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Abstain from pre-marital sex Apply Stage Makeup Athletic Shoe is Made Athletics: training, conditioning, stretching, etc. Balance Your Checkbook Brush Teeth Correctly Build a Deck Care for A Goldfish/pets/tropical fish, etc. Care for a tattoo Choose a Wine Choose the Right Daycare For You Clay Whistle Color Hair Conduct a Business Meeting Conquer Homesickness CPR Crochet Cross-Stitch Dance Move Develop Own Pictures Do Income Taxes Drive a Golf Ball Endotracheal intubation Engine Works Etch Glass Exercises: at home or in gym, stretching, Finish a Shelf in a Marbled Look Fish (w/ different Rods & Reels) Flower Lei Fly a Model Airplane Fold an American Flag Gather Autographs from Famous People Grow & Maintain Dreadlocks Health: lifestyle, Heimlich Maneuver Home Blood Sugar Test Hyper-extended Toe Touch

Inexpensive Date Invest Your Money Jumpstart a Car Keep a Slo-pitch Softball Scoresheet Lift Fingerprints from a Crime Scene Macrame Make a Bunny Rabbit Out of a Washcloth Make A Candle Make Arts & Crafts Make Curtains without sewing Make hair bows Make Paper Make Pottery Manage Your Stress Musical Instrument Origami Paint for a Profit Paper Mache Perform a Card Trick Perform an Optical Illusion Play a musical instrument Play Chess Play Role-Playing Games Police Radar Works Prevent Home Fires Prevent the endangerment of animals Private Investigator Purchase Stocks Read a Weather Map Read Astrological Charts/Birthdates Read Tarot Cards Recycle Register to Vote Repair a Hole in the Wall Replace a Light Switch Rock Climb Save Money Scratchboard Art

Self-Breast Exam Sight-read Music Spot a Counterfeit Bill Start a Club on Campus Study Effectively Swiss Seat Take Blood Pressure Take Care of Your Yard Tend to an Eye Injury Throw a Javelin Throw Clay on the Wheel Tint Your Car Windows Treat an Unconscious Person Tune an Electric Bass Guitar Understand football, baseball, sports, etc. Use of Musket Use PowerPoint (advanced features) Use Sign Language Wallpaper Webpages (design, maintain, etc). Work & Manipulate a puppet

Informative Speech Topics

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Aborigines of Australia African Music Alzheimer's Disease Amateur Radio Ancient Egyptian Religion Andy Warhol Anemia Anorexia Nervosa Architecture Asthma Astrology Astroturf in Sports

Atomic Bombs Avoid Stress Babe Ruth Backpacking/Hiking Barbados Baseball Bermuda Triangle Best Toys for Kids Binge Drinking Black Panther (Political Party) Black Plague Blood Breast Care/Cancer Broken Fingers Buddhism Bullfighting Cancer Canine Parvo Virus Car Stereos Cardiovascular Disease Comic books Congenital Hypothyroidism Contraceptives Credit Reports Culture of Hip-Hop Dangers of Airbags to Kids Dangers of Credit Cards Dangers of Food Darts Date Rape Delta-Blues Guitar Depression Diabetes Diamonds Different Drawing Methods Drawing Dress for a Job Interview Duck Decoying

Electronic Commerce England (places to visit) Famous People of Importance Female Genital Mutilation Funerals Galapagos Islands Gambling Addictions Gang Violence Ghandi GoGo Music Golf Greenhouse Effect Hawaii Heart Murmur Herpes Hinduism Historical Events Historical People History of Boxing History of Music Hockey Holocaust Hong Kong Hotel Security HTML (computers) Hurricanes Hypnosis Importance of a Father Importance of Communication Indus Valley Civilization Influence of Rap Music Investing in Comic Books Irish Folklores Islam Junkanoo Juvenile Offenders Karate Knee Surgery

Kwanzaa Latvia (country) Living in Seattle Maine Coon Cats Memory Meningitis Morocco Morticians Movie Distribution Muckrakers NBA Sweet-16 Neutering/Spaying Animals Olympic Games On-Line Computer Training Osteoporosis Pele, Hawaiian Goddess Physical Therapy Places to go in Virginia Police Brutality R.O.T.C Rastafarianism Regular Health Check-Ups Remote Control Racing Cars Rheumatoid Arthritis Roanoake Island Salem Witch Hunt/Trials Satanism Schizophrenia Scoliosis Sewing Machine Shaken Baby Syndrome Shingles Shroud of Turin Sickle Cell Anemia Skin Cancer Sleep Deprivation Snorkeling Sport of Curling

Star Trek/Star Wars Strokes Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Sunglass Lenses Surrogate Motherhood Tattooing Theory of Yin/Yang Three Creation Stories of Religion Trinidad Unabomber Urban Renewal Urinary Tract Infections Virgin Islands Vocal Folds Water Safety What to Look for in a Masseuse White-Tailed Deer Wicca Working Class Skinhead Worldwide Human Overpopulation Writing for Money

Persuasive Speech Topics

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Adoption Aliens Exist Allergies Effect You Animals Have Emotions Attend Historically Black Colleges Be a Mentor Be Responsible Voters Bicyclists: Respect them Biking is Clean Bombing of Hiroshima Book Banning Campaign Finance Reform

Censorship Child Support Christopher Columbus: Friend or Foe? Cloning Collective Society Community Involvement Continue Education After High School Corporate Privatization Creative sentencing Cults Dangers of Fast Foods Disciplining Children Divorce DNA: Harvesting for Identification Don't Drop Out of College Don't get Married Until you're 25 Electronic Money Exercise Female Genital Mutilation Fetal Tissue Research Flat Tax Funding to the Arts Gambling Genetic Discrimination is a Problem Go to Hockey Games Healthy Eating Help Inner-city Youth Help the Humane Society Helping the Poor/Needy/Homeless Home Safety Homeschooling Hunter's Rights Immigration Control Immunizations Improve Voter Turn-out Inclusion (handicap in Classes) Joining Fraternities/Sororities Learn CPR

Learn to Swim Living on Your Own Living Wills Music Education Programs for Children Nudity in Art Organ Donation Parking on Campus Paternity Leave Peaceful Protest Pit Bull Fighting Political Activism Practice Yoga Prevent Illiteracy Prison Reform Pro Athletes Make Too Much Money Procrastination Public vs. Private Schools Puppy Mills Read to Children Recycling Report Abuse: child, sexual, etc. Ritalin Setting Personal Goals Spirit of Giving Steroids Stop Child Abuse Support Women's Athletic Events/Programs Take First Aid Training Teach Gun Safety Teen Curfews Teen Suicide (help them) The Real Meaning of Christmas Transracial Adoption TV Effects Our Lives Use of Astroturf in Sports Use of Electric Vehicles Use Soy Products Volunteering

Vote for a candidate Welfare Reform

Policy Speech Topics

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Adoptees Right-to-Know Law Art Censorship Attendance Policies (School, Work, etc.) Car Tax Censorship of Music Change K- School Start Times Downsizing Schools/Classrooms Eminent Domain Female Genital Mutilation Gambling Age should be Lowered Global Warming Laws High School Service Learning Programs Job Discrimination based on Hair Color/Style Legalize Prostitution Obstruction of Justice Laws Police Brutality Pornography Pornography on the Internet Racism and Racial Slurs (1st Amendment) Regulation of the Internet School Uniforms Skateboarding Policies Teachers and Tenure Technical Loopholes in Law Teen Dating Violence Laws Strengthened Trying Children as Adults VA Demerit Point System (driving) Visitation Rules at your University/College Voting System (electoral college) Women in the Military

Infomercial Topics
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E.V.I.L.(Exceptional Villain Intelligence League): Mentoring service to help take over the world, a la Pinky & the Brain

Central Idea: To persuade the audience to use this service where we provide henchmen consulting, lair construction plans and materials, rare materials supply, up to date information on international government activities, access to our extensive network of informants and clients.

Chick Magnet 3000 Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to purchase this product in order to not be awkward with girls. DAAPP: The tool Specific Purpose : To persuade the audience to that makes you cool! purchase the tool that makes you cool by offering you your personal theme music. Wood-B-Gone Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to buy the product that will get rid of a guy's "wood" at inopportune times. Specific Purpose: To persuade girls to buy this service so they can dance with a man who knows different kinds of dances. Central Idea: To convince the audience to purchase our product, DateSavers, because it is cheap, easy to use, and it works for both males and females. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to purchase the pill that makes you invisible.

R & K's Escort Service (legal) DateSaver Mints

I-Pill

Courtney "Cowgirl" Central Idea: To purchase this Freak Kit because it can Calhoun's Freak Kit turn a nice girl into a wild woman and because it can bring excitement back into a dull sex life. Trible's Personal Greatness Video Central Idea: We will persuade you to buy this by telling you about a business woman who made her company physically fit, how an upperclassman likes living off campus better due to freedom, how a businessman bought out other companies to better his business, and how kicking out nontraditional students means more freshman and money.

The Mind Changing Specific Purpose: To persuade people to buy the Machine machine that changes people's minds to your point of view. Love Potion #4.5 Specific Purpose: To convince the audience to buy the love potion that works for 1/2 the American population. Specific Purpose: To persuade our audience to buy a can of Whoop-Ass to obtain instant strength, increase defense, and great gift ideas! Specific Purpose: To persuade them to buy the product that turns back time and changes a bad situation into a good one. Specific Purpose: To convince them they need this remote to stop teachers from being boring.

Can of Whoop-Ass

The "What-The"

Remote against boring teachers

Speech Topics To Avoid!

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The following are not everything, but should avoided! If in doubt, please ask me.
While I have asked that the following topics should be avoided in class, if you believe these topics are important enough to speak publically about, then I encourage you to become civically involved in organizations that support these causes and use that opportunity to take what you've learned in this class and speak about them in those forums.

Alcohol-related speeches of any kind (This includes drinking & driving) Affirmative Action Cell phones while driving Cruelty to animals

Abortion Euthanasia Marijuana-related speeches of any kind Vegetariansim Capital Punishment Driving age donating blood/organs gay marriage homosexuality vs. heterosexuality prayer in schools seat belt usage corporal punishment/disciplining children Gun control Politically-based speeches of any kind Sexual discrimination/sexual harassment Michael Jackson

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