Lou Gehrig’s Disease Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ or otherwise known as Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The motor neurons navigate from the brain to the spinal cord‚ and then move onto the muscles through out the body. Lou Gehrig’s disease is a fatal disease with no cure. This disease was given its name from a major league baseball player Lou Gehrig‚ who played for the New York Yankees. Lou suffered from this
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Creative Writing: Speech Assignment 50th Anniversary Speech Hello everyone and thank you for joining me as I reminisce about a beautiful journey that began fifty years ago. It means so much that my family; friends‚ colleagues and students are here today to share memories with me. I have been teaching the third grade for fifty years and it has been a labour of love and a lot of sacrifice was involved. I would like to thank my family who have encouraged and supported me from the beginning of my
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Speech # 1 Informative Speech SPEECH GOAL: I would like the audience to learn and understand the importance of retirement planning at a young age. THESIS STATEMENT: To create a safe financial retirement we need not to rely only on social security but also have other retirement plans such as a 401K and/or an IRA account. INTRODUCTION: I. How many of you expect to live past the age of 60? II. How many of you would like to one day retire and enjoy the golden days of life? III. Today I want
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SOAPSTone Analysis Form Speaker Who is the Speaker? The voice that tells the story. Non-Fiction – the author/speaker and any background information that might bear upon his/her text. Fiction – the narrator‚ not the author‚ and any implied traits or characteristics that might influence the text. Students should go beyond merely identifying the Speaker by name (occasionally‚ none will be given). They should be able to apply outside knowledge to Speaker‚ or infer traits from the text itself
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to the unthinkable amount of hardships African Americans have had to overcome in order to receive even semi-equality throughout the 1960’s and on‚ it is not difficult for one to imagine the adversities one woman of color faced in trying to fight for her right to not only vote‚ but also be treated as an active and equal citizen of the United States. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer‚ née Townsend‚ was born to loving‚ sharecropping parents in 1917. She had nineteen siblings and grew up in Missouri‚ where she picked
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Alyson Smith 2nd Semester AP English Henrietta Lacks SOAPSTone Speaker: Rebecca Skloot is the speaker. She is a woman who has a picture of Henrietta Lacks hanging on her wall. As she was in her community college biology class her professor mentioned Henrietta sparking her knowledge. After hearing about Henrietta‚ Rebecca was intrigued to find out more about the cells and Henrietta’s life. Occasion: Rebecca starts talking in present time as she is looking at the picture on her wall. An example
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6. Why is she or he leaving? What do you think of it? Describe your feelings. 7. Wish her or him all the best for future successes. 8. State: We won’t forget you‚ followed by: You won’t forget us either. And tell why. 9. Conclude your farewell speech with presenting a gift. Hope this works Dave has spent his life delivering letters of congratulations and condolence. He has brought the news and the views of thousands of people to their relatives and friends. He has delivered examination results
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Language Analysis of Lou Gehrig’s Farwell Speech to the Yankees Lou Gehrig was one of the best baseball players to ever play the game. He was blessed with an amazing career playing for the New York Yankees setting many major league records such as 2‚130 consecutive games from 1925 to 1939. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end and on July 4‚ 1939 Gehrig stood before his devoted fans at Yankee Stadium and announced that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The
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Retirement Gamble Before enrolling into this class‚ I can honestly say that I have never really thought about retirement plans. Just like a lot of young people‚ I felt as if retirement was so far away that I don’t need to plan yet. That is a very typical answer‚ but I honestly felt at 19 years old I don’t need to start planning and saving yet. I have a financial advisor that my family and I go to and the last meeting I was in‚ he brought up the idea to start thinking about retirement. I brushed
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Prepares Employees for Retirement BY: MOGOMOTSI DINGALO STUDENT NUMBER: 626027 How the African Union Prepares Employees for Retirement . Introduction Upon retirement an ex employee may face uncertainty‚ depression‚ and other challenges such as insufficient income to pay debt owed‚ unpaid children’s school fees and bills and so on. The African Union Commission recently introduced workshop for employees due to retire in order to prepare them for life after retirement. The workshop covered
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