Speech critique My critique is written based on a speech‚ called “The puzzle of motivation”‚ that Dan Pink gave on August‚ 2009. I happened to have a chance to watch his speech right after it was uploaded on YouTube‚ and after 6 years‚ I’m finally facing a great opportunity to elaborate my thoughts about this speech. The central idea of Dan’s speech covers the approach to the motivation for both: humans and mostly businesses. Pointing to the scientific academic researches on motivation‚ he mentioned
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Ashleen Quirke Mr. Homa 4 December 2014 Period 3 Think Like a Freak Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Think Like a Freak? Most people do not truly know what makes them happy. A great example given on page 9 was that married people are demonstrably happier than single people‚ but this does not mean that marriage creates happiness. In reality‚ generally happy people get married‚ and unhappy people do not get married‚ in order to become happy. The thoughts in this book are
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Persuasive Speech Outline Topic: Child Abuse General Purpose: To Persuade Specific Purpose: I would like to audience to understand the life of a child who is abused and engage them into helping and preventing this from happening. They Need You I. Introduction: 1. Toys‚ Ice cream‚ ABC songs‚ candy‚ giggles and smiles are memories everyone should have from their childhood‚ but they are not. Tears and silence are memoires of many children who are sexually abused. Today I will be talking about
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Jesse Johnson Speech Bailey April 12‚ 2005 Persuasive Speeches When starting to think about what I am going to do for my persuasive speech I tried to think of a topic that I am going to be able to learn something from and also a topic that I already know something about. I was thinking of doing a speech on legalizing marijuana but I feel that a lot of people do speeches on this so I wanted to think of a new topic. I really have not thought about
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In Jane Austen’s book “Northanger Abbey”‚ one of the major themes and objectives within the novel is the nature and attitude of the society towards different genres of reading and literature. This essay will examine this theme according to the novel as a whole‚ the passage given and the devices with which Austen distinguishes her views on literature‚ as well as the views she has on characters which revolve around the theme of reading and literature. The essay will also examine the context behind
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Topic for Persuasive Speech The speech you will prepare will be 3-4 minutes long. Make sure you look at the instructions below and sample information provided to complete this assignment. There will be two grades assigned. Portion of your grade (30%) will be assignment to the written preparation which will be due the class before the start of your presentation. This written assignment will be uploaded on Angel. Make sure that you have submitted your first part. If it is missing you will not
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For this speech‚ I used different technique to make it more persuasive than informative. For the informative speech‚ I just talked about something like explaining. In the persuasive speech I had to not just explain‚ but also view the two different perspectives. I also used the information to show why I think child spanking should not happen. I am not sure what organizational strategy I specifically used. I wanted to talk about first why I am against‚ then the counter arguments‚ and lastly the
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Stephanie Lee Persuasive Speech #1 COMM 101 Mr. Crook Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to give their time or to donate to First Candle. An organization committed to bringing awareness to SIDS. Central Idea: First Candle not only provides resources to help prevent children from passing from SIDS but also offer support to parents who are grieving the loss of a little one. Introduction Attention: I. You are a parent to two children‚ and while at work you receive a phone call
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1. My subject for my persuasive speech is safety precautions on the Golden Gate Bridge. I believe my topic is controversial. I am strongly in favor of there being more safety precautions installed to help avoid the number of jumpers from the Golden Gate Bridge‚ because the bridge is one of the most common suicide spots in the world. 2. I am interested in this topic because of the New York Times article I read in my senior literature class and I visited this sight over the summer. It is important
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The Power of Persuasion Thesis Statement: To inform my audience about the science and the power of persuasion. Introduction I. “If you would persuade‚ you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.” These are wise words spoken by Benjamin Franklin‚ whom we all know for his roles in American History as a writer‚ scientist and politician. II. In this quote‚ Benjamin Franklin speaks of how to persuade. But why would it be important to know how to persuade? III. I always have to ask
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