Fear of Public Speaking Speech Outline Attention Grabber: “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” -Elbert Hubbard Purpose: How to make your fears of public speaking work for you and not against you, and to show that almost everyone gets nervous. Introduction: Everyone is afraid of something. Whether it is spiders, heights

Help Stop Acid Rain Help Fight the Fight Against Acid Rain A couple of years back my family and I decided to make a trip to Pakistan after a gap of 2 years. Now we were all looking forward to this trip. Firstly were going after so long and were looking forward to spending some time at our grand home in Pakistan which had a lush green lawn and acute little pond in the center of it. I c

Homelessness When many people think of homelessness they think that the homeless are a group of crazy bums, drunks and people that are too lazy to work, as did one of our presidents Ronald Reagan. Yet if we think about it, not all homeless people fall into these categories. There are many reasons people become homeless. People become homeless due to job loss, generally without hope f

IUS Ogle Center It is March 19, 1996 and the sound of the Louisville orchestra invades the RIchard K Stem Concert Hall. They dont' play in vain, but rather for commemoration. Over 300 contributors, community memeber, staff, faculty, and students celebrate the realization of a dream. A dream that started to form in 1973 when Indiana University Southeast moved from it's Jeffersonville loca

Intercultural Communicatons Personal identity and social identity are two main domains that determine quality of interpersonal and intercultural communication process. First and foremost the importance lies in what one thinks of himself or herself, and than how this person’s views himself or herself as a part of society. These two domains determine people’s self-concept and also how wel

Interpersnal Perception “Perception Paper” Day in and day out people tend to form an interpersonal perception of others. Whether it is consciously or unconsciously every body is guilty of this. Interpersonal perception is the process by which you decide what people are like and give meaning to their actions. An example would be making judgments about personality and drawing inf

Language Development In Children With Profound And Prelingual Hearing Loss Language Development in Children with Profound and Prelingual Hearing Loss, without Cochlear Implants The Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology; Dec 2000; Mario A. Svirsky Most children who are either born profoundly deaf, or become deaf before three years of age, fall significantly behind their heari

Legalization Of Industrial Hemp To persuade my audience to the uses and benefits of industrial hemp. I. Introduction By a show of hands how many of you are concerned with our environment' Now if there were something that could be used as an alternative to trees for paper would you use it, even it was related to a plant that is considered a drug' Today I’m going to tell you that the

Life Is Hell “ Life is hell!” This comes out of the mouth of a bright, 16 year-old boy named Max, who had seemed not to have a care in the world. Tim is quiet and polite- the model student and son during the week but falling down drunk on Saturday night. Then there is Jackie. She wrote a note to her friend saying “ Life is just more than I can handle sometimes.” Is Jackie lookin

Literature Review Communication apprehension, the necessity of well educated communicators in the workplace, and the implications of these factors on the degree completion program at Tabor College Wichita are best addressed through a comprehensive literature review including defining, analyzing, and comparing terms and experiences found in the following selections. The literature revie

Mental Retardation Today The AAMR also states that: People with mental retardation should not be eligible for the death penalty. This is not to suggest that people with mental retardation should not be punished when they break the law, nor does it suggest that people with mental retardation are not responsible for their actions. It suggests that people with mental retardation cannot be

Dolly Madison Dolly Payne Madison was born in Guilford County, North Carolina on May 20, 1768. Dolly was born the first girl in a family of several children to Quaker parents, John Payne and Mary Coles. She spent her childhood in Scotchtown, Virginia. "The Paynes were well connected and sufficiently prosperous, small planters in Hanover County."1 The Quaker house forbade festivity, shunn

Marijuana Decriminalization General Purpose: To persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that the prohibition of marijuana has only hurt out nation. Central Idea: Show that the decriminalization of marijuana is in our nations best interest; it is a valuable medicine with mild side effects like all medicine. Introduction: I am going to ask everyone to close your eyes f

Mother Teresa Through out the women known as Mother Teresa’s life she had accomplished a great many tasks. Mother Teresa had done good works and heroic virtues in her lifetime. Mother Teresa’s had accomplished many deeds through out her religious order and her “Way of Love”. This is a way of not pleasing yourself but to give yourself to God and to be used by him in a very special way,

My Address To The Secretary Of State Concerning Recent Terrorist Attacks My Address to the Secretary of State Concerning Recent Terrorist Attacks Ladies and gentlemen of the committee, I am here today to speak to you about a growing concern of mine in the aftermath of a great tragedy. As we are all well aware, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 have caused great turmoil in

My Speech All fiction is autobiographical, no matter how obscure from the author's experience it may be, marks of their life can be detected in any of their tales. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is based largely on Hemingway's own personal experiences. The main character of the novel, Frederic Henry, experiences many of the same situations that Hemingway lived. Some of the

Neo-Classic Literature Persuasive writings and speeches have been a starting point for the shaping of mankind and history throughout the ages, rallying men together for a cause and making long term changes for the world. Early colonial patriots used it to help create our country today, setting out to rid the west of tyranny and hoping to create their own utopia. Patrick Henry’s “Spe

NHS Scholarship Speech I have been asked to speak with you tonight regarding one of the four main qualities possessed by those associated with the National Honor Society- this characteristic is SCHOLARSHIP. SCHOLARSHIP is defined as a “commitment to learning.” Scholarship is NOT an inherited quality, but one that is acquired and developed as a result of responsibility, diligence, an

Organization Communication Future of Organizational Communication The three basic requirements of how a company becomes a learning organization whose members question existing assumptions and devise new ways of doing business are (1) learning basic skills, (2) learning new technologies and (3) learning new ways of organizing. The U.S. Labor Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Neces

Overcoming Your Fears Grade 97/100 "Overcoming your fears" I. Intro A. Question: How many of you are fearful of something' Such as heights, flying in a plane, or swimming' B. Purpose: My purpose today is to teach you how to overcome your fears. C. Overview Questions: 1. What types of fear are there' 2. How can you overcome your fear' 3. What are the benefi

Parkinsons Disease Title: Parkinson’s disease General Purpose: To make my audience aware of Parkinson’s disease and allow them to gain some knowledge on the subject. Pattern of Organization: Topical order. Introduction: Imagine having resting and postural tremors, muscle slowness of movement, and postural imbalance to deal with on a daily basis, Well, that’s what people suffering from

Personal Statement We are the media and the media is us. That statement is very broad and is so for a good reason. Through out the world and the history of our society, media has transformed, melted, bent, molded and made our society and culture what it is today. But at the same time, our culture and society has done the exact same thing to media. It is hard to realize or imagine a t

Persusasive Speeches Are Bad Assignments There is no logical reason to write a persuasive speech for an English class. Persuasive speeches definitely do not need to be a requirement for high school students. The definition of “persuade” in The Macquarie Dictionary is: To induce one to believe or do something; to argue into an opinion or procedure; to plead with, urge. I have always

PreMarital Counseling One major problem in our society today is divorce. Over half of all marriages end in divorce. This rate is extremely high, so high, in fact, that this is indeed a crisis. Divorce affects everyone involved; it leads to one or both partners being left broken and it is detrimental to children. My interest in this topic comes from being a child of parents who failed in

Presentation On The Changing Political Causes Of The French Revolution. Presentation On The Changing Political Causes Of The French Revolution. Class struggles in Britain in the 1960’s and 70’s led to greater divisions amongst the people. Because of the ideological desire for something to benefit the people amid increasing social chaos, socialism looked attractive and many Marxist idea

Reading Your Audience Like A Book Reading Your Audiences Like a Book Did you ever have one of those presentation experiences where you hit everything just right' You were really in the zone, firing up your audience while disseminating all of your valuable content. How did you know it was working' The answer is fairly obvious—the audience was giving you clues to their appreciation.

Speech Outside Speaker Critique In the ballroom of the student center, Melissa Howard from MTV's, The Real World, spoke on behalf of the Ball State art department. She did speak, but her speaking skills were not the greatest. To start off her speech she did not start out with the normal attention getter that most would expect. She simply said, "Congratulations to all of

Single Mother-hood In today's American society the growth of women's independence and self-empowerment has given women the confidence to raise their children without a father. Whether the absence of a father is by choice or not, single mothers are on the rise. Recently, actress Jodie Foster accepted the responsibility of motherhood by means of artificial insemination. Although some wo

Speech Candidate Speech Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing! By saying this I don’t mean winning the playoff basketball game or even receiving the gold medal in the Olympics, instead I am speaking about winning in life. We are all faced with our own challenges, whether they are big or small, as an individual or in a group. It is important that we face these challenges wit

Symbollic Interactionism Symbolic Interactionism “The Looking Glass Self” John P. Hewitt defines symbolic interactionism as a distinctly American sociological perspective whose roots lie in the philosophy of pragmatism. George Herbert Mead is a key proponent of this theory who was a pragmatist philosopher with intellectual stature. Mead is best known and remembered for his th