This speech is going to address the causes and effects of Rape Culture. As a result, it is necessary to discuss many difficult and horrific situations that have occurred in real life, to real people. Rape Culture is an insidious disease that keeps spreading, and it is harmful to all...

Computer pioneer Michael Dell once said, “As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own." Friends, here we sit today, having thrown away that map on our journey toward college graduation, and with the opportunity to...

Motor speech disorders are a group of disorders that interrupt the ability of the body to produce speech. There are a variety of causes of these disorders but all involve some level of dysfunction in the ability of the brain to integrate neurological and muscular activities. The ability to produce...

In 2001, George W. Bush announced “The War on Terror.” In response the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the American government proclaimed a new policy, which would seek to eliminate terrorist networks such as Al-Qaeda. Over 10 years later, after failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, above...

On an intuitive level, one may identify themselves with a particular or singular speech community to which one belongs. This is understandable, as we tend to think of ourselves in individual terms, and therefore, as constantly expressing a singular “voice.” Nevertheless, the value of an exercise such as analyzing the...