Persuasive Speech Title: Walking Not Watching Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to start walking so they can improve their health. I. Introduction A. Attention-getter: Let’s be honest‚ we lead a pretty easy life: automatic dishwasher‚ riding lawnmowers‚ banking online‚ TV remotes‚ automatic garage door openers‚ electric cars‚ etc. etc. We live in a time-saving‚ energy-saving‚ convenient society. It’s a wonderful life. Or is it? While today’s luxuries have been welcomed
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These activities can be as benign as sitting up in bed‚ walking to the bathroom‚ and cleaning‚ or as hazardous as cooking‚ driving‚ having sex‚ violent gestures‚ grabbing at hallucinated objects‚ or even homicide. The prevalence of sleepwalking in the general population is estimated to be between 1% and 15%. SLEEPWALKING Sleepwalking‚ formally known as somnambulism‚ is a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep. It
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“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”- John Muir In this metropolitan society‚ we rarely find the time to exercise because of work taking up most of our time. Furthermore‚ with the advancement of technology‚ we lead an easy life. Let’s just be very frank with that. We have automatic doors‚ escalators‚ lifts‚ cars‚ dishwashers‚ etc‚ to do almost everything for us. What have we become? We practically do nothing in the physical sense. And it leads us to become couch potatoes
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How Is Phoenix Presented In The Novel? Shadow Of The Minotaur By Kathy Tang 8I Shadow of the Minotaur is a book written by an author named Alan Gibbons about a young boy named Phoenix who gets muddled up between fantasy and reality. The fantasy world that Phoenix imagines himself living in
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The Walking Dead AMC’s gritty and gruesome apocalyptic hit “The Walking Dead” places the blood thirsty‚ agonized groans of zombies right in our living rooms. The show follows a small group of survivors in the midst of a zombie apocalypse that has decimated some seventy-five percent of the population. The cable series which first premiered in 2010 made no bones about its weekly offering of flesh-eating‚ blood-splattered gore. The opening sequence of the pilot episode features a virus-ridden little
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a mysterious crypt called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. This labyrinthine sanctuary houses the books that have lost their owners‚ books that are no longer remembered by anyone. It is here that ten-year-old Daniel Sempere pulls a single book—The Shadow of the Wind—off of the dusty shelve to adopt as his own. With one fateful turn of a page‚ he begins an adventure that will unravel another man’s tragedy and solve a mystery that has already taken many lives and will shape his entire future. Books
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THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN - Sean O’Casey The Shadow of a Gunman is the first play in Sean O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy‚ first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1923 James Joyce’s Ulysses had been published the year before. It is set in 1920‚ as the War of Independence rages. The other two Dublin plays are Juno and the Paycock [Peacock]‚ and The Plough and the Stars‚ the latter of which caused a riot when first performed at the Abbey because nationalists in the audience resented O’Casey’s hostile
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analyzing this time period and “Waking Giant; America in the Age of Jackson‚” written by David S. Reynolds‚ recaptures the lively American spirit felt during this era. Reynolds argues “the years from 1815 through 1848 were arguably the richest in American life‚ if we view the whole picture of society‚ politics‚ and culture.” To defend his view‚ Reynolds provides an overview considering all of these aspects of the American society. A reader looking to gain insight on society and culture of this era would
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Garland’s Shadow of the Dragon provides us with an emotional and a romantic storyline of the life of a Vietnamese boy named Danny (Duong) and his older cousin Sang Le‚ who arrive to the United States of America to fit in the society. Danny and Sang Le both lived a very desperate life in Vietnam with the Vietcong’s trying to take over Vietnam. A few years after the war between the Vietnamese and the Vietcong‚ Danny’s parents moved to the United States of America‚ to live a relaxing life and have an
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In the Shadow of War War is a state that leaves a scar on the human race forever. It is not only a physical battle but an emotional one as well. In the short story‚ In the Shadow of War‚ the author Ben Okri‚ conveys the tale of a young boy and how his father tries to protect his innocence amidst the chaos going on around them. The story was set during what seemed to be the middle of World War II‚ in a small town where the reek of death was something that they were accustomed to. Omovo‚ the
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