Halloween On October 31 every year we celebrate a holiday known as Halloween. Celebrating consists of traditional activities such as: trick-or-treating, haunted houses, dressing up as your favorite character, carving jack-o-lanterns. There’s tons of fun stuff to do on Halloween, but there’s tons of history behind it as well. For starters, did you know that in Ohio, Massachusetts, and Iowa Trick-or-treating is referred to as Beggars Night?
Today I will be talking about the holiday we call Halloween. Halloween is where we all dress up in costumes and get candy from houses on the thirty first of October. Here are three things about halloween. First, I am going to be talking the history of halloween.
Introduction I. (Attention Getter) Video II. (Relevancy Statement)- Haiti located in the subtropics on the western third of Hispaniola, the second largest island in the Caribbean, which it shares with Dominican Republic, our neighbor islands include Cuba, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. III. (Credibility Statement) - My family are from Haiti, I was born there then moved here with my mother when I was 11.
Ribbin Anderson Narrative Speech Grading Rubric Public Speaking Biography Speech (Informative Speech about a person’s life) John Du Pont Introduction ___9___/10 Points Attention Getter – I believe I opened up my Biography Speech well by giving a good background of John Du Pont then saying, “This became his passion until he lost his name as a wrestling trainer forever”. I think this made the audience curious as to why he lost his name as a wrestling trainer.
Slide 1- Introduction Good morning/afternoon everybody, today I have been assigned with informing you all about the Aztecs, or more importantly, the reason for their annihilation. Now you may be thinking that it was mainly to do with a war, but it is actually almost solely a disease called the variola disease or as it’s more commonly known, small-pox Slide 2-What were the symptoms and effects Now you may be wondering what made the disease so dangerous to the Aztecs. The main problem of the disease was the fact that not only did it kill 3/10 people effected it also severely lowered the victims fighting capabilities meaning that when the Spanish attempted to fight the Aztecs, it became much more favourable to the Aztecs. (Healthline, n.d.)
Introduction I. (demonstrates duck calling) II. By a show of hands who knows what I just did. What I just did is called duck calling.
General Purpose: To inform my audience about African historic culture) Specific Purpose: To inform my audience on the ancient Benin (Benin) culture and how it has evolved today Attention Getter: Did you know that everyone evolved from Africa? Researchers have examined the differences of the skulls and DNA of human remains from around the globe say their outcomes indicate present day people (Homo sapiens) having a solitary beginning in Africa.(Owen,2007)
Halloween or day (/ˌhæləˈwiːn, -oʊˈiːn, ˌhɑːl-/; a contraction of "All Hallows ' Evening"),[5] additionally called Allhalloween,[6] All Hallows ' Eve,[7] or All Saints ' Eve,[8] could be a yearly celebration ascertained during a variety of nations on thirty one October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows ' Day. It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide,[9] the time within the rite year dedicated to memory the dead, as well as saints (hallows), martyrs, and every one the trustworthy departed believers.[10][11] According to several students, All Hallows ' Eve could be a Christianized feast influenced by Celtic harvest festivals,[1][12] with attainable pagan roots, notably the Gaelic competition Samhain.[7][13][14]
Halloween was influenced from Christianity and some celtic countries around 1745. Halloween means “holy evening” even though most people today don’t associate halloween with Christianity. It started off as Allhallowtide, a 3 day celebrating which involved honoring saints and praying for those who have departed but have not yet reached heaven, known as purgatory. During Allhallowtide, poor people would go door to door collecting soul cakes. For these cakes they would pray for the dead, especially those who are relatives to the cake givers.
Today i'm going to tell you about the history of halloween and also around the world halloween and last I am going to tell you about why you are post to were costumes. First the word Halloween dose mean all hallows eve. Next It was started by people that were poor they would send their children to go get soul cakes. Halloween was posed to be small groups of people but it did not end up like that.
Imagine entering your local food store and seeing that items most people eat everyday have been discontinued. Items such as coffee, apples, cucumbers and honey are no longer available to consumers. This may not be possible in our generation, but one day it could very well happen. My name is Matt Shaw from the Millsap FFA, and I am here today to talk to you about a major issue that is facing agriculture, the honeybee population.
Credibility: I believe that two main things really detracted from my credibility during my informative speech. The first of these things was my personal credibility or relationship with the material. I stated that, “ I have always had a soft spot for animals” at around forty seconds into my speech, but never provided any information on why my audience should trust the information I was providing to them. It wasn’t until later in my speech when I demonstrated my own knowledge of the subject and sited credible sources such as the World Wide Fund for Nature when talking about the Amazon’s role in affecting climate change, The Guardian when discussing the estimated species loss by 2050, and the World Wide Fund for Nature again when discussing how they believe that
I was on my way to the best place in the world, NO not Disney, no not the Mall of America but the cotton candy factory. If I haven't told you already, I love cotton candy, it’s so fluffy and sweet. Once I got there I rushed right through the doors and down the colorful cotton aisle, I could not pick a flavor, I ended up getting five different kinds in a bag, but it was all worth the drive and $25.00. When I got home I watched some movies and ate cotton candy. When I paused the movie to answer the phone the TV switched to the news channel and I heard what the reporters were talking about, a group of people in California had started a protest against cotton candy based on a stupid research by Albert Einstein that stated, cotton candy will one day take over the world.
As the hype train fueled by the expanse information from Pottermore, new canon has been introduced to visitors of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter during this weekend 's celebrations. With constant stream of tweets and articles from across the Potterverse it is very exciting to see the Newt Scamander (Fantastic Beast and Where to Find Them) content train starting to pick up steam. The Harry Potter celebration taking place at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando this weekend (Jan. 29- 31th 2016) is set to be one of the most informative events to date. Stars from the films including Evanna Lynch, Rupert Grint and Matthew Lewis are just a few of the names to grace the stage at this celebrated event. Just as importantly numerous content
Smoking has been a long time habit round the world. However, in the past, smoking cigarette was very popular and known to be a cool recreational drug, and was widely accepted by the community across the world. Today smoking has been less widely accepted and more restricted because of the many health risks that are linked to smoking cigarette. These days, people are well educated and more knowledgeable about the health risks of smoking.
