...My reaction to this Informative Speech was much more nerve wrecking then my first speech. I was all glittery forgot words, sentence and what I prepared for the speech I mixed everything up. Standing in front of the class is horrifying to me. This speech made me think about what to inform my audience about that may catch their attention. For my informative speech, I choose to research the topic of Volcanoes in Nicaragua because I find it very interesting. Such a beautiful place to visit and my experience is where the idea evolved from. I chose to do this topic because my partner is from Nicaragua and I have seen very interesting sites, experienced and the history that the country beholds is breathe taking . I knew that Nicaragua had active volcanoes and at the volcanoes there were adventurous and different tours. Throughout my informative speech I explained how the volcanoes in Nicaragua are formed in a chain North and South of Nicaragua. I also went into detail on the adventurous that can be done at the top of the Volcanoes like hiking, skiing and site seeing. Overall, I felt that my informative speech was fairly successful. There were quite a few reasons why I thought why my speech was an effective speech. By providing my audience with information on things to do at the Volcanoes in Nicaragua. First, I felt that my subject was relevant to my audience because everyone likes to travel and the majority of the audience likes the adrenaline of being adventurous and experiencing the...
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...and view him as a nuisance. Uncle Garth beings to tell Walter tails of him and Hub’s adventures as young men serving in the French Foreign Lesion during World War I. Uncle Hub is a wild character, who seems to be desperately trying to hold onto his youth and prove that he is still as strong and capable as ever. After getting into a fight with several teenagers, Uncle Hub brings them back to his house. He gives them his “what every boy needs to know about being a man” speech. By the end of the movie, both uncles have grown attached to Walter and are upset when his mother returns to take him. Walter decides that he wants to stay with his uncles, but insists that they be involved in all of his activities including little league, boy scouts and PTA (McCanlies, 2003). On the surface, the public image of the uncles are that of two grumpy, bitter, old men. They regularly shoot at salesmen that come to call on them. They are rude to their relatives. Uncle Hub gets into a fight with teenagers. He checks himself out of the hospital after yelling at the nurses and throwing stuff down the hall. They are both in conflict with the idea of getting old and they lash out. However, there is also another very important side to the uncles. They are both strong, adventurous men who want to share their life experiences with the next generation. Uncle Hub’s “what every boy needs to know about being a man speech” is something he is proud to pass on. Uncle Garth...
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...Be a Champion Public Speaker Being a champion public speaker doesn't necessarily mean that you are the best there is. Rather, it is following the philosophy of appreciating what you have, living your life as a champion, and enjoying the adventure of life by helping others enjoy theirs. Questions you may have include: • What should be appreciated? • How does one live as a champion? • Why help others? This lesson will answer those questions. There is a mini-quiz near the end of the lesson. [pic][pic][pic]Appreciation Appreciate and be thankful of what you have, especially concerning your public speaking or its effect on your career. Don't take your speaking or job for granted. Even the worst job is better than no job at all. If you are presently out of work, appreciate your friends and family. Be thankful that you have skills and abilities. These will all be important in getting your next position. Live as a champion To live your life as a champion means to always seek to stay healthy, knowledgeable, excellent, valuable and honorable. Health You can't speak very effectively if you don't feel well. You should take care of your physical and emotional health, so that do what you want and need to do. If you are healthy, you simply feel good. Knowledge and skill A speaker needs to continually improve his or her knowledge in speaking techniques and subject matters. If you are knowledgeable and skilled, then your self-esteem...
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...Rizal Technological University Boni Campus Boni Avenue, Mandaluyong City COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS BETWEEN ODYSSEY AND BIAG NI LAM ANG Presented by: Noveno, Sherjun C. Palon, John Paolo T. Presented to: Prof. Lynn M. Besa February 17, 2015 INTRODUCTION Skepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of skepticism. To be content with what we at present know is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire. Skepticism has attained its culminating point with respect to Homer, and the state of our Homeric knowledge may be described as a free permission to believe any theory, provided we throw overboard all written tradition, concerning the author of the Iliad and Odyssey. Lots of arguments have appeared to run in a circle. “This cannot be true because it is not true; and that is not true, because it cannot be true.” Such seems to be the style, in which testimony upon testimony, statement upon statement, is consigned to denial and oblivion. Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon and is the second oldest...
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...Reading report of the Adventure of Tom Sawyer I think that every young person used to have the dream of travelling around the world and trying to find the treasure, but most of them just hold it as a dream ,not take it into action. In the book The adventure of Tom Sawyer you can see a very exciting and mind-blowing story,which shows a young boy’s adventure life. It is one of the best-written novels of Mark Twain, which brings the fresh recollections of Mark Twain’s memory of his childhood. Tom Sawyer ,who is always causing mischief and troubles, but sets a new and original image which is totally different from the other children. In the novel, Tom Sawyer with Huck Finn leads a typical American-style life with innocence and happiness. In order to get rid of the usual life and the control of contemporary moral values, Tom and Huck make chances for adventures and have fun in realizing their dream with naughtiness and heroic justice to eradicate evil. childhood which is the best time for me, and maybe the best time for most people. That’s the reason why Tom Sawyer has become one of the most impressive images in world literature which enjoys lots of reputation and popularity. It also should be one of the most memorable time for Mark Twain himself, and we can dig out his values for kids and his past childhood. I ‘m a faithful reader of Mark Twain, , I have covered almost all of his short stories, most of his novels. So I think I understand and know his values and judgment to some...
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...“It's not as bad as it sounds.” (Huckleberry Finn) Compare how the theme of outsiders is presented in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, D.B.C Pierre’s Vernon God Little and Sylvia Plath’s Ariel. Throughout the history of literature, the idea of an outsider unable to find his place within society is explored frequently in all three texts. The theme of the outsiders is presented in all novels but separated due to the different time periods in which they were set, thus resulting in controversy and criticisms making it difficult to find a place within literature. Mark Twain’s ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is the story of a young boy, Huck Finn, who is faced with a restraint enforced upon him by society and later acknowledges this restraint once he comes to the realization that there is no escape from the society. ‘Vernon God Little’, like Huckleberry Finn, is also a story of a young boy framed as an accessory in a High School Massacre and is rendered to be an outcast in a society which revolves around manipulation and gullibility. Both Pierre and Twain portray the limitations and issues placed upon a young boy growing up in society. Sylvia Plath was viewed as a feminist icon, her collection ‘Ariel’, adopts the theme of outsider, as she believed women were classed as second-tier in a male dominant society and posed as a response to patriarchy in which oppressed women. The three texts intertwine in the portrayal of the outsider and act as a commentary on the societies in which these writers...
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...Tennessee Williams’s play “The Glass Menagerie” tells about the disappointment that life has brought to the Wingfield family. The characters of this play are people whose dreams and life expectations have been shattered by the cruel reality. This disappointment breeds unrest and dissatisfaction in them, they feel trapped in their lives and are seeking for escape. In this extract there is a mix of registers. Moreover, the registers differ even within the speech of individual characters. While Laura and Amanda are speaking exclusively in formal style, Tom and Jim speak mostly informally; however the two men manage to change the register of their speech several times. Through different features of the characters’ speech, the author reveals their psychological state and intentions, for example, Laura’s feeling of embarrassment and Amanda’s pretence of being a real lady and her intention to give her daughter away to a rich and noble man. The idiolect and qualities of the characters are revealed with the help of phonetic, grammatical, and lexical stylistic devices. In order to achieve an effect of natural speech, the author has used a lot of dashes that represent the gaps and pauses in the speech. They bring out characters’ emotions, for example, Laura’s nervousness and anxiety: “How - how do you do?” We can feel also Jim’s confusion while speaking to Amanda: “[…] no – no – thank you – […]” These dashes also reveal one’s unwillingness to talk about certain issues, for example,...
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...Background of The Study Every individual has problems in their life. The problem that appears is complex. Most of them related to human psychological condition. One of the basic problems of individual is feeling inferiority. This emerges as the result of psychological and social weakness. Inferiority feeling also arises for imperfection in doing something. Those feelings include subjective feeling, which is experienced by people because of their social disabilities. Thus, human beings try to compensate for their inferiority feeling by striving to overcome their feeling. Inferiority feeling influences human being life style. In other words, inferiority determines life style involving how people attempt to defeat their weakness. Commonly, individual applies their inferiority in social life. However, they tend to be motivated to overcome feeling of inferiority by building relationship with others to get their life’s goal. Sometimes, the goal of life will become difficult thing to be reached since there are many problems in human life. The problems in human life cannot be separated from thinking, feeling, and acting. Those are actually bringing up influence for the literary work. Therefore, literature closely related to psychology in human being including experiences facing the life. A work of literature is created not only to entertain but also to convey values and meanings to human life which can be discovered in the problem and conflict. The psychological...
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...One characteristic of his writing was the aspect of travel (Quirk n. pag.). Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn along with many others of his works contain in some part travel. In most of the story of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn is traveling down the Mississippi river with Jim. When Huck Finn is planning his escape from his pap he is trying to figure out where he will go and says, “I wouldn’t stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country,” (Twain 26). Huck Finn suggests that he would never stop traveling because if he did he would get caught, so he is stuck on an endless journey throughout the book. Mark Twain’s life is very much reflected in his writings, when Twain was in his 20’s he met a steamboat pilot and was his apprentice for two years then in 1859 he became a steamboat pilot ("Hannibal.net | The Hannibal Courier-Post" n. pag.). For four years of his life he was on a boat traveling up...
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...special devices * ELEMENTS OF POETRY 1. Persona or the voice- “speaker”, may be a poet or completely different character 1 2. Theme- insight into life revealed by the poem 3. Rhythm and Rhyme-2 (pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry ,3 repetition of sound at the ends of words, * 4. Form/Genre (Lyric, Narrative, Dramatic)4-6 * 5. Diction (Connotative, Denotative) * 6. Literary Devices (Techniques, Figures of Speech) * Miscellaneous elements: * Tone-attitude of the writer 7 * Mood-atmosphere or general feeling * TYPES AND FORMS OF POETRY 1. LYRIC POETRY- meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre -short, simple and easy to understand 8 A. Kinds of Lyric Poetry B. Sonnets- 14 lines with a formal rhyme scheme or pattern 9 C. Elegy- expresses lament or mourning for the dead 10 3. Ode- noble feeling, expressed with dignity and praises * TYPES AND FORMS OF POETRY * 4. Songs- poem w/ or w/o definite number of syllables and stanza and always accompanied by musical instrument * 5. Psalms- song praising God or the Virgin Mary and containing philosophy in life 11 * 6. Simple Lyric- includes a variety of poems with varying theme and characterized by subjectivity * II. NARRATIVE POETRY * -describes important events in life either real or imaginary 12 * -tells a story * -present dramatic events in a vivid way, using same elements as short stories: plot, characters...
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...Authors often base their stories on their own life experiences and beliefs. In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, there are many references to Samuel Clemens’s life, tying in how Clemens felt about the everyday issues of his time with the journey and trials of a boy and a slave. Throughout the story, he expresses his views on racism, morality, society, and his own adventures. Samuel Clemens grew up in Missouri, a slave state at the time, and experienced first- hand how slavery worked, later bringing it up in many of his writings. After the death of his father at age 11, Clemens became a printer’s apprentice and started working as a typesetter in 1851 as a contributor of articles and humorous sketches for the Hannibal Journal, a newspaper company owned by his brother, Orion. Clemens later went on to pilot his own steamboat on the Mississippi. It is here that Clemens found his pen name, Mark Twain, from "mark twain," the cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms. This is also where Clemens found the time to write a book titled, Life on the Mississippi, a memoir of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. When the Civil War began, Clemens enlisted in a Confederate Unit, which is where he wrote a sketch called, "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed," telling how he and his friends had been Confederate volunteers for two weeks before disbanding their company. Throughout...
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...The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain By Brenda Tarin British Literature 2323 Lois Flanagan January 27, 2009 Tarin ii I. Introduction II. Biographical sketch of author A. Past to present B. Experiences and achievements III Plot analysis A. analysis of plot structure 1. Exposition 2. Complication 3. Crisis 4. Climax 5. Resolution B. Theme of plot IV Critical analysis A. Theme 1. Racism 2. Slavery C. Characters D. Atmosphere E. Conflicts V. Evaluation VI. Review of movie version VII. Conclusion Tarin 1 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Samuel Langhorne Clemens also known as the famous and brilliant Mark Twain, was born in the small town of Florida, Missouri on November 30, 1835 to John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens. Clemens was the youngest of the five children, as a child Clemens moved around a lot, he first moved to the small town of Hannibal at the age of four. Here he attended a private school and seemed to finally recover from his poor health at the age of nine. When he was twelve his father died of pneumonia, he suddenly decided to leave, and make money, since his family needed all the help they could get. He quit school and was a printers apprentice, then moved and helped his brother print and edit for a newspaper. In 1858 Clemens became a river pilot...
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...“A Leap of Faith” You mentioned in your speech at the wedding a couple weekends ago that in my sense of adventure you trusted me in any situation, from snowshoeing a mountain and sledding down, to standing below me while I‘m chain sawing 80ft up above you. I have to tell you how I got started and became the guy you share these crazy adventures with. Skydiving one time has changed my perspective on life to be sure. Just starting out in a new job and trying to figure out what life was about and where I was headed. I decided it was time to mix things up, do something I didn’t think I had the guts to actually do. Go jump from a perfectly good plane attached to someone I didn’t know, that is an “expert“ in the area of falling from great heights (more than once!) . I had been in a plane only two or three times sight seeing, without the urge to open the door no less. The sky is a cold, crisp aqua marine with thin wispy clouds. The walls are a cold steel grey. Rivets hold everything together. A faded tan leather seat, cracked from years speed, pitch, heading and Altitude. A small window on my right side above my head provides the only meager view on the ascent to a totally new view on life. It’s dark behind me where the Instructor waits patiently for the call to go. There’s a small poster on the sliding door that says “Humpty Dumpty was pushed” with a picture of him falling (the irony of which, will hit me in a moment). The wind is leaping in and out of the plane as we speed...
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...War The first text by Sarah Palin named “Why They Serve” a text from 2010, it tells about why Sarah thinks you need to serve in the army. Sarah’s son has just been enlisted in the army, and she therefor has a very personal view on the subject. Thirteen days earlier she had been chosen by John McCain, to be a vice-presidential running mate and should give a speech. At first she points out what all the soldiers are fighting for is America, and to defend the citizens. She focuses on her sons reasons to pick the army instead of an education. He has small children and has always felt that he needed to protect them, and when he got the chance he took it. And not only could he protect his family, he could protect America. Sarah point out that America is not like other countries, they do not have a particular territory or culture or people, but an idea. The speech becomes more and more objective and more patriotic and is now all about supporting them in the mission to defend America and fulfill its idea. It is a pep talk and do not describe the reality of the war itself. The second text describes how damage and changed a person can be from the war in Iraq. How terrifying it is to see a friend die or a body explodes. We text gives some examples of how extreme your condition can be and how dangerous it is to be in a war. The text describes a man who has PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. He had all kinds of physical illnesses like, a ruptured disk, headaches, vertigo and so on...
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...friend is honest and loyal. They will protect your secrets and “tell it like it is.” They will not mislead you because they have your best interests in mind. A real friend is a person who accepts you as you are. They know you are not perfect, because no one is. Flaws, imperfections and fears, are what make friendships such a beautiful thing, and these things are one of the many reasons why they love you. They aren’t expecting you to change and are understanding when you make mistakes. They are also always there for you, through the best and worst times in your life. Your true friends will be there by your side on the most boring of afternoons, and will be the first to come to your aid in the event of a disaster or in times of crisis. Mark Twain is a man that possessed many of the characteristics of a true friend. Through his books, articles, movies and personal friends you can get an insight as to what he was like in real life. Some people might argue you that his sarcasm and tenacity are not the makings of a true friend rather than a trouble maker. While others believe that those vary same characteristics are some of the important things that make up a friend. I believe that Mark Twain would make and excellent friend and that although he may be sarcastic and tenacious from what we see throughout his many works, he is also a man of great knowledge, compassion, and honesty. In combining these characteristics you end up with a man...
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