persuasion speech assignment

Session 5 Persuasion Speech Assignments
Persuasive speaking influences attitudes, beliefs, values, and behaviors of others (Verderber, Sellnow & Verderber, 2018). Examples of famous persuasive speeches are:

President John F. Kennedys Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You
Atticus Finchs closing remarks in the 1962 movie, To Kill A Mockingbird
Dr. Martin Luther Kings I Have a Dream speech
During this session, you will be creating a persuasive speech on a topic of your choice. Below is an overview of the required components of this Persuasive Speech assignment. More details on each component along with the submission links are included in this folder.

Topic Selection

First, you will need to select the topic of your persuasive speech. The topic should be something that interests both you and your audience, personally or professionally.  Choose topics that are unique but not emotionally charged (for example, avoid the topic of abortion/pro-life or capital punishment).

Outline

Next you will create an outline of your speech.

The outline should be comprehensive in all areas to include APA format in-text citation of sources where applied and a complete references list at the bottom. For this speech, you will need to use and orally cite at least three (3) academic, peer reviewed, published references.

Presentation

You will deliver a seven to nine (7-9) minute persuasive speech. Your speech must include the following Monroes Motivated Sequence elements:

Introduction/Attention Getter
What could be said or presented that will capture your audience’s attention to this subject?
Problem/Need
Provide a brief context, building background on the issue you have selected.
The background should clearly describe what the issue/problem is, how it came to be an issue, and how the issue/problem impacts your audience.
Solution
Provide your answer(s) to the issue/problem based on sound logical reasoning (facts, statistics, personal research, etc.).
Visualization of Solution
Provide a visual (both rhetorically and visually) so that your audience can “see” the solution actually being implemented.
Call to Action
Provide specific actions that your audience can take to be a part of this solution.
In this speech you must use a visual aid (of your choice) as well as use and orally cite at least three (3) academic, peer reviewed, published references. Include these references in a reference page or slide in APA format. If using Powerpoint slides, make sure you use in-text citations where information is applied.

There will be no formal peer evaluations of this speech. This speech serves as the final for this course and has a higher point value than previous speeches.

Book/play review

For this paper, you may review a play if you saw one in the first half of the term, or you may write about a classic movie. See the list below. You must choose from the ones below. (My personal favorites have two asterisks.) Two sources, NOT reviews.
Follow the guidelines in the theatre review for a movie paper.
Possible movies:
**Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman)
**Death of a Salesman (Dustin Hoffman, John Malkevich)
Citizen Kane
Apocalypse Now
Smoke Signals
El Norte
Real Women Have Curves
The Matrix
Annie Hall
**Apocalypse Now
**Dr. Strangelove
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing
A Patch of Blue
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Minding the Gap (2018)
Franco Zefirrelli’s Romeo & Juliet or his Hamlet
**A Streetcar Named Desire
**Strangers on a Train  or Vertigo (dir. Hitchcock, or anything by Hitchcock)

Landscape Architecture – Case Study

Case study on: Diana Memorial Fountain (Gustafson Porter)
Location: London

Please analyze and diagram 5 different aspects of Diana Memorial Fountain:
1 . A structural condition (eg. objects, geometry, proportional relationships)
2. A field condition (matrices, mats, nets, flocks, etc. You will have a reading later in the
semester that explains these terms)
3 . A time-based dynamic (change over a season, a day, travel time across site)
4. Movement (water, light, shadow, circulation)
5. A quantitative condition (length, area, volume, mass)
For these diagrams you shall employ a range of different drawing modes.  Please include at least three of the modes below:
– Plan
– Axon
– Section
– Free form collage or mixed media

Each Diagram should include the Research and Drawing (or Modeling) Technique data, ala Steenberg.

The written text should be about 500 words long: 100 words about the site and location, 400 on what you take away from the site as a designer

https://www.archdaily.com/803509/diana-princess-of-wales-memorial-fountain-gustafson-porter-plus-bowman

Post exilic representation of GOD

The question of how we can know God surfaces as a central theme through the biblical texts composed during and reflecting the attitudes of the 6th through the 4th centuries BCE. The challenge of understanding Gods purpose leads to alternative visions of God as increasingly transcendent, as compared to the immanent conception of the divine that dominates the Torah and the Deuteronomistic history. Discuss the evolution of the post-exilic representation of God in one of the following texts in the Bible: Lamentations, Ezekiel, 2nd Isaiah, Ruth, Esther, Job, Ecclesiastes, and Jonah.

Please try to identify your thesis and main points in your introduction and in the topic sentences of your middle paragraphs. Your argument must have a clear logical organization in order for me to appreciate the validity of your point of view. Outline your ideas before writing and then double check them after you have completed your first draft. If your main points are not fully apparent and if they do not obviously connect to each other and to your thesis, you need to revise your essay.