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Unfortunately, there is no single answer. I'll review the reason why, and some general principles, to help you start your speech. The reason why there is no single answer is that there is no single audience of high school seniors. Imagine two different high schools. One is a well-funded magnet school where 90+% of the students go to college. The other is poorly funded, and is one of many schools in the United States where only 60% of the students graduate high school, let alone go on to college. Those two audiences need very different speeches and very different appeals. Start your process by knowing your audience. In the first example, students assume they'll pass through the application process smoothly, and you mainly need to guide them in the best ways and away from dangerous mistakes. In the second, students likely assume college isn't for them at all. For that first audience, yes, statistics could be useful, if they are simple and focused. You want to grab and focus t...

Neoliberalism is a political ideology that is rooted in  laissez-faire , or free-market economics. Proponents of neoliberalism believe that the private sector is more adept at fueling economic growth and should, therefore, be left with the responsibility of creating jobs. Government interference, they believe, hampers free markets. Economist Friedrich Hayek believed that interventionist measures to redistribute wealth would lead to totalitarianism. Neoliberalism is related to the free-market ideas espoused by classical liberal theorists, particularly those from the Austrian school of economic thought, including Ludwig von Mises. Classical liberals, like today's neoliberals, disliked protectionism and thought that economic growth would be best facilitated through free-trade. Certain politicians from recent decades have come to be associated with neoliberal ideas, including Margaret Thatcher and her contemporary, Ronald Reagan. Thatcher, like many neoliberals, disliked labor unions. ...

The quotes featured reflect traits of Creon and Antigone that play a formative role in the drama's resolution. "The folly of stubborn men" is the Chorus's way of expressing Creon's error in judgment. The Chorus suggests that Creon's error lies in his inability to see past his own point of view.  Several people, including Teiresias, had warned Creon had already warned him of this danger.   Despite repeated requests for Creon to abandon his insistence on being right, he refuses to budge.  When the Chorus says that "God moves swiftly to repudiate stubbornness, it foreshadows the ending to the drama, where Creon's hubris is punished through the death of his loved ones.   Creon's stubbornness is rooted in his attitude towards those who question him.  When he says, "The toughest iron cracks first," it reflects how Creon does not acknowledge dissent productively.  He sees people who disagree with him as obstacles that will eventually be overcom...

In Chapter Four of "The Jesuit Relations," Allan Greer speaks of both sides of the war. He discusses their methods of communicating when they wanted to create a truce, as well as their plans of attack, which often hinged on the element of surprise. Greer describes the treaty formed at Three Rivers, the resulting peace of which encouraged negotiation for returning prisoners of war who had been captive. One particular man named Kiotseaeton from the Iroquois tribe is credited with bringing about this peace treaty. He was brave and courageous; he brought gifts to his enemies and danced for them. The folk tale that has grown out of his contribution to ending the war outlines seventeen specific presents that he brought, and gives him nearly all of the credit for ending the war. Greer details the true facts of, as well as speculation on, this story in this chapter.

Actually, yes, this was one reason--many Americans felt as though the victorious Allies of WWI were only squabbling over territorial rights at the Versailles treaty table--the main question was not 'how to promote peace,' but rather, 'which nation was getting which piece of territory."  This war was sold to the American people as a war to end all wars and a war to ensure democracy.  The Allied powers, especially the French, British, and Italians, seemed petty in their search for land.  While America would never be truly isolationist, given the peace conferences that happened during the interwar years such as the Washington Naval Conference which limited the size of the world's navies and the Kellogg-Briand Treaty which denounced war as a way of solving the world's problems, America turned away from European problems and mainly focused on events in Central America and the Caribbean during the interwar period.  Another reason that probably had more to do with the...

When Chiron gives Percy the gift from his father, Poseidon, a magical sword named Riptide, Percy worries that mortals will see him wielding a giant sword and freak out.  However, Chiron assures him that Mist is very powerful, and this Mist will generally prevent mortals from seeing the truth about things and events having to do with gods or divine objects.  Chiron says that it is "'Remarkable, really, the lengths to which humans will go to fit things into their version of reality.'"  What he seems to mean by this is that human beings need the world to work the way we already conceive it to, and since we don't believe that someone can uncap a pen and suddenly be holding a huge sword, we simply won't be able to see that this is the reality.  Therefore, our minds simply replace things that we don't think could be real with things that we believe can be; for example, instead of seeing Percy holding Riptide, we might see him holding a baseball bat because this ...

The answer to your question can be found in chapter one.  The girl, known as Brat at this point in the book, is alone and homeless.  She is hungry, and she is cold.  Her clothes offer her little to no protection against the night's frost.  Brat needs to find some warmth in order to survive the night, so she burrows herself into a big pile of dung (poop).   Tonight she settled for the warm rotting of a dung heap, where she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night. The following morning the midwife was walking past the pile of dung, and she saw Brat huddled there.  The midwife did not take pity on Brat.  Instead, the midwife tried to shoo Brat away, but Brat begged for some food.  The midwife responded by telling Brat that if she wanted food, then Brat would have to work.  Brat agreed to work, and the midwife began calling her Beetle.  The midwife told Brat that her dung burrowing reminded her of...