Introduction As a 12 year old pre-teen‚ I started experimenting with marijuana. I started because of the same reasons that most kids start‚ because my friends were all doing drugs. My drug abuse started really getting bad at about fourteen years of age. At 14‚ I was using marijuana about three times a day and I was using LSD at least once every two days. By the time I was 17‚ I was no longer using marijuana and LSD. I had moved on to harder and more destructive drugs. I was using amphetamines and cocaine
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"This is your brain on drugs". The message was powerful while at the same time informative. Smoking not only affects a person physically‚ but mentally as well. However‚ most people do not know the severe mental damage smoking inflicts since the focus is primarily on the physical effects. Drug abuse is becoming a growing problem among teenagers. According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse’s 1999 survey of 2‚000 teens‚ about 14 million teens ages 12 to 17‚ 60% are at
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30-2 (Key Question) Assume that a hypothetical economy with an MPC of .8 is experiencing severe recession. By how much would government spending have to increase to shift the aggregate demand curve rightward by $25 billion? How large a tax cut would be needed to achieve this same increase in aggregate demand? Why the difference? Determine one possible combination of government spending increases and tax decreases that would accomplish this same goal. In this problem‚ the multiplier is
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Informative Speech – Topical Orientation General purpose: Addiction to prescription drugs Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the growing problem of prescription drug abuse‚ some common drugs that cause abuse‚ and their effects and some common treatments. Pattern: People living in today’s society must be aware about the dangers that prescription Drugs can cause them‚ as well as the people around them. Introduction: * Attention : Is it possible
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COLLEGE OF FOUNDATION AND GENERAL STUDIES Program: Foundation Subject: English for Academic Purposes Code: ENGF 103 Credit Hours: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Synopsis: This course is designed to develop students’ public speaking skills. Students will be exposed to principles and practices of effective public speaking which are done through lectures‚ discussions‚ and class exercises. Most importantly
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David Hopper COMMS 2110 Austenfeld 04/02/16 Informative Speech Formal Outline Thesis: There are physical and social effects of alcohol that are not only detrimental to your own physiological and psychological well being‚ but also to those you interact with. I. Alcohol is a general term denoting a family of organic chemicals with common properties. Members of this family include ethanol‚ methanol‚ isopropanol‚ and others. This introduction discusses the physical‚ chemical‚ and physiological
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TEEN ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE JENNIFER PIPPIN UNIT 9 PROJECT CM 107 PROFESSOR WRIGHT I. INTRODUCTION: A. What Is Teen Substance Abuse? B. Why Do Teens Abuse Drugs and Alcohol? C. What Problems Can Teen Substance Abuse Cause? D. What Are the Signs? II. PREVENTING TEEN SUBSTANCE ABUSE: A. How Can It Be Prevented? B. Is Treatment Needed? C. Why Are There So Many Different Treatment Programs? III. DEALING WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE: A. How Can Parents
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Assignment for the Informative Speech An Informative Speech is a speech that defines‚ describes‚ or explains a concept or idea‚ process or function; and occasionally‚ a thing‚ person or place. 1. Select a subject interesting to you and instructive for your audience. You will prepare a 6 minute informative speech on this subject. Speeches outside the time limit will receive a penalty. 2. The speech should include: a. an introduction which includes all five elements of a good introduction;
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Informative Speech Outline “Depression” INTRODUCTION I. Good evening everyone! Many of us have face depression sometime before or maybe facing it now. II. This is something that most of us feel at one time or another in our lives. III. I have taken some time to research three websites all about depression as well as have experienced it myself in my life. IV. Depression is the most common mental disorder and according to the National Institute of Mental Health‚ about 9.5 percent of the population
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INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE SPCH1111 Brett Good Deb Lawson 3/26/2015 Cancer I. OPENING WOW : Did you know that more than eight million people are expected to die from cancer just this year? That means there are over 1‚500 people dying from this disease every day! THESIS : Cancer is a fatal disease that could be preventable and one day possibly curable. FORECAST : In my speech‚ I will discuss exactly what cancer is‚ ways to protect yourself and prevent from developing cancer‚ and also different types of treatment if
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