...------------------------------------------------- COLORISM WURAOLA, MUHAMMED June 29, 2014 iNFORMATIVE SPEECH SPEECH 103 June 29, 2014 iNFORMATIVE SPEECH SPEECH 103 COLORISM I will inform the audience about colorism and the effect it has on African Americans today. I will discuss when and how colorism started, and how it affects the way you feel about yourself and the way you live your life. “If you’re black, stay back; if you’re brown, stick around; if you’re yellow, you’re mellow; if you’re white, you’re all right.” This is an old nursery rhyme sung by kids. These days you would probably see the same idea being expressed by African Americans themselves. There is only one ethnic group that acts as if light and dark skinned are two different nationalities. Which ethnic group, you ask. African-Americans. Colorism refers to discrimination based on skin color. Colorism disadvantages dark-skinned people, while privileging those with lighter skin. I have also experienced colorism. People of my own race, especially the men will treat you differently just based on the color of your skin, and I also used to wish I was lighter. This topic may relate to you because colorism may exist in other cultures too, like Vietnam and India. I will discuss when and how colorism started, and how it affects the way you feel about yourself and the way you live your life. This brings us to how colorism started. A man name Will Lynch, a British slave owner gave a speech at the Virginia colony on the Bank of James River in 1712...
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...Summary of the “Bowie State University Commencement Speech” Former First Lady Michelle Obama, delivered a motivational, informative, and emotive speech to the 2013 class of graduates at Bowie State University. She discussed how far African Americans have come along regarding equal rights and education. Obama’s overall message to the University’s graduates includes three key points: the history behind the college; the power of education; and the motivation African Americans had in the past and should continue to have today. The Bowie State University began as an African Baptist church. Then it was transformed to a school offering education to upcoming African American teachers. Students from all different backgrounds have come to the university...
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...Briarcliff Manor, NY. -- Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump ended one of the toughest, most whirlwind GOP primary election ever in history by giving a celebratory speech Tuesday night, using a teleprompter with the promise to make the party proud, while going after his general election opponent Hillary Clinton. “We accomplished what no one thought was possible,” Trump said to supporters at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, NY. "We close one chapter and begin another. You've given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall. I will make you proud of our party and our movement." Surrounded by his family during his 20-minute remarks that took no Q&A, Trump focused his speech on his attacks on Hillary, announcing that he will deliver a major speech next week Monday devoted...
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...Madeya Chunawala Audience Analysis Survey 1. What is your age? 2. What is your gender? Male Female 3. What is your race? African-american/black ________ White ________ Latino _________ Asian American _________ Other __________ 4. What is your Hobby? 5. What is your religion? 6. What is your major? 7. What did you like the most about my speech? 8. Do I need to improve my speech? Topics of Informative Speech First Topic: Smoking and its effect Second Topic: Abuse of children Third Topic: Drinking and driving Madeya Chunawala Topic: Smoking and its effect General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the effects of smoking. Central idea: The effects of smoking cause several diseases and lead to death. Introduction: I. Attention-getting device: According to inforesearchlab.com/smoking death, smoking will kill 6.5million people in 2015. It also states that over 443,000 American dies because of smoking every year. II. Relevance: Being informed about the effects of smoking will help us to save our life. III. Credibility: I’ve never did smoking, but I have seen many deaths due to smoking in my family...
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...There’s nothing like living in the United States, where diversity grows from coast to coast and the freedom of speech is instilled in all American citizens. America’s inception created the need for people to be safe and secure while pursuing the right to speak out against its government and instill change. The thousands of immigrants who poured into the U.S. left homelands full of tyrants and voiceless societies. Many historical events in America’s history would have never happened without free speech. The voices of many were often quieted and banned from returning because speaking against your government was seen as disgraceful. How can this be possible? The look to America, as it provides freedom and free speech for all. Free speech has been...
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...Outline for Informative Speech General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To educate/inform my audience about the history of dance and how it has become a well know craft. Thesis Statement: Dancing is an art that goes way back, before records were recorded. Way back into the early days of human beings on this earth. It has shaped lives and built character. I. Introduction: (What dance really is?)slide 1 A. Many of us have believed our whole life that dancing is something that comes naturally to some people. Most of have thought that if one cannot dance they were not born to do so. I believe that dancing is a way of life and anyone can be in sync rhythm with a beat. B. As a child I was raised into a family of dancers. My mother danced and so did my father. Music always played in the house in the morning, afternoon and at night. I was born with the talent of dancing and with a family of dancers it improved my skills. As a curious person from birth; I always wondered how dancing started, when did it start and were did it come from. C. Right now researchers have concluded their studies and dancing is indeed our world. II. Body: ( The origin of dance and the creator) A. Where dancing came from (slide 2) 1. Dancing is an art done all over the world. Different dances come from different countries. But, dancing is believed to be from Africa. When slaves were gathered from their homeland to America. They were force to do a dance for the shipmates. 2. Generally Africans do indeed...
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...because he was actually involved in it. It was also written fairly recently, so that enables the book to analyze the long term effects that it has had on African-Americans, the South, and history in general. Gray’s book provides a very informative study, but if you’re looking for more information, check out James Jones’ Bad Blood. Gray takes a lot of information from this book which was written about 20 years before his. When searching the web for information on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the results were quite slim. Most of the results involved syllabi for college classes or websites much like our own that were prepared for a class. The website that I reviewed is from the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics, which was actually created from President Clinton’s apology and ideas for improvement of racial relations and medical testing. The webpage’s main purpose is to educate the public about the atrocities that were performed on African-Americans in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, and to help prevent an event like this from ever happening again The Tuskegee Syphilis Study by Fred D. Gray examines a medical study that occurred in Tuskegee, Alabama which dealt with monitoring African-American subjects discover the effects of untreated syphilis. The main goal of the study was to seek out African-American males in the second stage of syphilis, and then to sporadically perform exams on these men to determine the effects that syphilis had on their bodies. ...
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...you want to sustain the conviction, make the best argument you can for how that can be reconciled with the First Amendment. Of the opinions that would have sustained the conviction, which do you find most persuasive and why? Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), was an important decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag enforced in 48 of the 50 states. Justice William Brennan wrote for a five-justice majority in holding that the defendant Gregory Lee Johnson's act of flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson, then a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, participated in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas. The demonstrators were protesting the policies of the Reagan Administration and of certain companies based in Dallas. They marched through the streets, shouted chants, and held signs outside the offices of several companies. At one point, another demonstrator handed Johnson an American flag stolen from a flagpole outside one of the targeted buildings. When the demonstrators reached Dallas City Hall, Johnson poured kerosene on the flag and set it on fire. During the burning of the flag, demonstrators shouted such phrases as, "America, the red, white, and blue, we spit on you, you stand for plunder, you will go under," and, "Reagan, Mondale, which will it be?...
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...INFORMATIVE SPEECH OUTLINE COMS 101-037 Date Due: October 17,2012 Organization: Topical Audience analysis: College aged Men and Women. Including Caucasians and African Americans from various states within the United states in a class room setting. Topic: Misdiagnosis Rhetorical Purpose: To inform my audience about Misdiagnosis. Introduction: I. Attention-getter Picture this. It is a beautiful August day and you are at your pediatrician’s office for a physical, before soccer pre-season begins next week. After running some tests, the doctor leaves to evaluate them. You patiently wait in the room for him to return and when he does, he looks concerned. “you have 3 months to live” he says frankly. II. Motive for Listening Doctors are not perfect, they too make mistakes. Everyone will see a doctor at some point in their life for a diagnosis and it is important to understand that a diagnosis can be wrong. People need to be aware of this and understand the steps that can be taken to avoid treating a misdiagnosis. III. Credibility Statement I have spent numerous hours researching this topic, and have drawn information from credible documents. This speech includes adequate information and credible facts form experts on the topic. IV. Purpose or Thesis Statement Misdiagnosis can cause delayed treatment, further medical conditions, and uneccassary debt and spending. V. Preview Statement Misdiagnosis is one major downfall found in modern medicine today...
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...YULE – THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE S U M M A R Y ( C HA P TE R S F O R I S L 1 ) CHAPTER 1 – THE ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE The divine source: Bible: Adam gave names to the things Hindu: wife of the creator of the universe created the language Several experiments to find the “original” language: Psammetichus: two babies grew up only for the company of goats children have uttered “bekos” – (Phrygian word for “bread”) could be the sound of the goats “be” (Greek suffix “-kos”) King James the Fourth: Children should have started speaking Hebrew Other experiments: children whit no access to human language grow up with no language at all The natural sound source: Language as a result of onomatopoeia and/or natural cries of emotion (e.g. splash, bang, boom, ouch, ooh, wow,…) What about soundless and abstract things? The social interaction source: Language as a result of communication between earliest groups of humans, who used hums, grunts and groans -> language as a progress of this Apes and other primates also have grunts and groans for communication, but no language The physical adaption source: Evolution factors which have made humans able to develop language: o Teeth are upright and even in height o Lips have more intricate muscle interlacing than other primates o Mouth is smaller an can be opened and closed rapidly o Tongue is smaller, thicker and more muscular o Larynx (containing the vocal cords) is much lower than the position of other primates o Pharynx (above...
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...The African American’s History in the United States 1865-Present Gina R. Carter Hist:204 Instructor Ronnie Peacock April 8, 2013 The African American’s struggles have been many as well as continuous throughout the centuries. However, this race despite the trials and tribulations thrown at them, stood fast when faced with adversity, discrimination, oppression and segregation. They are a people once condemned by the country that stole their heritage and identity, forced them into slavery and labeled then subhuman. After imprisonments, the loss of lives, much sacrifice and an undeniable refusal of contentment, they are now America’s doctors, lawyers, priests, educators, judges and Secretary of State. From slavery to the White House, the African American took control over its fate and today continues to orchestrate its own destiny. After many years of involuntary servitude, beating, rapes and hangings, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865, stating, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.", the African American slave finally had a taste of freedom, so he thought. Even though the Thirteenth amendment was the Constitutional end of slavery in the United States, this was not the end of slavery. Instead the American southern states introduced slavery by another name. American History 1865-Present | End of Isolation states;...
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...Nicole Smith @02659641 Informative Speech Multiple sclerosis (MS) includes an immune-mediated process in which a strange reaction of the body's immune system is steered against the central nervous system. Inside the central nervous system, the immune system assaults myelin, and in addition the nerve strands. The damaged myelin structures scar tissue called sclerosis, hence where the disease receives its name. At the point when any piece of the myelin sheath or nerve fiber is harmed or decimated, nerve driving forces heading out to and from the brain and spinal cord are contorted or interfered with, creating a wide mixture of symptoms. In 1868, Jean-Martin Charcot, an educator at the University of Paris, precisely analyzed a young woman with a tremor of a sort he had never seen previously and inspected her brain and discovered the trademark scars or "plaques" of MS. Multiple sclerosis was formally perceived as an illness in its own particular right in the 1870s by Dr. Walter Moxen in England and Dr. Edward Seguin in New York. A standout amongst the most paramount catalysts in the battle against MS was made when the National Multiple Sclerosis Society was established in 1946 (Roth). While the reason for MS is still unknown, researchers believe that the connection of a few distinctive variables may be included. Approximately more than 400,000 individuals in the United States and around 2.5 million individuals around the world have Multiple Sclerosis. MS is known to happen all...
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... Language and Perception Language and Power Power and Words Power and Accent Power and Identity Labels WhaT Is Verbal communIcaTIon? Functions of Language Components of Language Influences on Verbal communIcaTIon Gender Age Regionality Ethnicity and Race Education and Occupation eThIcs and Verbal communIcaTIon Hate Speech Confirming and Disconfirming Communication ImproVIng your Verbal communIcaTIon skIlls “I” Statements Become Aware of the Power of Language The IndIVIdual, Verbal communIcaTIon, and socIeTy 88 “ The verbal elements of communication are the foundation on which meaning is created. When I took a trip to Britain, I thought people would speak with a “British accent.” I didn’t realize that there are many different accents and the differences are not just pronunciation, but also vocabulary. In order to get my message across, I learned to avoid using slang words as much as I could. I didn’t realize how much American slang I use in my everyday speech! Despite the many different ways of speaking English across the UK, I felt the way that I speak English made me stick out as an American. W hen we think of “communication,” we tend to think about the verbal elements of communication: the words people choose, the accents they speak with, and the meanings they convey through language. We frequently don’t consider the ways in which verbal communication assists or hinders relationship development, as illustrated in the ...
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...Civic-based approaches to education grant students the chance to take away persuasive, informative, and debate communication skills and apply them to the challenges facing civic life. When elected officials make a speech or comment about our current state of education, they do not encourage students to read Plato, Descartes, or even the Federalist Papers, instead our government is encouraging students to become increasingly experienced in math and computers and other STEM programs, or else foreign countries will steal all of our jobs and advance in front of America when it comes to education. Yet in reality, these foreign countries will steal nothing from the United States if they do not entertain lively and democratic institutions, like American’s...
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...Informative Speech: LeBron James LeBron James stands at 6 feet, 8 inches tall, and weighs 265 pounds. The Cleveland Cavaliers player was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. Most of his life has been like a never ending roller coaster. Not many people can go through what he has and still be this successful. He is a role model to many young basketball players, and has been a model citizen. Today I am here to tell you about LeBron James’ early life, NBA career, and his life outside of basketball. LeBron was a unique kid, who didn’t have what people consider a normal childhood. His mother, Gloria, gave birth to him when she was just sixteen. She struggled to hold a steady job which led to him having to move an abnormal amount of times, from one...
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