Need Ideas for Informative and Persuasive speeches

[IEatBeefyWeiners]

Im taking a speech class and need some ideas. I got to do an Informatice Speech on Thursday and a Persuasive one on Tuesday. K thanx

[Relik]

Inform everyone that they need to Persuade everyone else that this thread needs to be locked.

2 Birds. 1 Stone.

[Jerkstore]

alternative energy sources. super easy and topical. would work for either type of speech

[Doctor Octagon]

Poverty, crime and the War on Drugs -- an endless cycle.

[Suicide King]

Sarah - why did she really leave?

[Exaotus]

Talk about 9/11:

A. Insufficient fuel inside the buildings. (9000 gallons of fuel (nominal) in the wings. 196 ft wingspan (nom) would swept back upon entry. This is why their was so so much smoke and black soot on the outside. Let's give the plane benefit of the doubt and say half the fuel made it in and was thrown out everywhere on the 96th floor where it hit. Most would not contact the main supports of the superstructure.)
B. Insufficient time for an obviously carburized, so low BTU, flame to raise the temperature in even the steel above floor 96 to 2000 degrees (orange hot) necessary to break welds, pop rivets, distort the steel, etc. in addition to the flames not burning that hot to begin with... 1200 degrees max from JP5 (I'm an aircraft engineer by education in case you don't already know that. I grew up in an architectural family so structural engineering comes easy for me...) IF the flames burned at 2000 degrees AND they evenly heated the steel, it would take 45 minutes to heat the structure above floor 96 to distortion temperature. (I've conducted a small scale experiment to verify this time factor) Even with all 9000 gallons burning, spread out over 25000 sq. ft; less than half a gallon per sq. ft., the burn at carburized flame would, producing even so little as 1000 degrees would be consumed in 20 - 25 minutes.
C. After that 45 minutes, the top quarter of the building would TOPPLE, not collapse and destroy whatever it fell on the next one or two blocks in that direction.

D. Aprox. 100 charges placed on the 51st floor, where AT&T personnel conveniently weren't, to sever the main supports would cause the top half to funnel into the lower shafts, dragging all the steel mesh reinforced concrete down and inward till finally the bottom half would flay outward. That explains so much rubble in the streets after the "amateur" demolition.

E. AT&T had some competitors there... including Verizon and Oracle.

F. The Towers are a structural obstacle to AT&T building an underground tunnel to the massive Bell Labs in N.J. (The towers were built upon the Manhattan bedrock 70 feet below sea level.

[Doctor Octagon]

Originally Posted by Exaotus

<SNIP>

:tinfoil:

[shift_6ix]

talk about how family guy is better than the simpson.

[Suicide King]

Originally Posted by Exaotus

Talk about 9/11:

A. Insufficient fuel inside the buildings. (9000 gallons of fuel (nominal) in the wings. 196 ft wingspan (nom) would swept back upon entry. This is why their was so so much smoke and black soot on the outside. Let's give the plane benefit of the doubt and say half the fuel made it in and was thrown out everywhere on the 96th floor where it hit. Most would not contact the main supports of the superstructure.)
B. Insufficient time for an obviously carburized, so low BTU, flame to raise the temperature in even the steel above floor 96 to 2000 degrees (orange hot) necessary to break welds, pop rivets, distort the steel, etc. in addition to the flames not burning that hot to begin with... 1200 degrees max from JP5 (I'm an aircraft engineer by education in case you don't already know that. I grew up in an architectural family so structural engineering comes easy for me...) IF the flames burned at 2000 degrees AND they evenly heated the steel, it would take 45 minutes to heat the structure above floor 96 to distortion temperature. (I've conducted a small scale experiment to verify this time factor) Even with all 9000 gallons burning, spread out over 25000 sq. ft; less than half a gallon per sq. ft., the burn at carburized flame would, producing even so little as 1000 degrees would be consumed in 20 - 25 minutes.
C. After that 45 minutes, the top quarter of the building would TOPPLE, not collapse and destroy whatever it fell on the next one or two blocks in that direction.

D. Aprox. 100 charges placed on the 51st floor, where AT&T personnel conveniently weren't, to sever the main supports would cause the top half to funnel into the lower shafts, dragging all the steel mesh reinforced concrete down and inward till finally the bottom half would flay outward. That explains so much rubble in the streets after the "amateur" demolition.

E. AT&T had some competitors there... including Verizon and Oracle.

F. The Towers are a structural obstacle to AT&T building an underground tunnel to the massive Bell Labs in N.J. (The towers were built upon the Manhattan bedrock 70 feet below sea level.

If you want to be known as the class , go for this.

[Exaotus]

Originally Posted by Doctor Octagon

:tinfoil:

AT&T = EVIL TERRORISTS

[dirty sanchez]

Originally Posted by Relik

Inform everyone that they need to Persuade everyone else that this thread needs to be locked.

2 Birds. 1 Stone.

WIN!

[shabubu]

here's a good speech i found saved on my computer. i used it last year for my speech class.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, slaves and whites. Today I will speak about the benefits of ethnic cleansing. As you can see within this classroom, there are not many black people. That alone is proof that blacks are inferior to whites, unless if they are hiding in a dark jungle. After doing extensive pigment research in my uncle's laboratory, I have seen the true effects of pigmentation. What I found was astonishing: black people cause cancer. That's right, cancer. The pigmentation in their skin turns into high velocity gamma rays that penetrate white people's livers and cause extreme cell growth due to a condition called Negritis. Ethnic cleansing would not only solve the AIDs epidemic, but cure cancer. Thank you for your time."

[Doctor Octagon]

Originally Posted by Exaotus

AT&T = EVIL TERRORISTS

Pedophiles are not responsible for missing children -- aliens are -- they are eating the flesh of the young. :joepits:

[acidfast7]

talk about the financial plight of the average undergraduate student:

calculate the cost of educational debt + lost earnings from attending school + 4-6 year later start to retirement savings vs. the average income earned over a lifetime and how long it takes to make up the difference.

the class will love it.

[Zypher]

Originally Posted by acidfast7

talk about the financial plight of the average undergraduate student:

calculate the cost of educational debt + lost earnings from attending school + 4-6 year later start to retirement savings vs. the average income earned over a lifetime and how long it takes to make up the difference.

the class will love it.

be sure to note discrepancies between liberal arts degrees and engineering/science/business degrees