...General Speech 1300 Speech Outline Format Name: Jacorey Elston Topic: The effects of getting 8-10 hours of sleep Purpose: Today I will be persuading you on why it is important to get at least 8-10 hours of sleep every night. INTRODUCTON -Attention Getter: Let me just be honest here, I go to sleep around 1 or 2 in the morning. Which causes me to be late or not even to show up for my classes in the morning. It was time for a change in my day to day routine. I decided to lay off the snacks and exercise before I go to bed and you know what it worked. Which brings me to why sleep is important or should be important to everyone. Today I will be persuading you on why it is important to get at least 8-10 hours of sleep every night. -Statement of Purpose: Today I will be persuading you on why it is important to get at least 8-10 hours of sleep every night. -Preview of Main Points: I. Getting good night sleep leads to success. II. Why not getting enough sleep is bad for your health. III. How to sleep better. -Transition: Let’s begin with……. BODY -Main Point I: “The key weapon for a successful school life is getting enough sleep! A continuing lack of sleep could cause serious health problems, like diabetes, obesity, and a heart disease. According to the National Sleep Foundation, kids are getting about a hour less of sleep each night than they did 30 years ago. The reason behind this is because too much homework, videogames, television, and the internet. All these...
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...WHAT DO WE MEAN BY LOBBYING? WHY SHOULD YOU LOBBY DECISION MAKERS? WHEN SHOULD YOU LOBBY DECISION MAKERS? HOW SHOULD YOU LOBBY DECISION MAKERS? Who, me? A lobbyist? Yes, quite possibly. It could be you. Perhaps it should be you. Let's get our premises right out on the table: Lobbying has a bad image. Some of it is deserved. But lobbying is not necessarily something to avoid. Quite the contrary, lobbying can be a socially responsible thing to do. What is more, you have probably been a lobbyist before, in one form or another -- even though you may not have used that label. And if you've never lobbied for a cause, maybe you ought to learn how; so that if and when the time is right you can be an effective lobbyist, in a way that is doable and ethical for you. WHAT DO WE MEAN BY LOBBYING? By lobbying, we mean persuading someone with more decision making power than you, in a particular situation, to take a course of action that you support. It's that simple. No more (or less) than that. "Lobbying" is a broad term. The people you lobby, the decision makers, can vary widely. Much (though not all) lobbying is political, and involves persuading political decision makers. On a local level, this could mean a member of the town council, or the head of the zoning board, or the director of the library. It could also be a state representative, or a holder of higher elected or appointed office. But the decision makers need not be in politics. They could be the editors...
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...Rhetorical Analysis: Growing Up Tethered In Sherry Turkle’s article entitled “Growing up Tethered,” she focuses on the influence of technology on teens today and whether or not it is a good idea to be so involved with it. Turkle goes about persuading her audience by having a really strong purpose, has a fantastic rhetorical situation, makes some amazing claims, and from what I’ve read about she has made a huge influence on our world today. Turkle’s purpose in writing this article is to get across to everyone, but specifically teens about how they can truly find connections with one another in person and not just through technology. Technology is great and our world has improved drastically because of it. But kids today seem to be so focused...
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...suffers a lack of electric power; they have to buy electricity to other countries, like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The imported power is not enough to lighten the major cities and it is not sufficient to fulfil the needs of heavy machineries used in industry and agriculture sectors. If there is no proper and consistent source of power, attracting international investment will be very tough. Security It is the biggest problem right now in Afghanistan. The insecurity is growing, and year 2011 has been deadlier than previous year. It is the main obstacle for investors right now. The Talibans control parts of the country and drug trafficking is helping them to get more money and, consequently, buy more weapons. Technological Advanced in mobile phones. There is a big quantity of mobile phones, sold by five different carriers. With a population of 29 million, it boasts 15 million wireless subscribers. This is the reason why investors hope that there’s a technological backbone to exploit. About 80 percent of the population is covered by the telecom...
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...something to complain about and wouldn’t ever try to see the light, even in the darkest moments. A couple years back, I was on my phone and I was scrolling through things on the internet and I stumbled on a quote, I don’t remember precisely what the quote said, but it touched me mentally and changed how I reacted to my situations and it taught me that there is always going to be somebody going through something worse than you. Now that I’ve grown up a little, I realized that life isn’t always going to be unicorn and rainbows, there will always be a point in your life where it seems that nothing is going as expected and nothing will work in your favor but that’s not true, it’s how you allow the situation. Around seven years ago something happened in my family that nobody ever expected to happen, my sister who at the time was around twelve years old was diagnosed with cancer. A couple weeks before...
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...advertised vehicle was no longer available and she decided to choose another vehicle from the lot that the down payment could be more than the three thousand dollars he originally quoted her. Betty was lured into the “Bait and Switch” scam, which, as stated in the legal dictionary, is a deceptive sales technique that involves advertising a low-priced item to attract customers to a store, then persuading them to buy more expensive goods by failing to have a sufficient supply of the advertised item on hand or by disparaging its quality. Bait and Switch advertising is a violation of consumer laws and will allow a party to sue for damages if they are indeed a victim of bait and switch. In Betty’s case, she should have been able to get a vehicle for the price advertised and with the three thousand dollars down payment that was quoted to her by the sales representative. Bait and Switch 2. When Tony said over the phone “three thousand dollars firm, “ explain whether or not he was making an offer that, if accepted, would bind the dealership in contract. When Tony said over the phone “three thousand dollars firm, “ he was not binding the dealership in contract if the offer was accepted, at least not verbally. In order for the deal to be legal and binding, a contract would need...
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...Afsar Ali Professor Ramsey WRTG 101 October 15th, 2009 Comparing and Contrasting Bridgestone and Hummer Advertisement The selected Hummer H3T and Bridgestone Dueler advertisements are colorful and lively, to catch readers attention. The advertisement caught my attention when I was reading a magazine. It’s as if the advertisement was calling out to me and saying, “You should pay attention to me.” The bright color and the warmth of the pictures made it lively. The Bridgestone advertisement went beyond standard advertisement and used it as a dual purpose advertisement, by promoting their Dueler tire and showing solutions and saving to get the tires. The Hummer advertisement uses logos as their primary method for persuading an audience, and the Bridgestone advertisement uses pathos as their primary methods for persuading an audience. Both advertisements were published recently in Popular Science Magazine. Both of them employed Aristotle’s modes of appeal. Consequently, I will be comparing and contrasting advertisements of Bridgestone and Hummer, by analyzing the modes of appeals, claims, support and warrants. Hummer and Bridgestone are well known companies, thus establishing ethos through their brand names. Moreover, the two products have associated websites that anybody can go to, to establish credibility; for Hummer, it is hummer.com, and for Bridgestone, it is bridgestonetire.com. These websites are easily accessible via internet. I mentioned before how their brand names...
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... and determine if the cause is worthy of his or her assistance. The negotiater does not need to make a judgment call; they need only to decide if they will allow one to move forward toward the negotiator goal. It is inevitable that whenever two or more parties make contact with each other undoubtly there will be some form of conflict. Deciding the different interests is a matter of ascertaining a commonality of benefit. Managers are proficient at forging such repositioning of individual appeal. People do the same when solving a problem. One convinces the other to contemplate alternatives in the anticipation of reaching a joint agreement. The purpose of negotiating is to enthuse or compel the other individual to concede to one’s terms. Persuading others is a necessary tool in negotiations. People are inspired by numerous emotions such as fear, a longing to be accepted, admiration for the other person, or materialism and greed. Negotiations happen every day and in various businesses, and in many official capacities such as the Government Administration, union workers, managers, leaders, police officers, individuals, and every person that needs or wants to sway another is a negotiation. This paper will provide an example of a personal negotiation situation, the analyzation of the roles of communication, and personality in negotiation and how both contribute and detract from the negotiation. Negotiation Situation A negotiation situation that I participated in...
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...at the times I was ill she knew I was in what’s her problem She knows my mother Marianne Thornbush the biggest Jesus freak of all time she knows I’m here where else would I be my mum’s has a blimin tracking device on me so where could I possibly be! I shouted at myself? What’s this ladies problem I asked myself again? just another human been trying to intervene with my thoughts LEAVE ME ALONE i cried out to myself just to hear and echo repeat to me what I’d just said my games were playing head with me arghhh you see I meant my head is playing games with me my brain was going through a power cut all the light bulbs were of, my heads on standby, my lines been cut of forwards a message after the tone BEEEEEEEEEEP because I’m not BLOODY in! I wish all these bodies around me would just understand this. I could see all these pale faces around me all these little Jesus freaks staring t at me I couldn’t hear them though but actions were louder than words well in this case facial expressions were louder the words because everyone was in shock I hadn’t kept in chorus with everyone else by saying present Madame but rather just ignored her. GO MEE I sniggered The look on Madame sorties face was aghast I could tell what I’d just did was Incredibly rude and so unlike me but i was actually to the point of not caring anymore: sweet innocent little Cindy weren’t so sweet anymore I’d became as bitter as lemon its ashamed they couldn’t understand this. I was on the path of self destruction...
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...The Necessary Art of Persuasion by Jay A. Conger Harvard Business Review Reprint 98304 This document is authorized for use only in MIM FEB 2012 - Organizational Behaviour by IE Business School from January 2012 to March 2013. HarvardBusinessReview M AY– JUNE 1998 Reprint Number DAVID J. COLLIS AND CYNTHIA A . MONTGOMERY CREATING CORPORATE ADVANTAGE 98303 JAY A . CONGER THE NECESSARY ART OF PERSUASION 98304 CHRIS ARGYRIS EMPOWERMENT: THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES 9 8302 JEFFREY PFEFFER SIX DANGEROUS MYTHS ABOUT PAY 98309 M AHLON APGAR , IV THE ALTERNATIVE WORKPLACE: CHANGING WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE WORK 9 8301 ORIT GADIESH AND JA MES L . GILBERT PROFIT POOLS: A FRESH LOOK AT STRATEGY 9 8305 ORIT GADIESH AND JA MES L . GILBERT m anager’s to ol kit CONSTANTINE VON HOFFM AN HBR CASE STUDY GORD ON SHAW, ROBERT BROWN, and PHILIP BROMILEY ideas at work L ARRY E. GREINER HBR CL ASSIC HOW TO MAP YOUR INDUSTRY’S PROFIT POOL DOES THIS COMPANY NEED A UNION? STRATEGIC STORIES: HOW 3M IS REWRITING BUSINESS PLANNING EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION AS ORGANIZATIONS GROW JEFFREY E. GARTEN 9 8306 98311 9 8310 9 8308 BO OKS IN REVIEW OPENING THE DOORS FOR BUSINESS IN CHINA This document is authorized for use only in MIM FEB 2012 - Organizational Behaviour by IE Business School from January 2012 to March 2013. 98307 The language of leadership is misunderstood, underutilized...
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...Description Of How Your Personality Was Formed Application of theories of personality development: This paper addresses two theories that present contrasting views of my own personality which is influenced not only by my parents but other family members, friends and the world around me. Therefore these are the trait and phenomenological theories of personality. In the trait theories, the basic variables of the theory are people’s traits, that is, their “broad predispositions to respond in particular ways” (Pervin & John, 2001, p. 226). Most trait theories try to identify a common set of traits that can be used to describe the personality of any individual. These “nomothetic” trait theories rely on the statistical procedure of factor analysis to identify dimensions that can be used summarize individual differences in personality traits. Researchers using this technique commonly identify a set of five trait dimensions. These Big Five personality traits include extroversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and openness to experience (Pervin & John, 2001). which I found out that I’m marginal or no preference of Extraversion over Introversion is (1%), slight preference of Intuition over Sensing is (12%), moderate preference of Feeling over Thinking is (25%) and slight preference of Judging over Perceiving is (6%) after taking the big five test online. Therefore once one identifies a set of basic traits in this manner, a primary question is to identify...
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...It has been three months since the tragedy. Three long months since I left Alese, and three months that she has blocked me out. I am the lost soul of a girl with no hope. I am her guardian that has been shut down. Ever since Alese’s sister died, she has not let me in. Without my guidance, she makes rash decisions and poor choices. I watch with sad eyes as she buries herself deeper into a rut of depression. The only way I can reach Alese is through her dreams. Each night I make my way into at least one dream, and try to get her to let me back in. Progress has been made, as I appear in almost all of her dreams now, but it still is not enough. Alese will not be able to move on from her sister’s death until I am with her at all times. My last...
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...A PROJECT REPORT ON MARKETING | PROMOTION | | | | Avishek Dhital | 2/19/2014 | | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the college administration, Kathmandu Institute of Science And Technology for allowing me to proceed with this project report. I am obliged to thank Mr. Keshav sir, Department of Marketing for his supervision, guidance, hints and help. Without his constant supervision and help our project would not have been in this stage. I am also so much happy to express my greatful thanks to Mr. Keshav sir for providing us with technical guidance and encouragement which has helped in the completion of my project. I would also like to express my special thanks to my friends Sabin Khatri, Santosh Phuyal and Anuj KC for their valuable suggestion and technical help. It is also my pleasure to convey sincere thanks to all our colleagues and my family member for their moral support and encouragement. Last but not the list, I would like to thank all of them who have directly or indirectly contributed for the completion of my project. Any comments and suggestion will be gratefully received and acknowledged. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1) Acknowledgement……………………………….Page No 1 2) Meaning & Concept of Promotion………………Page No 3 3) Importance of Promotion………………………...Page No 6 4) Components of Promotion……………………….Page No 8 5) Objectives and Limitation of Promotion………...Page No 9 6) Build...
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...Good Afternoon everyone The Book that I have chosen is “Waiting for your Cat to Bark” by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg Purpose to choose this book I have chosen this book because of its title. The title is somewhat strange but very appealing. It completely summarizes the situation of many Marketers today. That is they are waiting for their customers to respond to marketing and advertising in the same way as they used to years before. Introduction The book “Waiting for your Cat to Bark” is broadly about Marketing and Persuasion. Customer’s way of behaving in the past, is compared to dogs, while modern customers’ behavior is compared to cats. But why Dogs and cats? Well, it is much easier to catch the attention of a Dog, which was the case of consumer’s in the past while on the other hand, Cats act in ways that will benefit themselves first, which is more reflective of the modern consumer behavior. The book explains why marketers are today faced with a “CAT” consumer behavior. The main reason identified is Emerging Social Media. It has contributed to the loss of the effectiveness of Mass Marketing and thus led to the increased use and need for Segmented Marketing. As such, Marketers challenge today is to persuade customers when they ignore marketing. In the book, the authors have also developed a process called 'Persuasion Architecture' in order to support marketers in their challenge. For the purpose of this presentation, my reading has been based on Chapter...
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...Organisation Studies: Experiencing Organisations Resit Exam - Case Study for section A Steve Jobs: the world pays tribute An extraordinary outpouring of emotion has greeted the death of the co-founder and former CEO of Apple Inc The Guardian, Thursday 6 October 2011 The bunches of flowers began arriving outside Apple stores as morning broke around the world: a potent symbol of the extraordinary outpouring of emotion that greeted the death of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. His death was announced by his family late in the afternoon on the Californian west coast where he lived most of his life. "It's a dark day in Silicon Valley," Matt Drance, a former Apple employee, remarked in an email. Anyone who thought that technologists couldn't be moved to tears would soon realise, from the tributes on Twitter and Facebook, that Jobs, who died at 56 from cancer which he had held at bay for eight years, had inspired the strongest feelings. In Beijing a steady stream of mourners and admirers made their way to lay flowers and light candles at the Apple Store. One corner of the ground floor had been turned into a shrine of sorts with photographs of Steve Jobs, bouquets and messages: "You have enriched our lives. Thank you for changing the world," said one in English. "Go in peace. We love you," said another. It seemed as though there wasn't anyone who hadn't somehow been touched by his work. The tributes came from everywhere. President Obama called him visionary and said...
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