Essays on Speech

Analysis of ‘I Have a Dream’ Using Kenneth Burke’s Pentad

Introduction There are many ways on how to analyze an action, including languages or speeches; and one of which is through the dramatic pentad. The Dramatic Pentad refers to the five methods developed by Kenneth Burke in analyzing human actions. According to scholars, the Burke’s Pentad to analyze questions such as “how persons explain their actions to themselves and others, what the cultural and social structural influences on these explanations might be, and what effect connotational links among the explanatory (motivational) terms might have on these explanations, and hence, on action itself” (Overington, 1977, p.133). In his work ‘ ...

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Abstract Every speech is embellished by metaphoric expression, despite its context, content, and tone. In different fields the application of metaphors may vary, yet still they are applied regardless the situation consciously or unconsciously. In the speech of adults, metaphoric expressions play pivotal role serving as the instruments of persuasion, simplification, and demonstration. There is less evidence that explain the utilization of metaphors by children. Some scholars insist that children use metaphoric expressions unconsciously, while the other researchers imply that they implement the metaphors due to their symbolic perception of the environment. There is certain inconsistency in the results ...

Introduction

In all the three spheres of development namely language, social and academic there seems to be four dynamic groups involved: hearing parents with hearing children; hearing parents with deaf children; deaf parents with hearing children; and finally, deaf parents with deaf children. This paper seeks to explore how these groups interact and affect the development of children. It also expounds on the disparities that exist among the four groups. While it is clear that these children do not have much difference developmentally, the parents have to devise unique ways to ensure their children are not disadvantaged. Language forms the ...

1. Do Nature and Nurture Play Similar Roles in Speech Development? Several schools of thought exist regarding the nature v. nurture debate regarding language development. Language is a representation of inner speech and inner speech is a function of thought processing (Lollar, Monsour, & Barwind, 2012, pp. 62). We are hard-wired to acquire speech within a window of time; failure to acquire speech within that window can result in ever fully mastering a speaking skill (Feldman, 2010). It is impossible to disentangle nature from nurture in the acquisition of speech; both are important (Lollar, Monsour & Barwind, pp. 62). By the ...

As a rule, speaking rate is not similarly perceived in different media. The general stereotype is the following: fast-speakers are more persuasive for a number of reasons, among which is the fact that it is hard to keep up with the enormous avalanche of facts and information they are pouring over the unprepared audience. Moreover, fast speaking creates the halo of confidence and profound expertness in the subjects. Similar impression makes the man from the FedEx commercial, who annoyingly inspires the belief of his professionalism and utterly effective time management skills. On the negative side, of the above-mentioned skill ...

Section 1 - The Use of Conflict Resolution Styles

This section is aimed at using five forms of conflict resolution styles. These include accommodating, avoiding, collaborative, competing and compromising. To manage conflict among four team members of a group, five different paragraphs are produced highlighting a specific conflict resolution style used for negotiation during discussion . This is done in the following manner:

Use of Accommodating Style

Based on this conflict resolution style, all the group members should be convinced to cooperate with each other instead of following an assertive approach. They must be convinced to preserve relationship with one another since they are academically required to work together, as a team, for ...

Analysis of the President’s Obamas Iowa Victory Speech

President Obama’s Iowa Caucus victory speech was an inductive argument predisposed on a given number of premises. These premises held the note of his speech and kept the public into a belief that his premise would be fulfilled upon assumption of Presidency in the USA. In as much as this speech was anchored on giving gratitude to the Iowa delegates and citizens for overwhelmingly endorsing his candidature as a Democratic presidential torchbearer, it was deeply entrenched on the following premises:

Abolition of tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs of overseas, and instigate a middle-class tax cut, ...

Black people have suffered various forms of oppression. As a result, there emerged people from among them who led them out of this oppression. In this essay, I am going to be discussing about Martin Luther King, Jr. who was among the people that contributed to the emancipation of the black people from oppression. Martin Luther was born in 1929, 15th January, in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King, Sr., who was a reverend. Martin Luther's legal name given at birth but later changed, was Michael King. His father too was born Michael ...

Hypothesis

The genre of preference is tied to the personality of the person Procedure The interview will take place in a hotel hall, and the interviewee will arrive in the perception that the interview is bound to land them a management role with a big dancing group. Immediately the interviewee arrives, they will be guided to the interview room where other respondents are expected to meet them. No one is supposed to meet them as they come into the hall. Music will be playing in the background, but the respondents will be under observation via the room cameras and their ...

Thesis: In this essay am going to explain what are expository essays and what they contain.

Body paragraph 1: Parts of speech and figurative language Levin 10 The nouns, the verbs, the adverbs and the adjectives should be used well. Similes and metaphors should be used for comparison. Personification should be there to give human qualities. Body paragraph 2: The types of paragraphs Levin 50 The explanatory paragraphs. The contrast paragraphs. The comparison paragraphs. Body paragraph 3: Thesis statement Levin 123 It should be a complete sentence. It should express an attitude or an opinion. This statement should be arguable. Another name for explanatory essays is expository essays. They require the learners to investigate ideas, ...

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta (southern Georgia) in the family of the priest of Baptist Church. Despite the fact that it was the period of the Great Depression in America, which led to the fact that 65% of the colored population of Atlanta was forced to receive unemployment benefits, economic difficulties have not affected rich, bourgeois priest family. Martin spent his childhood quite comfortable. Occupation of King Sr. largely determined the life of his son. From an early age, Martin attended a church that was closer than the school and where his father ...

Nelson Mandela is one of the most recognizable symbols of the human rights movement in the XX century - a man whose devotion to the cause of freedom of his nation inspires human rights defenders around the world. Future ardent fighter for freedom was born in a small village on 18 July 1918. At birth, the boy was given the name Rolihlahla, which in translation from Xhosa language means, "ripping off tree branches," or simply "mischievous". Rolihlahla Mandela became the first in the family, who went to school. His first teacher gave him English name – Nelson. He received primary ...

Liberty has a different meaning to different people. Some people may not even know liberty even exists because of the society they live in which is very oppressive towards certain ideas. Liberty to some people is the freedom from controlling government, the ability to decide one’s destiny, to be able to speak or write their thoughts, to not be confined based on one’s appearance, and to be free from foreign rule. While there is no real official rule about what liberty truly is, I had the opportunity to interview people from various backgrounds about what liberty is ...

Thesis statement

The produce section of a supermarket is the representation of nature in a supermarket. Appeals (pathos, logos and ethos) The writer has employed persuasive techniques to convince the audience which are pathos, logos, and ethos. Ethos is applied when the author wants to appear unbiased. Despite the supermarket not teeming with nature-friendly products, the writer appreciates that no forest or prairie can match the biodiversity in a supermarket. The ability to sample products in a supermarket as a naturalist is also an example of ethos whose motive is to show expertise in a particular field. Pathos features prominently in ...

Introduction: Write a brief introduction describing the purpose for writing this essay including the criteria (be sure to include a citation) you will use to evaluate the web sites. Provide the title for each Web page you chose along with a citation, and then briefly summarize your answer to Step 3, letter b. The purpose of the essay is to provide an analysis of various websites and the information that they provide. The criteria for evaluating these web sites is their ability to inform, entertain, or influence. For this reason the organization and focus of the paper will be ...

In Bolger v. Youngs Drug Products, the Court found that to determine whether the speech is commercial, it must contain three distinct elements: it is meant to be an advertisement, it makes reference to a particular product and the speech is economically motivated. (Bolger v. Youngs) Although Nike`s speech lacks some of those elements, I believe that it falls into the category of commercial speech rather than political speech. In 1997, Nike hired a consulting firm that carried out an independent review of labor practices in Nike factories. Following the review, a consulting firm issued a report stating ...

Abstract

The paper deals with the issue of political correctness which is one of the key study objects of sociolinguistics. The author emphasizes the fact that politeness must be an essential component of any communicative act. Especially important it is for politicians whose primary goal is to make their message understood and accepted. However, if politicians do not show respect of their recipients’ views and values through their speech, their message will never be positively received. The paper illustrates that aggressive and disrespectful language can never be excused, even if it is used for the purpose of building up an ...

In considering the potential contribution of linguistic anthropology to the ongoing reform of Native American education it is evident that there are various sources of information that demonstrate the need for major reform in specific categories of education. This can be applied in order to develop better practices for educating not only Native American students but students of various differing ethnicities. In developing these pedagogical reforms there are particular categories of education that should be focused on. In consulting on a tribes in a generic sense, the differing types of educational reforms that can be recommended on the basis ...

Writing that person it's more than just a product of heredity and environment, Frankl pointed out that people are gifted with the ability to shape themselves and their life experiences. The man is influenced by nature (heredity) as well as by nurture (environment). But as Frankl emphasizes, a person always has freedom of choice. People can choose how to deal with what nature and environment “offer” them. On the one hand, I find it difficult to agree with the statement that Frankl, that man - is more than just the result of genetic and environmental influences. I believe that ...

DOWN SYNDROME & MALOCCLUSION

Down syndrome is a disease which is usually observed in the newborn. The disease arises as a result of some genetic disorder which reflects itself as trisomy of the chromosome number 21. This is one of the commonest chromosomal disorders observed among the human beings. Almost 1 or 2 children out of 1000 live births are born with this disease. The children born with this disease present with mental and physical impairment. These children also develop multiple oral problems like caries, malocclusion, periodontal diseases, loss of tooth and so on. Among all these abnormalities, malocclusion is a phenomenon that ...

Sergio E. Avilés’ Einen Koffer is only six minutes long, but it is an effective film with a strong message. The film depicts a Mexican man, hoping to cross the border between Mexico and the United States in the hopes of rejoining his family. He is walking along the large wall that separates the two countries, with a recording of President Ronald Reagan’s 1987 “Tear Down this Wall” speech playing in the background. Comparing the two scenarios of the immigrant’s situation and Reagan’s speech is largely what makes this short film so powerful. The man ...

Abstract

This paper will analyze six curriculums of English high school in different schools using the Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation. In particular, Donald Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation has four components, namely the following: reactions, learning, behavior and results (Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 1 of Kirkpatrick’s model of evaluation is reactions which measures how the participants of the training reacted (Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 2 which is learning that measures what the participants have learned from the training (Four Levels of Evaluation, n.d.). Level 3 is behavior that gauges the ...

Personal Essay

I had always been fascinated by the skills possessed by the great public speakers. It was a pleasure to witness the power of expression displayed by the orators. I always thought that, to get the recognition and popularity, oratory is the best method. Every time I was swayed by any eloquent speaker, the desire to imitate the performance, similar to one that witnessed, arose. However, there was a big problem that always held me back from taking the initiative. It was the fear of being mocked in the event of performance going haywire. Whenever I thought of addressing a ...

How Inner Speech and Outer Speech are Connected

As we all know, there are two different types of speech. Those are inner speech, when you are talking to oneself, and outer speech, when others talk to you and you talk to others. Moreover, these two types of speech are connected in a number of ways. One of those ways concerns what generates what. One of the scientists who have studied the issue was Lev Vygotsky. According to Jones (2009), who explored the works of Vygotsky, human being has «to first learn to do things publicly – ‘externally’ – with others before being able to do them ‘internally’». In order ...

2016 Presidential Candidates

Introduction

The 2016 elections campaign has seen many hopefuls from the republican and the democratic parties as well as a few independent candidates campaigning for nominations by their various parties. The various campaigns have been conducted country wide in the specific states and also over media channels through various interviews. This time round the polls seem to be going against the general public’s expectations and it is therefore not easy to make a clear prediction as to which side will emerge as victors.

The list of candidates for the republican seat is led by business mogul ...

When they hear the idea that the Constitution of the United States is a living document, many are confused. However, the concept is quite simple. The concept is considered a living document because the founding fathers of the United States wrote the document with the future in mind. The document and its contents were meant to be adaptable to suit the needs of future generations, both concerning the citizens, and the government, as well as the intentions of both parties. Amendments can be ratified, and amendments can be added in order to address these needs, as they need to ...

“Biometrics” is a term used to refer to “life measurement.” Biometrics is a technology used for verifying authenticity (Stanoevska-Slabeva, 2011). It uses either behavioral features or biological traits to identify or recognize individuals. In actual sense, Biometric system translates to a system of pattern identification which makes use of various biological characteristics such as facial recognition, voice geometry, fingerprints hand recognition and patterns like retina designs and iris patterns (Saini, 2014). The recognition systems and models of biometrics allow for the verification possibility of people’s identity by only determining who they are and not what they might be ...

On January 21, 2010 the Supreme Court ruled in the Citizens United vs FEC case

in a 5-4 decision in favor of Citizens United. The decision effectively eliminated the ban on corporate spending in elections. It ruled that campaign donations and campaign spending constitute free speech and that corporations are people (Barnes). The Citizens

United ruling also stipulated that people can contribute up to $5,200 per candidate per

election cycle ($2,600 each for both the primary and the general election) and make unlimited contributions to single-candidate super PACs on top of that.(Levy 1).

Speech Now vs FEC

Two months after the Citiznes United vs FEC 5-4 SCOTUS decision, a unanimous nine- judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit decided in Speech Now vs

FEC that Congress could not place limits on donations given to organizations that make

expenditures independent ...

ARTICLE CRITIQUE: BRAVE NEW NEIGHBORHOODS

Introduction Although the idea of freedom of speech seems to be something that is fundamentally important to the fabric of the United States, many people are unaware of the extent to which these freedoms can and often are restricted in everyday life. The article, written by Margaret Kohn (2004), discusses how “private space” as a concept in American society has changed the way that freedom of speech is understood and structured within the cultural confines of the community and society as a whole (Kohn, 2004, pp. 3-4). Although Kohn (2004) writes that most Americans believe that freedom of speech ...

Technological advancement, such as the one that we see in computer science, brings on a lot of new opportunities, but also new challenges and debates. This is particularly true in the area of ethics, as the advancement of computer technology is bringing new possibilities that are starting to challenge the way we think about many important things such as privacy and security. The rise of this technology is no doubt the single most important thing that humanity has achieved so far, as it has allowed us progress at a rate that has never been seen before. Computers have empowered ...

Introduction

Over time, there has been increasing interest in culturally responsive teaching that grew since the late 1980’s and the early 1990s primarily because of the increasing diversity in the country’s classrooms. This is coupled with the concern over the low rate of success by the many racial and ethnic minority students despite numerous years of reforms in the education fields. The ongoing reform of the Native American education is further influenced by the fact that after years of population decline to the historic low of around 237,000 members in the year 1900 the American Indian populations ...

Communication is the key determinant of organizational success or failure in any organization. It is the medium by which messages and the information is passed to an individual or group to another. It is the medium by which messages are transferred from the source to the destination to enhance and facilitate decision making and also to enhance correction by critics. However, in the recent past, communication has taken various media and channels of communication which are both formal and informal. In this essay, I will focus on Twitter, which is one of the most used social media for passing ...

Having been at the helm of affairs of the US for the last seven years, President Obama used the platform of the State of the Union Address to highlight his achievements during his tenure, to share his dreams of America, and to project a liberal and accommodative image of America in the eyes of the whole world. Unlike his previous addresses, he didn’t talk much about the fine details of the policies for the next year, but stressed the need to solve the basic problems being faced by the common man in America. He also disclosed his vision ...

Waiting for Godot

The years after the Second World War are considered to be ill-fated for the theatre arts. However, over the course of time, interests as well as endeavors were carried towards undiscovered subjects and to those which are not openly acknowledged or displayed in the traditionally established forms and uses as well. Therefore, in gradual mode, without any ostentatious manifestation, another type of theatre appeared. In the 50s it was obtruded upon large audiences, which consisted of students and academics searching for something neoteric. Absurdism is regarded as philosophical standpoint which asserts that the aspirations of humanity to detect meaning ...

Leadership is the complex of actions undertaken by a leader in order to achieve success in the chosen field. The main concepts of the leadership are the ability to envision the future, take lessons from the past, evaluate the present and find the best solution in order to prospect the future. As a leader one should be attentive to coworkers, have the patience and desire to listen to companions fully, adjust to the change in the rapidly changing world and act according to one’s passion. The main concept of the chapter is to find one’s passion and ...

In politics, the ability to craft and deliver effective speeches is essential if one envisages a brilliant career. Political speeches aim at engaging as widest audience as possible and winning masses to one's cause and one's support. Currently, Americans are following the campaigns of the candidates to the highest political office in the country. This fierce and complicated competition demands a great deal of fortitude, charisma, and intellectual prowess. Hillary Rodham Clinton is presently one of the competitors for the presidential office, which calls for a specific attention to her speeches if one aims at understanding better the current ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is one of America’s most iconic political figures and beloved Presidents. He was elected to an unprecedented four terms. This would lead to the passing of the 22 Amendment restricting the number of terms that a President can serve to two. In this paper I will look at home the challenges of disability and the Depression helped him to understand and address the needs of the people.

Early Life

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30 1882 in Hyde Park New York. His parents, who both came from wealthy New York families were James Roosevelt, ...

In the recent past, there has been a growing trend whereby college students are seeking protection from words that they do not like in the name of safeguarding their emotional wellbeing. This is a dangerous trend and if left unchecked it may destroy education in America. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt examine the implications of overprotecting students from unintentional microaggressions in their article: “The Coddling of the American Mind.” Lukianoff and Haidt argue that gagging instructors from using words deemed discriminatory virtually on any basis would prevent critical thinking and set a dangerous precedent for America’s education system ...

1. Basing on the Alan’s interactions with his employees, it is necessary to suggest that the manager’s ability to listen actively is rather a poor one. It is known that active listener is the one who is able not just to listen to someone else’s speech, but the one who also has the ability to pay attention, to comprehend, to analyze, to evaluate, to remember the information which was heard and to give an appropriate feedback to the speaker (Wood, 2010). However, despite, sometimes, it might seem that Alan is trying to listen carefully to the ...

PART 1: APPLICATION PLAN

Here are the aspects of analytical and problem-solving skills behaviors that am more interested in: Problem-Solving Skills Being wise Use of analysis Experience Analytical Thinking This is the ability to solve problems through a systematic, logical and sequential approach (Golen, 1990). Carry out a systematic comparison using several alternatives Identify inconsistencies and discrepancies using the available information Identify a set of elements, considerations, and parameters to consider when making a decision or analyzing a situation Consider the benefits, costs, chances for success and risks when making a decision Decompose a complex problem into manageable parts (Whetten and Cameron, 2011) ...

Lincoln declared in the Gettysburg Address that ‘all men are created equal’ during a time when the United States was plagued by ‘a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure’ (“The Gettysburg Address”). Lincoln used the Gettysburg Address to remind the American people of the importance of the work that American soldiers contributed in the great sacrifice to fight for freedom by arguing that the world ‘can never forget what they did here’ (“The Gettysburg Address”). Lincoln successfully reminded the American people that despite the work soldiers contributed ...

Introduction

This paper aims to relate the concepts of and the paradoxes behind equity, efficiency, security, and liberty to a news article titled San Francisco students suspended over racist ‘wigger party’ by Kale Williams (2016). It reports the incident where over twelve high school students were suspended from San Francisco’s St. Ignatius College Preparatory for taking part in a “wigger party,” a racist themed party where White individuals emulate the culture of African Americans through a depiction of the stereotypes in mannerisms and clothing (Williams, 2016).

Equity

The news article depicted the paradox behind equity in that although the school ...

The primary issue at hand is that of corporate personhood – ever since Citizens United v. SEC in 2010, corporate entities are allowed to spend money to exercise their free speech, ostensibly guaranteed to them by the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights. However, the dilemma lies in whether or not corporations are people. Is it fair, right or accurate to allow a corporation (essentially a collection of individuals with a great amount of capital and spending power) the exact same rights as an individual American citizen? Do corporations have the right to act as moral agents, and use ...

Tracy E. Cohen is currently the owner of an educational advocacy agency. (T.Cohen, personal communication, January 26, 2016) However, prior to beginning her company she was a teacher for 20 years working in the field of special education with a specialty in working with children with communication disorders. Mrs. Cohen started the hearing impaired program at Maple Avenue Elementary school. It was the first program for hearing impaired or hearing disabled individuals in the Claremont school district. It began in response to a need expressed by a parent who had a hearing impaired child in the preschool program and ...

Religion and all its embodiments is one of the most widespread movements in the world since time immemorial. At times, it unites people as nothing else and gives us will and power to be merciful, kind and spiritually oriented. Among all the innumerable religious groups, I choose to stick to Druze, as it merges together the features of different traditions and opens a road to being a comprehensive human being. Apart from being a name for the religion, Druze is also a name of people in the Middle East, which has “has a unique historical, social and demographic structure” ( ...

According to video clip 1 The 39 steps is a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitcock whose date of release was on 1st august 1935. Allegory is a political story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. The thirty-nine step is one of a fast moving action story. The narrator tries to trace the racial as well as the ethnic discrimination that keep on continually appearing now and then. Hitcock choices in terms of pictures and setting of characters are regarded among the greatest of all time. This is because of the fact that that the nature ...

Introduction

Essential changes have occurred in the previous decade in the disabled people’s position within the society and the community. A multitude of factors has led towards the formation of newer legislations, regulations and standards in various countries to focus on removing present discrimination against disabled individuals and allow them to take part completely in the domains of education, employment and other services in the community (Bowles, 2011). Such factors are inclusive of increasing the awareness regarding advantage to the society on the whole when involvement and disable person's independence are increased as well as increasing the assertion and ...

Abstract

The widespread use of the Internet, cell phones, and laptops has introduced a new type of bully on the school block: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a particularly difficult type of bullying for schools to punish and prevent. This is because most incidents of cyberbullying occur off school grounds. Currently, there is no federal law that specifically addressed cyberbullying. It has been largely left up to the states to define the parameters of cyberbullying and to set forth the corresponding penalties and punishments for such infractions. While some states extend criminal liability for cyberbullying off school grounds, other states limit liability ...

Abstract

Citizens United successfully challenged the decision of the Federal Electoral Commission not to distribute anti-Hilary documentation during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries after a decision from the Supreme Court at the start of 2010 ruled in favour of the case presented by Citizens United. This research paper intends to explore the history of the campaign for finance reform in the United States as well as the case presented by Citizens United to the Supreme Court in favour of their argument that corporations have the same rights as citizens. This research paper will examine the influence that unlimited money ...

Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address that hardly lasted 2 minutes with 272 words not only struck a powerful chord that resonated with his listeners, but would continue to resonate in the hearts of generations to come. Lincoln’s speech addressed to fellow Americans was intended for the purpose of honoring the fallen soldiers by dedicating a piece of land as their resting place and to continue with the fight. He powerfully begins his speech by initially referring to the freedom the country won from the British four score and another seven years back, which poetically refers to the past 87 ...

Before the civil war era, America was split by different local identities. In fact, the Southern states had a pro-slavery identity that supported expanding slavery into the Western regions. On the other hand, the Northern states had abolitionist views and opposed expansion of slavery to the Western territories. The central issue causing the division was slavery where, in the Northern states, slavery was nearly completely barred by 1800s. However, slavery was the cornerstone of Southern states. Many Northern states had freed many African-Americans. Slavery divided the Northern and Southern states because ideologically, the Northern and Southern states were diametrically ...

The essay will examine the case study of a male student in third grade level. He is below the grade level of the same age peers in all academic levels also in reading. Difficulties arise in reading with decoding skills and mastery of basic vocabulary words. The reports were made by the teacher that he is easily distracted and impulsive, with poor social skills. Test-takings skills are poor and also the performance its three grade levels below the expected level. The short term and long term objectives and activities are going to be planed. Annual goals and short term ...

Abstract

This paper will discuss the emergence of national security policies and laws in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to these attacks, there was relatively little coordination between different government agencies and branches with regards to counterterrorism. But the 9/11 attacks led to significant changes. All three government branches are highly involved in national security measures and interests. Congress responded by passing very important statutes to augment the government’s authority to conduct and investigate terrorist threats and apprehend suspects. These statutes reflect the practical difficulties of apprehending and prosecuting terrorists. Terrorism is unique in that if ...

US President Barack Obama took the oath of office when America was facing its worst economic crisis. However, the president took a number of measures to rebuild the economy. This has been achieved by healthcare reforms, revitalized energy sector and growth of manufacturing industries. In the 2016 State of the Union address to Congress, President Obama underscored his government’s commitment to key issues such as international business, globalization, economy and ISIS.

ISIS

On ISIS, President Obama emphasized the centrality of America’s security as a panacea to its economic development. He observed that protection of American people is a ...

Discussion 1: Public Speaking

I definitely agree with the statement: Knowing the background, interests, and expectations of your audience significantly increases the effectiveness of your speech. All this information will help to find the right approach, to make the speech interesting exactly for these people. It is important to use the references, which will be familiar to audience. Sometimes it might be a good idea to use jokes to lighten up the atmosphere. But if the audience doesn’t appreciate your sense of humor or they will be somehow offended by it then it will just make the matters worse. You should absolutely ...

Rev. Theodore S. Wright was a black man born to free parents in Providence, Rhode Island in 1797. By the 1930’s he played a big part in the Underground Railroad in addition to his role as a reverend and abolitionist. For the assignment, I read “Prejudice against the Colored Man,” which I will discuss further in detail. “Prejudice against the Colored Man” was a speech he delivered at the New York State Anti-Slavery Society convention in response to the following resolution "nefarious and wicked and should be practically reprobated and discountenanced" (“Black.past.org, 2015). Wright’s speech intended to ...

Psychology: An Experiment carried Out to Prove the Weber’s Just Noticeable Difference by Using Varying Line Lengths as Stimulus.

Introduction The Weber’s law is sometimes called the difference threshold law or just the difference threshold. However, several scholars also refer to it as the noticeable difference. The noticeable difference is what is termed as the total amount of stimulus intensity that should be changed in order to produce or give a significant variation in the sensory organs; nonetheless, it is a condition that is also termed as the experience of the sensory systems (Kollmeier, Brand & Meyer, 2008). Ernst Weber was a 19th century and experimental psychologists whose works related to were quite reputable in various topics of ...

The place of woman in society has always been a very controversial issue; from culture to culture, from century to century the meaning of women’s rights and their freedom varies. In the article called “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” Lila Abu-Lughod examines the real women’s role in what is nowadays called ‘War on Terrorism’. The main issue of her research is whether western community overlooks Muslim women in the right way. Her answer is definitely closer to being negative; “We now understand them as suffering from structural violence. We have become politicized about race and class, ...

The essay discusses the conceptualizations of distinctiveness between the relations of gender and sexuality so as to acquire a better understanding of how these personalities refer to the connections between sex and their non-normative sexuality. This relationship bases on some components which include queer theory, heterosexuality, homosexuality, gender, and feminist theory. Whereby gender refers to socio-cultural portent or biological sex of a person, such as one's femininity or masculinity while sexuality implies the interest or concern in sexual potency and attraction. This approach, therefore, brings about solutions to the issues associated with the understanding that sexuality is connected to ...

The concept of sustainability has become an important one for many major corporations. Sustainability refers to companies operating in a way that is cognizant of limited resources and causes as little damage as possible to the local and global communities as possible. One company that has in recent years been compelled to address this issue is Walmart Corporation. During the 80s and 90s, Walmart Corporation frequently claimed that its business practices were sustainable and environmentally friendly. It even set up token programs in this area, although they were short-lived. Moreover, Walmart has been the target of a number of ...