Persuasive Speech [Task Word Count] [Rationale Word Count] Your Name Your Student Number (ex. 001368-XXX) Rationale The part of the course that this task is connected to is part 2: Language in Mass Communication. In this part of the course we have been studying how rhetorical features are used to persuade people. For this written task I chose to write a speech. My intention in writing this speech is to raise awareness about the way media directs our independent thinking and how the media
My Personal Worldview, This is an interesting assignment as I had never sat down and thought about my beliefs in quite this way. I know I have firm convictions, but I had never actually articulated what they were. I found to my surprise that my beliefs are quite simple. I have three main beliefs which are: that I believe in God, that certain laws are necessary, and that people should always follow the Golden Rule. My view on religion is first and foremost that I believe in God. Additionally, God
What is Public Speaking? What is your mental picture when you think about “public speaking?” The President of the United States delivering an inaugural address? A sales representative seeking to persuade clients in a board room? Your minister, priest, or rabbi presenting a sermon at a worship service? Your professor lecturing? A dramatic courtroom scene, probably from Law & Order? Politicians debating before an election? All of these and more are instances of public speaking. Be assured that public
to understand that college is where you grow intellectually. Your ideas will be challenged. That’s the whole point. Safe spaces and shouting down speakers is a sign that you have not yet adjusted to the reality of life. It’s time to win the war of ideas with bigots and racists with the beauty of common sense. The peaceful exchange of ideas is our only alternative to violence. To emphasize, Hate speech should be legal. Who is to decide what is hate speech? Bad ideas should be critiqued and not
Freedom of speech Are you the kind of person that hates discriminatory against religion or culture? then you should know that the leading discriminatory issue is hate speech. The issue at hand here is that most Europeans feel that laws limiting freedom to prevent hate speech should be put in place and some Europeans feel that it is important to limit hate speech because they feel that it is a human right violation against a group of people. This issue is really important since hate speech is a form
“A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.” This quote certainly raise a question, to what extent the press is allowed of freedom of speech, and on what grounds it should not be affected by the government. But more importantly, how does law and justice should protect these rights of press. The book Make No Law is about a very rare case, in which heroes are heroes, the villains are villains, and everyone can be characterized as one
figures’ influence. Political figures should uphold political justice by protecting personal liberties, free speech, and ensuring equality, such as distributing just punishments for unlawful acts and ensuring no laws infringe on anyone’s personal liberties. In Earl Lovelace’s novel, The Wine of Astonishment, an unjust law bans only the Baptist religion from being practiced, thus infringing on the villager’s personal liberties of freedom of religion. Another example of justice comes from Martin Luther
to reach citizenship, but the full extent of a person's personality and intentions are not revealed through this process. Social media is a prominent source of information into someone’s personal life. The Huffington Post clearly states that social media is no way to decide citizenship. ThinkProgress discusses how monitoring social media is too invasive and disrespects an individual’s rights. It is clearly stated on npr.org that social media is
identify the fears of public speaking among students, find out the reasons behind them by listening to the explanations behind them and their experiences and finally digging into finding solutions for eradicating such fears among students. We will conduct questionnaire surveys, interviews with the students, a case study on a student and will use resources from books, articles and the internet. All the primary research methods will help us gather the first hand experiences and fears of the students
nightmare was happening… He was suffering a PANIC STAGE ATTACK or stage fright how it’s known. Slide 2 Well, I would like to introduce myself … I’m Roberta, an English student, and as many of you, I’m preparing myself for the Languages Exams. From my point of view, the biggest challenge we have as applicants for these kinds of exams, is the Speaking