Laverne Cox‚ a transgender woman and actress‚ gives a powerful speech during ‘Creating Change 2014’ (an organization that brings awareness to the LGBT community) she talks about the violent injustices and police discrimination against the lives of transgender women of color as a way to spread awareness of the inequalities of transgender within the LGBT community to those who feel the T in LGBT isn’t as important. Throughout her speech she appeals to the viewer’s empathy to those in pain through personal
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Speaker: Alisen Lafaive‚ Gender Studies major at Clarkson University Date of Speech: October 26th‚ 2013 Location: Clarkson University Occasion: Gender Conference Subject: Women advancing in the Physician Assistant Program Alisen Lafaive started by informing everyone of how many educational and career opportunities the Physician
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down on potential threats has become priority. Not only are there threats of mass violence‚ but racist speech and sexist speech‚ that some would define as fighting words. A question to ask is when does speech become a fighting word. Having to decide what speech is protected by the first amendment‚ worthwhile‚ and what speech has no social value and is not protected‚ worthless‚ is controversial. Speech that is defined as worthless include: lewd‚ obscene‚ profane‚ libelous‚ and fighting words. Focusing
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In the reading‚ Free Speech policy has been brought back to the attention as the UC regents would like to prevent the students from prejudice. The new policy proposed was reprimanded by some regents and Jewish group as it seems too weak and the issue has gone way too far. It brings national attention to UC on how to make the universities’ environment more welcoming for multicultural students. Also with the emergence of social media‚ it is easy for students to broadcast their racist views. Universities
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Obama Education Speech In September of 2008‚ senator Obama stated in his speech that he would make a beneficial change to the nations education system if elected president of the United States. His speech was effective in stating the main purpose and reaching the intended audience. I stand by every one of Obama’s proposed changes to the education system and it’s importance to our nation. Considering the academic ranking of the United States to other Countries‚ we can see the lack of attention
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legislation through Congress to establish the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO).In this speech‚ the purpose Lyndon B. Johnson outlines his vision and goals for "The Great Society‚" a massive web of government programs and legislation aimed at societal improvement and progress. This speech was given during the University of Michigan’s graduation commencement ceremony on May 22‚ 1964 in Ann Arbor‚ Michigan. The speech that was delivered was persuasive‚ however the intended audience (college graduates)
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situation. It show as the skills of become a “liespotter”. During the speech‚ I think Pamela did a good job on catching the audience’s attention. She did the starting by being humor to get everyone focus on her before she starting her introduction of the topic. She is very organized and clear on her speech by having the things that she need to said separated by different section and did not jumping back and forth. The transition on her speech was very smooth. On every points or facts
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"Nobody reports on what the speech was even about‚" he said. "At least I saw the movie ‘Gattaca.’ I read the book ‘1984.’ They didn’t even read my damn
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The Speech How are we going to protect our rights ? Discrimination is huge these days; it is calmer‚ but it was huge back then. In the past‚ African-Americans were only allowed to use specific water fountains and on the bus whites had to sit in the front and blacks in the back . The theme in the interview and the speech is that their needs to be a fight to make a change. In the past‚ white people were very powerful and had privileges that African-American people did not. This made African-American
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Red Cloud’s speech was directed towards all white people who were taking the Sioux Nation’s land and to the United States government. In his speech he asked for help from the whites to bring peace and put an end to the hostility between the Native Americans and the white people. Red Cloud was the chief of one of the Sioux tribes. He asked for help and informed all of the white people that Native Americans were the same as the whites. He told them that the Native Americans wanted peace and were only
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