https://www.echeat.com/ I have a dream After a lengthy march and an afternoon that contained speeches about unemployment, and social and racial injustice, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. finally took the podium in front of Lincoln Memorial in order to address the approximately 250,000 people gathered. With a stately and authoritative start, he brought up the unfortunate situation of relations being racial despite the fact that it's been over one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant to be black in America in 1963. He avoided discussing specific laws before Congress or the demands of the protesters, in contrast to many of the speakers who had come before him earlier in the day. Rather, he put the social liberties battle with regards to Sacred writing's immortal vistas and the bigger verifiable scene, which incorporates time past, present, and future. Mahalia Jackson, who had earlier that day given a moving performance of the spiritual "I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned," interrupted Dr. King midway through his prepared statement. She called out to him from the speakers' stage, "Tell 'em about the 'Dream,' Martin, tell 'em about the 'Dream'!" She was talking about a riff he had given on previous occasions, so Dr. King put the text of his comments away and sent off into an astonishing act of spontaneity on the subject of dreams that would proceed to become quite possibly of the most well known refrain ever. Dr. King made history with his improvised riff, moving from prose to poetry and from the stage to the pulpit. As he transitioned from a dismal appraisal of the social inequalities that exist today to a brilliant vision of hope — of what America may be — his voice displayed several emotions. "I dream," he said, "that my children will grow up in a place where they will be judged on the content of their character rather than the color of their skin." Today, I dreamed!" Many of the people in the throng that Wednesday afternoon, fifty years ago, had traveled the nation by bus and train. The Red Cross was handing out ice cubes to help beat the intense August heat, and many people were dressed up for the protests. John Lewis, the civil rights leader, would later remark that "people then dressed up when they went out for a protest." However, Dr. King electrified everyone, even if they were exhausted after 2024-08-20T14:16:16.087-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/I-Have-A-Dream-45586.aspx “The End of Solitude.” By: Deresiewicz, William. Chronicle of Higher Education. 1/30/2009, Vol. 55 Issue 21, pB6-B9. 4p. The End of Solitude - As everyone seeks more and broader connectivity, the still, small voice speaks only in silence. What does the contemporary self want? The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge -- broadband tipping the Web from text to image, social-networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider -- the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves -- by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity. If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility. So we live exclusively in relation to others, and what disappears from our lives is solitude. Technology is taking away our privacy and our concentration, but it is also taking away our ability to be alone. Though I shouldn't say taking away. We are doing this to ourselves; we are discarding these riches as fast as we can. I was told by one of her older relatives that a teenager I know had sent 3,000 text messages one recent month. That's 100 a day, or about one every 10 waking minutes, morning, noon, and night, weekdays and weekends, class time, lunch time, homework time, and toothbrushing time. So on average, she's never alone for more than 10 minutes at once. Which means, she's never alone. I once asked my students about the place that solitude has in their lives. One of them admitted that she finds the prospect of being alone so unsettling that she'll sit with a friend even when she has a paper to write. Another said, why would anyone want to be alone? To that remarkable question, history offers a number of answers. Man may be a social animal, but solitude has traditionally been a societal value. In particular, the act of being alone has been understood as 2023-03-07T19:23:58.457-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/“The-End-of-Solitude"-45578.aspx Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 27, 1858, and was the son of Theodore Roosevelt, lawyer and judge. He went to Harvard, where he graduated in 1880. His pertinacity was noticeable even in college, where he gained a high reputation as an all-round sportsman, and particularly as a boxer. His characteristic fondness for the noble art never weakened. A man of immense vigor and fighting spirit, he was ever fond of a lively bout with the gloves and he had his sons learn the art, mostly from himself. After leaving college, he made his first trip to Europe, where he climbed the Jungfrau and the Matterhorn. In 1881 he was elected to the Assembly of the State of New York and he served three consecutive terms. In the session of 1888 he did much to further the passage of the act to regulate primary elections. He made a record for himself as an energetic, able and honest legislator. When William McKinley became President, he appointed Mr. Roosevelt Assistant Secretary of the Navy, where his characteristic activity was again in evidence. He resigned when the war broke out with Spain in order, with Major-General (then Surgeon) Leonard Wood, to organize the first United States Cavalry, popularly known as Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, and he engaged in the campaign which was to make him a hero with the whole nation. While President, his domestic policy included the creation of National Parks and the disruption of Big Trusts in New York. On the other hand, his foreign policy was much more aggressive and helped push the United States and its influence much into the global sphere. One of his most notable foreign interventions during the age of Steam is the Panama Canal. The United States actively attempted to build a canal through Nicaragua, but when that failed he liberated Panama from Columbia and got the canal done. Next he pulled the troops out of Cuba after diplomatic negotiations that saw only American influence being in the island. Lastly, he oversaw the peace negotiations between Japan and Russia. Roosevelt’s policy was called the “Big Stick Ideology”, and it massively expanded American influence as a relevant nation with the willingness to intervene in foreign affairs shall it deem necessary. An exponent of robust and sturdy Americanism and of the strenuous life, mental and moral as well as physical, Colonel Roosevelt was endowed with rare courage 2022-04-11T11:39:32.7-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Roosevelt-Obituary-45562.aspx A note on the author: Florence Kelley, a social and political activist, delivered the speech in 1905 to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia. We have, in this country, two million children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread. They vary in age from six and seven years (in the cotton mills of Georgia) and eight, nine and ten years (in the coal-breakers of Pennsylvania), to fourteen, fifteen and sixteen years in more enlightened states. No other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as the young girls from fourteen to twenty years. Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase in the ranks of the breadwinners; but no contingent so doubles from census period to census period (both by percent and by count of heads), as does the contingent of girls between twelve and twenty years of age. They are in commerce, in offices, in manufacturing. Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy. In Alabama the law provides that a child under sixteen years of age shall not work in a cotton mill at night longer than eight hours, and Alabama does better in this respect than any other southern state. North and South Carolina and Georgia place no restriction upon the work of children at night; and while we sleep little white girls will be working tonight in the mills in those states, working eleven hours at night. In Georgia there is no restriction whatever! A girl of six or seven years, just tall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night. And they will do so tonight, while we sleep. Nor is it only in the South that these things occur. Alabama does better than New Jersey. For Alabama limits the children's work at night to eight hours, while New Jersey permits it all night long. Last year New Jersey took a long backward step. A good law was repealed which had required women and [children] to stop work at six in the evening and at noon on Friday. Now, therefore, in New Jersey, boys and girls, after their 14th birthday, enjoy the pitiful privilege of working all night long. In 2021-12-03T16:37:39.23-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Florence-Kelley’s-“Speech-on-Child-Labor”-45525.aspx The Queen of Light and Dark There once lived a queen, she was the happiest queen there was. She lived in a castle with the king and her daughter, the princess. She was happy, there was no reason not to be, she had everything she wanted in life. Until that night. The night everything went downhill, the night when so much sorrow was caused, all of the queen’s happiness was lost, which lead the kingdom in a world of sorrow and despair. The guards were asleep, but there was evil in Tasmear, and so that little bit of evil set fire to the king and queen’s room, then the fire spread to the princess’s room. It was a tragic day for the kingdom, the queen stood in front of the body of her baby and husband. After 5 years has past, she ordered all the 2019-07-16T21:17:36.077-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/the-blah-bibliography-45491.aspx An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth 10% of crimes are committed following this logic or thinking. These crimes were fueled by hatred and revenge. Which I dare say is one of humanities worst flaws. Revenge can distort our personal perception on how we view the world or an individual. When somebody seeks revenge they are attempting to correct a wrong with another wrong. Which is usually distorted by false truth, like gossip 2018-04-14T03:04:10.72-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/An-eye-for-an-eye,-a-tooth-for-a-tooth-45423.aspx Speech Student: Institution: Speech The second amendments empower each American citizen to own a gun. Therefore, any efforts to change these provisions must include a plebiscite. The United States has a history of gun violence, and efforts have been suggested to improve public safety (Nakamura & Eilperin, 2016). The shooting in Inland Research Center San Bernardino where over 26 civilians infuriated President Obama and offered the opportunity for him to push for tighter gun control. The president suggested issuing executive orders that called for tighter control in the gun acquisition, including expanded background search on buyers (Nakamura & Eilperin, 2016). The suggestions by the president met a lot of resistance and criticism, especially from groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA), Republicans among others. The paper will discuss the critique of President Obama speech on gun violence following shootings at San Bernardino. One natural right that cannot be taken away from any individual is the freedom to self-preservation. The stressing point here is that humans have a right to take steps that secure their families and properties. The framers of the constitution especially the enactment of the second amendments had the idea of self-preservation in mind. Therefore, they made it a right for every citizen of the United States to bear arms. Obama executive order and the suggested expanded background search would simply stifle the provisions of the second amendments and constrain the rights of the citizens (Nakamura & Eilperin, 2016). By all consideration, the legality of such an order should only be determined through a referendum. In other words, Americans should be allowed to vote on whether they want to retain the right to bear arm or not. Such freedoms can never be the discretion of the president. Norway citizens are far more armed than the Americans. The citizens carry even military grade assault rifle, yet the rate of gun violence is insignificant compared to America. The trigger point for the President threat on the executive order was the shooting at San Bernardino, which was determined to be terrorists in nature. Therefore, it would look like the president was suggesting the country could fight the terrorists better by disarming the public. Perhaps at this point, it is important to look at Republican candidate for the presidency (Donald Trump) asked. What if the victims at the time of the attack were armed? (Nakamura & Eilperin, 2016). Probably they could have defended themselves 2017-07-28T00:46:12.4-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Gun-violence-45360.aspx Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Final Draft Have you ever wondered why the Ancient Egyptians had so many gods and goddesses?The Egyptian saw a godly nature in everything. Because of this, they created a multitude of gods and goddesses. In fact there were hundreds of gods and goddesses, each playing their own role in the universe.These holy beings were worshiped with the hope that their life would be blessed by the gods. 2017-03-14T21:31:22.39-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Gods-and-Goddesses-of-Ancient-Egypt-Speech-45295.aspx Cell Phones Should be Allowed in Class: Raise your hand if you have a cell phone. *raises hand* With the advanced technology present in our society, cell phones are important and must be taken advantage of in the educational aspect. Teachers, students, invited guests I am here to persuade opposers of the use of cellphones during class that when used correctly cell phones are extremely beneficial. I feel that we need the developed technology that cell phones provide in the classroom because they allow students to contact their parents if necessary, they provide excellent resources for learning, and they encourage students to explore the educational areas cell phones provide. If we continue to not allow cell phone use in school, then parents may be unable to reach their children in the event of a real emergency. To begin, cell phones allow students to contact their parents if needed. Cell phones allow students to call home if they forget an assignment, lunch, or money. Many parents install a phone tracker on their child’s device and take comfort in knowing their whereabouts before, during, and after school. Allowing cell phones in class causes parents to feel more relaxed because they know that their child can contact them in case of an emergency. Some opponents of cell phone use during class may think that students will pretend like they are texting a parent but in reality they are texting friends. However, if there are consequences for misusing your phone in class students will learn to understand and respect the rules set that allow for this privilege to be in place. Next, cellphones can provide many great learning resources and helpful tools for the benefit of the student’s education. The calendar and alarm applications provided allow students to document their homework and set reminders for when they get home. The calculator makes subjects such as math and science faster and the camera app allows students to take pictures of the board in case they did not have enough time to copy down all the notes during class. There are many excellent online learning websites that may help students to help advance their education or better understand a confusing subject. Some opponents of this topic claim that young students will be tempted to cheat because it will be easy with of the resources a cellphone provides. The solution is simple, by making students turn in their phones 2017-03-14T21:25:00.817-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Cellphones-Should-be-Allowed-In-class-45294.aspx 2013-10-27T05:36:10.29-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/series-of-terror-attack-in-india-reasons-and-solution-34978.aspx People of Australia - What do you believe Australia is? Another continent conquered by the Brits? Maybe another piece of land lying on the face of this Earth? What if I told you that this could be changed to a nation, with a bright, strong future? We have the power to decide this country’s future that it holds for all of us. We can stand proud, and declare to the world we are Australian – the idea of federation. Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Edmund Barton. Immigration, transport and our economic are issues that will be addressed once Australia is federated. We will overcome these obstacles, work together as one nation, not as separate colonies. We will be common, not foreigners. Federation will provide us with opportunities that we have been waiting for. Transport will be standardized across all transport systems allowing smooth rail operations between colonies. Communication lines will be expanded to allow the increase of traffic to cope once federation occurs. It will allow faster re-stocking, allowing further sales, thus, strengthening our economy. Federation will allow us to export our domestic resources around the world since we would be one nation, without the need of fighting for our resources. We can also import resources not usually available in our country for use at our disposal. Why should Great Britain be creating our laws when we could create our own? Australia can run under our own constitution by our people, for our people to better suit our needs for an enhanced standard of living. Federation will also bring us a stronger military. Instead of having six, pathetic defense forces, each protecting one colony, we can have one strong, unified defense force to fend off invaders such as France, Germany and Asians that cross our borders. With France and Germany conquering different countries, they are a potential threat to us. With federation, we will be provided with a more secure, worry-free lifestyle and new employment opportunities – allowing our economy to flourish and to retain our white integrity. Even if we have one centralized government, there will still be opportunities for states to have their own small customs. The federal government will accommodate for national requirements such as defense, and the state will for statewide requirements such as education. The voices of Australia will be heard – referendums and elections will be called to appeal for opinions from Australians. Make yourselves proud. Vote Yes for Federation, 2012-02-12T02:15:09.01-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Why-Australia-should-be-Federated-34472.aspx This paper discusses ways in which a speaker can give a successful presentation, and what to do in the case of an audience that reacts unexpectedly. I Introduction Any successful speaker, presenter or actor must be able to engage his audience within a few moments of opening his talk or performance. People are busy, and their attention is easily distracted if they don’t immediately perceive that the message being delivered is of interest to them. This paper explores ways of judging the situation and engaging the audience. II Discussion I believe the realm of the theater is probably outside the scope of this paper, since theatergoers are prepared to “give up” several hours of their time to enjoy a play. Then too, the actor is portraying a character, and if the play is familiar, the audience already knows who that character is. The actor needn’t try to explain the situation, but he does have the difficult job of bringing it to life in a believable way. Let’s instead consider how the average person can adapt to a situation in which he has an audience. This might be anything from delivering a speech at a company awards banquet, to conducting a training session, to presenting a formal report at a stockholders’ meeting. Of course, we will presuppose that the speaker already has his material and has rehearsed it. If it’s a report, he is familiar with facts and figures so that he can discuss them from memory if need be. If she’s conducting a training class, she knows her topic well enough to give information to her students if something were to happen to her material. If she’s giving a speech, she has enough of it memorized so that she can deliver it without referring too often to her notes—a habit that is annoying, leads to the stilted delivery we’ve all heard, and robs the occasion of spontaneity. In other words, a speaker is always, always prepared. Although few of us are ever simply thrown into a situation where we have to make an impromptu speech, many people, even with adequate preparation time, still fail to deliver an interesting, moving, funny, informative, or appropriate talk. Often—and fatally—they open with some sort of joke, which is often in poor taste and may fall flat. A bad start will make the speech seem interminable to the speaker, 2011-10-30T20:31:58.053-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Adapting-to-the-Audience-34213.aspx PURPOSE "To persuade my audience that litter effects all of us and is a problem that everyone can help fix" INTRODUCTION I. No one can walk down the street or anywhere without seeing litter. A. people think its dirty, depressing B. Taxes pay to clean litter C. unhealthy and hazardous for people, animals II. Litter Is a problem effecting everyone and at the same time can be prevented by everyone through every day actions BODY I. A. Problem - litter has effects on our aura and feelings 1. Litter looks bad and is depressing. 2. (Mike Rizzo said in his Report, Depressing Filth in 2007. "I spend my lunch hours on Craig Street because it has a better ambiance. I feel good when I am there. I feel depressed when I am in the Forbes-Fifth area of Oakland because it is dirty and, frankly, smelly.") B. Problem - litter can be expensive 1. It costs us money to clean up the litter through taxes 2. (According to the Tennessee Dept of Transportation, "it cost 11 Million to clean up Tennessee in 2006".) C. Problem - Litter can be bad for you and animals 1. trash in water cannot be seen making them more dangerous 2. people dump tires and such which pollute the water over time. (From Waste News, In 1983, a seven-million tire fire in El Paso, Texas, burned for nine months and polluted water supplies with arsenic and lead.) 3. Get cut by bottles or cans underwater Transition - "There is one easy and obvious way to tackle litter problems" II. A. Solution - 1. Prevent litter from occuring in the first place Transition - "So what can the individual person do to prevent litter from happening?" III. Actions - 1. Pick up litter you see, throw you trash away! 2. (A report from Wate 6 News, in January of 2007, talks about Tennesseetrails.org having volunteer litter pick-ups frequently) CONCLUSION I. You have seen that... A. Litter looks bad and depressing (ex. Feel better after having clean house) B. State taxes cost us to clean the litter C. can hurt environment, and self. II. Hopefully I've at least convinced some of you to do something about litter and get involved in preventing it. WORKS CITED Wate 6, "Tennessee starts hotline to report littering." <http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=5957456&nav=E8Z2>, January 18, 2007. Johnson, Jim. 2009-03-25T14:20:08-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Persuasive-Speech-on-Littering-34042.aspx The Five Syllables of Despair What do SpongeBob Squarepants, Joey Tribbiani, my theatre teacher, high school students, and many parents have in common? No, it’s not that they all have Golgi bodies and retinas. Let me give you a hint. They put off ‘till tomorrow what they should do today... get my drift? About right now, Joey is late for an audition, Spongebob is writing an essay due in five minutes, my theatre teacher is dilly dallying on who to cast for the upcoming show, high school students are too tired to do anything and parents are putting off their morning meetings until the afternoon! And do you know what causes all this chaos? Just five syllables: PROCRASTINATION. From the ‘I’ll do it later’ excuse to the ‘Aw man, I can’t believe I put this until the last minute!’ worrying, procrastination is ruining our lives! We have all procrastinated in our lifetime whether it may be delaying to take the dog out or finishing a major school project like writing a persuasive speech that includes antithesis, ethos, pathos, logos, similes, metaphors, anecdotes, and other things that I haven’t mentioned that are hopefully in this speech. I know I did not procrastinate on this speech about procrastination because that would be just wrong. But what about you guys, the sleep deprived high school students? Do you usually put off things until the last minute? This issue is becoming a bad habit and Ted Fishman, writer in the USA Today, states that, ‘Procrastination is now a topic right up there with race, class and the salaries of university presidents.’ It’s affecting high school students in negative ways such as sleep deprivation, laziness, and even depression. Distractions are one of the leading causes of procrastination. Let’s say your dream job is to be an orthopedic surgeon a.k.a. a doctor who breaks bones for a living. You’re in your senior year and you are struggling in Anatomy and Physiology class and the only chance to get a B average on your final report card is to ace the upcoming final exam and get an A on a ten page anatomy essay. Your teacher assigned the work on the first day of fourth quarter and now there are only two weeks until school ends. You just realized this and 2008-10-02T22:20:32-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Speech-Against-Procrastination-Humorous-33741.aspx What would you say if I told you that scientists had just developed a new procedure that could not only lead to the cure for cancer but would provide an unlimited source of organ donors which are consistently in short supply. This procedure will be both a contribution to science and a betterment of the human race. Now adding onto this scenario lets just say that the government was trying to ban it and keep it hidden up. This scenario is true and is based on the situation of cloning. Human cloning will provide unlimited benefits and should be made legal. Ah no! “ The cloning of humans could be the greatest achievement of medical science, it could lead the way to solving some of humanity’s greatest problems.” And it could lead to some even greater ones. Movies like “The 6th Day” and “The Island” could actually happen. How could I, or anyone for that matter, let this become legal with such a moral doubt on the subject? This was my first response but after consideration a lot of my reasons against cloning were hardly solid and certainly not reasonable excuses to ban cloning entirely. Scientists are working on ways to perfect the methods of cloning individual organs. This could finally be a permanent solution to the ever-growing demand for organ donors. Cloning could allow genetically inherited diseases such as Haemophilia and Downs Syndrome to be identified and treated while the baby is still in the mother’s womb. Many couples that are infertile, to have a baby they must use the current method in-vitro-fertilization which is often ineffective. Some say cases like these are when we should clone humans but this is not Dolly the Sheep we are talking about. This is going to disastrously affect the world’s genetic diversity. And besides what happens when Michael Jackson decides to clone himself 10 times, then it truly would be a disaster! Two of the most common arguments against cloning are: · Religious beliefs · And that cloning would destroy people’s dignity and individuality. Firstly there are identical twins and they have not lost their dignity and individuality. And honestly could you really blame your parents for giving you the brain of Albert Einstein or your boyfriend’s parents for giving him the body of Chad Michael Murry, Brad Pitt or Dan Carter. However as to the religious beliefs I can understand how they believe that cloning is playing God. That it is God’s right to 2008-05-02T09:44:36-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Clonning--33583.aspx Previously, before the war, people did numerous things to entertain and engross themselves in. However, the London Blitz has initiated a lot of discrepancies of entertainment, causing a diminishing effect upon methods to amuse each other. Still, there have been various means in which one could occupy oneself. These approaches comprise of reading books, interpreting poems, listening to music, appreciating art, painting, acting, observing performances and attending theatres. The main method is literature, which includes reading and interpretation. Books were acquired by borrowing from friends, borrowing from libraries, or by borrowing from voluntary associations which prearranged book compilations. Magazines and newspapers 2008-03-15T11:54:23-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/A-Speech-on-Good-Night-Mr_-Tom-33532.aspx Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to today’s lecture which is related to the classic novel titled ‘Of Mice and Men.’ To begin, I would like to tell you all a little bit about the novel. ‘Of mice and men’ was written during the 1930’s throughout the depression era. During this period in America, millions of men traveled around looking for work in a bid to support themselves and many also traveled alone which meant that they were lonely. John Steinbeck wrote an exceptional novel which reflects the values, attitudes and beliefs of that period in time. Today’s lecture will look at these values, attitudes and beliefs, but will to a much greater extent look at issues relating to the past and present matters revolving around discrimination and normality. The reason that I chose to talk about these two issues was because, I believe that these matters were not only a major issue in the 1930’s but also in this time and age of 2007. For those of you here today who are not familiar with the plot, I will briefly take you through it, so you have a better understanding about the characters and the setting of the novel. George and Lennie are drifters who are looking for work. These two men do not have many prized possessions and are left with only the clothes on their back. Both men, just like other drifters, have an American dream of finding their own place with a piece of land. There are many ways to describe George, but it can be said that he is responsible and protective. Lennie on the other hand can be described as child like who is care-free with not a worry in the world. Both of these men have distinctive physical features. While George is short, he is tough and independent; meanwhile Lennie is quiet the opposite, he is tall and resembles a giant. Lennie is a friendly giant who wouldn’t hurt anyone intentionally unless he was ordered to. He is vulnerable and naive, which is a set back as there are times when he has been taken advantage off. Lennie is intellectually disabled, although this is not possibly seen as he has decent physical appearances. The two men settle down on a ranch that Steinbeck has created in an attempt to show how marginalized characters were treated and regarded as due to their race, 2007-08-01T07:41:50-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Of-Mice-and-Men-33305.aspx Love has many stages or phases depends upon the type of Love you make or the thing or person you love The first and earliest stage is admiring when u see something and you admire it within in no 2007-05-04T19:19:31-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Stages-of-Love-33188.aspx purpose: to persuade Specific Purpose: to persuade my audience aggressive driving can be avoided INTRODUCTION (Attention Step) More and more drivers have started acting out their anger when they get behind the wheel, according to a study conducted by the (American Automobile Association). The study of aggressive driving is not new (Williams,1) has received attention as a national concern. After they’ve been cut off, tailgated, or slowed down by a vehicle in front of them, these angry drivers can commit incredible acts of violence, including assaults and murder. A nationwide study by (NHTSA) of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey the signals. Failing to comply with traffic control devices is an indicator of aggressive driving. In 2004, more than 900 people were killed and an estimated 168,000 were injured in crashes that involved red light running. Every day we have to deal with these types of people on the road. We run a great risk whether on a long trip, or a short commute. Fortunately, there is something we can do about it. BODY I. The major cause of aggressive driving is discourtesy or inattentive drivers. ( Problem Step) A. The most common trigger is the “lane hog.” 1. Other discourteous driving behaviors include but are not limited to, failing to signal, cutting off other drivers, and following too closely. 2. These actions can infuriate and trigger frustration aggression (Connell,25) B. Conditions that contribute to aggressive driving. 1. Congested roadways and reduced enforcement 2007-04-30T15:14:58-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Aggressive-Driving-Persuasive-Essay-33171.aspx Imagine that you are visiting your mother's house and you're poking around up in the attic when you come across a dusty shoe box tucked under the eaves, a box you don't remember from earlier forays into your past. Curious, you open the box to find that it is filled with sheets of yellowing stationery, each sheet covered with your grandmother's elegant handwriting. As you take out the top sheet you are already imagining her quiet, quavering voice, But when you begin to read it is the voice of a younger woman you hear. You read her simple prose; she is peering into the eyes of her tiny daughter, born that very morning. She hasn't settled on a name yet, she refers to the infant as Baby Girl, but she lists the names under consideration. In the middle of the short list you find your mother's name. Entranced, you dig further and find a childhood memory about your grandmother's grandmother: Grandmama is in the cellar, it reads, it is wash day, and the outer cellar door has been unlatched and opened outward and sunlight is sliding into the stony-grey dampness of the cellar. There are soap stone tubs and a wash board, and homemade soap, yellowish-tan and cut in rectangles, drying on shelf paper made from newspapers. As the children play, running in and out between the cellar and the back yard, Grandmama works and works and works. Finally she carries the basket of clean clothes up the steps and out into the yard. Rope has been tied from trees to poles back and forth. Grandmama never seems angry or annoyed when the children follow her around. At the end of the day the wash is all down, the clothes line rolled up, the outer door closed again and the cellar clean, dark and empty. A third story describes five weeks of barely-suppressed terror that your grandmother endured during the last summer of the war; five long weeks when, without warning or explanation, the daily letters from her young husband--your grandfather--suddenly stopped arriving. A treasure! A treasure from the past. Would you trade this box of writings for any novel you've ever read? For any movie you've ever seen? Then why aren't you writing down your life? "But we've taken tons of pictures," you say, "we've videotaped the baptisms, the birthday parties, the vacations." "So what," I say. "What have you written?" "A picture is worth a thousand 2007-02-17T07:18:16-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Write-About-Yourself--32634.aspx Gay Marriage One of the lesser topics making waves in society is that of gay marriage. I call it a lesser topic because, while gay marriage is an important issue, it simply does not hold a candle to war. War is perhaps the most meaningful outlet for the full spectrum of human expression, and we should make it our primary focus always. Way down the list of important topics, right after healthcare and global warming, is gay marriage. As a straight man belonging to the coveted 18-25-year-old male demographic, I consider myself uniquely qualified to comment on this issue that has nothing to do with me whatsoever. With upwards of hundreds of gay people living in the United States, gay marriage has become somewhat of an epidemic, however unless gay people are also magical, it looks like homosexual marriage is destined to remain as illegal as crime, which is a pretty bad thing I'm told. And, if gay people are indeed magical, it might be necessary for another series of witch trials for the safety of everyone. This all might seem unfair, but we do live in an unfair society. If you think gay rights are limited, just look at what the terrorists have to put up with. Their rights are virtually nonexistent, and with such hatred directed towards them it's no wonder they want to blow us up. The age-old reasoning as to why gay marriage is a crime against nature is that the Bible says homosexuality is a sin, not unlike beating the Pope to death with a baseball bat. Somewhere in the Bible, sandwiched in-between the all-encompassing madness is a line that says it is unconstitutional for a man to marry another man. This is reinforced by the story of Noah's ark. Noah managed to fit two of every animal into a huge ark and navigate around a flooded earth, evading storms and sea creatures. When the waters subsided, the earth was repopulated with the animals he sheltered. Had he not picked both a male and female of every one of the millions of animal and insect species he saved, there would have been no reproduction. Thanks to this we are living in a healthy and densely populated world. No thanks to you, gay culture! Times have changed and the world is no longer recovering from a flood. People are plentiful and thusly homosexuality is a viable alternative for those seeking 2007-02-11T00:12:04-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Gay-Marriage--32611.aspx Systemic Circulation Speech Good morning/afternoon Miss Trainor and Class im here today to talk to you about the war poet Edward Thomas. Born March 3, 1878, in London, Edward Thomas had his education at St. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford University, from which he graduated in 1900 with a history degree. Having married Helen Noble in 1899 and with a baby son, Merfyn, to support, Thomas became a professional writer. In his brief 15-year career he produced over two dozen books and many dozens of reviews. He focused on local history and literary figures. His books dealt with such authors as George Borrow, William Cobbett, John Dyer, George Herbert, Richard Jefferies, John Keats, Christopher Marlowe, Walter Pater, and Algernon Charles Swinburne. As his family grew with the birth of daughters Bronwen (1902) and Myfanwy (1910), so did his financial problems. He intermittently fell ill from 1903 onward. Thomas only began writing poems in late 1914 after a visit from Robert Frost. A pseudonym Edward Eastaway, used in Six Poems (1916), enabled him to isolate poetry from his professional writing. In 1915 his two years of war service began when he joined the Artists' Rifles. After spending some months as a map-reading instructor at Hare Hall Camp in Romford, he became an officer cadet and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant, 244 Siege Battery, R. G. A., and volunteered for overseas duty in late 1916. Just before he left England he looked over the proofs of his contributions to An Annual of New Poetry. Thomas died from a shell explosion on April 9, 1917, at Ronville, just as the Arras offensive started. Edward Thomas’s poetry had mainly a nature theme , and showed though his poetry he had a great appreciation for the simple pleasures in life such as watching the snow fall down and watching the rain or a green elm in autumn . The reason behind this appreciation for the simple things in life came from his many years of not being able to afford anything but the bare essentials. This is strongly reflected in his poetry at the start of his war years as he focuses on the simple good things that happen rather than the atrocities of war. This is shown in his poem “October” in which Edward Thomas writes about how although they are at war there is still life among all the death 2006-07-22T18:18:47-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Systemic-Circulation-Speech-30479.aspx Introduction: I’m sure many of you have heard of Toni Morrison and Alice Walker, but do you know who was a major influence in these writers lives? It was a woman by the name of Zora Neal Hurston. She was a very talented novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist who has recently been reintroduced to the literary world. Transition: Lets begin by looking at some of her background information. Body I. Background a. Zora Neal Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. b. When she was 3 her family moved to Eatonville, Florida. 1. According to Women in History, this town is unique in that it was the first incorporated black community in America. 2. Eatonville would become the muse of her stories about a place African Americans could live independent of white societies rule. Transition: Upon adulthood Hurston began her undergraduate studies at Howard University, but left after not being able to support herself. II. College a. She was later offered a scholarship to Bernard College where she received a B.A. in anthropology. Transition: The 1930's and late 40's marked the peak of Hurstons career. III. Zora's career a. Zora Neal Hurston's technique of combining literature with anthropology, led her to become a driving force in the Harlem Renaissance. b. She first gained attention with her short stories "John Redding Goes to Sea" and "Spunk". c. After several years of anthropological research Hurston's first novel, "Jonah's Gourd", as well as her second, "Mules and Men", were published with critical success. d. The novel that gained her the most success was "Their Eyes Were Watching God". Transition: After only a couple more successful novels Hurston's literary influence faded. IV. Fall of Hurston's Career a. During the Post WWII era of the civil rights movement the issue of racism of whites against blacks became a theme among African American writers. b. The fact that Zora didn't address racism in her stories tarnished her 2006-07-18T16:47:00-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Informative-Speech-Zora-Neal-Hurston-30367.aspx George Grenville Speech My fellow Britains, I come before you today as a man in distress. Distressed with our current financial state. Distressed with our American colonies. Distressed by our lack of unity. I also come to you today with some innovative ideas that will hopefully reshape our nation. In order for this to work, I am asking for your complete trust. Let me assure you that I am qualified to lead this country to a better life. Many years ago, in 1741, I was elected to the House of Commons. From there, I went on to serve on the Admiralty Board, the Treasury Board, and as the Treasurer of the Navy. By 1761, I assumed the Leadership of the House and two years later, I was elected as the First Lord, the position that I currently serve you from. I wish to now share with you my views on Great Britain’s financial situation. As you all know, our country is in debt. This is a debt caused by the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession, and the Seven Years War. Respectively we’ve lost 56 million pounds, 75 million pounds, and 132 million pounds during the course of these battles. But you have elected me to take care of you and that is exactly what I am going to do. In order for us to once again build ourselves up as a country, we will all have to make sacrifices: this includes those living in our colonies in America. I propose that we decrease our spending within the army and navy. Because we are now a nation at peace, I firmly believe that this is an area where we can afford to make budget cuts. Our friends of the American colonies will lift a lot of monetary burdens. After all, they have it so easy. We have protected them, made their decisions for them, and provided for them. As you all know, I have already enforced the Sugar Act upon our overseas friends. From this I have gotten nothing but positive feedback, because it has lowered the price of molasses to you, my people. It also lowered the tax that was imposed in America for imports. How is this making money you ask? Prior to this Act, 2006-06-21T16:42:30-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/George-Grenville-Speech--29779.aspx What transpires today in the contemporary world is in several ways akin to what emerged a few centuries ago when people were exploring the planet: they discovered that their world was a vast place and re-drew their maps. The world that was previously flat became spherical, and later it expanded. Subsequently, the old world views were shed frequently. People conceived new and alternate ways of thinking and ultimately, they retreated from the global masses. “The Shipping News” explores a geographical retreat as Proulx constructs her story in Newfoundland, a place that is out of the generic, globalised world. Her symbolic reference to knots is part of her unconventionality. In chapter one, Proulx begins with applying the rope metaphor for Quoyle. “It (quoyle) is made on deck, so that it may be walked on if necessary.” This alludes to Quoyle’s passive attitude and indifference to the world and all of its issues. Partridge’s character is unorthodox and does not conform to the demands of a globalised world. His father, on the other hand “admired the mystery of business-men signing papers shielded by their left arms.” Partridge’s response to this is simple, “Ah, fuck it.” The Gammy Bird also diverges from the conventional and globalised world. Its odd structure and technique is vastly different to the Record back in Brooklyn. Quoyle comments: “Gammy Bird was a hard bite. Looked life right in its shifty, blood-shot eye…Nothing like the Record.’” The setting of the story in “Newfoundland” in itself is ironic as it implies a place to find oneself and depart. In the final chapter, there is a sense that Quoyle is no longer retreating from the global or anything for that matter. He sought peace, clarity and in Newfoundland, Quoyle discovers both as well as love “without pain or misery.” Through poetry Seamus Heaney withdraws from the present, historical period into another realm and time. For instance, in “Blackberry-picking”, he takes us to a world that is full of complex joys. The personification of the Blackberry-picking process and the transient nature of these fruits make the experience all the more pleasurable and satisfying. In stanza one, the persona begins his quest for blackberries eagerly, wanting to savour every moment of its sweetness. “Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week the blackberries would ripen… You ate the first one and its flesh was sweet…” As the poem progresses, the tone of mere excitement and pleasure is 2006-06-12T11:37:43-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/The-Shipping-News-Speech-on-Novel-29334.aspx The novel Great Expectations published in 1860 by Charles Dickens involves the protagonist Pip and his attempts to climb the social hierarchy and become a gentleman. The story is set in countryside London where Pip is part of the working class. Pips’ parents passed away when he was very young and he is to live with his sister Mrs Joe, who is married to a compassionate blacksmith. One day Pip is taken to a very wealthy house owned by Miss Havisham to play with a handsome girl called Estella who Pip falls in love with. The country folks thought Pip may be lucky and gain financial prospects from Miss Havisham as she was a very wealthy elderly woman. But nothing was gained except shame and embarrassment on Pip’s social status. Miss Havisham used Estella coldly to make Pip feel uneducated and unworthy of himself. But yet Pip falls in love with Estella’s appearance and wealth and becomes determined to become a gentleman to impress her. But yet Pip was never was accepted into the 19th century society’s paradigms “I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.” - Pip Sometime later a lawyer appears claiming Pip has a secret benefactor who has given Pip a large sum of money to become a gentleman. Pip takes this offer and leaves the countryside, his cruel sister and honest Joe behind to become a gentleman. Pip never visits Joe or his sister because of the arrogance which new wealth has brought him. “It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home” Finally a convict comes back into the story and tells Pip he is Pip’s anonymous benefactor. This spoils all of Pip’s false belief that Miss Havisham is his benefactress who intended him for Estella. Discovering the truth of Pip’s benefactor changed his mentality and perception, and caused him to challenge society’s conventions. Estella becomes unhappily married to a self centered rich man and Pip’s convict was later caught and hung. Pip asked forgiveness from kind Joe for being so pompous, and also learns of his sister’s death. Pip realized the blindness of the higher society and became a well educated and compassionate man challenging society’s paradigms after realizing the convict’s compassion from a working class was greater then a rich wealthy 2006-06-12T11:36:29-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Great-Expectations-29333.aspx The Many Uses of Vinegar General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: My audience will learn about vinegar, and the many different ways that they can use vinegar to clean their homes, promote their health, and enhance their beauty. Central Idea: Vinegar is a cheap, effective alternative to cleaning your home, promoting health, and enhancing beauty. Introduction: I. Ladies and Gentleman, what if I told you that that what I have in this tiny little cup, has been used to clean homes, promote health, and enhance beauty for over 10,000 years. In addition, what if I also told you that it only cost 99 cents, and is used in one out of every three homes across America. However, most people think it only serves one purpose. Well, I am about to prove you just how powerful this stuff really is. II. Today, I would like to talk to you about vinegar, and the ways your life can benefit from its use. III. I will tell you what it cleans, what it cures, and what it prevents. IV. Now many of you may already use vinegar in your home, though you may have not yet realized that it is more effective than what it appears to be. I have done a substantial amount of research on the benefits of vinegar, and found that I personally cannot live without this cheap little miracle. V. According to Melanie Moore, author of the complete idiots guide to household solutions,” “vinegar can be used for many things, and is more powerful than any cleaning product out there on the market.” (Transition: So, first let us talk about what vinegar can clean.) Body I. “According to the book, Health, Home, Beauty, and Beyond,” “Vinegar can clean almost anything inside and outside of your home.” A. It is very effective when it comes to bringing out stains on 1. Carpet, whether it be pet stains, or food stains. 2. It can be used in the dishwasher to cleanse the dishes better, as well as to wipe away any hard water spots. 3. It can be used as a laundry aid to remove stains, brighten clothes, keep them from fading, to set dyes, and rinse clothes cleaner and more thoroughly. (The smell does not stay in the clothes.) 4. It cleans ovens and microwaves free of grease and grime 5. It removes soap scum from showers, tiles, and faucets 6. And it cleans floors, countertops, cabinets, walls, and other hard surfaces. B. Vinegar also disinfects 1. Trashcans, bathrooms, kitchens, pet areas, doorknobs, countertops and laundry 2006-03-30T04:35:35-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/The-Many-Uses-of-Vinegar-Cleaning,-Health-amp-Beauty-28639.aspx How to Rid Your Life of an EX General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To teach the audience steps to ridding their lives of an Ex. Central Idea: There are effective ways to ridding your life of an ex, allowing you a quicker breakup recovery. INTRODUCTION ². How many of you can turn on the radio, and find a slow song that reminds you of an ex? Do you ever feel that no matter how much time goes by you can never seem to leave them in the past? II. Well today, I am going to show you ways to rid your life of an ex, so they you never have to look back again. III. There are three basic steps to ridding your life of an ex. First i will show you how to write a closure letter, second how to clean your home free of memories, and third how to take the leap of acceptance. IV. In the past five years i have experienced two very bad breakup with ex's of mine, since then i have learned everything there is to know about ridding them from my life. V. Though letting a loved one go, may never be easy, these three steps are simple and very effective ways of helping you get a start on a new life. (Transition: Now let me show you how easy it is to rid your life of an ex, by first writing a closure letter BODY I. The first step to ridding your life of an ex, is to write a closure letter. A. Transfer destructive and depressing thoughts to paper. 1. Tell them how much they hurt you 2. Point out all of their faults B. Never once let them know they got the best of you 1. tell them that you are over the breakup 2. tell them they were not as hard as you thought to get over 3. let them know something good thats going on in your life. C. Seal it, Stamp it, and Burn it (Do Not Mail) 2006-03-29T06:36:33-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/How-to-Rid-Your-Life-of-an-EX-28636.aspx The Many Uses of Vinegar General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: My audience will learn about vinegar, and the many different ways that they can use vinegar to clean their homes, promote their health, and enhance their beauty. Central Idea: Vinegar is a cheap, effective alternative to cleaning your home, promoting health, and enhancing beauty. Introduction: I. Ladies and Gentleman, what if I told you that that what I have in this tiny little cup, has been used to clean homes, promote health, and enhance beauty for over 10,000 years. In addition, what if I also told you that it only cost 99 cents, and is used in one out of every three homes across America. However, most people think it only serves one purpose. Well, I am about to prove you just how powerful this stuff really is. II. Today, I would like to talk to you about vinegar, and the ways your life can benefit from its use. III. I will tell you what it cleans, what it cures, and what it prevents. IV. Now many of you may already use vinegar in your home, though you may have not yet realized that it is more effective than what it appears to be. I have done a substantial amount of research on the benefits of vinegar, and found that I personally cannot live without this cheap little miracle. V. According to Melanie Moore, author of the complete idiots guide to household solutions,” “vinegar can be used for many things, and is more powerful than any cleaning product out there on the market.” (Transition: So, first let us talk about what vinegar can clean.) Body I. “According to the book, Health, Home, Beauty, and Beyond,” “Vinegar can clean almost anything inside and outside of your home.” A. It is very effective when it comes to bringing out stains on 1. Carpet, whether it be pet stains, or food stains. 2. It can be used in the dishwasher to cleanse the dishes better, as well as to wipe away any hard water spots. 3. It can be used as a laundry aid to remove stains, brighten clothes, keep them from fading, to set dyes, and rinse clothes cleaner and more thoroughly. (The smell does not stay in the clothes.) 4. It cleans ovens and microwaves free of grease and grime 5. It removes soap scum from showers, tiles, and faucets 6. And it cleans floors, countertops, cabinets, walls, and other hard surfaces. B. Vinegar also disinfects 1. Trashcans, bathrooms, kitchens, pet areas, doorknobs, countertops and laundry 2006-03-29T06:34:44-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/The-Many-Uses-of-Apple-Cider-Vinegar-Informative-28635.aspx The Many Uses of Vinegar General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: My audience will learn about vinegar, and the many different ways that they can use vinegar to clean their homes, promote their health, and enhance their beauty. Central Idea: Vinegar is a cheap, effective alternative to cleaning your home, promoting health, and enhancing beauty. Introduction: I. Ladies and Gentleman, what if I told you that that what I have in this tiny little cup, has been used to clean homes, promote health, and enhance beauty for over 10,000 years. In addition, what if I also told you that it only cost 99 cents, and is used in one out of every three homes across America. However, most people think it only serves one purpose. Well, I am about to prove you just how powerful this stuff really is. II. Today, I would like to talk to you about vinegar, and the ways your life can benefit from its use. III. I will tell you what it cleans, what it cures, and what it prevents. IV. Now many of you may already use vinegar in your home, though you may have not yet realized that it is more effective than what it appears to be. I have done a substantial amount of research on the benefits of vinegar, and found that I personally cannot live without this cheap little miracle. V. According to Melanie Moore, author of the complete idiots guide to household solutions,” “vinegar can be used for many things, and is more powerful than any cleaning product out there on the market.” (Transition: So, first let us talk about what vinegar can clean.) Body I. “According to the book, Health, Home, Beauty, and Beyond,” “Vinegar can clean almost anything inside and outside of your home.” A. It is very effective when it comes to bringing out stains on 1. Carpet, whether it be pet stains, or food stains. 2. It can be used in the dishwasher to cleanse the dishes better, as well as to wipe away any hard water spots. 3. It can be used as a laundry aid to remove stains, brighten clothes, keep them from fading, to set dyes, and rinse clothes cleaner and more thoroughly. (The smell does not stay in the clothes.) 4. It cleans ovens and microwaves free of grease and grime 5. It removes soap scum from showers, tiles, and faucets 6. And it cleans floors, countertops, cabinets, walls, and other hard surfaces. B. Vinegar also disinfects 1. Trashcans, bathrooms, kitchens, pet areas, doorknobs, countertops and laundry 2006-03-29T06:34:19-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/The-Many-Uses-of-Apple-Cider-Vinegar-Informative-28634.aspx I, Edmund Barton, stand to unite Australia and make it a Nation with a strong future. Seven states separated in the same country will only make Australia frail. If we unite as a country, under Britain’s declaration, we can grow as Australians and look forward to a bright and prosperous future. We can stand proud and say that we are Australian, as a country and not as 2006-03-28T09:45:53-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/History-speech-Australian-Federation-28624.aspx Transcript of Edmund Barton's Speech Introducing Federation For the first time, a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation. I am here to announce that we today 2006-03-23T08:40:11-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Transcript-of-Speech-Introducing-Federation-28611.aspx Persuasive Speech Against Speeding (Fast Driving) Specific purpose: To persuade the audience that fast driving should be avoided Introduction: No body can deny the fact that going fast in cars is fun, and who hasn't experienced the feeling of the excitment rush in the veins when the wheels start running fast and things almost get out of control ? And on the other hand, who hasn't gone through the sadness of losing a dear person due to fast driving, or even the sadness caused by hearing such stories? As a matter of fact, although fast driving can seem pretty exciting and appealing, its consequences could really be tragic. Body: Car accidents are a major problem in Lebanon, and its numbers have reached high levels in the past few years. In addition, even though there has been lot of awareness campaigns done in Lebanon by different organizations such as YasaLebanon and Redcross, the ignorance persists and it has led to making the problem even worse. According to Yasa, 1941 car accidents in the year 1999, 357 death and 3528 injuries and these numbers increased in 2000, 2326 car accidents , 413 death and 3586 injuries. Car accidents in general and especially those resulting from driving fast have many undesirable consequences, The most obvious one is the loss of one's life. A person could be risking losing his life for the sake of few moments of pleasure. Taking a decision of risking one's life should be thought about keeping in mind the effect of it not only on one's self, but on others too. Another result would be a major injury or trauma. A person could keep his life after a car accident, but would cause himself to get a severe injury, such as losing a limb, ability of normal functioning, certain scars on the body , etc. Such a result would be considered by some even more catastrophic than death. Yet the most important consequence of fast driving would definitely be endangering the lives of other people. If one thinks he/she are allowed to act freely with their lives, they certainly are not allowed to threaten the lives of others. To this i can relate by saying a story that happened to a friend of mine. Bilal, is a 20 year old friend who got handicapped because of 2006-01-23T23:55:12-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Persuasive-Speech-Against-Speeding-28453.aspx Love is a connection between two hearts.Many people think that the first impression seeing other at first sight is love.They cleverly define it as 'Love at first sight'.But I think those relations are just likeness not love. People often mixup likeness and love.These two are related but obviously diffrent.If you like some one then there may be only one reason behind your like ness.You may even dislike that person for another reason.But when you love someone then be sure You like his each and everything. So many breakups in relations are due to their inefficiencies to distinguish between likeness and love. Love is come from likeness i.e. there must be likeness if there is love but there may not be love though there is likeness. The base of any relation is likeness then the love come.So the value of first impression cannot 2005-12-30T17:12:11-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Love-at-first-sight-a-wrong-approach-28314.aspx Most people look at the internet in fear, the fear of being dumbfounded by the technological world. The internet is nothing to be afraid of, and surfing it, is easier than ever. Where to begin, is usually the most troubling part in most cases. Some people don’t realize, that the interntet, is all connected. Anyone who is online, is connected to each other. Search engines, are the easiest way to search the net, and what a tool they can be. The internet, a powerful tool, overlooked by many. People don’t realize the uses they can get out of the internet, such as research, and others. The internet can be 2005-12-02T04:37:45-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Fear-of-the-Internet--28149.aspx Introduction: “Life is like a box of chocolates.” “The Commercially popular movie Forest Gump illustrates it’s meaning 2005-12-01T05:02:45-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Forest-Gump-Info-Speech--28146.aspx Good evening parents, principals, teachers and the graduating class of 2004. This is an honour for me, for being able to speak to you all today on behalf of my class. This year has been academically tough but has also been exciting and worthwhile. The friends that we have made and the groups that we have formed have become very important parts of our lives that are going to be difficult to say good-bye to. Now that I think about it, it is surprising that I have been going to this school for ten years. The time I have spent at Clairlea will be the longest amount of time I will ever spend in one place during the rest of my education. Unlike the majority of my class I have never been to another school, Clairlea is all I know. Even though I do not have another school to compare with I can still say Clairlea has been an amazing learning environment for me. Because of the small number of students that attend Clairlea, it has been like a home to all of us. We all know most of the students and we are friends with many of them as well. Having a small student body has made this school a friendly and pleasant place to be. In my time at Clairlea they have held exciting events and activities. I will never forget the annual Holiday concerts, the folk dancing jamborees, the dances, or the Birchmount track and field days. These were all unforgettable memories that I will carry with me. Our next phase of our education will be the scary, unfamiliar place called high school. We will enter being known as ‘minor niners’ but hopefully we will all graduate being considered mature adults. Unfortunately in September many of us will separate from each other as we go on to our new and exciting schools. As we meet new people and learn new things I hope our experiences and our memories from our time at Clairlea will stay with us. These experiences will hopefully guide us through high school and will prepare us for many years to come. Although our future seems quite far away, we are slowly approaching it for we have now completed the first stage of our education. However my future still seems 2005-11-05T22:29:22-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Grade-Eight-Graduation-Speech-28086.aspx June 7 2005, 42 Iraqis reported killed in insurgency-related violence, 67 people reported injured in four bombings - three in the northern town of Hawija and one in Baghdad, 3 US soldiers killed, 1 foreign hostage taken, 40 foreign hostages believed to be alive in detention, 20 suspected insurgents captured in Tal Afar, 8,000 Iraqi troops, 30,000 US troops operating in Baghdad, 1,800,000 barrels of oil produced, 25 percent of Iraqis completely dependent on government food hand-outs, 50 percent of Iraqis with no access to safe drinking water. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a day in the life of an Iraqi. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the world trade centers in America, there has been a feeling of trepidation and a need to take vengeance on those responsible. This reprisal however has flowed into what we now know as the war in Iraq. Being an Australian, it is easy for us to be fooled by the media and media representations of these issues. We only know what we see and what we see is not always reality. President George Bush has very serious problems. Before the first deployment of troops to Iraq, Bush made a number of clear statements about the reason the United States needed to pursue the most radical actions any nation can undertake - acts of war against another nation. Now it is clear that many of his statements appear to be false. President Bush addressed the United Nations on September 22nd 2002 and said, "Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." These words tell us that he strongly believed that a war on Iraq was essential. However it seems as if he may have been manipulating us into believing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Until this day, these words are a lie. The UN had allowed itself to be used by the United States and Britain in an inspections-sanctions regime that was both fraudulent and genocidal. The fraudulence flowed from the fact that the inspections were used by the United States not just to remove Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction but to punish him and force him out in "regime change". Australia’s prime minister John Howard, the man WE elect to control OUR country the man who is said to be Bush’s Deputy Sheriff for the simple reason that he would do anything 2005-09-07T03:24:29-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Persuasive-Essay-on-the-War-in-Iraq-27941.aspx Inspirational Speech - The Bridge Builder Good evening. We are all gathered here this evening to celebrate the class of 2001, which is passing from one important part of there lives into another. We have all had the good fortune to have had parents, teachers, and good friends so far in our lives to point us in the right direction and always be there for us to fall back on when we needed them. It was with this in mind that I began to research for this speech tonight, but as I was considering different ideas I came across a poem that I think contains everything I wanted to communicate to you all tonight. The poem is entitled “The Bridge Builder” and was written by Will Allen Droomgoole. An old man, going a lone highway, Came at the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm, vast and deep and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim — That sullen stream had no fears for him; But he turned, when he reached the other side, And built a bridge to span the tide. "Old man," said a fellow pilgrim near, "You are wasting your strength in building here. Your journey will end with the ending day; You never again must pass this way. You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide, Why build you the bridge at the eventide?" The builder lifted his old gray head, "Good friend, in the path I have come," he said, "There followeth after me today A youth whose feet must pass this way. This chasm that has been naught to me To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be. He, too, must cross in the twilight dim; Good friend, I am building the bridge for him." There have been many bridges thus far in our lives that we have crossed together. From getting off the school bus for the first time on the first day of school, to getting our very first A+, even when we got our very first crushes. There have always been people there throughout our lives to support us and teach us how to cross the bridges that they have built for us. Our teachers, parents, and friends have all helped to construct bridges that are strong enough for all of us to pass along, 2005-09-01T04:34:17-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Inspirational-Speech-The-Bridge-Builder-27860.aspx A persuasive speech against underage drinking I. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: By a show of hands, how many people in this classroom are under the age of 21? As you look around the classroom, you will see that many of you are under this age. Now think to yourself, even though you are under the age of 21, does it mean that no one in this classroom has ever tried alcohol? According to Prof. Rosenberg from the Psychological Bulletin 1993, alcohol is the most serious problem facing teenagers. B. Link to Audience: We are all students at college and most likely gone to one party with alcohol. C. Speaker Credibility: Being a college student and under the age of 21, I have researched this topic of underage drinking because I thought this issue would be extremely beneficial to all of us since we are in college & will most likely be going through experiences involving alcohol. D. Thesis Sentence: Today I'm here to convince you to think twice about picking up that next bottle of alcohol. E. Preview of Speech: First, I will to talk about why teenagers should not have alcohol. Next, I'll discuss why teens are not responsible enough to drink and lastly I'll explain how alcohol is not good for your health. Transition: Let's begin by talking about why teenagers should not have alcohol. I. Main Point #1 A. Underage drinking is illegal in all 50 states. 1. The tolerance that police have to a teenager drinking and driving is absolutely zero. 2. Most parents who find out that their child has been drinking are not pleased with it. 3. Underage drinking is a crime. It is a first-degree misdemeanor punishable with a maximum sentence of 6 months incapacitation and a $1000.00 fine. B. Not only is underage drinking against the law, but it is endangering the person's life, as well as others, especially on college campuses. 1. As you can see on this survey from the George Mason Univ. & West Chester Univ. in 1997, alcohol was involved in more than two-thirds of all the campus incidents last year that occurred in residence halls. This survey involved 330 colleges&univ. throughout the country. 2. From the PSU Police Safety Services, the actual offenses of liquor in 2000 were 125 people and 169 people that were arrested due to liquor. Transition: Now that I have explained why teens should not have alcohol, I will explain to all of you why teens are not responsible 2005-08-01T07:20:26-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/A-Persuasive-Speech-Against-Underage-Drinking-27501.aspx Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Linda from physic G 12. Today I would like to talk about censorship. By the group taboos enforced by group leaders, censorship of a kind exists in primary groups, such as the neighborhood, village, or small community. Today censorship is a phase of social control closely correlated with rapid communication and with the extension of secondary group relationships transcending the usual limitations of space. Just as opinion had a narrow range in the village, so, too, the control of expression of opinion and of action had the same boundaries. Censorship is fundamentally a phase of social taboo against the expression of opinion. If it once had a narrow range in primary groups, today it reaches as far as political power and public opinion extend. In the primary group censorship of opinion for the most part was restricted to control of speech rather than of printing. In secondary groups censorship has moved definitely toward tabooing the printing of opinion as well as controlling speech. The fundamental purpose of censorship of free speech and of free printing is much the same. The censorship of free speech attempted to control the crowd-audience, the censorship of the press attempts to control the public-audience. The purpose of this report is to give information on regarding censorship knowledge .In this presentation, I would like to talk about: The reason of censorship exists, the relationship between censorship and intellectual freedom, and pornography and censorship. Censorship occurs when expressive materials, like books, magazines, films and videos, or works of art, are removed or kept from public access. Individuals and pressure groups identify materials to which they object. Sometimes they succeed in pressuring schools not to use them, libraries not to shelve them, book and video stores not to carry them, publishers not to publish them, or art galleries not to display them. Censorship also occurs when materials are restricted to particular audiences, based on their age or other characteristics. According to George Bernard Shaw, all censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. There is the whole case against censorship in a nutshell. When a society has intellectual freedom, citizens can collect and distribute any information they want without any restraints. Also, citizens 2005-07-28T16:36:57-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Censorship-Speech--27428.aspx Pro-gun persuasive speech Specific Goals: I want to encourage gun ownership. Introduction I. What is the foundation of modern technology? It's the history of the gun. Thesis Statement: I will persuade you in that, (1) federal gun control laws are unconstitutional, and (2) I will prove the 2nd Amendment is both a "State" and "Individual Right." Body I.The foundation of our country is based in English Bill of Rights and the American Revolution. A. What is the difference between the Declaration of Independence, the U. S. Constitution and the "Bill of Rights?" 1. The Declaration of Independence gives the reasons, as to why America wanted separation. 2. The Constitution gives the federal government certain powers. 3. The "Bill of Rights" limited the power of the federal government. B. The views of gun control advocates. 1. Gun control saves lives. 2. When America was founded guns only shot one bullet at a time. 3. Gun control will keep guns out of the hands of criminals. 4. Children should not have guns. 5. Gun control will reduce the hazards to law enforcement. 6. If citizens carry guns, there will be daily shoot-outs in the streets. 7. We don't want to ban deer rifles, just assault rifles. 8. Why do you need an assault rifle? 9. The entertainment industry is not at fault, it's the gun's fault! 10. The 2nd is a collective right and not an "Individual Right." C. My rebuttal to gun control advocates. 1. Vehicle control saves more lives than gun control. 2. The musket was an assault rifle, like the AK-47 is today. 3. If you 2005-05-28T21:21:48-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Pro-Gun-Persuasive-Speech-26796.aspx Some speakers say, “I could never use humor in my speech; I just don’t feel comfortable with it.” I believe that anyone can use humor and that it is a valuable tool in speaking. Appropriate humor relaxes an audience and makes it feel more comfortable with you as the speaker; humor can bring attention to the point you are making; and humor will help the audience better remember your point. It can break down barriers so that the audience is more receptive to your ideas. First, let me make it easy for you to use humor. The best and most comfortable place to find humor for a speech is from your own personal experience. Think back on an embarrassing moment that you might have thought not funny at the time. Now that you can laugh at the experience, you understand the old adage "Humor is simply tragedy separated by time and space." Or think of a conversation that was funny. Remember the punch line and use it in your speech. Probably the least risky use of humor is a cartoon. The cartoon is separate from you and if people don't laugh, you don't feel responsible. (Be sure to secure permission to use it.) You're not trying to be a comedian; you just want to make it easy for people to pay attention and to help them remember your point. Here are some suggestions on using humor to make your next speech have more impact. Make sure the humor is funny to you. If you don’t laugh or smile at the cartoon, joke, pun, one-liner, story, or other forms of humor, then you certainly cannot expect an audience to do so. A key to using humor is only using humor that makes you laugh or smile. Before using humor in your speech, try it out with small groups of people. Do they seem to enjoy it? Even if your experimental group does not laugh or smile initially, don’t give up on the humor, because the problem might be in the way you are delivering the joke or quip. I often use this line in talking about the importance of listening. “We are geared to a talk society. Someone said, ‘The only reason we listen is so we can talk next!'” When I first tried that line, people did not smile; but I worked on the timing so that I paused and 2005-05-28T21:20:18-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Incorporate-Humor-in-Your-Next-Speech-26795.aspx Public Speaking Anxiety and Its Effect On Students Introduction Public speaking anxiety is a problem for many people. Some say that it is the number one fear of Americans over death. There have been many studies done in the general field of public speaking anxiety. I am going to review five articles that touch on various issues surrounding public speaking anxiety. All five of these articles are from Communication journals and are at most five years old. Literature Review There have been many studies done on public speaking anxiety in the field of communications. I have chosen these five articles to review because I believe that put together, they give a good background on the recent research done on this subject. The first article looks at student's memories of speeches they have given. The second article looks at how public speaking anxiety affects speech preparation. The third article looks at how speech anxiety changes due to audience pleasantness and familiarity. The fourth article looks at when anxiety actually starts for students given a speech assignment. The fifth article summarizes a study where people with no formal background in communication are asked to explain why people experience public speaking anxiety. The first article is entitled "Communication apprehension and implicit memories of public speaking state anxiety." Sawyer and Behnke discussed two studies in this article. The first is labeled "Short term memory", and the second is labeled "Long term memory". In study one, their subjects were 44 undergraduate students (22 males, 22 females) that were taking a required basic speech communication class. Each student gave a short two-minute speech to a classroom of 20-25 students. The speeches were videotaped and later played back and reviewed by the instructor. Directly after giving their speeches, the students were asked to fill out Spielberger's (Speilberger, Gorsuch, & Lushene, 1969) STAI (A-State) scale, which asks the student how he/she felt while giving the presentation. They also filled this out several weeks before the speech, on how they felt about public speaking in general. Then they were asked to fill out the scale after class. The results showed that recollections of state speaking anxiety decrease over time. The second study participants were 40 undergraduate students (20 male, 20 female) enrolled in a basic speech communication course. At the beginning of the semester 2005-05-16T04:40:22-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Public-Speaking-Anxiety-and-Its-Effect-On-Students-26620.aspx Tyler Ross 3/ 14/ 05 English Devotional I’m sure the majority of you have heard, or even sung the lyrics, “O lord, you’re beautiful. You face is all I seek.” We first must look within ourselves when singing these words, and not simply take for granted the incredible beauty of our Lord. Often times we underestimate the beauty of God, and, although unavoidable, we attempt to describe him in terms of our finite ideas and perceptions of this very world. Though describing the Lords incomprehensible and staggering beauty could take an eternity, the Bible gives us a few quick glimpses of our savior, as best as our hampered human minds may. In revelation Chapter one verse 13 we witness John’s futile attempt to describe our Lord. 13 and in the midst of the seven lamp stands One like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band. 14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes like a flame of fire; 15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and His voice as the sound of many waters; 16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. 17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His right hand on me, saying to me, F8 "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last. Though John describes the Lord in the best possible way, the beauty of the one who created us all is far beyond his own comprehension. In light of this, we find that perhaps the best way to picture our Lord, is by the actions of those who have been at his feet. Revelation 11: 16 provides for us an account of the 24 elders falling on their faces before the Lord. 16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God. Out of sheer awe and respect for the awesome beauty and power of God, these esteemed elders fell flat on their faces and worshiped the Lord. (Talk about level of respect required to bow face flat on ground before someone, highest level of submission.) Though it may be in vain 2005-04-04T19:03:07-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Devotional-speech-on-the-Lord-s-Beauty-christian-26466.aspx Declaration of Independence for Golfers We, the golfers of America, hereby declare our independence with the following document. With this statement we affirm the right to wear knickerbockers and proudly jump up and down with a good shot. Too many times have we been made fun of for our unique dress code and our cover that go on our clubs. Too many times have we been called spoiled rich snobs who have theirs heads in the clouds. Too many times have we been laughed at because of our lingo. Well we are golfer s and so we shall always be. 1. Too many times have we been forced to lower our standards of play to make room for others. 2. Too many times have the Rangers told us to keep our voices down. 3. Too many times have golfers been mocked 2005-03-29T01:49:26-04:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Declaration-of-Independence-Parody-for-Golfers-26451.aspx Persuasive Speech: Aggressive Driving Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that aggressive driving should be avoided. Introduction I.Attention Getter: Speeding, tailgating, giving the finger and outright violence. Each day Americans grow more and more likely to take out their personal frustrations on other drivers. It is called aggressive driving and it is on the incline. II. Definition: Driving is a curious combination of public and private acts. A car isolates a driver from the world even as it carries him through it. The sensation of personal power is intoxicating. Aggressive driving includes such things as illegal or improper lane changes or turns, failing to stop or yield right of way, excessive speeds, and an assortment of gestures, looks and verbally abusive language. III. Connection: Everday we have to deal with these people on our roads. We run a great risk just driving around the corner to go to the store or a quiet trip to church. According to U.S. News and World Report, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that two-thirds of fatalities are at least partially caused by aggressive driving. Fortunately, there is something we can do about it. Body Preview: To overcome aggressive driving we must first understand it. I would like to share with you the problem, the dangers and the solutions for this growing trend. I. The Problem: The major cause of aggressive driving is the discourteous or inattentive driver. A. The number one cause is probably the “left-lane hog”, according to a story in the Amarillo Daily News. 1. Other discourteous driving behaviors include failure to signal before a lane change, changing lanes too closely to other drivers and tailgating. B. It is these seemingly unaware drivers that infuriate the aggressive driver and trigger the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde transformation. 1. Reduced enforcement, highway traffic, congestion or personal issues also play a large role in the disposition of the aggressive driver. C. The angry driver then may demonstrate his displeasure by speeding around the other vehicle, cutting the other driver off or with a number of verbal and nonverbal messages. Signpost: Though the driver may feel justified in his or her action, this kind of display is most times very dangerous and often will result in damage to either the vehicles, the drivers and nonverbal messages. I. The Dangers: As mentioned before, two-thirds of the 42,000 highway deaths last year were related to aggressive 2004-12-24T05:31:26-05:00 http://75.150.148.189/free-essay/Persuasive-Speech-Aggressive-Driving-26027.aspx