Speech Contest 2017

This I believe…

Write a personal belief speech.  Be specific.  Focus your speech on one of these ideas:

• Does Love Conquer Hate?
• The Power of Perseverance

Gather evidence from history, current events, or other essays/speeches to demonstrate when and how this belief was formed, tested, or changed.

Because you will all be focusing on different ideas, you will need very different articles, but see the articles below for some examples. When you search for your own article, be sure to get your articles from reputable sources that your audience will recognize as trustworthy. Avoid getting your articles from sources that are recognized to have a bias like Fox News on the right or The Huffington Post on the left. As always, make sure your speech is persuasive rather than offensive, productive rather than angry.

• Forbes “Five Characteristics of Grit”        
• “The Power of Passion and Perseverance” TED Talk
• President Obama’s Farewell Speech (transcript)
• 12 people who succeeded after failing
• Kamala Harris- victory speech video 
• President Obama Speaks on the Results of the Election: "We Are Americans First"
• Transcript-Donald Trump’s Victory Speech
• “Whither Moral Courage?”
• “The Power of Nonviolence” MLK
• MLK quotes
• Voting Rights Act: Toobin The New Yorker
• Does Love Conquer Hate: Congressman Lewis and Selma
• Google Doc of popular essays (This I Believe)

• http://thisibelieve.org        

These thematic topics come from the six virtues of ESUSD: Perseverance, Love, Confidence, Respect, Integrity, Courage. We will focus on two virtues for our speech contest topics each year for the next few years.

Ideas for topics:

Bibliography: MLA 8

Works Cited

Copeland, Edward. “Money.” The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge UP, 1997, pp. 131-48.

“Curiosity Rover Report (August 2015): Three Years on Mars!” NASA’s Journey to Mars: Videos, edited by Sarah Loff, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 30 July 2015, www.nasa.gov/topics/journeytomars/videos/index.html.

Lorensen, Jutta. “Between Image and Word, Color, and Time: Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series.” African American Review, vol. 40, no. 3, 2006, pp. 571-86. EBSCOHost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN= 24093790&site=ehost-live.

Monk, Linda R. “Why We the People? Citizens as Agents of Constitutional Change.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, The Gilder Lehrman Institue, 18 Aug. 2010, www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/government-and-civics/essays/ why-we-people-citizens-agents-constitutional-change.

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