What is a complete declarative sentence that summarizes your speech?

What are three types of speech not protected by the First Amendment?

What is the complete declarative sentence that summarizes your speech?

Why is it important to establish credibility at the beginning of your speech?

Free Speech

Rini is running for student council and has placed flyers on all the cars and inside the campus buildings. The principal suspended her for doing this without permission. Rini argued she is entitled to free speech under the First Amendment.

You Debate Does free speech extend to flyers posted for a student election?

Why did Elizabeth give this speech to her soldiers?

Write a summary of this excerpt from the "Four Freedoms" speech.

(a) Kennedy says that "sincerity is always subject to proof." Does his speech strike you as sincere? (b) For what reasons might the writer of such a speech say something he did not really mean?

Plan a speech that you could deliver to your graduating class. Consider audience and purpose when planning the speech. Will you need graphic aids? If so, what kind of graphic aids would be appropriate? Share your topic and notes with other students to gain feedback. Finally, deliver the speech to your peers and ask for additional feedback.

(a) List four words in Portia's final speech in Scene iv that are no longer used or no longer used in the same sense. For each, give a modern word that means the same thing.

(b) Paraphrase the speech.

As shown in the glossary, what part of speech is the word "obituary"?

Churchill's speech features the use of Parallelism-the repetition of similar grammatical structures to express related ideas. Find two or three examples of parallelism in the speech. What do they add to the speech's effectiveness?

How do the alliteration, assonance, and rhyme used to portray the child’s speech reflect the speech itself? How do these aspects of the poem provide a clue to the speaker’s attitude toward the child’s stammering?

For the combinations of sine and cosine functions do the following. (a) Use a graphing calculator or a computer to sketch the graph of function. (b) From your graphs, estimate the amplitude, period and phase shift $\delta/w_0$ of the resulting oscillation. (c) Write function in the form $A\cos(w_0-\delta)$. $x(t)=5\cos(3t)+\sin(3t)$.