Speech & Debate
Boston [in the spring] is fabulous. After an early morning and a long day in the air (and in the Baltimore airport), we’ve arrived at Gordon University and are gearing up for an exciting week. More pictures would probably be here…except I’m tired. Sorry. But with this fancy new Mac of mine, I’m having huge [...]
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Graduation is around the corner. Slideshows to create, inspiring speeches to write, invitations to send, display tables to assemble…school work to finish. Oh boy. Who tips $6.85? Would it hurt that much to round it to $7.00? Just a thought. Not that I’m [really] complaining… It’s been a whole lot of days since I posted [...]
Anyone who has debated the NCFCA LD resolution has run into the same problem: what in the world is “legitimacy?” The biggest problem is that even if both teams agree to a definition of “legitimate government” they can still disagree about how to apply it. Looking for a way to get around bad wording? This [...]
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Too many people treat their speeches like term papers. Great recipe for putting your audience to sleep! In the odd case the you aren’t a sleep therapist and have to speak to people at some point in your life, you might want to read this post. Don’t give the punch line away Your introduction is [...]
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You’re writing a speech. The first step is deciding on your topic, of course. After a long process of internal debate and external agony, you settle on something particularly meaningful and sit down to write. Then you stop yourself. Wait! you think. I can’t start writing yet, or I’d be violating The One And Only [...]
