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I've been working on a speech over the holidays about drunken driving, and I wanted to put in a reference to...that report you mentioned in a thread about being on tv, the one that said that a lot of the drunks who have their lisences taken away keep driving, but i cannot seem to find it-could you tell me where it could be found, or just how to cite it? I'm sorry to bother you with this, but I want this speech as good as i can get it-maybe I'll actually persuade someone-and I need to finish it by saturday -Toretha
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I LOVE YOU FOREVER! Thank you so much!!! Information....i love information, and this has so much more useful information than i turned up in three weeks of research!
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Google is good for producing easy scrolling readable/transferable text. However, Google's translation of PDF often messes up or omits ordered lists, charts, and pictures.
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Ordered lists are the bread and butter of traffic safety!!!
Must... Not... Omit...
Toretha, you're welcome. Good luck on the report. I'd love to see it when you are finished.
Ryuko, I could've sworn you knew. Oh well, it's not like it's a big secret or anything. My degree is in experimental Psychology from Columbia University -- I ran rats in mazes and pigeons in Skinner boxes.
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quote: Ryuko, I could've sworn you knew. Oh well, it's not like it's a big secret or anything. My degree is in experimental Psychology from Columbia University -- I ran rats in mazes and pigeons in Skinner boxes.
...and now he does experimental psychology tests on us here at Hatrack.....
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I love you both now, thanks! And, Bob, it's not a report. It's actually a speech, I'm easing into competing in speech events as well as in debate, and this is the topic of my persuasive for the rest of the year.
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Toretha you are an LD debater aren't you? Do you also do impromptu and extemp? Usually debaters kick butt in these think-on-your-feet speech events. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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did LD in highschool, now i do parlimentary, or IPDA, if my partner for parli can't make the meet. I've never tried any of the speech events before, this persuasive is my first shot. i may try improptu, but extemp requires too much knowledge of the news for me to be able to keep up with it, debate AND my schoolwork. Did you do speech?
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If they had told me in high school how critically important debating skills, extemp/impromptu/off the top of your head "BS" skills were, I'd have studied a lot harder . . . sigh.
One staff meeting is worth one speech meet.
One videoconference with contractors is worth a month . . .
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also, being on the speech&debate team is a lot more FUN way to get experience than those meetings!
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I did some LD and speech in high school and did some judging in college. I think reading Hatrack will more than adequately prepare you for any extemp topic. Posts: 4116 | Registered: Apr 2002
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I remember that you'd lived in NYC, Bob, but I didn't realize that you had gone to Columbia.
Eugene Galanter's psychology courses were my favorite classes. If I ever go back to Columbia, I'm definitely going to be torn between a psych major and the School of Journalism.
*adds Bob to his list of favorite fellow Lions, right under Samuel Johnson*
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hatrack might prepare you to speak on any topic-but you need to cite sources from multiple articles, and help keep up the extemp box too. too much for me!
what speech events did you do-and why on earth did you only judge in college?
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That's exactly why I only did Impromptu. No pesky box upkeep, memorize a few poems to open, and riff. Posts: 1753 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Usually, a noun, a current event, and a wild card. You get the slip of paper with the three words, pick a word, and then give a five-six minute speech.
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I judge high school debate and forensics. I love it.
I especially like the forensics category where the team picks two (or it is three) unrelated sentences from strips of paper in a pot of ideas, then they have like 5 minutes to come up with a skit that uses those three ideas all together...
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You know formal debate has always intrigued me but never seemed like something I could have fun doing, though everyone I knew who was into it claimed it was a blast. It isn't that I dislike public speaking, because it has never bothered me, but just I never could wrap my mind around all the rules etc.
But that thing where you are given three words? I could do that! And I'd have fun doing it. I'd have to be careful not to be circular and to wind it up at the end but I if I concentrated I could manage that.
Now do you have to tie all of those topics together in the same 5 minutes, or just pick one and run with it?
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Depends. Usually, you just pick one and run with it. You have seven minutes, and you can spend them any way you wish, but to win, you spend one minute speaking and 5-6 minutes talking.
It was SOOOO much fun. I miss it.
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