speech

In all my years of writing I've never been able to speed through a speech with ease. I've always struggled to write speeches for school projects, but last year, being a senior in high school on the ice hockey team; we all had to deliver a speech at the end of the year banquet to all the parents and younger players about my four years playing on the team. However, opposed to a school speech, I was actually writing about something I was truly passionate about, something I knew a lot about and really cared about compared to writing a speech about why George Washington was the best president of the United States. First off, I had to recognize that my audience was different than the average school speech to a teacher. My audience was a bunch of high school kids, all of them my good friends, and their parents. So while I wanted to make my speech include four years worth of memories ranging from very inappropriate to just simple funny jokes, I needed to make sure parents would approve of some of the experiences that occurred. Thus began my eliminating process, I had to exclude many different stories that parents would find inappropriate. By the end of it, I had a five minute long speech full of funny stories.

Everybody's a author

What defines an author? This is the prompt we have been given for our first essay. A lot of people think only writers with published books are authors, but thats not really a fair definition of authorship. Could a music artist be an author? After all they are publishing their own song, sure they aren't writing a book but they're still writing something and adding beats and rhythms and what not. Could a video game artist be a author? They design a game, the idea, the story, the characters and plot, along with many other factors. Video games are published and sold to the public just like books, but many people don't think of a video game as a book. In my mind all of these people are authors, they create something based off their own idea.
For my topic I want to write about how a chef is a author. I think a chef's recipe is their own mini book, each ingredient serving as a character that adds to the flavor (or story). Chef's come up with their own recipes that they think of and they even do research to get the best recipe they can. They test out certain ingredients and see which one taste the best and based off this trial and error (research) they come up with a recipe that they then share with the public.