shocked‚ flattered‚ and elated‚ all at the same time. As the excitement died down and I began to worry about my salutatory address and a myriad of ideas of what I wanted to say flooded my mind. But‚ as June rolled around and senioritis kicked in‚ my speech felt like just another last minute homework assignment I needed to complete. For inspiration‚ I searched “hashtag salutatorian” on all forms of social media: Instagram‚ Twitter‚ and even Tumblr. Unfortunately‚ these all failed to inspire me and
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Speech to Entertain: A Guide Joann Babin Rationale and Definition If your instructor assigned you to do a speech to entertain‚ you are lucky. Since so many public speaking text book authors declare entertainment as one of the three major goals of a public speech‚ it is a great skill to practice. It is hard to deny the value of entertainment. Humor has been used to soothe many difficult situations. At a board meeting in San Francisco where there was a heated debate about closing Golden Gate
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In Newtonian physics‚ free fall is any motion of a body where its weight is the only force acting upon it. In the context of general relativity‚ where gravitation is reduced to a space-time curvature‚ a body in free fall has no force acting on it and it moves along a geodesic. The present article only concerns itself with free fall in the Newtonian domain. An object in the technical sense of free fall may not necessarily be falling down in the usual sense of the term. An object moving upwards
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power there must also come… great responsibility.” Free will is like a great power that has been given to us. It can be used for good and evil. As humans‚ we believe that we have a choice in everything. Thus the idea of free will. But because of that choice there will always be a downside to free will. With many different choices that we can take‚ we realize that some of the choices have effects on our lives throughout time. The downside of free will is the very choices we make. Whether it be something
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Persuasive Speech (Monroe’s Motivational Sequence) Reforming the Electoral College Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the Electoral College is outdated and needs to be reformed. Central Idea: I will discuss the most important reasons that the Electoral College needs to be reformed‚ the promising ways to reform it‚ and the benefits of reformation. Introduction I. Imagine that you have been shot and the bullet was wedged against your spinal cord. The doctors have told
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6:00 p.m. three speakers from the writing center at Ball State university‚ Rory Lee‚ Kelsie Walker and Morgan Gross presented a webinar speech entitled “Why College Writing is Hard: Insights and Tips for Demystifying Academic Writing”. This webinar lasted for an hour and was recorded in room 104 in Bracken Library but could be watched online. Overall the speech was enlightening because of the topic and information but the technical elements involved in public speaking could use work. The speakers
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individual I am today. My life is pre-determined by my race and gender but I believe I have as much free will as I would like to express myself and change my status as an individual in today’s society. Free will is defined as the ability to choose‚ and I believe we all have that right to choose what we look like and become when we age. I believe free will is one of the most important aspects of living in a free society‚ like the one in which we live in today. My life is pre-determined by my race and gender
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Mr. Byrne predicaments in terms of operant conditioning principles can be used to help classroom behavior. Operant Behavior is behavior that operates on the environment‚ producing consequences. Unconditioned Stimulus (US) is classical conditioning a stimulus that unconditionally‚ naturally‚ and automatically triggers a response. Unconditioned Response (UR) is classical conditioning to the naturally occurring response to the unconditioned stimulus (US)‚ such as salivation when food is in the mouth
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The glass is half empty and always will be‚ and that is how I view my life. Despite this‚ I am by no means a pessimist. Anyone that knows me‚ or has even come into contact with me would instinctively categorize me as an optimist‚ and an extreme one at that. So then how does this make any sense? Well‚ I believe the glass should never be seen as half full; full should never be used to describe one’s life in any way. Full would imply that there is no room for anything else to be added and no room
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T. S. Simey and his team in the 1940s described Afro-Caribbean families as dysfunctional. Drawing on the work of Caribbean theorists‚ evaluate this statement in light of contemporary Caribbean family forms. Define family George Peter Murdock (1949) defined family as “a social group characterized by common residence‚ economic co-operation and reproduction.” According to Murdock‚ the family includes adults of both sexes‚ at least two of whom maintain a socially approved sexual relationship and
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