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One of thing things A Pocket Guide to Public Speaking talks about that I want to draw from going forward is forming a specific speech purpose. “Ask yourself: What do you want the audience to learn/do/reconsider/agree with?” (Page 50). This is an idea that I want to keep in mind…

Storycorps John Stockham is a high school English teacher and head coach of wrestling and football at Banning high school. He is fifty years old. He is mixed between Japanese and Caucasian. He got his high school education at Redlands high. After high school he attended Occidental City College for a year, where he played football. He later transferred to the University of Redlands, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree. He has taught English at Banning high school for the last thirteen years.…

How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse A zombie apocalypse just hit town, what do you do? Well if you don’t know what to do then you came to the right place. You will always need the essentials like water, shelter, food and weapons. But there are other things that many people forget like transportation and communication. Finding the right resources for your materials and the steps you have to take are crucial. The first step you need to take is finding the spots where the zombies have influenced…

computer in your pocket that has the ability to call, text, and find anything on the internet that you could ever want to know can change who you are and shape you as a person. It creates this reliance to your phone, you have a certain trust in your phone for emergencies, like if you were in need to call someone because you’re stuck somewhere and your phone is dead, but you don’t remember anyone’s phone number because they are just always at your fingertips. It changes how you watch the battery…

We evantually reached road and waited and hoped a car would pass by and help us get home. It was starting to get cold so I put on my sweater as i sat on the side of the road. I looked at my watch and realized it was very close to midnight my dad was right by my side comforting me and telling me its alright, still know one came by. I felt so hopeless and scared. It was now 2:00 am morning and i started to drift on my dads shoulder he didnt seem…

In the year of 1903 the Ford Motor Company was founded and created by a man name Henry Ford, who from an early age had a love for creating and building machinery. His eye in detail and ideas helped shaped Ford to create one of the Americans earliest favorite vehicles. While searching into his background, Ford has had many ups and down to create the perfect automobile for the public and quite a bit of resistance from people who had invested or backed him up over ideas he had; which seemed over…

After five years away, Chris had expected to feel a out of place in Galena, but after being back just a few days, he was feeling more at home than he ever had in LA. He loved his job, there was no doubt about that, and felt blessed to have come so far so quickly, but he could already tell that his decision to take a few months off had been a good one. The hype from his latest lead role was finally dying down and the last few months had just been a string of unsuccessful auditions - it was a…

In today’s modern times, political, religious, and ethical beliefs can change dramatically from person to person but the average adult American today can agree that the national healthcare system is broken and does not work for America. The current healthcare system is a tanglement of inefficiencies, costly practices, and poor service that hurts the wallets, happiness, and overall well being of the average American. In America today, the country spends over 2.6 trillion dollars on healthcare…

The church gym has never been this packed before, of that I'm sure, but this is New Year's Eve. The room is dark, lit only by the big colorful lights set up on either side of the DJ's table. The colors turn off and the strobe light turns on, turning the swarming mass of dancing teenagers into something out of an old movie. One of the ones where there's a flicker of darkness between each frame, giving things a stop motion kind of feel. Up close like this the light is painful and makes my head…

I’ll be right back. Watch from behind the trees.” Nancy then proceeded to walk to the front steps of the impressive house. When she knocked, almost immediately a maid answered the door. Betty and Ben couldn’t hear a word that was being said, as they were at least half of a…