script on the benefits of recycling
Grabbed the audience attention
Speech Outline: The Benefits of Recycling
Introduction
Humans generate an estimated 2.12 billion tons of waste yearly.
Such waste has adverse outcomes, including environmental pollution, health hazards, and climate change.
Thesis: Recycling may solve the waste challenge as it protects the ecosystem and wildlife, reduces pollution, and promotes sustainability for future generations.
Transition:
Every person has a duty to protect the world against pollution.
Body
Protecting the ecosystem and wildlife.
Recycling helps reduce disruptions to wildlife.
Reduces harm to animals and their habitats.
Helps prevent the extinction of vulnerable species.
Reducing pollution at the global level.
Lower plastic waste.
Reduced burning of plastics and dumping into oceans.
Lower risks for respiratory health.
Promotes sustainability for future generations.
Recycling reduces the adverse effects of climate change.
Decreases pressure on current resources.
Ensures future generations will enjoy the same or better quality of life as current populations.
Conclusion
Recycling is justifiable as it helps protect the ecosystem, reduces pollution, and ensures sustainability.
All humans have a duty to recycle.
he primary approach to conflict used in conflict management studies and by those who work in conflict management, mediation, negotiation, and related areas is what’s referred to as an inquiry-based approach to conflict. For this activity, you’ll explore some perspectives on conflict and then practice using the Difficult Conversations approach to a conflict in your own life.
Select one of the TED articles below. Read the article and watch the TedTalk posted with it.
https://tedsummaries.com/2013/10/20/william-ury-the-walk-from-no-to-yes/
6 tactics to help you turn heated dinner arguments into real conversations
Review this overview of the inquiry-based approach to negotiation.
Complete the “Difficult Conversations” worksheet based on a conflict you are currently experiencing or one you’ve experienced in the past.
Upload your completed “Difficult Conversations” worksheet OR share your thoughts about conflict, your assertiveness, your typical approach to conflict, the approach from the video you selected, and the inquiry-based approach. If you try to have the difficult conversation you use for the worksheet, feel free to share your experience!
Answer the questions below lack of communication with two other students in my group
How well did my team and I communicate overall? When did my collaborative communications fall short of the group’s expectations, if ever? When did other group member’s communications fall short? Were there any specific strategies your group used to enhance communication? What do you think was the impact of either shortfalls or communication strategies on the overall function of the team and your ability to accomplish your goals?
Look back at your leadership and followership style SARAs. How did your experience working with this team connect to your results from those SARAs? In other words, was it what you would expect based on your assessments, or what it different? How?
What were some things my teammates did that helped me to learn or to overcome obstacles? How did I help others during this process? How do I feel I may have hindered others? What would I do differently if I were to approach the same problem again?
How do you typically feel about working with small groups, both in academic contexts and in other aspects of your life?
What do you see as the main challenges or working with a team? What are that main advantages of working with a team?
What did I learn were my greatest strengths? My biggest areas for improvement? From a personal standpoint, what lessons from this experience might are you most likely to draw on the next time you work with a group?
SONNET ASSIGNMENT
Step 1: Choose your own sonnet adventure.
The world is your oyster! You can write a sonnet…
…on your own.
Get typing, or dust off that quill pen.
Step 2: Need inspiration?
Read a poem that pokes fun at sonnets. (a)
Read a poem that refers to the film The Matrix. (b)
Read a poem that plays with pop culture and with Shakespeare, too. ©
Step 3: Get writing.
Sonnets have been around for over seven centuries, maybe because they’re so much fun to write! A sonnet is a poem of 14 lines that reflects upon a single issue or idea. It usually takes a turn, called a “volta,” about 8 lines in, and then resolves the issue by the end.
Shakespearean sonnets use iambic pentameter and an ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme, but don’t worry too much about all that. Sonneteers have been bending and breaking the sonnet form for ages, so share whatever you’ve got!
Here’s a quick list to help you get started. How fancy you get is up to you!
THE BASICS
14 lines (though there are “stretched sonnets” of 15 and 16 lines, too)
A big idea or feeling or issue (like love, or heartbreak, or a problem to be solved)
THE NEXT LEVEL
A turn, or “volta”—some kind of shift in tone or thought
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme
10 syllables in each line
SUPER-FANCY SONNETEERING
Iambic pentameter in some or all of the 14 lines
Final couplet resolves the issue or problem in the sonnet
Try your hand, see how much of this sonnet stuff you want to play with, and no matter what, enjoy the experience of writing poetry.
Sonnet by Billy Collins (a)
All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now,
and after this next one just a dozen
to launch a little ship on love’s storm-tossed seas,
then only ten more left like rows of beans.
How easily it goes unless you get Elizabethan
and insist the iambic bongos must be played
and rhymes positioned at the ends of lines,
one for every station of the cross.
But hang on here while we make the turn
into the final six where all will be resolved,
where longing and heartache will find an end,
where Laura will tell Petrarch to put down his pen,
take off those crazy medieval tights,
blow out the lights, and come at last to bed.
Sonnets to Morpheus [“I know kung fu”] (b)
By John Beer
“I know kung fu.” It won’t bring back the world.
5:15 a.m.: I wake from another dream,
the same as every dream. A man builds a ship
in my chest. Each of the sailors
carries by her breast a picture of her sister.
The ship is not the image of a ship.
Beyond its sails there are no stars.
The water is only water because it’s black.
5:15 a.m. Perhaps you’ve seen me
practicing my moves in the empty prison yard
and wondered whether you were the dreamer
conjuring me into existence from the bare
desire to caress a phantom ship
and my death the death of your desire.
With a first line taken from the tv listings ©
A man is haunted by his father’s ghost.
Boy meets girl while feuding families fight.
A Scottish king is murdered by his host.
Two couples get lost on a summer night.
A hunchback murders all who block his way.
A ruler’s rivals plot against his life.
A fat man and a prince make rebels pay.
A noble Moor has doubts about his wife.
An English king decides to conquer France.
A duke learns that his best friend is a she.
A forest sets the scene for this romance.
An old man and his daughters disagree.
A Roman leader makes a big mistake.
A sexy queen is bitten by a snake.
—R. S. Gwynn
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FINAL QUEST
British Literature 245
Name______________________________________
Date_______________________________________
PART I. MULTIPLE CHOICE (3 points each)
1) From where does this excerpt come:
“It’s of three rioters I have to tell
Who, long before the morning service bell,
Were sitting in a tavern for a drink.
And as they sat, they heard the hand-bell clink
Before a coffin going to the grave;
One of them called the little tavern-knave
And said ‘Go and find out at once—look spry!—
Whose corpse is in that coffin passing by
And see you get the name correctly too.’”
a. “An Essay on Man”
b. Beowulf
c. “A Modest Proposal”
d. “The Pardoner’s Tale”
2) Who is the author of Beowulf?
a. Geoffrey Chaucer
b. Unknown
c. William Shakespeare
d. J.R.R. Tolkien
3) Which of the following is not a monster Beowulf battles in the epic?
a. Grendel
b. Dragon
c. Cyclops
d. Grendel’s mother
4) Which one below accurately names the rhyme scheme of the Shakespearean sonnet?
a. abab cdcd efef gg
b. abbaabba cdcdcd
5) A conversation between two or more people is called a:
a. Parody
b. Dialogue
c. Monologue
d. Analogy
6) Which event triggered the beginning of Modern English?
a. Conquest of England by the Normans in 1066
b. Introduction of the printing press to the British Isles (which later produced the King James Bible)
c. Publication of Samuel Johnson’s lexicon
d. The American Revolution
e. Creation of the British East India Company
7) Beowulf is set in what region of the world?
a. British Isles
b. Scandinavia
c. Prussia
d. Russia
e. Gaul
8) What is the primary focus of Beowulf?
a. The Crusaders trying to return from the Middle East to Europe
b. America’s wealth, power, and influence over Russia
c. Good over evil, with the king’s funeral finishing the story
d. The expansion of Russia towards the west and southward toward the Mediterranean Sea
e. Examples of how the sun never sets over the British Isles
9) Who is Hrothgar in Beowulf?
a. Beowulf’s father
b. A Danish king
c. Beowulf’s enemy
d. Beowulf’s loyal servant
10) The device of personification is used in which example below:
a. “Beg me no beggary by soul or parents, whining dog!”
b. “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.”
c. “And that one talent which is death to hide.”
d. “Happiness sped through the halls cajoling as it went.”
11) Who becomes king after Beowulf’s death?
a. Wiglaf
b. Unferth
c. Hygelac
d. Hrothgar
12) What is the name of the sword that Arthur pulls from the stone, signifying his rightful kingship?
a. Caliburn
b. Durandal
c. Clarent
d. Excalibur
13) How does King Arthur meet his end in Le Morte d’Arthur?
a. He is mortally wounded in battle with Mordred
b. He dies of natural causes in old age
c. He is betrayed and murdered by his own knights
d. He sails away to the mystical land of Avalon
14-16) Match each of the following poets/authors with his work:
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
Sir Thomas Malory
Hamlet
The Canterbury Tales
Le Morte d’ Arthur
17) The correct of order of the following authors by birth is:
a. Anonymous author, Sir Thomas Malory, William Shakespeare, and Chaucer
b. Anonymous author, Sir Thomas Malory, Chaucer, and William Shakespeare
c. Sir Thomas Malory, William Shakespeare, Chaucer, and Anonymous Author
d. None of the above.
18) A collection of twenty stories inspired by the Hundred Years’ War was written by:
a. John Milton
b. Walter Scott
c. William Wordsworth
d. Geoffrey Chaucer
19) What is the name of Hamlet’s mother?
a. Ophelia
b. Gertrude
c. Rosencrantz
d. Guildenstern
20) What is the name of Hamlet’s love interest, who goes mad and drowns herself?
a. Ophelia
b. Gertrude
c. Rosencrantz
d. Guildenstern
21) How does Hamlet’s father, King Hamlet, die?
a) He is poisoned by Claudius
b) He dies in battle
c) He falls from a tower
d) He contracts a sudden illness
22) What is the name of Beowulf’s sword?
a. Herot
b. Hrunting
c. Unferth
d. Grendel
23) What is the name of the most powerful wizard in Le Morte D’ Arthur?
a. Marian
b. Merlin
c. Morgana
d. Maleficent
24) Who is the named king of Camelot?
a. Mordred
b. Sir Lancelot
c. Hrothgar
d. King Arthur
25) Which character speaks the famous soliloquy that begins with “To be, or not to be”?
a. Ophelia
b. Hamlet
c. Laertes
d. Horatio
PART II.
PART III. SHORT ANSWER. (25 points)
Please provide a one-to-two paragraph response for this question below.
1. Write a paragraph that explains what you learned in this class about British literature, British history, and yourself.
