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    Getting up here and talking to you is very rough. Maintaining eye contact, trying not to scramble over my words, and speaking slow enough so you can understand me. But I know that I'm not alone, that about 7% of the population suffers from this as well and those are only the people who got clincalized. My guess is that each one of you has experienced this feeling too. The time that you're heart starts beating out of your chest and there is a knot in your throat. I don’t think we need to be…

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    For example, alcohol has many of the same side effects of marijuana. Alcohol buffers the central nervous system and is known to kill brain cells. A joint of marijuana is known to produce more tar than a cigarette, but on the average marijuana users do not consume enough marijuana to surpass the tar build up of a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day. June Crown and W.D.M. Paton state that "Further, one should realize that different cannabis smokers select different levels of intoxication"…

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    I cannot believe that is has already been four weeks—four weeks of constant arduous work that keeps expanding my mind in dimensions I have never sought for before. This past week, it was the dimension of speech writing, the layer I have never thought I would be able to achieve because I am a terrible writer… Initially, I planned on writing about slavery as if I lived in the 19th century as a slave owner coming to a realization of how slaves impede the growth of this country morally.…

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    used to a student’s regular style of presentation, but I was to stand before them and prove myself. This was a test eight years in the making, demanding the all of my writing and speaking abilities for a short thirty seconds. As I stood backstage, my speech echoed in my memory; it was nothing grand, but I was happy with its prose. The presenters before me walked off-stage to mild applause. I waited three seconds, composed my breath, and walked out to a spotlight turned my way. All five hundred…

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    language development is a process of experience and maturation. Teachers must be aware of children’s cultural language skills, so that they would be able to help and to assist children in their speech. Moreover, there are six stages of language development. First, babies or infants response to language by speech and…

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    hardest things to do when considering giving a speech is choosing a topic and this gives you a few good suggestions and pointers on how to do it correctly with ease. I t is a good idea to keep in mind, when writing your speech, the general purpose of your speech. It states that you are probably giving a speech for one of two reasons which is to inform your listeners or persuade them. This is important because it will help you create the structure of your speech and get the right tone behind it…

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    and people’s expressions. Making these observations did help, however, everything had much less significance to me, as I only had a guess about the story’s meaning. Never before did I understand the importance of the differences between language, speech, talking, and communication,…

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    When giving speeches most of the time the person giving the speech is experiencing Communication apprehension. The definition of Communication apprehension is the level of fear, or anxiety, an individual faces when having to communicate with one or multiple people. I have dealt with Communication apprehension for quite a while now. Although it is not as bad, as it used to be. My freshman year of college, I was actually enrolled in the COMS 130 course, but my fear of public speaking, caused me to…

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    to understand from the perspective of a first-time listener. The second guideline is “Relate the subject directly to the audience.” In order to give a successful speech, the speaker must keep the audience interested. Relating the subject to the audience is one clear way of doing this. For example, in my informative speech on the Culper Spy Ring, I started out by showing a picture of James Bond. The entire audience recognized the character, and was almost immediately interested simply…

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    While both versions care for speech more than actions, the Norton version puts a bigger emphasis on it. When speaking, Medea is exceedingly deliberate in getting the response she craves. “Women of Corinth, I have stepped outside so you will not condemn me. Many people act superior- I’m well aware of this. Some keep it private; some are arrogant in public view” (Page 751 Lines: 212-215). The act of stepping out into the light is a form of acknowledging the women already view her in an ill manner…

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