Speeches

P l e a s e p a s t e y o u r s p e e c h e s h e r e ! ! !
Bronwen-

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Good afternoon time-keeper, chairperson, Negative team and members of the audience. The topic for this debate is that zoos should be closed, and we, the Affirmative team, strongly agree with this. As third speaker, I will be summing up my teams’ case, but before that I would like to reveal the misleading arguments from the Negative teams. =====

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These are all easily flawed. Their first speaker tried to tell you that....... =====

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One of my first speaker’s points was, the cruelty in zoos such as the ones in 3rd world countries. A panda in China is kept in a cage just big enough for it to stand up. Most countries do have zoos, whether they have enough money for it to be deluxe or not. We accept that, yes, some zoos in Australia may have massive enclosures, but other, 3rd world countries, don't. Her second point was the environment. She talked about how all the animals in zoos are having all their needs fulfilled by zoo keepers. But these need are being OVERLY fulfilled. They are being given food except, if one of these animals was put out into the wild and told to go and find food for them self, they would have no idea how to. They would have no idea how to find shelter for the night. Having animals placed in zoos, is causing them to lose, necessary survival skills.===== My second speaker talked to you today about protection. He said that zoos protect endangered and non-endangered animals. As well as national parks protecting plants AND animals. Why can't we just leave the animals where they are? Why do we have to move the animal to a small enclosure, just so people can goggle at them all day? Why can we not just leave the foreign animals were they are, and any Australian animals that need protecting, we could just move them to a national park. If an animal is sick and needs protection, they can be taken to the vet. His second point was about the expense. As my first speaker also said, 3rd world countries have zoos aswell. Evenm though they don't have as much money, the zoos are still run, and like I said earlier, animals are kept inn quite small enclosures as they do not have the money to buy larger ones. As you can now see, zoos should be closed because of the cruelty, environment, protection, and expense.
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Bronwen- and yes, I did get the main base line and set out for my speech from Veronicas, it will be changed, I just have not yet had the time.......

Veronica - Shucks ;)

Annika's Competition is inspiration, admiration and determination. A way of life it it is a fundamental value behind most things in the real world business and politics just a few. It has always been beneficial to the attitude one thinks of one self by and creates a sense of achievement. To some it up simply there is a statement that is the topic of what I will be talking about. Competition is a good thing. . I am the first member of the affirmative team for this debate and we define this topic as two or more people in friendly combat including in sport, academics, culture and other topics or socially. And we set the scope worldwide, as it is most appropriate. Competition is inspiration, admiration and determination. We the affirmative team believe that it is blatantly clear that competition is a good thing and to support this we have five points. As first speaker I will be speaking about inspiration, doing your best then better and simply that it is enjoyable. My second speaker will be talking about learning to win and lose and that it brings the world closer together. Competition is inspiration, admiration and determination. Firstly competition inspires people to achieve over what they thought possible and shows them a path through life. We have built up an entire culture based on competing some inadvertent some not. It is almost a survival mechanism possibly from our long history of competing with nature. Competition definitely inspires us to want to be better and do better. Wether you see someone in the swimming carnival who astonishes you and makes feel need to be as capable as them or harmless rivalry between prices in to next door shops it has made someone achieve better. The want to do better and be better has come from the word itself. Even the definition in some dictionaries of the word competition shows this point. They believe the word means; to make a person want to do better. It is this inspiration through competition that makes shops put up advertisements and increasingly lowered prices, and makes an athlete as good as they are today. So imagine what life would be like without this inspiration. Many people would not be in the job they are today nor as good, the prices in shops would be way too high, there would be no point in competitive sports and the Prime Minister of Australia might still be Kevin Rudd, if we had politics. Anyone going in a competition has done a favour for the world because they may have inspired someone. Inspiration through competition is a good thing Competition is inspiration admiration and determination. My second point is the fact that competition gives people a realistic view of self which enables you to do your best then better. Some times it is hard to gain a knowledge of how good you are and what you need to improve in a place where you over excel and find it too easy or under excel and get ignored. However through competition you can compete against others the same age and lose this ignorance. This knowledge goes well to your self-esteem and can make it healthier. Over self-esteem can lead to social problems and under self-causes anxiety, stress, depression and related issues such as alcoholism and anorexia and eventually suicide. And if you realise you are not that great you know what to improve and how to be better. Competition is all about doing your best and better. A competition not only showcases this work but allows people to achieve over what they thought possible by making them realise their flaws and talents. This knowledge is hugely beneficial and definitely is a good thing. Competition is inspiration, admiration and determination. My last point is that quite simply it is enjoyable. It may sound irrelevant but a little bit of fun in life can go a long way and competition also allows socialising and has a great sense of achievement. Having fun is a vital part of life and if it is forsaken it can lead to many serious mental issues later on in life, worst being death. Also the opportunity to socialise shouldn’t be passed up on as it is in fact a highly important stage in a childs’ development. If children do not socialise at an early stage then they often have inadequate social skills and are shy. Competition also gives one a great sense of achievement when finished. The feeling is immensely satisfying and strengthens a behavioural completion mechanism which makes you want to complete a task. Without it people rarely finish what they are doing and have trouble at school and work. Competition is inspiration, admiration and determination. Competition is a rule in life which we can not live without. It inspires us, allows you to do your best then better and is simply an enjoyable activity. Competition is inspiration, admiration and determination.

28.07.2010 Debate: Competition is a Good Thing (AFFIRMATIVE)
Veronica -

Good morning Time-keeper, Chair-person, Negative team and members of the audience. Today you have heard two sides of the argument on That Competition is a Good Thing - the Affirmative team, who agree strongly with this, and the Negative team, who don’t. But before I continue on my speech, I would like to point out some flaws in their arguments. TEAM LINE My first speaker spoke to you about Inspiration. She said that with some exceptions, teams and individuals inspire a whole generation of children and adults to follow their dreams. It can be something like bowling like Shane Warne, or watching Julia Gillard become the first female Prime Minister of Australia - and I’m not even going to start on the Paralympics. There will always be a time when your inspiration fails you; nobody is perfect. But a truly inspired person will never give up. TL She then went on to talk about doing your Personal Best – making sure you can balance your school work with activities, doing all the exercises even if you’re tired, waking up early to train or study. She spoke about how your personal best //is// the best; because you are the best of yourself. Even if you enter a competition, and don’t come first, you may have beaten your old record. You wouldn’t be feeling down at all – you just did better then your old best! It also gives something to train for, if you didn’t get into the next level or round. TEAM LINE Her final point was the fact that playing competitive activities is //fun.// You wouldn’t partake in an activity you don’t like – and it usually takes a while before you can do it at a competitive level. Just to go to the venue and be with others is enough – winning is a bonus for those who really enjoy what they are doing. TL My second speaker spoke about the importance of knowing how to cope with losing. Competition is inevitable in life. If children are never exposed to competitions, and therefore never lose, then when this happens to them later on, they won’t know how to deal with it. It all comes down to learning at a young age that winning isn’t everything. TEAM LINE Then he summed up our team’s arguments with the fact that competitive activities bring people together. Instead of just singing songs in class, you could join a Choir. Instead of just kicking the ball around with your friends at the park, you could join a soccer team. The Olympics and Paralympics, as well as inspiring people, help them learn about a new country, and also then that country cleans out their streets. The Soccer World Cup – how many people travelled there to cheer on their team? There were no brawls – the only setback is now Holland and Germany don’t like Paul the Octopus. TL So in conclusion, the opposition may say that competition is a bad thing because it causes rivalries and leaves the losing side feeling not-so-great, but we disagree. We are having a competition right now, but there are no fights breaking out between us, and the losing side will accept the result and congratulate the other team. Sure, they'd feel envious and won't be about to invite the opposition to their birthday party, but we're doing this because we love debating. The fun of having team meetings and going out to other schools, and showing what a great Prime Ministers or lawyers we will be when we grow up. Because TEAM LINE. Thank you :)

Comments/Suggestions -
Veronica: Just a note, the reason why sometimes I wrote TL and other times TEAM LINE is because when I wrote it up, the TL's went to the next line so I turned them into TL to save space. In the end, if I had one more letter it would have been 2 pages :D Veronica: It's Monday afternoon and mum just went over it... above is the New & Improved copy... enjoy! Bronwen- Make sure you don't forget to say Teamline first thing! Firstly when i read it and it said: 'bowling like Shane Warne,' I didn't know it meant cricket bowling I thought it meant the other bowling, so I think you might want to make that a bit clearer. And a last point, where are you going to put in your rebuttal?

Bronwen-

Good Morning Chair Person, Timekeeper and members of the Audience. Today you have heard many obscure points in the oppositions case and I will just help you now to see them a little more clearly.
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I will be talking to you today about the technology and 000 transport. Now onto my first point technology. Science has created technology that has saved lives, worked miracles (or what has seemed so) and helped education, just to name a few. All that technology in hospitals, life support machines, breathing machines, and drips. Without these, many peoples lives would be lost. And that's just hospital technology. What about computers? Without them, not one member of these debating teams would have any information on this topic. And if you did use books, the information those books contained, would not exist without science to give the answers. Schools have had computers since the early 80s and have had internet since the early 90s. This technology science has created has aided in education for 20-30 years now, and without this, kids would find it harder to learn the things they do today. Computers have made it easier to teach and more exciting to learn. Science has created technology that has saved lives. Like my first speaker has already said, it has created medicines that, before we had scientific technology, would be considered as miracles. As you can see, the technology science has created has benefited our world in many ways, outweighing the harm done. Now onto my second point, 000 transport. Without the science of creating cars, we wouldn't have emergency transport. If you've ever been in an ambulance, in an emergency, you'll probably be the first to understand how serious this is. Science has benefited us in this way. With police cars rushing to the scene of crime to arrest the criminal. How would your house be saved from being broken into WITHOUT triple zero transport? And then theres the fire brigade. How else would you save your house from being burnt down without a) having the technology (a phone) to alert the fire brigade and b) the fire brigade actually having a fast mode of transport to get there. c) A convient supply of water for the house 000 Transport has aided our lives in many ways all thanks to science. Something in which the benefits have outweighed the harm done. As you can now clearly see, the benefits made by science have outweighed the harm done because of the technology and aids that have been created by it.
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re) Teamline things (Bronwen)- Yeah, we still haven't decided on a definite one yet so when we have, I will add that in. Veronica - Okay I'm putting mine in!
 * TIME:** 3:09 (without rebuttal)
 * SUGGESTIONS:** VVA - Very good speech Bronnie I like it :) when will you be putting in the second half? My suggestion: Keep up the good work! P.S. What about the Team Line(s) thing I posted?


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Good afternoon time-keeper, chairperson, Affirmative team and members of the audience. Today’s topic is that Science Has Done More Harm Then Good, and we, the Negative team, disagree strongly with this. As third speaker, I will be summing up my teams’ case, but before that I would like to reveal the misleading arguments from the Affirmative team. TEAM LINE =====

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Now onto my teams case. One of my first speaker’s points was Medicine & Safety. They spoke about how science has helped us to overcome or make less likely to happen some of the worlds’ most horrific diseases like small-pox, swine-flew and polio. And even with the small ones like the flu, it takes a long time and a lot of effort to find a cure. They also said how without science we would not know many things are harmful or dangerous. This can’t be flawed because Scientists have cured numerous diseases and found out about many more. TEAM LINE =====

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Anothe r point was Knowledge. As well as what I said before, without science we wouldn’t know anything about our Solar System, our planet and even ourselves. We wouldn’t know how the human body works or why some people have brown eyes and others blue. This can’t be denied because scientist had to delve into the human body to find these answers. TEAM LINE =====

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Their last point was on Education. This is a vital point, and especially for us who are in the middle of our school career. Science has taken learning to the next level. Without it, we’d still have chalk boards instead of Smart Boards, and would be using a textbook – which uses paper – instead of going onto websites and interacting with the world. This point still stands strong because it is easier and more interesting to learn this way. TEAM LINE. =====

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My second speaker spoke to you about Technology and 000 Transport. In their first argument they stated that Technology has saved innumerable lives with life-support systems, computers and phones to get help faster. This is a valid point because in many life-threatening situations technology has been used to communicate and also to predict if something bad is going to happen. TEAM LINE. =====

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Their second argument, 000 Transport, also links with communication. Without Fire-Brigades, houses would burn before help could arrive. Without Police cars, criminals could get away and wouldn’t be able to be found, and without Ambulances people would die because they couldn’t get to a hospital quick enough. This is true because it takes on second for somebody to run or die. TEAM LINE. =====

I hope by now I have now given you enough proof that our case still stands strong, because TEAM LINE. Thank you.

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 * SUGGESTIONS:**
 * Bronwen-** I think your speech is great just a few suggestions, You could probabaly elaborate a bit more on each of our points aswell. Great structure for the rebuttl section, you didn't say the same thing twice. I guess it would have been hard to time as 3 quarters of your speech is supposed to be rebuttal!

Veronica, please say if the other team does not rebut one of our points, say:,'And since the opposition did not rebut this argument, we are assuming, of course, that they agree with us.' Tee hee
 * Yasmin**: Bronwen, can you please add in a thing for technology in schools ( I mean a bit more) I'm saying something like //"... but that's the second speaker's job."//