Speech Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the National Association for Business Economics 50th Annual Meeting‚ Washington‚ D.C. October 7‚ 2008 Current Economic and Financial Conditions Good afternoon. I am pleased to have once again the opportunity to address the National Association for Business Economics. My remarks today will focus on recent developments in the financial sector and the economy and on the challenges we face. As you know‚ financial systems in the United States and in much of
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The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types of
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1 Of Speech .. SPEAKING IN PUBLIC CHAPTER’S SUMMARY PUBLIC SPEAKING Public speaking has been a vital form of empowerment. It can and often does make a difference in things people care about very much. The key phrase here is “make a difference.” This is what most of us want to do in life –to make a difference‚ to change the world in some small way. Public speaking offers you an opportunity to make a difference in something you care about very much. “Speech communication
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Tyesha Moore Monday 7p.m.-9:50p.m. PERSUASIVE SPEECH Operation Smile Tyesha Moore March 30‚ 2011 Public Speaking Honor Code__________Tyesha Moore____ Ms. Wills General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience why they should donate to Operation Smile. Central Idea: Operation Smile is a charity organization to help children around the world with cleft lip and cleft palates. Organization Method: Problem-Solution
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SPEECH Prepare a five (5) minutes speech to be presented to Administrators of Teachers’ Colleges to persuade them to include Civics in the curriculum in all teacher training programmes. Welcome: good afternoon presidents‚ vice presidents and teacher it is great to have you all at our annual teachers’ forum. Today I will synthesize the administrators of the teachers’
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King’s Speech” The main characters in the king’s speech are the King who’s called Bertie in the movie and is played by Colin Firth‚ the Queen Elizabeth who is played by Helena Bonham Carter and Lionel Logue who is played by Geoffrey Rush. Also through out the movies you see the Kings daughters and many other people who play a role in his life. Mostly it focuses on the king‚ his wife‚ and the doctor. The Kings Speech is nothing like a usual wartime movie. Instead it’s about the king’s speech and
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Starting Right Corporation There are four options for investors. 1) Corporate Bond 2) Preferred Stock 3) Common Stock 4) Do not invest Total money Yield of $30000 invested Percentage After 5 years Favorable Market Unfavorable Market Favorable Market Unfavorable Market Corporate Bond 13.00% 20‚000 $25‚273 $20‚000 84.24% 66.67% Preferred Stock 400% 50% $90‚000 ($15‚000) 300.00% -50.00% Common Stock 800% 0% $210‚000 ($30‚000)
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THE APP Does freedom of speech give people the right to use hate speech? Luke Mercer 5A1 Luke Mercer 5A1 Does freedom of speech give People the right to use hate speech? What is ‘freedom of speech’ and why is it important in our modern day society? Freedom of speech is the right‚ guaranteed by the first amendment to the
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Persuasive speech outline purpose: To persuade my audience to donate blood through the American Red Cross. Introduction: 1. Did you know that blood donated to the American Red Cross saves XXX lives per year? 2. People should give blood because it is easy and though there might be a little pain involved it is worth it because it saves so many lives and you get great snacks. Body: I. Giving blood is easy a. It only takes about an hour b. You just lay back and let the nurses do the work c. It
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I. Introduction A. With one stroke of the pen‚ Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery. That was 148 yrs ago. But today‚ there are more people enslaved than ever before in history‚ as stated in the book The Slave Next Door. B. I believe it’s time for the world to focus on acknowledging that slavery still exists; it’s never gone away‚ and Human Trafficking has proven that. C. Many are still unfamiliar with the seriousness of human trafficking
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