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A persuasive speech on the Good of Man

George L. Settlemier March 8th, 2023 Persuasive Outline General Purpose: A Persuasive speech about good and evil, the duality of man, and the psychology of nature vs nurture. Specific Purpose: To argue that people are born inherently good, immoral things are a choice, and bad things are learned from our environments. Introduction : Your security and stability is second nature, selfishness that we have adapted to learn and survive. We are naturally concerned with our own needs and desires. But there's evidence in philosophy and science that tells us much more. That we are not only concerned with our own selfish needs but the good welfare of everyone around us. We are naturally empathetic by nature, and LEARN the bad from which we know to be right.  Defining good vs. bad in moral standards is like grasping the oxygen around you. You know it’s there, its meaning, and while you may not see it, somehow breathing becomes natural. A 16th-century philosopher named Thomas Hobbes, says in Le...
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An Introduction Speech

 George L. Settlemier  Professor Paul Evans  COMM 111  February 5th, 2023  General Purpose: Informative Speech  Specific Purpose: An introduction to who I am for my peers.  Central Idea: Who I am is a blend of my past, present and hopes for the future.  Introduction: I stand before you today with reflections on myself. Who am I? I am a piece of a family, a history I hold dear. I am a student on the cusp of grasping everything I need for success. I am a scholar, a connoisseur of the arts, one who cherishes every word they read.  1. My name is a family name, passed down from father to son since as early as 1631, maybe earlier but who knows.  a) George - Meaning “Earth Worker” in Greek and latin. It is a definition my family has taken to their likeness for hundreds of years across multiple continents. To farm, to work, to thrive in peace.  b) In his research about the Zettelmeier settlers, Harry E Wilson states that the land they first...
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Plateau - Chapter I

  I. In abandoned ruins of a once proud city, echoed stomping of boots hitting pavement could be heard in the empty streets . Gently the sound snapped off abandoned apartment buildings, passing through government offices and clanging against the metal of rusted cars. Two young men ran along the devastation, surrounded by tragedy of a time before them. They crossed a jungle of cracking cement and steel, dark windows scattered across the landscape now absent of the families that had long ago kept warm with light. The pair knew little of small normalities we keep as a civilization; human lives became much simpler after the Wipeout. They hopped along a rebar obstacle course protruding from a high-rise apartment building, pathways given to them by time and practice. Any off step, wary of tripping, was an untimely doom calling from the ground below. Concrete blocks of ancient perseverance stacked together in heaps of imbalance; crumbling below every step was an corroded chunk. Mother n...
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The World’s Fruit and Appleseed Legends: A Report on Apples

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  George L. Settlemier 4000 Lancaster Dr. NE  11/10/2022  Professor VanStavern  Building 1  Chemeketa Community College  4000 Lancaster Dr. NE  P.O. Box 14007 Salem, OR 97309 To Professor VanStavern; Attached is the requested final report which I have worked on fervently over the last few weeks. My topic covers apples and their reproductive cycle, as well as the science behind grafting and production of NEW cultivars. I also wanted to look at the folklore surrounding apples, like Johnny Appleseed, to give some domestic perspective on history as we know it. Apples are a fruit known worldwide and from a humble beginning in Kazakhstan, we have cultivated it to every taste. I admire the fruit, as well as the agricultural field, and wanted to lend some layman knowledge down for the average person to get to know that tasty fruit in the fridge. There is a little bit of history, some science and human interference, as well as the general information regarding ...
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