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By: Elizabeth Silence Ballard  As she stood in front of her 5 th grade class on the first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slimped in his seat was a little boy named Teddy Stallard. Miss Thopmson had watched teddy the year before and noticed that he didn’t play well with other children that his clothes were messy, and that he constantly needed as bath. And Teddy could be unpleasant. It got to the point where Miss Thompson would actually take delight in   marking his paper with a broad red pen, marking bold X’s and then putting a big “F” at the top of his papers. -at the school where Miss Thompson taught, she was required to review each child, past records and she put Teddy off until the last. However his files, she was in for a surprise. Teddy first grade teacher wrote: “Teddy is a bright child with a ready ...

By: Beb Piedad-Pedrajas The nation was shocked with dismay and the Chinese community especially in Hong Kong and in the mainland China staged up their sympathy and anger of the hostage drama last August 22, 2010, which killed eight of their fellows and least noble, the hostage-taker himself.    The incident gain worldwide criticism and shame among our highest officials the way they handled the bloody hostage taking.             The question is, “Whom to point our fingers for such a horrific incident?” Many will say, “The unprofessional, untrained authorities.” Undeniably, of course, the hostage-taker. What trigger SPO3 Reynaldo Mendoza to commit such a great blunder? The report says that he was dismissed from the service due to robbery-extortion of a young chef. By acting unbecomingly, he is like throwing his seventeen hard-earned awards to the swine and jeopardizing his retirement benefits. When he appealed to the Ombud...

Support is a speech material that clarifies  or backs up an assertion. Se7en techniques of support: 1. Explanation - is an exposition that makes an idea clear and intelligible. 2. Analogy or Comparison - is a form of explanation that points similarities between something which is known and something which is not. 3. Illustration - is a detailed example in narrative form of an idea. 4. Specific Instance or Specific Reference - is a briefly stated example. 5. Statistics - are numerical data about a state of affairs. 6. Testimony - is the statement of a person, who is usually prominent, that favors a certain assertion. 7. Restatement or Iteration - is the repetition of the same idea from a different viewpoint. Reference: Gupit, Fortunato Jr. (1986). Elements of Public Speaking: Support. Retrieved on September 1, 2010. Quezon City: Rex printing company, Inc.