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    On October 29‚ 1941‚ United Kingdom (Great Britain) Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited Harrow School to to hear the traditional songs he had sung there as a youth‚ as well as to speak to the students .Churchill when asked to do the commencement speech for a school graduation. Everyone expected a profound‚ intellectual‚ lengthy lecture from the world renown politician and orator Winston Churchill. He just simply leaned his cane on the podium and preceded with one of the worlds most famous and

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    English Room 101 Speech Ladies and Gentlemen‚ Doesn’t everyone just hate snoring? You have to agree with me that when you are awake at night and you are with some one that snores it is the most irritating thing in the world as half the time it is impossible to get back to sleep. Without a doubt if I succeed today snoring is most definitely going into room 101. The one and only major natural thing that really could make you sleep hell has to be stupendous‚ snotty snoring. When you awake the

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    Can you ever imagine not having homework again and actually having a life away from school in your own environment? The point i’m trying to get to is i believe that students should get a lot less homework‚ or infact no homework overall. Did you know that roughly 30% of students in the US reportedly spend 2 or more hours on homework each night? Why should we have to slave away in school for 7 straight hours which is 240 minutes or 25‚200 seconds and then get another 2 hours of homework. Don’t lie

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    Speech analysis In David McCullough’s June 2012 Commencement Speech You Are Not Special‚ he argues that no one is really special. In this speech he is saying that everyone is alike somewhere and somehow. Even though he is seems to be bashing the graduating class‚ he still adds encouraging words. Throughout the whole speech he continuously states that you are not special‚ but then ending the speech with saying‚ “You are not special because everyone is.” I argue that both McCullough and Sierra use

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    It is better to die on feet than to live on knees ventilation‚ or by through their relationships with themselves‚ other people‚ or even a higher being. Alice Walker‚ an Afric 12 Page 2811 Words Life of Pi Pi (short for Piscine Molitor Patel) is a young Indian boy growing up in South India in the 1970’s. His father owns a zoo and‚ with increasing political unrest in India‚ decides to sell up and emigrate to Canada. In true Noah’s ark fashion‚ they accompany the wild animals on board

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    Napoleon Bonaparte Speech - Farewell to the Old Guard Napoleon Bonaparte - Farewell to the Old Guard (1814) following the failed invasion of Russia and defeat by the Allies Soldiers of my Old Guard: I bid you farewell. For twenty years I have constantly accompanied you on the road to honor and glory. In these latter times‚ as in the days of our prosperity‚ you have invariably been models of courage and fidelity. With men such as you our cause could not be lost; but the war would have been interminable;

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    General Purpose: To Inform Topic: To discuss the Burj Al Khalifa’s architectural structure and the construction of the building. Statement of Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the Burj Al Khalifa’s architectural structure and the construction of the building. Thesis Statement: The Burj al Khalifa‚ the world’s tallest single-standing structure‚ is the most carefully designed and constructed architecture piece in the world. I. Introduction A. Being Chicagoans‚ we find

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    INSPIRATIONAL SPEECH MOTHER’S LOVE Ladies and Gentleman: It’s an honor to be given an opportunity to speak about a very important and lovable person in our lives today‚ a Mother. While I was surfing the internet‚ there is one quotation that catches my attention and I want it to share it with you. It goes this way: A mother’s love‚ how sweet the name‚ What is a mother’s love? A noble‚ pure and tender flame Enkindled from above To bless a heart of earthly mould The warmest love that

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    S. Buscaino DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPEECH What is speech according to its purpose? People have gathered to hear you speak on a specific issue‚ and they expect to get something out of it immediately. And you‚ the speaker‚ hope to have an immediate effect on your audience. The purpose of your speech is to get the response you want. 4 types of speech according to purpose A Informative Speech- An Informative Speech is like teaching. The purpose of an informative speech is to try to teach something to

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    Graduation Speech Welcome everyone. I will like to thank everyone for coming to join the class of 2013 at our graduation and commencement ceremony. Thanks to our family‚ relatives‚ faculty‚ and professors for being here on our special day. Today is the day of entering or facing the "real world" that so many of us have been talking about for four years. In some cases it may had taken more than that but that doesn’t matter‚ what matters now is how we are going to use it to benefit us. We are here

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