Crystal Sotelo Public Speaking November 18‚ 2012 Effective Speech President Obama and John F. Kennedy are both effective speakers. I will critique President Obama’s Tucson Memorial Speech and John F. Kennedy’s Moon Speech. However‚ the speech of Obama was more effective than John F. Kennedy’s speech. An effective speech should have a public speaker who will either‚ persuade‚ inform‚ or entertain their audience. The public speaker should also have good eye contact with his/her audience‚ be
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On Racist Speech In his article On Racist Speech‚ Charles R. Lawrence III also tries to convey his point that racist speech need to be regulated‚ especially on college campuses. He gives many reasons why‚ but the three most prominent are Brown vs. the Board of Education‚ the fighting words exception principle‚ and the idea of racist speech at "home". The infamous case of Brown vs. BOE is not always thought of as a speech case. When he says we can regulate racist speech on collage campus without
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My speech content and structure improved more and more with every speech‚ I believe. The content with my first two speeches weren’t very good‚ because I didn’t do enough research about the topics or allowed myself time to really think about every aspect of the speech. The content in my Persuasive Speech about school uniforms lacked enough useful information and was too vague. I was more focused on memorizing things and getting over my nervousness. After I became comfortable and more knowledgeable
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In 1996 at Bonneville High school in Ogden‚ Utah a young foreign exchange student from Poland sat with her friend eating lunch. As she gazed upward she could see into the window of one of the history classes. To her horror‚ visible to the entire student body was displayed a Nazi flag. The flag was being displayed as part of a class on World War II and was displayed next to a Japanese flag‚ newspaper clippings‚ and other memorabilia to highlight certain aspects of that time period. After asking
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"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving‚ the main character Rip Van Winkle slips away from his domestic problems with his wife to a place of serenity where he can sleep in the peace and quiet of the Catskill Mountains. These two stories possess many striking similarities yet there are many differences between them which make them unique. Similarities run wild between these two stories. The most noticeable trait in which both stories possess heavily is the portrayal of the wife. In "Rip Van Winkle"
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pronoun “I” is changed to “HE”. (The Pronoun is changed in Person) iii. The verb “am” is changed to “was”. iv. The adverb “now” is changed to “then”. Rules for changing Direct into Indirect Speech: A. When the reporting or principal verb is in the Past Tense‚ all the Present Tenses in the Direct Speech are changed into Past Tense. a. A simple present tense becomes simple past tense. Example: • Direct : He said‚ “I am unwell.” • Indirect: He said that he was unwell. b. A present
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Speech Analysis Throughout the course of history‚ there have been copious amounts of famous speeches‚ given by many different people. From political figures to sports players‚ these people have provided deep thoughts and great insights about who they are and the world we live in today. Speeches also play an important and powerful role in both persuading and convincing large groups of people. Adolf Hitler‚ for example‚ somehow managed to persuade much of Germany to follow his beliefs‚ and actually
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Parts of Speech In grammar‚ a part of speech (also a word class‚ a lexical class‚ or a lexical category) is a linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items)‚ which is generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behavior of the lexical item in question. Common linguistic categories include noun and verb‚ among others. There are open world classes which constantly acquire new members‚ and closed word classes‚ which acquire new members infrequently if at all. Almost all languages
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Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types of speech‚ these were identified as careful speech “the interviewee
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Hate Speech Essay In the first amendment of the United States constitution‚ American citizens are guaranteed the right to free speech. This is a fundamental right of American law‚ and one of the foundations of the U.S. Constitution. It is also the breeding ground for one of the most widely debated issues in America: What‚ if any‚ measures should be put into place to regulate hateful language? Most people will agree under one definition or another that hate speech is a socially deviant activity
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