabeth Bathory‚ we have to understand the basic profile of a serial killer. Oftentimes‚ serial killer exhibit traits in childhood. The Macdonald Triad is three of the most common traits shared between serial killers. The triad
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A person who is classified as a serial killer has to have killed 3 or more people with a cooling period of about 30 days between each murder. (Ronald M. Homes‚ 1998) The people involved in these events are the killers and the victims‚ whether the killer is murdering people he or she knows and for a specific reason‚ but sometimes the killer doesn’t know the victims and is just killing them out of pleasure. Serial killers have been around since time began but they have different from then and now.
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