Sue Kebold’s “My Son was A Columbine Shooter” speech centers around her son’s declining mental health which led him to commit a mass murder at his high school and end his own life. Her speech was compelling and potent touching on the importance of acknowledging the suffering of our loved ones, providing factual and statistical information about suicide, her insight on her son’s murder-suicide, and the revelation of her own mental health issues making herself relatable and not immune to mental disorders…
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idea, or statistic. The three goals of speaking to inform are speaking to enhance understanding, maintain interest, and be remembered. By enhancing the understanding of a topic, the listener can correctly interpret what the speaker’s purpose and meaning of the speech. Even though it is important to ensure that the listener understands the speech, it is crucial that he or she does not become bored and uninterested. He or she will stop paying attention to the speech, resulting in an informative speech…
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My persuasive round two speech topic focused on legalizing marijuana in Oklahoma and how it would not be beneficial to our citizens. I feel as if this topic did pertain to the audience because a lot of the youth smoke marijuana now. My main goal of my speech was to change minds of students who smoke and want marijuana to be legalized in Oklahoma. I chose this topic because I feel strongly about it, and I hoped to show the students at Southeastern Oklahoma State University that marijuana is not okay…
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Informative Speech Formal Outline Introduction OWI - My wife’s sobs were heart shattering . . . (Remember sensory language in the story) Thesis – By looking at my son’s condition, we will gain some new information about Autism. RTL – K a littles - Some of you may not know what Autism is. This speech will give you more information about this very common disorder. K alots - Some of you may know a lot about Autism. Perhaps you know someone personally who has it. But since every case is different…
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Memorandum To: Mr. Allan Agrawal and the chapter’s Executive Committee CC: Florence Milano, President of Data Solutions, Inc. From: Yuniel Lopez Date: [ 10/21/2012 ] Re: Course of action regarding monthly informative program for chapter members It has come to our attention Mr. Bruce's first speech last week was a disaster. He apparently had not prepared for the occasion and didn't seem to know exactly whom he was addressing. He focuses on impressing the audience with his speaking skills rather than…
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censorship, what they received is not entirely what they expected to achieve from their efforts. Instead, they observed homosexual rape on stage, fornication, and pornography on the streets of major cities. All of which is to be considered as freedom of speech and expression of art. Throughout this essay he aims to demonstrate how lack of censorship is silently affecting individuals throughout America. Kristol believes that exposure to obscene forms of entertainment is changing and disrupting the American…
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Informative speech Electric Cars Introduction Attention Getter: Central Idea: State an interesting new facts about electric cars. Preview of main points: Today I am going to talk about history of electric cars, where is electric cars today and finally we will explore what is to come of electric cars in the future. Body I.The history of the electric cars A) Where do the electric cars come from? B) When they was billed in the US? C) How they grow up in our country? II.…
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(THIS WAS AN INFORMATIVE SPEECH I DID FOR MY COM220 CLASS ON THE STAGES OF SPINAL CORD INJURY RESEARCH. IT ACTED AS AN INTRODUCTION TO MY PERSUASIVE SPEECH ON THE BENEFITS OF STEM CELL RESEARCH) There are about a quarter of a million people in the United States living with spinal cord injuries. In addition, between 7,600 and 10,000 new injuries occur each year. Nearly half of these new injuries will occur in young people between the ages of 16 and 30. As a person in this category, I have become…
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Noah West Basic Outline Format Bringing lucidity to lucidity General Purpose: To inform my audience. Specific Purpose: To help my audience become frequent dreamers. Thesis Statement: Dreaming has the potential to change your life, as it has with many throughout history. Introduction A. Attention Getter Have you ever wanted to fly, talk to aliens or explore your imagination? B. Relevancy Statement Lucid dreaming allows you to do this and so much more. C. Thesis Statement Lucid dreaming is…
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a speaker and a larger audience of unknown people who usually are not present with the speaker. | 4. Public speaking | A speaker delivers a message with a specific purpose to an audience of people who are present during the delivery of the speech. | 5. Source (or Sender) | Is the person who creates a message | 6. Encoding | The process of converting thoughts into words. | 7. Receiver | (Audience) The recipient of the sources message. | 8. Decoding | The process…
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