OUTLINE FOR THE SECOND SPEECH College Show ‘n’ Tell Speech Prompt Student Name: Katie C.R. Handel Day and time of class: M/W 12:12-1:25 SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: I WILL SPEAK ABOUT Germany‚ surgery‚ unknown future TO AN AUDIENCE OF PEOPLE WHO are a general audience of college students FOR THE PURPOSE OF Informing my peers about my past‚ present‚ and future Speech Content: I. INTRODUCTION A. attention statement B. thesis Today I hope that
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The Lighting Thief By: Rick Riordan This book is about a young boy who learns that he has superpowers and is destined to be a hero enters a new school where he makes fast friends with a brainy girl and a geeky boy‚ makes fast enemies with an entire section of the school‚ and excels at their unique sport. No‚ I’m not talking about Harry Potter. The hero in question is Percy Jackson‚ who may not have a lightning scar‚ but does set out on a quest to
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faculty at universities to carry concealed weapons. “More than half the members of the Texas House have signed on as co-authors of a measure directing universities to allow concealed handguns.” As stated by The Dallas Morning News. Texas governor Rick Perry has even said he was in favor of the bill. Supporters of the legislation argue that the bill is simply for self-defense‚ referring to the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings as examples of scenarios where the best defense against
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bid in 2008‚ Mrs. Clinton is receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from doctors‚ hospitals‚ drug manufacturers and insurers. Nationwide‚ she is the No. 2 recipient of donations from the industry‚ trailing only Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania‚ a member of the Republican leadership." Raymond Hernandez and Robert Pear‚ "Once an Enemy‚ Health Industry Warms to Clinton‚" New York Times‚ July 12‚ 2006.I have chosen this quotation in order to show how high-ranking officials
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his friends behind even if he must force them to go with him. In The Odyssey by Homer‚ in the chapter “The Lotus Eaters” Odysseus arrives on an island were three of his crew eat the Lotus and fight to stay on the island. In The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan when Percy goes to the Lotus Casino his friends are stuck and he must force them out. Odysseus and Percy are similar because they are heroes who encounter the Lotus Eaters while on a quest‚ but they are different because Odysseus is on an
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1 Courtney Wishop English 098‚ Fundamentals of Writing 145 01/20/2011 Article Essay Assignment one Do Celebrities Have A Responsibility To Use Their Status To Improve The World? Why or Why Not I feel that all celebrities have a responsibility to use their status to improve the world. For it is the world that provides them with their means of living. They can help save many lives. Their status is a stewardship in the eyes of the religious people of the world. Throw tickets sales
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The gods are angry and there’s no telling what will happen next. The genre of Percy Jackson and the lighting thief is fantasy‚ but to be more specific‚ you called call it mythic fantasy. Mythic fantasy has more traditional aspects intertwined in with the book‚ Percy Jackson has a lot of ancient Greek mythology in it‚ this is why Percy Jackson and the lightning thief is considered a mythic fantasy genre. The setting of Percy Jackson is not directly centred in one place; however‚ an important setting
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watch more than one movie on this special night. Last year‚ we decided to watch Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief‚ and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. My siblings and I had read and loved the books‚ written by Rick Riordan‚ so we thought‚ “How bad could it be? It would be amazing to see these incredible stories onscreen!” We were wrong. Every member of my family who had read the books agreed that this movie destroyed the intent of the original Percy Jackson and
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In The Lightning Theif‚ a novel by Rick Riordan and in The Sword in the Stone‚ a novel by T. H. White‚ both of the main characters face some sort of life altering conflict which leads them to change and grow over a period of time. In The Lightning Thief the main character‚ Percy Jackson‚ discovers that he is the son of the god Poseidon‚ and must go on a quest to prove his innocence when he is accused of stealing Zeus’s master lightning bolt. In The Sword and the Stone the main character‚ called the
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